this was war--war to the
knife and the knife to the hilt--so Mr. Paul should not be hated but
admired, even by his foes. He was a brilliant strategist. Many there are
who argue to this day that Mr. Paul won the strike for the company, but
Mr. Paul says Watchem, the detective, did it. At all events they each
earned the deathless hatred of the strikers. But, leaving this question
open, the fact remains that the general in command--the now dead hero of
that fierce fight--deserves a monument at the expense of American
railroads, if, as American railroad managers argue, that war was an holy
war.

There had never been a moment when the management feared defeat. They
had met and measured the amateur officials who were placed in command of
the strikers. They were but children in the hands of the big brainy men
who were handling the company's business. They could fire a locomotive,
"ride a fly," or make time on the tick of the clock. They could awe a
convention of car-hands or thrill an audience at a union meeting, but
they had not the experience, or mental equipment to cope with the
diplomatic officials who stood for the company. Their heads had been
turned by the magnitude of their position. They established themselves
at a grand hotel where only high-salaried railroad officials could
afford to live. They surrounded themselves with a luxury that would have
been counted extravagant by the minister of many a foreign land. They
dissipated the strength of the Brotherhood and wasted their substance in
high living. They had gotten into clothes that did not fit them, and,
saddest of all, they did not know it. The good gray chief of the
Brotherhood, who was perfectly at home in the office of a president or a
general manager, who knew how to meet and talk with a reporter, who was
at ease either in overalls or evening dress, was kept in the background.
He would sell out to the company, the deep-lunged leaders said. He could
not be trusted, and so from the men directly interested in the fight the
strikers chose a leader, and he led them to inglorious defeat; though
defeat was inevitable.

At last, made desperate by the shadow of coming events, this man, so the
officials say, issued a circular advising old employees to return to
work and when out on the road to disable and destroy the company's
locomotives, abandoning them where they were wrecked and ruined. The
man accused of this crime declared that the circular was a forgery,
committ