Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 21, 1873, Page 2

THE CHICAGO D. \ILY »'fltlisfiNE: TURBDAY, AUGUST" 81, 187 THE QUESTION OF THE DAY Tho Attempt of Great Aggrogations of Capital to Control the Government in Their Own Interest, The Forms of the Republic to Be Rotained, but Its Spirit Destroyed. p Aims of the Railroad Magnates---Mag- nificence of the Prize at Stake. “The Choico of 1he Amcriean People Is Between Reform Now and Rovolus tion Hereafter.,” Bpeech of Gov. Booth, of California, at San Franoisco, Aug. 13, 1873, Ferrow Cirizens: The isgues jnvolved In the political canvass of this yoar are poculiar, and the conditions under which they aro to be de- cided anomalous in Amorican history. We shall orr, however, if we suppose those issucs and conditions are confined to Californin; they are common to tho people of the United Statos. Evorywhoro there is o deop porvading feoling that old thinga are passing sway; that the na- tion confrouts new questions and difiicultics— that again the Sphinx’s riddle is propounded to us, which wo must rond or be destroyed. And yet whon wo como to considor theso quostions closoly wo flud thom new indeed in our history and new in form, but in substance snd universal history they aro as old as history itsclf; it is & naew phaeo of tho old, oid contost between pro- rogative and porsonsl froedom—between the power of the strong to take aud tho right of cach man to his own. [Applause.] PARTY TIES RELAXED, In the presenco of now dangers party ties aro rolaxed. Where thoy bind togothor it ia rathor. from socinl afiilintion than the power of political alloglanco. From forco of habit and personsl axsociation, we look to our old political lendoers and comrades for guidance ‘and counsol; but poas along tho stroot, take tho men as you moot them, listen to thoeir frank avowals, and you will fiud that the old party diecipline, which was wont' tomarshal ity hosts like contonding armies, is destroyed. Gathor togothor & reprosentative, intolligont nssemblago liko this, composod of Ro- publicnns andDemoctats, poll it, snd you will find that on tho living questions of the lour, ‘whero thoro are difforences of opinion, men no longer differ a8 Domocrate and Ropublicans, but as mon of independent conviotions; and thoso who profer to reinnin with old organizations simply feel that for the present thero is nowhere elge to go, aud hopa to accomplish new purposes with old forms, This isnot a local, but & gen- oral truth, and therois a goneral foeling that s warfaro should ceaso whoao motive aud meaning bave goue. TEASONS FOR DISINTEGRATION. It is natural under circnmstances like these that men who believe that political partioa aro gimply incorporations for the purposo of paying ealaries to dircotors and dividing offices among stockhiolders, should begin to inquiro, “What man hath done this?" and to look abaut for some victim for their impotont wrath. S8ir, no man bath dono it ! Thoy might as woll sook for tho hunter who buil¢ his camp-iire on the uppor- Mississippi, to account for the ice-gorge that comes crashing and grinding down in a spring flood after ane April (haw. Thore are moral forces in eocioly which cnn no mare be control- ed by conventions and resolutions thon the tom- peat can bo stayod by o proclamation of peace. Whilo parties sincoroly reprosont differences of opinion upon* gront and living politi- cal questions ; while they continue the outward cmbodiments of princi- ples, tho represeutatives of idens; while they are forces moving oponlyto the accomplishment of a givon reAult—thoy never err, may be wrong, but thoy will live. No desertion of londers, no betrayal of prinoiples can destroy them or poreeptibly abato thoir strength. Whon they censo to bo these things, sud beecome “a pipe for Forlune's finger to sound what stop sho ploaso” on, no man, though be combined in oue the leadorship of Clay, the eloquonce of Wobster, the iron will of Juclison, the philosophical prescicuce of Jeffor- sou, and the moral weight of Washington, can bold thom together, An sgreomont of purpose —genning—sincore—is ns necessary to thoir co- hesion ag is the law of gravitation to lold the world in shape, or the hidden forco of lfeto keep corruption from the corporal frame. [Ap- pluuse.] % PARTIES NOT MANUFAOTURED. Nor eau political purties be mnnufactured to ordor by joining sud dovotniling materiuls upon o given plan. . 1f they have any valuo at all, tliey uro living growtls, uot mechanical formu. 1n political as in ecclesinstical affairs, the proach- ing of doctrino precodos organization, and with the sceeptance of doctrino tho organization arises, we can searcoly ko how or whon, Y- terday it was not, to-dny it is. Yostorday it was o spirit diffurive ne theair and as impulpable ; La-Suy it is strength incarnate—ombodied power. You need have no fear, my friends, if your convictions aro deep, Hincoro, and fruth- tul, that thoy will not find form, oxpression, and trimnph. Where two or threo aro gathored to- gotber for a good cause, tho all-compelling Epirit that ovganizes, direcls, and conquors is wlso in their midat. INFQUALITIES THAT RESULT FROM WAR, Thero is no lesson enforced by history with moro emphasig than that ouo of the oftects of u groat war, and especially a civil war, upon s Ito- Publican government, i to create a strong ton- dency to o contralization of power, to raise up u ruling clags or governing mun, Thero are many philosophical reaneus for this. One is, that succoss in war depends largely upon secrocy in couneil and unity in action ; and the thoughts of the pooplo hecomo habituatod to these condi- tious, uutil that iy tolersted as custom which was at fiit accopted aw a necessnry sacrifice, * Anothor, that gront wars fimwmlly bring to tho surfaco great lenders,” Anothor, and in our dnys o still more potent reason, is that war creatos greab social inequulitics, by afford- ing opportunitios for the nccumulation of pgignntic and overshudowing fortunos ; und in our days monoy ‘lu power. 1 do not ryefor ‘now to the fortuucs that uro mado immediately out of the operationy of war, und tho vast disburnoments of urmics; these, indecd, are groat, but thoy ure only food- ert to tho richios realizad by monoy-kings out of the general disturbanco of finnucial laws and ac- copted values, When gold, as measured by & standard fxed by the Governmont, for flve years fluctnates botwoon par und 280, and all commer- cinl pricos aro aflont, unsoitled, o that no day, no houy, is a eriterion for anothor, the men of toney sonse aud instinet, tho meu of coolness, Doldnges, sngucity, and 'Uraining, find_goldon opportunitics, and thoy who nre eminent in theio qualities mako for thomsclves throues of g hL Wo sometimes 8oo in shiow windows cartoons of ¢ loforo and Afior War" we could seo correctly represented the socinl couditiona of the whole country “hoforo oud after tho war,” wo should realize whit n vnst Inoreano thera law beon in the incquulitios of fortune, to which custom dondens our sonko. What was a hnndsoma inde- pondenco is uow séurcely u ticket into the upper gullory, the third tior, of nocinl life, Private fortunes mowst up Into millions—in two cases approximate a Jundrod milllous—and corpora- tions control revennes which, o few years ago, would havo sufliced for u first-class “kingdom. This ot itselt would present a gront but msidi- oun dquur ta the Republic, for avery student of aistory knows that govornmont is but the out- ward form of what socloty iu tho iuward epirit, o prosorve ropublio, thare must bo a gonoral touso of manly indepoudonco, of equality of right, and froadom of personal thought and action. Groat accumulations of richos tend to dentroy this by ereating upon tho one hand the feeling of dominance, tho nrrol.