The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22


Chicago strike: ......s..-...,..s
Inc strike OF sixty men IN a single rolIIne-
mill in Chicago, few days ago. threw fifteen
hundred men out of employment. This may
have been fun to the sixty, but it was very
hard upon the remaining fourteen hundred
and forty. All belonged to Trade-Union,
and when the sixty quarrelled with their en-
ployers on a question of ten cents pay, the
Others had to ego out" or be taboOed and
prosecuted. 1t was a signal illustration of
the beauties of the Trade-Union system.
The rebellious sixty were finally beaten, and
returned to their work, but, in the interval
the fourteen hundred and forty stood unwiIl-
ingly idle, while their families wanted bread.
That is to say, counting the usual average of
five persons to a family, more than seven
thousand persons were lett to suffer while the
sixty strikers fought out the battle with the
masters. The Chicago Inter Ocean says this
Union of the iron-workers 8 is one of the
strongest organizations of its character in the
country, being second only to the Typograph-
ical Union in capabity TO enforce its orlers''
The injustice and tyranny of the whole sys-
tenn is exhibited in a very strong light in this
instance.
1t also calls.Mr. Trench to account:
A very remarkable Illustration of the imme-
date contact of the newspapers with the pop
ular thought is found in the discovery of the
word ''its'' in the Bible. Trench wrote,
years ago, in the authorized version of the
Bible. its does not once occur" Webster
and Worcester copy this statement, and sus-
tain it, Trench also said Il at Shakespeare
used ''its'' but three times" 1t is found
five times in ''Winters Tale" Well, all this
learning was "caviare to the general, and
only here and there a scholar worried himself
about it. and those who did, accepted Trench
as authority. and slumbered on. A few days
ago, however, the Springfield Republican re-
peated the wisdom of Trench and all the pa
pers copied it. This brought the matter
down among the Bible readers-one of whom
at once lighted on Leviticus, XIV, 5, and
read: THAT which groweth of its own ac-
cord," &C., and so dug trench for the Dean
and the Yankee photographers.
The Mail discourses of "mourning monopo-
lists as follows:
Only about year ago the newspapers gave
the public information of the organization
ofa vast combination among the petroleum
operators, looking to just such control of the
production, prices and markets as we are now
worrying over about the coal question. The
game ofthe Oilmen was to check the production
and thereby force UP prices by reducing the
supply. Oddly enough, the result was direct
ly the opposite to what was intended. The
consumption and demand fell off, instead OF
increasing and matters have gone from bad
to worse with the engineers of the monopoly
movement, until now the new wells in Butler
County, Pa, have sent CONSERVATION into
every branch of the oil business. From pres
ent appearances there will be no attempt
made to ''corner' the people into paying
high prices for kerosene for good while to
come. Would that we might hope tor like
result to follow the schemings of the coal ope-
rators, who are month after month drawing
tighter the reins they now hold in their hands.
The outlook is, at present, quite in favor of
the monopolists: but let us hope for the in
tervention of some special Providence by
which things may in the end be made even.