Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tains of Industry" who hold dividends more sacred than human life. An effect was produced similar, probably, to that which would be experienced if the hands of time were to be suddenly set back several centuries; and our citizen was moved to ask a few questions concerning the exact purport of the article and the attitude in general of the paper. These were his inquiries to the editor: — I read with much interest and care the editorial entitled " Russia Outdone " appearing in the " " of February 2gth ult. Is it possible that the little paper which seems to be endeavoring to place itself in the bosom of every family stands, in matters so serious as this, for conclusions which are based solely upon assumed premises ? That they are assumed is best illustrated by the fourth paragraph: — " A strike leader is ... in danger of the electric chair because he is alleged to have counselled violence on the part of the strikers and because a woman ivas shot by a policeman or a militiaman, during a riot." Have we come to the point where a case properly before the courts is to be tried and decided by our " ," without a hearing ? The case of Mr. Ettor has not yet been heard. How, then, can the author of this article state as a cold fact that the deceased woman was shot by anybody in particular ? Why does the author distinguish between the allegation as to the counselling of violence by Ettor and the allegation by Ettor that the woman was shot by a policeman or militiaman ? How does the author know ? In the second paragraph he makes a series of statements which to uninitiated minds are very apt to be taken pro confesso: " They must not gather to talk over their grievances ; they must not speak to any working- man not a striker; they must not speak above a whisper. In a wo...