Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1892, Page 4

¥ THE DAILY BEE BE . AGSEWATER, Evircn. IRY “OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY. o 8838882 Daily Bee (withont Bunday) One Year.. 1atly and Sunday. One Y Fix Montha. . O Eaturday Doe, Ono ¥ Weekly Bee, One Year. 3 OFFICES Omaha, The Peo Bullding. Bouth Omahn, corner N and 20th Streets, Counell Bluffs, 12 Pearl Stroet. Chicngo Offiee, 317 Chambor of Commares. New York, ltonms 13, 14 and 15, Trivune Bollding. Washington. 513 Fourteenth Streot. CORRESPONDENCE. A1l communieations relating to editorinl matter should be addressed to the itorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances shonld be addressed to The Beo Publishing Company. Om: Drafts; ehecks and postofiice orders o be ma payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING (!OMP{\N}’_ BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. fate of Nobraska, 1 County 0f Dougla @eorgo B. Trachuck Tishing company, does solemnly swear that the wetunl eirenlation of THE DAILY BER for the week ending August 27, 192, was as follows: news and T { socretary of TIE DEE Pub. i Friday, August Faturday, August 37 Average Cireulation Tk Nebraska democrats exhibited a voracious appetite for rare chestnute, ] ThE bourbon tic be taken soriously. clammy bluff. THe nctIva:TL-l‘m_Efimge men in Omaha just now is certainly not per- nicious netivity. ot, really, must not Itis simply a cold, t THE revolution in Venezuela is as terrible as cholera and is not likely to serve a more useful purpose. I 18 safo to say thut Omaha will clean up for the cholera, and, cholera or not, the cleansing will not injure the city. TowA democrats don’t want to be saved, olso why do they not put their plunks into the W.-If. campuign fund. THE mayor of South Omaha has hand- ed in his first veto and is now in an agi- tated frame of mind’ from which our mayor long ago recovered. CouNciL BLUFFS is feeling as well as possible under the circumstances today, said circumstances consisting of an aldermanic election and two democratic conventions, * THE closing of tho Eleventh street viaduct was n wise act, but if all dan- gerous walks in this city were closed progress would bo barred on o great many highways. THE young republicans of Omaha are wide awake and full of enthusiasm. At the meeting of the state league at Grand Jsland the Young Men’s Republican club of this city will be represented by about 100 members. _— THERE is practically no doubt that the contract for sidewalk lumber was made by fraud or by mistake, und it is the duty of the city council to cancel it atonce. There should be no dodging or evasion in the matte! THE health departmgnt announces its determination to clean the city thoroughly within thirty days. This is a step in the right direction, and yet it would seem as if the work ought to be accomplished within fifteen days. THE linen mills -ecently established at Sioux Falls aro now in successful op- eration and turning out excellent goods. This promising enterprise never would have been thought of but for the en- couragement offered by the McKinley tariff law. Mavor Beyis should be commended for his courageous endeavors to secure business methods and econimical trans- actions in every city department. That is one of the very first duties of a mayor, but it is the last one in the estimation of many city officers. —— ACCORDING to a proclamation by the mayor of Lincoln all offendors ngainst the laws of health and decency in that city will be prosecuted to the fullest ex- tent of the law, five days being given them to clean up their premises. This is prompt, vigorous and commendable, — THE Louisville Courier-Journal says that W. C. Whitney is the only promi- nent protectionist democrat left. The brains of the democratic party have al- ways been centered in a protectiomst. ‘Whitney is to his party today what Samuel J. Randall was ten years ago. But thare are now few of them loft. THE linen mills of Sioux Fails, S. D., are doing some eloquent talking for the MeKinley law. Only last spring the machinery arrived and the very first vroducts have just been sent out and the excellence of the quality is surprising, These home illustrations are the ones which most confound the free trader. Tuosk Viennn physicians, to the num- ber of 485, who offered their services to 1he city in the cholera plague it the city would guarantee support for their fami- lies in cnse of their death, were noble men and are hvingillustrations that the day of horoes has not vassed away from the earth. It is impossible to conceive more honorable or courageous devotion 10 supreme duty, —— THURSDAY will be one of the best days, in the mattor,of attractions, at the county fair, and there ought to be a great popular attendance oo thav day. In or- der to insure this result the association requests thut the merchunts of the city close their stores on the afternoon of Thursday, so that their clerks and em- ployes may be enabled to