"1877 Riots"

Hello my name is Kenia Cuenca, for the reading of "1877 Riots" my reaction is as follows; the reading part that starts at 369-381 that riot took place in Pittsburgh, "It was evident that a large portion of the citizens were averse to the presence of the troops, thinking that it incensed the strikers, which they believed the men could be controlled by reason and forbearance", before that paragraph I read that the troops and the authority gained up on the rioters. With out warning shooting people down including a 4 year old girl who wasn't part of riot. The author to me wrote that down to contradicted what was told on the news to the other citizens. They told them the opposite, the news said that they only fired at people who were rebelling and using weapons against the authority and they also said that the rioters fired first. Which wasn't true, I think they only did that to scare the people from rebelling again. The quote I chose from the passage, I want to question it. Was that the best and is it the only way to properly stop a riot? As it turned out it doesn't help much instead of enforcing people to surrender, and reason with them seem to be impossible. Most of the time it makes them even more violent. For example they wanted wages to be higher, knowing that they wouldn't get that they made riots. The people want their voices to be heard, going against what is meant to be right to the authority, might not seem to the people that have to live by those rights. There should be another way to get to the problems without people going against the authority nor the authority going against the people. 

The government lacks to listen to what the people want. There should be a compromise between the both of them. Government of the people, by the people, of the people.