Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1878, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. AUGUS! 18, 1S78—SIXTEEN PAGES. Zhe Tribune. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. T BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE--POSTAGE PREPAID. Datiy Edition. one year. .. $12.00 vtk o a vear. permoniii ...y 1.00 Tri-Weekly, one year. Tarts of a yesr, per montl Specimen coples sent frec. Give Poat-Office address In fall, fncluding State and County. Remittances may be made efther by draft, express, Post-Office order, or {n registered leter. st our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dafly, delivered. Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Dafly, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week. Address THE TKIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madizon and earborn-£ts... Chica, Orders for tue delivery of Tug TeinUNE at. Evanston, Englewood, and Hyde Park left in the counting-room “will recelve prompt attention. it TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. Tz Cr1cAGO TRINTNE has established branch officea for the receipt of subscriptions and advertisementsas Tollows: “NEW YORE—Toom 29 Tribune Bullding. F.T.Mo- FappEY, Manager. 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T.—Speclal Conclave Monday evening, Aug. 19, 1874, for work on K. rder. \:h[llg‘ Sir Kuights always weicome. ¥ order of the Em. Com., B oleed JaS. E. MEGINN, Kecorder. APOLLO COMMANDERY, No. 1, K. T.—Stated Conclaye next Tucedsy evening at8 o'elock, for husi Dess. Visitors always welcome. - By order of the Comi- wander. J. NLOP, Recorder. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER. No. 63, R, A. cial Convocation Monday evening, Aug. 19. e A. Degree. Vieiting Colnponlons are cor- the diany {ovited. By order e ¥ G. W. BARNARD, H. P. CHICAGO CHAPTER. No. 127, R. A. M Convocation Wednesday evening, Aug. Sturk Degree. E'P. 10 egnlar Work on SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1878. sev; Fourth, LiewerieN Powees; Fifth, | forget that mere human power is incapable Evorse Hate. The Democrats have full nominations in four States, as follows: Col- orado,- Taoaas DL PATTERSON; Delaware, M. Marriv; South Carolina, First District, J. S. RicEARDSO! econd, M. P. O’CoxxNoE; Third, D. Wrarr Amey; Fourth, J. H Evaxs; Fifth, G. D. TrLryan,—ArxeN and Evaxs being renominated; Vermont—TFirst District, J. R. Raxpars: Second, A. M. Dicxey; Third, Groroe L. Wareryay, The National Greenbackers do not make much show yet. They have mominated H. C. Cumps in Colorado and J. W. Davis in Ne- braska, In Wisconsin their nominations are complete, except for the Fourth District, and are as follows: First, C. H. Parker; Second, H. W. Tesney; Third, OweN Kino; Fifth, Davip Gopives; Sixth, P. A. Grrirrrrs; Seventh, C. D. Parzes; Eighth, A. R. Bar- nows. ‘In other States there is only here and there a candidate in the field. The defeat of the * bonnding Banxmya” for renomination by the Democrats of the Second Ohio District was an act of retributive justice, although the Democrats may not Lave intended 1t as such. He was elected to his seat in the last Congress by the most in- famous frauds ever perpetrated in this coun- try, and now acknowledged to besuch by Era HoLraxp, the principal party concerned in them, Koowing that he was not honestly elected, and that he held nis seat by fraud, he voted to unseat five Repnblicans who were fairly elected, and then devoted the rest of his time to a dastardly attempt to cripple and ultimately break down the srmy. He has now received a deserved punishment in his rejection by his own party constitu- ents in the Nominating Convention, and 1t adds to the sting of it that it camoe from his own-friends. While it has probably saved him from a crushing defent at the polls by his indignant constituents, it none the less provides him with a lesson which ‘he may study with great profit in his compulsory leisure. It gives a very pleasant point to the old saw that * Honesty is the best policy.” . THE CURE FOR HARD TIMES. Tre TrisoNe yesterday published a letter from o workingman of this city, proposing a cure for hard times. The writer was evi- dently earnest and sincere in his views, and probably represented many others who agree with him, snd this shows how strange are the notions of many intelligent persons on the sabject of labor. The existing grievance of the day is that there are thousands of persons educated, skilled, and experienced in all branches of labor (except agricultural labor) who are un- employed, and that of those employed the mnjority are paid wages so much reduced In New York on Saturdasy greenbacks | from what they have been receiving that they ruled steady at 992 in gold and silver coin. The World's Convention of the Young Men's Christian Associstion at Geneva, are inadequate {o the support of themselves and their families. The unemployed and the ill.paid laborers of asked to make common cause to redress the country are Switzerland, is reported fo be successfal, and | this grievance, and supply not only an imme- amore than well attended by delegates from | diate remedy btit & protection against the America and the Christian nations of Eu- Tope. As long as the Mexican Government is ‘unable to prevent its subjects from stealing cattle from the Texas ranche-men, so log will there be a possibility of a Mexico- American war. United States troops have orders to follow marsuders across the Rio Grande, and justnow a detachment under Gen. McKexzie is marching on Mexican ter- Titory in pursuit of ono of these organized ‘bands, without regard for the tender suscepti- bilities of thé Dz Government and Min- ister Ziatacoya. It seems to be the impression in Washing- ton that the joint ambassador of the National snd Demoeratic politicians in Washington made a failure of his recent mission to Bos- ton ip the interests of Buren. It was claimed by the friends of the latter that he could secare a united Democratic Congres- sional delegation from Massachusetts, if