visit the fair if they desire to doso. It isnot doubted that this request will be cheerfully com* plied with by the great wujority of busi- ness houses. Y, AUGUST 31, 1892. THE NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS. The demoerats of Nebruska have in- dicated o purpose to fight tho battlethis year under the party banner and to maintain the party organization. This is in accord with the counsel of those democrats, in this state and elsewhere, who believe that the party cannot make any fusion or conlition without compromising its principles and injuring its future. The traditional policy and doctrines of the democracy have nothing in common with the principles of fhe new political party, but on the contrary they sharply antagonize. The democratic state convention was oneof the most harmonious held by that party in years and it disposed of its business expeditiously. A full stato ticket was nominated, including presi- dontinl olectors. In naming Hom. J. Steriing Morton as the candidate for governor the convention selected one of the ablest demoerats in the country and an excellent vopresontative of the pres- ent attitude of the democratic party on the tariff. Mr, Morton has long been idontified with the radical element of the party opposed to protection, which he now believes, according to a resolu- tion introduced in the convention by him, is unconstitutional. The candi- date for lieutenant governor, Hon. 8. N. Wolbach, made a good record in the legislatute as an anti-monopolist and is & man of abilivy and charvacter. The can- dates for the other offices are, with per- haps one or two exceptions, worthy of the confidenee and support of the panty. Thero is, of course, not the slightest possibility of the electior of any of these candidates, but the party is certainly entitled to be commended for having nominated one of the best tickets ever | presented by it for the support of the democracy of Nebraska. THE NOMINEE FOR CONGRE The republicans of this, the Second congressional district, are in position to nominate a candidate who will be sure of election on the 8th of November. The great body of the people of this district are opposed to free trade, wild-cat bunk- ing and dchemes that would unsettle the of our curi and paralyze even for a short time the commercial and industrial concerns of the country. Regavdless of all parties they desire that this district shall be represented in congress by some man who would regard it as his mission to Washington to be useful to his constituents rather than to gratify an ambition for notoriety or to join rattle-brained visionaries in agitat- ing impractical schemes ot reform or a reversal of the settled poiicy of the gov- ernment, There is serious danger %o republican success in the efforts of political strilkkers with bad records and ambitious dema- gogues who care more for their personal aggrandizement than they do for the success of the party. It would be a most reckless venture to match such men against a clean, capable and reputable democratic candidute. With the Australian ballot the party lash has littlo effect with the rank and file of re- publican business men, professional men and wage workers. They cannot be driven by threats- of political ostracism or loss of atronage to vote for a tattooed candidate or for a political mountebank. The republicans of this district can only hope to win with a candidate who stands high in his own calling. has no spots on his personal or political record and enjoys the respect and good will of this whole community and the people generally throughout the district, Tk Bee has no disposition to dictate who this candidate shail be, but in the interest of the republican party it is in duty bound to warn the party against committing fatal blunders, With the issues of 1802, all other things being equal, this is a republican district. It would be criminal madness on the part of republicans, however, to throw away their chances of success by nominating any man who does not command the im- plicit confidence of the business ele- ments or any man whose nomination would cause bitter antagonism and array any considerable faction or element within the party agninst him. ANOIHER OBJECT LESSON, Wae referred a few days ago to the fact that a well known English firm which had been engaged for half a cen— tury in manufacturing plush and similar goods were constructing works at Jamestown, N. Y., having decided to close their factory in Bugland and re move their entire business to this country. This had for many years been their principal market, taking annually more than $1,000,000 worth of their pro- duct, but since the passs of the pres- ent tariff law their business with the United States had been reduced to al- most nothing, and they finally decided to come here and enjoy the benefits of protection in the best market in the world. In noting this we remarked that undoubtedly other British manu- fucturers wore being similarly affected. We