The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-09
ARP ON THE STRIKE.
THE GEORGIA PHILOSOPHER TALKS
ABOUT THE CHICAGO TROUBLE.
He Interviews Conductor Hargis-Praises
POwderIy, but Denounces Debs-Tho
South 8 Produce Delayed.

I came up the road from Atlanta yester-
day with Captain Dick Hargs, the tall,
sycamore of Nancy's creek. Captain DICK
is one Of the genial conductors of the State
road, and as he took seat behind me l.
said: What is the matter with you? Are
you not conducting this train?" Mo- said
he, 1--WE strickland I'm still striking
striking for home This is my off day.
am glad don't live up yonder among those
strikers. l tell you what, major, if this
government is saved from ruin it will be
saved by the people of the south. Our ma
tive born population has got respect for
law and order and fair dealing. but them
fellows up there haven't got a bit. Their
motto is rule or ruin; give us what we de-
mand. we will take it. AS fast as one
strike is settled there is another on hand.
and it is running the country
a couple of Michiganders asked Captain
Dick if he thought the big strike would get
down here in Georgia. NO." said he, I'VE
southerners have done had our big strike
and got enough of it." when was that?"
they asked. about thirty years ago. said
Dick. 1T was an awful big strike ana
lasted four years, and we got licked. The
yanks hired about 100000 OF foreigners TO
put us down, and they did it, and they and
their sort are now trying their hand on the
people who hired them. That's what's the
matter" One of the gentlemen yentured to
ask him what our people thought of Coxey
and Kelly and their armies. "Oh, we don't
care anything about them,'' said the cap
tain. "1hey are part of the same crowd
that the north inherited from the war.
They came down here at the tail end of
Sherman's army and plundered all this
beautiful country, and never left pig to
squeal nor chicken to crow. They liked
the business then and they like it yet. l see
that Coxey cost government $4,000
while he was in Washington, but there's
no telling how much they cost the country
they passed through. Before the war we
would have called them Migrants, but some
northern preachers and editors sympathize
with them and say it is only sign of dis
content. That's what's the matter-discon-
tented because I've got something that
worked for, and they want it, and L won't
give it to them. The yanks taught them
that it was no crime to rob us, and now
they are robbing them. You know that
Solomon or somebody said il a man soWS
wind he will raise a crop of WhirlWind. No,
gentlemen, as sure as you are born the
south will have to save this country from
anarchy, and she can do it. We didn't have
but about half million of fighting men in
he other big strike, and we killed more
tan that and put 500 900 on the pension list,
aud then it took d million more to whip US,
and SO you can imagine what We can do now
since we have raised another crop And
Captain Dick gritted his confederate teeth
and rolled his big confederate eyes all round
in their sockets.
Well we have been amazed at this last
big strike and We did sympathize with the
railroads and the people who suffered. but
we didn't feel very much concerned until
the embargo our Watermelons reached
us it is just as PoWderly said in his speech
last Tuesday in New York: every strike
against railroads is a strike against the
whole country Our railroads are so essen
TALLY connected with the life of the nation
that when you stop one of these great ar
teries you stop the flow of the nations life
blood. Personally, l do not believe in
strikes. 1 have always advised against
. hem"
Good for Powderly. But this new leader,
- BIS, las the instinct of a brute. He would
sands of..workmen thrown out OF
al r families suffering for
= parelvzed just to
G ;-p445 e-eesa- -.s-,5n a$tI W41at Is 1t
all about? Just because the Pullman COM
pany offered it's employees wages which the
workmen refused to work for, and 50 they
were paid off and discharged. This was
their legal right. Now. Debs orders strike
on every road that haulS a Pullman car,
and he stops long train loads OF live stock
where they cannot get either food or water,
and his hencnmen actually prevent nun
dredS OF INSTRUMENTATION, women ana chill
dren-from 8etllnS foOf or water in the Gown
where they were dergiled. He has sent his
agents all over the eastern states to INDUCE
the employees to come INTO UNIVERSAL STRIKE
and let labor whip capital for good ana Tor
All time How far he will succeed, can
not divine, but the reply OF the Jersey City
men was admirable.
I've have done well to keep our places
and our wages these hard times for we are
assured that our railroads have not earned
a net dollar in the last six months. No, we
will not Join you" This strike is the out
crop of anarchism. 1t comes from the same
laWless spirit that caused the assassination
of Lincoln and Garfield and Mayor Harri-
son and Carnot. 1t leads to arson pillage
and the destruction of property. 1t causes
thousands of workmen in other industries
to be thrown out of employment and their