The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-08-03
THOUGHTS ON THE STRIKE.
[Phi}adelplsia Tiutes.1


The neWsbOys' din is simply awful.
1t is rather fortunate that there il
nothing left to make panic of now.
Mr.. Jay Gould thinks this thing will
go ON until reputation government
has been destroyed in America. But
Mr.. Jay Gould is better sharper than
statesman aud his opinion about gov
ernlnent won't scare anybody.
The Baltimore Sun sees that it is
the duty of the present hour to strength
en- the hands Of the authorities. This
is matter entirely independent of any
consideration OF the causes which have
led to the present state Of affairs.
to have something done. 1t thinks sit
is high time for patriots to be aroused, ,
TOR statesmen to put themselves at the
front, for Congress to be in session, for
the wrongs of the country to he re-
dressed .......
"Riotous strikes of this kind,' says
the Washington Star, expressing what
is simply universal: opinion, ssinter-
rupting traffic and business generally,
always work the most disastrously
upon the poor and the laboring men in
whose names they are instituted.''
The Evening Journal is Il Free-Trade
paper evidently, for it wants the
strikers taught, if need be at the mouth
of the cannon and the point of the bay
onet, that this is free country and
that every man must be protected in
the right to sell his labor when and
where and for what price he pleases.
The Boston Herald is very outspoken,
and says "the man or paper who advo-
Gates such measures AS have been made
use of this week 0y the strikers is a
public enemy, and deserves the repro
baton of all who love justice. The
man or men who make use of these
measures deserve no more sympathy
than a band of outlaws"
The Chicago Tribune gives quotations
to show the depreciation in railroad
stock in the last year, which ranges
from twenty to seventy seven per cent,
and says the public "will recogni Ze
what these men cannot OF will not rec
oynize that the roads have reached
such a deprecated condition that econ
Omy in every department is not only
prudent, but II matter of life and death
to them.''
Forney's Sunday Chronicle remarks
that ''we are now beginning to realize
the cost of contraction OF the currency
and the appreciation Of our securities to
bondholder is rioting in to-day" The
paper believes the strike will reach
every Industry, and the only thing is
for Congress to meet in extra sessi on to
legislate for relief" Unfortunately, ii
doesn't tell what this relief ought to be.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
corrects Il statement which has been 60
ing the rounds that one-tifth of the land
in the State still belongs to the United
States. The different land offices, it
says, are now busily engaged in prepar
ing lists of the government land, and it
is more than probable it will he found
that the government owns only one
eighth OF the area of the State. A great
deal of the land is poor, but many val
liable tracts are still Indicated.
Boston papers say the catch of mack
erel this year is quite light. They
seem to have deserted their usual
swarming grounds on the Massachu-
sets coast, and either remain in deep
water or have gone on an excursion to
northern waters for the season, some
fifty vessels having sailed for the st.
Lawrence nackerel fishery since the
Fourth of July.