have not had to wait long for a coufirmaiion of this view. A London dispatch of August 26 states that a cir- cular has been issued calling a meeting of the shareholders in the greaut Bradford manufasturing concern of Sir Titus Salt &Ca, (limited) to consider a proposition to wind up the company. The circular states that the English plush trade gen- in which the company is lavgely engaged, has fallen to about one-tenth of what it was before the McKinley wariff went into,effect. It is not stated whether or not it is the intention of this concern o remove its business to tho United States, but it would not be at all surprising if the shareholders decided to follow the example of Lister & Son ish u plant io this country, y rate there is in this circum- stunce unother interesting object lesson for the attention of the opponents of tho American system of protection, If it be true, and there is no reason to doubt it, that the English plush trade generally hus fallen to about one-tenth of what it was before the McKiniey law went iuto effect, one of two things is certain, Eithor there has been u very great increase fn the munufacture of this cluss of goods in the United States or u very great falling off in the demand here for them. It is by no menus prob- uble thut the latter is the case, s0 that the reasonable conclusion wust be that the manufacturo of plush goods in the | United States has very matovially in- creased under the operation of tho taviff, giving profitable employment to a much larger amount of capital and labor than formerly. It is also a fair assumption that the quality of such goods made in this country compars fuvorably with that made in England, elso the demand for the foreign product would not have fallen to such an extent. Moreover it is 1o be presumed that the prize has not been appreciably affected. Facts of this kind readily explain why inglish sympathy is with the demo- cratic party in the present campaign, and while it1s being held in restraint as much as possible a few more such busi- ness ovents as we have noted will be very likely to lend to its vigorous as- sertion, accompanied, it may be, with a substantial evidence of its sincerity. Meunwhile the intelligent American voter is looking at the practical facts of the situation and paying little attention to theories. { —— Nt 11N PLATE REPORT. L report from the Treasury department concerning the tin and terne plate production of this country during the past year shows that about 20,000,~ 000 pouads have been produced by American manufacturers and 84,000,000 voundsimported. Under the provisions of the McKinley law the American manufacturers must produce during the six fiscal years ending June 80, 1897, a quantity of tin and terno plates lightor in weight than sixty-three pounds to the 100 square feet, which shall equal one-third of the net importations of the same class of plates during oue of the six years; otherwise, all such plates shall be admitted free of duty aftsr October 1, 1897, It will be seen that the rapid growth of the tin-plate industry in this country amply justifies the expectation that by the close of the present fiscal year the production in the United States will be at tho vate of about 200,000,000 pounds. Duri the first quarter of the fiscal year five firms were engaged in the manufacturs of tin and terne plates, eleven during the second, twenty during the third, and twenty-six during the fourth, and the probability is. says the report, that at least eight new names will be added to the list of manufs turers by September 80 next. 1t is fur ther stated that of forty-two companies engaged in manufacturing tin and terne plates on August 15, twenty-six were manufacturing, fourteen building plants and ten enlarging their works. ‘I'he prediction is made in the report that #5,000,000 will be invested in buildings and plants by the close of the present fiscal year. It is evident that there is no danger of a failure on the part of the American tin plate makers to come up tothe re- quired figure. ‘I'in will not be admitted duty free after the time stipulated unless the democratic party gets into power; and in that case the duty will be abol- ished without waiting for the expiration of the time fixed by the McKiunley law. STEVENSON ON LHE ISSUES. The democratic party cannot be-con- gratulated upon its candidate for vice president. Measured by his utterances thus far in the campaign, Mr. Adlai E. Stevenson is merely n strong par- tisan, possessing no single quality of statesmanship and without even the ability to take a place among the better class of political leaders. The democratic campaign in Illinois was opened last Saturday, Mr. Steven- son making a prepared speech at the city of his home, Bloomington. It .was by far the weakest effort, that has been heard from any democrat in this cam- piign, falling greatly below even the shallow and sophistical utterance of that other Illinois democratic leader, Mr. William M. Springer, made at