The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-07-19
THE "a" ROAD


upon certain of the striking Brother
hood Of Engineers, looks very much
like one of those "conspiracies to con-
vict" which come from the other side.
1t is not an uncommon thing for CAPT.
tai to get up its own dynamite and 9th.
er scares for the purpose of making a
point and arousing public sentiment
against the workinRmen. The AD.
VANCE, as it has declared hundreds of
times, has no encouragement for boy
cottinR, nor for dynamite and bomb
methods of retaliating upon the grind
ing capitalists and companies who
wrong the laboring men. But we are
sure that in nearly every case the work.
ing men have grievance, and that
they are generally justifable in their
strikes. They are often much more
cruel to other workingmen than the
capitalists arc to them, and this de-
tracts from sympathy due them and
Injuries their cause.
But in their fight with the 20" we
cannot help wishing them ''good
speed" Our recent trip into Nebraska
gave US some insight into the demerits
of this great railroad system. Nebras-
ka is a railroad ridden State and one of
the roads which straddles its neck is
this same G. B. Il Qsystem. 1t has the
poorest service, the poorest depot and
noIntsoro no
il, impolite and insulting employees.
that We have encountered for 20 years.
We stopped several hours in Lincoln
and paid 75c for one of the shabbiest
dinners ever served ut depot hotel.
We were misdirected, misinformed
and talked to in an insulting manner
by the employees. about the depot, es-
pecially hy the tall rough whose bnsi-
ness it is to direct passengers as to
trains, etc. We were wrongly inform
el"as to when the train would leave for
WILDER, as to which track it would
leave from, and it was only by lying in
wait aud asking of Tom, Dick and Har-
ry, that we finally got the right train.
Then the big rough who serves as pas
senger director seemed angry because
we found it and ordered us to get on
the train. The "Gents Toilet" con-
nected with the big depot in the capi-
tol city of Lincoln, would disgrace the
smallest railroad station in Minnesota.
We ventured. on our retnrn, to inquire
at the ticket office in this big %" de.
pot. when Il train would leave for Oma-
la on the Union Pacific. We were in
formed that we could not get train
before two o'clock, it being then about
nine. A man at our elbow quietly in
formed US that they "wouldn't tell Us
right" We next inquired for the U. P.
depot and man who must have been a
90 scab" told us wa ''couldn t get there
without crossing about 25 tracks. "
We finally "got there" and 70 und that
n train would leave in about one hour.
This big depot in Lincoln was guarded
by policemen carrying mnskets and
ramping up and down like soldiers on
guard, and everywhere we found hand
bills posting the road as a "Scab" road,
and appealing to the public to MD the
workinQmen In their fight with "Brit
tish capitalists"
We have made scores Of trips over the
Chicago Il Northwestern road without
ever encountering an impolite or harsh
word and without ever being mjsdirect
ed or misinformed by an employee. OF
course mistakes will occur and railroad
employees are not necessarily gentle.
men. but we encountered more annoy
ance and insult during our recent
brief experience in Nebraska than we
have encountered in the Northwest in
twenty y ears.