[nucu of power, aud upion the othor & senko of dopondence—the wuyility of waut: aud thera s stll suother would it wore smaller [—hybrida in man nature, who ard sycophants from tho choice of tholr own slnvish ‘and eubnorviont souls. [Immonso spplauso.) THE OPEN DANGER, To thia insidious diseaso, which timo might de- -mlo}) or curo, thoro is ndded an opon dangor, o bl aioniut, niippod ow of il dlugulso. o Rroat aggrogations of capital to control tho Cov- ornment In thelr own fnterost for purnusos that aro solllsh and cm-mFt. The forms of tho Re- ublic aro to Lo rotainod, but itespirit dostroyad. Like Augustus Cosar, thoy profor the powar to tho titlo of King, and nro willing we should toy with the semblanco while tha substance is thoirs, Thin ia tho dangor forosean with proplietio [owr by Jnckson. . What s thon n possibility, alnulw n fact ; what was thon & pigmy, is now o glant, Y FXPENENOE OF MISTORY. If thero woro no a priori ronsons to tonch that the tendency to coiicentrato power was a natural outgrowth of the war, tho oxporienco of history would domonstrato the fact. . In the timos and countries whero military powor is tho highoest controlling forco, tho grnvitation is toward suo- cosaful leaders and chioftaing, and the military clags; whoro money i tho-most active principlo itls toward aggrogatod oapital—or, rather, to eponk with oxactncss, toward thoso men who from dlsposition and opport dosire and are ablo to make tho oporations o yvernmont trib- tary to thom, so that thoy shiall liave the control of all Dropaity, whethor thoy claim the right of ownorship or not. - OPLORTONITY OFFERED Y TATLROADS. Tho manngemont of the railroad systom of the Unitod Btates the firunt method of intercommut- nication affccting nll proporty and overy value, affords an opportunity for thik of whick history furnishes no parailel, Do not undorstand mo to’ say now that the owners or manngers of railronds are differout from othor mon, or that they have mot togother in a conepiracy to do a particular thing, and aro methodically procecding uponas fixed plan. Great soclal_or political chnnges nra seldom or novor wrought in that way. Forownmed is foroarmed. Even the great Napoleon confessed that his lifo was not governed by a fixed iden, but that oc- casion furnished opportunity until he believed that bis ateps wero controlled by fate, and that his footprints marked tho path of desting. ‘Whorever the opportunity of irrespongible powor is presonted, the man or men, or princi- ‘e, will not bo wanting. That is the ono gap n human affairs which is fillcd ns soon as opened. Wo may went horces and poots, statospion, orators and invontors, but in the raco of solf-sockors tho strongost always sur- vivo. CHANGES IN METIODS AND PRINOIPLES OF TRANA- PORTATION CAUSED BY RATLROADH, Tefore the introduction of railronds, all public highways by land and water wore freo to afl upon_tho samo conditions, Tho facilitios for trayol and_travsportation woro insuffioiont, tho mothods often crudo and imporfect, but the monns woro free. Bxchanges were difficult, but they wero not controlled. Wit the introduction of railroads all this has beon changed. The fa~ cilitics oud mothods have beon improved—ex- ohanges Lave beon mado easy, hut the freodom i gono, Tho means aro in the hands of & powor, and that claims to be, and seoms to be, indo- pendent of law and public opinion—a power which is-often ablo to mmko law in defisnice of public ‘opinio. It is 88 onsy as it is brutal to Bay, If you do not like *our” railroads, you cango back to ox-carts dnd pack-mulos. The old order of things has been doestroyed by the now. Tho railroad was built over our Iighways, through public domain, through pri- vato possoasions, by right of the highest prorog- ative of Govornmont—tho right to take private proporty for pubtio uso ; it was built for public use, for & juat, oquitable, and uccesrary public ugo ; and, with o full conscionsnoss that 1t was to dostroy tho old ordor of things, theso grants and concosslous wero mado to_it, and it was armed with theso prorogatives, It ib ag crsy as it is fnsulting to sy, It you do not like thoman- agemontof * our ' railronds, build othors your- solves. The ausweris: Tho men who use rail- roads are not ablo to build thom ; most of them ara poor, and those who are not liavp their monns in other pursuits ; besides, tho probabilities are, you did not build with your mouey the road you Ccontrol—the rond may have made you rich, yom richos did not mako tho rond. [Overwhelming applause.] 'APPROVED PLAN OF DUTLDING RAILROADS. For many yoars it has not bLoon tho American fashion forthoownors of rnilroads to put their own money into their construction. If it had baon it would have insured a more conservative and businessliko uso of that spociosof propoerty, Tho favorita plan has been to get grauts of land; and loans of credit from tho Genoral Government ; guarantoes of interest from the Btate Govern- ment ; subscriptions and donationsfrom coun- ties, cities, and individualg ; and upon the credit of thin isatio all the bonds that can’ bo put npon tlo market; make 8 closo estimate as tohow ‘mnch 1ess the road can bo built for than the sum of thoso nsots; form n ring; call it—say tho Credit Mobilier or Contrect und Finance Com- pany—for the Fusposs of constructing the rond, dividing tho bouds thab aro lofl; o\miui: tho lands, owning and operating the rond until the first mortgage becomos dup, and_graciously nl- Jowing the Govornment to pay prhmi‘ml and in- torost upon the loan of her credit, whilo evory tie fu tho road is the gravo of a small stock- holder,” Under this plan, the only men in tho community who are abeolutcly certain mot to contributo any monoy in the construotion of tho road aro those who own and control it when it is flnished. This mothod roquires a cortain kind of gonius, political influence, aud power of manipulation, and furnishos ono cloy to the roa- son why railronds ‘“iunterfore in politics." Tho personal profit_upon this enterprise is nota roit upon capital invested, but tho rosult of Drain-wark, —sdminiatrative talont, thoy call it, —in a particular diroction. When tho road is built, capital will seok it ; but until tho wholo principle of subsidies is abolished it will not seol to build it. It is_oaslor, moro delightful, and mora profitablo to build with other people’s ‘money than our own, Agsin, I do not wish to sny that railrond mon aro more seltish thau othoer men, but that oppor- tunitios aro olfored—-of wnich only tho strong can avail themsolvos—that might make Cioesrs of tho best, and that no men st moderato enongh to be trusted with arbitrary power, When Lord Olivoe was before n Committoo of the House of Commons on » chargo of having enrichied lita- solf by the plunder of Indla, according to Mac- aulay he justified his acts, **described in vivid T language the situation in whick his victory Lind Placed hilm—a groat Prince dopendont on lis pleasure ; an opulent city afreid of being given up to plundor ; wealthy baukers bidding agsinst oach othor for his smllos ; vaults piled with gold and jowels thrown opon_to-him alono—and ox- claimed, in conclusion, ‘By—, Mr, Chairman, ot this momont Istaud astonished at my own ‘moderation,’ " MAGHNIFICESOE OF THE PRIZE, To form some ides of tho maguiflconce of tha wholo prizo at stako, lot us supposo that tho wholo railrond system of ~the United States {8 under tho control of ouo company, nor Is this o violent presump- tion, \lon wo considor the colossal strides of the Now York Coutral aud the Ponnsylvania Cen- tral towards this result—tho latter now owning or oporating more than four thousand milos, makiug thousand-year lensos and guarantecing dividends for thirty gonerations, and roflect that tho owners of tho trunk lines control their feod- ors @ though they owned them, it will not seom improbable that the wholo syatem may pass uu- der one gonoral managemont. Imngine this ac- complished, and that tho principlo that the Inw cannot fix raten and compel uniformily is established,—ono compuny would then have a mouppoly of all inland transportation, A, B, O, aud D own the conl-mines which suppl{ tho City of Now York, 'Tho mincu of A are most valuablo and noarest to market. 