Detroit last week. The man who at this day attempts to glorify the period of demo- cratic supremacy anterior to 1861 is to be commiseratea. No other period in our history furnishes such conclusive testimony agaiost the policy of a tariff for revenue only.. At no other period was the credit of the government lower and the financial and business conditions of the country more depressed than during the democratic administration of Buchanan, It is a memorabie period in Amevican history which the democratic party cannot afford to nave carefully studied by the younger voters of tod The tarifl act of 1846 was intendea to reduce duties to a revenue busis, and it resulted in materially increasing the revenue at the expense of home indus- tries, 1t was continued until 1856, when a further reduction of duties was made, the abnormal conditions 1n Europe, growing out of the Crimean war from 1853 to 1856, having greatly stimulated the business and prosperity of this coun- try. After the war there came a reac- tion, and in 1857 occurred the most dis- astrous panic fiom which the country has ever suffered. In his first message 1o congress, in December of thut year, President Buchenan declared the monetary interests of the country to be in a deplorable condition. He said that in the midst of unsurpassed plenty in all the productions of agriculture and in all the elements of national wealth, ‘“‘we find our manufuctures suspended, our public works retarded, our private en- terprises of diffcrent kinds abandoned, and thousands of useful laborers thrown out of employment and reduced to want,” The revenue of the government had been greatly reduced and the president stated that a loan might be required to meot tho obligations of the government, which, ‘*-ulthough deeply to be re- gretted, would prove to be a slight mis- fortune when compared with the suffer- ing and distress provailing among our people.” Such was the condition of affuirs produced by the democratic revenue-tarifl policy of that period, and it coutinued, as shown by the subsequont messages of Mr, Buchanan, tothe close of his ndmiuistration. He repeatedly urged an increuse of duties, but without effect. Not only was the business of the country prostrated, but the securities of the nution were discredited, Iu Jan- uavy, 1861, the governinent nogotinted a loap of 5,000,000 to pay overdue treas ury notes and other pressing demands on the treusury, for which it was com- pelled to puy 12 per cent interest. The | | treasury was h,nkrupk Thore was no money to pay »the public creditors, who were pressing for’payment. There was not money eveh 4a,pay members gf con- gress. The nation had been prostrated under the opqygtion of an erroneous tarviff polid}. The democratic varty is now udvucuun? fhd demanding a tariff poiicy similar 'o:‘,,hm from 1846 1o 1861, but manifestly ft,could make no greater mistake than to,nefer to that period for its justification., «The intelligent poople of this countryyhaving before them the magnificent reddltd of thicty yearsof pro- tection, have 16 Wesire to sdo repeated the experiencesof ‘the revefiue-tariff era. What Mr. Stevenson has to say of the operation of the present tariff law is of vory litile cousequence, because he has evidently either not familinrized hime self with the facts or hus not the candor to fairly consider them. Neither is it important to discuss what he says as to the condition of the national treasury, ‘for the veason that there is no real foundation for it.. The secretary of the treasury has shown most conclusively that vhere is not the least danger of the government becoming bankrupt, buv on the contrary that the present fiscal year will end with a surplus. On the whole Mr. Stovenson’s statemant of the demo- cratic position could not be more satis: factory to republicans if it had been made to their order, B ——e CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE. There was a marked decrease in the number of failures in the United States last week in eomparison with the corre- sponding week last year, Taken by it self this might not be considered espe- cially significant, but the record has been running that way for muny months and the cumulative evidence of general prosperity thus afforded is worthy of attention. Trade reports from day to duy prove that an extensive business is being done in all branches and that consumption is greatec than ever before. An increased consumption of the neces- suries of life would be a natural result of our growth in populution, but it is plainly shown that the increase is not confinel to necessaries, The American peaple never before consumed the ar- ticios classed as luxuries so largely as they do at present. The western and northwestern etates aro now among the heaviest buyers of merchandise of all kinds. This is ac- counted for by the fact that these states have had good crops and have a fine prospect for large harvests this year. The people do”dot always buy with money already in <hand, but often dis- count the futurerwhen they are able to seo clearly whaf i, has in store for them. Last year’s crops were large and turned a great deal of wohey into the hands of the agricultural classes. If the present yeur’s prospects were bud they would not spend last vear’s profits freely, but under existing ocircumstances they feel justified in doing so. But the fact that all staples are.cheap this year also tends to stimuiate the circulation of the farmer’s mouey.'He has never beon able to buy so,cheapy asnow. His activity ‘as a buyer naturally incroases the activity of tha various nroducing in- tevests and stimulates all currents of trade and manufacture, I'heve never has been a time in the history of the country when business was on a sounder basis than it is now or when speculution was at so low an ebb. Conservatism rules every branch of business; there ure no fictitious booms, and values are nowhere inflated. Such conditions are necessarily the conditions of substantial prosperity. There can be no escape from the conclusion that the American people have reason to hoe con- tented and happy. Discontent will al- ways exist in some quarters and the voice of complaint will never be silenced, but thoughtful and reasonable people will not refuse to recoguize the force of indisputable evidence. THERE is a mayor to elect in New York city this fall and the Tammany democrats hope to elect him. They will probably need the mugwump sup- port to do ic and in this lies the strong- st danger which Harrison may fear in New York city, for to obtain this sup- port Tammany will perhaps pledge their votes for Cleveland. But of cour: there is the presant condition to encour- age us, which isalmost open warfare be- tween the two fa E HEN A, Dout a republican meeting here in June, is to have even greater felicity. It is prob- able that he will be nominated for state’s attorney by the republicans of Chi and he'is to be’ murried next sy His record must give the lie to the maxim that no man can conduct his courting successfully and do any other business at the same time. SENATOR PALMER of Illinois says that President Havrison *was a brave soldier and an able lawyer and is a conscien- tious executive.” Palmer has uncon- sciously allowed himself to glide back into a temper of miind of twenty years ugo, when he was a ropublican and had not learned the ways of the demagogue. The Case Growing Desperate. Phlad Ul o Ligutrer, The World is pragtigaly confessing defeat in advance. Its efforis to carry the noreh. west will be about 0 par wWith those it put forth in carrying Rhode Island. e A Vacatien Paradox. Philadglyhia Times, It appears a contragiction of terms possi- bly, but the one distinguisbing feature uf all getoricn-quick schgges is that the more you'ro 1u them Lhe moro you're out. — Cannot Syaliow V Gl lgedemocrat. The Kansas demograts have no' electoral tickets of their own, and so they can not vote for Cleveland; but tho law permits them to support the republican ticket, aud many of thém will do 80 in proference to throwing away thoir votes for Woaver. s Another Coal Trust Thrust, New York Telegram, 24h, ‘The Reading coal combination, at its meet- 1ng intends L0 announce another advance of ab to b0 cents ® ton on the several grades of antbracite, Here is an act of aggrossion upon property Interests worse and wore rulbous Lhan any riotous demonstrations of a few score wnis- guldea switchmen, What is goilug to bo done about it! What measures lnnl?lm takon for the protection of the public from this sort of spoiling! Shall we call out some more troopsi I not, what moasures of defeuce shall be takon | FREE TRADE FALLACIES. 111 Proteotion and Strikes. In his recent speeoh at Detroit, Mr. Springer, the chairman of tho ways and means cotnmittes of the present democratic house of representatives, added to the list of calamities chargeablo to the protective policy, that the tariff has stimulated enmity between omployer and employe and fostered strikes and lockouts. T'ais third accusation is thus formulated: “'It does not seem that the lives of our workingmen have been mado sweeter and brighter during this era of high protection. There has been great contention in labor oir- cles, Strikes have been frequent, lockouts the order of the day, and in_many instances private dotectives—the Piniertons—have been hired to guard the mills and factories, and tné militia of the states and sometimes the ragular army have boen called out to suppross alloged riotous demonstrations by organized labor, Strikes and lockouts are the inevitable results of high tarift.”” If labor troubles are the inevitable conse- quence of protection, logical reasoning would require the assortion of several prapositions to which such a statem:nt necessarily londs. First, the course B strikes in this country must have followed the course of tariff logislation. Socond, strikes and lock- outs should predominate in or bo almost ex- clusive to provestive vountrios as dis- tinguished