The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-07-17
THE STRIKE.
This is the Way the Commercial
Gazette Tells How 1t Was
Worked Up,

~ cations, and found war essential
ID the cultivation of their persons
le greatness.
"a ''Three gentlemen have found then
u selves in command of forces ths
y could be employed to disturb tn
: country, and they have made mani
Is festation of power in every way re
markable, and indeed ominous. TIL
i raw material they had to work upo
9 was very small.
In the case of difference of opinion
between Mr.. Pullman and his mel
there was nothing sensational
Mr.. Pullman was striving to fine
work for his meu to do, and willing t.
stand considerable direct loss rather
than close the shops. The men knew
the times were hard on great enter.
prises as well as small ones, and con.
sented for time to the reduction oil
their wages, knowing that there had
been overproduction of cars, and that
the new ones could not be sold at the
actual cost of turning out the work.
They naturally wanted return to the
old scale of wages, and they had been
sensible for some time that there was
something in the air to the effect that
Mr.. Pullman was too rich for a man
who had been poor to become. If he
had made his money by the rise of
land. or if his grandfather or father
had made it for him, the riches of the
man of the model town would not
nave been so raw and offensive.
Once 1t was thought that il was rather
a good thing for man to be architect
OF his own fortunes, but now there is
another view of the case.
sit goes hard with the workingman
if he works over time and saves
money, and puts money to work max
ing money. Advanced views have
caused change in feeling on this
subject in quarters susceptible of sud-
den excitements. But Mr.. Pullman
and his men did not quarrel particu-
larly. They disagreed and the works
were closed. Many of the men were
living in the Pullman houses. They
have not been evicted. Mr.. Pullman
has not attempted to introduce "black
sheep" and "scabs" and thieves. He
has not used bad language. He knows
his men as rule would prefer to be
at work at the wages he agreed he
was able to pay, and were constrained
by uncomfortable Influences to 90 on
with the miserable strike, There was
nothing to compromise or arbitrate; it
was a simple question to work or not
to work, and the strike would have been
over if it had not been for meddlers-
or the meanest of all kinds of polite
ans, who would sacrifice an army of
Workingme for the sake of notoriety.
The motive of such a man as Debs is
is low and wicked as that of the IA
nous fool who fired the Ephesian
lone. :
'Mr. Pullman and his company did
lot fight the workingmen, but stopped
he Improbable work. Here came
)ebs, and demanded a string of i'm
Possibilities. He knew he could not
orce the opening of shops at loss 7
o openers, and he pushed the matter
+ boycotting the Pullman Gals mere
y to secure declaration of war nn
IL the roads using cars that we've
lade in shops by Union workmen at
ne standard scale. He knew the
abroad companies could not throw
side the cars he proposed to boycott,
orthey had long contracts to use them
nd more than that, they could not be
base as to consent to servility and
put the travelling public to i'm
lense Inconvenience. The purpose
the boycott was the opening of
abroad war; and the various labor
examinations were expected to rush to
lie rescue. 1t was a shrewd calcula-
on, that however little the working
len fancied the task, there were
lough idlers from choice, such ma d
rial as make up the Coxey armies, b
personify labor and enter upon
Ireer ofdisorder. The great majority a
the workingmen have no sympathy
it'll the riots. They are not Anarch-
is nor Nihilists; but we have anar-
lial elements, and crowded into
ties, and they do not understand the
'avity and infamy, the shame and =
ril, of taking up arms against the
nited States. How soon events,