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Show Ai EFFECTS 'COLD OX LABOR. STANDARD WORKING AWFUL HARDSHIPS. fcun the Strongest Labor I'alom ran nt Withstand the t'ruihlni Effect of the Flunai-Li- l Sytiu htrlkri aatl Lockonle. I'ru-llrU- In his tenth annual report, devoted to strikes and lockouta, which lias just lteen completed, Carroll D. Wright, romuiKsioner of labor, computes that the losa to employes In establishments in wbch lockouts and strikes occurred 'during the thirteen and a half years ending June 30, 1894, amounted to f 1 and to employers to 194,825,837. Thp loss to employes on account of strikes was $103,807,866, and on account of lockouts, $26,685,516; to employers on account of strikes, $82,590,386, and on account of lockouts, $12,235,451. The number of establishments involved in strikes in this period was 69,167, and the number of persons thrown out of employment by reason f strikes, 3,714,406, making an average loss to the employes of each establishment of $2,368, and to each person of $(4. The number of establishments involved in lockouts was 6,067, and the number of persons locked out, 366, 690. These persons lost an average of $73 parh. The assistance given to strikers and the subjects of lockouts during the period amounted, as far as ascertainable, to $13,438,704, or a little over 7 per cent of the total loss to employes. This report will cover about 1,200 pages, and gives all the Information ascertainable concerning strikes and lockouts for the seven and a half years ending June 30, 1894, especially covered by the report It, however, includes the figures given in a previous report on the same subject, closing with 1886. The report is largely devoted to tables showing the causes, duration, location and cost of these labor disturbances, and also gives many other facts of interest bearing upon strikes and lockouta One of the most Important tables is that given to the cause of strikes. This statement shows that more than a fourth of them were caused by a refusal to accede to a demand for increase of wages, over 13 per cent for a refusal to concede a reduction of hours, and more than 8 per cent by the determination of employers to reduce wages. Three thousand bIx hundred and twenty, or almost 8 per cent of the strikes were caused by sympathetic action with other strikes, and 1,688 were occasioned by the employment of nonunion men. The industries most affected by strikes in the past seven and a half years were the building trades, with After 20,785 establishments Involved. these in order of Importance came coal and coke, clothing, tobacco, food preparations, stone quarrying, etc. Out of a. total of 10,488 strikes in the entire country for this period, 5,909, or to exceed 56 per cent, occurred In twenty-six of the principal cities, while of the establishments involved in lockouts, over 61 per cent occurred in these cite ies. per cent of the establishments engaged in strikes were FifLy-nin- closed cn an average of twenty-tw- o days, and 64 per cent of those engaged In lockouts for an average of thirty-fiv- e days, the loss of time in other cases lcing only temporary. In each case there were a few establishments closed permanently. Success was gained by the employes in over 43 per cent of the strikes, partial success in over 10 per cent, while the remaining 46 per cent were failures. Over 48 per cent of the lockouts succeeded completely, and over 10 per cent partially. The others were failures. In the successful strikes 669,992 persons were thrown out of employment. 318,801 in those partially successful, and 1,400.988 in those which failed. Out of the total number of persons thrown out of employment by the strikes in the entire period of thirteen and a half years, 8.78 per cent were feand by lockouts, 22.53. male-, Of the 10,482 Btrlkes which occurred in the seven and a half years especially covered by the present report, 7,295 were ordered by labor organizatlcns, while of the 422 lockouts of this period were ordered by organonly eighty-on- e izations of employers. Sixty-nin- e per cent of all the strikes of all the lockouts of the cent 76 aud per seven and a half year period treated of occurred in the five states of Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania.- - Ohio, and Massachusetts. Illinois taking the lead of all states of the Union. Press Dispatch. The reader may find himself wondering what the subject of strikes and lockouts has to do with bimetallism. It will ho remembered, though, that Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Atkinson and gold champions generally, are endeavoring tn delude the workingmen with specious statements of Increased wages. They argue that tho wage rato Is higher than formerly, hence the gold standard is a good thing for the workingman. The foregoing synopsis of Commissioner Wrights report shows very clearly how false and misleading a basis of compulation the mere wage rate is. It is simply a waste of breath to give the 'rate" of wages, unless coupled therewith is a statement of tho number of idle men, and time lost by short hours. Moreover It will be seen 4 that ao far aa wages have been Upheld it has been largely through the medium of "strikes. These movements can only' be made successful by the agency of labor organisations, and the wage rate has been kept up in those callings alone where laboring men liavo been able to combine In large numbers and present a strong front. But even lu Such callings It cannot be doue permanently In the 'face of steadily falling prices. When tho price of the product continues to decline, sooner or