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The murdered Russian lay in an alley
near where he fell. His countrymen
shrugged their shoulders and said:
Dead man, no good!" These foreign
miners notoriously care nothing for
their dead. He is from Russia-no one
knows from what place.
One morning the sheriff and a num-
Der of us were having breakfast in the
dining room. There was a shot and
someone shouted: Here they are" We
were expecting soldiers, but this sound
ed like rioters. There was a drawing
of guns and rushing for the doors. l
was quick and got out first, but was
nearly killed in the crush in the hall.
1t was nothing.
Then came the soldiers. OF the hun
dreds who started with full TASKS few
had any whisky left-in the bottles In
some manner about half Of the soldiers
got leave, or took it. They staggered
up and down the street in a drunken
condition and made themselves free in
the beer saloons The drinking places
had been closed up to keep the strikers
sober But they were opened to give
the soldiers chance to get drunk. They
threw away few chances. The strikers
were nowhere in sight. The clustering
soldiers wanted to know where in hell
the strikers were," and with much Wig
orous profanity they told How they
would have served them If they had
only been in town when the riot started.
They cursed their tough luck because
they were away when the killing was
going on. This Dragging was not con-
fined to the drinking saloons, but went
on 'bOisterously on the streets, and all
of which was harmless but the drunken
ness was disgusting.
The first thing soldier does when
he arrives in a city on mission Of this
sort is to try and learn how many wo-
men are willing to be friendly with him.
He Is not at all delicate in his way
OF finding this out. He does not need
to be drunk to prosecute this inquiry.
He considers it his privilege. In the
course of few hours the respectable
women of the city refuse to go on the
streets without an escort. In the course
of few more hours the escorts refuse
to go with the women. They learn
that their presence is not sufficient to
guard the women from impudent and
often insulting remarks. The soldiers
shout ugly sentences to the shop girls
and others whom they happen to see in
houses. There is no decent limit 10
their conduct. The officers see it all
and make no effort to check it. They
have had experience with soldiers in the
Souther towns during the Spanish war
and know what is going on, but it is
sort of tradition that the first night In
camp almost everything goes The
commanding general was spoken to
about the insults to women, and he said
he would tighten up the reins next day.
The first night of the soldiers was one
of terror. They rushed up and down
the streets in squads, making the night
hideous. If the strikers had been dis
turbers of the peace these uniformed
ruffians were annihilators of the peace.
1t was a notoriously disgraceful night.
The Pennsylvania newspapers, with
proper pride in the state soldiers, re-
fused to mention the occurrences. The
officers were nearly as bad as the men,
although not so drunk. l saw only one
officer being helped up from the rail-
road station to the cab on the side Of
the hill. 1 saw many privates being
dragged up by their swearing comrades.
On the second day there was better
discipline. The soldiers who were on
the streets were not so drunk, but just
as indecent toward the women. Many
Of them seemed to 60 on the understand
ing that they had driven the respectable
others were fair game for them. They
were mistaken, of course, but it did no
good to tell them.
In their treatment Of the residents
they were overbearing and offensive. It
was a good example OF what unlicensed
military rule might mean. The citizens
have no rights. The soldiers look at all
as a sort Of prey. The miners disap-
peared. The more ignorant ones were
afraid they would be shot on sight.
There was a soldier with gun for near
ly every striker who had none. They
felt that the odds were against them.
They looked on them as the employees
of the mines and we're badly frightened.
On the third day number of strikers
were leaning against rotten board
fence watching the soldiers prepare
dinner. They were not more than 50