The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-23
JOHN L. WILLIAMS G SONS
BANKERS,
Dealers in RICHMOND. VA,
SOUTHERN INVESTMENT
SECURITIES.
MUNICIPAL BONDS a SPECIALITY.
Correspondence invited.

MUNICIPAL BONDS A SPECIALITY.
Correspondence invited.
came when I got II straight as to why the
boys struck. 1t came out hero at first
that the railroad owed the carmen money
and would not pay 1t. That made me
piping mad, for 1 was born to feel that
folks ought to pay their debts. rich and
poor the same. When asked Zach how
much they owed Jim he told me Jim was
d up to the S, qs5 IS sn W Mh Ssnr
bereaYcd OF front teeth. further won
track OF the fact that the gist of the
bother was that tho boys wanted moro
pay That hustcred me considerable, for
] knew Jim was getting more than his
father was making, including his two
boys at home. jim never had FIVE dollars
he &c, got on Ii the cars last September /
was we'll aware. too that when Jim came
home late in last APRIL he was dressed
fine as colored b.ideg1room; and had
candies, yellow fruits and dazzl Ing neck
ties. He went on real wild about how
much he was making. and l know for Ger
tain lie was getting more a year than our
pastor gets, who took nine years to go
10 the big schools.
They. tell mo a fellow shpt knows the
multiplication table and division, and can
write q tolerablc hand can graduate for
car work in two weeks. if he Is naturally
quick in his mind. Naturally, we want
all we can got, under tho moral law OF
Moses and a few know OF would on
a pinch take moro than Moses said was
the limit. II the boys wanted more they
had the right to ask for It, and IL they
did not get IT, then the public road WAS
at their service whenever they chose to
go. From what Jim writes Zach. ] see
he wanted no ralse-that IS specially.
but he was in that trust gotten up by
the boys, and If the boat went tho whole
party had to go. Ny brother Is still twist
ed a bit, and leans to Jim, but he says
that Jim is awfully cut by the trouble
and would go back Tomorrow IL he was
not afraid OF being mobbed.
2. What still further shook my refugees
down to the earth was the mohs. Even
| when I supposed that the strike was to
| get back pay and thought the mob was
| intended to scare the road into paying
its debt, l felt deadly sick in heart, That
carmen and passengers IN the dark
solved several tangled problems ms, for me me.
were seeking seS's " Wreck so , t
| enforce the payment of a debt, but to
| compel an increase of salary, It blew the
wife that il Jim was in that mob bust
| ness he should not talk to my grand
daughter another time. This would make
Iachs wife out-cavort the Tucker con-
erty Is vulgar form of robbery and
this attempt to destroy life Is malice pre-
| pense. / wash my hands OF 1t, and poor
Zach Is awfully cut. up by It: lie says Say e
| Is true Of most of the strikers. but what
has muddled my head to distract ton =, is
that never. have seen where the strik-
ers ever held meeting to condemn the
| mob-never saw where one had lost blood
| in trying to suppress the mob; and. more
| than that have worn the papers TO a
which a striker appealed through the
/ public press to the mobbers to stop their
| deviment and go home.
| 7 told my wife over and over again that
the strikers were the foreordained aEen-
| cies to repress the vio1ences, but you may
/ swing me to the big oak in my backyard
his left-hand little finger to stop tho riot
| ers This has looked ugly to us in the
| country, where If outra geous assaults are
made, we telephone for Judge Lynch. and
Looks asslf we beat the Richmond police
out Of their blue buttons in putting down
| disorders, though am no disciple OF the
| tynching fraternities.
| was inverted entirely. hardly knew
my nativity Or my hopes for the years TO
come; do not study the dictionary much
me-is new now, and DO not know
| where 1t came from nor what i means
when you boycott q fellow. My wife
| bed, and when you boycott folks you put
them in tight places. ] remember when
| the district conference was UP at the
Methodist Church, our house ran over
with company. and they put me to sleep
| in the trundle-bed, and, positively. hung
| out of 1t at four sides and came near
footboard. That in my wife's serene
| opinion, was mild case of boycott.
| heard a lawyer on court day say 1t was
an el and making hnep Ivng they
| do not do to suit u.s. 1t is clear 10 my
mind that Moses would not have touched
such conduct with ten,fo9,t POLE mnsa. tel
Il that electric road does not choose to
pay the boys what they ask. what then?
Whose road is it? Are the boys the direc-.
and sea. The road may be illiberal and
it is pity If it Is but illiberality is not
| unlawful in this country. The boys may
think Mr.. Gould unreasonable. and he
may be, but the strikers are not a COM
mission of lunacy, and are not sent to
mete out punishment to unWise business
companies,
Really, no one Is quite prepared to SAY
how much the road ought to pay, but it
is not q crime to- suggest that 1t Is by
every principle Of justice the right, .!
will do with it, and II they do not use
it to cripple or disturb others, they. hava
n right to do what they please about it.
my Cousin Aleclk that IL he don't go along
and ride just to show his right VIII not
he home to him the next bird season.
FODDER up and down the street. dying to
ride and almost dying because they 10
not ride, and yet afraid of the boycott.
I would ride just to show my spirit, and
you need not believe that the boycott will
lasi long. Il l was down there and Jim
was TO come exporting on MIC about rid
i,s on the cars ! would lianl h,m q
his cheek bone and on the east by his left
No SIR haye no snrpi i9s Gon 1Gage
mo, though she occasionally gets on
the next rudge to it.
Now, l will not give my name, t looks
wiser for mo not to do 1t. For ono thing
i would mortify lin Jim i'm, Is so wrong but but
ther and + feel tender towards him. T
may have some fears, and 4 SO am like
Just thousands of scared people who are
afraid to be seen on the cars, Then my
wife is so stormy about it that fear that
she might strike.
mond paper has come, 1t brings news of
that Wednesday night rumpus in Fulton,
DO you know that when I scanned the
names of tho midnight plotters shvered