in return for his services he might have the support of the Democrats for the Governor- ship of the State. All that was lacking to carry out this mutual-profit arrangement was, that the Boston Democrats had no faith in Burezx's ability to perform his part of the contract. recurrence of the same trouble. the complaining workmen as all of the man- ufacturing class, the agricultural laborers, we may say that for seventesn years this class of' American labor has been protected, at an enormous cost of tavation to the country, from the competition of labor in all foreign countries.. The produets of foreign labor brought to this country during all these years have been taxed at an average rate of 50 per cent, that ‘being the legal provision for the protection Regording as distinguished from of the home industry. This tax at this time amounts to an absolute prohibition of the 1mportation of many classes of foreign-made goods. Despite this protection to * American labor,” the labor of the countryhas been overtaken by the present existing condition of affairs, and the workingmen's associations, through their orators and their platforms, proclaim that the situation of the protected American laborers is even worse now than that of the unprotected * pauper Inbor” of other countries. The reason that so many men are unem- ployed, and that wages are at their present rate, is clear: there is not work enough offering to afford employment to all, and the prices at which products can be sold do not permit the peyment of Ingher wages than In his address before ihe International | are now paid. Employers cannot afford to Alonetary Conference Friday Mr. Groespeck | pay labor £1.50 for producing that which can- vindicated the American Government from | not be sold for more than §1, and hence pro- sclfish motives in restoring the silver dollar | duction and employment must decline until toits former status. There had been so | the cost of producing falls below the price much misunderstanding on this point at the | at which the product can be sold. The money centres of Turope that the speech of | manufacturing producers of the country JMr. GroEssECK cannot fail to be productive | have long since reached the maximumn de- of good results. After describing the inad- | mand for their wares, and that demand is verlent manner-in which silver was allowed | far less than the capacity to produce. The to become demonetized, he gave an account | consequence is, unemployed éapital, unem- of producing one-half the commodities now produced by machinery directed by human intelligence and ekill. Do they figure what would be the cost of the cotton thread now produced by the power of seven tons of coal when produced at the advanced wages of 70,000 workmen? Do thoy estimate the cost of bread when the quantity thereof shall be reduced, and it shall be produced by man- uallabor? Abolish machinery, and return to primitive times, when the spade was the most advanced article of husbandry n_ud the blacksmith-shop the only temple of in- dustriol gkill, and what will be' the condition of the country, and what the condition of labor? Production limited to the rudest forms, what will be the rewards of labor? It will then be a question whether & day’s Iabor will compensate for the bread consumed by the laborer. Then the purchase of a snit of clothes will demand one or two months’ wages; skill and intelligence will no longer be of value, and mere physical strength will be fortunate to find the food necessary to sustain it. B That nation or people is the most prosper- .ous that produces the largest surplus after supplying its own wants. Overproduction menns accmmnulnted wealth; wealth is that product of labor which, after supplying all wants, is left unconsumed. 'The greater this surplus the greater the prosperity and the greater the general blessing. A famine is the opposite of a surplus production, and the destruction of labor-saving machinery is the most direct road to famine. Take the other remedy. Increase the pro- duction of finished articles. Improve the capacity of all manner of machinery that tho cost of production shall be so reduced that the products may find ready markets in all parts of the world. American manu- factures can be sold at a profit in China, where the cost of labor is nominal. Let the production of American machinery and of every form of industry be increased to the utmost. The greater the product and the finer the quality of finished and perfected commodities, the grester the demand for human-labor in the production, preparation, and transportation of raw material; the greater the demand for labor in producing coal, in producing iron and steel, in pro- ducing lumber, and hides, and oils, in producing copper and lead, in building railways and in operating them, in building towns and cities, constructing bridges, and digging canals; the more ships built, the more labor required in the forest, and m the iron mine, and in the furnace. There can be no increase given to any one branch of mechanical industry that is not felt beneficially in all other branches. The true remedy, then, is to remove all obstacles and impediments which block the road to market. Let production aim always at a surplus, to be sold at the world's prices. That producer can command. the market who produces at the least cost and can sell at the lowaest figure ; and that country whick can sell the cheapest can find employment for all its capital, all its labor, all its ma- chinery, all its raw materinl, and reap the harvest from its annual surplus to enrich its people and confirm their prosperity. SHALL THE CITY-HALL BE BUILT BY A RING? i It is time to denounce the movement for breaking the present stone contract on the City-Bailding, and for substituting & new contract, as a ring movement. There may be a few Aldermen who are innocently lend- ing themselves to this scheme under the impression that Lemont stone ought to be substituted for Bedford stone on account of an alleged difference in color, but there are other