The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03
THE GmEAr auOBs.
What the Leading Papers Say About
INcIDENrs .ND CoMMENTs.

The communists of New York,
where foreign upstairs and others,
have for years been sowing the seeds
of public discomfort and discord want
to do several interesting things. They
| want to hang Jay Gould and Henry
Ward Reeeher. They want To have
the national government buy up and
run all the railroads. Anal then, with
that nice sense of consistency that
| cbaraeteriZes the cOmmunistic mind,
they want to annihiIate the national
government. One of their number
declares that Hayes was not legally
elected, exhOrts his fellow commu-
nists not to obey any proclamation
that Hayes may Issue, and threatens
to raise an army of $4,000 men to
march on Washington and smash the
government ali to atoms. Just such
violent blatherskites as these are 70 be
found in every city of the union.
Most of them are importations from
countries where anarchists like them
selves are made food for powder when
they attempt to convey their social
ideas into practice. They are not i'm
pOrtatiOns of = sort for which this
country has any use. They are gen.
orally tramps and vagabOnds. Pre-
tending to spmpathIze with labOrers,
their principal object in this life is to
live off from the earnings of others,
and make war upon everybody who
has the industry and seli-denisl to
save anything. Honest men would be
pleased to see these pestilent frauds
take up position en- masse between
the Tukish and Russian lines in Eu-
rope. If they will not oblige honest
people in some such way as this, it
may happen that they will be obliged
to do something equally unpleasant to
themselves.
DIVIDENDS ON INFLATED CAPITAL.
New York Bulletin.
The paramount problem the coun-
try has to deal with to-day is not so
much how to quell the prev ailing dis
Order-that will be done effecCually 80
soon as the authorities have had time
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the necessary force-bnt how best TO
reconcile this vast discontinued mass
to its circumstances in tie future, and
how to control its outbreaks. So far
as railroads are concerned, they must
| give up all idea OF getting dividends
upon an inflated capital out of the
wages of their employees. Like the
merchant, the manufacturer and the
| property owner, they must be satisfied
to acknowledge the shrinkage of the
value of their property, and regulate
their dividends accordingly. If this
had been done, probably the late re-
auctions in the pay of their employees
would never have been made, and the
country might have been saved Its
present shock. Legislation can per-
maps do little toward ameliorating the
condition of the working class beyond
largely reducing the burdens of taxa
ton; for every dollar saved in taxes
will be so muchHput in the pockets of
| the working men. It is dishearten-
ing, however, to think that the chief
opposition to tax reform will come
from the politicians chosen principal
ly by this very class. Their power as
voters is infinitely greater than their
power as rioters and yet they cannot
be induced to use it for removing the
main cause of their present troubles.
THE LOSSES.
Pittsburg Telegraph.
The loss that will result from yester-
days cOnflagratiOn will not fall short
OF 5000 900, and may reach seven or
eight millions. The loss of the Penn
sylVania railroad alone is estimated at
5000, 900, after salVages are deducted.
Besides the destruction of the Union
Depot and rOund-house, two hundred
and thirty locomotives and five or SIX
hundred freight and passenger cars
were destroyed and damaged. The
locomotives are each valued at $751;
600. The Union Depot and hotel,
half a million of dollars. The burn
ing of the Office of the Panhandle
railroad, on seventh avenue, the
Adams Express buildings, adjoining
sheds, and surrounding property, to-
gether with the wholesale pillaging OF
the mob, also entailed q great loss
very difficult to estimate correctly.
The grain elevator building cost $780,
600 and contained from $15, 600 to $780,
900 worth of grain, is total loss.
The private property destroyed was
fully insured, but the insurance COM
panies are not responsible for q dol
lar of it.
Chicago Times.
The inevitable and most alarming
consequences of a rebellion which has
put an embargo upon ali commerce by
railway is approaching. That conse-
quence to the inhabitants of the large
cities and manufacturing districts, is
famine. Already the manufacturers
of Pittsburg witness the approach of
coal famine. "Unless the blockade is
raised," says a dispatch, Sthe mills
will soon be out of coal, and will have
to close their doors, throwing thou
sands Of workmen out of employment.
"A general prayer meeting has been
ordered for next Wednesdays The
provision famine is also threatening,
and already provisions have advanced
% per cent. If the blockade should
continue long starvation generally is
In store for the poor. In all its
phases the strike Is worse on the
strikers than any other class. Their
living depends on order and regulari-
ty.
FALLING TO PIECES BY ITS OWN
WEIGHT.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The strike has now grown so great
that it is certain to fall to pieces by its
oTA " hCA GuO ~OIAhACu HI
any department of industry think
that they are underpaid, there is some
logic in appealing to strike, although
we believe that, as q matter of fact,
there has never been q strike which
has not cost more than it has won.
But when all the producers unani-
mously resolve not to produce any
thing the strike defeats ITSELF No
matter what is the condition of affairs,
every workman depends on the
labor of every other workman,
and the only result of q cessation of
labor must be to put up the price of
food. fuel, lodging, clothing, and
every necessary OF the workman's
life. In addition to this, every work
mans product is the raw material for
another man TO work on, and the
spectacle of labor cutting its own
throat Is one which will not long be
endured by sensible workmen.
THE TRRRORs OF MOB LAW.
Pittsburg Post.
We realize for the first time Ia our
history what mob rule and mob laVy ia