t the anarchists.
The courts hold themselves in readiness to obey the will of
the corporations when a charge is made against the workmen,
but no effort is made to carry out the mandates of the law
when the provokers of strikes, the corporations, violate the
law."

There is but little doubt, if the judges of the Federal courts would
show the same zeal in holding railroad managers amenable to the law as
Judge Ricks has displayed in this case with the employes, they would
secure increased confidence from the people in the tribunals over which
they preside.

All fair-minded persons will agree that labor as well as capital must be
subjected to proper restraints, and that the public will demand nothing
unreasonable from either.

Accidents are too frequent upon American railroads. The reports of the
Interstate Commerce Commission give the following as the numbers killed
and injured during the years named:

---------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------
| 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891
|Killed. Injured|Killed. Injured|Killed. Injured|Killed. Injured
---------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------
Employees| 2,070 | 20,148| 1,972 | 20,028| 2,451 | 22,396| 2,660 | 26,140
Passeng's| 315 | 2,138| 310 | 2,146| 286 | 2,425| 293 | 2,972
Others | 2,897 | 3,602| 3,541 | 4,135| 3,598 | 4,206| .... | ....
---------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------
Total | 5,282 | 25,888| 5,823 | 26,309| 6,335 | 29,027| .... | ....
---------+---------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------

For the year ending June 30, 1890, the total number of employes was
749,801. There was, therefore, one death for every 306 men employed and
one injury for every 33 men employed. For the previous year one was
killed for every 357 men employed, and one was injured for every 35 men
employed. While trainmen represent but 20 per cent, of the total number
of employes, the casualties among them represent 58 per cent. of the
total number of casualties.

For the year 1888, one passenger was killed in every 1,523,133
passengers carried, and one injured in every 220,024 carried.

The corresponding rate in England for the year 1888 is one passenger
killed for every 6,942,336 carried, and one injured for every 527,577
carried.

Railroads doing a large busines