The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-06

them-7a mere drop in the bucket
in comparison with the fifteen bill
lions invested i'm the railroads, or
the other billions invested in manu-
facturing or in the farming in
dustry. There are employed as oper-
ators only few thousand people
fifteen or twenty thousand scarcely
more than is employed by some
manufacturing concerns.
And yet an inhalmonious action
upon the part of the telegraph com
panies or their employees throw the
whole business and social world into
discord. Half a dozen men in a
city step aside from their daily
occupations, and the whole popua-
tion is affected. A strand of wire
is rendered useless, and the whole
fabric of commerce is weakened.
Verify are we knit together with
this thing called civilization until
life and limb and property, hap
piness or misery, is dependent upon
the life and limb and property, the
happiness or misery Of Others.
II was net so in the Jungle. tt
made little difference to the naked
savage whether his fellows went
out hunting or not, or whether the
forest fires rendered the obtaining
of food q dilIicult matter in some
remote part Of the wilderness. He
was a world unto himself, depend
ing only upon HIMSELF caring only
for himself, obeying only the laws
Of appetite. Whether he was hap
pier than the race at present we
are not discussing.
But gradually evolved civilization
Savage began depending upon 9th
er savages Of his tribe, and tribe
npon tribe nation upon nation.
We have now become unified until
one mans business is everybody's
business. 1t is the business of the
whole world this telegraph strike.
The mon who own the line and
the men who operate them are only
a small part of the people involved
IN tltls strike-or any other strike.
Even peace OF mind, or happiness
of an isolated individual may de-
pend upcn the actions of the two
contending forces. No man can sit
him down in his home at night
and argue with himself that this
strike doesn't affect him. II GER
tanly affects him 10 some extent
and il is liable at any time to
affect him still more. II may bring
HIM remOrse before morning-re-
morse at having been denied the |
'of being at the bedside
OF dying friend. because of the
to reach him. Tt NAV ND
set all Of his plans for a lifetime, |
tins thing Of not being able 10 |
readily communicate with those with |
whom he wants 10 communicate
But If it is said that these aro !
only fanciful possibilities, or remote
probabilities 1T can be stated that !.
every business man in the citv '
knows to what extent it is affect !
me his business. The cnrtailed mar
kel renorts may affect him: the |
tact that he is not able to have !,
! announced to him the moment n
sihpmcnt Of goods starts from n
certain npcint; the general disar-
~. pe 'plaF-as hundred |.
'n'ngs connected with the strike |,
affect him.
IN addition 10 The present incon- /
v'nionoo' there is n cost that must 4
,' no''' If not today, tomorrow
'''S strike is costine money and
'n"" wr pro mutually dependent
80 "n'" another al OF ns mSst
'"'N' = ho"r iho cosi ora will ho
"'''7r'"1 to 10 - whethor wo i
"''" y % "rt No one man. ~
?" r." 90 90 mon ~, ooino N
~ 20 ~ o~Vopso9 atfnudant ]
'~@~ ~ rir;'.o MO ovnnas,s oro 1
r~ - lo,';oa unon ~ oono-
--~''' - 40. woril qnd tho In
'rcascl expenses Of commerce are :