The Press., 1894-07-26
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s(Hartford Times) FACTS TO BE KEPT IN SIGHT
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(Hartford Times.) ~
 FACTS TO BE KEPT IN SIGHT.
 Concerning the Pullman strike, or the Debs affair, or whatever 1t may be called in the future, there are 8 few facts which should be kept in sight by cool-headed citizens everywhere. First, as to method of preventing such outbreaks in. the fu- ture. There is loud outery for . new law to make arbitration of labor dispua
 compulsory. Such , law would not have averted the trouble in Chicago, unless it had been so far reaching in it's provisions as to have, in effect, fixed the price at which the Pullman company should se1 to the railroad companies the cars which it builds. The Pullman company deter mined to keep it's shops open by under bidding every other car-builder in the United States for a seventy-f five car con- tract, and it is expected that even after the reductions in the wages of the work men the account would show heavy loss. This would be made up from the palace car contracts with the various sra ilroads, the working force would be kept together, and rival builders would be made to feel that the Pullman company was supreme in it's field. sE8 %*
 If the Pullman company had shown to any board of arbitration that it hadscuS off not only it's own profit but a good deal more, while still giving it's workmen some l thing, the arbitrators could not have de- cided against it under any hitherto recog- nized principles of equity.
 How impossible it would be for any conceivable legislation to apply effectively to such 8 question as that which was raised at the Pullman works will be seen when the matter is carefully studied.
 Another thing to be remembered is that the Pullman difficulty had no more rela- l tion to the organization known as the American Railway Union than it did 7ssJ5 the Salvation Army. The action of Debs | and his associates might as we'll have l been taken because of 8 local strike in Boston or New Orleans as forthe reason that was given. The sympathetic strike lafforded a glimpse Of what the condition of our existence would be under social istic state, when every sort of a dispute, little or big, should be referred to some | kind of national tribunal for settlement. Carried out to its ultimate extent, this system would provide for the referenn1 evfn of family rows and Aaisnutas hetWe,
 small boys in the streets,' to somebody a' Washington for settlement. Then indeed would every mans business be the bust ness of every other man, and the life of : human being would be as interesting as that of a red ant,
 Yet another thing to be considered is that every man who was responsible fol extending the strike to the railroads al Chicago must have known perfectly wei that unless the strikers should make eff fective violent opposition to the employ ment of others in their places, there wal not the slightest chance of gaining any thing. The condition of the labor marke e
 was known to these strike leaders, ant that every place vacated would be eagerl, taken up by some idle man. Hence it ii
 clear that all the talk about peaceful and orderly strike was insincere. Such strike would have amounted to nothing at all. E...
 The very exaggerated character of thu reports sent out from Chicago during tn I,r ~e kho A-,s1 s~s
 mark. It looks a little as if the Chicag, correspondents wished the world to un
 derstand that when Chicago got up strik
 it would be as much bigger than all othe
 strikes as the world s fair of 1893 was big ger than all other fairs. 's .sssy x
 Finally, it is to be observed that tn , excellent case which seemed to be mad
 out by certain military gentlemen a weel
 ago in favor of incleasing the size of tn regular army has fallen to the ground Our national military forces have bee
 shown to be quite large enough for tn most serious demands that are likely t l be made upon them in the matter of labo
 disputes. No other argument for increas ing the cost of our military establishment can be brought forward at this time.
 l Professor W@tzold, who was the Ger , man school commissioner to the world t fair, has just made a. report to his go, ernment. It is exceedingly complimer
 tary to the American school system : Among other things he says: "In thi school system the Americans are in ever : way superior to the Germans, most nots 2 ply in teaching languages, drawing, an modelling. It is surprising what con
 mand of language the American schot
 children have. German teachers dwe
 too much upon style, while America
 teachers aim to give the children a con
 mand of dfction." If there is ,anythin :. in which the Germans have been thougI
 to be ahead of all other edllcatorsit isth :, rMA "