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Show i CURRENT COMMENT. Count von BernsdoiiT. our German Ambassador in this country has started start-ed competition with Samuel Gompers In claiming great increase in wagos for the worklngmen. And the Count has distanced Mr. Gompers. While Gompers neer. or rarely ever, claims he got the wages of Labor raised more , than 20 per cent. Count BernsdoiiY boldly claimed at the banquet of tho National Association of Manufacturers an increase of i!0 per cent for the workers of Germany in the last, few years. The legs of the Count's imagination imagin-ation are longer than those of Gompers Gom-pers the President. The French ultramontane royalists, who, availing themselves of the canonization can-onization of Joan of Arc, and of the delight of the French nation at the vindication of its favorite daughter, are declaring that, If Joan of Arc were alive today she would be a royal 1st, are surely a ridiculous crew. The reincarnated Joan cannot have forgotten for-gotten her experience when, first in the flesh, she saw royalty at short j rnnge and discovered It to be cowardly, coward-ly, obscene and treacherous. The New York Evening Post correspondent cor-respondent who states as a principle of economic science that, "t'ae world over, the laborer is paid what he earns," must be "an original founder of an economic science so original as to make its theories fit the fact that the larger tho products of Labor the smaller small-er becomes Labor's share. The correspondent cor-respondent is a wise guy to keep his name concealed under the signature of "Paracelsus." Paracelsus, in the language of Marx to the Paracelsuses. "has written himself down an Immortal Immor-tal ass." i |