The Pullman boycott : $b A complete history of the great R. R. strikeBurns, W. F.
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The Pullman boycott : $b A complete history of the great R. R. strike
Burns, W. F.
Pullman Strike, 1894
I cannot believe that the American people will allow this state of
affairs to continue. There are many men in public life to-day whose
motives are pure and unselfish. Such men as Governors Altgeld, Waite,
Penoyer; Congressmen Kyle, Pfeffer, McGann, Pence, Goldgier; Mayor
Hopkins of Chicago, Sydney M. Owens, Clarence S. Darrow, Judge Tully,
Gen. Weaver, W. W. Erwin and hosts of others, who publicly espoused the
cause of the strikers.
The subsidized press, the most dangerous enemy of labor, and next to the
courts, the most effective weapon in the hands of the railroad
corporations in destroying the rights of labor and defeating the
strikers, has again fallen in line as the champions of the laboring
classes. With hypocritical pretensions to sympathy for the workingman,
the organs of the two great political parties have begun to knife each
other, and unite in denouncing the People's party, all for the benefit
of the poor farmer, railroader, mechanic and laborer. They are loud in
their denunciation of trusts, combines and corporations of all kinds
that have a tendency to crush the poor working people. Their great and
generous hearts are overflowing with sympathy for the poor oppressed
toiler.
The question is, can the American workingman be again deluded by these
organs of organized capital?
The laboring people do not want sympathy, neither do they want charity,
all they want is simple justice, and this they must and will have.
There are exceptions among the press and these should be remembered by
the people. Papers that were champions of right and justice and whom the
general managers could not buy.
And now, kind reader, in conclusion I will quote the words of him, whose
noble life is devoted to the cause of humanity:
"The strike was not a failure. It will pass into history as a noble
struggle for a righteous cause, and those who participated in it,
whatever their immediate sacrifices may be, will in the end feel amply
compensated for all their losses."
THE END.
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