later the wages of the workmen are certain to be reduced. The of unemployed and tho scattered millions of workingmen and workingwomen who have not been able to keep up their wages by organization, receive no consideration whatever in the philosophy of the champions of sound (?) mone NEVER. REMOVE HER HAT? And ThU Kraaon ffu Was Kot laullriartl. Wliy VH ARE NEW WOMEN. N AND ARE CONSEQUENTLY IN Front the New York Sun: A New THE PUBLIC EYE. York girl announced her intention last spring of becoming s member of the When Ona of Thom lisa Ilrokaa Into Protestant Episcopal church. the time for confirmation urived, howC'ollago A out bar llu Mulshed 10,000-Mll- o UlUa oa liar lllka Twa ever, the girl failed to participate. Yp to the very last minute she had intendrretljr loalmautera. ed to do eo; , she was present at the service whet the confirmatory rite UKIXC the past was odminlstere.l; but for some unacmonth there have countable reason she did tot go forbeen a number of ward and receive the layisg on of hands new women promherself. The dellnqsency has, or course, inently in the public given rise to no eml of iimment and eye, though this conjecture among the girfff friends. does not necessarWhy did she. at the very last moment, ily mean that these The back ent ao unceremoniously? particular women truth of the matter has at last leaked wore bloomers or Why I Favor Kri Mllrrr. out, the facts being as follows:- One eC were so utterly difI am in favor of the free and unlimitthe chief charms of the girl- who conferent from the rest ed coinage of silver for three reasons: templated confirmation was her luxef their sex. except m the matter of 1. Silver Is the money of the constiuriant bang. It was fair and fluffy, and achievement. To- be sure, all bloomer tution. Its demonetization In 1873 was against the dasky halo of the big hate women are new, but this does not Imply a crime against the constitution which that were the girl chosen hendgear It that all new women wear bloomers. will cause the American people, when was pcrrtGcnlarly effective. It was, The woman of who does things they fully understand this subject, to moreover, a most serviceable hirsute that her mother and grandmother besubstitute the name of John Sherman ornament. In damp days, upon perfore her would not have dreamed- of for that of Benedict Arnold as a synospiratory occasions, and even doing Is quite sufficiently new to make nym for perfidy and treachery. If we by ocean breezes, Its crisp and her interesting to most people. had a supreme court such as curly beauty remained unimpaired. A MUs Jane Alrd recently applledi Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln Other rocks might wilt and in the circuit clerks office In St. Louis, girls' would appoint. Instead of a coterie of wither, bat this bit of fringe was semnaturalization pa per a 8he desired corporation lawyers, the act demonetizper idem, and the queer part of it was ing silver would long ago have been tv-i- the reat of the girl's hair didn't declared unconstitutional and void. .ppear to be particularly fluffy. Well, 2. The demonetization of silver was It seemed that when the girl made up Inspired by England and the opposition her mind to join the Episcopal church to its remonetization Is now headed by she did not realize all that it entailed. the bond brokers of London and their She had, apparently, never witnessed tools In Wall street. rite of confirmation. When, therefthe 3. The vast major! ty of the American ore, she saw member after member people are In favor of the remonetizahead uncovered, tion of silver. This has been fully dem- of the class go forward, she was filled with dismay. Remove her onstrated wherever the people themshe would die first. Let selves, unhindered by and hat? Never? see that the fair and the all other girls to politicians, have been able voice their waa not fluffy fringe part and parcel of opinion. sewed in her was at her but merely all, The great Napoleon saw the point when he said, after studying a set of hat? Not a bit of It; her precious soul a price. She compound Interest tables: "There Is itself wasn't worth such one thing to my mind more wonderful therefore sat perfectly still, kept her than all the rest, and that is that the hat on and kept her friends in ignordeadly fact involved in those tables has ance of her hirsute secret. In ignorance not before this devoured the whole for the time being, that is to say. By some means or other the friends became world. Respectfully, enlightened upon the subject, and, sufFrancis J. Schulte. fice to say, were much more Impressed LOOK TO MEXICO. than if they had learned the fact In a different way. Thu "American Finn" Making a Klch Country Out or That Knpublle. ARSfIDE DEMESK. HOW HE EARNED CANDY. The United States are on the gold become to a basis and have the single gold standcitizen, ana A Strange Hit Tiu Btorjr of m lllg she wanted to go about It in the regulaard. Mexico is on the silver basis and XawfonndlOBd Dof. tion way. She said she had come from haB the silver standard. What the conOne summer afternoon a group of the Island of Jamaica, and that she dition of industry and trade is here, children were a playing at the end of to in wished a need not here be recited. All our readpubinto Lake Ontario, lic schoolsbecome herteacher of the citizeners know the sad story. What the con- pier that projects after rights The proverbial careless near were beyond question. Miss Alrd dition of nffalrs in our neighboring re- child Kingston. of the party made a backward ship not receive much encouragement did public, let the