The railroad corporations are notorious for their brazen defiance of
every law that is designed to curb their powers or restrain their
rapacity.
The railroad corporations have their lobby at Washington and at every
State capital; they bribe legislators, corrupt courts, debauch politics
and commit countless other legal and moral crimes against the
commonwealth.
The railway employes are a body of honest, useful, self-sacrificing,
peace-loving men, who never have been, and never will be, guilty of the
crimes committed by their corporate masters.
And yet President Cleveland serves the corporate masters and exalts and
glorifies the act while he attempts to absolve the criminals and fasten
the insufferable stigma upon honest men.
Nothing further is required to demonstrate beyond all cavil the
capitalist class character of our present government.