Show A DANGEROUS STRIKE just as the great steel strike was approaching the post of new york made the following comments when the united states steel company was formed we took occasion to point out the dangers which so gigantic a combination involved the unsettlement of mens minds and the spread of socialistic ideas which it would almost certainly bring about flinging millions into the air Is always an unsafe experiment it causes a scramble turns peoples heads makes some persons crazy and upsets among others the habits of old fashioned industry and economy as the means of livelihood why should we toll and sweat tor a bare subsistence when others make fabulous riches by a stroke of the pen Is the question which the thousands of men ask themselves the steel combination was an incentive and an inducement to a labor combination and it we get oft with nothing worse than a labor strike we may perhaps consider ourselves lucky no doubt the promoters of the steel combination were themselves controlled by events so too president shatter may say that he has been controlled by them it Is to be hoped however that some mode of settlement ot the conflict may be found than of the endurance of pain which must tall upon thousands it not millions ot poor men women and children |