Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-23
The Cause of the Hard Times.

TESTIMONY OF PROF. SUMNER BEFORE THE
LABOR COMMITTEE.
MIR. HeWitt'S Congressional committee on
the labor question Continued its session yes
terday in New York. Prof. Sumner professor
OF political and social science in Yale college,
was the first witness; After speaking of the
over-prOductiOn in this country the professor
said: Fifteen years ago we set to work to de-
stroy capital and took many men from their
labor and employed them to do this work O.
destruction. During all this destruction the
people in the north did not find any depres-
sion, but the southern cities were devastated.
we were issuing notes to meet this destruc-
which would revert to us again. In 1873 we
began to feel this period of suffering aud we
nav 5aTe IN not got over it yet The present degres
We're now Just shouldering our burden. We
had gone through all this misery and suffer
ing and had not paid off the debt; we had not
taken M up this redeemable paper. The effect
rency induced an era of speculation There
destroyed; We could postpeene the period
would be all the heavier when l't it came anne in in
the end. He thought legislation could do
nothing 1or this stagnation in labor. Every
could. He knew of no other way. way y Since ' the he
war he had to put up with heavy taxation and
this burden we had to bear. Taxes had to be
but to protective bodies. We had heard a
great deal lately about over production, he
classed it diSpropOrtionate production He
thought manufactures could grow up as we'll
in this country as in the old country. To Mr.
Hewitt witness said that when trade was free
there @ could be no disproportionate. production.
Where there was this diSprOpOrtiOnate pro-
duction witness thought was due to the protec-
tive system. Protective industries had ten
dency to push along and hasten this state of
things. The tariff was greatly to blame for
our prOductl0n OF every year being greatly in
excess OF the demand. The tariff cOngested
the population in some districts to which it
would not otherwise have been attracted.
Ihe only remedy Tor this was a distribution of
the people among the Industries OF the cOun-
try. He thought benevolent organizations
could do this better than the government
A BALTIMORE PRIZE FIGHTER WHIPPED
a prize fight took place near Hunts Point,
MorIlSanla, \. Y, on Tuesday night, the prin-
cipals being Jack Sullivan, of New York, and
Bob Brown, OF Baltimore both of whom are
described as being of medium height broad
OF cneSt, and Sinewy of limb Sullivan had
the advantage throughout the contest. In
every round he either threw or knocked his
opponent down, although the latter fought
with dogged perseverance. At the eleventh
call Brown cried out that he had enough His
hackers yelled at him to stand up for one more
round and get killed" Brown staggered to
his feet. Both were weak. Brown fought shy
oil Sullivan, who danced around his adversary
parrylng the blows aimed at him and doing
his best to exhaust the remaining strene tn OF
Brown. AS the latter made final desperate
effort to drive home blow into Sullivan s
face, he turned on his heels, and before he
could recover Sullivan dealt him blow which
stretched him on the grass. He was unable to
come to the scratch for the twelfth round, and
his seconds threw up the sponge. The fight
lasted 19 minutes.