Show THE ST LOIS STRIKE I On May Sth thef strike broke out In I St Louis Tho Boston Globe says It was a fight on the part of the company I com-pany lo destroy the labor union The local papers said Democrat and Republican Re-publican alike that the strike was caused by a refusal on the part of the streotcnr company tc accede to the demands of the labor union which Insisted In-sisted practically upon dictating to the company tho conducting of their business busi-ness The Globe figures up some of the results I Killed n Wounded by 1 bullets 70 Injured otherwise 160 Persons driven Insana 3 Women attacked sonic denuded 150 Men out ot employment 1000 LOSS to tho men In wages 148000 Loss to tho company in fares 150000 I Loss lo the company In operating and ilamago to cars and plant 500000 Loss 16 t the city In business 30000000 I Population Incomonlonced 700000 Cost to the city In extra police and posso of deputy sheriffs 300000 And the final conclusion of the Globe Is as follows Such a tUrlko as his I ought never again to he possible In this Country I cost the company over SI500000 In fares alone comfan for Its victory It cost thu men 500000 In wages It brought disgrace 1 upon a sup noricd civilized American city The Hcrco boycott has been tho cause of cowardly murders and assaults upon omen I has engendered bitterness among families and friends that will rankle tor many yearn to comer And all for what In or tier that comehocly might finally bo able to boast of a victory Now both partIes havo fought to 1 stnndKtlll and both maimed crippled and disgraced lao been forced to an agreement which each calls a victory And the Globe thinks II was all foolishness fool-ishness There Is a good deal more of It than the Globe states and a good deal that the Globe states Is not true What originated the strike and what kept It going with all Its atrocities asa as-a perfect understand jj with the Democratic State authorities of Mis llH souri that they would not interfere w lth the deviltries that might be perpetrated per-petrated by the strike so they stood by and saw men and women and children dren killed They saw a boycott starled and carried through which not only stopped the business of every man who rode on the cars but practically of every mal who had a friend who rode on the cars They Blood by while women wo-men were denuded and whippet In the streets and some of those In authority went to the Kansas City convention and reaffirmed how great the outrage wns to Impose nny government upon any people no matter how tough without with-out the consent of the governed Look at the spectacle of the Governor of the I State Missouri and we refer to him 1 because he was typical of ills party standing with one eye gazing Indifferently Indif-ferently upon tho denuding and whipping whip-ping of women In the streets of SI Louis American women and crjng1the nng blhcr eye out that the Govermont In I defense of civilization and Its Own I 105 sessions did not permit n certain cui I I throat with a gal of brigands to turn to anarchy the society of an Island eight thousand miles away In tho Pacific A great party that Demo craticPopullstlo aggrcgationl They have Just finished their labors at Kansas Kan-sas City and revealed In a new sense their absolute WILl of sympathy for anything in distress In our own country coun-try their overwhelming sympathy for any ocoundrel who Is In the tolls beyond I be-yond our shore |