But a few months afterward, the panic was a thing of the past.

People forgot the frightful condition of alarm in which they had been.

They no longer had a personal interest in preventing any interference with the stoppage of the panic.

Then the men who had not dared to raise their voices until all danger was past came bravely forth from their hiding places and denounced the action which had saved them.

They had kept a hushed silence when there was danger; they made clamorous outcry when there was safety in doing so.
Just the same course would have been followed in connection with the Anthracite Coal Strike if I had been obliged to act in the fashion I intended to act had I failed to secure a voluntary agreement between the miners and the operators.