Show TO H HL L WITH THE PEOPLE exchange we are tot not mincing words in this article but are at slating all g facts elac LI s y as aa we see them without fear or fa vor to hi w with I 1 it the people seems to be about ban t the attitude of both la bor and capital and being of the people our oura elf if we object by the skin of our teeth vie e have just missed a disastrous railroad strike missed it because the rail a roads them themselves sels bowed to the do de mands of the brotherhood brotherhoods brothe as the country totters on the brink of be ac tua fuel war the railroad executives executive declared they would fight to a finish before they would surrender to the demand of the brotherhoods brothe in turn the brotherhood chiefs chief swore they would paralyze the railroads of the country in order to win their point in vain did the press and people of the country urge meditation compromise postponement out an t ung line to avoid aid the calamity of a strike but the pleadings of the people the prospect of untold buffeting eing even the national danger itself fell upon deaf ears it nas as a case of to hi with ith the people with both sides joining in the chat choina us but when the emissaries ot the president of united states dialo disclosed sed the flip national peril to the contes contestants tanti the railroad presidents threw up their hands and granted the demand of the brotherhoods brothe granted them bemuse because they knew the government would seize and operate the roads if they did not grant them it w 11 cost the roads approximately a year but this will not come out of the pockets of the railroad corporations no indeed the people themselves will pay the freight in 10 the shape of in creased charges on their freight we are not championing the cause of the railroads nor or we pleading the cause of the brotherhoods brother brothe hooda but we are asking for justice for the people ve ale for those who foot the bill but u where here that thattus justice is coming from we e dont kno know Eiery everywhere where we turn it seems seema to be lust just a plain case of to h 1 with the people capital disregards them labor disregards them and even congress disregards them lafter after the vote is cast prices are mounting up by leaps and bounds living conditions are becoming tolerable and no one seems able to call a halt we have a congress which bach la is sent to washington to make laws that will insure just and equitable treatment for all of our people for the capitalist the laborer and for the people but congress shirks its plain duty apparently it does not even lecog nize that ad a duty u ty exists it could regulate big business it could regulate the brotherhood and other organization it could fix max and minimum prices if it would but it dont it simi ly shoots hot ai and hits nothing it encourages the existing conditions by its refusal to regulate the favored too cne wins out and the people payas they have always done one side or the other must give in and nd since neither geithe is willing witling to pay the freight the helpless people perforce must do the paying pacing and they do ani an it will always bs be so until the people wake up to the fact that they are the masters and not the servants |