Show SA SAVE E THEM PROM I ThEIR FRIENDS DS Give Ghe mo me the avowed o tho the direct the the manly too foo o Bold Dold I can meet perhaps can turn his blow bio But of all nil plagues good Heaven th thy wrath can cnn send send send- t- t Save save M 0 O save me mo from the foolish friend Pardon the lie trifling paraphrase which Canning might excuse If he lived In the Waterloo district and wal waked cd up to a n streetcar strike We c are a little afraid that the streetcar men men menor of or Salt Lake need to be saved from their friends Of themen themen the themen men themselves wo we have a high opinion opinion opinion-In In s spite of some orne rather caustic comments that may with probable I fairness be directed at some of oC them In the main the they fire arc pretty g od follows fellows attentive to their business courteous to the patrons of oC the company compan and with ith the thc same home interests that the rest of or us confess Wo We feel pretty sure that they ought to have had an increase of ot wages We c said so before the strike was called and nothing has haa at all changed that impression Now that the they have ha quit work wo we dont don't know lenow oran or of an anything which can so much Injure their cause causo as the thc activity of men who lio have no connection at all with the time I 1 company and never have had hind and who tr try to injure the property of that company compan Such action by foolish friends can have nothing but the worst possible effect on tho the cause of ot the late If there is rioting and the destruction of property and the assaulting ot oL otmen men men no no matter whether not these or are trying to work worle for tho the company the company the sympathy of tho time public will be alienated from Crom tho the striking The blame of or It will not fall upon tho the irresponsible fellows who shout and run away who throw a n. stone and hide in lii the crowd It will be directed at the cause of the thc striking f streetcar men And the sentiment of the public a factor actor which will wm be necessary sary to the men in their struggle for lor reinstatement and an achievement of ot their demands will ihl turn against the strikers Reali Really It should be directed against the tho fellows who commit the thc acts of or lawlessness But Dut the thc Inevitable fate Cate of ot such a situation Is Js that the thc strikers ers are held responsible Before a man throws a stone or cuts a rope or 01 shifts shirts a switch or takes an any other liberty with tho the property of tho company before he hc assaults any of ot the company who tries to take the place of the men now voluntarily idle the outsider should ber this He should realize that he lie is hurting the cause of or the strikers by his depredations and carefully refrain from anything which could by any possibility be reckoned as a violation of ot the law or a 3 trespass upon the thc rights or the property of or the tho company compan There Is one other consi consideration No o man should In this time of trial forget that his first duty Is a proper observance of the tho law Jaw He should remember that the laws of ot the thc city and the tile stat will havo have to be upheld that violence will not be tolerated that order must bo be preserved He may hot be bo a striker but ho he will not bo ho permitted to destroy property nor commit assaults assaults assaults as as- Just because the excitement of the strike makes an occasion As we understand It t the men are seeking to prove pro their necessity to the company compan to convince con the company compan that the tho streetcars can not be run without the employment employment employ employ- ment of tho the old men They have haye a right to quit and so to force a recognition of their Indispensability to the company compan But they certainly do not claim that they have a right light to go farther and destroy property or assault citizens in ln th the tho process of establishing the fact or of their value And to the extent of or their ability they should prevent prevent pre pre- vent lawlessness on the part of or sympathizing but mistaken mis mistaken taken friends Even if the they had it in their power to tode de destroy detroy troy all the property of the company In ono one stroke amI and could b by threatening to do so force the tho to accept the offered terms they certainly should not consent to do so It would be bo a as bald a perversion ol ot ju justice as ns for the company to compel th thc tho men at the point of a bayonet to run the tho cars and and accept whatever wages the company compan might see fit lit to tender Forced acceptance of terms can not be permitted on either side And above all things the ln law will wilt havo have to be bc upheld Order will have to be bc preserved cd Ho He who contends differently dir dif is a very foolish friend of the striking streetcar streetcar streetcar street street- car men We must not assault our fellow citizens We must not destroy estro property Remember r that behind the thc city stands the state and and behind the state the thc Nation |