following article, clipped from the pier into the water. None from the circuit clerk, but shs Hied her from the Atlanta Constitution, answer: step his companions could save him, and of "I returned from "Mexico a stronger papers nevertheless, and she Is In hopes no one from the of silver man than ever. said Mr. S. A. their criea had brought a citizen of the United becoming Inman. "I took things leisurely, very shore, when, just as he was sinking for States if there Is such a thing aa womthe third time, a superb Newfoundland ans carefully observing business and Indurights. strial conditions. I find that Mexico has dog rushed down the pier into the water Old Dartmouth College is losing some Those out. the of of Its Puritanical conservatism. It has prospered during the past two years, and pulled the boy children that did not accompany the lately admitted to its full course Miss when business conditions in our country have been actually going backward. boy home took the dog to a confection- Katherine Quint, who is the daughter Cotton in Mexico is selling at 16 cents er's on the shore and fed him with as of a Congregational minister and a a pound in silver, which Is equal to 8 great a variety of cakes and other graduate of Wellesley. The Rev. Quint cents in our money. I paid $7.50 in sil- sweets as he would cat. So far the Is a member of the Aboard of trustees ver for a suite of rooms which In this story la, of course, only typical of scores of Dartmouth, ills cases. The Individualcountry would have coat $10 In gold. of unanimously agreed to receive Miss A suit of clothes, a pair of gloves, a hat ity of this case is left for the sequel. Quint as a student, although ber father or any item of domestic necessity sells The next afternoon the same group of refrained from voting. in Mexico for approximately the same children were playing at the same place Miss Fannie E. Hallock, of Flanders, amount of silver that we are required when the canine hero of the day before N. Y and Miss Cora T. Chadeayne, of to pay here In gold; In other words, came trotting down to them with the West Cornwall, N. Y., have just beea about half bb cheap. most friendly wags and nods. There appointed postmistresses in their reThis establishes very clearly in my being no occasion this time for supplyspective towns by President Cleveland. mind the absurdity of the argument ing him with delicacies, the children Both of these positions were eagerly about a depreciating currency. A sil- only stroked and petted him. The dog, after by local storekeepers and sought ver dollar in Mexico will do what Is however, had not come out of pure so- others who were willing to serve Uncle done by a gold dollar In this country, ciability. A child in the water and Sam. In Miss Hallocks case there was and it has been the appreciation of gold cakes and candy Btood to him In the bitter competition, notwithstanding the and not the depreciation of silver which close and obvious relation of cause and fact that West Cornwall is only a has brought about the disparity. I and If this relation was not clear fourth-clas- s office. effect, found the factories running on full time, Some weeks ago a young1 woman atto the children he resolved to Impress and a cotton factory at Orizaba, cap- It upon them. Watching his chance, he tended a New York theater In bloomers italized at $2,500,000, was paying from up behind the child nearest the and was at first refused admittance. crept 20 to 25 per cent dividends. The peoof the pier, gave a sudden push, She threatened to sue for damages, and edge ple are contented and prosperous and have not suffered from the general de- which sent him into the water, then was at last allowed to enter. For the In after him and gravely rest of the evening she attracted more pression during the past few years. The sprung attention than the performance on the truth of the matter is the silver curren- brought him to shore. stage. She told the reporters that she cy of Mexico has acted as a splendid had come from Boston and was under to oiniii. of Growth Splrl protection measure against outside dethe impression that bloomers were quite In leu than half a century spiritualpression, and, as it has resulted in Mexthe proper thing in New York. In the has ico. so it would in our own country, If ism gathered something like we would Imitate the example of Mexof human beings into its fold. afternoon she had taken a ride on her ico in this respect, and throw ourselves How many will have embraced its conbicycle in bloomers, and went to the without changing her costume. theater our own resources. assurances and its undeniable upon soling Let the reader, especially If he be- evidences of a future life and of spirit-retur- n lieves in protection, consider well the within .the next fifty years? last sentence in tho above extract tho Probably 100,000,000, possibly 200,000,-00- 0. silver currency of Mexico has acted aa Nothing can arrest its progress, a splendid protective measure against restrict its spread; because nothing outside depression." What free coin- these arc guided and determined by omage has and is doing for Mexico, it nipotence. It will presently take Its will, in a measure, do for us. Whilo among the positive sciences and place giving our people better prices for their the day is not far distant when chairs products, and the laborer better wages will be instituted In our universities and more steady employment, would and professors of physics, while exprove a far more effective protective Its principles and elucidating pounding measure than any that has yet passed or its