New-York tribune., 1877-07-26
ordered and where they are ordered, and not
until they are ordered.
TIE HTRIKERN HYNPATHY.

"Stll let 1t ever be thy PRIDE" saws the poet,
"To linger by the laborer's side; With words
"of sympathy or song To cheer the dreary
"march alongn And it is pleasant to know that
in these troubled times the bards counsel has
been 20 extensively observed. Most OF the
honest miners and iron workers of Pittsburg,
and all the tramps and thieves, sympathized
so warmly with tho wn-trodden Drakemen
that they dropped their proper business ana
devoted Saturday night aud Sunday to the
duty of killing militiamen, pillaglng freight
cars and burning five or SIX millions worm OF
property. Trades Unionists all over the
country have sympathized with The rail-
way strikers to such degree th"e
tbey cannot refrain from mobbing all railroad
men who are not strikers. The hard-handed
son of toll in Baltimore is moved by gush
of feeling to set fire to an oil-train. The SYM
patheiic laborng-man on the line Of the Erie
throws passcngcr-cars oil the track Dy inc
dexterous removal of u rail. Last nlshC tho
Communists, professional agltators, and mn.-
titudc of miscellaneous ragamuilins, lunatics,
labOr-reformers, idlers, visiOnar1es, adyentlrers
and other uncomfortable persons OF New-fork
undertook to express their sympathy for the
suffering workingman by a mass-meeting, of
which our reporters this morning give full
account.
go brother man fold to tiny heart thy erother
where pity dwes. the peace OF God is there"
But if we look curiOusly at the character OF
all this sympathy Ie shall find some things
that are NOT very easily explained. Six months
AGO il was estimated by officers of the trade
societies that there were fifty thousand men
out of employment in the City of New York,
and no fewer than two millions in the whole
United States. The condition of things has
not greatly improved i'll the interval What
are the Tompkins Square sympathzers saying
or doing for this great army Of the hungry
The number cf railroad men who struck
against the reduction Of wages the other
day was estimated at ten thousand. Others
have since joined them, mostly Oh com
pulsion, but we presume that the roll OF those
who if they were free agents would refuse the
Companies terms is a great deal under ten
Thousand. Well ten thousand who had Il chance
TO work threw up their places because they
were dissatisfied with the pay. Some hundreds
of thousands ont of the suffering two millions
rushed forward 10 claim the vacancies, and the
strikers and thcir fiieads stoned them away.
Surely there ougbt te nave been some sympa-
thy for the hungry WrO wOUtt work II they
had a chance. But no; II is al FOR the violent,
who will neither work themselves nor let others
work in their stead. 1.e3e men are making
war upon their own brethren. 1t is is not the
railway officers wlOm they are shooting and
throwing from the engines it is wOrkingmen
Ike themselves. They are all engaged in
conspiracy to prevent their fellow-laborers from
earning an honest living; and in every pro-
posal of accommodation which they make to
the Companies they place it as a cardinal con-
dition that not man OF the hungry multitude
Of two million shall have work. But SYM
pathy is such a beautiful thing!