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Show oeirur wiped ont In Europe, nature will treat ns to a terrible calamity. "In the midst of our coming civil war the Atlantic At-lantic coast will be wrecked by submergence sub-mergence and tidal waves from the borders of New England to the southern borders of the- Gulf of Mexico. There will be no safety below the bills." Galveston, Gal-veston, New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Jersey City and all other cities on the coast will be, nccording to the professor, partially submerged and damaged beyond be-yond estimation. The loss of life lie places at not less than a million persons. Professor Buchanan concludes his very interesting article by warning all who have faith in his judgment, and especially those who have read his works, to leave tho lowlands of the Atlantic coast south of New England within fifteen years. Ho is in the neighborhood of 80 years old, and does not expect to live tCwifhcss the fulfillment of his prophecy. "It is with great hesitation and reluctance," he says, "that I have consented to present this horrid panorama; but truth should bo our iarainount aim, and if there be, as I maintain, any science which can look into the future its proper presentation is by tho statement of the futuro, so far in advance of the event as to constitute a decisive test." Dr. Lyman Abbott is ont in The Fornm as an advocate of an "industrial democracy" to succeed our present unchristian un-christian and unscientific system. Just what tho gentleman means by his peculiar pecu-liar "industrial democracy" it is difficult to discover from The Forum article. Ho says it is not anarchism, communism, socialism or capitalism. In fact, there are many things which it is not. The intelligent economist will le likely to class it with Barwun's great "What-is-it." Tho doctor says the "industrial democrat" would "adjust both control and participation in tho profits according accord-ing to the measure of each man's contribution," con-tribution," and that "he would leave each individual to a free contract in the open market." Ho would leave "the cap-j cap-j tains of industry and the privates of in-; in-; dustry to compete in a free and open market," and yet "to every man he would give a idiare of the control in the world's industries." Do these statements : need analyzing to show how radically they conflict? I don't think they do. Dr. Abbott would not abolish thecom-petitivo thecom-petitivo feature of our present system, which he declares to be wholly bad, but would change the character of the coin-I coin-I petitors by making "combination of ! labor and capital to compete with simi-i simi-i lnr combinations." In other words, profit ! sharing would lie brought to such a pitch j that the laborers would knife their broth-! broth-! ers in a rival institution, instead of leav- ing that homicidal work to the capital-! capital-! ista, as at present. Competition, co-operation, capitalism, socialism, paternalism and anarchism aro all mixed into a hopeless hope-less juuiblo in the doctor's mind. Ho sees that things are all awry and the times are out of joint, hut he socms to lack the courage to prod deep enough for the cause of the trouble. When this courage comes to him he will not belong in discovering the only sure remedy. An article in a recent issue of The New York Mail and Express painted in glowing colors what it characterized as "Tom Barry's Big Army" the United Brotherhood of Labor. It was stated that this organization now has 150,000 members and that it is rapidly growing. According to tho author of tins fniry tale there is soon to be a three cornered fight between Goinpers, Powderly and Barry. Tho tale was evidently written by some one friendly to Barry, but such stuff is a damage to the labor movement, whether intended or not. The writer has been misinformed concerning the present condition of the organizations and also about the Barry revolt. ; the urn eisiiii . What Its locus Catches in the Great and Growing Field of Labor La-bor Kefbrm, PEilSE FOR THE CLOAK-MAKERS, An Interesting Prophecy of an Eminent Scientist Dr. Abbott's Great "What -Is -It," f" The history of labor's struggles in uns conntry does not show a parallel to the New York cloakmakers' strike. Without detracting in any degree from the heroism hero-ism of men who have contended in other etruggles for their rights, those who (know the details of this latest battle do not hesitate to say that the suffering, iBelf restraint and heroic devotion to principle displayed by the cloakmakers were beyond comparison. Out of over 18,000 who were locked out or struck on june 14 only about fifty weakened in jnllegianco to the union, and they (deserted on the first day, before the freal test began. All the others re-pnained re-pnained firm to the end, some of them with starvation staring them in tthe face. Thousands sold or pawned everything they had that could bo turned ttnto money with which to buy bread, land when the fight was ended found themselves with hardly sufficient cloth-ling cloth-ling to cover their backs, and with their homes almost bare of furniture. Orna-nuents Orna-nuents and keepsakes went to buy dry Jiread with which to keep life in the gallant army. The aid which carae from (the outside was insignificant, notwithstanding notwith-standing tho sympathy that was supposed, sup-posed, from the attitude ,of the newspapers, news-papers, to exist in tho community. . The officers of tho Clonkmakers' union nro deserving of special praiso for the ble manner in which they conducted in flairs; but without the courage and do-votion do-votion that characterized tho rank and file they would have been powerless. In (the conferences between the officials of (the union and the manufacturers' com-anittoe com-anittoe tho former displayed such good common sense and knowledgo of business busi-ness rules as convinced those who read tho proceedings from day to day that jthey were the etmals, if not the superiors, supe-riors, of the "captains of industry." A few such victories as this one and tho talk that tho laboring peoplo are unable to conduct their own affairs will forever cease. But I want to repeat, for the (benefit of tho rank and file of other labor