The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-24

De opponents of business at large. III they
seem prosperous we know that 1t means
something Now, every one of these estab-
Iishments is working full complement of
haEds and full time. In the Studebaker
wagon works they are running eleven hours
per day. Certainly a prosperous showing
all the more so when add that there is on
all sides marked increase over the business
of year ago. Then saw idle men; now
hands are In demand. Then few of the
firms were running on short time; then
heard complaints of hard times, and doubts
as to the issue of affairs. Now L hear
encouraging reports of increasing business,
and see in the faces of uroprietors that they
think the ''hard times are passing away.
more contented set of workmen one sell
dom sees / was led to think whether the
difficulties of the laborer are real or imagi-
nary as / walked through the various shops,
where saw bright, intelligent faces evincing
the greatest pleasure in what they were do
ing. They are probably aware that their
employers in many cases stood a dozen
years ago where they now stand; and If they
do not realize 1t they certainly should,
that economy, industry and patience will
as surely raise them And these are
the real troubles Of the laborer; he has &C
quired extravsgant habits and is 10th to
forego them. = is hard for him to be pru-
dent, economical and percevering; he would
like to be higher up on the ladder without
the labor of climbing. Prudence ana econ
omy can be acquired. When that is done
he wOrkingman has no real difficulty be-
ween him and success. Work is abundant,
and always will be abundant for those who
are really willing to work at what employers
can afford to pay each is dependent upon
the other. The numerous failures have
taught business men that they must retrench,
and. even laboring men are begin
ming to see that employers are do
ing the best they for them.
In view of all the indications of returning
prosperity hazard the prediction that this
season will see no strikes. That there will
be no communistic outbreaks in large cities
do not pretend to say talked with gen.
tleman from San Francisco who has seen
Kearney and his followers; he says that the
latter are ruffians of the worst class who alb
solutely will not work. Tramps are sadly
over-reaching themselves in the country
also. Destroying the property of the farmer
awakens the latter to the true spirit of the
socialistic individual "who is far from home
and out of work-wants help simply to get
him TO his friend" And as fast as people are
enlightened as to the intentions of this class
of people, their character and occupations, the
danger of outbreaks lessons, for popular
opinion is our great safeguard. When peo-
pie all over this country get to thinking that
lynchInS rs none too good for the property
destroying tramp, lynching Will actually be-
gin; when lynching begins the nuisance will
begin to abste- The danger now is great, L
freely admit, much greater than people in
general Believe. There has been a tramp a
day on an average at the house where am
stopping-all wanting food, clothes-none
wanting work. In the absence of the fam
lily, on one occasion, ole individual, coolly
walked IN and demanded food of the fright
ened domestic, ordering coffee to be pre-
pared, evidently reasoning that he who had
nothing but bad habits should live as
well as the man whose indus
try kept him away at work, at time when
he could have used shot gun to advantage
at home. This look, indeed, like commun-
ism.
Beecher is expected to night. But he is
creating no excitement. Tickets are selling
very slowly and he will evidently haYe
slim audience The time when an entire
homage is past All reading, thinking peo-
pie believe him fraud of the very worst
tyre, and the Americans are showing of late
wears laudable inclination 10 expose dig
honesty and hypocrisy. They are not so
easily deceived by the sleeps clothing rs
they were a few years ago. One
thing, If Bsecher will speak
from the text he announced In
his Brooklyn pulpit one sultry summer Sun
day, he has abundant occasion therefor.
The mercury goes up abvoe the Dineties
and stays there As yet there have been no
serious prostrations in South Bend, though
it will occasion no surprise when such shall
be The case.
There is the faintest ripple on the politi-
cal surface though Senator VOORHEES, is not
expected for a week yet. But my letter
has reached such a length that / must ,eaye
politics fer my next. E.