San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-09
THE GRAND OLD MAN
TAKES LONDON BY STORM AND
FIRES THE IRISH HEART.
Thronging Thousands, a Packed Com
mons and a Whole Nation Do Homage
to the Great Premier-Turner
Talks About the Strike.

| before an audience SUCH as was never
before seen in that House. Before
o'block all the thoroughfares leading to
st. Stephens were so crowded that
business was totally suspended Mount
ed police were called into requisitiOn
because it was impossible for the Ofli-
| GERS to get around on foot. More than
half of the 700 members Of the Commons
had taken their seats at noon, four
and one half hours before Mr.. Gladstone
entered the chamber. The Prime Min
istsr's reception as he journeyed from
his residence to the House was most en-
thusiastic. He was everywhere greeted
with hearty cheers, which swelled to
deatsning roar as he neared St. Steph-
ems. such scene was never before
witnessed In London. His reception BY
Parliament, though not so demOnstratiye,
was equally enthusiastic, the cheering
lasting for several minutes. The Irish
members were all In place en- the Oppo-
sitiOn benches facing the Prime Minis
ter, and gave him hearty encouragement
| as he proceeded. No synopsis of the
speech can be given. 1t must be read as
a whole to form any correct idea Of its
exhaustiyeness, its aggressiveness, its
broad liberalism or the substantial JUS
tice of the measures it advocated. Its
keynote was the compatibility of local
with National patriotism, and the ne
cetsity and righteousness of committing
to Irish hands the management of all
local Irish affairs. The speech lasted
three hours and twenty-five minutes,
was listened to with the deepest atten-
ton throughout and applauded, from
commencement to close.
MINEoLA, Tex, April S.-Bridge No.
S63, two miles east of this city, was
burned to-day, and was supposed to have
been fired from the lower part of the
bridge. 1t delayed the West bound ex-
cursion train for some time, which was
crowded with railway engineers and
friends OF the late Jack McGraw, travel
ing engineer, who were en- route to For
ner to attend his funeral to-day.
Tonight there was organized by young
bloods Of our city military company,
with list of thirty six members
The burned bridge is repaired and
trains are running.
PHILADELPHIA, April S.-The Record
to-day published the following interview
with Secretary Turner, of the Knights
OF Labor, who has gone to Scranton to
confer with Mr.. Powderly. Secretary
Turner said: ave were willing to make
many sacrifices to have the troubles in
the Southwest settled, but it appears
from events that Jay Gould and II. NJ.
Hoxie will not have it that way. When
we arrived in st. Louis we found that
the company in reality employ no
Knights of Labor. What was worse,
they were discharging members of the
order who had in no way participated in
the strike. For instance, the telegraph
operators were not called out, as they
were necessary fer the safe running OF
passenger trains. which have not been
interfered with. Many of these have
been discharged, the Knights invariably
going when removals were made. In
fact, instead of no discrimination, it was
all discrimination. AS consequence,
| there was no chance for the men to take
up their portion of the arbitration COM
| mittee provided for in New York.
| Strikers, who were Knights. could not
get employment when they offered, in
obedience to order. to return to work. 1t
would have been easy to form our side
| Of The committee with men who had
taken the strikers places. and who had
NO grievances to arbitrate. With this
state of affairs facing it, the General
Board has no course open to it other
than to revoke their call to the order to
resume work. The matter now rests
| with District Assemblies 101, SO and IL.
see no chance of settlement. In fact,
the situation is worse now than it ever
was. Mr.. Gould undoubtedly is respon-
sible for the failure to keep the agree
ment. The Fort Worth affair is unfOrtu-
nate, and the order, being opposed in
every way 10 such measures, should not
be held responsible for 1t. The people
were driven to desperation, and the
deputy sheriff, who led the posse, is a
well-known desperate. He has quite a
history In that line. The dispatches
sent by Mr.. Hoxie to Gould every day
telling of freight trains moving freely
are untrue. There is practically no
freight traffic to and from st. Louis and
along the line, except few empty cars
or trains filed with armed men.
"Nr. Gould talks of the weakness OF
Knights of Labor. Well, he may think
differently before the end of tue present
troubles. He who laughs last, laughs
best, concluded Mr.. Turner.
SCRANTON, Pa, April S.-For the first
time since the return home from New
York of Mr.. Powderly, Grand Master
Workman of the Knights Of Labor, he
was able to leave his sick room yester-
day and give attention to mass of cor
respondence which has accumulated dur
ing his illness. He said: "At this dis
lance. and with the little information |
possess, 1 am unable to speak intelli-
gently Of the disturbances at st. Louis
and Fort Worth, but / have felt COZ III
dence in the members of the General Ex-
ecutive Board, who are on the ground
and believe they will do what is best I'M
der the circumstances Mr.. Powderly
added that he thought both sides had
learned valuable lesson from this con.
flict, namely, the folly Of striking, and
expressed 1t as his opinion that this
would be the last railroad strike the
country would have in many years. He
believed in arbitration as the only rea
sonable remedy for settling the differ.
ences between capital and labor, ant
every day the present strike is pro
longed, he says, strengthens that belief
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April s.-The striking
Knights of Labor in East st. Louis hav,
preserved perfect order this morning, ant
have made no demonstrations. Deputy
sheriffs and United States marshals
armed with reyolyers and Winchestsl
repeating rifles, are on guard at severa
freight depots to prevent a repetition oil
Yesterdays outrage. No trouble, how
ever, is anticipated to-day, tor at mas
meeting of strikers yesterday their lead
ers advised that violence be avoided.