Show workingmen MIDDLEMEN MIDDLE MEN AND EMPLOYERS in these days we can hardly take an american inper in our hand without finding new testimony of good times the federal administration is traveling around nil over the county to proclaim to everybody how good all business prospects adeall tho stump speakers democrats us stull as republicans agree in rejoicing over the termination of tho crisis and only dispute about the party to whom tho revival is due it is only green backers and social democrats who remain pouting and grumbling in isolated corners well wo have all made the experience that after a long illness wo feel much better in tho transitory state of semi than we ever did in alio full enjoyment of anim paired health thus a good deal of tho present well feeling may bo attributed tri to the contrast with the there are however sufficient indications that the hardest is past factories arc reopened everywhere our railroads and kotlier menus of conveyance can hardly 10 lo justice to the masses of freight wholesale homes and factories are crowded with orders and we may add to all these genuine signs of prosperity the import of 35 tons of gold but in the aidt of all this stirring activity and in tin same papers which bring us daily reports of the brilliant expectations of business men and wo find an ever tide of news of a sadder character news of contentious between workingmen and the spiteful idleness of strikes has become the order of the day in an epoch when it should be expected that sill concerned were gand to find work for otlie rt in ft time when all prices are rising when e g iron rails have from 33 to per on steel rails from to n i etc the iron korkem of are refused a of 50 beut per alio jm working a daily pay instead of the old in all these wo learn the fad that the agmen succeed in their strikes just and only there were skilled labor isi required while requiring no skilled qualifications a aro at filled by people satisfied with tho old rates this shows and tho workingmen working men would do well to notice it thai the laboa rourkey i not yet in abutto which allows an enforcing of high prices for labor large as haa been alie bu iness bjoin and much as the buying capacity of alie west haa been by good chopa and fairo nible markets there i not yet in tha manufacturing districts work enough for all who belong to alio common claw of factory hands on all ulieno conditions the increasing immigration haa con influence the men therefore be warned before hasty strikes they can letter afford to work a few weeks at low rates than not to work and nothing tho manufacturers had suffered great loe and aro under great tiding il over on the other hand however it also lips in tho interest odthe employers to be more yielding they are very ready to enjoy the advantages and benefits of the better limps and BO anro the middlemen middle men thy allow themselves and elegance aliey have had to deny themselves for years it ha good thing that some people can again afford to live in lusa and style but unfair and unjust for them to monopolize till filid participation therein to tho poor laborera labo rora whose and sinews leave aided in obtaining tha nt of the sumptuous supper to tho good customer niter ina heavy in ahoi manufacture cro rosewood rose wood if perlian per liap paid by tho poor alio receive or per week thero exist in certain circles l tendency to represent eairy as fable on alio other fide to oppre g high is at the extravagant de manil of the workmen work men mr jelott or any other broad claths cloths suited h arnoud mf uch in du adeenu hia aary of S io ns ft railroad director barely sufficient for n hung but lie will assure im of his unfeigned wonder what tho journeyman at per day id going to do with all hi money it not possible to and ex pee tonto too strongly stion gly against mich abuses they jre ring the foundations of our republican in the iutin cial keeping down of politically dAng eion iii enwia froni buides view the manufacturer can not conceal it from hi when hia business paya better thoy ari it very toon when ho libia dioro to do ind realizes bolter prices shall they patiently look on and wait till ihly atio on bied un increase of their wage they would have to wait quite long and in ft good many cases in vain then again ibo increased ordera on lie manufacturer result in increased domandi on the labor cap acety ortho hand do hernot he dek errea share of the increased eede keatly good pio will sonio only hen not only the arv urn more but when the flam tor all kind of labor are of an which enables the working nen to live in a way befitting the ice of a lich country the employers who keep down wages thereby diminish the purchasing capacity of their customers low wages eventually event ualey result in low profits and this shows tho necessity of harmonious understanding between employers and employees but how long will it last until all parties concerned shall have learned and practically acknowledge that only lucli ft union between factory owners and factory helps insures alie tranquil and equable development of our social economy I JI |