Year: 1877

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1861 he was fool-hardy Individual who dared
to lift up his voice in this community for
peace or against coercion Wherefore Abe
| Lincoln's call for volunteers was met half
why to Washington by horde of enthusiastic
farmers sons and the like, spelling for u
fight. The shots fired at Fort Sumter called
the muscle of the North to the rescue. But
now what do I hear2 Why, when it is an
nounced here that the property of railroad
corporations is burning and TINT the
MILITIA FRATERNIzES WITH THE STRIKERS,
on every side hard handed and grim-browed
men utter as to the first Good enough for
them. Cd d-n them" and as to the latter,
Bully boys we knew they would be with us
before we beganw


Well, to-day general orders have been is
sued for the mobilization OF the National
Guard in the States of New York, Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Maryland and Missouri! That's quite q belt
OF country to be in ''lnsurrection, isn't It T?
simultaneously with this intelligence comes
the announcement that "the labor organza-
tions in New York, Chicago Cincinnati and
st. Louis sympathize with the strikers" On
top Of this another fact might be stated,
though 1t isn't; but as it is o fact of tremen-
dously greater significance than any other,
will state it: 1t is that the whole labor sys-
tenn OF the country, that is to say all the in
Vulnerable men who depend upon toll of
hands for living, and who have impercep-
tibly, but surely, learned to regard the rich
man as their natural enemy; these, too,
| sympathize with the strikers"
| The New York World of to-day reports jaw
Gould saying at Long Branch, of course
that


"TH1s THING WOULD END IN MONARCHY,
and he would give q million dollars to have
Grant in the White Houser'
Gould may have said that or he may not !;
but whether he said it or not,it is what every
capitalist and every monopoist Is Minking
just ut this moment, as every one knows who
is ut all conversant with the situation. Be-
tween the enormous aggregations of wealth
that have been piled up in the North during
the last ten years, and the blind masses Of
desperate men who have been brought to
starvation by the same policy that piled up
the wealth into the few heaps of which Jay
Gould was one, there can be but one adequate
barrier, and that is the crushing arm of such





praying for.


The complacent talk Of the Cabinetat Wash
ington about suppressing this giant insurrec-
tion with the regular troops is the gibbering
Of madmen in the face of the facts. / do not
doubt that this movement will soon end But,
mark you,


IT WILL END IN A COMPROMISE:
not "be suppressed" by the handful of some
beggary hundreds of Federal troops who are
available. At the very outside the Federal
Government cannot send more than six thou
SAND regulars to the disturbed districts. And
these embrace belt of country a thousand
miles east and west by four hundred north
and containing population of nearly twenty
millions, OF whom ninety-nine men out of q
hundred are either 'in sympathy with the
strikers" or in accord with tho object of their
demonstration.


About an hour ago In the streets of this
little town met workingman who belongs
to the regiment Of militia that has it's head
quarters here and has just been called out /
asked, "When are you going to the front2"


I'm not going" he replied


''Why not?" | asked



sponded.


Tin not going to fight against myself! If
--- mentioning the proprietor of the
National Bank here wants to protect his
money and bonds let him shoulder musket
and start for Hornellsvilew


This man understood the situation as it is
held by almost every man in the Northern
States who gets his living by the sweat of his
brow. You see this ''strike" as it is called,
has Jared the very props of society from
their places and the superstructurc is q good
deal Shaker than it is discreet to admit So
far as this immediate movement is concern !
ed, predict that it will be over in two weeks
at the farthest The railroad companies will
effect compromise with their men and busi-
ness will be resumed. But


THE WEALTH OF THE NORTH
will have learned that it exists close to the |
crater of volcano, and it will tread around |
more carefully in the future. The working
men, on the other hand, will have learned that
hey are really masters Of the situation; they
will go on perfecting their organization and
improving their methods Of concerted action:
md the next time they move the head of
;apital will be brought still lower in the dust
han it is now


In the meantime the red mouthed politicians
" New England will discover that there is
ome other section of the country that needs
strong government besides the South and
hat there are bulldozers outside Of Coushatta.


A. C. B.


The jackson Railroad.
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