The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-13
Tales Of the Def Way in Which the
One Extracts the Other from
His WOrkmen.
STRIKERS KEEPING PERFECT ORDER
No Threats or Muttsrsd Curses Heard Even
at the Funeral Of Workingman Wan
tonly Murdered at Kensington.
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the newspapers. The whole affair i'm
presses me as being a huge joke-a sort
Of CoXey burlesque on an immense scale
Everywhere I go, everywhere l look,
nm confronted by the soldiers. Officers
chock full of Importance and trying to
look as If the safety of the land rested
upon their well-padded shoulders, strut
around and dine in the hotels and enjoy
themselves immensely. Soldiers in
squads, with a man in command, march
hither and thither. and wheel about and
shoulder arms and stack arms, to the
intense appreciation of curious specta-
tors.
But why they should be here and what
1t all means 1 cannot understand. |
turn TO the newspapers, I see long
words In big, black type describing
scenes OF bloodshed and riot down entire
columns until 1 reach the last line, by
turning a page, which tells me that it
10 so rilmCrcd. l see blood-curdling
pic,ures-men falling dead and others
with flaming torches, clubs and revol-
vers in their hands. Then l go out to
see the strikers in Pullman. The town
has a Sabbath-day look. Very few
people are on the streets, and they are
main women on some errani. so into
the quiet homes and / fni the strikers
nursing the babies.
Yesterday the guard was reinforced at
Pullman because it was said an attempt
was to be made TO blow the shops up
l spent the entire day in the homes of
the strikers and am prepared to take
my oath that not a soldier in the United
states Army would do more to defend
fnu of pitl1 linn fhan fhn ct,.il.
within 1t.
They are not fierce firebrands; they
are not mur.lerers and rioters; they are
not Anarchists. They arc quiet. peace
full men, who have suffered beneath the
heel of the most heartless coward it has
cIer been my misfortune to hear Of.
PULLMAN'S OPPORTUNITY.
No man in the world ever had better
chance TO benefit mankind than had
Pullman. No man deserves more the
condemna ton OF the world for his neg
lect of his duty towards his fellow
creature than this same Pullman.
,;eorse Pullman could have made him
self the hero of every child in Pullman.
lie could have BEEN loved and wor-
"hipped by every man and woman, and
every night the prayers OF his 1l,OOO ten
ants would have gone before the throne
Of heaven beseeching blessings to rest
upon him evermore. But now he is
cursed and his name is received with
quiet Kisses, and dying men and women
have gone before God calling punish
mcnt upon him.
I went to Pullman yesterday by the
way OF Kensington. When l reached
the heart of the village | saw an enor-
nous procession forming in the streets.
Il was hte funeral Of a striker.
hs selueoua cre es ssFks they
painted, the burial Of a brother
murdered, they claim-would call forth
every bitter feeling that smouldered in
10 four thousand-there seemed chance
10 Judge just what the present feeling Is.
The men had gathered around the
10 which the burial services were being
held. As many as could get into the
church had done so. and We're listening
minister as he talked to them in low,
agitated tones. Before him rested the
plain, black. cloth-covered coffin, the
na ahd Oh the
The long. sewed cash where the bullet
mad entered the forehead could not de-
stroy the look of calmness and peace
which rested on the dead face.
There was something pathetic and
touching in the sight of the rough, toll
Worn hands folded across the pulseiess
before during the entire strike Those
rough and hardened hands seemed IL
speak in their helplessness as no voice
yer spoke. They had always ,toiled for
= livelihood; they had asked only for jus;
been laid low and helpless. The Bible
Sa eat %f Even 0t 'h had shat brow s
now pierced by a bullet, been moistened
BRUTAL, UNPROVOKED MURDER
This man had not been burning cars
or threatening lives when nc was shot
lie was on strike, but he had attempted
no violence against property or man
Ne was almost stranger ~ kensing,
ton, and all his friends and relatives
Mere in his old home in Missouri; so he
could not ask aid Of his neighbors as
others might His two babies, apd his
wife were hungry, so he started off with
: hshing-pole to try to get sometime
deputy. who. for some reason know
only 10 himself, set upon the workman
and shot him to death, first In the head
and then, when he fell in the back.
II would be natural to suppose that
Knowing these circumstances as they do
these Workmen would cry for yengeanc'
they did not. There he lay, and nearby
sat his stricken and heari-broken widow
supported by two eympathizlns neiga
nors, ana before them stood the minister
loath of brother, and reminding then
iAat in quiet and order lay their only
n'pe: The organ moaned sadly throus
ne little church, hymns were sung ant
Nomen weps with the lonely widow, anc
men looked sad, hut not one angry worc
VAS uttered. The services over, lon4
recession marched around the cotfln
women cried silently and children locke,
."ed and frightened, Tho men were o.
many nationslitics. Their clothing was
poor and cheap: their hands hard anc
Nlyh tears.
After the long procession had nlod pas
No CONN q man covered the dca race
md the pall-besrcrs. barc-headed, bor'
70 nm 30 tho hcirsc. Sis men carrie.
'nloe hoNcr pieces, sent by different 80
'elies, aud Il man and woman ma,
~, half carried. the stricken widow.
She Is the first widow, hut she vii
not he the last before the strike ends,
weeping woman said to me.
The band AT the head OF the line playec
funeral dirge. and the slow march o.
almost 1000 men began. ] drove around
10 side street and viewed the process