Show THE PROSPECTIVE STRIKE SETTLEMENT The renewed assurance by Senator Platt ofNow York that the great coal Ktrlke will be settledwithin a fortnight will be received by the country with pleasure and hope the more so as Mr Platt Is a man who IB protty apt to know what he IB talking about and Is 1 not likely to tall at all unless he knows It IB pretty certain too that I when the settlement comes the operators oper-ators mutt give way and the miners receive fair concessions and guarantees of proper treatment It Is evident that the strike IB beginning to pinch harder than It did during thy summer Cool weather Is now coming on and thp demand for coal Is getting moro importunate im-portunate while the raise In price by the operators Is putting them In worse odor than ever They have from the first had the worse of the contention their arultrary and insulting refusal to consldeV any proposition or reference toward arbltradun and their top lofty I declination to treat with the miners I uniuns hare marked their course from the flrnt of the trouble as Indefensible They must get down from their high horse 01 go out of business I The great appeal of two million la ooreia to the President to Intervene In I the strike and call an extra session of Congress IC necessary Is ti significant i move It will be supported by powerful Influence and sentiment The appeal draws attention sharply to the need of the constitutional amendment urged by the Republicans nnd supported by them to give Congicss more extensive power to deal with questions such nu are Involved In this strike The real powers of Congress to deal with thLs matter under the present provisions of the constitution are rather feeble and In doubt that they must be enlarged nnd strengthened dooij not admit of L doubt The regulation of interslate L commerce an undertaken by the law creating the Interstate railroad commission com-mission has not proved as thorough as the commission desires and this whole question might also very properly he covered In the proposed anunriment The Jurisdiction of the States is Inade r quate to rccch and control the operations opera-tions of these vngt companies whose activity la found as a rule In several States one purl of the business supplementing supple-menting another lH In thin case the mines I ate In Pcnnbylvnnia the railroads rail-roads forming the combine being In New Jersey and Neu York an1 well ufc In Pennsylvania As thc owners of the mines arc auto owners of the ronda and can and do ishlfi ihblr profits from one account or the other us milts their purpose In making ther showings Ills manifest that no mere local I authority Is sufficient to supervise the combination combina-tion The same of the great tcel combination com-bination with Its Iron mines on the north peninsula of Michigan ItM bouts on the lakes Its railroads In Ohio and Its plants In Pennsylvania Tho old Idea l of leaving all dealing with Industries Indus-tries and combinations to the SLates no longer fits the case and the ancient doctrines of States Rights will have to be given up In favor of a control that I will be ns farroach Ing as the operations opera-tions thomsolvcK Tim appeal for an extra session of Congress shows the neecT of relief but until Congress gels added authority the proposed extra cG3lon couldnt do much In the way requested But the leaven IH I working und In time we do not doubt that the extcnnlvo activities of the combines will find a corrective of abuses that will be coextensive with their Inlllctlon The times are ripe for a forward fltip In this matter and the hidebound party thui objects to the Slates being Invaded I by Federal supervision will have to learn a new lesson in the needs of the people and the proper relief that the laboring men of the country Justly demand de-mand |