The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-03-20

chusests from the frst trivial essays Of
1890. down q No.enber 1879 The
total nnmbef sos strikes snd loekocts
included 10 this recesd il i5s. The
nosiceable faeGs arc broght out thst Is
OF these strikes were eneted chiefly
by workmen Of foreign birth, and that
100. or more than two-thirds were un-
successful. Reference Is made to the
striker in Great Britain and lrsland
during 1918. They aggregate 46s.
Of which less than ~ we're successfuI.
end only about 30 were settled by coin
premiso. In conclusion the writer
morsIizes thus: strikes generally
prove powerless to benefit s'the condi-
ten Of Ne vage elass. they tend t. de.
psive the strik err Of Wssk; they lead to
improsidence, AID arc demorslizing in
their effect npon the working raan.'
Pan Second deals withconvics labor.
not in AssAc busetts alone. bat through.
out the country. II 10 stated that OF
20. 1z2 convIcts. 10.6J7. or more than 8
fourth. are employed as FARMERS and
lsbossn. 6.6sl in the mssufActure Of
boots and shoes. 1880 IN the prison
duties And 1904 in the manufacture Of
iron goods" y~.-~--.
Part Third, Healing with statistics of
csia1. iseissxeiy made sp q tables
showing NE {, sQusLCy. the d6tsiba-
ton aud the cIassi6casicns Of crime IN
Massachusetts, from 1850 to 1879 iuclu-
sive. During that time. crime regu-
lasly increased or decreased in al the
COUNTIES q tbe State in slp,cet The same
propoftions The minimum vas At the
maximum point Of military service in
the wiStcf u 1869 63. aud the maxi.
m~o wss reSshed Just ritter the begin
ming Of the great fiIancisl crisis in 1873.
SiSce that date il very rapidly declined
from 1873 to 1876. and less rapidly but
in . marked manner from 1876 TO 1879.
Tbs grestsst psscentsAe Of crime WAS
in tho ssgins 81 the large CITIES while
the smallest vns in the rural districts
Suffolk county. in which 10 Doston,
With twenty-five per cent. OF the popu-
lstioe, ND tOety-foue psr cent of the
crime. Sixty Per osns Of Ill crimes
consisted Of liquor dea!ing or were
traced mere or less distinctly to drink
enness.
Part Fourth exhibits the statistics of
divorce 10 Msssschusetts from 1860 to
1873. The startling Tact il developed
that 0tile the nuober Of marriages In
1873 az 1851 was but slightly above
that of 1S50 (i2.l0a) the number Of
divorces had increased from 243 to 600.
or fron 10 81 to in 2l. The great.
est number of marrisges was eolem.
Disei In 1878. amounting to l6.4 37. The
hard times beginning in that year did
not imtbsdihteiy affect the. marriage
market. Tor there were Is. SCI marriages
IN 1874. but the number sank to the
smipimum 81 ~. s49 in 1876, . decline Of
nearly one fourth, The Boston average
Of divorces for the past three years is l
70 q. 6 msEriages. but these sugsestiye
figures csuhot compete with the Yer
mont ratio Of / to II, the Rhode Island
ratio 81; I 10 IL. or the Connetjeut ratio
Of / 20 IL. Probably tic lattee fearful
proportion mxy be IN sumo degree OK
planned away by the resort Of i'll. mated
couples to Connecticut from other
States. especially from New York city.
The hard fact with which Mr. Wright
concludes this part is that while the
1ssiiaeS tAts. tas .sensibIy decreased
ENl(bin the last tueptx Ye6fa TIE ii
vofos rate has c6nsidsvs6Iy more than
doubled within the same period"