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Show Itailroiul Men veru I'uriilcr.. The newspapers which belong to tho old political parties and tho monopolist have of Into been attempting to mako much of it report that the railroad employes, em-ployes, ess'cial!y of the west, were uniting unit-ing for tho purpose of opposing the farmers' farm-ers' movement, or moro properly speaking, speak-ing, the 1'eople's party. The ground for tho opposition was said to bo the attempt of the granger legislatures to limit tho extortions of the railroad companies, which attempts, if successful, it was held, would result in the reduction of the number of employes and a general cut down of railway wages. There is noth- ing in it. The Firemen's Magazine, which is certainly cer-tainly an authority uim tho subject, says that tlio "Railway Employes Protective Pro-tective Association" is composed of railway rail-way presidents, vice presidents, malingers, malin-gers, superintendents and bondholders, and that the real workers in tho railway j industry havo nothing to do with it and i are not opposed to the farriers. "Tho Railway Employes' Club," of i Minnesota, of which so much has been said, the St. Paul Trades assembly declares de-clares is a misnomer, "because it does not represent tho men employed by the railroads, nor their sentiments regarding railway legislation." The whole scheme originated with and is confined to tho stockholders and others personally interested in robbing both the public and the employes. It was hatched in fraud and is being bohtered up by lies. There will not lie "war between the farmers and the railroad rail-road employes," nor should there be. |