The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-09
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The strike. and i,iot- in ihe west-iifesha Its TFiais-fhe Cry for E"iorh-Nhii""s Aspects of Social and Public Liie'
 Al tho Dwight Place church yester- day tho pastor. Rev Or. Twitehell, also preached an able and eloquent sermon on the great strike and iIs effects upon the people. He took for his text Psalms iy:6. "Many there be thnt sny, who Will show us any good" After referring briefly 10 Dayid's advcrslties and calnmities and the fact that through 'l all David dId not find life ioyloSS nid rrnfitloss because of one or more great sorrows entering into it, hr said The trouble with the world is thai men take fu limited look on life.
 Continuing, he said; "l suppose II to tc true that to-day, hs never before forces are nt work unfricndly 10 onr socinl, civil. commercial and industrial afrars, confusing, dcranglng ana, aS many fear. imperilinG our very lire as Il people. Thus we stand In the inidst or new and crucial tests. Considering social life, we nre confronted with the fact that domestic vows are easily broken young men andthose or mature years riskinc their little all on the race course, in the price of stocks or bonds; or losing, seek relief by taking money from their employers, making inlse entries to cover up their crimes, then becoming defaulters and absconders or being incarcerated for their crimes. Proceeding, the speaker spoke ls lol- lows:
 These influences relate, secondly. to civil life. Here community protection is concerned. We see men buying their way into office and getting their money back by levying on crime, in payment for escape from detection or arrest as has been proven in New York, as IS doubtless capable of proof in many an- other city. We read of corruption m city governments 50 deep and dark as to stagger us. in that many an officer of the law is found to be in league with unmentionable crimes and shames 10 be fattenng on funds gathered from wretches who are drawing the life blood of their victims and poisoning the cur rents of our social and civil economy. The secular press tells us that it is the common practice of racing associations To receive commissions from the gam blers who do business on their grounds, and that the sums received are so large that track which does not get com missions cannot carry on it's business pf racing; that the gambling privileges of race track near Chicago were sold last year for S175,000: that but little more that a year ago race tracks Tn New York state were given monopoly 10 sell pools, and that it is believed that s15O,0O0 were spent upon the New Jer- sey legislature for the same purpose. Thus on ill other states. Word comes to us recently also of scores and hun Ilreds who in their conduct of illegti- mate and curseful business have been eble to purchase immunity from arrest and absolute protection when their grimes were committed within the knowledge and under the very eyes of policemen and of police court judges. Less than year ago we read of 1000 more votes cast in a certain region than there were voters there-a region prophetically, it seems to me, named Gravesend. Recent light let in on con RreSsional affairs seems to reveal more than one high in office whose hands are fettered and whose tongue is tied in reference to certain gigantic trusts with which our land is cursed, and many more high in office who are not over- pf oor paign funds.
 These testings relate, thirdly, to com anercial and industrial affairs, in which there is disturb, ..r. and disaster with out parallel in all our national his tory. The riotous scenes of Homestead and Buffalo are all eclpsed in the mann moth strikes and boycotts of these re. cent weeks, when railroads have beer tied up, factories closed and various in. dustries paralyZed in our great interior and greater west. The whole land lies grooming under an oppression whicf scarcely seems possible under such q government as ours and sufferina among all classes is coming to be in, tense. The fiery bolts of passion have burst upon us, and all without shadow of excuse.
 As d local struggle it began in the city of Pullman, quiet and prosperous suburb of Chicago. All at once 40O( Norkmen, chiefly skilled mechanics lai6 down their tools and left the shop be. cause the Pullman company refused tt restore the wages of a year ago. The company claimed that for severa months they had been doing busines. at loss in order that they might p,eI their workmen employed. This th, workmen failed to believe and so wen out on a strike. There were minor diff Eerences, relating to rents, gas rates water rates and the like, and espe cially growing out of the fact that nc open saloons were allowed within eas, reach; and the claim was set up tha the government of the town was a des potism. If it was, may God give Ill more of the same, for certainly neve saw a cleaner, heater, more habitabl place in all my life than that same toWl pf Pullman, which I visited in Octobe last, nor did I ever visit place which believed was governed more judiciousl, and humanely.
 The proposition of these strikers wa for arbitration. This the company re fused, but freely and cheerfully con sented to an examination of their book by an expert chosen by the strikers, proposition elninently fair and mag unanimous. These 4,000 strikers, however would not be pacified; and so the strik continued.