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delay. Then no man can stem the tide of popular indig- 

 nation or set a limit to party fury or the popular will. 



The mutterings of the coming storm are already heard 

 in the many labor organizations that have sprang up in 

 our midst within the past few years. It is worse than idle 

 to talk about measures being unconstitutional. Constitu- 

 tions may be be changed as well as laws, and if the policy 

 of the gigantic corporations is to utterly ignore the popular 

 will, setting every principle of justice at defiance, until the 

 indignation of the people is wrought to such a pitch that 

 the day of spoliation of railways will come, and neither 

 vested rights nor common honesty is likely to obtain a 

 heanng, they may console themselves with the reflection 

 that they were the transgressors. 



