The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-07-26

ihFiSN9 N'oN N''N '''N'Ni ''''''
pressed to the verge of starvation.
The prosperity of Labor is the vital cle-
ment OF business success. We have no
sympathy with any mob spirit, The law
should be upheld and any open resistance
to its mandates must be put down at any
cost. Promising that much, there are
equities in this matter which the work
ingman has right to make known, and
a fair examination OF this question he.
tween the railroads and the strikers will
show that a great portion of the fault is
Chargeablc to the corporations.
Leo Us see if this cannot be suOslanti'
ated. In the first place the losses to the
railroad revenues in the past few year
have been brought about, to Il great eX
tent, by the folly o. the railroad manag.
ers themselves. I.oOh at the abSurdityni
cutting rates as it l. kept up by the
trunk lines, The charges for carrying
have been systematically eat down to
runous figure, not AT all in the Interests
of the shipper, or the public, bat merely
in spirit OF enmity 10 rival lines, The
shipper would infinitely prefer regular,
steady rates, instead Of the uncertainties
of these varying tariffs. Now these
freight wars result, OF course, in great
sacrifices and losses 10 the railroads, and
they coolly propose to oblge the poorer
employees to make up these same losses
! by reducing their wages. There Is GER
tainly no justice In that. The general
depression Of business has Of course re.
duced railroad receipts and Ie,scnca the
earnings but the emplOye has >ucuunbod
to reductions heretofore on this general
plea. limc after time he has been cu
down until the next cut will take the life
blood with it. Aside. then, from the
causes which have injured the railroad,
in common with other kinds OF business,
we will find special causcs growing ont
OF the folly, the greed and the dishonesty
ot those vino are in control. See the ma.
tural effect OF those gigantic rings within
rings, the Fast Freight Line Companies,
They bleed the corporation, and divert
the Legitimate earnings OF the company TO
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