Show THE SORROW OF STRIKES it grieves us whenever we hear of 0 a a labor strike because it fo fore r esha shadows dows loss of 0 position the expenditure for necessities of the money already laid up the cultivation of bitter thoughts caused by unrest unreal apprehension and a sense of 0 outraged justice ju allce but more than all because of the way which events are tending nc and the seeming certainty that thai common laborers are to have in the next few years a more and more difficult task to au sustain 8 tain themselves wo we realize that strikes strakes are necessary once in a Nl while ille because se as la Is dinote anti and more co concentrated no 0 n as aa capital more and tile moie 0 masses itself to bork for advantages and the conduct of business bull ness is removed front from tho the real proprietors and given up to agents the old between employer em bloyer and employee grows crows less and less and sometimes labors only stand against oppression Is through striking but every year abile lille tho the hosts of laborers laborera are increasing tile in genius of oc the age Is by machinery chi usurping more and more of the fields ot of labor and then as steam has hastened travel ravel the world can be circled now almost as ilc liy as the atlantie antle was crossed forty years ago and tile laboi laborers ers of america are only abel a week k removed from millions of strong workers who would be thankful to take ill the american laborers places at halt half the nages they are receiving I probably with tile the coming decade possibly defoia the first day ot of the new century the port of I will be only a hundred hours tall irom from new york and new york will ivill be only thirty hours from san francisco and japan only a a weeks sall sail from san francisco walli avith climp cheap labor label only five days removed one way and pitiful pauper labor only seven to ten days daya removed the other oilier way how N 1 the generous ce nerous american laborer who wants to teed feed and clothe and educate lila its chil childson dion going to bear up under the iho competition coni there ate aie not many ways front from which to c cli hoose but one Is f to avoid it if possible and nith lah surplus earnings secure a u little home and a few acres of land to CUILI cul fixate ate another Is to see that each child is educated for settle pome special malk lit in life and so educated that tile world N n ill aped need ills or her ter services and still another Is to seek tile the frontier and secure s a farm fann the safest way la Is in the practical education of the younger generation education li Is a to nan man with Attl which ilch to coage out a livelihood when ullen sican minds it becomes a double edged sword sord to leave cleave clear a path palli UP to that called teer never before as now lias has american labor been in so anxious a position never before were so eo much forbearance and prudence necessary ii so we bewail the news of any labor and do dc idore the he fact that the it incani to ans necessary to procure pr acure a home ionic an and d to educate children chil dlen should he be frittered fritt ered a away ay fui for lifes necessities velle waiting for an agi cement betle cit employers anil and employees plo |