The Fruits Of Folly

The employers of labor in the Connellsvllle coke región have beeu reaping the legitímate fruits of their own folly, and if their property has been endangered they have nobocly to blame but themselves. AVhen they had trouble wlth their American miners and coke workers a few years ago, a movemeut which has resulted in filling counties of southwestern rennsylvania Wlth forelgn worklngmen was decided upon. Men were imported by the thousands from the worst quafters of Europe to taks the places of independent American.1--. Tliesc men were chosen because they had been used to pauper wages at home and because it was believed they could be more easily handled in case of trouble than the workmen who e places they were to táke. No eooner did Huns, Toles, and other [oreisners be lome used to American wuye, however, than they bcgan to cuuse truoble. 'lliey have little regard for the law. and force is the only weapon to which they resort when they have Iemands to make. The riots that have been in progre-s in and around Oniontown, Seottdale, and other places affected bjr the coke strike might have been expecle.l when a reduction of wages was decided upon. The laws ought to be enforced and we hope they aiways will be, but we do not think any sympathy i-hould be wasted upon the employers who have made the oceurrence of such outbreaks possible,