The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-07
CORBETT's COLUMN.

The history OF strikes i'm this country
thus far has been ignominious failure for
the strikers. History is bound TO repeat
itself. Mr.. Debs win in the end be no
different than Irons, Powderly or
the rest. Chicago Is the stamping
ground, the strong hold, OF labor
organizations in the country. At the
time OF the opening OF the World's s
Far all the walters, IL you remember,
struck for an increase in wages upon the
supposition that the restaurants and ho-
tells were to do great business. The busi-
ness did not materialize. The leader of
the strike was q man named Pomroy-a
barroom spouter and one of the worst
types OF the demagogue, yet he inconven :
fenced for the time being thousands Of
people.
In the case of Eugene Debs and his as
sociates, Howard, Sovereign and Mcbride,
the best thing to do with the whole quar-
tet Is to put them in jail without bonds.
The next best thing to do is to let General
Miles and some OF his Indian fighting
soldiers fire into a mob and kill say
dozen. The sacrifice of those twelve lives
would save good many Others, and a
halt would be made in the attempt of the
Debs followers to rule or ruin in their
mad fight against an inoffensive but most
patient public.
There is nothing like cold lead.
A mob Is, collectively, as cowardly a
set OF ours as could be got together. One
determined man like General Miles or
Buffalo Bill, men who have fought the
Indians and beat them hands down,
would make mob turn tail and run by
looking at them.
Debs, in his momentary success, loses his
head. He seems to have an idea that
ne really amounts to something, and
That he Is the high mucky-muck OF these
United States and can dictate to GO, ,000, 900
people as to how and when they shall be
allowed to eat.
"Upon what meat doth this, our Caesar
feed that he should grow so great?"
As for Governor Altgeld, his letting
loose the balance of the anarchists who
were not hung was evidence enough that
he was not in sympathy with a Repub-
lican form OF government, so what
he says or does not say regarding the
invasion of the State of Illinois with
federal toops does not count. In Chicago
the Governor is simply tolerated by the
better class of people while the Anarch hists
and Socialists and riff-raff of the labor
organizations who elected him, drink to
his health ghtly in foaming glasses OF
beer slops.
Suppose there was strike at the
Gorham Manufacturing Company and the
strikers came out and stopped the Elm
wood cars from running? How long
would such action be tolerated? 1t is
precisely the same thing, this strike of
the railroad employees because few car
builders at the Pullman works were dis
satisfied with their wages.
No credit is given Mr.. Pullman for ac-
cepting contracts and keeping his work
men employed all winter at a great loss.
Not word Is said about this.
But who are these self appointed auto
Gratis, anyhow?
Debs says the Pullman cars shall not be
hauled by the railroads.
Sovereign paralyZes the bushes of the
stock yards by ordering out $4,000 men,
What for q? To sympathize with the
others.
Mcbride stands ready to shut off the
fuel of the country by calling out the
coal miners, and the people of the United
states look on calmly at this anarchistic
rebellion.
II is the grandest opportunity ever
offered for the people to assert their
rights through their representatives, and
demand an immediate and unconditional
surrender OF these pig headed, would be
leaders of the pig-headed workingman
who allows men of the Debs and Howard
stamp to pull him around by the nose.
Debs, in my opinion, is cad W hose hat
Is too small for him, and there should be
some means employed of putting him in
solitary confinement on bread and water |
to give him an opportunity TO contem-
plate the vast amount of misery and trou- |
BILE he is causing.
But IL will all be over in a week now |
that General Miles has got his guns |
pointed. He is none of your dress parade |
soldiers. He shoots to kill. No scare |
fring in the air, and as / have before re- |
marked, it needs few impromptu |
funerals to let Debs q Co. know what |
kind of land they are living in. We |
want no self-appointed monarchs. We |
want no crowns, no sceptres, no nonsense.
We want perfect freedom and protection |
Ind no mans happiness or business inter-
ered with.
After reading an exhaustive article in a
New York journal in regard to the pend
ng strike, i could not help putting my
thoughts to paper in crude way and hav-
ng my say relative to the matter. III
ave said anything anybody is sorry for,
Why hello.
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