| Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER we are having quite lively times just at present cyclones hail storms hot weather spells railroad accidents church scandals and labor troubles are among the principal events which interest or alarm the morbidly sensational or the nervously debilitated the cyclone of yesterday in pennsylvania was something ter i its effect on life and property cannot at present be estimated it will it is thought be the cause of over one hundred lives lost and of the destruction of several millions worth of property whole towns bave been wiped out literally speaking in factories the ponderous machinery was twisted and jt twirled like eddies of autumn leaves ana sn a forest breeze massive church towers were shattered and demol demo 1 fahed as if they were pipe stems Hall road round houses were taken aft bricks and all and moved as if were flag flagman fl agmen mens shanties con aj wt t roofs were blown away and mod with as if they were tin dish K ct covers whole towns and villages were swept off the earth and the story of sodom bodom and gomorrah was retold and re enacted with startling realism in our own day and iu in our own country it would seeni seem that church buildings were the especial objects at which the wrathful storm was directed roman and methodist alike were swept away people are remarking that it is no longer safe to live contiguous to a church building joseph medill of the chicago tribune lives right in front of the holy name roman catholic cathedral but as yet he shows no sign of alarm A few months ago business men and capitalists felicitated felicita ted themselves on the happy settlement of the may labor troubles the developments of the last few days show that labor and capital are far from being harmonious bed partners on september 1st ast next carpenters will go out on strike in this city this means a paralysis of all the building trades and all the building material dealers in Chica goOf course opinions vary as aa to the justice of these strikes one thing is certain the boss carpenters have broken their treaty with the workmen and no well balanced mind can sympathize with treachery deceit hypocrisy and violated troth the may strike was settled on a compromise the men at the time demanded 40 cents an hour and an eight hour day the bosses would not give more than 85 35 cents an hour but bit a compromise was effected through the intervention of three judges men the most able and most self sacrificing fl cing C of the chicago bar this compromise was that 37 cents an hour be the regular rate of wage on and after august the first august came and with it no 37 cents an hour the ear carpenters penters have now decided to strike arike in a body on the first of next mouth month the trouble lein in new york can be traced to a source somewhat similar last winter new york central em aloyes demanded overtime for all time worked over twelve hours a day the demand was so reasonable that it was granted but later on the heads of departments and time keepers refused the men overtime this quickened the men into activity in organizing themselves for concerted action the knights of labor is the order or body most moat in favor with eastern workmen in the west and around chicago this order is very unpopular it has given way to a system of federated trades when the new york central strike first occurred the news was received almost with joy by the federated trades tr ides it was concluded at once that this strike would entirely obliterate the knights of labor from the archives of organized labor bodies but as matters now stand all the departments of federated railroad employed emp loyes are likely to be drawn in at first the chiefs of the other bodies laughed at the idea of powderly going to war with the vanderbilt Vander bilts but when pinkerton and his bis armed anarchists were called on the labor chiefs realized that something more than powderly was aimed at A numbs number r of switchmen from the federated bodies were ordered to su supply p the places of striking knights and on refusing were discharged the fight was no longer a powderly fight and unless the switchmen are ara reinstated the critical hour between labor and capital has cowe cone the brotherhood of locomotive firemen has a membership ot 25 the brakemen brake raen the switch switchmen meD the conductors and engineers are equally strong and all except the engineers are in the federation era tion even if the federation is not drawn in this time it is only a question of months perhaps weeks when it will be whatever way the ball rolls the knights of labor as a body cannot exist much longer though many causes are assigned for its unpopularity and ill fortune in strikes yet there is only one cause that can be safely set et for its disintegration 11 that cause lies in its defective fa system of organization it gathered in whole communities raw undisciplined lined and arbit arbitrary fary in manner and with such it was impossible to preserve order this method afforded a fine opportunity for the venal the unscrupulous and the paid spy to get in and such elements would bring even a god given order into disrepute in addition to this the system was too unwieldy and placed power in too loo many hands certainly there is wisdom in a multiplicity of counsels but