Simply one of the many battles that have been fought and are yet to be
fought in the economic war between capital and labor. Pittsburg,
Homestead, Buffalo, Latimer, Pana, Cœur d’Alene, Cripple Creek and
Telluride recall a few of the battles fought in this country in the
world-wide struggle for industrial emancipation.
When the strike at Chicago occurred did President Cleveland make a
personal examination? No.
Did he grant both sides a hearing? He did not.
In his fourteen-page magazine article what workingman, or what
representative of labor, does he cite in support of his statements or
his official acts? Not one.
I aver that he received every particle of his information from the
capitalist side, that he was prompted to act by the capitalist side,
that his official course was determined wholly, absolutely, by and in
the interest of the capitalist side, and that no more thought or
consideration was given to the other side—the hundreds of thousands of
workingmen whose lives and whose wives and babes were at stake—than if
they had been so many swine or sheep that had balked on their way to the
shambles.