The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-08

adopted by the Government and people as
useful and legitimate results Of the war
Therefore, when the Democratic party says
upon the coming elections, then, depends the
question of whether the Democratic and con-
servative element for the Senate shall be in
creased, and whether that element shall have
a majority in the House of Representatives
and, as o consequence, whether we shall have
a constitutional, economical, and honest gov
eminent, or n continuance of revolutionary,
txtravagant, and wssteful pai tisan rule, what
does it L>ean? Why, it simply means oppo-
sition to oil of those great principles involved
in the war, and which we're supposed to have
been settled by its successful termination
principles that have since been engrafted in
the Constitution of the United States, aud
are regarded 10y the people as the law of the
land. The adoption of these great princi-
pies the conservative Democratic party, no
doubt considers as unconstitutional" par
tial, and unjust class legislation" aud for the
purpose of undoing I'll that has been done
10y the Republican party since the close Of
the war, and that, too with the sanction of
the people, this conservative Democratic
party now asks our "fellow-citzens of the
United States" to trust them who sympathized
with their enemies in time of war, and dis
card those who stood by the Union, the Con-
stitution, and the laws through that long
siege Of strife and blood, and are still true to
the great principles of human liberty. As these
principles should be considered established un-
derour Government, the people of this country
could admire a conservatism that would assist
in preserving them; but as conservative"
evidently means the reverse of this when
used by the Democrats as part of their party
name-that is, they have not changed their
politics-we believe they are still opposed to
all that has been done by the Republicans
since power was conferred upon them by the
people. 1t certainly does not speak well for
any party whose success is made to depend
on class prejudice. and should the Democratic
party once succeed in this way, it might be
at the peril of that liberty and equality before
the law that every honest Democrat and Re-
publican is willing to concede as right. We
have too much faith in the American people
to believe they will place the Democratic
party in pow er at the risk Of all that has been
achieved within the past ten years.
THE MINING TONSON CONE AGAIN.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
History repeats itself even in the most tri-
vial details in the Pennsylvania coal-feds.
The miners strike in Schuylkill county hav-
ing failed, as always before, 10 produce an
advance in prices, it is to be followed, as in
previous years, by a forced suspension of
labor throughout the anthracite regions. The
real objects of these strikes is invariably to
enhance prices in New York; but other pre-
lenses are always found, and this year it is
ostensiby ia behalf of the eight-hour system
that the General Council of the Miners
Union has ordered a general suspension to
begin on the 18th instant, and we presume
has prepared, as usual, to enforce the order
wherever it may be resisted. Although nearly
all of the 30, 600 anthracite miners are men,
beIs of the Union the DEGREES of the leaders
are sometimes disputed by those who instinc-
L Al ~
natural ally of the Schuylkill operators, to
whom natural market is fatal, because of
the extortionate tolls of the Reading Railroad.
Having no other outlet, they have no re-
course but to force consumers to pay these
tolls by a depletion of supply, as a conse-
quence of the suspension of production
brought about by the ready agency of the
Miners Union
This operation has been repeated so often
that it is beginning to be thoroughly under
stood The strikes invariably result in bene
fit to the operators struggling against this
1apacious railroad, and in disaster to the
miners in whose behalf they purport to be
undertaken. Mining should be the most re-
munerative of industrial pursuits, because of
the fact that it can be pursued at all seasons:
but as a consequence of these strikes the
miners are generally behindhand with the
world. Travellers in the coal counties are
dStOuuuSu anu pdluSu ny luS SqudlOr OI t1e
laboring classes everywhere, and, ignorant of
the peculiar trouble which affiicts the region,
are apt to consider them the most improvi-
dent of people. The truth is, hoV ver
that they are not wasteful nor unduly in
clined to idleness; but, owing to the natu-
raj clannishness of labor as against capt.
tai, they are the ready instruments of the
| Schuylkill operators in their hopeless
struggle with the Lackawanna companies,
which own their lines of transportation.
| When depression comes, Schuylkill, which
pays unreasonable tolls for transportation,
| produces only at an enormous loss on every
ton, and must stop; the natural sympathies
of labor then make general suspension
| inevitable.
There is but one way to avoid these con-
stantly recurring strikes which cause SO much
| suffering not only to the miners but to
millions of coal consumers The Schuylkill
region must be released from its present
thraldom by the completion of the new coal
railroad, the construction of which we do
not now advocate for the first time. No pub
lie work is more imperatiyely demanded by
the public needs, and none, as we have had
occasion to show, is more feasible or more
certain to return a large interest upon the
cost of construction. The building of the
new outlet has been long thwarted by the
Reading Railroad, but with the impetus
which will be given the enterprise by another
general suspension, we hope that its COM
pletion cannot be much longer delayed.
THE DESTINY OF CANADA.
Form the NJ Y. Herald
The very interesting and exhaustive article