organizations, that all the wise leaders an the uuiverao could not have won the cloakmukers' fight without they wore supported by the confidence and courage lof the body of strikers. f There is another lesson in the result lof this strike which many union men taiay consider with profit: The cloak-makers cloak-makers of New York aro almost entirely SJews, "foreigners." Workingmen who were fortunate enough to be bom in the United States not infrequently rail Bt foreigners and lay at their door many of tho defeats labor has sustained. This ivictory should teach that a man, though Eho bo a Polo, an Italian or a Hun, iB "a pnnn for a' that," and if treated as such by his associates will fight just as hard ingainst injustice as a full blooded native. The few men not foreigners in the Cloak-makers' Cloak-makers' union had the good sense to j show all the time that they recognized this fact, and the slurs and insinuations I engendered by race prejudice which ' Jiave so often created discord were conspicuous con-spicuous by their absence. "Put none (but Americans on guard" will not do as war cry in labor's fight for its rights. Capitalism is international; it knows no j country, no creed, no God. Labor must Adopt the first two planks of that plat- , form if it would win. "The world is I liiy country, to do good my religion." i i Tom Barry has done yeoman service in ' the cause of labor, and his honesty has t never been questioned, but in his contests I with other loaders he has not always acted with the pVomptnosa and fearlessness that ! distinguished his battles with cairitalism. Notwithstanding tbo statements iu The Mail and Express I want to say that Barry did not aeoedo from the Knights of Labor at the Minneapolis session, and he was in no way connected with tbo or-(.'anirdtion or-(.'anirdtion of the "provisional cominit-t-o" iu Chicago. "The efforts of this committee have been largely successful, and they have resulted in the organization organiza-tion of the United Brotlierhood of La-bur." La-bur." This is an error, as tho "provisional" "provis-ional" bad nothing to do with tho United Brotherhood. Such small things do not amount to a great deal, but it is from errors of this kind that history is sometimes some-times written. ! Editor Erijjss V. De-K cf The Locomotive Loco-motive Fivouien's Magazine, hasevident-; hasevident-; ry abandoned all hope of ever getting Chief Arthrj', of the Engineers' Hrorher-, Hrorher-, hood, to take the fraternal hand whiehhai long been extended by tho other railroad : organizations. Dolis should and does know P. M. Arthur; but he has labored on for years trying to break through the chiefs selfishness in the interest of justice jus-tice to tbo railroad employes, who bavo frequently bad to fight a com-bination com-bination of magnates and locoino-! locoino-! tivo engineers. But the effort has ! been i:i vain, and now The Firemen's ; Magazine says plainly what it thinks of ' tho bead of a worknigmen's organization who hobnobs and drinks wine with De-pew De-pew and other railroad presidents, while tho fellow laborers of his constituents are striving with the magnates for simple sim-ple juniiee. "Mind your own business'' is Arthur's motto, and the undersigned onc.o told Debs that the self suflicicnt chief ought to be given a dose of bis own medicine, but Debs was for "penco and harmony." Ic is probable that the iiremen have ut last learned that ho who is not with them is against them, and there is hono that "this is my last j term in office' will not alwavs'be a I meaningless utterance with Mr. Arthur. I Jos. R. Buchanan, I I In The Arena Professor Joseph Rode Ihiclmnau writes about "Tho Coming (UatHolyHtn of America and Europe," which ho places at nineteen years from "tho present time, and which "in its magnitude and horror will surpass anything any-thing of which auihentic history has preserved a record." The professor's paper pa-per is a prophecy containing conclusions demonstrated by the sciences which he has ''csoterically cultivated," and the juannor in which bo goes into details convinces the reader that whatever whatev-er there may be iu the prophecy the prophet believes in himself. Professor liucbanan says that there will be a civil war in the United States, brought on by Libor, race ami church troubles, but , chiefly the former, and that the aristocracy aristoc-racy and money power will ba overthrown, over-thrown, aud a real democracy established establish-ed on somet hing like the lines laid down by .Nationalism. "Thousands are today impressed with tho approaching dangers. Tho facts that should alarm them aro conspicuous. The industrial chuises in both city aud country aro profoundly discontented. The western farmers are not ulono in Itbeir suffering. Tho decline in New jjfork has been so great that State Assessor As-sessor Wood, in 1H8U, expressed tho opinion opin-ion thnt iu a few decades there will ba jiono but tenant farmers in this state. While tho farmers aro going down, and rear four-fifths of the city of Now York live iu tenement houseij, tho plutocracy is going up, tha gulf is widening between be-tween wealth and poverty between tho man who maybe arrested as n tramp for being: ont of work, and tbo millionaire Vbo spends $700,000 on a stable for his (horses." ! "But one thing is necessary to insure ft conflict. The amiies must be gathered and organized in two hostile camps, for mobs do net make war. The organizing is going on now a never before in the world's history.. The labor parly, the anti-capital party, will soon embrace, from one to two millions of men, bound together by common interest, common sympathy and common hatred of everything every-thing hostile to theii interests, with a trong conviction thai they are nn oppressed op-pressed cksa, and small patience with their oppressors, while the consciousness , of their physical power will encourage a j Qefiant and uncompromising attitude. ; In such a condition tho disturbances or ' mobs, which aro wally local and tern- j porary, electrify the mass and become a national convulsion. A single individual may become the immediate cause of a , civil war." And while man is fighting his battles, While democracy iB overthrowing plntoc-. plntoc-. RST tojkb country, and monarchy is |