there is executive and adminis success in only a few and the nearer this few to a unit the better provided it to be not a one man power bower absolutely powderly is a pronounced roman catholic and that fact contributed much to his downfall the protestant and freethinking portion of organized labor feared that powderly might play into the hands bands of the roman cardinals who are at present taking an active part in labor troubles these churchmen mean well and no do doubt are interested in the well being of the people but the fact cannot be concealed that the italian laborer the irish the spaniard the maltese the french laborer are not an advanced class and thea are all the product of cardinals and archbishops Arch bishops this is what brings distrust on powderly although in truth wrongfully he is certainly honest conservative and good living he is sober abstemious stem ious and temperate in habits he is opposed to gin giD sellers and their ethics and when a man is denounced by rum sellers it is ih a difficult thing to maintain popularity Is there nothing to be learned from these troubles yes there is a great deal we see in the case of the carpenters aters as well as in that of the sf IV Y central a breach of trust a want of truth and such an abundance of ua unfaithfulness faithfulness as would make fiends grin with joy truth and fidelity are the groundwork of all moral social and I 1 industrial progress does not every form of worship that pretends resends to be called religion en K deavours abour to inculcate truth and fidelity that is why infidelity is classed as though fou founded rid ed on a purely secular basis but thiu the word infidelity is now BOW left entirely to matters spiritual while we use the word unfaithfulness for matters worldly though in reality both are homologous where unfaithfulness exists the simplest industry y cannot be carried on in a social way among individuals with falsehood and unfaithfulness as guiding lights what happiness harmony or prosperity could exist in a community they are the basest qualities that poor human nature can be infected with whether they are inherent in human nature is berb perhaps aps a question in animal nature they are not always found for the dog often dies in defense of his master or pines to death in his absence and I 1 think it could be shown that truth and fidelity are part of humanity and comprising the spiritual groundwork of his nature take the most depraved carpetbagger in utah and certainly humanity cant go much lower in the scale of depravity than it has done in some gome of the carpetbaggers carpet of utah yet they tire are not totally depraved in a spiritual sense give one of these a book to read in which falsehood and unfaithfulness are rewarded and truth and fidelity are shackled and cast into prison mire and filth and you ou will find even a carpetbagger Eig disgusted with the book though it may be a reality take him to see a play in which the same occurs and ask why does he hiss the vil villain laffi and applaud the virtuous and heroic Is not this evidence that there is in man a better self a divinity or spiritual existence though he may be ap ae depraved unprincipled and meretricious as a liberal election stealer or a salt bait lake liberal organ grinder yes but the god in man can be trampled out of existence in a physical sense where there is no religion no morality no ethical agent to quicken spirituality and develop the grand characteristics which underlie the better self in man such as t uth sincerity fidelity honor honesty and worth where these qualities come out triumphant in book or play does not that book or play please even the most vicious and is not this an evidence that religion is an instinct an man and that man is god creata created and adt an evo development this instinct becomes perverted as the maternal one does in the woman who kills her baby and nurses a lap dog or in the female hog which devours vours its own offspring man can fall and does fall and has fallen but there is no man so low but that if handled at the right moment he can be redeemed truth and fidelity are not always triumphant in the worlds battles but often come out losers though only temporarily in the end they are sure to win no matter whether a race a nation a sect or an individual truth and fidelity will bring it on top at the end falsehood often prospers for a while but when found out what on earth is more contemptible than the hypocrite Dont Don lyou you turn aside from him as from a reptile dont your blood chill and your nerves quiver at sight S of him dont you feel as if you deemed it a duty to annihilate him yes you do and that is because you feel the spirituality in you outraged because this reptile has a human form to come back to the strike will any excuse save the toss loss carpenters and the railroad magnates from the charge of falsehood and unfaithfulness unfaithful n ess no it is useless to say that workmen spend their spare money in drink and their spare time in saloons and that it is a justice to curb such men it is true the trades which have obtained the eight hour day have done nothing to show that they deserved it the masons sons plasterers and bricklayers are all paid four dollars for an eight hour bour day in this city they have not a room a lyceum nor an improvement witty