The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1894-08-04
The Recent Strike.

The Los Angeles, California,
Times-Eage published the follow
ing article during the recent rail
road strike, which about covers
the case:
Here's state of things now, isn't
there?
Everybody except the Eagle people
gone on a strike-nO mail from you
fellowses girls; no butter from the
ranches; no alfalfa from the patches
of green up in San Berdoon county;
flying wheels going clankety- clank
over the shining rails to New York
and back again; no pennons of smoke
trailing back over the big locomo-
tives; no flying shuttles in the web of
commerce.; but sullen people pouting
and bucking at things just perfectly
awful, and the country going to hell
on handsled.
Now, look here, you great, good
natured, sensible, level-headed
American people-if there are any OF
you left-aren't you ashamed of your
selves? Is this republic which we
have been clarifying for these hun
dred years or more going to let itself
get all tangled up in a knot over a
thing 80 utterly unfair, unkind and
unmanly as that develish importa-
ton from Ireland called a boycott!
Has the true-born American citizen,
reared under our bonny banner Of
stars, nothing better to be doing than
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the blind and the innocent by the in.
stitution of boycott?
Is that same free-born citizen OF
Columbia's beautiful land of glory
and valor satisfied with himself,
when he picks up the boycotting cat
o'-nine tails and lashes his supposed
enemy across the faces of the mothers
of men and the babes that slumbel
in their arms?
Men of my country! where is your
bravery, your gentle chivalry. your
manliness, which has been the pride
Of Gods chosen land? Where is
your spirit of kindness and charity,
that was wont to emblazon the name
of America with an ineffable glory?
Stop and think awhile what you
are doing-of the agony that arises
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tears that are trimming over in beau
tiful eyes because of that dastardly
and miserable piece of crime and
cowardice called a boycott!
The Eagle knows you boys mighty
we'll down there along the double
! ribbons of steel. He is no stranger
/ to the tolls and cares and trying
anxieties. Of the men of Drawn and
bronze who run the great railways OF
America; He knows you to be as
brave and resolute lot of fellows as
ever pulled a throttle, set brake, or
threw SWITCH; but sometimes you
get together and sort of hold conven-
lions and get ratified.
You don't think, sometime, but the
Eagle wants to tell you, boys, that
right now is time when the think
ing machinery should be oiled around
and worked down to the last notch in
| the southwest corner Of the cab.
This is ripe old occasion that calls
for a suppression Of the feather.head
and the rattle-brain, and the coming
to the front of you railroad fellows
who have nerve and horse sense.
1t is all right to h old noisy sessions
sometimes, and fire the old man." pro-
mote fifteen or twenty other fellows,
build branch lines to the moon and
divers stars, regulate the board of di-
rectors and slam the internal old
time card around until the p. m.
train don't get in until 10 O'Clock, and
the Squeedunk local doubles back
four times day; but right now is no
time for these conventions under the
lee side of water tanks. Get out and
talk things over with yourselves and
find out where you are at; for, boys,
you are making lots of misery, and
the Eagle Bird is willing to bet a
favOrite feather that you don't mean
it.
You shouldn't forget, old chaps,
that there are blue-eyed baby girls
calling for papas and mammas that
can't get home to them because of the
tie.up; there are poor, old, worn-out
fellows out of money, disc ouraged. dis
heartened and dismayed, who want
to get out to that home on the big
prairies, where the old-fashioned
roses flame about the porch and the
honeysuckle fills the air with sweet