Show ll THE LABORERS i the laborers who engaged railroad strike are at atIf att t Ut in at t deplorable j 1 apparently de- de de- de Nt ie-Nt If Ito to 0 retaliate r to O t the e full tull e ex oz f 5 tent of their power The Investigation held beld by the governor of Illinois Illinoia re result result- resulted ed ed in the discovery of 01 the fact that about six ix thou thousand and persons mostly I women and children are de destitute the themen themen themen men being belog unable to secure employ employment mente ment Mr Pullman being appealed to in behalf of ot these starving families turns a cold shoulder to their supplication supplication cation cation and prefers to have them thrown on the public the objects object of such charity as a their men fellow-men can bestow on them A And nd this hi proceed proceeding ing ingis is not brightened by the rumor cur current rent that the millionaire is engaged Co looking about for a foreign title for his bis hi daughter a vanity on which he be pre ii is willing to spend a consider consider- considerable considerable able amount of the money these then starvIng starving tarv-Ing tarv Ing ex have helped him to earn Worse Wone sun still till li is the oa case oa e of the Califor Califor- California California nia strikers The dl dispatches assert that the Southern Pacific officials not Dot only refuse to re-employ re the men meo but that they in addition exert all their In- In Influence in influence fluence to prevent their engagement In I any other labor in the state The men aver that such ucb of them as a have found work have bave been at once discharged whenever er Southern Pacific officials learned of the fact tact that i is In all cases where those thOle officials have any influence over the new em- em employers em cm The men are therefore doomed to starvation The company seems bent on crushing them or driving driving ing them to desperation All this Is la as al wrong as ae it i is Impolitic While the strike lasted and the men carried away by the harangues of agitators were led Jed astray and committed com com- committed committed acts of violence it wa was necessary to point out their error and labor Jabor with them for tor the restoration of peace and even to meet force with force but when they were defeated and presumably saw their mistake there were no longer any grounds for tor persecution beyond bAyoud the administration of justice for tor the vindication of the laws that had been violated Private revenge and spite must now DOW be condemned and andaU andall andall aU all themore the more when indulged in by those thOle whose whole station in society is such that they can afford to be generous and magnanimous Now Is II the time for reconciliation The employers who carried the victory in the gigantic struggle with organized labor have bave the best opportunity ever offered to them perhaps of ot proving that they are t the heartless heartier unsympathetic automa- automa automatons automa automatons ma- ma tons they sometimes are represented ted to bej be that they are not DOt slave drivers driver but men dealing with men Why not embrace this opportunity The age in which we are living in often otten termed prosaic It is supposed that sentiment is slowly dying out If not already dead Attachment or friendship between employee and em em- employers employers are exceptions to the rule But why should it be so The human heart is after aU all I the same as it has always been and the needs and aspirations and interests interest of mankind mankind have bave not materially changed There was wal a time when the interest of the em em- employer employer employer was as a general rule identical with that of the laborer the success of one was the honor bonor of ot the other This would seem to be the only oaly state of ot affairs The spirit of war exi existing between capital and aDd labor Cannot be b but mutually destructive Prosperity must mURt rest on a foundation pf of peace and unity F |