Aldermen who are fully aware of the purpose and scope of the movement, and who expect to benefit by the change in the same manner and to the same extent that the Ring Commissioners in the County PBoard have benefited in the construction of the county portion of the building. It is not so much a change in stone as a change in con- tractors that the new City Ring desires; but the change in stone is urged as a means to accomplish the real end in view, because ‘Warxer has a corner on the Lemont stone. There is reason to believe and to charge that the notorious CrEx Prriorar, ex-boss of the County Ring and aspiring boss of the new City Ring, is the head and front of this movement. It is asserted that he is the per- son who applied to HixspaLe to ascertain the figure at which the contract for Bedford stone would be released, and he is not the sort of man to do something for nothing. It is certain that Ep WALxer expects to exercise the same functions and to hold the same relations in the new contract sought after as in the county contracts. It is cer- tain that Warken's creditors are making a of the struggles of last year, ending in the complete restoration of the 412}.grain dol- lar, and predicted that the silver production of the Western mines would hereafter dimin- ish instead of increase. ) Rumor kas been busy of late with the usme of a person prominently connected with the Pollman Palace Car Company, of this city. It wos known that CmaRLES W. Awarr, Secretary of the Com- psny; had disappeared under mysteri- ous and euspicious circumstances, and thero ~ were whisporings that he hed proved s defaulter. The Directors of the Company have kept their own counsel determinedly, and the newspapers have not been able to get from them any definite in- formation warranting’ the publication of the sensational reports. This morn- ing, however, the readers of Tme TupoNe will find in its columns a commu.- nication from Mr. Geonce M. Porrams, stating that ELL has sbsconded with £120,000, partly in tash and partly in securi- ties. To the community this explicit stn'tement will prove a great surprise. It is gratifying to learn, however, from Ar. Prrrany that this defalcation, elthough of such & large amount, is not sufficient to em- barrass the Company or interfere with its regular business or dividends. The Republican nominations for Congress 1TC now completed in five States. In Colo- 2do, Jaxrs B. BErromp, who was so in- amously cheated out of his seat in the last Corgress, will take the field agninst PaTTER- sox (Democrat) and H. C. Corrps {(National Greenback).: In Florida, S. B. Co: of Davipsoy, aid H. Bmoze has been re- nominated in the Second, with the probability that both will b elected. In Kansas, Jors A. Axpensoy will run in the First District, D. C. HaskELL in the Second, and Tromss Liyan the Third, the first 1wo being rénominations, In Mzine, the entire Republican dele- gation has been remominated as fol- lows: First - District, Tmosus B. Reep; $Second, W. P. Fpxe; Third, S. D. Lovp- % VER has’ heen nominated fu'the First Districtin place’ in:the: Third, the last two being re- nominations. In Minnesots, 3L:: H. Dos- xexn will represent the First, Homace B. | the mills for cotton and woolén cloth’ wonld | aud . including a Stoarr the Sedond, and .W. D. Waisupury'| give.employment to all the mannal labor,re- : ployed labor, unemployed machinery, and yet the only available market is stocked to Tepletion. ‘What is the remedy? Shall we increase and extend the market, calling into demand the full employment of all the capital, all the Inber, and all the machinery? or, as is proposed by the new school, shall we destroy all the machinery, reduce production to the capacity of manual Iabor, in- crease the cost of production, and incrense the wages of labor? These are the opposing policies, and the workingmen’s organizations insist on the Iatter. The ren- son why the market for American manufac- tures generally is limited is, that the cost of producing exceeds that in other countries, and exciudes our goods from competition. T'o destroy labor-saving muchinery in this country and return to hand-labor would of necessity exclude all articles of American production, including even breadstuffs, from foreign markets. We would then be pro- ducers exclusively for home consumption. The cost of producing by manual Iabor would of necessity limit the consumption of all the products of labor. And herein is the grand. mistake of thoss who argue for the destruction of labor-saving machinery. They assume that, if the use of machinery were discontinued, manual labor would be em- ploed to n sufficient amount to produce the same quantity as is now produced with machinery. Hesry Carey Baiep, in a note to one of his financial booss, states the fol- lowing : ¥ 1In 1870 one mill in Philadelphia manufactared, in every day of ten hours, 51,000 miles of cotton thread, obtaining from seven 1oos of coal thu necessary power. ~ Sunposing it possible for such n quality of thread to be made by hand, it would ro- quire the labor of 70,000 women to accomplis h o8 work. XNow, the average man who- insists upon the destruction of labor-saving machinery argnes that, if the use of the machinery, of that mill -were discontinued, there would of necessity be employment given to” 70,000 women to produce the ssme gdantity of thread, and so with all other machinery ; that Tuired to produce the same amount - of cloth now produced by machinery ; and that the use of the engine and boiler, and all other inventions, would give way to human mus- cle and human endurance. Do these persons tremendous effort to secure the proposed change, in order that they may thercby get back some of the money due them. It is certain that the movement alrendy has pos- session of those Aldermen in thoe City Coun- cil whose past conduct or whose character warrauts a belief that they ~rould associate themselves with a ring movement. It is certain that the new Ring has an organ in .the Chicago Times, and it is frecly alleged that its terms of