The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-05


suffering, let the curse rest where it belongs
upon the leaders of the W. b. A., Siney,
Kealy & Co.
We have the most positive information that
since the rejection of this offer to arbitrate
the companies are more than ever determined
not to yield, and we see no hope for q COM
promise in the immediate future. The action
of Messrs. Siney * Co., in rejecting the COM
panies' offer, should only serve as an addi-
tional evidence to the miners of this county
that their future well-being demands that they
manage their own affairs, instead of entrust-
ing them to the care of men who have shown
nothing but criminal ignorance and incompe-
tency in every suspension or strike in whchthe
miners have become involved. We do not say:
sever your connection with benevolent or pro.
tective associations, but we do say that the
Luzerne miners should themselves decide
whether they desire to submit their Difficult
ties to arbitration or not, and not leave John
Siney or any one else in Schuylkill county to
decide for them, and without consulting them.
But the labor autocrats who control the 30,0 600
miners and laboring men did not want the
Luzerne miners to pass judgment upon the
proposition OF the companies, for they knew
that if they did they would accept the pro-
posal with an overwhelming unanimity. Let
our miners act for themselves, and not trans
act their own business through men in an
other county, who have no further interest in
which pays them their annual salary.
When we talk to intelligent miners upon
the subject OF the suspension, they tell us that
they are ready to meet the companies half
way, and we have repeatedly been told that
the men are ready to compromise aud arbi-
trate their difficulties. Do these men not
know that they have given Schuylkill leaders
the power to accept or reject terms for them?
If they hold that Siney Il Co. acted without
authority in rejecting the offer made by Mr..
Gowen, let them publicly disown the action,
and ren nounce it.
The time has come to look at the subject of
the present suspension not as we should like
to have it, or as it might have been, but Just
as we find it, and in this light we ask the
miners to look at it. If the companies were
to offer terms to the men to-day, we presume,
on the same principle on which the PROPOSE
| tion at Harrisburg was rejected, the men
would be compelled to refer the companies to
Messrs Siney and Kealy, so ascertain if the
terms offered were acceptable. We are not
surprised that the companies refuse to treat,
through Schuylkill county leaders, in order to
reach the miners in their employ
In their management of the w. B. A,
Messrs Siney, Kealy, and Parker have shown
! themselves greater tyrantS and autocrats, and
worse enemies to the interests OF the laboring
men and miners, than the companies them
selves. And the day is not far distant when
the miners in Luzerne will assert their man
hood and independence and shake off the
leeches that have fastened themselves upon
them, and are sucking their hfe-blood.
FRANCE. DRIFTING TO A MONARCHY.
From the N Y. Times.
The chances of the Versailles Government
seem to improve, but there is little question
that it will find itself, after it takes posses
sion of Paris, in presence of one of the most
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Government has yet had to deal. The Reds
will be disarmed but they will be still there,
and very hungry and very mutinous, and
they will still continue to publish such pleas
ing and instructive periodicals as Tile Cry Of
tie People, The Iron Mouth Tile A0enger.
These papers are small, dirty sheets, filled
with blasphemy and indecency, and attacks
on property and religion. la most countries
they would hardly live q week, or if they did
live would only be read for amusement. But
one of the peculiarities of the Red mind is
that it takes all this disgusting trash in sober
earnest, and a weeks reading makes Belle
vile or La Villette republican ready to shouI.
der his musket and ''descendinto the streets,
for the purpose of embodying the ideas con
tanned in these publications in the political
system of the country. If you asked him
why he thought it his duty to take this very
violent step, he would be able to give
you no better reason than that he saw ir
PRINT that 1t was good thing to do.
Now, this being the effect of the liberty OF
the press on the French mind, il is impossi
BILE for any Government in France to let the
press alone. No matter how liberal the Ye
gi41e that may be set up, it is sure not to be
liberal enough for the radicals, nor would
any regime be tolerated which did not ar
range for a fair division of property
every Monday morning. Consequently the
radical press is sure to assail it violently
and to excite the Reds to active resistance
the radical papers will, therefore, have to bt
suppressed, and, of course, when once the
Government takes upon itself to suppress
newspapers for any reason, there is no tell
, ing when to stop, or where to draw the line
After having put down the B0uebe de Fel
for advocating resistance to all government
of course official oensors will be disposed
to put all criticism of the Government as
hostile to order, and to bring the journals
DeS De6atS and the PreSSe, under the same
rule as the dirty sheets of the Faubourg St
Antoine; and then we have one of the wors
features of the Empire restored, and one o.
the most valuable guarantees of liberty and
economy destroyed. The effect of such re
strictive measures, too, is of course NOR,
damaging to a republican than q mon
archical government. Every government ha
to keep up some show of adhesion to its owl
principles; and the liberty of the press is o
course, one of the chief articles in the republi
can creed, 80 that a republican governmen
which repudiates it, is in some sort guilty o
i self qualification.
Take, also, the question of the standing
2 army. We presume there is nobody now VIII
shares General Trochu's amiable belief tina
+ the PaIisians can be governed by ''mora