Show MORE VIOLENCE ANOTHER strike has ha occasioned a violent outbreak this time it to ii in the state of now new york the contestants of the erie and lehigh valley railway company on the one side lide and its ito striking switchmen on the other the conflict develops deve lopa all the with regard to human life and the rights of property that was waa recently exhibited at homestead and acour dalene the misch I 1 at can be wrought in such floch a in immense in the fl a a t p place I 1 a COP switchmen biking the places place of the strikers tri kere are liable for want of experience experienc elto precipitate accidents by which many lives and much property may be sacrificed add to this the fact that the strikers itri kera we are throwing switches by which means freight and passenger enger trains traina on are being ditched they are also g the torch with which they are burning whole trains of merchandise destroying buildings building and committing other diabolisms parts of trains are being uncoupled that they may dash down steep grades and smash into cars care thle this is i terrible work such conduct must stop atop but how bow can the cessation be brought about if the company which says flaye it has been running its ita business at a loss loes under the old conditions yield to the demand of the switchmen because of the violeet attacks made upon its property and upon the lives of innocent people who have nothing to do with the issue the moral effect would be bad it would amount to an admission that labor can obtain its demands by recourse to destructive and bloody methods which would become epidemic throughout the country and no one would be able to tell when the end would come or what it would be the sheriff is reported to be powerless to stop the lawless depredations of the strikers and their sympathizers he is in likely to continue in that condition of helplessness there seems to be a probability of the military forces of the state being called into requisition and all this brings the people into antagonism with the government and the effect is bad all around and bodes no good to the country within a few weeks scenes of this deplorable character have been enacted in five of the so sovereign states tennessee wyoming pennsylvania idaho and new york these constitute a fraction over one ninth of the states com composing poising the union this fact ought to draw public attention to the serious character of the situation which to is a threatening danger to the peace and prosperity of the nation |