1Io findu to his auton- ‘the valua of his property s destroyad, learns upon inquiry that, whilo o pays frol Xt according to the “published tariff, B, C, and D hinvo upocial rates, Ho complaists, and iy told that he can haul his conl on earts or pacl it on mules. Ho romonstrates, and is informed thot Lo can build hin own railrond, Finslly, a8 o cholce botwoen that and Imnln‘nllloy, Lo solls or gives B cnntrnlllui intorest in hismino to tho iractors of tho “Mammoth Rauitrond Company,” ‘I'ho samo Procoss gogs on mucceksively with B, C, and D, and reaclios the snmo result. ~ Thon the great ‘““ Authracite Company" is formed, composgd of the Dircotors of tho * Mammoth Tallrond Company ; & stook of coal In accumi- Iated In tho city ; winter has come; the Direc- tor of tho Mumnmoth looks in the mirror and snys to the imago lie seos thore: “ Anthracito, wo have got to advance your rates!” and the imago rofloets a nmilo and a bow ; coal advancon n tho sity, but thoro is no panie. “Tien some new rogulution is outublished at the mine, which Pm\'ukuu o #triko, The rumor goes ubrond, “No more coul.” Thon thero are panio and famiue prices in the sity—murder at tho mine— and tho poor shiver and froezo over tho whito ashos In _ their grates, that Anthracito may swell Mamnioth's profils, Bomo oud veutures to say this Is wrong,—this ia monopoly—and the “whole brood of parasitos that bask i the eoclal sunshino of Mammoth’y favor, and et tho crumbs that fall from his tablo, jolu in the cry, * Ho is n Communist! o domogogue | and don't belieye in the righta of property | We are comfortablo — Mammoth pives usfiald for our flattory. ‘After s tho hulugnl' Tho sentimont hns beon heard be- fore,—it was ou the lips of tho courtiors on the ovo of the I'reuch Rovolution,—and then & whis- ishment thnt his rivals ean undessell him, n‘l\;i p?r brought down the avalancho, [Loud n] Pplnuso, . Tho illustration I have inatancod m[il;t be mullipllod until overy conl-flold in the United Btates would bo under the absoluto control of transportation—and conl I8 the groat wourco of manufacturlng power, na it Is also tho comfort auc lifo of alinost oyory homo, You can scarcaly imnging o mngle Industry that would not bo afToctad, might no bo coutrotled, by a monopoly of tho tranuportation of conl, Doces the result I hayo eletchod sgaom an oxag- goration ? It s noither impracticablo nor un- precodented. Do you boliove, if you owned . n conl mina on tho lino of the Coutral Pacifie, and the Iinilroad Company ownaed another, that you could compolo with thom on fair torms In this city? Undor such clrcumstances, would nok thelr argumoenta to you about election time nave nn ologuout persuasivenoss of moro than mortal uttorauco ? ‘I'hon supposo the Mammoth turna ita attention to whent, 1t builds warchousos and olovators. Tho whoat passing through thoso can_havo “spocial rates,” and got mto cars with red atara or bluo atars, whilo tho rofractory farmor finds bisIn a ear without auy atar, and i€ novor reachea tho market in time,” If therehappen to ho an oloction about that time, sand a ticket comes around with a red star or a bluo atar on it, don't you think tho *‘star-back™ would commond it8olf to the farmer with a mog- notism which would requiro manhood to rosist? Then opposition warchouses snd olevators bo- come teuantioss ; othor buyers find their *“ ocen- [munn gone,” and overy pound of whent paya ts toll bofore it ¥utn to mill. This may soom an unnocossary addition of machinery, as tho rosd could put tho additional tariff on the wheat direct ; and so it would be in Cnlifornia, whoro tho Dircctors are ‘tho road. It becomos im- portant, howover, say in Illinols, when tho Divectors of tho rond "own tho warchouses and olovators, the blue stars and red stars, and a Iarger body of* stockholdors own tho road, and is one of the ingenious applinnces by which the “insido -ring " pradunlly posscss thom- selves of tho wholo stock. For it ofton hnfipunu that thoso who most loudly in- yoko tho {lrhnclplu of the pancity of proporty act ad though ’Chu‘ believed that sauctity was o quality which bolonged to their prapurt{, but not to that of othor peoplo—on tho princlple, I supposc, that to tho snintly all thinga aro sancti- fied, and that sinners who do not bolong to tho ring aro altogothor ungodly, whoso inhoritanco should ba taken awny and given to the snints, AN ILLUBTRATION TIIAT 1§ FICTITIOUS. ‘Then suppose an instance, which, of course, is Em‘nly fictitious, Buppose n Balt [llllnlu should o dicovored in Novada, from which salt could be laid down at the Comstock Mills cheaper’ thau from tho coast. But salt is vory choaj the geasldo; & “*special rato would place it in Virginia City at & prico that would “dofy competition.” Tho owner of tho anlt:rlnin could bo given his choico_betweon publishiod rates " and pack-mules, Do you think ofter he bad suceumbed tho price of salt would bo any lower, becauso another * middle-man " hiad beon squeczed out ? What could bo done with ono salt manufactory or doposit could bo dono with othiers, and we have ndded ealt to tho coal sud whoat which iave passed uudor tho control of & ‘monopoly of trausportation that is not nmona-~ bla to law. A man owns mino near the rond ; if ho can tronsport his oro or baso metul to the smolting works af rensonabio ratos, his mino is valuablo, He does not succeod in gotting rates which ho can afford to pay, He Lolds oo with the sick- nosa of deferred hopo at his hoart. Hia credit- o become c!nmnmnu—{mrlmpfl his childron aro clamorous for broad, 1f nt tho noxt clection . tho railrond has o ticket, do you think tho ownor of tho mine could refuse to vote it? And, if bo did, who would own tho mino aftor the Bhorif’s selo? Ob, but our railroads don't put up tickats, and don’t want mines for themselves or their frionds. Perhaps not. Their success- ors may. It is not merey—it is justico wo want. But why multiply instances ? ~Go througl tho wholo cataloguo of the necossarics, tho luxurics, tha suporfluitios of lifo, thoro is not an articls which would bo oxompt from this power of con- trol. Tho lovg list would includo ovorything which is worth coutrolling. In oue of the Par- liameuts of Blizaboth a member hed finished reading a list of articles upon which monopolics bad beon graunted, whon another started up snd askod, ‘I8 not brend there?” In the new list to bo propared for ue bread would bo thore—overy- thing would be thero nccossary to the comfort or sustenanco of life, except tho air of Hoaveu. But tho magnitudo of this roswlt still suggosts ite impracticnbility. Wby, four-ifths of the proparatory work lina boon silontly dons, appa~ rontly witbout design ! Take tho 70,000 in the United Statos—tho groat moss of this Y‘mpeny i owned or controlled as absolutely as though it waere owned by certainly less than ton companios, and the directory of thesp compnnics may not in- cludo a_bundrod men. 1f the presontrate of absorption continues, low long before it will roach ouo head ? It could bo accomplished now ina dny. Supposc the transportation compn- nios—tho whito stars, red stars, and bluo stars, who Lave coutracty to run their cnra over various ronds—should concludo to combine, and, making their capital stock ono or two or threo thousand million dollars, dotermine to ““placo it where it would do the most good,"” and further determino that it could not possibly do 50 piuch good avywhero else as in tho hands of the mon who ure railrond Directors, Then thesa men, a8 railroad Dircctors, Jonsc to thomaolves, as transportation Directors, the variousroads under thelr control, and tho thing is done. Dut suoh n contract, you usge, would be bad in morals and void in law. I dou't know whorein it differs in priuciplo from a contract made by the Diractors of o railcond company with thomsalves to con- struct a roud. But, you suggest, the stockhold- ora would not stand it. I do not know why they would net, if their dividends nre se-~ curod by the lonses. DBut tho people, you say, wonld not atand it. Thora would' be an’ uprising —s rovolution! Now you aro tho Communist— tho agitator. HWe¢ do not raposa ta invoke the Lloody power of revolu- Flon, but the majesty of a prouounced publio opinion under the benignant forms of law. Grant thet this danger of unification is, a8 muuy of ‘you thiul it, tho chimera of an_ovorheated brain; that the tondeney towardd concentration bas reached its limit, “What, aftor all, is the ractical differsnce? What Vanderbilt might do rr solaownar is doing in various sections by va- rious corporations, acting for a common purpose, with a common intorest and common_instinct, It is only thoe difforence between the King and thio satraps. 