The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-08
TELLS OF STRUGGLE
BY TELEGRAP HERS
Raymond F. SeIby of Richmond
Is a Member of the Strik-
erS at Chicago.
SAYS THE CAUSE is JUST
HIS WIFE, WHILE NOT A STRIKER,
is DOING ALL SHE CAN TO
HELP THE CAUSE CHAMPIoNED
BY HUSBAND.

/ Raymond F. Selby. formerly of Rich
mond, has written as follows to Folger
p. Wilson and the letter will be espec-
| tally interesting in its comment on the
photographers strike:
| Chicago, ILL.,, Aug. %, 1907.
Folger p. Wilson. Richmond, Ind:
My Dear Friend:-Questions are con-
| fronting not only myself, but many
others, which if asked me six months
ago would have excited credulity, but
at the present moment convince me
are only the confirmation of the full
filment of prophesy, and each day on
ly establishes the fact more clearly.
Thee asked if / find it harder to DO
right and easier to do wrong in city
like Chicago. For myself, l can say
no, but from the hard lines in the fac
es of many struggling mortals, | fear |
cannot say as much, for they bear the
marks of their sins in their faces, and
for such l have only pity, and with
Dante, say step reverently, lest ye
tread on the heads of these my poor
brethren" The temptations of city
like Chicago are SO many, and the vo-
taries of pleasure and vice so num-
erous as to be almost appalling, but
live in a little kingdom of my own, and
seek neither pleasure nor vice, and am
only an observer as | pass along. Life
is too serious at best to spend it in such
pursuit. My aim is to become better
and better with each succeeding day.
.. I,aJI hot do
when all hidden things are revealed,
as just little better than when l came
and it shall be said, 1T is good that ne
lived" We are entering the third
week of the strike of telegraphers, and
are as firm in the belief of the justice
of our cause, as the first day when we
walked out. Conditions were alto
gether bad, not in Chicago alone, but
all over the country. Our demands
are SO small in comparison to what we
should ask, as to seem that we were
afraid to ask more. The modesty Of
our demands cannot be construed as
extortionate. The shoe is on the 9TH
er foot. One speaker today said: ''Mr.
Gould would wake up to the fact that
others wished to live and be heard, and
Mr. Gould would forego securing the
old world for a count or other repudiat-
ed nobility, and there would be no ne
cessity to squeeze another million or
two for his sister. The Western I'm
ion Telegraph company is capitalized
for about ninety-seven million dollars,
with an actual investment of about
thirty million. So thee can see there
is a little water in the stock, and up
on which dividends have been earned
on this dishonest capitalization for
years, and officials of telegraph corpo-
rations say we cannot have justice, and
defy the public, as WELL and calmly say
it is no concern of theirs, that it is
business" and any one connected with
the operation of the telegraph knows
that the laws of the land are violated
daily by these companies with impu-
nifty, yet have the effrontery to pose as
the business interests of the country. |
could say more but it would not avail
much, but this much, our cause is just, |
and thee knows the proverb: Thrice |
armed is he whose cause is just" My |
wife attends meetings with me daily, |
and enjoys, and is as much interested |
in the movement as myself, quick to
express her hopes. and reluctant to ex-
press her fears. This buoys me up, for
does not the poet say:
For woman's heart knew
Was fraught
With many gushing sympthies."
Our movement so far has been I'M
for not one act of rowdyism |
Or disorderly conduct can truthfully be
charged to our movement. although the
Postal people did go to the trouble of |
going away out to an obscure little /
town in Arizona and had a miniature
riot all of their own making, and |
gave it wide publicity in the press, but /
we were expecting this kind of a move
On their part, and were not fooled by
it. 1t is too old a trick to fool any
one with a modicum of intelligence. It
is up to them and they must fight /
fair" for we discountenance anything
ike that, as it would lose us public
at once. We are gentle
men. asking for our rights. and not |
things nor bad men, of renown in
ne cheap novels of boyhood days. The
world is moving fast. and this is only
one movement. and after the great bat
lie of Armegeddon is fought in the air.
md the lion and the lamb lie down to-
sether in peace, and the millennium
'hall have been ushered in. and the
of man proclaimed. jus
ice and love shall reign supreme. old
Kings will pass away. and all things
'e made new. will prove no idle dream.
.ery sincerely
RAYMOND F. SELBY.
A Woman's View of It.