The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-07-18
NH, NOTTINGHAM ENEMY. DEBs.

7, vas enough TO move heart OF stone
o. road the following telegram from Chi
caeo in yesterdays Times:
II the Pullman shops were to start up
two-thirds. II not all, Of the striking en-
pioves OF that company would 10 PACK 10
work Thomas HeathcOte, their leader
admitted to-day IL was all he could 90
no keep them together They are not
starving as yet, but their supplies nave
been cut or AT present the renel com
mittee, according TO Mr. Heathcote. mas
81 40 In its treasury. As II taxes $pv 10
give each family one square meal daN
mis- win last just three days. 50 Tar as
anyone knows there Is nothing more com
ing in. The demands are hcfed i, 'n li,
Those who had niue money sdNeu NY
have gone through with X. 1900. a,...
4 few Of the strikers, probably my
I'm all. have left Pullman am SOhe III
search Of work elsewhere. in oSc f,'ii.1
Ing are getting weary OF Iohs-thlvtC
likeness. They say that 10 refuse 10 20
10 work for the car company wien II
offers them the opportunity Woui . iiIe "a.
evic,ion. And when that time comes the
end Of the striking. many OF 1hY'n "sSe ~;
has been reached. They couId NOT get
away. and besides not one in q hunv iru
has any idea where he cOul4a ,s,.t 60 ne
y,on and that is having us innuehce.
iTbe cry now IS for clothing and SHOES.
In a few days. unless contributors come
faster than they have beeh fecv ~ S'"'
Tho same issue Of our paper contained
the following. taken from Chicago Ietter
to the New York World, describing Deos
and his family. This is the way Deos
wife is described:
She dresses well, wears diamonds, a
cood-szed stone In each ear. ana Two
sparklers Of about a carat ana nan nan
each on her hand. She carries het E and
a long double chain of fine gold INKS
which hangs about her neck anu Ooi,e9
down over the dress to the watch rlng
Her husbands salary, she rsHoda66ss' 10
paltry 5000 and ought to be S-V'VV''
Look on this picture and then on that
Here is a man who has brought all TINS
wretchedness and misery upon thousands
OF poor workingmen and their families,
with the result that his wife wears good
sized diamonds in each ear, diamonds
upon her fingers, and a gold watch in
the belt of her light waist, supported
by a long double gold chain Of fine links
around her neck.
How long will the workingmen OF the
country allow Themselves 10 be led to
their ruin by impostors like Debs? From
all that we can make out, there was never
the slightest reason for the strike OF the
Pullman employees against the Pullman
Company. II seems absolutely certain
now that the pullman Company was con
tinuing work in their shops at loss in
order TO keep their force together FOR
prosperous times, when they should come.
1t was unreasonable for the men to ex-
pect the same wages under such condi-
lions that they received when times were
good and the company was making
money. This strike therefore. was plain
~. to our mind, an ill-advised strike, pro-
duced by the same order Of pestiferous
labor agitators as Debs himself. Debs,
then, only took up an unwise contest that
one Of his kind had set on foot, and in
volved thousands Of innocent workmen
in a controversy that was TO ruin them,
which should never have been started,
and with which these latter had no more
10 do than they have with the pending
quarrel between China and Japan over
Corea. There is no punishment severe
enough for this man. But he should be
a standing warning 10 laborng men. The
laboring mans only true friend Is parties
like The Times, who demand that the
laws Of the land shall bear equally upon
all. Then the laboring man Will get his
rights, and that is all that he or any
other man can properly claim. The
Times is the laboring mans best friend,
and the Debses are his worst enemies.