Putting The Boot On The Other Foot

The Chicago Inter-Ocean puts the case rather neatly wlien it says to tho strikers who claim the right to prevent other men froin going to work in their places : Supposo we put the boot on the other bot, and in a kindly spirit of inquiry consider the curiosities of the proulein hua presonted. Suppose the officers of he Burlington & Quincy Kailroad como o tho conclusión to suspend business ór n montbs and discharge all the employés. Aftor dischargiug conduc;ors, engineers, üremen and brakemen ho railway officials proeeed to the other ailroad offices and anuouuce thut all other companies must do as they have lone - that is, must close up business and discharge employés. Because tLe one railroad does not care to do business it declares that others shall not. Jecauso it has discViarged employés it orces others to. What would the enjiueers and fireraen think of such a proeeding 'Í Would they not say that when ono couipany went out of business they had the simple right to secure mployuient of another, if they couldf Aad would they not say ihat because hoy were thrown out of employmont was no reason why their employers hould compel othor companies to throw heir men out of work '{ Tho chances that N. P. Banks will be hosen Speaker of the House of Repreentatives are a good deal better than re the chances of Foster or Sayler or Saui Cox or Sam Iiandall or any other olitician whose name habitually be'ins with F. or S. Among Southern lerabers Banks has four recommendaions - a groater number than any othr man can bring - namely : 1. He was " model speaker " before the war. 2.Ie did n't hurt anybody during the war. 3. He supported Doctor Greeley fter the war. 4. He bas n't, and