laws, will refer In tones of compasla likely to pass congress. As corroborative of the above, the sionate astonishment to those learned In the last decado of the ninefollowing telegram from the City of pundits who were accustomed teenth century Mexico October 4. published in the Oreto a as fraud or a delusion or to it refer of the 5th, is interesting and gonian suggestive: The marvelous growth of a snare or else as a deplorable combinaMexico's commcrre Is attributed by tion of all three. London Light the Mexican Herald to the country's Maine' "So Man's lainil." MRS. RUNYON. SCIENTIST. being on a silver basis, which acts as & stimulus to every industry, and Is Maine's No Man's land Is situated She gave the name of Grace Harringleading to the establishment of new In the town of Parkhurst, a strip if ton, but it was after discovered that manufactures each week, among others desert where not even a bug can thrli e. her real name was Armlde Derncsk, being a grand paper mill projected by Nobody claims it, nobody wants it, and that she was a French girl, cud also Americana, also woolen and cotton mills, it Is the only place In the stale that that Lhc was an actress and not at all etc. Salem (Or.) Fost. tramps steer clear of. averse to being advertised, llut she Ujrt-mou- th lnd1 s - - - to-d- ay when-swep- to-da- y certainly had the honor of being th first woman to wear bloomers in the auditorium of a New York theater. Annie Londonderry Is a new woman with p vengeance. She is s Boston wheelwoman. Over a year ago she made a wager that she would make a circuit of the globe in fifteen months. She started without money, and It was stipulated that she was not to beg or to receive gratuitous aid from any one. In addition to this she was to return to Boston with five thousand dollars earned by her sole exertions during her globe trot. For this she was to receive one thousand dollars. One of the conditions was that she was to cover tea thousand miles on her wheel. Miss Londonderry has already arrived in Boston, somo days ahead of the prescribed time. There was considerable friction at a recent meeting of the Virginia State Medical Association, held at Wythe-vlll- e, Y. Among the applications for membership was one bearing the name of Mrs. Catherine Cfainault Runyon. Mrs. Runyon la known as one of the best authorities oa hygiene In this country, says a writer In the Metro- politan Magazine. Miss Ada Lewis is quite another kind She Is appearing as a new woman in pCay called' Widow Joan. f new woman. very much ate PULPIT AND POLITICS. t office-holde- rs full-fledg- ed fellow-membe- CM(nHui.Mmw May That HiaS. TMdIM Tula t Mlnle-la- n The Boston Globe recently published a symposium of opinions from prominent men on. tbo question, should clergymen go into politics? Iloa. Elijah A. Morse, M. C of Massachusetts, furn- ished the following: In answer question, "Should clergymen gointo politics?" if by that you meau should they take nn active interest in public affairs, should they speak and preach upon great moral issues which are under consideration by the state legislature or by congress, should they attend the caucuses and go to the polls and' vote, I answer most certainly, yes. Surely the watchman on the walls of Zion should love bin country, should love his flag, should be Jealous of her honor;, should desire her prosperity and advancement. And certainly when groat moral Issues are at stake, as they very often are in state and national legislation, he- should not fail to imitate the prophet of Israel, and lift up his voice like a trumpet and cry aloud and spare not.. Qathe other hand, if your question- asks, shall the clergymen go on the stump during the political campaigns,, and discuss the tariff and finance and purely business questions? I should.' say no; He had better leave that field to public men known as politicians. In short, the pulpit And the clergy are not supposed to have to do directly with candidates and with business questions. The clergyman's are divided on these questions, and he cannot take sides on them without Riving offense, resulting In division r - par-Ishon- rs well-kno- 25,-000,0- 00 ELIJAH A. MORSE, and discord In the church. But on great moral questions, like temperance, Mormonism, laws regulating marriage and divorce, the defense of the free nnsectarian public Bchool, laws for the protection of chastity, for the suppression of gambling and lotteries, laws to promote the settlement of disputes by arbitration, the enforcement of law and order, showing respect for and encouraging public officials In the discharge of their duties on all these questions the pulpit and the man of God can and Bhould speak with no uncertain sound. anti-slaver- anti-lotter- y, y, I ho Pa It mx km at llnmr. It gives ouc an Idea of the extent of Borovno. the estate of Jean and Edouard de Reszke, in Poland, to learn that it embraces sixteen thousand acres. It Is a magnificent domain, with a palace dating back to the times of Louis X., and it may be a matter of interest to the thousands of opera-goewho incidentally contribute to Its support to know that the estate 3 kept la apple-piorder. An American visitor there found evidences of business thrift in the great Blngers in the vast fields of growing potatoes which are raised ta he manufactured into Russian brandy. The de Iloszkes are popular with their neighbors, not only because of their their wealth, but also generous use because of their interest In manly sports, from riding to rs c cross-countr- horse-racin- y g. Every land flowing with milk and has glares In It. Ram's Horn. honey |