The bee., 1902-07-03

guished from good policy-of the
loye of order now SO prominently
paraded. When that time comes,
Mr.. Mitchell, you will not find it
necessary 10 denounce the presence
of policemen, simply guarding life
and property against the crime
which you sincerely detest; for they
will be your allies.
Another piece of intolerable hypo-
crisy is the talk about 1.-the eight
hour day." as a preteXt for the ORR
ginal strike, and for several high
handed orders, since issued to mem
bers and non-members of the Union
alike. The transparent and audac-
ious humbug of this preteuse re-
quires for exposure a separate ar
ticle.
4. Reckless and unnecessary des-
ed States is intOllerable. DO not
refer here to the waDtOn injury of
cOllieries ty depriving them of pro-
lection from flood anu fire, which j
have already mentioned, but to the
IrrevOcable waste of coal in mining,
which capitalists and engineers
have been for many years striving
to diminish. To this eudesvor. the
chief obstacle is the attitude and
the demands OF the Miners Unions,
both East and West. But this SUBJ
ject also requires a separate treat
ment; and pass it here with a SIM
gle observation, namely:
Mr.. Mitchell and his organization
are now engaged in infiicting tenn
porarily upon the citizens of New
York and other Atlantic cities what
they would have to endure perman-
emily If bitumInous coal were their
only available fuel, or if the supply
of anthracite were 80 far impaired
as to make it economically unavail-
able for manufacturing purposes, in
competition with bituminous coal.
Now, the day when this condition
must arrive will be hastened by the
waste, and postponed by the saving,
attendant upon the mining of anthra-
cite. If "Organized labor" insists
upon methods which waste that pre-
ciOus and limited supply, it is strik-
ing a blow at the comfort aud pros
perity of our gre at Eastern cities,
which their inhabitants ought to
condemn and resist. This, under
take TO say, it Is now doing.
8. The list of intolerable condi-
tions might be further extended;
but will mention only one more
today. Mr.. John Mitchell, 1 am
sorry to say that you are yourself
rapidly becoming intolerable. 1t is
pity; for you were born for better
things. But you were neither good
enough nor bad enough to be die.
tator; you know too much, and too
little, to direct a movement which
you did not and do not appi owe, and
which you now think, as you
thought when it began, will not sue
ceed. You are forced, step by step,
to measure which you did not an
| ticipate, and do not like. Your fol-
/ lowers do not trust you, and will
be very likely to turn and rend you,
after they have crowded you to de-
feat. Potent to initiate mischief,
but impotent to stop 1t, you are al
ready reduced TO the function of
issuiug optimistic bulletins, while
YOU watt Such a futile figureho" D..
cannot long be reeooC@1i,g;su Asa e0ic-
tatOr Mr.. Nichols, of Scranton.
may get ont Of this strike the object.
for which he is reported to have
precipitated 1t against your protest,
/ namely. hls re-eleetiOn in July as
the President ,af his district. Posi-
bly, one or two other ioeai leaders
may secure the satisfaction" oi aAslr
local ambitions. For these me. eau
claim the credit of the attack fo$
themselves, and lay the blame of
defeat upon you, as their halfheart-
ed and incompetent leader. 1t will
not do, MIR. Mitchell, to be simplv
tolerable.--The Engineering and
Mining Journal.