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Show (LABOR ANDnSuSTO BOME ITRMS OF INTEftnaT TO UNION WORKMEN. American r...ort Trada Ilnbla T1.nl of the ln.,K.r(, .,l,M llr,.l,M Th.rt for Are lril, tj,n .ad iMtitt ho j. Tl.it the limn liumiult lo Nnlliln,, 1 Tl. .. r ,,,r. nmt J kiii.iw of the wIMwiw.. f Willi kern and l.loo.lleaa . Hallt lo the tunl, artlrau - llrl"J'0..M,, l,,w ,,oM wadset Tlimiah the warrior .i.rm il,. wrap,, I'aihloneil onlj for II,- alave 'li11" "' knew thee murhller Than the trim) IMmaerua alii v.. i Wblle dSMhillon mnikrih f Tlw tvtwret of fomnn I rami, Thy tlrotiic U arailara pWnlr T Ami fclnitnn UirouHh I In landi I Thou ojwm tl.a toll lo culture, To lhe aunllaht and ihr .l.w, A And I ha rlihtse .pin, (rl0u fUnlett Wliani of old Ilia fon-at tr-. mi w?fn, " ,,ro'l rolled between them , And thtlr own far nathra land, Thou werl tho fnltlir.il ally i Of lh l.nnly pllitlm lan.. . Thny boro no wnrllk mkIm, No luniwri swept th tky, Nor ilia rlatlcn. Ilka a laniMt, I Swelled Ita fearful nolpa on high. , llul tha ringing wild re-tehord Thy bokl, rtaittlata airoka. Where. Ilka Inctnet, on tha morning ' Went up tha csMn emoke. Tho tall iMka lowed bafoni Ilia, I.Ike reede Ufore ilia I Utt, And III Mrtli mil forlh In ahvlneM Whera lh a In triunipli pard. Thrn halll ll.ou noble conqueror, i Thai, whan tyrnnny oppreatad, i Ilewa.1 for our rethrra Irom ilia wild A land wherein In real! 1 1111, lo lha power that gHtlh Tha bounty of lhe Mil, lhl freedom, bih! an honorail mint, TO Ilia hardy sons of toll! Ilur l"iH.rt Trj.lr. All export trade nlmotl double thai lu Import Is lha notoworlhy feature ; of tho statistics of the foreign com- mcrco of llic Untied Slolea for thi fiscal )or ending with June, tho preliminary pre-liminary figures of which havo Just I been siren out by the treasury de- ; ' pertinent. Tho oxcm of oxrort over I Import trade measures the rolunie ot I money or ealsblo securities that flow Into n country, When money flow In ! InJiutry quickens, expands. Till la what Iim been happening Industrial 1 nethlty In the UnlleU Staten I far " moro general nnj lRoroun than tho I ,' rhronla groIer I nlltlnic, to nJmlt Thl I n btK country, ami n great ilo-il 1 of builnet can bo colng oi without nuy particular riolne or tlr belns miilo about It. In the late of New York not let than 1,3 JO new inanu- faclurlnp; concern liara stnrlcil In buslucK thi year, and 1.C00 old firm that had cloied their doors bare returned re-turned operations. Some 400 manufacturers manu-facturers applied for permllon to run their plants ocillmc, and 60,000 , extra hours of labor I the record of 1 thfo tlrma. In comparison with the flcurcs of !o07 lomt 40,000 moro per-i per-i ons aro now employed In New York i Ihtn In tht ccr. Initances ot a like naturo might be multiplied In which the hands employed by somo firm hae been nearly doubled, one steel company alone adding l.bOO men to Its pay roll, In I'cnniyltanla the Iron Induitry lo In good condition. Exports Ex-ports ot Iron and steel product aro going forwaul with their uiual free dom, dcoplle tho war. As one trado authority "Ilallroad nnd strue-lural strue-lural work Is being turned out In considerable con-siderable olumo and ihlpbulldlug Is also active, while exports of rlnlihcd products continue on n liberal scale." Many mills and furnaces still have orders or-ders on baud sufficient to keep them busy for months to come, tabor Journals Jour-nals that detote much tpsco to mat- iters pertaining lo the Iron Industry contain few notes of reductions of orce or hours, or of suspension, but rainy of Increased force, added hours snd rosuiuptlon. Tho condition ot tho Iron and steel Interest Is Justly ro ganltd a a faithful barometer ot tho general situation, hence the present Improvement Is highly agreeable to cople having no direct connection with the Iron nnd steel trsde. Hut nil tbo Iron business Is not done lu l'enntylvanla. Thus, In Colorado, a new steel rail and Iron ml'l has had a. market for all manufactured Iron It could produce. In tho South the output Is constantly Increasing. The greater part of the Increased demand that has made thin general revival possible hs,i como from abroad. Under Un-der present conditions that's the only place It can corns from. And revival In cotton, shoo, Jmrdwarc, and about all other Interests mutt come the same way, If It Is to come at all. It It worthy of nolo that as soon as San llago had been taken ships loaded with general merchandise set out for that town