The Railroad Strike-anarchy

The strike which originated on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at Martinsburg, on the lGth inst., has extended to nearly all the roads of the country, and to-day the leading roads are in the hands of the strikers, or worso than that - in the hands of a mob of trampa, roughs, and thieves, whioh classes alwaya como to the front on such occasions. The attempt to chook the striker and aid the railroad managers to run their trains has resulted in a losa of lite at Baltimore and Pittsburgh, and in seri ous collisions at Martinsburg, West Va. Keading, Pa.; Buffalo, Hornellsville and Albany, N. Y., and elsewhore. The details, general, contradictory, and ex aggorated, have filled tho dailies of the country for a week to tho exclusión o the Russia and Turkey war news and local matters. Without analyzing the causes of the strike, following its progresB, or vainly 8peculating upon tho rosults, we have a truism or two to utter : The railroae employés, enginoors, conductora, fire men, brakemen, trackmen, oí mechan íes, like laborare in the employ of othe corporations or private individuáis, havo a right to quit work whenover the wages offered them are not satisfactory or the regulations they are required to observe are oppressive. But they have no right to compel other men to qui work, to prevent new men from taking their places, to interfere with shops, en ginos, or tracks, or to blockade tho road and stop the movement of trains. Thi they have not only done, but they have gone into faetones and shops and roll ing milis and other places of business and compelled men willing to work anc satisfied with their wages to "throw down their tools and join the strike. While good citizens inay sympathize with the railroad employés in the reeen reduction of their wages to starvation prices, and may condemn the extrava gance and bad management of railroac companies, their insano rivalry, the pay ment of high salaries to officere, the in dulgence in luxurious palace oars am special trains, etc, they ehould abstain from any approval of ultra and unlaw ful meaus of securing redress. State and local authorities should also hold themselves in readiness for any emorgency, and while they counsel peace and good order should be prepared to enforco it. The citizens of Pittsburgh patted the strikers on the back until the torch was applied to their buildings and a burdensome tax levy stared them in the faoe. Other cities and towns should take warning in time. The railroads are a necessity to the country. Stop the trains for a single weck and famine and bread riots will rcsult in citios and inanufacturing towns and miuing centers. The crops must be moved or the people in cities must starve. Freight trains must be permitted to run or factory wheels will stop and business of all kinds stagnate. Stopping the trains is like stopping the circulation of the blood in the human system. Every citizen who knows or has business relations with a railroad employé should lay the consequences of the striko as, carried ou, before him ; should point htm to tho demoralization of business ; should ask him what he is to gain in any event ; and should portray to him the character of the mob for who.se lawless acts he will be held rosponsible and made to suffer. It is the hour for good counsel, for words of peace on the part of citizens, for wise and firin actiou on the part of tho authoiitios. " Eli Perkins " is in hot water. Eli bas boon putting slanderous words into the moutbs of Senator Sharon and other Californiaii8, about Flood, the moneyking, but the interviewed go back on the interviewer, and the Sun corresponnent has i.iar brandad on his forehead, in imitation of the Sun't artist, who brandod "fraui " upon the portrait oí President Hayes. And the barking oí the interviewers has caused Eli to protest : " I never knew but nine men wbo would stand right up to a literal interview. Their names are Commodore Vanderbilt, James Fisk, Zack Uhandler, Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Ben Wade, Gen. Sherman, Ben Butler, Senator Anthony, and Judgo Hilton. Of all these, Judge Ililtou is the pluokiest. When in the first interview with him he carne out on Seligman and roused 7,000,000 Jews, how easy it would have been for him to have lied out the next morning and thrown the wholo thing back on to the shoulders of the interviewing journalist. But Hilton is a thoroughbred. He'll die with the flfig up, and every journalist admires him." Eli names as " political men " who won't stand fire, but go back on the interviewer, if thoir-sayings don't take, ex-Senator Fenton, Stanley Hatthew6, Secretary Sherman, ux-Gov. Hoffman, Blaine, and Coltax. ÜNDEB the laws of Marylaud, Now Jersey, and New York, counties and cities are Hable for all personal property destroyed by a tuob, either by fire or otherwise. In Pennsylvauia, the counties of Philadolphia and Alleghany (the county in which Pittaburgh is situated) are so liable. Under the statute the ax-payers of Pittsburgh will bo comjelled to pay for the railroad depots and shops burned, for the cars and freight burned and destroyed, and for all damages caused by the inob of railroad strikers and othor lawless classes. The Now York World estimates the damages at #4,500,000 ; at $2.61 on each $100 of valuation, or at $32.15 per capta. A nice little sum to pay because .hu authorities and butler classes sat still and patted the strikers on the back until it was too late to control them. Diu Zack Chandler seo tho end from ;he buginning when he drew those two 55,000 drafts payable to the order of i. B. Hayes ? or was his giving them o the public through the New York Sun au aftor-thought only bom of ' pure cussodnoss 'i " It must have een tho latter, for had Zack placed confidenoe in the civil service reform