The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-16
ARP ON STRIKES.
BILL SAYS LET EVARYBODY QUIT
WORK FOR Il WHILE.
AgitatOrs Have to do Something to Inter-
est the Boys or Their Salaries Would
Not DO Paid-Other Matters.

| the qualifications of the big strike, the
| widespread war between capital and labor.
| the miserable contention over the tariff
| bill and the red-hot strife of candidates for
! office our weak minds are kept on a con-
| tinual strain. Every trade occupation
! has got union now, even to the BARRIERS
and the newsboys, and if these unions don't
strike or boycott something occasionally
the boys get lukeWarm and quit paying
their dues and that cuts off the salaries
Of the officers, and so they must get up a
carousement to fire up the boys again.
1t is like the great monarchieS of Europe.
When their people get restless and Clscon-
tented and threaten the government the
monarch gets up a little war with some
other nation and that unites the people and
kills off the surplus. Suppose we all strike
for little while and swear off from any
kind Of work unless can get more for
it, Let the newspapers strike against the
neWsboys and quit publishing papers. Let
the railroads stop running. Let the mer-
chants quit buying and selling Let all the
manufactures close up for awhile Let us
all wear our Old clothes and live off our
gardens. Capital is just as good as labor
and brains better than both. 1t takes
all three to keep the world going ana II
they cannot get along in peace let us dlS-
solve the partnership awhile and every
body and everything get on strike. But
that wouldent do. Just think of the poor;
not the farmers nor the laborers on the
railroads and In the workshops, but the
poor women and children who toll IN the
cotton mills or at the needle in some mlser-
able garret-the sewing women in the great
cities who make garments for a mere
trine and who still sing 1.-The Song of the
Shirt" Who is striking for them? No
body 1t is not the very poor who are
raising all this racket. 1t is the able-bodled
men who have employment at living
wages [ heard farmer say yesterday
that they could get along If labor, was not
so high and no doubt his laborers are
growing because wages are not h1sner,
and so it goes. The farmer grumbles be-
ca use wheat is down to Gu cents a puShel
and the laborer would reduce 1t to 81 cents
if he could And yet all classes VINO are
not rich enough to live without WORK SYN
patflize with the strike, and in it's last
ANALYSIS the prime cause IS envy ana sell
ishness. How rich will a man be allowed
TO get and still have the good VIII OF ms
poorer neighbors? How poor must d man
get before he will have@the help ana pity
of the rich?
But every day the press ventilates the
whole business and everybody knows all
about it,
1t was a relief when Mrs. Arp lolu Aie
this morning she wanted that Dig reo Jan
that stood near the corner Oh me col W.
cut down I've been limiting ABOUT that d
long time, but she is opposed to cutting
~ ooca of all never do Some years ago
7 nroDosed to thin out the trees in the front
yara but Sns %2t got the boys and
cut down three of them level with the
ground and didn't leave a sign of a stump
anu we las''t 80 nlacas win grass and she
never found 1t out for two months, ana
wouldn't have then but o 9ne d OF the hat we
dident use to see the. hills as pam as we I'VE
do now, and my wife caught on noa 10 IN, thf
business right away. she Always G4 9t DTt
she suggested this mornlng tha 4 fla no UTH
would have TO come Gown F-n,,, "1,0 eomaftJHes
give us more garden. As "otii ~ III l[iiiino
changes her mind % YEN tree a. i WAS perpen7
'sn&kes. me run on ~ tte fdr Startled it,
qicuar. hho" ~ We to a string and
| tied a PAIR OF DE SciS@ 3 - o1,,'a # 1vorid
stood off and $ ghted anu "ao ~ - ~ II
fall up the mn Where ,d,l T4 fai across nv
went down the NH II Woulu Iall a. Ia no a1n3
own fence and across the HatloW , 1'n me The he
onto the WId9W ,d dt"S Sc t to be sure Climb
fruit trees IN her loS' 30 81, We 0e az some big
ed the laqoer alu 80 knew that the
nmps on ina t Ttor ei o. Womb null it that