The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-07 00:00:00

TIM UMR=[l• OP TIM °ADMEN.

The Daily News ohrerveo that, whatever Le the
its of the quarrel between the cab propreetars and the
railway cominniewe, the attack made on the public by the
former in the strike they have instigated is as unprovoked
to it is cruel and unjust ; and it thinks that in the end the
Asiko will defeat itself. While there can be no sympathy
with the strike, there in, however, and will be, a good deal
of sympathy with the cab-drivers, many of whom are as
much tho victims of it as the public. If cabby is not exactly
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as yet a popular favourite, ho certainly has very few enemies
and many warm friends, His hard life of continuous
toil and exposure, his deprivation of ordinary comforts,
pleasures, and recreations, instinctively appeal to sensitive
minds, and make them oonsparatively tolerant of his *mo-
tional infirmities of temper. The present movement is
really in the interest of the masters, and not of the mess. At
present we have a parliamentary limit to the fares which
a driver can charge, but no limit to the rate of hiring
which a proprietor may demand, no minimum of wages
secured to a driver. If we are to restrict the action of
free competition for one, why not far another ? It is als.
aunt td talk of free trade in cake. The trade is not free,
but regulated, and if the service is to be radically im-
proved, it may as well be regulated all trend.
The news, whilst gi►ing credit to the mimes
on strike for their peaceable demeanour towards their

.4 privileged" brethrZin, regrets that they have pawed
themselves completely and hopelessly in the wrong. A
more erniselem and more unjeut strike than that which
they have commenced the IVI*BII does not remember to
have ever met with, though the Watery of shrikes in this
country is tolerably rich in instances of both &Place and
folly. That the cabana have hardships to endure is very
likely, but the oilstones of the privileged cabs is not the
muse of their sufferings. If the railway companies
gave the privilege on unfair or unbecoming grounds
it might be objeationsble; but they give it on the
best ground, for they give it to a man of good character
and who bas a good horse and cab. The Dews trusts
the public wit stand by the railway companies, and
steadily refuse to visit upon them the effects ci the cab-
men's misconduct. If they do, the strike cannot last
The Yenning Ito+ rya, it is not the cabmen who are
striking against the railway companies, but the street
masters who are striking against the railway masters. It
is evident that the railway cabmen must gain the day, and
it hopes it will be a lesson to the rent to choose next time a
better grievance, and to adopt also a better way of getting
it remedied.

The TelerapA obserres that the men are striking ageing
the public, though the roil offenders are the railway com-
panies. They are injuring their best Mends, who have
every desire that justice should be done. There is a wide-
spread opinion that the entire cab-system needs revision.
And it must be dealt with at any early period next session.
It would assist legislation if it were previously deter-
mined Ty a oourt of law whether the yard of a railway
station was public or private ground.