Show LABOR FIGHTING CAPITAL TIIE THE new news a which princ prine pally absorbs the public interest is the great 91 uprising of the railroad laborers against the railroad capitalists ta lists we therefore theredore surrender most of our space to those particulars of the insurrection which have reached us by telegraph this is the most formidable conflict between capital and labor which has ever occurred in america the story Is the old one repeated capital demands tor for inv dinv investments et ments if the bus business ineer or ventur venture in which it is risked does not yield dividends legitimately something has to give way in order thal thai the lequir requirement ement may be met generally me the laborer out of whose toil and sweat come the dollars to make dividends is d a little harder that he may receive less while moneybags money bags obtains more hur pur the bake babe oi of do dependent pendent families v hoze whose very hang on the scanty stipend of husbands and fathers ithe the pinching process is en dured and reduction of wages wakes la Is submitted to until the pressure becomes unbearable then comes an outburst and the oppressed toil ers era whose wrongs have long rankled in their bosoms close their eam eara to the voice of reason and right rig ht and bent only upon vengeance and retaliation combine their streng strung strength th atud and wield it with giant power V which wealth trembles in its gilded trappings 1 and monopoly quakes wath terror the viole vio luneo Junee lee uee and ss which bave llave attended thie the grew gres railroad strike are indefensible every workman has the right to refute to labor and to per persuade madg made others to do to fco but he be has no right to prevent his fell feli fellow 0 4 laborers from accept accepting ilig what ho refuses nor to destroy ilfe life or oi property proper nor to block the wheel sot bot of industry or travel I 1 in n any alleged attempt to right wrongs however flagrant flig rant in ih the present strike it la 13 gratifying a to perceive that most of the de deeds eds of viole violence ince inco which have spread dismay throughout the land have pot been perpetrated by the strikers proper but by lawless people who have taken advantage of the circum circumstance stances Atances to commit crime and feast on plunder we hope good will grow out of the trouble several aall yail railroad road companies which anten led to grind the laborer down another notch have loosened their I 1 hold on the wheel others that had already inaugurated the squeeze have also eased up and the plutocracy of the nation has learned that it id is un uns unsafe afe to push too far the business of coining dollars out of the blom bloo blo bio bones and sinews of the weal wealth t h producers the war between czi espital capital pital and labor will never cea cease ceabe so until they are harmonized by true co cc operation in i which identity of interests will T preclude ar eclede strife and this can never be e established until a fraternal ins inn inspires pires the hearts of men aud the bane of the world is conquered by that desire for the welfare of the race which la Is kindled in the soul by the heaven birn gospel of p peace bace |