Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-01

me to amputate an arm or leg or fix
his brains back into his empty head
after he's gone and got himself mixed
up in fight with the militia can just
take my word for 1t here and now
that will turn him over to the job
work of these stranger doctors that
have been practicing on you since the
fever struck in this winter. Hear
that? I simply won't do thing for
you!
I'm us mad as you are at the mira
owners. 1 think that, with the excep-
ton of Mr.. Duncan here, they will
have heavy account to settle Mt the
day of Judgment. But, sure as death,
you won't gain anything by trying to
improve Gods punishment for 'em.
You know what'll happen If the mines
close down for good in the spring. The
owners will have to open If you let the
pumps alone, and you can go back at a |
rise over old wages. The pressure for
ore will force the companies to re-
sumo. But once you ruin the mines,
and what will you do? The babies cry
for food In the cabins now. you say,
but 1t will be worse than that If
The doctor softened his voice for a
minute. The effect of 1t was magical.
Stuart could not believe and will not
rs long as lie lives that DR.. Saxon was
talking for the next few sentences He
has never heard him with that voice
since. .1l,e babies that lie out there
on the great slope will never hunger
again. have watched hundreds of
them leave this unsatisfactory world
this winter and not one Of them that
did MOI pull my heartstrings with his
little fingers as death won him from
me. But G0d is merciful. There is no
doubt of his justice. There isn't a
man here who doesn't know love him
and would never counsel an act that i
was not sure would lie for your good
and the good of the wives and children
in the long run. Why. every one of
you knows'-here the doctor resumed
his voice that the miners knew SO well,
and every one started and came back
again, staring at the great rough coat
ed figure-'tllat even Ajax has more
sense than to go and Kick over the
measure that contains his oats. But
that's what you plan to do. always
said that the stupidest numskulls that
ever lived could be found in De Mott,
where I've looked into more cracked
craniums than anything else. and I've
made up my mind that after this when
I've broken heads to fix up I'll use cot
ton or wool or something like that to
stuff the yacant-places fnd"-
Just then there was a disturbance
down by the door. and the next mo-
ment voice broke the silence of the
) crowd: els the doctor here? He's
wanted Mt once outside. Been row
and Pat Penryck has got broker
, head. Tell the doctor to come right
!, out"
o "Hear that!' roared the doctor. III
you pull up pumps, I'll go right W
4 and get killed with the rest of 70,
when the militia fires, and after Nv
1 gone who'll come and pump life int
q you when death has you by tn
!. throat? And II don't get shot II
o leave you and go down to Chicago
where I won't have to furnish tn
Il brains for the whole communityp
o Without another word the docto
h jumped down off the platform an
g worked his way outside. where h
r cared for the wounded man as skillfu
\ ly and tendcrly as If his patient ha
y been the president of the republic.
AT Arst Stuart had started to gotou
q with the doctor. Then he suddenl
/. changed his mind and decided to r,
n main. The doctor had made decide
4 impression on the men. Theywel
{ used to his rough. uncompiImentar
d invective. and they loved him az PEI
L haps they never loved any one els,
I. and he had put the matter SO piainl!
Il even II i, hal been fling at them s
d roughly. that they were compelled
q think
4. The next half hour in that old ha
q that night witnessed the closing cha
,r ter in the great strike. Man after ma
II rose and declared that 1t would be ma
X ness to pull UP the pumps. The dc
IN tors words had struck into the hen
lp Of things. ard men who had swoi
lis when they entered the hall to destrt
h! every cents worth of mine owner
st property they could lay hands on no
ty urged caution and waiting. The
was. however. one element they b.
n net reckoned on.
" The union had been for sever
lis weeks in condition bordering on di
solution. Eric had found that out son
tllDe before he was confronted Wi
w the fact Of his own loss Of power. 4
mt thn M rs
- entire effect of the evenings event
W far tended to break down what renal
u ed of the union. Stuart could see Il
" end coming. He sat back against
~ wall, forgotten by the lenders ai
~, their men as the tnlic, went on. The
were several fiery appeals for carryil
:. out the original plans Of destroying t
~ mines. The crowd swayed all over t
w room as one and another from the flo
sa as well as from the platform spoke.
~. nally the end came in rush. A gree
~. stumbling figure, no less than our 9
-. friend Sanders, who had been chnrg
~ by the doctor with getting cod liver
from the dispensary wherewith
grease his boots, rose and In a vol
10 that In spite Of Its being perforat
~ with spasmodlc coughs was ems
heard made a motion that the strike
.;,a declared off.
A pandemonium started In with
DO debate Oh this motion. The crowd o
side caught the news, and 1t madden
az the mob. There was q great rush
tho hall entrance. The chairman I'm
Ut ly put the motion rs yells of "Qu
me TOM Question" rose on every 81
,he and 1t carried by two-thirds vote.
Ext Instantly the men in the hall start
ed, to rush into the street and were met
ere the hall entrance by the yelling GRO
ew trying to get in. For several minu
ZEE there was a tremendous struggle.
cen gradually the crowd outside, us 1t len
to ed of the action Of the union, leade
gave way. and when one of the NJ
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