3 TIIE DANGER DEFINED, Lot mo stato again tho dangor as exselly 8- I can. ‘Thoro.is o natural tendovcy in ovory ocivilized wocioty towards tha coucen- tration of capital. That tendenecy has been groatly intensifiod iu_this country by the convulsions of our civil war. 'The property in tho honds of tho pooplo, tho men of moderats means, is etill o hundred-fold groater than the gront fortunon, but it is smployod for fon thou- eand difforent purposes. Concontrated capital recognizos by tho instinct of money-songo that the control of the railronds of the country will givoil the conirolof all tho proporly of tho country; that to necomplish this, political power, pohitical supremacy in nocessary, and this it 18 onabled to seok with such an_ inunenso prossiro upon tho righta and rontorin} intorosts of overy mun and ovory ooy, that thor it fmini- nout duugor that wo will bocome cnlaved in upirit, loko that sonseof manly indopendence which i3 the ossonce of frocdom, while wo aro onjoying tho forms of liberty, and barter tho bright hopes of the Republic for a Inctitious matorial growth, The power that threatons this danger has not yot reachied unity, but the work is us cortainly Bomg done by differont compa- nluy noting in tho samo intorest as though ithad ; while tho tendency toward concontration uuder ono houd to one iron hand is so manifest thab not to seo it is to be willfully blind. T'hat this stalement isnot oxaggorated or emotional I sppoul to the exrbrmnuo of overy business man in this community who takes part or feols un intorest lu publio uffaive, Got to- t,'nlhur committee for tho purposo of ‘considor- g i quostion of public importanco, tho mo- mant it tronchos ulnm railrosd gronnd how many. will fool that it iy dungerous ground, full of pit- falls for thoir personnl satety ?. Attompt un or- grnization to rosiatu railrosd domand, no mats tor how unscrupulous, Low many willtell you, “1 should like to Joiu you, but it would h\{\\m mo In my businees : tho railrond can tako away special rates or give thom to my neighbor ; they cau Iseue ordors’ all along the lino that none of thelr omployes ehall doml with mao ; thoy can ruin morchants who will not regurd thoir ordors, 1t may bo a question of ruiu, of baukruptoy, of bread to my famity 1" [A voice—!* That's go I Tho strigglo of his mauhood i earnest an rnlnlul. but the yoke {8 upon his neck, the iron n his woull Othiers will join you, uct with you in ull sincerity, perhaps,” There comos a timo when the tempting offer is held out, o how . roud of bildgo 18 to bo locatod whore 16 will fnure to s great pub- lic use und 1vl'ivnkn adyantago, improvemonts aro to bo made that will ndvance purticular proporty ; thon thoro uro vacaut places on tho committoeo, suddon converslons, und fugonlous compromises whoro ono party takes tho oyster and tho other the sholl, A ballot-box fu stuffed or roturns alterod to carry one subsidy; aunother domand follows, Mon will aay: ** 1 know it is wrong—Iit ls an out- roge; but my proporty is ull in tho city, 'Thoy could not affoct its ultimate value, but it is mort~ gaged; they can unsottle pricos by thoir threats, aud I'should hava tha Sharilt ab my door, 4 ylold: I hm not of tho atuft of whioh Ly aromade, If'a robbor Lad Lis pistol at myhoad; I should give him my purso.” ‘Whot Intarest is thoro horo which canuot bo mado to feol this Iron prossura? Dut, aaif it woro too tedions to capturo theuo sovoral Inter- opta In dotall, thoy go' to Congress nnd doemand: the posscesion of Gont Island, Resorved for military. purposcs, the: 'llcurcollr intond to chango its purpose; thoy only intend to bombard the clty, iustend of ‘its enomion, ‘whon it rofuses thoir domandal _[Tntonso oxcltoiont and long- continuod applauso. b God In honven! You. aro Lwo hundrod thou- sand—they aro thrdo! Have thoy got a hook in ll;u jn\:u of this levinthay, to draw it as thoy plonsa % ¢ 1 linvo known good mon who gave up tho fight, for rosiutanco soomed hopoless. I hiave known vthora (ofton the hard-handed sons of toil, some- timos in tho employment of tho rallroad), who, in nsplrit of manly indepondenco, proforrod to oat black brond which was thelr own rather than pound-cake from anothor's tablo ; and yot oth- ors who, from profossionnl and olorieal abilitios of a high orier, could have maintained a soolal position of tholr own, who, for tho daily dolo of a fixed salary, and for the gracious |‘u~lvllo 0 of using tho imporial “ our ” when thoy lookod at & locomotive, wore willing to run errauds, repont stole slanders, and mouth tho hatrods of thoir omployars, with s gratuitous, cringing, and ob- sequious moanncss that muat disgust the man- hood of thelr masters, {f they have any manhood loft, [Applauso.] : Theso {ofluences, though moro apparent in citios and commercial and” manufacturing com- munities, aro by no mosns confinod to them, Evon in the ocountry farmors will toll ou that thoir rates may bo changod, hoir dopots moved, their accommo- dations rostricted, or that = they owe ‘upon rallroad sections with unporfocted titlos ; and they, too, aro in the tofls,” To one com- muuity hopes are hold outs threats ara made to anothor. ‘Go through tho Btate. Upon every Pulso of industry thore is an iron finger coiut- ng it8 Leats ; upon every throat thore is an iron hand that tightons or rolaxes ita grasp at the in- torost or caprico of an iron will. MARES COMON CAUBE WITILOTHER SCHEMFA. Add to'this diraot powor that which it uatural- ly draws to it. It is o powor in hand which can Yo used for any purposo. Is there s project to monufiollzo tho wutors ot a groat valloy, 8o as to own tho lands ag offectually as by titla, tho rail- rond hns a new aid and ally, with promise of rociprocal advantago, It *‘ makos itsclf frionds of the Mammon of Unrighteousncss,” and all sohiomos gather around it 88 & convenient centro, It will defont them if Lhu{sdo not aid it, and the bargain is made, It has its own lobby and nowa- papors. It onjoys a voto power superlor to'thatb of tho Exeontive, oxercising its prerogative upon bills before ihoy pasg, Porhaps wo ought to thauk it for its moderation! Now wo bo- gin_to undorstand not only the motivea for socking political powor, but the means and np- plisncos by which it is sought. Now wo ‘can comprebond how a contral ofice in San Fran- cisco, with wires laid to' ovory county, sonda ita political rescripts to overy convontion.of ave patty. Wo aro to ba allowed to voto, but not al- ways to count tho yotes, if & superserviconblo Board of Buporvisora’ will appoint Election TBonrds to ordor, Bometimes wo are sllowod to vote for good men—mon whom we could our- sulves chooso—but who will bo, if elected, in & minority 8o hopoless and -bo sa enmoshed In the wob of circumstances that they cannot stir hand or foot. Wa aro to bo allowed to go through all tho forma; tho Declaration of Indepsndenco and Troclamatlon of Emancipation will atill bs read on the Fourth of July, and tho * flag of tho free hioart'a hope and homa " ba earried in praces- sion; the eagle will ‘“‘moult no foather” on the coin of tho reslm, and the * Battle-cry of Froe- dom " will bo musical a8 over,* E 80 falr, 8o calm, 80 softly soalad, The frat, last look by death revoaled Such In tho aspect of this shore{ *1la Grocee—but living Groeco 1o morel T havo reforred but incidontally to that twin birth of incostuous shamo, the Credit Mobilier, aud the Contract nnd Financo Company. 1 have said nothing of tho 924,000,000 of. noros of pub- lic Innde—throo times tho area of Groat Britain —givon to railrond companies, and at the lIast sonsion of Cougross bills wera introducod giving 181,000,000 more—nor to the millions—buudreds of millione-—of which the Bouthern Btatcs have been robbod, and under the false proetenso that tho railronds were to be bullt by the paper com- povies. 