Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-08-08

| Christmas holidays. but III say This
much You'll find that one year is nos
always like another year, either for
! dividends, or for the success of big
| strike against capital Or for final of-
fort on the part OF capital to disunioniAe
all labor organizations. Ii is safe to
| say that this is peculiarly a bad time
Tor such an uprising as the one that
recently astnoished people Oh this side
of the water. And that's all | have
to say about the facts of the situation.
| II is very unfortunate all round
Come to think OF ii, though. there
are some considerations noe weighed at
tieic proper value by many OF us on
the other side As | said, our condi-
tons over there are peculiar There
are social philosophers IN the labor UNI
ions and there are hatural-born. low
down slave drivers and sons OF pirate
captains IN our great factories, on our
great railroad systems and running our
politics. The social philosophers in
the trades unions often attain leader
ship, and sometimes make the strike
very bad mess indeed. on the theory
that resistance, no matter how against
real or alleged oppression. Is always
its own justification. The low bred.
crinsing ours who occasionally reach
To headship of department in the
employ of capital are still more UNI
scrupnlous, being without the slightest
sympathy for the large-heafted frater-
nal vast majority of wage-workers. In
the United States II is the easiest thing
possible to use either the labor enthu-
siast or the outCast foreman or super-
intendent who never had friend and
never needed one among his late as
sociates, II is easy. say, to use either
of these two classes 20 bring about a
strike, boycott, arson, bloudshcd and
all-rcnnd industrial cusseduess, at any
time, in any place. for any Interior pur-
pose at the beck and nod OF any hired
1anissary or combination Of janissaries.
Il have in mind case in point A
certain employer wanted strike The
social philosopher was worked IN by
the foreman and his paid heutenants
to the point at which resistance be-
came sacred duty. or some other very
hne bit of social philosophy The strike
was begun. but where did it end?
don't know. DO youg
with me, all right. But he knows too
AT the same time, mark you--there
was the outcast foreman--he was there
all the time What did he do? Let him
tell 1t himself Here Is his letter"
Drawing out an envelope. our capitalist
host said Read II for yourselves.
have no more to say"
DO You mean to say" | asked. that
this is authentic?r
"Authentic?" he laughed mo It's
where the authentic comes from"
! read They can't beat us. | have
the socialist-foreman at loggerheads
he answered. Why that was what we
much about his work, too much about
the Rights of Man-and so on-you will
see, though, that he knows nothing at
all about the way things are worked In
this world ! have some OF the strong
specimens of the shop on my side.
We're all right"
This was cable dispatch. Blood was
she'd The men won, Our host said,
Hard work. but II was honest eh?"
confessed could not see where his
jocular tone started from
Don't see the joke? Ha, Ila. Hal"
wanted. The men won OF course Why
not? We were ready for the shut down
! or course the men were ready, also.
joker snre' It's the great American
draw poker Nobody kicks"
HOWARD WHEATCROFT.