society among them they quit work at 5 p in and spend the whole evening in a gin mill this is square truth why dont labor leaders come out and try to educate their men where are the preachers who are yearning for souls in africa and see bricklayers in chicago going to perdition why not come amon among 9 these eight hour men and urge them exhort them to establish a small library a small recreation ball or reading room where the long jorg evenings could be spent in mutual improvement and in de ve loping religion and spirituality themselves and families the outlook for poor people in C cago is anything but cheerful present wheat has ju jumped 80 cents a bushel to pol F t are dearer than ba bananas i M me out of the race house rent la Is h and real estate spee speculation is furel mad insane A PW interviewed several prominent g gratl merchants as to the the 2 dep den rise in wheat and aad as to 1 prospect in the future here what they said HOW IT ALL HAPPENED y C B irwin said it was the nw no from north dakota that did it il 3 ft is ia re reported arted thre th re at first blush bouls would seem that frost dol do harm now in fact I 1 heard a M man AUL i that he had just been up theta there i they were garvestin har harvesting vestin but it MUM remembered that t the late pi wheat is not yet ripe and th thach be pretty prett badly hurt hurt there plenty of buyers for wheat I 1 among whom were hutchinson there much to sell so it t little wonder that the prices went i rapidly this is the highest point this crop and the indications ae alai it will go still higher beacy it not high when all things are taken ft to cons consideration aeration de ration I 1 y I 1 A lot of things did it sald T logan first of all the bucket 9 being now practically out of b all their gambling trade has come 0 lj against the board in the sha shape of te speculation I 1 so many granger speculators i 76 its old tims times come back a all these people are naturally bi that one fact ought to pus push the n ket up four or five cents then n 3 want to take into consider consideration on fact that there much wheat the country and that if the frost to nipping the late planted wheat t going to be an increase in supply the cue for the rise in w wt today was the reported sale of bushels of no 2 spring wheat in atti at 11 what is going to be the eff effects times of this rise in the price foodstuffs well it going to make it ifer easier for working people to get ai ale sure taking things ah ab aro ar it going to be a great while 1 it will be wise to shorten sail at the tremendous amount of real i tate speculation that is always all last manifestation of pros prosperity er i was is always followed bv se depression look at the western towns t that been choked off by it measure will be a stimulus but man takes a stimulant he feels feela p blue after the effects have worn wom ttE these labor troubles dont tend t make the situation any securer aal aol then look at the row that is Tol ngo in south america some of anel fine days english capital I 1 there will have to be protected by lot more american stocks held england and germany will be let and sent back that will malm make hard times in america and then 3 out V DUNHAMS GLOOMY VIEWS never has there been such as this for thirty years y said R dunham there have been abi wheat crops short potato cro crops all that but when one crop has scanty another has been I 1 large this year everything that gro ro the ground that you can eat is aboa potatoes why im paying ti lj bel i 1 for em at my house tf by and by that only persons of t tastes as bescan can afford them and I 1 migrants Min rants will put out signs pota N loday oday there going to be WE h wheat to go around among gur our V people pie and still shipping T way ity to E europe europe is bound lae 0 it away from us in spite of 14 ry thing the silver bill is going goin g A the price of silver so ff england will have to ro pay 20 i wore adore a bushel for indian wheat e a population say of mat of the each person estimated abed consumes four and a bushels of wheat per annum rt figures out bushels r bushels for seeding re have bushels as the at t required the estimates for rears ears crop hardly run over bushels some say lets split the difference and ke it take out the seed e have left bushels leaves us for export that amount enough for fwise trade to cuba the west south america mexico nova and the like tell you what next spring good wheat will be tree e as hens teeth and may be jr haill folks eat agh h priced wheat there wont jiffy potatoes or onions or apples it of any kind and all te to live on bread corn will go hi price too as you can see by tot market BB BETTER BETTEB FOR FOB THE FARMERS m glad there is a short ap crop the will make more out of a short abort idof wheat than they will out of a firof they ought to have more kumf than to raise so much wheat w heat w they just dig in and grow oat k wheat everywhere S sixty istl IR after its harvested its near nearly ly all lie market and being used as a ato W knock the farmers on the id as they bread their own mar B by dumping their wheat at once now if they took bething ing else corn or oats C there might be a good mart on everything if wheat be scarce si would go up to 60 50 cents a bushel f would fetch up pork but nol no affy wast keep on raising |
