The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-09-14
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oI Little WiggIer, his baby boy done ~
death by tmpoyerished milk which @aa
yet the best thar strike benefits could
buy.
De more trouble We make Holtz-
man continued, de quicker dey come
to settle. and de slower dey come to a
lockoudt next time"
After the shade Of emotion that
swept over them Martins features
settled themselves IN black iaeiturn-
ity. and he sat Hpeechless for quarter
Of an hour, cutting the piece Of fuse
into tiny bits with his jackknlte and ali
the while Holtzman was buzzing in his
ear in low, insistent tones. When the
German had finished. he stopped and
hfted loose bit Of p!anking Al his
feet. revealing hole in the ground
that Martin saw was exactly filed by
a box labeled 'Nitro
Holtzman let the board drop gently
back into place and It looked like
every other blt of pIankiug about H.
We shoot him tonight he com
mented
Martin had been looking down al ths
plank He shifted his gaze 70 the face
Of Hoffman. ia look that sas cold
and hard
Holtzman." be said. IN steady
tones. but with a certain ominous quail
ity in them. II you shoot oT as much
as freeracker in this town o. round
those works before This strikes lost
or won I'll wiring your neck ike q
chicken
He walked away and left Hoffman
standing
Looking about to see there was no
one in sight in the lanes between lum-
Der piles through which Martin was
going, the German ran after him. His
face vas working ia an insane rage
Tonight he Kissed IN ne mans
ear. to-nIght"
But Martlh dld not even glance a.
him. F4e lad listened, be bad pom.
dered. and ne had had his word That,
therefore. WAS all for him he had
deadad. not from the bosss stand
point not from societys standpoint.
but from the point of view of the
union. and more Immediately Of the
strike, for it was in the strike THAT be
lived and moved and had big being
Through IL he had become class con
sioas. Apoye tie crowd Of his fellow
bagslers he doomed great sad Lin
coin
Once be forgot his role ii gas after
bis baBy died, and wien some fresh
despair entered his SOU az sight of .
crowd % strikeoFeakers leaving lhe
train. lie ragged through them, a
jungle beast, swinging his great arms
llAs fails. and WHEREVER bis mighty
fist impacted a man erumpled up Oh
the pave Bat presently be mastered
himself He held back his hand from
murder that day. and after IL more
.haa ever be held Daek his fellows
from deeds os violence
Oar eaase S. lasf be would say
why 90 wrong in the name " the
iast2T
Bat there was. Ter all nat. eoEalct
ia BE- breast og Martin himself He
gas z man VINO could .igs his life Ia
tBe iifs ot others When 4fstftkrr's
wife was aleA ohen an0taers baby
td or vaeh strlusAega house
burned ouy 70 a zael l4e ois man eaf.
ried au this Oh his heart he found
a a4y, 100. 10 zhos hia sympathy aud
DO bis il.tle share iu ths common
burden bearing
And II thefs Vas 10 y0.snus among
tie strikers there Was Violence in ths
heart u tAis giant shepherd u tae
a0ek tis bad trans planted the con
afet 10 bs oWa breast and fought it
oaf rhert dailF In fhat heart was
agony ana tears and hunger. and
wrestling against ODDS and tIamDiing
~ things tender ana sore. Hls mind,
too. has q battle ground. f1ers Were
reasoulags and Frangalgs combafs o.
ideals and conflicts of Deals wrest-
lings with sas ings tnai were hard ana
couelasicas t1at seemed ~ once iu-
agit4tia aud Impossible
And here nov was rhis crazy DHfcb
14aa cling dynamite 70 blow 90
Rocl ror Foundry ala Va Liuf
shop where John Martin and foaE 9f
Dr. twelve hundred strikers had 0een
smp.Dye8 f.hu was against lt ou pr.a
a1 - 8as against oH poti
raere mish ~ s-5r FlF-
f.oa elaEi uel amms rae striker
ID zl agi elat hiu tafre miea
&. chose Fa8 fac9rz zel that znyfhiae
En mafe .roHbie f1s -le bosses vas
-o81 f1r the e.re a John Har
in a8ii beyond -a -h.s-ro taf
srast tc tho-sh Pc r9-ld
a1t taea fal-e Dcatg Welca % mesi
alu llf af fn fuer tv Jae1 70
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