Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1886 — No Humbug. [ARTICLE]

No Humbug.

I have positively determined to close out my entire stock of merchandise, as I have made Arrangements to engage iu an hhtlHiiy different business.

The tJ ues Lons of right and wrong, of expendiency an inexpediency involved in strikes, are of great magnitude, and not to be intelligently discussed in the limits of a newspaper paragraph. They sometimes result in good to the strikers, but much more often, probably, in their injury. At least, the direct and obvious results of strikes are more often injurious than beneficial to the strikers; but it is not improbable that there are some indirect and ultimate results which are of benefit to the laboring men generally. It is, perhaps, probable that they serve to draw public attention to the condition of the laboring [classes, and their relations to capital, and thus result in many efforts for tlieir improvement. They may serve some good purpose, too, as a restraining force to prevent employers, especially the pyl’eat and powerful corpoi’aand unjustly with tlieir employes. But whatever good maw result from flie strikes (and we greatly doubt if the good compensates for the evil), \ye cannot justify strikers in restraining other men from working if They wish, iiorin destroying life /md property.