Show AN UNA POSITION Public sentiment is the power bel behind ind the throne in America A thousand examples might he be cited to sustain this proposition It is epitomized in the I I phrase that in the United States the people rule Public sentiment will soon settle the great coal strike of Pennsylvania Not Kot only do the mass of the people feel that the owners mine are wrong ron in their theiL attitude Out flat rich men like Senator Hanna and Bishop Potter and a score more arc are vigorously expressing expressing ex ex- pressing themselves against the tile owners' owners stub stub- The rhe New ew York Evening Post points out that the whole trouble could be settled if the mine- mine owners would agree to take tak their men lack hack at an advance in wages wages an an advance which it is said they are not unwilling to make So it s seems ms says sas the Indianapolis News es to settle down mainly to a question ques tion of recognizing the union If that is all that stands in the way the owners mine-owners occupy a wholly indefensible position Whether hether they recognize this union or not they have got io recognize the principle principle principle prin prin- ciple of organized labor They ma may break up the present organization but it is as certain as an anything thing can be that another one will rise from its ruins Labor Labor Labor La La- bor organizations are inevitable Other employers get along peaceably enough with unions and experience them ence once no evil consequences from recognizing the mine owners bean ban an exception to the rule ule Senator Hanna who has been and is the employer of a great army of workmen has always been in iii harmony with labor unions ills His siding with the coal miners and against the owners mine-owners promises promises promises' prom prom- to cr crystallize public sentim sentiment into so strong a force that the stiff necked unreasoning barons will not much longer be able to hold out |