from free trado countries. Third, they must occur solely in 1ndustries di- rectly affected by the tariff and bo entirely missing in industrios not so affected. ourth, their purposes must not be 1nconsistent with protection as the disturbing cause, To sus- tain Mr. Springer’s argumoant, all of these propositions must be trus; if they are not founded on fact, then to attack protection as the cause of labor troubles is baseless and misleading. Mr. Springor in his spocoh attempts to vrove by statistics that the frequenoy of strikes and lockouts displays an immediato relation to the scale of import duties in the United States, being smull unaer a low tariff and large under u high tariff. As usual, he makds but a partial and misleading show- ing. Says he: 5 “From 1846 to 1800, 8 poriod of fiftecn years of low tariff—a democratic tariff, if you please, for revenue only—-there were only seventy-four strikes and lockouts of whicn any official veport has been made. There were quite a numbaer of strikes during this period reported, but they wero of little oF no Altogether there were not 200 lockouts during this wnoie period of fifteen years. Nor has any record been preserved of the number of porsons involved in such strikes, But how does this record compare with that made during the past fif- teen years ot high protection and prohibitory tariffs, of republican trust-—fostering and monopoly creating tariffs! During the past fifteen years there have been over 0,000 strikes and lockouts in the United States, F'rom 1876 to 188) there are no statistics as o the namber of persous involved, but from 1881 to 1891 1nclusive, there were over 1,000,000 persons involved n such strikes and lockouts: these statistics are not com- plete, and the probability 1s_tho nuwbers both as to strikes andepersons involved were much greater than stated.” Theso figures prove nothing as regards the tariff. They simply show that strikesaud lovkouts are phenomena of recent vears; that they are incidents of the so-called capitalis- tic method of protection. When nearly every journeyman worked for himself, when the most prosperous master employed but a few journeymen and apprentices, there could be nostrikes. MKor a strike we must have a combination of laborers against their em- ployer. Such combination has only been rondered possible by tho employmont of large bodies of workmen to assist in one and the same 1ndustrial process. Another ob- struction to strikes during the earlier period of the republic lay in the statutory restric- tions upon tho laborers. The apprentice system prevented freedom of contract 8mong o large portion of the skilled wage earners and conspiracy laws made any united effort to rearess grievances extremely hazardous. 1bave stated that Mr. Springer's statis- tical assertions are partial and misleading. What, then, is the truostate of affairs? The only authoritative work upon strikes and lockouts is that contained in the third annual report of the National Bureau of Labor Statistics, from which the following table has been taken—a table approximating strict accuracy so far as the matorial at haud allows : STRIKES IN THE UN) and lockouts oxtremely irregular in the Unitod States. Labor troubles can scavcely be said to havo existed bofore the second quarter of thiy cen- tury. They have only attained alarming pro- portions during the past decade. But what do wo find to be their reiation to the tariff? There were seventy-four swrikes auring the free trade period from 1845 to 1361, But during the protective era from 1516 to the compromiso turiff of 1833, there were only eight such outbreaks roported. During those fifteen fres trade years there were ten mora roported strikes thun during all tha pracod- fng yoars siuce the discovery of Amorica by Columbus, Oae furtaer point must also be borno in mind. There wers in this country during the freo trade porioa almost 4,000,000 of negro slaves, Thney constituted the labor force of the south. All of thom, mon, women and children, were convict laborers—con- vioted to perpetual servitude from their very birth for tho heinous crime of being black. To refuse to work was to subject the laborer to the lash., To combine against thoir mas- ters was an offense leading to certain death. Nor has the increasing frequency of strikes sinco tho present tariff wus enacted beon at all uniform, The figures made an im- mense jump in 1830, followed by u fall the following yoar. Was tho tarift less pot-ntial in 1570 or 1551 thau it was in 18801 Aaqother rise followed by a fall took place in 1556 when the maximum of 1,411 was reached; but these strikes aro directly tracoable to the extraordinary acuvity of the Knights of Labor at thut time. They had no espacial relation to the tariff,which bhad remsived uu- wltered for several yoars. Strikes are not restricted in their Appear- ance to the United States, They occur more often in this country because of the greater freedom allowed the laborer in his actions, but they