Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-24


Scott, of the Pennsylvania railroad, tele-
graphed the authorities at Washington,
II fear that unless the general govern
ment will assume the responsibility
of order throughout the land, the anarchy
which is now present will become more
terrible than has ever been known in the
history of the world' The governors of
ten States, West Virginia, MARYLAND,
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, and
Kentucky-issued dispensing proclama-
tons which did not disperse. The gov
ernors of four of them-West Virginia,
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Illinois
appealed to the national government for
help against domestic instruction, which
the State could not suppress. The Presi-
dent of the United States issued two ma
tional proclamations to the insurgents.
The State troops were almost useless. as
in nearly all cases they fraternized with
the strikers. All the national troops
that could be spared from the Indian
frontier and the South were ortlered back
to the centers of civilization. The regu-
lars were welcomed by the frightened
people of Chicago with cheers which
those who heard will never forget.
Armed guards were placed at all the pub
lie buildings of Washington, and IRON
clads we're ordered up for the protection
Of the national capital Cabinet meet
ings were continuous. General Winfield
s. Hancock was sent to Baltimore to take
command, Gen. Sherman was called back
from the West, and Gen. Schofield was
ordered from West Point into active SER
vice. Barricades, in the French style,
were thrown up by the voters of Balti-
more. New York and Philadelphia were
heavily garrisoned. In Philadelphia
every avenue of approach to the Pennsyl-
vania railroad was patrolled, and the city
was under guard of 5000 armed men,
With eight batteries of artillery. There
were encounters between troops and vot-
ers, with loss of life at Martinsburg, Bal
timore, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Reading,
Buffalo, Scranton and San Francisco. In
the scene at Pittsburgh there was every
horror of revolution. Citizens and sol
diers were killed, the soldiers were put to
fight, and the town left at the mercy of
the mob. Railroad cars, depots, hotels,
stores, elevators, private houses, were
Quilted and burned. The city has Just
compromised for S1,s1O,OO claims for
damages to the amount of 81, 938, 460, and
has still heavy claims to settle The stu
alton was described at this point by a
leading newspaper as one of stcivil war
with the accompanying horrors of MUIR
der, conf1agration, rapine anu pillage."
These were days of greater bloodshed,
more actual suffering, and wider alarm
in the North than that part of the coun-
try experienced at any time during the
civil war, except when Lee invaded
Pennsylvania. AS late as August Sd, the
beautiful valley of the Wyoming, in
Pennsylvania, was military camp. trav-
ersed by trains loaded with Calling guns
and bayonets, and was guarded by Gov.
Hartranft in person with 5000 soldiers.
These strikes, penetrating twelve State S
and causing instructions in ten of them,
paralyzed the operation of 10000 miles
of railroad, and directly and indirectly
threw 1000, 900 men temporarily out of
employment. While they lasted they
caused greater losses than any blockade
which has been made by sea
OF land in the history of war. Non
sensational observers, like the Massachu-
sets board of railroad commissioners,
look to see the outburst repeated, posi-
bly, to secure rise of wages. The move
ment of the railroad trains of this coun-
try is literally the circulation of it's blood.
Evidently, from the facts we have recited l,
the States cannot prevent It's arrest by the
struggle between these giant forces with
in society, outside the law.
Kerosene has become, by it's cheapness,
the peoples light the world over In the
United States we used 900, 100000 gallons
of petroleum last year. 1t has come into
such demand abroad that our exports of
it increased from 79, 45S,SSS gallons in
1868, to Al, 649, 544 in 1879. 1t goes all
over Europe and to the far East. The
Oriental demand for it is increasing fast
er than any other. We are assured by
the eloquent petroleum editor of the New
York Shipping List that sit blazes across
the ruins of Babylon and waste Persepo-
lls,'' and that call over Polynesia and
Far Cathay, in Burmah, in Siam, in Java,
the bronzed deniZens toll and dream,
smoke opium and swallow hasheesh, WOO
and win, love and hate, and sicken and
die under the rays of this wonderful
product of our fruitful caverns." How
ever that may be, it is statistically true
that China and the East Indies took over
0,000,0 900 gallons in 1877, and nearly
% 200, 900 gallons in 1878. After articles
of food, this country has but one export,
cotton, more valuable than petroleum. 1t
was worth SCI, 7s9, 43S in our foreign
trade in 1877; sac, 574 ,974 in 1875, land s1s,-
SAG, 642 in the five months ending Novem-
Der 80, 1879 In the United States, in the
cities as we'll as the country, petroleum is
the general illuminator. We use more
kerosene lamps than bibles. The raw
material of this worlds light is produced
in territory beginning with Cattarau-
gus county in New York, and extending
southwesterly through eight or nine
counties of Pennsylvania, making a belt
about one hundred and fifty miles long,
and twelve or fifteen miles wide, and then,
with an interval, running into West Vir-
ginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, where
the yield is unimportant. The bulk of
the oil comes from two counties, Cat
taraugus in New York, and Mexican in
Pennsylvania. There are few places
elsewhere that produce rock oil, such as
the shales of England, Wales and Scot
land, but the oil is so poor that American
kerosene, after being carried thousands
of miles, can undersell it, Very few of
the forty millions of people in the United
States who burn kerosene know that it's
production, manufacture and export, its
price at home and abroad, have been con-
trolled for years by single corporation
the Standard Oil company This COM
pany began in partnership, in the early