Trusts and unions are both combinations, beyond question. But a pronounced difference distinguishes them, and we shall endeavor to make it clear. You see a horse after a hard day's work grazing in a swampy meadow. He has done his duty and is getting what he can in return. On the horse's flank you may see a leach sucking blood. The LEACH is the trust. The HORSE is the labor UNION. Possibly you have read "Sindbad the Sailor," with its story of the Old Alan of the Sea. The Old Man of the Sea rode round on the sailor's back squeezing his neck with his tightly twisted legs. The OLD MAN is the TRUST. The SAILOR is the labor UNION. ---- In Chicago two combinations are fighting. One is a combination of citizens--the Citizens' Union. The other is a combination of public robbers--the Gas Trust. Each combination is trying to get what it wants. Surely you can see the difference between the two combinations. The citizens are striving in a purely legitimate way to obtain their RIGHTS. Similarly, Labor Unions, when soundly organized, are striving properly and legitimately to obtain their RIGHTS. Gas Trusts and other Trusts endeavor improperly and illegitimately to obtain what does not belong to them. ---- In old times, on the high seas, there were two classes of vessels. The great majority were honest vessels of commerce, doing good to the world, while striving, of course, to benefit their crews and owners. Those honest SHIPS were the Labor UNIONS. On the same waters there sailed other ships--fast, daring--manned by unscrupulous, although able, men. Those were the pirate ships. The TRUSTS compared to Labor UNIONS are the pirate ships compared to honest ships of commerce. FRANCE HAS LEARNED HER LESSON The employes on the Paris underground railroad had a strike and have settled their strike. The terms of the settlement amaze the outside world. The terms are especially amazing to the American--and well they may be. The employes of the underground railroad in Paris are GOVERNMENT employes. Their strike inconvenienced the public, and even the radical French people were annoyed with the strikers. In other European countries and in this country, as the news reports very truly say, the strike of those Government employes would have been dealt with very summarily. Three engines of civilization would have been brought into play effectively. "First the police, second the cavalry, third Gatling guns." ---- But the police, the cavalry and guns were tried on the French people long ago, and that little matter was fought out and settled. The men who govern France know that at a certain stage in the proceedings a courageous people will not stand Gatling guns, cavalry or police. They have found out in France that the way to deal with striking workmen is just the way the Government official would like to be dealt with himself if he were a striking workman instead of a well-paid public officer.