President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, is reported as saying
that if only the capitalist and workingman will look straight into each
other’s eyes and speak the truth, there will be no more strikes. The
trouble is that, inasmuch as the capitalist is on the back of the
workingman, they can’t look into each other’s eyes unless the capitalist
dismounts or the workingman twists his spine, and he is already
suffering from curvature of that sorely-strained member of his saddled,
bridled, whipped and spurred organism.
The capitalist can hardly be expected to rein up and get down purely to
see the color of the optics of his “mount.”