Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1903-05-30

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James Warren waE one of my true
friends. I loved to love him and IL
gave me comfort that he loved me
and always called me Charley as ten
derby a. a brother. His body was
killed and that was all. His pure soul
went back Immediately 20 It's Creator
aud Il now reNting In the bosom OF
tod. That is my faith and I hope IL
j. the faith OF all those who loved
him. for my heart bleeds with them.
'stfike for your affairs and your firss.
Strike for the green graves OF your sires.
Strike until the last armed foe expires"
used to speak that speech, and
when | got TO that part which said,
"rhey come-they come-tbe Greek
the Creek" ! put on martial agony
aud elevated my voice and shook the
floor. | thought Of all this the other
day when / read about the strikers
In Atlanta going 10 Mr.. Byrd's pub
lishing house and trying 10 seduee
his %nonunion printers 10 leave him.
Ills partner, Tora Lyon, showed fight
and used some Fuss words and drove
them off, and they had him arrested
and the recorder fined him for dis
turbing the public tranquility. but II
! had been the recorder | would have
excused Tom.
This thing has come home TO me
at last, for Mr.. Byrd is printing a
book for me and l can't get a copy,
and am fighting mad about It. The
striking interlopers get all his print
ers away but two or three, and the
rascals hung around the back door
all that Tom could do was TO watch
them and exclaim: ''They come--thoy
come-the Greek-the Greek!" But
Tom Is game and says he will whip
the fight and have some books for
me by the last of the week. The
first edition has all been sold and the
second IL In the press and has been
delayed and entiladed and barricadcd
and paralyzed by these eontempti.
bic strikers, and il there ever was a
justifable excuse for using cuss
words a man ought to be hired TO
stand nc the back door and cuss 'em
by the day as fqst as they came.
I've no patience with these strikers
and less with their leaders. One Of
my boys has just established a teie-
phone plant In Houston. Tex, and
had about 40 girls employed at good
wages when suddenly some interlop-
ers came and made them all strike
and he hired others to take their
places and the interlopcrs went round
TO all his patrons aud tried to get
up q boycott, but failed. The rich
MIR. Huntington is the chief owner
and he autographed my boy TO whip
that fight regardless Of expense, and
he has whipped II. Last year at Day
ton, o., a big hearted rich man estab-
lished a cash register plant and had
200 girls employed and he cared for
them just like they were his chill
dren, and had bath rooms on every
floor and hot and cold water, and
mirrors and soap and towels, so that
they could battle and clean up before
they went home and the girls were
contented and happy. for all this was
no part of the contract, but some
i%nterlopers came along and ordered
a strike because some poor old wom-
en- who did not belong to the union
had the job of washing the towels
that the girls used in their bath
rooms
Wen, now that Is one side Of the
case, but Il is said every case has two
sides. The wal between capital and
labor still goes on, but labor has but
little to complain of in this blessed
land. We see by the papers that
these union strikers in Atlanta have
plenty Of money in their treasury TO
live on while they are idle aud some
of them have gotten up a baseball
club and are having a good time gen
orally, There is no suffering here
like there was In London rs a
ago when Tom Hood wrote the song
OF the shirt and the lay OF the la
borer. II would make an angel weep
10 read that poor woman's song:
For It's work. work. work-my labor never
flags.
And what are its wAEes-a bed Of straw.
A crust OF bread and rags,
This shattered roof. this naked floor, a
table, q broken chair,
And a wall SO blank. my shadow | thank
For sometimes falling there"
Her sad song aroused alt London,
but there was no strike. Our
George Peabody was there in the
banking business and n nrnu.aa h,,,
Immediately he bought the ground in
the suburbs and spent 100000 in
building cottages for the poor. Nice
cottages, with bathrooms aud hot
and cold water and flowers in the
front yard and vines over the door,
and paid the taxes and charged only
q little, nominal sum for rent. Just
enough 20 keep up the repairs. and n
less than = year he had comfortable