A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike

ad in which the host was so heavily interested, and Mr. Forrest, whom Miss Allison had invited on her own account. The brother magnate came, and Mr. Forrest did not. True, his ac

r and ready to come down, but she took it and read it hurriedly, uttered an exclamation of disappointment, and sharply closed her door. Not until Mr. Allison sent for her with the information that din

enlightened upon was the explanation of Forrest's return with the party. All he knew was that early on the previous day the general, with two of his aides and Mr. Forrest, boarded the train in Southern Kansas. Allison invited them all into the private car and proposed making them his guests on the homeward run. The chief declined for himself and staff, saying that they had other matters to detain them, but it tr

ay world, the natural oppressors of the masses, the very type of the creatures he delighted in describing upon the platform as "bloated bond-holders;" their conversation could hardly fail to be of interest to him, and he remained. Warming up to their work, they were discussing the situation at Pullman and its probable effect upon the employees of the roads centring in Chicago. That their views should be radically opposed to those of their absorbed listener was of course to be expected, and Elmendorf was fidgeting furiously upon his chair, every now and then striving to interject a sentence and claim the floor, but Allison knew his man, and knew that once started, Elmendorf could not well be suppressed. Every attempt on the part of the tutor to interpose, therefore, was met by uplifted and warning hand and prompt "Permit me" or "Permit Mr. Sloan to finish, if you please," which was galling in the last degree. Elmendorf had planned to have a conciliatory word or two with M

fact-within the limits of the State; and yet, just because it delivers freight and passengers over on the Kentucky shore, here comes the general government formulating laws for its control, which should be the province of the State and of the State only. If we've got to be trammelled by legislation, let it be at the hands of our own legisla

eclared that you objected to any and all legislation? Can you deny that when Congress did take the matter up your attorneys were just as promptly in Washington, proclaiming that any attempt to legislate in your affairs was a violation of the rights of the sovereign States? Can you deny, in fine, that when the whole subject was under discussion here a second time, one of your most eminent confrères put himself on record as saying that, while he was opposed to any legislation, of two evils he preferred to choose the less, a

ned, lad; but sit you down, sit you down, and let me ring for some dinner for you. No? Had a

Federal officer who won't

was drawing Forrest to the very place the tutor had hoped to occupy. Sloan arose and cordially shook hands with the new-comer, who then for the first time, apparently, caught sight of Elmendorf. The la

o Allison here just what you said to me. He's a trifle hot-headed to-night. He thinks the

of wealth and worldly wisdom had regarded the genus regular officer as a something impressive, possibly, on parade, useful probably on the frontier, but out of place anywhere else. That he should have read or studied anything beyond drill and dime novels was not to be expected. The magnates had even had their modest game of draw poker at a late hour and laughingly referred some mooted question to Forrest as a probable expert, and were

y I had no right to forecast the action of the government

say, "Well, I've got to be bored and must be resigned to it, since they won't listen to a man of in

to indulge. Suppose we three adjourn to my den, where the books a

were so many other and better ways of letting Elmendorf know that in the coming conference his presence could be dispensed with, that Sloan spoke of it the moment they reached the library; but Allison was imperious and positive. "You don't beg

ng, "and he hit you fellows in the ri

a rule, but they get it. Now I heard something of your talk last night. Brooks was speaking of it. He looks upon the Inter

it. Our troops were called in from the Rocky Mountains to Chicago, and from Louisiana to Pittsburg. In the riots at Buffalo, three years ago, New York's fine National Guard, and in those at Homestead the Pennsylvania division, were sufficient to put an end to the mischief, and neither State had to ask for help; but here lies within your limits far greater possibility for riot and bloodshed than can be found elsewhere in the Union, and suppose that to pander to the masses here, as he has done in pardoning the Anarchists, your governor should deny you protection and permit assault, riot, and violence whenever you attempted to move engines or trains. It is my belief that you can now look where you could not before the passage of that Interstate Commerce Bill in '870 for the protection denied you at home. When the Congress of the United States enacted that 'every common carrier should, according to their respective powers, afford

and glanced about him; but the tutor had vanished, if that was what he was looking for. When Forrest stopped, Sloan turned to his friend with a merry twinkle in his eyes. "How's

rfering with all our business, breaking up our long-haul and short-haul tariffs, requiring us to account practically to the government for every penny w

before we think possible. I understand that the condition of these poor people at Pullman is getting worse every

omed, and they have spent just as freely as they got the money. Now there's no business for the company, no orders for cars, not enough to keep them going. No

its houses, and paid its rents. They may not have saved, I admit, but they have served faithfully and long and well. They have never failed in their obligation to the company, and prompt payment of wages is not the only duty of a corporation to its people. The company is wealthy. It is even declaring a dividend. None of its salaries have been cut down as a consequence of the business depression. It has simply said to its wage-workers, 'You alone are the ones to suffer. You and your families and your cares and troubles are nothing to us. Here's the dif

's Utopia," sa

have seen something of the struggles, the self-denial, the charity, the patience, the helpfulness, of the working classes. I have learned a feeling of res

Allison, uplifting his eyes as

for the laborer. They counsel strike, and forcible, riotous resistance to the employment of others. It can lead only to tumult, to rioting that brings out the criminal and t

e prospect? Does it look like

oyed on full time and full wages, perhaps. Many of its employees are single men, comparatively new at the business; they can afford to be frankly told to go elsewhere in search of work; but to hold everybody while scaling the wages of all hands, month after month, down, down until a family man cannot pay his rent and feed his children, then the cord breaks

listed for the work,-so many years unless sooner discharged,-just like the soldiers, by Jove! Then when a man quit work it would be desertion,

ation that would be; and a standing army is a luxury the Constitution forb

then? The Lord knows you t

tract to accept such bounty, pay, rations, etc., as may be provided by law. No corporation can scale him down ten, twenty, thirty, or fifty per cent. when times are hard; it takes the Congress of his country to do that; and when, as once happened, Congress did adjourn without appropriating a cent for our pay, the w

an, whimsically, "and put me up to some things I'm glad to hear. Was that what took you off so hur

est, promptly. "It was

us what did take you off, and my sister has been consumed with scandal or something about it. She began at me this afternoon. I told her to a

were drawn aside, and Elmendorf stood revealed. "The butler stepped out a

oyance. "No. Unless-at least--

time since, sir, be

d Allison, looking at

r. Miss Allison was in conve

women are queer. Excuse me a moment, wi

nquiries. His voice presently was audible, growling in his sister's

Sloan, consulting his watch, "yet I don't

go," said Forrest, "be

t, I've only known you a day or two, but you've interested me, so to speak. You stick to Allison, and you'll be of infi

s guests were gone. A few lines on a card explained. Each had engagements. "No wonder," said Mrs. Lawrenc

ant to hear no more of this. Of course, if it's true, I shall kno

when he saw Mr. Forrest at the club at noon he