1 bayo made 1o roforence o tho $30,- 190,000 this State and its counties have beon aslced for railrond companion through legislative action and popular votes, nor to the fact that whilo tho Gouoral Goverument is paying $2,000,~ 000 por annum on tho bonds of the Contral Pa- cific, and the Stato 105,000, the Company can succensfully dofy tho Stato fo collect its taxos, and Wil an offrontory that is sublimo mukes the gifis and Jrgess it haa recoived ono of tho grounda of its rofusal to pay; nor the fact that to-dny thorois not a pioco or spocies of publio proporty, from Chinn Basiuand Goat Island to all tho brond aeros of our national domain, from the remotost spring in the mountains to the roll- ing wators of tho rivors of the plamns, npon witich some _inciplont or full-grown monopoly Tas not fixed its covetous oye, and does not hope to obtain, thiough some kind of political cmmaalion or bargain and salo, And if X montion them now, it is to say that T regard them only au symptoms of a disoaso, the surfaco sores of a corruption that is inward, which throatous to destroy all freedom by de- stroying that mauly independonce which s ity only sure foundation, and making dominaut the principle that government 18 & thing for poraon- ol aggrandizement, to_got rich ont of, and_not ordmned to givo oqual protoction toall, [In- thusiasm and chisers.) For tho oxpression upon . other occasions of sontimonts like theso, I have been frealy called au Agitator, n_domagogue, au alarmist, and o Commumst. As communism scoms to bo tho *‘raw head and bloody bones” of this goner- ation, and i mado tho synonym of overythin ;I.m 11 bad, I dosiro to say just how much of it v0., Iboliove that tho man who owns $1 holds it by a right as sscrod as tho man who holds 1,000,000 ; and that tho man who doos own $1,000,000 doca not aequire by thut owneralip any groater Tight to tako tho dollar, thau the owner of the dollar has to_take tho million, I do not subkeribo to that doctrine of political othics, “Uo him that hath shall bo given, and from him that hath not it shall be taken away evon that which ho hath.” Ido not concur in tho now Soriptural reading, **Sell all that thou hast and give it to a railroad company.” [Laugh- tor and applauso.] ‘The man who has eayned his dollar by tho horest sweat of his brow, or his brain ; thoe man who has received byinheritance, or who has acoumulated by industry, cuerfi{ thrift, frugality, forosight, or good luck, I would proteet iu his fortune, small or great, by every saunction and munimont of law. ~ Housed in his posrossions—cabin or castlo—ho should be pro- tected from tho fouch of the Government and tho fury of the mob. Bu if ho had despoiled tho nation's inheritance, in his groed of gain and posser; if ho had Lought legiglators, Judgos, and oxcentivos ; if ho had organized corruption into a systam, made bribery a trado, until ho had dobauched the moral sonua of tho people by the grandeur of his obbery, and al titles becanto in- scoura in his rl\xpln{g Dresonco—I should say—I should say—I think I should say—that he had enough, and that tho fact that he had taken so mueh did not give Lim in renson, and should not in Ipw, o vested, absoluto, aud indofensible right to tako all thoro §s left. And, whethor it be a man or & corporation, or o pystom of corpora- tions, bound togethor by the common hopes of public plunder, I do not think I should modify tho soutimont. T'o this dogroeo has my commuu- sm come ; is your's u shade lous or mora ? 18 CORRUI'TION INDISPENSALLE ? Thoro are those who beliove that a certain amount of politioal corruption is necessary for tho maintonance of any Goyornment. I confosy 1 rospoct thoso who avow the sentiment more than I do those who act upon it without avowing it. Thoro ara those who boliove that tho systom | now in voguo is the only ouo undor whicli rail- roads can bo built. I do not think so. I do not bolivvo that 40,000,000 of American peo- Elo, with $80,000,000,000 of property, must urtor their birthright to " wecuro " trans- portation, I do wuot think rallrouds need bo political machinos any more than grist- milly, tin-utiops, and farm, In thirly yoars tho ovulation of tho United States will approximate 00,000,000 souls 5 18 proporty valuos, 810,000, 000,000, Do you Lhisk thio wiat 1s going to rot in tho fleld, the fruit on tho troes, tho vossel at the dock, and that ull commercial lifo Is to stag~ nato, it tho administratlon of the (]uvcmmuut?u not given up to railroad companies and their allics ? I do not beliovo the future of Califor- nls, with alt Its illimitablo possibilitios, should bo mortiagod now to sny sk of porsous with power to appoint guardians and roceivers for all gonerations to come, 'Ta this complexion it will come, wuless we burst the bands whorowith we aro bound, boforo our lovks aro ghorn. [Ap- planse.] YOIt TUE WHOLE QUESTION NO ADEQUATE BOLUTIO! HAS BREN FOUND, ‘ Tor tho whole of this gront question, no ade- quate solution has yet boen proposed, 1T'ho evil hag struok its roots dooply, and thoir ramitica- tlons aro wido ; to erndiosto it ie a work of cour- ago and wisdow, of patienco and time, But the ;vurk must bavo a beghuning § tho time to begiu 4 now, BIIALL THE GOVERNMENT TAKE THE ROADS ? One solution proposod s, that the Govern- mont tako possosalon of oll tho roads. 'I'hat this would iuvolye & concentration of wawer in the *| recoiva & civil-sérvico rotorm of & naturo of ‘which sa yol e linva had no_ oxperlones, none will' dony. hiag lnlolf boon urgod in nowspapors of wida oir- _oulation In this Btato that wo must voto for log~ ‘(!lntlvn candidatos who would go futo caucus fi\ ordar to get appropriations for our Blate. The logical conoluslan of this argumont—if wo have anv—is, that wo must voto &' partionlar ticket, designatod in a particular way and to o woll: Jmown oflleo, or our forts may bo divmantled aid otir mails’ bo stopped. ' Cliatles the First; in hin boldent momouts, wauld not havo dared_to nso such words to the Commons of Grent Dritain, and i Louis X1V., when ho safd, “T am.tho Bthto,” had notod upon such a policy, ‘ho would havo loat Lis head. 'L do not baliove any Admin- istratlon over olectod by the Amoriean poople evor dasorved sitch o roprosch—if go, wo aro al- roady laves, But tho vory use of such an argu- mont by an intolligont’ man, in a public nows- paper, must ** give us pause " upon the quostion of oouferring additlopal power until wo have ad- ditional guarantoos, We havo at least reached tho point, howaver, where wo can #ay: - WHEN THE GOVEANMENT DOES DUILD THE ROADS 1T BHOULD OWN THEMN AND OPERATE TUEM ¥OL THE PUDLIO 000D, snd whors tho Government haa loanod its crodit and givon its lands to build a road and heen do- frauded of its soouritios, it haa tho right and should exorcise the power to tako posscasion of tho rond. [Enrnost.applauso,] If no man hiss yot been ablo to dovise a solu- tion for tho whole quostion, evory man knows tho first stop which must bo_taken bofore any solution can be reachod. The political power and dictation of these. corporations, whethor thoy comprise thveo men or 8,000, must ho brokon. ‘That tyranny which' is so potont whon exereisod upon {ndividuals and interests in do- {ail mut bo destroyod by & gonoral uprising of all individuals and intorosts, horaldod Ly & ‘new declaration of independonco, o The American poo;lz,ln aro & just peoplo, a law- abiding people, s debt-paying. peoplo; and it is not necossary for any dorporation to own the Governmont in order to fmtont ita righta—that only bocomes necessary in order to perpetuate wrongs, ‘The timo has come when tho people should assert their righta through forms of aw to oxorciso that control ovor railropda which will sooure unifarmity, falrnees, and. accountability. ‘The insue ie fairly made up betwoen the peoplo on the ono gido, and railroads and allied corpora- tionn on tho other, Which shall govern ? I baye done.. Standing in this prosenco—Ilov- ing ordor ag I lovo lifo, aworn to maintain it and roady to redoom the onth with my lite—conscions of my reaponsibilitics, and weighing my words— looking tho futuro carnostly In the’ faco, I wol- omuly holiove that the choico of the Amorican oople §s between reform mow and revolution oreaftor | Gondral-Govorarhort, and mukt ho ‘proaddod by- It — THE HOSPITAL OF THE ALEXIAN BROTHERS. To the Ediloy of The Chicago Tribune: . Bm: Tho undersigued, n missionary of thoe ‘Holy Boripturs, has had, i his travels ovor the world, manifold occnsions to visit Louses of benevolenco and oharity; and ofton hio hss had to pay for andmittance, as & woary ‘and tired sufforor, in such institutions, But wherover, in.