payment have already been arranged. It is certain that the proposed change of stone and contract- ors will, dircetly and indirectly, cost tho city about three times as much as will the entire bLuilding if completed uuder the present contracts. It is certain that the old gang of contractors, go-betweens, * bosses,” and in- fluences, were excluded in’the letting of ihe existing contracts, and this old gang cannot abide the idea of an honest and economical construction of n public building in Chiengo which shall afford them no opportunity for plunder. If all these circumstances do not furnish sufficient evidence of the existence of a Ring, then the past local experience with corrupi combinations in official Boards hns been of no value, and the people must sub- mit to be robbed whencver there is any pub- lic work to be done, ‘The proposition on its face is simply to change Bedford stone, specified in the exist- ing contract, for Lemont stone and granite in the same style and proportions as used in the Connty-Building. Of course the present contractors are first asked what they will charge to make the change. Al that Messis. TowrrxsoN & Reep can do is to aseertain bow. much it will cost them to gét a release front the contract for the Bedford stone, and 2t what prices they can purchase the granite and Lemont limestone. They run up agninst Ep WiLrer in the case of Lemont stone, and he proposes to charge them three times a3 much for stone from™ the quarry he contrgls as the stone i3 worth. Figuing up the ‘cost’ at this ratio, demolition of - the work they have already done on the build- ing, they report to the Council that the pro- posed change will involve ihe city in an additional expense "of $301,891, which is more thin the amount of the original con- trect ($477,693), and which will bring the cost of the stons-work up to $979,58%, or nearly twice as muchi as the present contract. This is the showing that the new City Ring have forced the present contractors to make. The next step is a hue and cry over the out- rageous demands of the present contractors for making the proposed change. This out- ory is expected to lead up to the bresking of the present contract, and the meking of 8 new contract, in which C Lex Perrorat, Ep Warzen, Ep Wargen's creditors, and the corrapt Aldermen, will be the chief parties in interest. To illustrate just how the city will be made to suffer, let us take round figures which approximate the actual fignres. Weo will say (hat the present stone contract is §500,000 for the entire building. This con- tract once annulled, the stone-work will be let to some figure-hend representing the Ring at terms which will cost $1,000,000 for the stone-work, including changes and extras, before the building shall be com- pleted; then Toxrrxsox & ReeD, the present contractors, will sue the ity for breach of contract, and without any doubt recover in the courts the $300,000 on the origmal con- tract. Thus the City-Building now in course of construction will be made to cost $1,500,- 000 instead of $500,000, or three times as much under the manipulation of the Ring ns it will cost if the present contract be carried out. This is exactly what the proposition for changing the- stone is intended to bring about. The pretext for the proposed change is that the Bedford stone. is darker than the Lemont stone, of which the County-Building is constructed, and that hence the two together will present a hybrid and uncouth appearauce. This is not trne. 'Fhe Bedford stone does not discolor, but the Lemont- stone does; in a single year after both build- ings shall have Leen crected, there will be searcely a perceptible, and certainly not an offensive, difference. Mr. Torey, who is very curiously favoring the substitution of Lemont stone; admits frankly that the Bedford stone is of a superior quality to the Lemont stone, and ‘objects simply on the ground of the difference in color. Since the real design of the Ring in forcing the change has been explained, we think this question of color will nct operata so power- fullyonMr. TuLey's mind. Heknowsvery well that the whole question of color was dis- cussed and determined beforo the coxntract was let; he is aware, as & lawyer, that Messts. ToxriNsoN & REED can recover dom- ages from the city for breach of contract in caso they be thrown out ; he is now informed that WarsER has a ‘“‘corner” on Lemont stone, and that itis to be used to substi- tute Ring work for honest work, and we think he will retire from even the appearance of being associated with a gang of which Cres Peniorat, and Ep Warker, and the chiefs of the old County Ring, are believed to be the cohtrolling spirits. Mr. TuLey can- not be so sensitive because one or two clauses in the contract which he drew up were stricken out that “he is willing to in- volve the city in an extrn cost of perhaps a million of dollars in the end, nor to allow a Ring to build the city portion of the Court- House by the same methods which were employed in the construction of the county’s portion. As to tho question of color, though it was definitely decided when the present contracts were let, we advise every citizen interested to go to the building and examine the matter for himself. Let him examine.first the Lemont stone in the basement of the Coun- ty Building, compare it with the Lemont stone recently put in place in the upper story, ond thus estimate the difference which a couplo_of yenrs of our black smoke will make on this porous material. Tlen let him, in this light, examine the color of the Bedford stone, which is of a harder fibre and does mot blacken, and we believe he will come away convinced that the difference of color between the two will not be conspicu- ous or objectionable,—certainly not enough so to warrant the city in abandoning an honest construction of the building to a Ring, or the breaking of a favorable contract in order to let the Ring dictate ono for plun- dering the people. We would also advise every citizen who goes there to examine the color of Bedford and