are also found abroad. In the thirty years precediug 1581, the trades unions of Great Britaine paid out £274,000 ($1,870,000) to operatives out on strikes. For the ten years, 1870-79, the United Kingdom ‘was the seat of 2,52 strikes, divided among the following industries: Builders, 508; col- iiers, 8303 textilo operatives, 277; carpenters, 187; masons, 161 various, 800, Thus free trads England suffered during that decade from over five times as many strikes as pro- tective United States. In Italy there were 200 strikes in the tive years preceding 1 of which only 82 proved successful for iue strikers. In France trades unions were for- bidden by law before 1854, They have since then rapldly increased iu number from 170 in 1854 10 2,508 in 1891. A similar growth of trades unions has been presented in Austris, where there wero 2,870 in 1833 and 5,118 in 1890. Many of the most disastrous strikes in recent years have ocourred in Europe, often necessitating the military interferonce of the governments, When we come to investigato the distribu- tion of strikes by industries, we again fail to grasp the pretended connection with the tar- iff. Commissioner Wright has tabulated the returns from 22,304 establishments in which strikes 100k place during the years 18§ STRIKES BY INDUSTIIES 188156 1NCL .| No. Estab- {lshments. Roods | bullding. | | 2| ||Pobaceo .. " Food propar- 1,416] Transport ations. Furniture || o Gis and eo ke 148] | Woo Gl I Lenthe 148/ | Miscellaneo’s’ Lnmbor. ‘ 08| ‘ Muehinery. 150! Total. Tt will be noticed at a glanco that by far the greatest number of labor difficulties arisy in the bullding trades. This ono iudustry was involved in over one quarter of the total cases reported and this is an industry with- out direct tarift protection. Tobacco is sec. ond on tho list, simply vecause it is manufac- tured into cigars in numerous small shops instead of upon the factory svstem. The third in the table is mining, an unprotected occupation for unskilled laborers, Trans- portation, too, is high on the list and has fur- nished many of the most noted strikes, namely those of 1877 and of 1885, not to montion the switchmen's strike just recently declared off, During the freo trade era from 1846 to 1£61, this commeroial branch was com- paratively unimportant; 1t now gives em- vlovment to nearly 1,000,000 men, The primary cause of most strikes is a dis- agreement upon the question uf wages, This takes the form of either a protest agamst a reduction of pay or an incroase of hours, or a demand for increasea wages ora reduction of hours. Sentimental reasons somstimes occa- sion strikes, but their chances of sucoess are usually small, In the investigation of the commissionerof labor,it was found that seven- teen causos operated in 90 28 per cent of all the establishments, with 207 different causes in the remaining 9.72 per cent of the estab- lishments. In 9,430 cases tho strikers ae- manded an incroase of wages; in 4,344 a re- duction of houra;¥in 1,734 they fought against a reduction of wages; in 1,602 they desirea both an incraase of wages and a reduction of hours. The employes of soventeen establish- ments struck in order to prevent the employ. ment of additional apprentices. In one estab- lishment they demanded oetter light; in five others botter ventilation. In one case the objept was to have stools while car driving, and in two the unrestricted admission of a walking delegate. Out of mere symputhy with strikes elsawhere, 173 establishments were forced also to go through strikes. Ac- cording to Mr. Springer’s idea, all these causes would cease to onerate so soon as the democratic party marches to victory at the polis. VicTor ROSEWATER. ———— Too h Fe New York Advertiser, Eaitor Fairbrother of Durham, N. C., Mr. Cloveland’s immediate personal representa- tivoin the south, continues, as he believes, to carn his salary. and a consulship later on, should Mr. Cleveland be placed in a position to give him one. In the latest issue of his newspaper at hand the gifted editor gives some account of his past career as journalist and politician, to justify his present course. In 1884 he was connected with u western journal which supported Blane. Mr. Faivorotuer's heart was not 1 the work, and on election day he cast his vote for Grover Cleveland. His pres- ent attitude is thus defined: “But between Harrison and Cleveland first, last and all the time—I am for the brave Buffalo man who slapped tho dirty pensioners, who, for tne most part, are bog- gars, in the face. When I was supposedly an independent ropublican, and I was never one of thie true blus, I kuew that the pension roll was not large. But in these days, when the treasury is boing plundered—over $14,- 000,000 being stolen yearly to pay men who ciaim to have been wounded and who have some private wounds and who never smellod real powder—I' am opposed to such pillage, I want it distinctly understood by those papers who now @ive me Billy-the-Dovil, that I can prove what I