THE REMEDY. 711 



The 'great plain people' with their brave hearts and 

 strong hands." Farmers' Voice. 



Arrogance and inhumanity widen the breach between 

 the people and the vast corporations and combinations 

 which seek to plunder the industrial masses. 



When a railroad king was solicited to consider the 

 rights of the people he said: "The public be damned. " 

 When another was asked by the complaining employees to 

 consider their grievances and submit them to arbitration, 

 he said: "Strike and be damned. n 



While we believe that employees frequently have just 

 grounds for complaint, we are of the opinion that strikes 

 are not only unwise but positively injurious in a large 

 majority of instances. We are led to believe that there 

 are other methods of redress that can be applied which will 

 be more satisfactory, inasmuch as it will remove forever 

 the cause for which strikes are precipitated. The deplora- 

 ble and wretched condition of the people frequently induces 

 them to strike. Poverty, suffering and distress hang like 

 a pall over the land. What do the people propose to do? 

 Is there no remedy?- "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is 

 there no physician there ? n Laboring men of America! 

 What are you protesting against ? What are the wrongs 

 of which you complain ? They are plainly embodied in 

 your demands. Where is the remedy, and how shall we 

 apply it? 



The day for sentimental politics .is passed. Senti- 

 mental politics has cost this country rivers of blood and 

 billions of treasure. The sentimental politician is a fraud, 

 a snare and a delusion. Practical politics, business, com- 

 mon sense, is the greatest need of the hour. That which 

 is not good business is poor politics. Sentimental politics 

 means passion, envy, hatred, strife; practical politics is 

 business, and business means charity, love and harmony. 

 Sentimental politics means division, distress and poverty. 



