Show The Iron Trade Journal estimates that the normal crude steel output of the trust has been cut down some 25 percent per-cent by the strike This does not fully measure the destructive strength of the strike which from tho first has affected only certain branches of the work of tho I United States Steel corporation and these branches mainly confined to work where labor cost Is relatively large compared with material as in the case of tin plate and tubemaking The situation n week ago indicated that the strike was about over but the last accounts are not s encouraging I was said day before yesterday that It Is noW to bo a matter simply of endurance I Is clear enough from what Mr Shaffer said on Labor day that he mean to smash his own association rather than to yield I seems to us the continuance of tho strike depends not on Mr Shafer not on the steel company but on the good sense of the head members of tho Good o I Amalgamated association I some strong member would arise and declare that he was tired of the foolishness and call on his associate members to Join him to put down the strike Mr Shatter I would go to the wall But he has n I I great hold on the men and our belief 1 Is that a promise Is out for him and for I the strong men In the order If they I will but hold on Tho Homestead lock I wl I I 1 out and the murders following It elected I a President In S92 though from the i first it was as wicked an uprising of I pampered workmen as ever was seen I I The same spirit is behind this strike I and we can sec by such speeches as Mr I Bryan made In Kansas City on Labor r day that he is backing everything that any strikers may please to do Mr Bryans whole object is hIs desire to bo President of the United States and he does not care by what means and there I you arc |