from every Inuortant point on the Atlantic coast. Tho cargoes were not for Uncle Barn's use, but for sale to tho merchants ot that onio Hpanlah tlty, Trado began almost literally as toon as the stars and stripes had heen run up, and the news reports say that tho Spanish merchant Is elated at the prospect he has ot doing a big (mslnres. Ho ran buy lower than lie before could, and can sell according!) Ilo may ba the scion of on Interminably Intermin-ably lino of ilons, but that riocan't prevent him from seeing on which ttdn his bread Is buttered. While our export far exceed Imports, Im-ports, the prices wo receive are gradually grad-ually growing less, Everything we end to England goe lo pay Interest charges on Hngllih loans here. If prices continue to fall, the excess of exports will soon measure far less In dollars and rents than Imports. r-.or l Iltnall. Now that Hawaii bis been annexed to the United States, Industrial conditions condi-tions there bavo become Invested with new Intereit. Hawaii Is probsbly not r 60: place to go to In senreh ot a Job. lweause. the labor market to well tokd. Oon.nl Ocner.1 liny wood. In bl Itat retort to the stst department, loUd wages and price of necessaries follows Wages on the plantations, Including home and nrewood, or room and boe.nl, rng from II2S to I75 ir month for engineer and sugar boiler, ISO to lw Pr month for blacksmith and carpenter, carpen-ter, J 10 to JD per month for loromo-llvo loromo-llvo drivers, I00 lo 1175 per month for bookkeepei and WO to 140 per month for Icamtter. In Honolulu Ibe rate are ft t III per iUy for bilcklayer anil mason, (J so to C per day for carpenter carpen-ter anil ralnlrr. and i to G per day for machlnlet Cook receive from W to ( per week, unreea, huiite servant and gardener. $g 0 in per month Ile-tall Ile-tall prlres of trnvliton are as fol- Ham, IS to IS rents per pound, baton, 18 to cents. Hour. JS.50 to J& per too inunds; rhe, 3 20 to JS per 180 pounds; egsa. go to so cents r do; butter. XI to SO etiits per pound, and Ice 14 cents per pound. INOIM. '" '"nude. Ireland weavers aro paid II. n week and msny of them bavo families. Port) thousand working women In New York city are receiving wages o low that they are compelled to accept charity or ilo worse Tho miiDlclpallsatlon ot telephones, gas and water lias already been accom-pllnhed accom-pllnhed In Amsterdam, tho chief city of Holland, nnd tho municipal council Is now conildcrlng tho question of the rounlclpalltatlon of the street rail-a. rail-a. lu Spain women work. About 2,600 are employed In mines; tho state tobacco tobac-co factories giro wotk to nbout 25,000. and Into making engages (1,000. Thy may even bo found engaged In the manufacture of dynamite nnd gunpow-der. gunpow-der. In one factory of Detroit, Mlcb, I a machine on which a boy not over IS or 10 years old Is doing tho work which, until recently, required six men, working by hand. Tho boy get 14 per week. Tho six men, who wcro of necessity cnnblo mtchautes, could not bo had for lea than JI.W a day, or 19 n week each. A decision was rendered by tho Unit-ed Unit-ed State suircmo court recently affirming af-firming the nlldlty of tho South Carolina Caro-lina dispensary system In Its essential features. Three Judges dissented, but n substantial majority of tho court accepts tho view that a stato has n right lo conduct tho llijunr trnrno on Its own account ns an excluslvo stato monopoly, subject only lo tho qualification qualifi-cation that a cltlten may Import liquor li-quor from beyond tho state for his Individual In-dividual uo without Interference from tho stato. The doclilon Is of Importance Import-ance ns establishing tbo right of n state to set up and conduct, not only a public pub-lic liquor monopoly, but auy Industrial monopoly. Harper's Weekly saya: "The strike ot the engineers In Kngland Is over, and the men havo been defeated. In their defeat I Involved that of trado union-Ism, union-Ism, for tho employers Insisted on the right to manage their own business In their own way, and, after a most extraordinary ex-traordinary strugglo lasting six months tho men havo practically surrendered. Ono thing tho I.'ngllsh capitalists, and all capitalists everywhere, should bear In mind. The Inevitable tendency ot a strlko Ilka this Is to strengthen tho socialist movement. The wnrktngraea will reason that If they cannot bring their employers to tcrmt by negotiations, negotia-tions, or even by striking, ihey will try lo accomplish their object by legislation. |