Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-06-12
STRIKES.

The coopers' strike has resulted in two
very serDus affairs. One was peculiarly
tragic. cooper who belonged to the
union, anil knocked off work with his fel-
lows, CAM home to find his larder empty,
and his wife and children really suffering
for want o food. In the morning his wife
implorcd hm to take work, but he replied
he could net desert his comrades, and went
away. He came home at night to find his
wife and three children dead. The poor
woman had gone crazy, and killed her
children and then herself.
The other tragedy occurred Thursday |
night. Four union coopers attacked one
who persisted in continuing at work, and
in selfddence he shot two of them, one
dying from the wound. The labor ques-
tion is one that is going to make great
deal of trouble here.
POLITICS. s
Politics in New York is quite different
thing from what it is in the country. With
you, It runs in well-defned grooves. If a
man is. a Republican, he is Republican,
and If he is Democrat, he is Democrat.
But in New York you have to ask what
kind of Democrat or what kind of Re-
publican man is. lie may be Tammany
Democrat, and Apollo Hall Democrat, or
any one of dozen other kinds of Demo
crat. And the Republican party is made
up of quite as many factions, there being
this difference, however The Democratic
factions are all after plunder, and each
strives to get supreme control of the mo-
ney bags of the great corporation. The
Republican party being in minority, can
not steal directly, that is of the city; but
the wicked portion of them ally them
selves to whatever faction of the Democra-
cy they think will win, and join in the
plunder. 1t is all game of stealing.
Tweed got some of his best support from
Republicans, both in and out of the city.
But the Republicans get their innings in
the Federal offices, which do not depend
upon the will of the people. These offices
are the bones over which they wrangle and
growl and bark and bite. The Custom
House gives places to many hundreds OF
people. The Post-Ofice is an excellent
shelter for spawned political hacks, and
there are other offices Of equal feeding ca
pacity, the struggle for these places effects
just as many divisions in the Republican
party as the city plumber does in the De-
mocratic. The ''outs'' fight the sins p
they get in, and then the conditions are re-
versed.
Therefore, political expression from the
metropolis has no significance whatever.
Those people whose voices would be worth
the hearing never speak; those who are
heard, speak from interest. If a loud
mouthed brawler denounees the Admins,
tration as corrupt, you may be tolerably
certain that he has been forcibly pulled
from the public teat and is out in the cold
And 1 am sorry to be compelled to say thai
if you hear one loud in defence of the Ad
ministration you may be about as certair
that he is snugly fixed and does not wisf
to be unfxed. The solid people of the city
take no interest in it at all !; they vote, i
they have time, and that is about all
They submit to be plundered because they
can't afford the time to fight it. As ont
merchant said to me, MY time is wortf
to me so many hundreds of dollars day
l know these scoundrels are pludering US
and know we could stop it. But / cam
afford to stop my business and go ON com
mittees, and attend meetings, and do thu
work necessary to stopit. They steal $40,
600 year of mel can better afford to pa.
it than fight it." And so it goes. as Ion:
as it is so, there is no hope of pure gov
ernment in New York.
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