say, and not one among the whole outfiv can” defend this pen- sion-system fraud. There were dirty and lousy rascals who came into this country, and who abused women, who burned homes, who stole all that was in sight, and today, without an honorable scar, are bleeding this country and I am helping to pay for it. Let the hired Yankees howl. Iam of the south and for thesoutn, and until my blood is cold I shall fight for nonesty und for a white man’s country.” Mr. Fairbrother is doing much to keep tho south solid for the “brave Buffalo man’— who hired a substitute and suuifed the battle of Clothing | “If [ 'uz p Boys' suits, 4 to 14,$2 up;14 e in our easy cha whether they buy or not. Our store closes at 0:30 p. o days, when we wt 10 p. from afar—but we are still of the opinion that the boys in blue are not being raliied in Iarge numbers. Mr, Fairbrother, with his oyo fixed on the consulship, 1s throwing, we fear, too much feeling into his work. it The Limit Reached, New York Aavertiser. The uttermost limit of Cleveland idolatry 13 reached in the sad case of the Troy Press, which rubs its beard in the sand and liken the Obese Object of Buzzard's Roost to Abra- ham Lincoln, Shades und ministers of Grace and Whitney, defend us! This 18 too much. The tond in the fable, that puffed himselt up that he might resemble an ox, about as nearly achioved his objact as the character and performances of Grover Cleveland re- semblothose of Abraham Lincoln. What, in the name of the vird with the broad and sweaping wing, has Mr. Cleveland ever aone, said or thought that entitios him - to be raen: tioned along with Lancolnt 8 e Tearls at Low Price, Indianapolis Journal. When the McKinley law was passed only 200 persons were employed 1n tho manufac- ture of pearl buttons: now there are 8,000, and many sizes of these buttons are as choap now as before, L - PIQUANT PARAGRAPHS, Tha Irrovoronce of western Journallam fs evidenced by & Kausis editor who spoaks ot Columbus as “tne dandy Dago discoverer.” Philadelphin Record: Prof. McGiee tells the American Assoolation for the Advancement of Science that the duration of lite on this globe has been 15,000,000.000 years. whitaker! MoGoe- Indianapolis Journal onn't urdorstand wh tho rest of my teoth shoulil acho just ono of them happens to be a ifttle i, the others are on a symputhetlo strike, ' 1 supposo. Now York Trut \ase (i thoy? it s a doad lanzuage, Jinks (oxamininz his pre- tors are awfully fond of you “What churacter did you T was the blot." Washington Star: “Gota job for ye," snid ide rambier to nnother. “I'vestruck _“Felior hired mo to steal his wife's pot doz, Now you jzo und see how much she'll give tér git vhe animal buck. S Weekly: Miss Blackwell — You trlflin’ nigzah! You done an’ tolo dat yallor Sal Johnsing dat I was so ugly do clock stopved ! Mr. Jeffahson—I didn't s kind. ‘What I tole dat gai dat when you come in de room do clock wis o ‘shumed ob 1ts own 100KS 1t jes' put_bof han's up befo' its fuce. Jes' you fook ut dat clock! Jewelers' nufin’ ob de WITHOUT KNOWING 1T, A malden rare and swoet v Though corpulent. forsooth; She knew not what fier wolcht might be, She foured to loarn the truth, One day she inndyertent strayed On scales for befting hay Whereat, at lust, this rare, Did g1ve hierseif a weigh: she, ‘sweet maid Duncan Campbell Seolt n the Cosmopolitan. The morns are gray with haze and falntly cold, are misty s ad, dawn Orion lles outrolled. Now all the slopes are slowly growing gold, And in the dales a doepor silence dwels; ‘Phe erickets mourn with funeral flutes and bolls, For days before the summor hud grown old. Now the night gloom with hurrying wings s stirrod, Strangely the comrade pIpines rise aud sink; The bIrds aro followlng [n tho pathloss ar The footsteps of the pilgrim summer. Hark! Was that the rodstart or the That lonely cry of tho s obolink? -hearted birdd A HINT FROM PARIS. Baropean Edition New York Herald, YACHTING COSTUME, This daivty costume is of striped gray cloth, the bolero opening over a linen plas- tron, with turn over collar in white veiliugs, The dress and bolero of the same material. Hat trimmod with white guipure and crowned with a velvet butterfly kunot of dark blue, Girdle and cravat also of dark blue. I'd buy my boy a new suit of clothes before [ = sent him off to school,” is the height of the average boy's am- bition just now. ing the finest lines of fall suits for boys and children ever im- ported. No old styles. elties, new shades, in fancy anl plain cheviots, cassimeres and worsted, cassimeres and everything new. of fall overcoats, the very late hats and furnishing goods in enlless variety. This sale is special in the children’s department—the coziest spot in town. Ladies who are out shopping will enjoy a rest s, to which they are equally welcome Browning,King& Co ox0opt Satur- 0 urors and Dealers n tho World a We are show- New nov- checkel” and striped to 18 years,$6 up. Full line , at special prices. Boys' |S.W, Cor 15th & Douglas St