The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-02

people are between the upper and the
neither milestone. Employers and the en-
pIoyed are ranged in two hostile camps
sullen and menacing, ready on the instant
to engage in battle. For the past twenty
years civil war has existed in some part
of the country. 1t exists now in the
mining regions of Colorado and the
Northwest, in the coal territory Of Kan
sas and Illinois. Cleveland is u belea-
guered city, as much rs Richmond dur
ing the Rebellion. The laws are resisted
and defied, traffic and transportation are
interrupted, the innocent suffer. the peo-
pie are subjected to intOlerable incon-
veniences, violence and disorder prevail
blood is shed, cars are stoned, ard en-
ployes who have the temerity and eff
frontery to take the places of those who
have voluntarily abandoned their posts
are assaulted and beaten, while capital
and labor brawI and wrangle and gouge
and maui each other like brutal ruff1ans
in a subtcrranean dive over few cents
Of wages, or an hour of two more or less
in the length of a day.
Hundreds of lives have been sacrificed
and hundreds of millions Of property,
NeA6CSI pAOAtloI OSSlAOySu Will Tile lung
suffering and submissive public, lie, q
dull ass that will not mso1 its pace by
beating. Is made the victim of the cow
arc:ce Of political parties. and the pu-
sillanimous poltroonery of political denla-
gogues. The money trusts make enor-
nous contributions to the campaign
funds for the election OF presidents and
legislators, so that however loud the
MIA form md thunder In ha
index the attorney general finds all laws
for their suppression Inadequate.
POWER OFF THE BALLOT.
The labor trusts have tho votes. and
political leaders are afraid to condemn
their lawless and nefartous proceedings
for fear Of the result at the polls
Strikers become holder and more Ieek-
less from the belief that the people SYM
pathize with them because they are 81
lent. AT heart public opinion Is justly
opposed to rioting strikers, and nothing
contributed more to the estimation In
which Grover Cleveland is held by his
idolaters than his vigorous. fearless treat
ment of the railroad strike at Chicago
IN 1888. His assertion OF the national au-
thority stirred the heart Of the people
| like the blast OF a trun1pet-it covered a
multitude of sins. 1t was one virtue Ink
ed with a thousand crimes, but the in
Napoleon Bonaparte WAS the incarna-
ton Of modern democracy. He was the
typical representative Of the might and
majesty and meanness of the nineteenth
century. He was not only the supreme
military genius of history, but he was
the best legislator, the most dexterous
politician, and the biggest liar that ever
lived. His resources were inexhaustible,
his capacity boundless. He was equally
at home negotiating treaties with van
quished monarchs or settling the accounts
OF Josephine's milliners. n Nothing was
too great or too small for his consum-
mate powers. For definite enduring prac-
teal effect upon human institutions and
society he stands easily at the head OF
the natural or titular kings Of mankind.
SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM.
For the prompt and inexpensive settle
ment OF Industrial disputes or conflicts
between employers and employed. and
the execution of laws and regulations
anecttng manufactures and trade, he es-
tablished. in 1906. tribunals known as
"conseils dea prud'hommes," by q decree