Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-08-08
NEW VIEW OF STRIKE
AMERICAN CAPITALIST TELLS
OF SOME PECULIAR TACTICS.
A Strike Does Not Always Look the
Same to Contending Parties
in the Struggle.


than usual criticism. happen
ed during the past week To come
into new and startling view
point as to the question at
issue and subject matter of
American strikes in general which
struck me as being rather Original The
idea of the enormous potentialities OF
the strike as remedial process and its
relation to the great American game OF
working your institutions over there
for all they are worth" was somewhat
wildly impressed upon me by an inter
view with prominent American whom
had the pleasure of meeting ut one of
our leading hotels. To judge from the
view he takes of such occurrences !
could not but think that while our
American cousins are so kind, friendly
and generous TO one another in every
day dealings they have vein Of the
Spartan in them which is very likely
to result in terrific consequences. 1t is
the same spirit which prompts all the
great movements which are character
istically American. Whether In en-
gineering wide-sweeping deals in the
street or handling large strikes. or
combating them, the same feeling is
obvious The mercy of the oldtime
royal house of Europe in burying the
pretender or the rival claimant In the
dungeon alive is almost transcribed by
your treatment Of the opposition in any
of the situations mentioned.
The gentleman who rendered his
views is capitalist who frequently
comes here and is never out OF touch
with affairs in general His views az
| they cropped out in his recent CONVEX
sation with some friends may be
worth transcribing for the benefit of
the American public, which will. as
usual sift and classify them to suit
| themselves.
THE situation in the United States?'
| echoed this man of American millions
in reply to my question. Well. now
don't know. Do you think you could
get an intelligent opinion, If | We're to
! tell you the whole thing
| | said ! thought | might; the rest
of the company thought they might try
the cigars were lighted, after few dry
preliminaries and here is the phil
osophy of the American capitalist:
American conditions are peculiar
began the gentleman with that strong
air and manner that 60 with a safe as
sertion. big things arc the easiest
things in the world with us. If you
only know how to work big thugs on "A
| big scale. Perhaps | may as wei begin
at the beginning, and then I'll not have
so many small things 10 explain"
We agreed, As the statement was
made~-a rAmericaine-in the form of
"A question. we thought IL no more than
| right to allow as much by keeping
silent My interyiewee then went on:
ITS the right place to begin,
think" he said "Our American capt
talists know that's where all the new
riches come from aud he pointed up
ward. almost reverently, for this Amer
| lean capitalist is rather Of religious
! turn, even in an interview. You've
heard OF sunspots- SO have t. he
lodged the questonform of statement
this time.
by the way and speaking of sun
spots please bear in mind that sunspots
have considerable to do with the
weather OF the earth Now take Kan
sas--a fine state. DO you think any
thing short OF sunspots can regulate
such thing as Kansas weather.
Being his guests, we have no right
under the circumstances to answer that
|
called for, we waited.
Il find" continues our host. that
our English cousins are not quick at
guessing American riddles. Good faui..
! Ahem, Wish ! had never tried them
On myself They're sometimes as dan
gerous TO find out as not TO find out
| All the same, gentlemen that big
! American situation we are speaking Of
4 to 10 81 Oh
us make chart of IT, The Western,
| Middlewestern and great Northwestern
crops Of 1901 are practically destroyed
| by the intense heat and the long drouth
! following upon the heels Of late SOW
ing -and-planting spring weather. Corn
and grain and root crops are all impli-
Gated. There will be no new Ameri-
can money, no railroad trafilc short
home funds for shopping is the
American Unions bad year Well. The
/ labor unions are aggressive. The rail-
| road and steel and iron magnates may
az well settle with the labor leaders
now an any other time. That's all.
| But ! see ! must be palmer. The
capitalists ca wait for business anoth-
or year. The are not worrying. They
know they will have no nov millions 20
Z iFFY bil III Atdt~ III ~ Hilt4hlJ lFEitt
mate business way you understand,
! The capitalization of American indus
| trial and transportation enterprises IL
on a firm basis The stocks aud bonds
are in the same hands practically On
the other side, the labor unions are led
/ by 1right aggressive leaders. and
workmen and leaders have been earn
| Ing good money, and saving some
These labor unions are in position 20
nand fight for a little while. They
I hnow their strength.
Il am afraid. however, said our host,
with pale-lipped smile that the
trades unionists did not figure on the
lsnnspots They probably sent no dele
cation to witness the recent eclipse.
I I've an idea. may be, the muItimillion-
aires did II the crops are In bad
way. ! don't see how even all tho men
/ in the steel trust will find enough Jobs
six days a week to go round.
| We shall all OF us know more def
nitely abou these things before the