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results, the most momentus indus
trial coali;ct in our history. Il
would be scarcely too much to as
Seft that tits the most significant,
T. portentousaud momentus conflict
in this country except that called
the Civil War. True, this is not
vel active, raging and deadly war,
and may not, probably will not, in
the near future, develop into civil
war. A war between employers
and employees would not haveany
such distingu'shable lines of cleav-
age as were discernible in the Civil
War; ii would rather be-anarchy
for a time. This is no fauciful
possibility. 1t is coming, just as
surely as men persist in grasping
what belongs to others-whether
on one side or the other.
II may be said that the strike Of
1900 was even greater than this,
No; it might have been, but Hanna
and Morgan settled it. They had
to, or thought they had to, McKin-
! lev would have been reelected any
way, if they had not settled it; but
they wanted to make assurance
doubly sure, aud so they gave the
workingmen their way It'll after
the election. Now the men who
forced them to this extremity, or
others like them, are paying the
debt. Men like Hanna, Quay, Nor
gan and Rockefeller never forget a
debt They make you pay, pay,
pay, in the pretty, supposedly poet
ical language of one of their villain
GUS versi6ers-pay, pay, pay, an
hundred fold; and then, like the
horse leech, they are not satisfied.
They must be trillionaires.
This struggle is apparently going
against the laborers. They are not
standing together. The would-be
monopolists are laughing at them.
A few millions is nothing to these
gentlemen. They suppose they own
the Government, in all its depart
ments, in the Nation and in the
States. They don't have to FIX
things" any more. They will not
even care particularly which party
wins next time. Bryan is shelved.
The democrats will have to nomi-
mite German or Olney or some
such tool or agent of theirs; and
the Republicans could not, in the
nature of things, nominate any 9TH
er kind of man. It is doubtful if
they could find one of prominence
within their party who is not sold
and delivered to this greedy, grasp
ing, devouring octupus.
But, let a word of warning issue
and let the politicians beware. The
people are going to turn the party
out of power in 1904 that allows la
Dor to be thus throttled, gagged,
thrust into the ditch and robbed
The democrats will, in all proba-
bility, do no better, probably worse;
but to the Democratic party mil
lions of working people will surge,
on account of this manifest iniqui-
ty. Because it runs into and is
necessarially a part of politics. No
Hanna will stop them now. Mckinley
is cancelled postage stamp, badly dis
figured in the process-in their eyes.
The Government has-Knox; it had
Griggsl Does even Mckinley, the most
successful opportunist OF history, suppose
he can keep such trust attorney in his
Cabinet and at the head of his law de-
partment, and pacify millions of deceiv-
ed, deluded and defrauded workingmen
for more than eight years?
The American people are the most in
ventive, res0uFceful. self-reliant, and yet
patient people on earth but the time has
very nearly arrived when the few who
are robbing the many by the aid of the
Government must beware, and get to
cover. No, for there will be no cover; /;
must give the majority, who make the
wealth, square, fair deal.
Is MacauIey's prophecy going to be
fulfilled? II so, its fulfllment will be
wrought by the RockefelIers and Nor
game, not by the Mitchels and:Shaffers.