| the Old or Now World; the profess-houses and hospitsls of the Alexian Brothers maybo found, thore aro tho truo Christian;love of the faithtul .Bamaritan, soothing care, the best of modical attondance, and solf-sacrificiug atton- tion, to bo found. 86 sro’ tho profess-house and hospital of the Order of tho Aloxiau Brathers in this oity a rofugoe for the unfortunste suf-. feror, whore he not only will find open srmsg to him but wheré he will bo couchod comfortably, and whoro everything will bo ' dowe for kis aid and ‘help; and all of thia is dono to evorybody, without dis- tinction of roligion‘or nstionality; and, for all this aid, for ull this charity, the “Brothorhood do not receivo any compensation, neithor doos any Brother receive any salary. ‘Their noblo aim is Bolf-sacrifico, Bamaritan love, dovotion to the henling of thie sufforor, and to the glory of God. Dofore tho fire, tho Brothora Alexian, under the nble suporintondenco of Brother Paulus, had Just finished thewr hospital on the pume sito (North Franklin stroet) whero the noblo struct- uro at prosent stands, whon the fire-fiend robbod tho bravo Brothers of their housn of refugo. Brother Paulus, being abaont on business from home, was summoned by tolograph to appenr and_witnoss tho total destruction; and, on ar- rival, hio #poko: *God, Thou, Almighty, hadat ilvou it; God, Thou, Almighty, has taken it} ot us Ernlau QGod now to otornity! Amen! " AWl who witnessod the grent trial of God,.tho Chicago fire, had oceaion to witnoss, also, tho porploxitics of pooplo, thio Lasto f overybody to savo himsolf, his dearest, and Lis property. Conveyances_wera raraly to be bad; and, whon thoy were ot heud, such estravagant pricos were askod that only the rich wore euabled to gn thom. Tho poor Brothors Alexian first loa es thomselvos with the helploas pationts thon in their care, cArrflmz thom on their shoulders and backs from pluce to place whero temporary’ safoty was predicted,—loading them three and four times on their shoulders, to save the lives of tho hlpless, who would, in other case, boen i;lvuu up bfl tho anvious snd frightened popu- nco of tho city, and who would have suf- fered tho ~torriblo desth of suffocation and rossting, ‘Thosa patiouts who wore able to walk wero led out of the burning ruing, and conducted to securo quartors; and, not until all their eick and helpless ones woro sheltored, did the Brothers look for their own interoats. Nothing but & pile of ashes ro- mained to laok on, & But in the name of God and their beloved patrou and founder, the Brothers went to work and removed the ciuders of one ond of the ruins; and, by the glowing of the cindors noar by, an undor the smoke of the ruins, the brava men built up a tomporary house of sholter,—a sub- stitute for tho noble atructure which they have muco conatructed. Brother Paulus, untired, and full of the nable cnergios and benovolonco and churity, and aided by the. DBrothors of the. profossion, soon had plauned and propared for » now hospital. That moble institution, tho Chicago Aid and Relief Booiety, helped thom with a conditional gift of $18,000, which the Brothera thankfully received, under the bonded. condition to furnish for every thousand dollarg one bod, bedding, and.equipments, on w] thoy would couch, nuree, and hosal, lmmpuutiva of nationality or creod, 'one sick, helpless, and wounded or injured mnlo patiout,—in all, eight- eon,—{roo of cliargo to tho sufferer and to the donor (tho Aid aud Relief Socioty of Chicago). The building contaiug brsomoent and three storios, sud 18 adapted for tho comfort of 160 pationts. But, since the fuunds are oxbausted, and the Drothera aca not able to yield to the prossing applications of new- comors, who Prcfnr this institution boforo some othors, aud eince tha fluished two atories are oc- oupied to their usual capacity, the Brothora have to onll on the public Lonovolence for further mid, tobe euablod to finish and furpish the ontira Louse for the racajptiou and medieal caro of 160 pationts more. Tho undersignod would most prossingly appesl to tho Samuritan citizous of Chicago to couvinco themsolves of the good work Sm\u in tlug hospital by the Aloxian Broth« ora, Twelvo thousand dollavs' is necossary to tinish the remaining two stories, Thore are other gimilar iustitutions iu this oity, which did not suffer any from the grout five, but siill thoy roveived largor sums of aid from the Chicago Roliof and Aid Society.- 'T'he Broth- ors aro confident that they willbo ublo to roturn tho sum in reagonablo timoe, aud that thoy can follow their noblo coursa'of charity in necords suce with tho full word and sonso of tho Holy Soripture, and with tho laws of their patron and" founder, ‘Plio inatitution would bo an ornament to the charitable City of Ghicago, s8 woll as the building itgelf, which is ornamontal i its oxto- Tior, au -unqlnblo in {ts srraugemont, Your humble sorvant, who has devoted his life io the sorvice of the grent Divine Providenco, and to tho good nim of iniksionarv-work, woul Do obliged to & groat extont If you, Mr, Editor, would take this mattor in your hands and bring it boforo tha publio. The Good Sumaritan of the Holy Scripture i ropresonted by tho Brother Aloxian; do mot dr[’va Lim from your door. The undorsignod's humble opinion is this; That the Ohicago Aid and lm(u} Hocloty could not apply the surpius of its funds to.a botfor and more blessed canso than . to the caro of the sick and unfortunate. The undersigned would furthor stato that tho maintenauce of tho hospitul roquiros at lonat $8,000 por annum; and, wiless the Tirothora oo find aid, it wil bo very hard for them to sustain the enormoua exponso, and, Dosidos, acquire the nocesesry capital for the complofion of tholr building.” But, when tho lattor is accomplished, and tho houee filled to ity cnpwu{. the noble work of the Alexian Lroth- or8 will soon bo able to bosr all the necossary oxponde of piaintonance, Iknspnctlull! yours, 10400, Aug. 19, 1878, P L., P, 8,—Tho heatiny apparatus, placed in the houpital by Maesrs, Craus Bros,, slone roquives about §1,000 per annum, indepondont of the 8,000 mentiouod abovo. BUER Ak SR —Tho Mound City (TIL.) Journal adonts & radi- cal lisnge in regard to exchanges. The Journal lias boon discontinucd a8 an exchango to all pa- pory lasuing *putont inaldos " or * outsides," NORTH SIDE ROLLING-MILLS. History of the Strike at That Es- tablishment. Btatement in Behalf of the Hoaters,' T the Rditor of The Chieayo Tribune: Bin: I find In many of the daily papers atate- monts in rogard to the difloulty now oxiating at the North Bido Rolling-Mills, professing to give & truo hiatory of tho affalr; but which mtato- mants aro, in reality, but onc-sided roports, It you will periit mo tb ocoupy s small ispace In your columus, I will give you and your read- ora & truo statoment of tho facts in tho cano, and thien loave a dincriminating public to decide who I8 acting right, Provious to Juno 19, wo hiad conjointly estab- lisbied, and wers working on, A GRADUATED SCALE OF PRICES, viz,: If iron sold at $86 to 288 por ton, we re- colved for honting tho same 85 conts por ton, 1t 1t oxcoedad @88 por ton, wo wero to bo paid 90 conta for the same.. It was nlao agreod that. tho prico of 1ron at tho Company's mill should be tho standard wa wore to be govorned by ; and it was furthor agroed that, if tho price of iron was lowerod, tho price of heating was also to be ra- duced to 80 conts por ton, Theso conditions “woro fully