Show LOSS TWENTY MILLIONS buch in brief is the story and the result in dollars of the late coal strike in the united states but that result stupendous as it Is looes does not take into account the bloodshed the beating the outrages and indignities of a hundred kinds with which the great conflict between the miners and the 1 operators haw has daily marked its ito program statistics have not yet been compiled showing the number of strikers and nonunion non union laborers who have been killed nor the fatalities to the deputies deput lea posses or militiamen who have been called out to enforce the he laws law protect prote property and preserve order there have been many broken rib and heads bead of which the be dally daily papers have made mention but which will be heard board of no more and there has ha been an untold amount of suffering and dla trew among women and children of which chic h t the he gr great e at world b ha PA re received 00 iv ed no knowledge at all taking these theae things ahinga into consideration and making allowance for further losses which have not been and at this time cannot be ascer bained the historian will be forced to w record that thai tor for extent lawlessness hardships loss lose and number of people involved the great coal strike of 1894 must stand well toward the front of such events in all the world twelve million dollars of the loss lose above referred to is said to be the miners share of it the remaining eight millions millio BS does not all come out of the mine owners by any means meane a large part of 0 it must be borne bereft by the railroads whose trains train and tracks have hare been destroyed and by the tate state whose ordinary constabulary forces have had to be increased by specially worn sworn of officers floers and by their national guards altogether the conflict has bag left its ita wasting hand upon countless sufferers ferere suf and the pretty bill must be paid by many who had no part in contracting it and Us are least able to discharge it without going into a long disquisition as to the blame for the protracted struggle and the error of not earlier resorting rea orting to arbitration for its settlement if not its ita prevention it will be quite in line with sober sentiment everywhere to declare that the whole thing has been a colossal and cruel blunder costly because unnecessary and criminal because with all its waste of blood and treasure no true principle has been maintained and no person or cause to is any better off than before |