CHAPTER XVII. CAPITULATION.

The Last Mass Meeting--Strikers Surrender Unconditionally--Cost of the Homestead Dispute to Capital, Labor and the State--Few Old Hands Get Work and Poverty Stalks Abroad--Noble Service of Relief Committees--The Coming of Santa Claus--Congressional Investigations Wind Up Without Accomplishing anything--A Batch of Useless Reports--The Kearns Anti-Pinkerton Bill Becomes a Law in Pennsylvania 226-240