Lemont stone to com- pare at the same time the two mothods of building, and we suggest the following basis: The entire foundation of the city portion of the building, " covering one-half the whole block, cost only $57,000, while the semi-circular foundation of the county’s sido of the proposed dome alone, extending ong story above the basement, bnt embracing not one-twentieth of the area, cost §79,000, or nearly one-third as much more. This single comparison will tell the whole story. If the City-Building goesup under the present contracts its cost will be not more than one- half the county portion’s after both shall be completed. If the work be passed over to a Ring with the aid of corrupt Aldermen, the city will be swindled just as badly as the county has been. The same taspayers suffer in both cases. A GREECE SPOT OF TROUBLE, 1t is not an encouraging omen for the im- mediate and pacific success of the Berlin Treaty that the first two of its provisions to be put into operation meet with stubborn re- sistance.. The attempted Austrian occupa- tion of Bosnia lis provoked a fierce opposi- tion from the insurgents, who scem to be made up not only of natives, but also of Tarks, Albanians, Greeks, and sympathizing Servinns. Detachments have been defeated, and even the main army, under Gen. Parw- 1POvICH, hns been checked in its advance beyond the Save, and compelled to fall back upon that river with considerable loss of men and material, which shows that Austria underrated the magnitude of her work, and must seed in heavy reinforcements before sho can make her foothold good. The sec- ond provision of the treaty, which is in process of execution, is the demand of Greece for the extension of her frontier; and heré ngain o resistance must be overcome. It will be remembered that during the war Greoce threatened to go into open rebellion on behalf of Epirus and Thessaly, and was only dissuaded therefrom by the advice of England, who promised to Lring her claims before the Congress and se- cure for her a favorzble hearing as well ns representation. Therempon Greece Imd down her arms and waited the course of events. - England fulfilled her promise. Greece Was represented in the Congress, and, . although she had no vote, her representative was there to state her claim for indemnity. The decision of the Congress in_her favor Was a unanimous recommendation to the Porte to rectify her frontier, and, in the event of non-agreement by Turkey, they of- fered their good services to secure it. The new frontier asked for was a line running from the Adriatic shore, near the southern end of the Island of Corfu, across Mount Pindus, a .little to the morth of east, to the mouth of the Salamyra River, which, coming from the slopes of Mount +] the want of ability. Olympus, fallsinto the ZEgean Sea. Irhme- diately upon the close of the Congress Greece made her demand of the Porte, and, | as might have been expected, the Sick Men hag revived sufficiently to make a very angry and stubborn reply, and even to strike a left-handed blow et England, the only friend he hasleft. It must be conceded that the points which the Porte makes in its note to the Powers sre very strong. 1. It declares that Tirkey never nccepted the principle of rectification of the Grecian frontier as laid down by the Treaty of Berlin, and, ss the Congress left Turkey still an independent Power, though sadly shorn of her old strength, this point is ono she is en- titled to make, and ome which must roceive consideration. 2. The Porte affirras that there has in reality been no insurrection in Thessaly and Epirus since 1829, and that, although armed strolling bands have ocea- sionally crossed the mountains from Greece, they have never been able to drag the popu- Iation into n rebellion, 3. The Porte an- swers the clnim of Greece that she displayed moderation during the war with a plump end emphatic denial, alleging that she nego- tiated with Russin several times, that she mooted the question of the partition of Roumania, and that she asked for naval as- sistance from Russia, and, not obtaining it, gave up the iden of war through fear of the power of Turkey, which is a back-handed blow at the pretension of England that it was through her advice alone she was dissuaded from war. Germany and Italy have thus far offered their serv- ices in behalf of the Grecian claim. Austria has not yet spoken, * probably because she is g0 busy with her own troubles in Bosnia. Encland is placed in a curious position. She is the recognized champion of Greece, and it was through her action alone that the Grecian claim was instituted, —the other Powers, with the exception of France, perhaps, sharing the opinion of Bis- Manck that the Greeks, although a very in- teresting people, were a very great nuisance. She cannot with honor desert the Greeks, and must esfiouse their cause in concert with the other Powers as against Turkey. But she is also the recognized champion of Turkey, and has gratuitously offered to foke charge of Turkish interests in Asis, and entered into an offensive and defensive alliance with the Porte. While, therefore, she has bound her- self to preserve Turkish territory in Asis, even at the risk of war, she must aid the other Powers to cut off a very large slice of the already-diminished Turkish territory in Europe, against the will of Turkey. If she can do this without offending Turkey, or at least producing a very serious coolness be- tween them that may interfere with her operations in Armenisa, then the Turkis more gentle, pliable, and long suffering than he is usually supposed to be. THE KFARNEY SHOW. The latest bulletin from Massachusetts ' is BeN Burree's disclaimer of all respon- sibility for KearNer. He declares that Kearxzy is a volunteer, and is running his own course in Massachusetts free of any inspiration or control of Burrer. The man who controlled the hoodlums of San Fran- cisco on the question of opposition to the Chinese finds a different populetion and men of a different civilization in Massachu- setts, and