Show A gt Tim TiMI OP OJ U n ot of t the dally dAily of ot the event t the o fJ must bo b 6 1 Interminable chain of ot calami tl that seem fem m to wind Itself Its lt around the world at nt the th present time Hardly any an 0 I day has hal passed pa sed since the terrible I la oster In irs the West Vest Indian stands lands 1 with without out leaving some gome record of ot accident or ur Earthquake landslides storms drought heat hrat famine amine plagues form forn orm a II large larie of ot the tho dally daily rending And Arid to these mu t bo be JO added the tho slaughter of man by ily muon In Turkey and If It the tho year yeat continues as lIS It tIns lids commence It will noOd not noted d In history his lory for tor one of or death nna nS destruction d tion And It Is Ii I by b no miring menna os that It will III see the th of one ono of at atthe the greatest grea test t conflicts ofHie of 1 Th political volcanoes volcano are arc nr smoking and rumbling In many place An All outbreak In tn either eItler ell er of or them might alight a II goner gener general al 01 conflagration i Another feature of ot the tito present time line Is la lathe I Ithe the great greut uneasiness s prevalent pr nl tit In III n In Industrial and amI laboring Circles there ever eer so 10 many strikes as all tiMe are arc now or have hare b been n within the tM last few month months And Anti yet the times are pros prosperous Last month there hOne th to was wits a gen oral strike In the tho building trades of ut Now Nov York Involving tji n In Inthe Inthe the same city elt two IWo hundred III II copper cOll er workers and laborers labom employed In ill the time New York stock exchange build lag tn went on Oil strike At Orange Orang N J 1 Jn the five n hundred hundrI plumbers plum lers and LInd four four our hun bun hundred hUndred dred tired paInters wont Went on In strike demand lag InK an nn Increase of ot wagon and control nf or helpers At t Montclair N J T about a n hundred and fifty plumbers and nad ns liS nany painters pointers aCId pap left Iett work demanding a II ware wage Increase o of ot cents a day da At t Denver the union cooks rooks and AmId walters waiter were out from the The Tho grocery employ emlo os OIl tile the meat cutters and tho time bilker bakers were asked to come coma out In tn sympathy The Time cigar elrar makers maker were Idle OWing awing to tho tile strike At t Chi Chicago CIo cage five fIe strikes Involving three thousand men mon were Vero Inaugurated and were vere spreading to 10 the tanners and cur car curen ore ers two thousand of ut whom hail had ed etl to work vork In Connecticut n a thousand non men In the building trades trade I an Increase In wages ageS n a weekend and tho the ex cx exclusive elusIve use of ot material At Al fifteen hundred men and boys went treat on strike at nt three collieries c because the tho ho owners wanted them them to go goto goto to 10 work a later lator than at pees pres cut and take a n half more time limo for tor din dinner dinnet net nero At another colliery three hundred truck struck work because the owners would not add another shift to their set tot of ot firemen on account of oC the eight hour labor day The Literary Digest of ot May Iny 23 sum lIum summarizes th strike situation aa liS follows foit fOI vs I IThe The strike items have become sa nu numerous in time the past law few weeks that Nome Homo of ot the newspapers newspaper are lire beginning to wonder If tc the nations business Is not being seriously affected In Lowell textile workers have been on 01 strike for tor six lx weeks In Chicago OOOO various arlou trades are Idle Idie In Now York 1000 workers worker are lire out and there U ts a n tight light between betwee l two carpenters unions that has a large III rge proportion of ot the building enter enterprises enterprises prices In the city something like a thousand thou striking Italian ers era have hac been marching up and down the railroad between New York and New Haven trying to 10 precipitate a gen general eral strike In Omaha teamsters are striking there Is a n strike on the Mobile Mobil and anI Ohio Railroad and a R strike of ot boilermakers on the Union Pacific the ho Staten Island 1 carpenters carI are out olt outa olta a strike of ot employee of ot the lIam Ham Hammond mond Ind 1 Packing company ha hits hils de tie determined that firm to 10 move to Chicago in tn Denver Dener the butchers the baker the cooks anti amI the waiters are striking for fori i recognition of ot their unions In Toledo last laRt week a n funeral was Interrupted by the union because a n non lion nonunion nonunion union man was driving the hearse tn n a aNew New Haven last week the union unton grave graw gravediggers gravediggers diggers rs refused to dig n a grave tot for a 1 funeral conducted by a II nonunion un undertaker undertaker undertaker and In the same ame city It has been lIeen found desirable to te request the mourners to come como to the funerals In n nunion union hacks Of at course cour e the country has hili had peri parI periods pen ode of or depression lan and strikes and even I riots before now no but all things con eon considered the general unrest both bath phys physical ion ical political and Industrial that pre pee predominates dominates In the tho world worldS today Ig is t not calculated to Inspire confidence In the time Immediate future Over Oer time tha physical conditions man has no control Ho lie cannot stay the trembling of the tho earth or command the winds and the waves Hut Dut over oer the other conditions man should be the ruler There should be beno beno beno no necessity for massacres strikes should not be needed Such buch abnormal measures should bo ho impossible In this ago age of ot light and reason Men len should adjust all differences by peaceful meth methods methods odo and the time governments should aid old them to do so Before Defore this becomes I the general rule outbreaks are liable to oc occur occur C cur and render even een times of ot prosperity pro Insecure |