romises made iu the Hayos letter of acceptanco ho would n't have ordered hat Louisiana Keturning Board to ' count hiin in." Before Henry Ward Boeohor utter any more such stuff as this : " It is true tlnit $1 is not enongb to support a man and five children, if a man will ineis on smoking and drinking beer ; " o this, " Is not $1 a day onough to bu; bread. Water costa nothing. Man can not live by bread alone, but the man who cannot live on bread and water i net fit to live," he had better ask the trustees of his church to reduoe his sal ary f rom $10,000 to $400 a year, and notify lecture bureaus and committee that ho will make engagemonts tli coming season at something less than $2 00 a night." And language like thi would sound better coming froui othe lips : " When a man is educated awa from the power of nelf-donial he i falsely eduoated. A family may live on good bread and water in the morning water and bread at mid-day, and gooi bread aad water at night. Such may be called the bread of affliction, but i is fit that man should eat the bread o alfliction." Such talk is uot " throwini oil upon troubled waters." It is rathe applying tbc torch to inflammable ma terial. The "last straw that breaks th camel's back," - that is, that brands clerk in the government service a Washington a slave instead of a free man, is the order that clerks who g home to vote are to have thoir pa; stopped during their absence. Is n't a clerk longei to have privileges beyom those of the oommon citizen ? Is n't i the business of the people's govern ment to pay him whether he works o not? Shall he lose his time, like th ordinary business man whose busines keeps him away from home, or lose hi vote ? What is the country coming to We console ourself with the though that local politics oan be run withou the aid of broken down clergymen anc dilapidated politicians in the depart ment hospitals at Washington, and tha what will be their loss under the new order of tbings - whether votes or pay - will be the oountry's gain. THI3 from the Rochester Democra (which is a Republican organ) : " Josepl Medill, whose facetious paragraphs in the Chicago Tribune have made countless thousmids weep, is at the bottom of a oonspiracy to circumvent Gail Hamilton. He proposes to get somebody to marry her, so that her wrath oan be centered on one object. But we are afraid it will be difficult to find the man." Josso ! unless they are like that Pennsylvania judge, "don't kuow the family." The Lansiug Republican comes down gracefully, as follows : The Ann Arbor Argus is surprised at our ignoranca of the law regulating the organization of the U. S. House of Representativos. We aro surprised, too, and our error was inexcusable ; but we would rather be oorreoted by our friend of the AkQUS than by auy other Democratie editor in0 the State." We trust that the Republican will be a little more careful wheu making assertious in suoh a possitivemanner: unless it knows whtit it is talking'about. The proclamations issued by the President in regard to the railroad riots and mob8 are at once firin and conciliatory, and give evidence that the National Government will exert its full authority and power in aid of the several State governments in tho supprossion of all lawless distuibances and in the restoration of order. Iufantry, artillery and marines have been ordered to points where their services aro likely to be most needed. At Toledo, Columbus, and Cleveland, Ohio, nearly all the manufacturing establishments of every kind have been closed, - some of them because of the sympathy of the employés with the railroad strikers, but more of them because the laborera were compelled to quit work. Iu Chicago and other cities there has also been a compulsory stoppage of manufacturing establishments. How long can that great masa of mechanics and laborers live without employment ï TllE raiiroad strikers stop the movement of all freight traius on all roads where they get the mastery. ün some of the roads all passenger trui na are permitted to move, while on other roads only mail trains are allowed to run. The great business interests of the country can move along better by having passenger trains stopped aud freight trains run. People oan stay at home for a few days, but grain and beef and butter and vegetables and fruits must be moved. iSo.mk men are destitute of confidence in the future, and the cloud in the dis;ance no bigger than a uian'a hand assumes wonderful proportions in their eyes. M.' O. Healy, of Grand Kapids, is one of tlicm, and so he " prodicta that the grasshoppors will overrun this coun;ry and cause a disatrous famine either n this or the next decade." Has he cummencod laying in a stook of wheat, &c, in anticipation. This is how the Boston Uerald puts t : " Mr. Blaine Baya ' it reniains to be seon whether our wisdom in peace is equal to our prowess in war.' fcso far as we oan remember Mr. Blaine's prowess in war, we should say it was - fully equal." Let us ask the Uerald it' there s an S. P. F. P. O. A. iu Massachusetts 'i In the incorporation of the village of iViiiionu, Banks and Salsburg into West iuy City, part of the township of Ban;or was included, and it is now found hat in what is loft of that township lluro is ueither church, sohool-house, otel, saloon, nor any publio building of any kind, nor is there a lawyer, docor, preacher, or any township officer exoept the Bupervisor, wlo holds over. The Rov. Marcu8 Lane, of Flint, has obtained a dozen iSnglish Sparrowa and urned them loose in the grounda at St. Paul's Church, where they are aloady quite doinesticated. These birds ïave been doinesticated in Monroe, in his State, and are the scavengers of ;he city both summer and winter. They re the natural enemiea of all tho.se noxious worius and inseots which infest nd threaten our shade trees.