Butrr is experienced enough to recognize that KEARNEY'S race in that State will not only be brief but signally inglo- rions. The fact is, KEanNEY is at present a curi- osity. People go to see and hear him, and, the . curiosity once gratified, the impression is not so favorable as to enlist sympathy, excite admiration, or inspire wishes for his success. Mere want of education would not be such a serious drawback to Keanyey as is He lacks intelligence, and consequently he is unable to mark out any policy or measure of relief or redress. His denunciations want point, because he fails to indicate how he will remedy the overthrow of tho classes whom he denounces. In California, in the pres- gnce of the hated Chinese, he had the clear and popular proposition to ' ex- pel them from the State and the ab-. rogation of the treaty under which their im- migration is protected. That was a measuro which all men could understand, and appeal- eddirectly to the feclings and selfish interests of 'his hearers. ‘But Keanxey has no such end before hi now. Thers are no Chinese ocenpying the fields of labor in Mnssachu- setts, or Illinois, or Indiana. He is now simply an apostle of hate,—préaching the doctrine of Late, of violence, of force, of spoliation, of one whito man applying tho knife to the throat of the other white man, and the substitution of force for law. The workingmen of this country are, as a whole, despite the place of their Dbirth, American in sentiment and feeling.. ‘They have nothing in common with the red-handed revolutionists who would destroy all govern- ment of law, of religion, of peace, order, and securily, and erect in its place the sole wribunal of Force; the supremacy of the sirong, the annihilation of the weak, and the recognition of the krife, the ax, the revolver, and the torch as the ngents as well as the embiems of power. With isolated excep- tions, such as the fugitives from Paris and Berlin, and from some other sections of Europeans who bhave never made the lenst effort to acquire a knowledge of the English language or of the American system and theory of government, the workingmen of the United States, of all nationalitics, are not and cannot be made Communists. Hanging men on lamp-posts is not an American remedy for hard times; burning tne factory is not an American means of mcreasing the number and wages of the men employed in the factory; and illegal force and violence are not the Ameri- ean manner of redressing political or finan- cinl wrongs. Of all things in the world, popular violence is the worst ‘induce- ment that can be offered capital to employ labor. Labor finds its Iargest, most permanent, and most remnnerative cmployment 1n times of public pence, order, security, and contentment. - That commu- nity the least disturbed by brawls affords the best security for capital, and their capi- tal employs the greater number and pays the larger wages to workingmen. This is so well ynderstood that when KEARNEY appeals to the working peopls of Massuchusetts, who have some hundreds of millions of dol- lars stored away in savings, to abandon their work, give up their weekly earniugs, desert their bomes, break up their fawilies, take their children from schools, and Lecome a howling mob of wen . aud women to hang employers, burn down the mills and work- shops, and destroy the machinery, ke speaks to- a people who have no sympathy. with his doctrines and who regard Lis policy ‘as Little better than madness. Kearxey has frothed his piece in several places, and, wherever he has been seen snd heard, has exhausted the curiostty which has preceded him, and left & memory only of an illiterate, profane, obscens rauter, with- out ability to suggest anything beyond brute force, and without even the questionable gift of declamation, except in the matter of coarse threats and denunciation. The more rapid and extensive his exhibitions in Massachn- setts, the more rapid will be his failure. He promises to take a fow weeks from his advo- cucy of Burrer to visit Indianapolis and Chicago, and out here his meetings will be uttended by thousands, moved by the same curiosity that leads thousaunds to visit Ban- NUar's circus to see the tramned-elephants end monkeys, and the performances in the ring; the same curiosiiy thab attracts multitndes to witness a balloon ascension, or the traveling troupo of dwarfs and gnts, or takes them to gaze upon an execution. Kearyey will draw large sudiences to see the man so much talked about, the leader of the Sen Francisco mobs, and to hear the ranting of the man who deals out threats and carses, and blasphemy and valgarity, after the manner of the roughs of the Pacific Const. Having been seen and heard, the interest in him will fade ; the novelty will be over; factions and parties will repudiate all responsibility and interest in him ; and, long before November, this man of words and profanity will return to the Pacific tamed ana disgusted, and, if he were a dog, with his tail between his legs seeking the kennel he had so unadvisedly left. The people of the United States of all classes and occupations are suffering from a common affiction. We are blessed with abundance. We .have unlimited labor and inexhaustible material, but want a market. ‘We can only produce to meet the home de- mand, and that demand falls far below the capacity to produce. How to increase this market, how to increase the number of pur- chasers for the products of labor, is the question which engrosses the attention of the best minds in all countries, in Europe as well as in America. The man who will point out the way to enlarged markets for the product of labor will confer a blessing on mankind, will awaken {he active and earnest support of capital, will give employment and wages to idle labor, and new prosperity to all How to accomplish this is the great problem of to-day, and he who will solve it may de- servedly claim to be the MosEs of his coun- trymen. Keamyey shows himself to be utterly incompetent toeven comprehend what is needed or to suggest a means