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The Pullman strike has passed into history. The Pullman problem remains unsolved, and every patriotic American must do his part in solving it. For it is only part of a larger problem, one that is already upon us.

Had the strikers any real grievances, or were they the dupes of ambitious men with private ends to serve? Which ought the people to demand of their legislators, that they restrict the power of organized capital, or that they go further in repressing the movements of organized labor?

The answers to such questions depend rather on facts than on logic, but facts are hard to arrive at, when statements come from the parties vitally interested in the disputed questions. Mr. Carwardine’s little book has therefore a high and permanent value both to the citizen of to-day and the student of the future. For he is neither a capitalist nor, in the restricted sense, a workingman, but an observer, with nothing to prejudice him in favor of either side. This being the case, his testimony in favor of the men and against the Pullman Company is most convincing, and it is no wonder that the allied monopolists have done everything possible in indirect ways to discredit the little book, nor that its sale has been phenomenally rapid among those who are hoping and working for social progress toward a more humane civilization.

Not a single important statement in the book has been successfully challenged, and fair-minded men may read it with the certainty of getting at the facts.