People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — Better Stop Bragging. [ARTICLE]

Better Stop Bragging.

Twentieth Century,—ln boasting about our liberties hereafter it would be well to use a moderate instead of an aggressive tone, and not wear such a rmpenor smile as has been our wont. The war between labor and capital has let the people in Europe into tne secret that we are not as tree as we pretended to be and that vhile a mo a *rchical form of goverment may have im advantages, we have yet to p-ove that happiness is to be found under a republic. Speaking of the trolley strike the London Spectator says: “ Fhe contest between labor and capi. 1 in the United States is more bitter tnc.r. it is in England and always ends in only one way. In the contest between the militia and the strikers thirteen casualties are reported. In this country thirteen casualties would be a subject for parliament, but in New York life is cheap, and ia Chicago the railwaykill that number every few days out of pure lodtfference and burry,”