The record-union., 1894-07-18
Trains Continue to Arrive and Depart
Quite Regularly.
Many Passengers Traveling-NO Truth in
ths Reports About ths Engineers Likely
to Jein the Strikers

on their uppers, with the railroad lines in
operation and traffic going on in very
nearly its usual channels.
For some time after the strike was in
augurated here. the boast of the mis-
guided and excited men was that they
would ''chew up" any force the State OF
Government might send against them.
AS one of their foremost men expressed it:
''Let them send on their troops-weH
slaughter them or drive them into China
Sloughi"
Now, it is said, the chief topic of dis
cussion among most of the men is their
chances for getting back to work, and the
prospect of no cut in their wages. This
indicates return to reason, and is dis
play of that better judgment that usually
comes to men who, under great excite
ment, sometimes make serious mistakes.
No one can truthfully say that. so far
as physical courage is concerned. the ma
jority of the men who. three weeks ago,
were arrayed against law and order. do
not possess that quality in high degree.
Indeed, under the first flush of excite
ment such as controlled them on the day
the citizen soldiery were brought face to
face with them, many of these men no
doubt would, had the issue been forced,
have foolishIy and recklessly laid down
their lives at the behest of Gar Debs.
But when they had time to reflect more
coolly they realized the utter foolishness
of attempting to oppose the military arm
of the State and nation.
Now that. the opportunity is offered to
most of those who voluntarily left their
employment-in blind obedience to the
orders OF few hotheads who are now in
Jail on criminal charges that range all the
way from conspiracy against the Govern
ment to the heinous crime of murder-to
return to their work, there is every rea-
son to suppose that the better class OF
these men will accept it. If they do not
IF their families should be left without
their natural and only means of sup
port-their starving wives and children
will know on whom rests the response
bility for their forlorn and suffering con-
dition.
In the face of such an emergency ali
considerations of so-called.. loyalty to the
American Railway Union," or any other
mysterious caballistic organization is
something that is worthy only of weak
minded and foolish men. The most that
can be claimed by the loudest advocate of
the American Railway Union is its pur-
pose of protecting its members in hold
ing positions at good wages But the
experience of the last few weeks has
shown that all it is capable of accomplish
ing is to deprive men of their opportuni-
ties to labor, and. on this coast, at the
highest rates paid by any railroad COM
pany in the world.
No organization has ever yet or ever
can be devised which can for moment
reasonably hope to override the law and
the Government and contiscate the prop
erty and business of the companies en-
gagged as public carriers, and to run such
business to suit itself. Give the Ameri-
can Railway Union full control to-mor-
row of all the railroads in the country,
and it wouldn't operate them a week if it
had to pay one-half the wages its mem
bers have been receiving from the men
who have spent their lives in learning
how to successfully conduct great enter
prises.
These are facts as true and unerring as
the laws of nature, and he who ignores
them and persists in closing his eyes to
the picture of happiness and content that
is struggling to present itself through the
storms of anarchy and communism that
have been called down by these latter
day rain-makers, will find himself, like
another Lucifer, bidding farewell to
happy lands where joy forever dwells, y
with nothing in store for him but all the
misery of the outcast.
THE OLIVE BRANCH.
To-day the company of men who have
done so much for the cause of labor-so
much for the people of this fair city-and
who have been made to suffer the loss OF
millions OF dollars by this a. R. q. mon
ster, tender the olive branch to the very
men who have inflicted this great wrong
upon them. To-day they throw wide
open to them the doors of their great
factories here. in which for three long
weeks the wheels of industry have been
idle, and bid them enter if they viii and
resume the duties IL ey abandoned at the
bugle-call of demagogue The follow
ing order from General Manager Towne
of the Southern Pacific Company has
been announced:
SAN Francisco. July Il, 1894.
J. a. Fillmore, Sacramento, Cal. AS
our trains are moving in all directions it
is necessary to open the shops at Sacra-
mento. Have Mr.. Small resume work
tomorrow morning. with a force of 800
or 400 men in the various departments,
increasing the same as the necessities of
our business may require.
4. \. TowNE,
second yice-President and General
Manager.