(The Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
It is wholly unjust to insinuate that
the president is not responsive to pub
lic opinion. With the issuance of his
recent executive order, excluding Jap
anese and Korean immigrant laborers,
he has met the wishes of labor men on
the Pacific coast swiftly and complete
ly. It has been a long time since labor
has secured so great and so impres
sive a triumph.
SCARE OF THE RAILROADS.
(The Indianapolis Sentinel.)
The railroad men seem to be almost
paralyzed with astonishment, not so
much over what has been done, as
over what they think is threatened,
over what they believe to be the tem
per of the people. They have aban
doned the policy of attempting to in
fluence legislatures even in legitimate
ways. The spirit of the people Is run-
ning so strong against them that they
have evidently made up their minds
that it is not worth while to try to re
sist it. And it is the same people over
whom they used to drive with an en
tire disregard of their rights. It would
be well for our friends to understand
that the change in the spirit of the
people has not been wrought by dema
gogues or agitators or a yellow press.
It is the product of unfairness of the
railroads themselves.
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THE LESSON OF HARRIMAN.
(The Long Branch Record.)
We have nothing whatever against
him personally, but we can only con
sider the fate which has overtaken
him to be most exemplary. He thought
that the people upon whom he was
preying were defenseless. He boast
ed that he had gone only “so far as the
law allowed him.” Perhaps he is
right in thinking that he has nothing
to dread from the courts and juries.
