How do the people of Madisonville, of Hopkins county like this state of affairs? Are they pleased to see colored men from elsewhere parade our town with pistols and when an officer attempts to preserve order and enforce law, have bullies set up themselves in defiance to the constituted authorities? * * * * * Business or Votes. Business men of Wellsville, Ohio, which place has for the past several days been called the “storm center” of the steel strike, have been using their influence to prevent the steel workers joining President Shaffers’s strike for union supremacy. Confronted, as they are, with what seems a certainty that if the present trouble goes much farther, the Wellsville plant will be lifted and taken across the line into Pennsylvania. Many of the men realize the force of this argument which is emphasized by the fact that they are themselves owners of Wellsville property, the value of which is dependent upon the regular operation of the steel works at that point. One prominent man, however, opposes the position taken by the merchants. Mayor Dennis, who seems to think the votes lie in the direction of union workmen and sympathizers, says the business men ought to keep out of it. * * * * * Sound Sense Sam Jones says many reckless and foolish things, but he also says some very true and sensible things. Referring to strikes and the rights of the laborer, he says: I believe a dozen men or a thousand men or a million men have a perfect right to strike whenever they gentlemanly please—lay down their implements and quit work, and right there and right then they have done everything they have a right to do by human and divine law, and when they do any more they outlaw themselves and ruin their cause. Capital has a perfect right to discharge labor whenever it gentlemanly pleases, but when capital says “I will not employ you, and no one else shall employ you,” then capital has outlawed itself and damaged its cause. Capital has as much right to run around to the employers of labor in this country and beat up or cuss down anybody that will employ their discharged men as laboring men have to hang around the shops and mines from which they have been discharged or voluntarily severed their connection, with sticks and rocks and say to capital: “We won’t work for you, and nobody else shall work for you.” Samuel’s English may be a little lame at times, but the proposition he here lays down is based on sound sense and justice.—Nashville American. * * * * * When? Mr. Shaffer, the man who is at the head of the big steel strike, said in a speech at Wellsville last week: