Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-07

! MiCnlean sIroeC crossing; Threw 0ul
e picket lines; unloaded guns, baggage,
: etc., and marched to the Arsenal. They
9 were under the direction of General
t Harrison, who took them to the Arsenal.
At this or no other time was there the
slightest occasion for troops. Every de-
3 partment of the road employees had
selected large number of it's sober,
! conservative men to watch and
, protect property, and there was not
, the slightest danger or disposition
, to permit any harm to be done. I
!, was later in the old Council chamber at
J meeting of strikers and the committee
| OF safety, at which General Harrison
made talk. The general drift of his
i. speech was that the boys were law
breakers; that they were stopping COM
merce; that the roads were unable to
pay better money; that they (the strik-
ers) should first return to work at what
they were getting before they had any
right to talk about better wages or any
thing else; that if they kept the thing up
they knew that the militia would take
charge OF the railroad property and COM
pei them to submit. In the midst of his
remarks he got 30 hard on us that the
boys got excited and yelled him down
and good many went out, 1 among the
rest, before he got done.
How perfectly these witnesses support
and iclinch every fair inference to be
drawn from the history OF the strike I
will leave to you. The proof is com
plete. The verdict is inevitable.
You know the men whose words have
been read in your hearing. They are
among the most honorable and upright
OF our citizens; they are your fellow
workmen, and each statement has been
carefully prepared, read and signed by
the respective persons making them.
Upon the evidence adduced 1 will leave
the matter of what General Harrison
did, how he felt, what he advised, what
he said with you and the voters of the
country.
HARRIsoN's 81 900 FOR WEEKS WORK.
1t appears, however. that General
Harrison places widely divergent esti-
mate upon the value of mems time and
services; that he esteems the abilities of
his own class far more worthy of their
hire than the poor mortals engaged in
the more ordinary pursuits of life. While
an attorney of the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad Company, heretofore referred
to, in March, 1887, petition was filed in
the United States Court at Indianapolis
for the removal of Mr.. King as its re-
ceiver Benjamin Harrison, with others,
appeared to oppose the petition, and
when the Court required them to state
under oath the amount of time expended
and the value of the service given, Mr..
Harrison made the following affidavit:
Benjamin Harrison being duly sworn,
says, upon his oath, that the law firm of
which he is member (Harrison, Hines
y Miller), were employed by John King,
Jr., and Daniel Torrance, receivers ap-
pointed by the court in the case above
named (Wm. King, Robert Garrett ct al.
vs.. the Ohio and Mississippi Railway
Company of the property and effects by
the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Com
pany, to aid in their defence upon the
Maurice, Allan Campbell and others, for
the removal OF said receivers, that
with the Hon. George Hoadley,
of Cincinnati, W. T. McClintock,
Esq, of Chillicothe, O., and Henry
Crawford, of Chicago, affiiant, took part
in prepareing the defense of said re-
ceivers. The evidence taken by affidavit
and deposition was very volvminous, as
will appear by reference to the files in
said cause; that there were several
questions of law of some difficulty which
had to be and were carefully examined
by counsel aforesaid. That hearing of
said cause was had at Springfield, ILL.,,
before Hon. Thomas Drummond, Circuit
Judge, and Hon. John s. Treat, w. @.
Gresham, District Judges; that in going
to and returning from the place appointed
for the hearing and presenting and
arguing the case, nearly one whole
week of time : was consumed
all the counsel aforesaid, every
night until a late hour being given to the
case. And afiant says that he is &C.
quainted with the usual rate of fees
charged and paid for such business in
said court, and that he believes the SER
vices of each of his said associates and of
affiant were seasonably worth the sum of
81 900. BENZ. HARRISON.
IL. 81 Subscribed and sworn to be-
fore me this 31st day of March, 1877.
HOWARD GALE,
Notary Public.
He Says nearly one whole week of
! time was consumed. And affiant says
that he is acquainted with the usual rate
of es charged and paid for such bust
mes in said court, and that he believes
the services of each of his said associates
and said atfiant were reasonably worth
| Fl,OOOs INOdIly Ouc WuOl0 Wook duO I66.
sonably worth 81 900. Men toiling, dig
ging, standing at the throttle, firing,
risking life, encountering a thousand
lurking dangers for railroads paying
sums varying from 81 to 50 per day,
while attorneys for the same master
think "nearly one whole weeks work"
is reasonably worth $1,000. The whole
lesson is there. One belongs to the class
controlling legislation, controlling militia,
controlling capital, while the other must
turn over his earnings and grumble not.
If the laborer could but look into
the inner and outer circles and be-
hold the plots and plans to pluck him
he would begin possibly to compre-
hend the drift-the mighty, steady,
sweeping drift from the anchors of
simple representative government to one
of power, fashion and arrogance. You
sovereign people must act, and that
quickly, if you avoid fatal engul6ng
disaster. Equal rights. Equal sovereign
ty. Let the slogan pass along the line.
No wonder-no wonder, indeed-the
wage men Of the Ohio and Mississippi
Railway were reduced. We have dis
covered the leak. Each attorney in the
case in question swore "said associates
and said affiant" were reasonable en-
titled,to 81 900 for "nearly whole weeks