The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-07
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
From Our Own Correspondent.
New Yong MApcr oA 1870

BUSINESS BRISK AND MoNoPoLIsTs
MoANING-CLAMoR AGAINST A
REFoRMER-A SURE CURE FOR
STRIKES--UNREASON CREEK
A ALTH-DISCLoSING THUNDER
BoLT-EAsTER CAROLS IN THE AIR
FANCY, FASHION AND FRIvoLITY
END OF AN OLD SETTLERS GRAND
soN-EsCAPE OF THE CHAMPION
TENANT-ROASTER-
Business is becoming brisk and
yet people find time to pay good
deal of attention to other peoples
business. Where politics come in,
too, however remotely, every one is
sure to be interested. Like the old
gentleman and his wife, who came
across the story of the last prize fight
in their newspaper and fell to fierce
denunciations of its brutality, but
managed to read it right through,
Notwithstanding, from title to finish,
our staidest abhorrers of the muddy
pool of politics never fail to step up
with their little vote on election day,
and do good deal of amateur nous
ing around every day, and pretty
well all day besides.A continued
howl for series of years against
the "Railroad Kings" for their man
agement of the transportation lines
by which they are so quickly absorb
ing large percentage of the earnings
of the people, there has been, if pos
sible, a louder howl, in the most
inconsistent style, against a move
ment championed by Mr.. F. B. Thur
Der, the Anti-Monopoly leader, and
Purveyor of Pure Provisions, who has
elaborated scheme for a Peoples
Railway which would by its siren
uous competition knock the under
pinning from the combined cormo-
rants Of the day. The absurd state
ment is made that he is monopolist
himself.
Among other of its provisions is
one to give work to all unemployed
laborers who may temporarily prefer
to earn even bread and water rather
than starve, while they wait for big
ger wages, at 81 day. If the strikes
now going on all over the country
are to continue, it might be better in
the long run for the strikers to get
right to work on a road which will,
by low freights, cheaper the cost of
what they eat, drink and wear, even
at 81 day, rather than hang around
the scenes of their trials and discon-
tent with their wives and children
fading into paupers' graves before
their eyes, and being decimated by
the occasional arrest and possible
execution of the more fiery spirits
among them whom despair may drive
to crime. There are strikers and
strikers and your RADIx deprecates
strikes, but when corporation which
distributes 80 per cent. dividends and
carries over huge surplus for the
purpose of extending the scope of its
operations by building more factories,
or acquiring more or changing exist.
ing machinery, cuts down the pay of
its workpeople 80 per cent. it would
appear to be perfectly legitimate
rebuke if the outraged sufferers we're
to shake the dust of such inhospitable
toilshopmasters off their feet and
start West to dig on railroads, or hoe
their own potato patch, or anything
rather than submit to such cruel slav-
cry. An exodus of this kind, if gen.
orally participated in by the aggrieved,
would bring the most soulless of cor
porations to their senses, for the i'm
mediate effect would be great rise
of wages, both in order to retain
those about togo and as necessary
consequence of the depletion of the
labor market. Nor could foreigners
be imported to fill the vacuum. The
fact of the exodus would shine forth
as beacon of dangers to be avoided
and if Lawrence, Mass, or any other
manufacturing town, is once branded,
as unfit for free men to live in, it
will be ruined. No one will 60 there
while there is room in any other
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