understocd and accepted both by om- .ployers and omployos; and, with ths under- standing, wo cheorfully signed, and fafthfully tulfilled, our monthly contracte. It was dls- ‘tinctly undorstood that noithor party - could change tho nature of the agreemont without glving -thirty. days' notice of tho sams to the otlior party. : Under thoso articles, we worked -amicably un- ¢l lnat Juno, whon the Compauy accopted & con~ tract at $82 por ton, in consoquonce of which the price of henting was roduced 6 conts, or was brought down to 80 cents per ton,—our lowest price according to agrecment, To this the mon did not demur, but kept faith with their articles of agroement. - < v On tho 19th of June, liowover, the Leaters ro- colved & notification that, after thirty days, : the agroomont upon which thoy had beon working | . WOULD CEASE TO BXIST ; and they woro given to undorstand that their wagos would be further roduced b conts ; that ia to uay, thoy would only receive 75 conts per ton, —~ roduction of 10 cents por tonon their formor rn&n:, sod amouuting to $1 por day, or $6 por woek. In liow'of the scale which had been adopted hfi tho employors and the employes, it was proposo to mubstititto the card-rates of bar-iron ; “which would further reduce tho wages of tho mon. At the samo time, the mon were given diatinotly to uuderatsnd that whatevor wonld be adopted horo the sBama would bo lpgliml to all othermills t\xrouglllm\lb the Wost, ns all milla West wero gov- arned by Chicago prices. + Thia proposition was REIECTED BY TIE HPATERS, for the following ressons : Firal—Bacanso bat-iron Is an articlo they are not roally intorested in ; noither do they manu~ facture it. : : Second—Bocanso thoy believa that all prsons working in any one industrial dopartment aro entitled to a voico in fixing the pricos they aro 16 rocelve and pay for labor porformed or roc coived, During the thirty daye' graco that intervoned, tho mon endeaverad by all means in their powor to_vompromine the wstier,—knowing, as thoy did, tho injurious offects of strikes, both on om- ployor aud omploye ; but ail their ndvances WERE PERSISTENTLY REPUBED,— the employors insisting on the further reduction of ? conts, and tho adoption of the bar-iron scalo. 5 The mon, desirous of avolding a strike, and not wishing to placo any obstruction in tho way of tho employors fulfilling thoir ordors, eccopted tho 75 conta for thirty days, with the. undor- standing that a liko reduction would be made in all othor milla, and also that . R A CONFERENOZ of the men and employors of the West should bo ealled to meot iu Chicago at an early day, at ‘which conforenco the question of wages should bo settied. Lo thia proposition the employers acceded, and the conference was called to meet ‘at the offico of tho North Chicsgo Company's Rolliug-Mills, on Friday, the 9th inat, Iu tho moantimo, the Lertors in the nmfllov of tho North Chicago Rolling-Mills learnod that tho samo Compony Wero paying 85 conts o on o the mon .in their employ at their miils in Mil. waukeo ; and that ~other mills West woro not roduced, nor even notified, in accordance with their’agrooment., Honce the mon 1 tho omploy of tho Norih Chicago Company's Mills, on tho North Side, called's moating and sppointed & commiiteo to wait on tho Buperiutendont of the Company's works, and inform bim that, a8 tho other mills Wost had not boen reduced, and a8 even a.portion of the mills bolouging to_tho. Company were raceiving 86 conta per tou, they WOULD NOT BE BOUND by thoir agreoment any longor than the meoting of the conforence ; or otherwise raquested to bo Poid 80 conts por ‘ton for that month, and bo ovornod by tho docision of tho conferonco, 'he Buporintendeut could not give auy decided answer, but promisad to do all in Lis power, TILE CONFERENCE MET b at the time and placo dosignated in the call.” Both parties wero ropresonted Dby dolegatos, The mon stated thoir gricvancos. Aftor cousiderablo discussion on both sides, the represontstives of the mon offerad to compro- miso ou tho basis of 78 conts per ton, and thae employers offorad .77 cents por ton, Finding they could not settle their grievanco, a Commit- tee'of Conferenco was np{,mintal.\, before whom tho whole mattor sbould bo-discussed, and the conforouce at largo bo governed by its decision. Bofore this committoe there was much dis- ousslon ; and, the conforonco FAILING TO ARRIVE AT ANY CONCLUSION, the Iron-masters withdrew their offer of 77 conts, and said thoy would pay 75 cents or noth- ing; aud, with this understanding, tho confer- ence sdjournod, without coming to any amicablo eottloment, Tha ‘men, focling aggrieved that the con- foreuce faillod to como tfo.any decision again appointed o committsa to wail on_tho Huperintendent of ths North Chicago Rolling Mills, to ascertain from him what they Wwero working for, or what they wera going to pny. ‘Tt oflicial'informod thom thot 75 cents was ALL THEY WERE G0ING TO TAY. The committee thon informed tho Superintend- ont that, a8 no othor mills had been reduced, and as the mon in their own mills at other places wero not roduced, they, in accordanco with their notification given two weoks provious- 1y, would not continue to work for 75 conts after tho moeting of the conferonce. The committeo wore subsequently informed that, if thoy sow proper to"quit work soonor than accept” tho offer of tho Compuny, they could do go. 'Phe man contluued ta” work out, the blast, and ou Tuesday morning U TIEY QUIT, T have hero given you n_simplo statement of tho facts in tho caso, I will not.attempt & do- fonuo of our position st the prosent timo, as I fear I havo now ocoupiad taa much of your valu- able space, But, boforo closing, pormit mo to #ay to thoso journals and persons who claim that tho leators have broken faith with tho Company, that such statements aro_erronoous ; and that, the Company having first broken failh with us, wo WERE NOT BOUXND {0 keep faith with then, Wa claim that we have adopted all honorable mesus to avoid & atrike; offered every com- promiso consistont with bouor snd honostys and, if we havo rosorted to a strike, it ia becauso it i our dernlor rossort, und done forsolf-protac- tion, ‘he respansibility of tho prosout strike resta with the employors, Yours truly, Ouroago, Aug. 19, 1878, A, Hzaten, —_— RAILROAD ITEMS. The regular somi-annual meeting of tho Rall- road Ticket Agents’ Association will bo bold at the Graud Pacific Hotol, in thiu eity, Friday, Bopt. 19, 1873, The Chicago, Rock Island & Paclfio Railroad has just completed & brauch from its main traock {nto t110 yard of tho Joljot Ponitontlary, through ‘the west gate, Tho Chicago, Alton & Bt, Louls Railroad u plso building & traok into the Poni- tontiary yard throuh thio east gute, ‘The Pitisburgh, Fort Wayne & Chlcago Rail- rond has purchasod ® large tract of land just enst of Fort Wayne, Ind, Anew round-houso and starehouso are fo be put u&u and & largo sddition nado to the present yards, which uro ontiroly 100 small for rlm businoss now done. Burveys sro being mado for tho now Grand Junotion Rallroad, which s to oxtend rom Quinoy, I1l,, esstward to Maaou Oity, Ind, The rord will connect at Birdstown, with the Peoris, Pokin & Jnckaonvillo Road, aud st Mason Olty with the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Wostorn 1.