The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-07-21
1T HITS THEM HARD.
WALL STREET NEWS" ON THE
BIO STRIKE.
The Famous Editorial which Haa Been
Going the Rounds of the Press-lt
says That No Dividends Have Besn
Forthcoming.

tFrom the Wall Street News, July z. isoIl
Railroad management in this coun-
try has reached crisis compared with
which all past experiences become in
significant Just when the bituminous
coal miners strike had been settled
and it began to look as II there was
some hope of the railroads being able
to earn something more than operating
expenses the wheels on every road
from the eastern slope of the Missis-
sippi valley to the Pacific coast are
either actually stopped, or active
preparations are under way to bring
them to a standstill-on nearly all the
principal western trunk lines, the
suspension of traffic has already taken
place. Never was the action of the
railroad officials more important
never were the principles involved
more vital to the successful operation
of our great railroad properties than
at the present moment The annual
traffic revenue of the railroads of the
United States amounts to considerably
more than thousand million dollars;
1t Is proposed to stop this revenue and
in SO doing to cripple or destroy every
business enterprise throughout the
country which is dependent upon the
railroads for transportation, while a
few hot-headed labor leaders settle a
question Of difference which has arisen
wholly outside of the management OF
the railroad companies themselves
1t is absolutely of no consequence
whatever, whether the position taken
by Mr.. Pullman, or the Pullman
Palace Car company, is right or wrong:
that question is in no way involved.
To raise it to the dignity of a moments
consideration is to concede that the
leaders of any labor organiza ton have
a right to stop the turning of the
wheels on $50. 900 miles of railroad,
while they settle dispute with the
manufacturer of axle grease without
the liberal use of which it is, of course,
unsafe to move trains. Or they
might pick quarrel with
car wheel manufacturer and then
insist that all the wheels
made by the concern should be taken
off and replaced by others, before the
trains would be allowed to move again.
Indeed, these propositions would be
more reasonable than the demand
now made, for there are numerous
manufacturers of axle grease and of
car wheels, but with the exception of
one other company whose cars are
fully employed on few lines, there
are no sleeping or palace cars except
those made by the Pullman company.
President Depew of the New York
Central stated the matter very tersely
to n representative of the Wall Street
Daily News on Saturday when he said:
1.-The spirit of the strike, as under
stand it, is by closing up the railroads
and OBTAINING travellers all over the
country wherever they may be to
create u public opinion which will
compel the manufacturing company
to secure work and do ii, no matter
what the loss may be. With the rela-
tions between the manufacturing com
pany and their employees the railway
companies have nothing to do, and it
is none of their business. That is a
matter which ought to be adjusted by
the parties immed iatel, concerned.
But precisely how stopping thousands
Of people on the arid plains of Ari-
IONA, and in the super-he belt of
the northwest, many of them women
and children, many of them travellers
Fastening to the bcdsides of dying
mothers, wives or children, many of
them invalids who may lose their
lives by the exposure, is to compel
n fn af, 7 ri 70 nd
tracts to build cars and then build
them. is just one of those problems
which the railway mind is unable to
grasp"
1t is impossible to contemplate the
action Of the many thousands of rail-
way employees in blindly following
the mandates of an irresponsible
leader, without feeling of wonder
and astonishment, to say nothing of
the disappointment and humiliation
which it aspires. The only explana-
ton that can be given is that they
have done so because they are blind.
But this fact only augments the duty
involving upon the managers of the
railroads in resisting the influence Of
the insolent and selfish chariatans
who arrogantly assume the position
Of supreme dictators, and also in open
ing the eyes of the poor, deluded fell
lows who have started to follow them.
There is no middle ground for the
railroad manager, and there must be
no hating or hesitation in his action.
To parley with, or in any way to
recognize, for moment the leaders
of the strike, would be movement
fraught with the greatest danger to
the prosperity. not alone of the rail
roads throughout the country, but
also of the country itself Railway
officials. stand by your guns.
Colorado Consumptives.