of relief. He suggests nothing but socia! war, destruction, and charos. WOMAR'S WORK. The August number of the Nineteenth Century contains an article from the pen of Mrs, FawcerT on the rights and disabilities of women, and particularly of Englishwomen. The title of the articleis ** The Future of Englishwomen: A Reply to Mrs. A. Sather- land Orr”; but it is interesting and impor- tant, not Lecause it is a reply to AMrs. Ozr,— who is hardly worthy the attention of Mrs. Fawcerr,—but because it is written by a woman who has proved her arguments in ex- perience. If we were to look throngh England to-day for the woman who has done most to dignify woman’s labor, we should probably pitch on Mrs. FAWCETT as the very one. Her history is a refutation of the stock argu- ments against woman’s work. The question seems to be reduced by her example to the simple one of capacity. Antecedent unfit- ness is not always, or even generally, to be presumed, except when the qualification is mainly, or largely, one of physical develop- ment and powers of endurance. There is mno kind of work that seems, without trial, more unfit for a woman than the study and teaching of political economy; yet Mrs. Fawcerr has not only undertaken it, but has been eminently successfal in it. Her text-books for primary students are models in their way. She is known as a close and accurate thinker in this department of science; and, when the editors of the new Encyclopedia Britannica had to have an article on Communism written, they could find no person in the United Kingdom better adapted than this woman to ‘write it for them. It is true that Mrs. Fawcerr has drawn much encouragement and inspiration from her husband, the blind member of Parliament, who is a really eminent anthority in Political Economy. It is true; also, that she has never originated anything of value in the science, nor added snything to its dovelopment. We aro not saying that sho has surpassed all men in a manly pursuit, but that she bas shown an amount of zeal snd success in it which have mors than justified her entering upon it. The argument of the article in the Nine- teenth Century may be stated in three propo- sitions: (1) That the sphere of all women in England is not married life; (2) that the unmarried women cannot all profitably de- vote themselves to housekeeping; (3) that active employment does not dry up the ca- pacity for love either in women or men. With regard to the first, the case is almost self-evident. ¢* As long as there are halfa million more Englishwomen than men, and as long as polygamy is illgal, and con- ventual establishments have only a limited popularity, so long there must necessarily be o considerable number of single women at large in the country.” Nor would it be de- sirable for all women to marry, if husbands could be found for them. On this point Mrs. Fawcerr quotes with great cffect a passage of the memoirs of Miss CHARLOTTE Winnians-Wrsy.: Writing in the year 1816, she said: “ Women are born wives, just as men are born artists, musicians, poets. This Isee, and the non-perception of it is the cause of Lalf the uncomfortable marringes you meet with.” Miss MARTINEAU is an- other instance of a woman with strong affec- tions believing herself to be naturally un- fitted for married life. Crarrotrr CursE- MAN is another ; and these are but types of great classes of women. It may be said— and thisis a point Mrs. Fawcerr has not noticed—that the occupations of these wom- on have tended to make them bard and mas- culine, and so to unfit them for married hap- piness ; but this argument makes no account of the previous bent which inclined them to ‘- choose equality ” and work; it also fails to allow for the usefumess of the work which they have accomplished. It will not be con- tended that the world would have been hap- pier or better if Hanrier MaBTINEAU, CHAR- rorre Cusmuy, FrLoresce NIGHTINGALE, and other women like them, had married.. It is, indeed, n mistake to teach women that marriage is their sphere, that their happiness depends upon it, and that withont it they will have an inconipleto existence. It is arguments of this kind which induce some women to snap at the first offer of marriage they get, however unsuitable; and the result is frequently the injury of two' lives, if not of more. A AMrs. Fawoerr illustrates her sécond propo- sition—the waste involved in making all un.- married women devote themselves to house- keeping—by supposing the case of a family in moderate circumstances, consisting of a fother and mother ond half.s-dozen danghters. The father is a professional nuan, two-thirds of whose income stops at i death. Three of the daughters marry, Tl other three remain at home. One assisty the mother in managing the householq, what are the other two to do? i What zenerally happens in real 1ife is, three unmarried danghters stay at home tically no real or suzici their time muring o by snipping, beiw the fatest fasuom, aice a year or so which they have for dres ot money g0 a5 far as $135 or $200, dr'f'if “fl :?Kcmt:n" tome, isan utheaithy acd. unmaturat’ why should the labor of three tine, youns women prodace such Further, they are vt to prese the unlovely upectacte of my apinz the appearance and man They are cageriy and vainly ho; which wonld thgm ar ac % work worth dof hey are 0oL prepared, ay Seturday Review says, *10 jucge caimiy oros oifer when 1t comes.