Review of reviews and world's work . nation to wreakvengeance on any citizens daring to ride in theboycotted cars, the strikers had maltreated wom-en in a manner scarcely conceivable in a civil-ized community. Two thousand of the well-to-do citizens of St. Louis had been made deputy-sheriffs, and were constantly patroling the Gompers, of the American Federationof Labor, made an earnest effort to put an endto the violence which was so discrediting thecause of union labor, and had almost effected asettlement between tlie workmen and their em-ployers. But a question arose as to t
Review of reviews and world's work . nation to wreakvengeance on any citizens daring to ride in theboycotted cars, the strikers had maltreated wom-en in a manner scarcely conceivable in a civil-ized community. Two thousand of the well-to-do citizens of St. Louis had been made deputy-sheriffs, and were constantly patroling the Gompers, of the American Federationof Labor, made an earnest effort to put an endto the violence which was so discrediting thecause of union labor, and had almost effected asettlement between tlie workmen and their em-ployers. But a question arose as to the rapiditywith which old employees were to be reinstated,the negotiations fell through, and it now looks asif the strikers would lose their cause. An uglyaspect has been given to the management of theaffair by the open accusations on all sides of po-litical motives. The governor of Missouri is, asalways, a Democrat ; the mayor of St. Louis isa Republican ; four of the five police commis-sioners are Democrats appointed by the gover-. AN UNCEKTAIN WEAPON. It does not always stop at where it is the Pionccr-Pres!< (St. Paul). nor, and the fifth member is the mayor, whois of course powerless to control the police incase of a division of interests on political the shameful outrages whichthe less responsible strikers have been guilty of,Governor Stephens has refused to call out themilitia—first, on the ground that the deputy-sheriifs appointed by the mayor could controlthe disturbances ; and, second, on the ground thatthese disturbances were not serious enough tojustify him in spending the States money at therate of two thousand dollars per day for themaintenance of a military force. The Repub-licans assert that the Democratic members of thepolice board, as well as the governor, are reallyrestrained from dealing with the lawlessness inan effective manner by a fear of alienating thelabor vote at this critical point in the courseof the political ca
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