The latest news seems to show that both at the
Carnegie Company's works and in Idaho, the labour troubles are passing away. In both cases, a very large number of the leaders, and even of the rank and file, of the strikers have been arrested, and will be tried for murder. At Homestead, it is also said that the men intend to prosecute the chief people connected with the Company, including Mr. Carnegie him- self, in whose case it has been said that extradition pro- ceedings will be taken, owing to his presence in Scotland Possibly there will be a prosecution ; but it is obvious that there will be no need to demand extradition. Mr. Carnegie would, of course, surrender to take his trial. To do otherwise would mean going into exile. One possible incident of the Idaho riots deserves special notice. During the short-lived triumph of the union miners, twelve non-union men were, it is re- ported, deliberately massacred in the Fourth of July Gulch,— a ravine in the hills in which the mines are situated. That is a curious commentary on the spirit of altruism and pity which is supposed to permeate and sanctify the Labour movement all the world over. As long as the labourer has exactly his own way,— "It's peace, and love, and brothers all, and do just what you like ; But—it's curse the blackleg, cut his throat, when he won't go out on strike,"
as Mr. Rudyard Kipling might express it. In truth, there is no more altruism in the Labour movement than in buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market.
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