\'1“1 tho Jackeonville Division of tho Ohicago & tou, . —_——— EVANSTON. . Genernl Busincss Moeting of tho Vils Inge Trustces, Tho Trustees of this villago nenombled in the Conneil Chawbor last Tuowday night, Thora woro in attondanco Mossrs. L. J. Qago, I, Gt Powors, Wilaon Phelps, Hugh A, Whito, the At« torney of the Board, nnd Obarles K. Banniator, Villego Oleris: 7 A potition was prosontod and, rond praying that & sidowalk bo lald on tho east sido of Jud- 8on avonuo, from Davia streat to tho alloy in tho contro of Blook 21, Grantod, aid sidowalk ore dorod, A potition, signod by sixty citizons of tho vils Iage, praying that some efliclont system of sew- erage be adopted and put {nto uss a8 quickly an poseible, was prosontod, road, and reforred to tho Committoo on Bowerago and Drainage. The Commitice who woro fnstructed at the 1sat meoting to roport immediately the gpecifia location of tho Water-Works ongino-house, re+ portod that the building would bo located on tha northonst cornor of Davia stroet and Michigan avenue, Tho Btroot Commissloner- reported tho named of many citizens, snd prominont ouea atb that, who had neglocted, aud in & fow cases flatly ro< tusod, to construct sldewalks opposite thoit E“’W““Y 28 ordored in tho ordinancos passed by Lo Board, Tho subjoct- was referred to tha Committeo on Stroota and Sldowalks, The Btroot Commissionor waa inatrncted ta mako out & list of tho number of tesms and mon employed, and the amount of work dono ecach woek, suipmum tho samo woekly for the cone eidoration'and approval of tho Board, The following rosolution woy ‘unanimously lopted Retolved, That tho Committoe on Water-Works ba And ara licraby inatructed to adopt o plan snd make ¢ contract for tho immediato construction of a crib in Lsko Michigan, at & Joint sbout 600 fect from th shore, on & line easterly from Ghurch or Davia atroata, or betwoon naid stroete, The Attornoy of tho Board ‘presented ordis nences nd follows : On rules snd rogulations of the Board of Trustoos ; cleotions misdemennora; rovention of firos; wator aud gas pipos; censes ; nufsances ; gunpowder and combustis blo materials ; corporata seal; conl and hay ; and animali running at larga, Passed. . ‘Tha Ismp-lighter roported pix lsmps as misa~ ing, attor which tho Board adjourned, - MISOELLANEOUS ITEMS, Tho Presbyterian Sunday-school will ga * pie« nicing” to Highland Park to-day. Fare for the round trip, 60 centa, Goorgo H. Iott's complimontary concort takes laco this nvon(nfi in tho Cougrogational Church. 'his concort will, without doubt, be ono of the finost ovor given in this vitlago. . Tho namos of tho porformers -wero printed in Monday's Trine x. Buch to the surpriso and discontont of thoir constituents, the South Evanston Trustees failed to socure & quorum on Tucsday night, aud, aftor ruminating on tho uncortaiuty of butan affairs, wont homo, rapt in tho gloomy solitude of their own thoughta, - AGRICULTURAL EXCURSIONISTS, Arrival in Chicago of & Large Party of Enstern and Western Agricultural Editors and Correspondonts, A party of agrioultural editors and correspond~ onts, moatly from Now York and Massachusotts, under tho guidance of Honry -T. Willinms, of Now York City, nrrived atibe Grand Pacifia Hotel yeatordsy from Omaha, The party waa gotten up by Mr. Williams for the purpose of recrontion and taking a trip to tho Rocky Moun« talng, Yostordsy morning was spont in mecing tho city, visitivg friends, otc. After dinner the whole party, of the invitation of Cok Jamos H, Bowon, visited Calumot to sco for thomsolvos the famod boautics and attractions off that most delightful euburb, The party express themselves aa vory much pleased with the entira trip, whioh, by tho time thoy roach home, will havo included about 9,000 miles of intolligons travoling throngh some of tho finest scone: and most interosting portions of our couuntry. Of courso the great farming lands of the Wosf have rocelved moro than the ordinary tourist's considoration, and, when the quill and 8henrs ara again taken up, wo may oxpect to find out what thoy know about the Weat. Thoy loft last avens ing'on routo for home. Tho following porsond comprise the party: Henry T. Willinms, agTi~ cultural oditor Now York Independent, and editox of tho . Lorticulturist; S.R. Wolls and wifo, editor of Phrenological Journal and Science o) Health ; Andrew B, Fuller nnd wifo, nssociato edia tor Rural New Yorker, agrioultural editor Now York Sun ; Thomas Meehan, agricultural odito; I’hilnduxliz[lil Press, editor Gardner's Monthly 5 Josiah Hoopos, correspondont of tho Journal o the Farm, Prosidont l’BnnBfil\'null Fruit-Grow= ing Asgocintion; David H. Strothor (Porta Crayon), arlist and correspondent of Harper's Weekly ; R. P. Eaton, oditor of tho New Fngy land Farmer ; W, Olift, corrospondont of tii Country Gentleman ; G. O. Woodson, oditor of tho American _Agriculturalist and Hearth an Home ; X, A, Willard, dairy editor of tho Rural New Yorker, and Prosidont of tho Now Yord Dairymen’s Assoointion ; B. K. Dlisa, roprofonts ative of Rural Club, Now York; N. J, Colman, oditor Rural Word, St. Louis; M. L. Dund Jap and wifo, agricultural editor Cuicaaa Trmoye, and Presidont of the Illinoif Stato Morticultural Bocioty; Clarko W. Bryan, oditor Bpringfiold Daily "Union ; - Borton™ DI Evans, coditor Villaga Record, West Chestor, Pa.; Wm. P, Thompeon and wife, roprosentas tive Dapartmont of Agricutiure, Washington, D. .; B. A. Ellis, corrospondon American Rural Tiome ; 'I' B, Gold and wife, Secrotary of tha Conuccticut Btate Board of Agriculturo, COITOy avoudent of New England Homestead; Rov. J.) W. Tuck, corrospondont Daily Bulletin, Norwich, Conn. ; correspondent. IWeekly Courier ; Bamucl Bowles, Jr., —editor Springfleld Republican, Bpriugtield, Masa.; Prof, A, H; Mixon, corre~ spondent Daily Democrat, Roohestor, N, Y.z Miss Mary L, Clancy, correspondent Troy (N. Y.) Times; Bisa M. W. Warren, Gazelte, Norih~ l}‘;'mi.‘;u' Masg, ; Arthur Dundly; artist, ilarpcr'g eckly. S e ‘The Farmiors and Agricnlturale-lme plemoenteManufacturcrs. Tho farmors of Humboldt Towuship, in Colea County, have been haviug a little tilt with a Ded catur agricultural-imploment manufactory, if wa are allowed to judge from tho following procesd~ lufia of a meoting Leld in that township on tha 7th fust.: * WuEnEs, At & previous meoting of this Olub, one of th members was uuthorized to go to Ducatur, 1ll., for tho purposa of buying & nuwmber of wheat-drilid for the membory of this Olub; sald drills are manit« factured at Decatur, I, sud kuown ae the Iliuois Press Drill; and Wakneas, The agent for this Olub did go to Decatur for thie purpose of buying drills, to pay cash on doliv« ory s but the manufacturors rofused to sell him theix un&h, reforring him to their ugents in this county an ‘WnEREAS, 8aid drills are furnished to the manuface turars agonta 10 thih county at $33,60 cant, und thelr sgenta aak farmora to pay them $140,—thus the agents pocketing $40 of the furmier's moanoy ; thorofore, Resulved, 'That, a8 the munufacturors of tho Illinole Pross Drilla profer to all to their agents in preforouce to farmers, thorofors wo prefor lotting tho sgents wear thelr drills out, Resolved, That tho niembera of this Olub will not buy drllly of the mauutucturora’ ageuts, aud we ask tho nt= tention of all Furmers’ Qluba to this matter through- out tho State, dtetalved, Ttk ono of thia objectp of Uhis susociation 210 ancoirage lioto-manutaciorics, and, if tho abovy sesolution lu strictly adhorad to, it will beiter onablo us. £0 cueunrogo thotn by pirciaslig miors arilia snd otuer farm-imploments with tho ssmo mouoy, NN e A ] Shooting Affair at Granby, Mo, Granby, Mo, (dug. 10y Corvesparudecs of the St Louts epublican, T havo just timo before tho'mail closon to giva on an account of & torrible shooting nffray licre 1ast night, botweon negroos and whites, The troublo orl'giun!ud ot a littlo show stopping hoere, Dy & negro oursing & whito man, Ilosult: One nian named AL Schmidt, .a olothing man in this place, was shot through the hoad. lia will dsu in loss than an l;\ou;.[ Threo othor men va, were badly shot. Gourge Bweol was badly woundod by stray shots, Twq othor ladies woro ~slightly wounded. We oannot toll fully tho offoct of tho row, as it was very dark, Bome of thowoundod men gol out of t{m tout awd caunet Lo found; are mups patied £ hivo gono ot to die. The uogro that ogan tho Aliooling way wonudad threo timow, but will redover, A showman in the dressings room of the show waa blacking up for the negra nrt of the porformance, and ou hearing the gm& shot Lio valved tho side of the canvos tq 1ook into tho arons, whon ho was mistaken fol one of the nogroes and fired at, the ball grazing his hoad, taking oft alock of hair, Noue of the showmen wuraiurt. 1t was uot their fight. T is the place whoro Lake was killed soma thres yoarsago, This show is the firat wo huva Liad nineo Lake's death,