St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-27
He Heartily Sympathizes With
Their Struggle for Enough
to Eat.
An Incompetent Driver Re-
sponsible for a Collision
With Fatal Results.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Scores
Snoboeracy and Gives
Pointers to Society.

lHSiO Nelo hOliiiuSo iiS" III CiiS
strike situation yesterday. The cars
were run from o'clock a. m. until
$50 p. m, The omnib uses were oper-
ated by the strikers from early in the
morning until late at night, and, as on
previous days, the great bulk of the
patronage went to the buses. No
acts of violence were attempted, and the
presence of blue coat on every car was
the only reminder that great strike is
still ''on." 1t was stated by a repre-
sentative of the company last night
that after Monday the cars would be
run full hours and the regular patrol
men Withdrawn from them. Special
policemen will take their places, but
will not dress in uniform.
GATHERING OF THE CLANS.
The mass meeting held last night at
the corner of University avenue and
Rice street was not so largely attended
as the meeting of the previous evening.
Thomas Ward, of the stonecutterS' I'M
ion. was chosen chairman, and adj
dressed the meeting. He said the Strlk-
erS were fighting for the rights which
men of every free country should en-
JOY: fighting against unworthy and I'M
Scrupulous men. Il am no orator." said
Ward. ''but | want to say that if the cit
liens will show their sympathy with the
men in this bitter struggle, the fight is
already won. There is a sentiment in
favor of the strikers which no amount of
capital can overcome. Look at those cars
that are running to-day. What do you
see? Police before the n0n-union driv-
ers, police behind them. and protecting
them everywhere; protecting and rum
ming the affairs of private corporation,
| hope every man, woman and child |
see here tonight will refuse to ride on
those cars, and | know they will do it,"
James Burns next took the stand and
addressed the crowd in much the same
strain as on previous and similar Oc
caSionS. His remarks were chiefly in
eXecraIion of the nOn-uniOn drivers, for
whom he had devised several fresh
epithetS since yesterday. 1.-The STRIKE"
srid Burns, sis not ended; that fact
want to emphasize. 1t has just COM
menced. 1t makes no difference what
the Minneapolis men may do. Their
action doesn't affect the strike or strik-
erS of this city. If you peo-
pie ride ON those ears you will
be as bad as the nOn-uIion drivers"
James johnson, being called upon, took
the rostrum, and after tanning Lowry
with his usual vigor, proceeded to score
the report of his remarks at the meeting
in West st. Paul. He referred to his
patrician ancestry: men. he said, who
were afraid of nothing, and who were
not to be muzZled by the press. From
such men as these he had descended,
and lie didn't care what the press
thought or said about it, he was going
to talk as he pleased. ''When Think
he said, ''0f the way / have been ridi-
pl1l1aI ,,t4n
scented by the papers. l am indignant,
very indignant" He compared the
men under Lowry's rule to the one-time
slaves of the South, considerably to the
advantage of the latter. Even the
slaves, he said, had their Sundays and
their public holidays, which the
street car driver had not under the
present system. Mr.. CrOnin rose to a
point of order and called the Dispatch
liar, for publishing statement TO the
effect that he had arraigned Chief
Clark for allowing police to ride OH
cars. He wanted it understood that he
roasted the city government for permit
ting q private corporation to be run by
the police, and he was going to roast it
again, which he did with great yigor.
Il see heavy articles i'll the Pioneer
Press continued the speaker, ''fore-
shadewing riot and disorder. | want to
say that there has been no riOt-there
will be none, unless melted by the in
flammatOry articles in the Pioneer.
And 1 want to say further, that the an
archists who were hanged in Chicago
never said anything more lncendiary,
more calculated to incite riot, than
| are those inflammatory articles of which
l speak,"
Hon. Ignatious Donnelly, who had
been invited to speak last evening, sent
the following letter, which was read by
Secretary CrOnin.
Messrs. Cronin and Others, Committee. etc.
Gentlemen: have received your invita-
ton to speak at a meeting to be held to-mor-
row night. by citizens of st. Paul who SYM
pathlze with the street car strikers of your
city and Minneapolis. | regret to say that
| cannot, without considerable sacrifice, be
| present to address you. My literary work is
| pressing me. and it would be difficult for me
| to leave home at this time. take advantage
| of the occasion. however, to say that all my
sympathies are with the strikers They are
naturally on the side of all men who seek TO
| proven themselves from descending further
| in the scale which ends in pauperSm. 1t is
| melancholy fact that our modern ciyilZa-
ton, while it has greatly benefited the upper
| and middle classes has only served TO make
the condition of the laboring classes more
deplorable. This process has been going on
since the time of Henry VIII, and our
1 great inventors have increased many fold
the productive powers of labor, but the
profits have not enured TO the benefit
! of the laborer. All over the world
we witness the same shrinkage in the
| comfort and happiness of the multitude. and
! there has arisen a sentiment of heartlessness
! and callouSneSs toward the suffering which
| is in dreadful contrast with the principles
| and purposes of Christianity. In your case
| the question is distinctly presented, whether
| hundreds of men shall be made poor. that
one man may become richer; whether hun
dreds shall suffer for the necessaries of life
| that one man may enjoy supeFfluity of the
| iuxuries. In such contest every human
| heart must be on the side of the poor toilers.
| If the street railroads were bonded and
stocked for the amount they actually cost to
] construct. and If through hard times or the
decadence of the cities the money necessary
| to pay interest on that amount could not be
| collected, there might be some show of reason
| for asking the workingmen to retrench their
| meager expenditure and work for less. But
| as understand it this is an attempt to make
the traffic of the two cities pay interest OH an
! incumbrahce of $4,000 per mile, while the
| road probably did not cost 5000 per mile.
| speak now of the car lines Railroad pres
| idents have certified that railroads can be
| built and equipped in this state, the road bed
graded and the right of way purchased for
| $4,000 per mile. We have only to remem-
| Der that in the case of the street cars
line there is no right of way to be bought.
| and no grading to be done. while the rails
| ana cars are insignificant in proportion to
| those on the railroads and there are no ex-
| pensive locomotives to be purchased. 1t is
evident, therefore, that this is not natural
decrease of wages, sympathetic with a
| Shrinkage of values all over the world, but
| an effort on the part of one man or few
| men, to make good the interest on watered
stock, by taking it out of the larders and off
! the backs of lot of poor workmen. If the
| community permits this thing to go on the
| prosperity or the cities will shrink with the
| shrinkage of the wages, ana instead of an
| intelligent and prosperous yoemanry. we
| shall have miserable population living on
| The borders of pauperism, and unfit 10 fifty
| exercise the duties of free men in a republic