Show IS THERE the wires are carrying the nei sail over the country of the strikes and contemplated tem plated outbursts of labor against capital in many of the manufacturing cities of the eastern states some of the mechanics and laborers have assumed a attitude because an in chease of wages is denied them while others are equally as obstinate because capital wants to cut down the wages and make themselves more secure in their investments everybody knows that cheap labor does dot indicate prosperous times the man for the small tl 00 per day ciui a large family cannot gt ahead in matters of finance no difference how closely he may economise econom ise in his minds eye he sees nothing but drudgery before him the lest of his natural life with no possible show for him to reat in his old age duang the war and for a few years after wages were good for the laboring men and mechanics but provisions were high times were good then and the nation was prosperous when wages are fair bubines is good and as the people are largely in tho majority when they are doing well the ty prosper everybody seems happ yand contented the laboring man and his family enjoy a few of the comforts of life and lay up a surplus for some profitable investment but it is differently now produce is up in some places so high as to bo beyond the reach of many common laborers because wages are low and this is what brings about the labor strikes in the east are they fruitful sometimes they arc productive of good but very rarely tho refusal to raise wages on the part of the manufacturer is pener ally founded upon the fact that they cannot afford it no man with money will invest it in any enterprise unless ho sees in it a fair profit consequently the moment ho realizes that his investment is loosing him money he must cut down to save himself unless he docs this the inevitable bust up follows and hundreds of men are thrown out of employ his is a deplorable state of and it most crupl pally that are besmen busmen dull it foie bodes a pinic p inic and by dreaded by a nation a panic is the most to be feared monopolies op olies who are grinding fortunes out of the pool or classes of people ought to be compelled to pay good wages to their employees they can afford it because they of all others aie making money it is not so with the manufacturer the demand for lib wares oftentimes lessened by a depression in money matters or is super ceded by some new and less cumbersome article which his business to such an extent that he is forced to curtail expenses or go to the bottom his employees feel the effects of this depression as keenly the and their remedy suggests itself in which ultimately closes down the factory and compel the men to lay idle or seek employment from some othe it is a poor remedy it is a remedy that borka destruction to labor and capitol and both suffer to such an extent that months and even years are consumed in petting back to their former standard of prosperity in the increase of wages when it is beyond his power to make it the manufacturer sees inevitable destruction if they can afford to pay an increase then they should bo made to do it or suffer the consequences but if they cannot and this fact is known to the employee then the remedy is beyond their power and it is useless to institute and bung themselves to creater want A FINAL distribution of the cash funds received for tho michigan sufferers f om fires last fall has but recently been completed has evidently been considerable consider ible red tape about the of these funds or else they have been slow in coming in we ha e noticed in many instances where sufferers from cicat calamities have called upon the public for aid that an amount of red tape or unnecessary delays are occasioned when those asking help are actually in need and want assistance as soon as possible person hiving in charge of matters this kind should act with the promptness that secretary lincoln did in the case of the mississippi river sufferers people seldom ask for assistance unless they want it right away danenhower upon his arrival in new york had a critical examination made of tm ees by a competent oculist who informed the lieutenant that the sight of the left eye rould not be restored but that the nahl eye with rest and careful treatment would be all right again he is decidedly in favor of further arctic explorations and signifies his willingness to go again as soon as his eyesight is restored A NEW YORK paper says meat is now higher than it has ever been in this city american beef is being shipped back aiom europe at a higher price than can be obtained for it in the home markets and buyers of mutton on this side of the waters are outbid ding buyers in london Ail hurs visit to new york indicates change ot many office holders the half breeds are having a rollicking time of it now one of them is going to have a high old time on the of this month he will be elevated with a hemp cord |