put in place by his treacherous of faith with the in the deal on and there were written in which he was called an enemy of society possessed of the manners and culture of a a of business troubles the of the city s prosperity in commerce and trade burning daylight of dire menace and one gravely recommended that hanging would be a lesson to him and his and concluded with the fervent hope that some day his big car would up and him with it he was like a big bear a bee hive and regardless of the he persisted in for the honey he his teeth struck back beginning with a on two companies it developed into a pitched battle with a city a state and a continental coast line very well they wanted fight and they would get it it was what he wanted and he felt justified in having come down from the for here he was gambling at a bigger table than ever the had supplied allied with him on a splendid salary with thrown in was a lawyer a young with a reputation to make and whose peculiar genius had been until daylight picked up with him had imagination and daring and to such degree that daylight s cooler head was necessary as a check on his visions s was a legal mind without balance and it was just this balance that daylight supplied alone the was doomed to failure but directed by daylight he was on the to fortune and recognition also he was possessed of no more personal or conscience than napoleon it was who guided daylight through the of modern politics labor organization and commercial and law it was of resource and suggestion who opened daylight s eyes to possibilities in twentieth century warfare and it was daylight accepting and who planned the and them with the pacific coast from sound to and humming burning daylight and with san furiously about his ears the two big companies had all the appearance of winning it looked as if burning daylight was being beaten slowly to his knees and then he struck � at the companies at san at the whole pacific coast it was not much of a blow at first a christian endeavor being held in san a row was started by express drivers union no over the handling of a small heap of baggage at the building a few heads were broken a score of made and the baggage was delivered no one would have guessed that behind this petty was the fine irish hand of made potent by the gold of burning daylight it was an insignificant affair at best � or so it seemed but the union took up the quarrel backed by the whole water front step by step the strike became involved a refusal of and to serve or brought out the and the and meat refused to handle meat destined for unfair the combined associations put up a solid front and f facing them the organized of san the and the wagon drivers struck followed by the milk drivers and chicken the building trades asserted its position in terms and all san was in turmoil but still it was only san s were and daylight s campaign steadily developed the powerful fighting organization known as the pacific slope seaman s union refused to work vessels the of which were to be handled by and freight the union presented its and then a strike this had been daylight s all the time every vessel was by the union officials and its crew sent ashore and with the burning daylight went the the and the sea and daily the number of idle increased it was impossible to get for the men of the seaman s union were trained in the hard school of the sea and when they went out it meant blood and death to this phase of the strike spread up and down the entire pacific coast until all the ports were filled with idle ships and sea was at a the days and weeks dragged out and the strike held the steam company and the and pacific company were tied up completely the expenses of the strike were tremendous and they were earning nothing while daily the situation went from bad to worse until peace at any price became the cry and still there was no peace until daylight and his played out their hand in the and allowed a goodly portion of a continent to resume business it was noted in following years that several leaders of workmen built themselves houses and blocks of and took to the old countries while more immediately other leaders and dark horses came to political and the control of the government and the in fact san s ridden condition was due in greater degree to daylight s battle than even san ever dreamed for the part he had played the details of which were practically all and quickly out and in consequence he became a much and man nor had daylight himself dreamed that his on the companies would have grown to such colossal proportions but he had got what he was after he had played an exciting hand and won beating the companies down into the dust and the n burning daylight by perfectly legal methods before he let go of course in addition to the large sums of money he had paid over his had rewarded themselves by the advantages which later enabled them to the city his alliance with a gang of had brought about a lot of but his conscience suffered no he remembered what he had once heard an old preacher utter namely that they who rose by the sword perished by the sword one took his when he played with and his daylight s throat was still that was it and he had won it was all and war between the 