PINKERTON'S POLICE.

Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 45, 22 August 1892, Page 4

PINKERTON'S POLICE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sue — Ono accoun tot" Pickerion 'a Police has been published. Tho following extracts from one of the loading New York journals toll rathor a different story :—": — " Pinkerton has enlarged and improved his force. It is butter armed and drilled every year, and it travels to and fro, all over tho United States, a sort of moving shame and disgrace for us all. ltd presence always means that Amorican mayors, and sheriffs, and governors have refused, at tho demand of Labour, or through the fear of Labour, to pivo Amorican citizens protection for either lifo or property ; that they stand idly by whilo Labour pursues poor men with brickbats, bludgeons, and pistols, to prevent thoir accepting employment which is offered them ; and that thoy deny to employers the means of protecting their premises from wreck and pillago at tho hands of men who insist on working for ih«m against their will. In all the great strikes which have ocourred during the past year, Labour has asserted the doctrine of compulsory hiring — that is, the right of certain men to be hired by cortain employers on their own torms, whother tho employers want them or not, and tho right to assert this right by force of arms — that is, to besiege the promises with weapons of offonoo, and prevent, by attacks on life and property, the transaction of all business until T;hoir dc-mands aro complied with. This is not an overcharged statemont. Wo challenge anyone to mention a single strike on a largo scale during the past year in which tho strikers did not either actually resort to violence, or tako pains to produce tho belief throughout the neighborhood that they would do so if necessary. At present it (tho Pinkorton army) is simply a guard which any man is entitled to keep on biß own premises to protect him from violence, if he thinks it necessary, and is willing to go to the expense. The fun Labour has now in battering and threatening pcoplo with impunity is due entirely to the fact that law-abiding habits aro still strong among us. But they would not burvive for a great whilo tho strain which Labour is putting on them ; and whenever the community gets thoroughly tired of Labour and tho demagogues, it will givo those who like anarchy and private war a doso of thorn which many generations will remember." The foregoing was written in January, 1887, and it would soem from tho recent telegrams that the writer's prophecy ia approaching fulfilment, as the Pinkorton army has now beoome an attaoking force. I am, &c, Order.