Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-07-12
THE FOLLY OF IT ALL.


what Debs Makes out OF the Strike and
How tho Deiuded strikers Are Com
PEELED TO Foot tho iiill.
Morning News yesterday
Debs, the man vino is leading the
members Of the Amorican Railway
Union to destruction as an organization,
draws a salary of $4,000 u year from
his poor, blind followers. The chief aid
TO the temporary dictator of this coun.
try receives Il salary of $4,000, and seven
Others engaged in kicking up. all this
devilment at Chicago and elsewhere
each receive $1,000. That makes total
of $l5,500 year paid out by tho rail
road men now on strike to nine other
men, to create disorder and to destroy
the business of the country. That Is
what the members of railway union
arc paying out in salaries. Add to that
the expenses of office rent, telegraph
tolls, &c., and the sum total paid out by
the poorest class Of railroad employees
for absolutely nothing, except to crafty
the vanity Of Dcbs and his. associates
in office, will be found to be enormous,
To these oullays of money add the
wages that have Leen lost by probably
81, 900 men for two weeks. The mem-
beers of the American Railway Union
will thus perhaps jointly lose by the
end of the year ut least million and a
half of dollars. This is an enormous
price to pay for nothing. 1t is tre-
mendous price to pay, but it is nothing
compared TO the loss which has been
| imposed upon the stockholders of q
score of railroadicompanies and upon
the business people of the country gem
orally, to say nothing of the indirect
loss through the outlay of money by the
State governments md the Federal gov
eminent. The strike has already cost
millions of dollars, and the bill OF ex-
penses is not yet made up. After it is
all over the poor deluded fellows and
their weak sympatiizers will begin to
wonder If il paid. The question can be
answered in advance: it has not paid
Surprising that cath one OF the nifty
thousand strikers hid contributed one
dollar foI the support of the Pullman
men, and supposing that each one OF the
men who will probably begin strike
in Chicago this morning should also
pay one dollar apiece to fund for the
Pullman men, and sutposng that every
member of every trades union IN sym
pathy with the PullIan men had also
paid dollar to the same fund, il would
amount to at least million OF dollars,
which would have k,pt the Pullman
men in idleness for several weeks. In
addition, the men wholhave been losing
their wages, and many of whom may
not be able to return to work, would
have been kept busy and would have
had something to livd upon, As it is
now the strikers ale lmpoverishing
themselves, while they are not helping
the Pullman mon for whom they express
so much sympathy. Oh the folly of II
: all In contest of endurance between
the employees and the employers it is no
difficult to imagine which side can stant
the stain the longest
A financial expression of sympathy
for the Pullman men would have beer
more practical and NOR beneficial t
them. A period Of idltness withou
pay, in addition to the cos. of running
,, dcspotic government in opposition tt
the regularly. established government, /:
,, an expensive luxury for men who hay
no money to waste. But the rea
: suiferers-the ones upon whom til
burden of this foolish strike will fal
with the most weight-arc the wive
+. and children of the strikers. They ar
the ones who will feel most keenly tn
pinch Of poverty as u result OF thi
! unreasonable outbreak against the rail
road companies and the Federa
government and the governments of
score of states. That is where the blol
7 will fall.
! Several labor organizations are vast
! ing hundreds of thousands Of dollar
! because professional agitator wishe
4 to.exalt himself and crafty his pc
= sonal vanity. The men who have gon
2 out on strike have no grievance
J, against their employers, and they al
9 paying terrible price for their attac
;, OF midsummer madness.