* + \© J°5¢ Gy olaa If they were to go to Girton or Newham, and get o University training, Mrs, Faweerr says, they might each in n fow years e earn. ng 81,000, 1,500, or $2,000 @ year; and to ihem in such circumstances marriage would not s a FopsoN's choice, but & real unjon founded or: affection and clear ideas of fitness, Active employment does not dry up the capacity of love cither in women or men, It not in men, why should it in women? “Thera is no evidence in any returns that have yob como to hand to show that the working. wormnen are the least devoted to their hge- bands, or that marringes between persons who have similar tastes and- employments are likely to end unhappily, Mr Haxen. Tox's unlucky book, in which he advises, in o blundering way, intellectual 1marmages, or marriages founded on sympathy of tastes and pursuits, has, we are aware, pro- voked a good deal of indignation even among the strong-minded women themselves, but it unquestionably states the true basis of marriage. We apprehend that 3rs. Fay- ceTT herself is not less able to appreciate her husband and inake him happy because she has studied political cconomy with him, eng even in some instances ghead of Lim. Mg, Fawcerr does not go far enmongh, if ang. thing, in enforcing her argnment from this point of view. She ought to show, as she easily might, that it would be better for many married women if they conld fird some regular employment, add to their lin. ited incomes, incrense their comforts, and per. haps occupy time that now hangs hearily and unprofitably on theirhands. 'The ques. tion of the usefulness of employment for women is, indeed, no longer the great ona to * bo considered; the inquiry now is, or ought to be, what employments are most usefal, and how can they be made most essly end surely accessible ? a It is not improbable but that the Roman Catholic Church may yet prove herself of the highest possible valuc 2s a conservative and restraining element in our politieal sys- tem, notwithstanding the fact that many zeclous Protestants regard the power of that denomination as inimical and dangeronsto the permanency of free institutions. Wo speak now with reference to the Catholic in- fluence in checking the tendency to Social- ism and Communism among the Inboring classes of this country, a very largs fraction of which, in every State in the North, are either active communicants in that Church or to some extent under its control The Rev. Father FicaX, of Milwankee, ons of the most energetic and devoted priests of that Order in the West, recently published a card, in which he denounced, in terse and vigorous ierms, the Socialistic move- have nothing whatever to do with it. Wo are gratified also to observe that the Catholiz Telegraph, edited by Archbishop Purcerr, of Cincinnati, denounces the profane black- guard Kearvey * as the vilest of onr Com- munistic demagognes.” It also says that Devvis is an Orangeman, and that that “school ean claim the honor of his moral and intellectual training.” Therefore wesay thet in the conflict that now threatens the people. of the United States this religious body may be found on the side of law, or- der, and stable government, and act 83 & conservative and preservative force in ‘sn emergency that may test the strength of republican institutions as they were never tried before. From what we know of tha spirit and temper of its leading men. we are encournged to believe that it will be so. u these United Alarge number of peo; States are uneasy, dissatistied, irritable, de- spondent, and ugly, constautly complaining of their hard lot, as they view it, and euvious of overy othier person who is apparently better oll tnan themselves. They scem to be utzerly indifferent to the numerous blessings that they do enjoy, and, a3 for the evils that beset their pathway in life, they ere ready to fiy from those they have to others that they kuow not of But the striking contrast that exists between the present condition of the people of this conn- try and some of the famine and disease stricken portions of the earth ought to make thess growlers thankful to a'bountiful Providence for the profusion of temporzl blessings that He be- stowed upon them. While the rarazes of drought and famine in China have swent off thousauds upon thousands of its overcrowded population, these sickening reprtsare rivaled by the story of sullering ; tion that comes to u: from India where, according to an authentic state- ment- made the other day in the House of Commons, no less than 1,800,000 people bave perished for the want of food. The imawination is appalled ot the contemplation of such a fear- tul condition of affairs, even at this safe dis- tanee, and 2 comparison of these wretched peo- ple with ourawn. who are living ina land of comparative plenty, wealth, prosperity, and luxurs, ought to give the Socialist and the -Communist food for refiection. But Northern Indiz and China arc not the only countries that appeal to our symoathles by reason of the sul- ferings of their unfortunate inhabitants. Our Consul at Tangier reports a terrible famine pre- vaillog in Southern Morocco, that bas been been brouzhtabout by alonz-continued drought. The sufferings of the peopie are simply fade- seribable. Covws are sold for $1 each 1n Tanzies, and fn the country the cattle aré dsing off by thousands. In Madras the ravages of the beasts have been so wide-spread that the Gosern- offfcers. And yet, here in America, a lani fow- ing with milk and -honey, we are threatened better fed. Nelther WATTERSON nor MARDLE has been able to satisfy the firc-cating portlon of the Democratic party that TILDEN is not a cowards notwithstanding all their recent efforts in that dircction. Here comes the Charleston (3. C) next Democratic candidals must possess, de- clares that he ““must be game totbe backbone.” trouble at the wext election, and they wanta plucky man at their bead. A plucky man Tu:‘- DEN Is not. . —— The Marquis of LORSE, according to .the British press, will fill all the requirements Dec~ ;... cssary in a Governor-General of Canada, and the appointment is regarded fo Britainasan excecdingly zood onme. ! sketches the new Governoras “a man of some capacity and of considerable official experience. - He was bis father's private secratary during the timeof the GrapsTosE Government,andsa traveler, 3 writer, and 4 man of Indepeadéot that a | ment, and warned all his followers to. and starva-, ment of the province has seat for extra faminc with Insurrection, riot, and anarchy, because the . masses of the people are not better pald and 5 News, and, in enumerating the qualities thatthe . Evidently the Southern Democrncy ecxbect ! An English paper .