Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-06
NATIONAL TOPICS.
SM0THERING THE GRANT BOOM.
Why Grant Is Not Saluted by British
Authorities s-Conditon Of American
laborers as Compared with
Those of0ther Countries.
Condition of Labor in the United States
as Compared with Other Countries.

| Condition of Labor in the United States
as Compared with Other Countries.
WASHINGTON, August 5.-Reports
from the United States consuls in
Europe show that wages in the United
States are double those of Belgium,
Denmark, France and England, three
times those of Germany, Italy and
Spain, and four times those of the
Netherlands. That the price OF the
necessaries of life are lower in the
United States than in Europe, and that
more misery results from strikes, drink
ing, socialism and communism in
England and Germany than from all
other causes combined, hard times
included. The State Department adds
to the above synopsis of the reports
which il has prepared for publication,
the following remarks: The reading OF
these reports will remind many OF our
naturalized workingmen who are SO
fierce in denouncing the condition OF al
fairs in the United States, of the hope
less condition of that labor from which
they escaped by emigration TO this Re-
public, and open their eyes anew TO the
superior position OF the workingmen OF
this country. Ii will show our native
workingmen the difference between
labor disiranchised, impoverished, de-
graded and hopeless in Europe, and la
Dor free, independent, honorable and an
equal sharer in political power in Amer
lea.
Why Grant is Not Saluted by British Au-
thorities in China and japan.
WASHINGTON, August 5.-lt may be ne
cessary Tor this country to declare "wah
on Great Britain for manifest reasons OF
state, as will appear below. When Gen.
Grant reached China it was hearlded
over the United States by Mr.. Yellow
plush, who accompanied the cX-Presi-
Dental train, that the General under
went the indignity OF receiving no royal
salute at the hands OF the English
Admiral. More recently the same pa
thetic growl over his treatment by the
British authorities and officers in
Japan. So tar nothing has been
developed To show the particular
cause of such alarming disr aspect.
Some light may be thrown on the
enigma by the following paragraph
taken from copy OF the Ner Z,didnd
H'rdH, published at Auckland and the
organ of the Governor General. IL
reads briefly: "The Home Government
has instructed the government of
Australia and New Zealand that il eX-
President Grant should visit those
countries he was to be received with all
due courtesy but with no special
honOrs."
The American residents OF those col
onies were struck with the peculiarly
of this announcement, and are writing
to their friends here to inquire its mean-
ing. Considering the stir and fuss
made over Grant by the home govern
ment itself, the honors and freedom OF
cities and banquets crowded on to him on
h0"mystert6us He2plahan6m N rhe or
ders received by the colonies. One resi-
dent writes that it is believed in we'll
informed official English circles in New
Zealand that the United States home
government must be at the bot
tom of this change OF front,
or, in other words, that the
Hayes-Sherman Administration here,
getting somewhat nauseated over the
homage paid to Grant, had quietly init
mated to the English Government that
a little less display would be agreeable
to the party in power, and possibly init
mated that there might be danger OF a
Grant boom if this thing continued. The
announcement, as given above, will
buzz in the ears of the boomers" on
this side of the pond, and probably spur
them up to inquiries. 1t shows, above
all things, that the British admirals who
were supposed to drop the salute from
the bill OF fare for private resons, were
probably acting under some direct or
doris from home