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Show ! (ft rj The worst feature of the great strike in the 1 m m East is the dissatisfaction it will create in the j I: V ranks of labor and the impression it will create I jj 1 iffl in the minds of the strikers that there are easier I t W ways to obtain a living than by working for it. I I j H Demagogues will add to this unrest for purposes l j of their own. The labor world seems to be swift- M i ly approaching the condition of 1892 when, with 1 M ? a sullen, senseless perverseness they elected Mr. 1 Cleveland and by the same votes cast for him I Vm j voted themselves out of work for four years. They I S jffi forget that the days of miracles are past, that it ft (I is impossible to obtain something for nothing; m If forget that the royal road to independence is M j through intelligent labor; that Carnegie, Hanna, St Schwab and all the men whom they call magnates, j jm 'j never won anything by strikes, but by their S ,J brains and hands, through the royal avenues of jt r intelligent labor, j ", This is the only road and it is a pity that there (' ' is a mighty class of men throughout this great Re- $' public who are trying to evade that inviolable |