The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-07-14
No Strikes in the South.

Nv ONA ANSS AZ OOuIus
It is fact, not without interest, that
strikes do not occur in the cotton mills,
coal mines and iron works of the South
ern States. They are chronic disease
ia the factory towns of the North, where
they frequently last for months, infict-
ing loss upon both strikers and en-
ployers. At Fall River, Lowell and
Lawrence, the female operatives take
part In these movements and support
them with as much vigor and determin-
alton as the men. It will be said that
manufacturing is a large and important
business in the North, employing many
thousand men and women, while in the
South it is a feeble and incipient interest
without the sharp and precise organiza-
ton it possesses in the North. This is
true, and, perhaps, it is partial expla-
nation of the absence of strike troubles
in the South, hut it is probable that the
existence of more kindly relations be-
tween employers and employed in the
South has something to do with it. A
New Englender writing in the atlantic
Monthly on the subject of the man.
ufacturing in the South, while claiming
certain advantages for the business in
the Northern communities, is forced to
admit certain contentment among
factory operatives in Georgia and
South Carolina which does not
exist in Massachusetts. The South
ern operatives, male and female, are of
a better class; they are more kindly
treated have better morals and are bet
ter fed than those of New England. The
immortality and recklessness to be found
in the Massachusetts factory towns do
not prevail among the operatives of
Georgia and South Carolina. "The
womeA and girls are modest and fem
mime In looks and bearing" he says, and
persons of vicious habits are not EN-.
ployed in the mills. They live in larger
and better houses there is no crowding
in tenement buildings /; each family has
a house to itself, and this house fire.
quently has vegetable garden attached,
and in many cases a COW is part of the
family outfit. In short, all the sur
roundings of the operatives family in
the South are superior to those of his
brother in Massachusetts he is not
segregated in special class, but is re-
spectacle member of the general COM
munity, and shares its interests. The
contentment which this better condition
brings prevents the sharp antagonisms
between capital and labor which are con-
tinually breaking out in the more COM
pick society Of. the North, and is one of
the explanations OF the absence of
strikes in the industrial establishments
of the Southern States. ST.. Louis
How Much Land for Each.
The last census gives the total area of
the United States otrecKon1ng AIasKa)
at 1925, 800 square miles, of which 3d.
900 square miles are occupied by water
lakes, rivers, bays, etc.-leaving g.
$40, 900 square miles of land, or 1,90O,-
100000 acres. The total population is
so. 155, 1888. This land, evenly divided,
would give to every man, woman and
child 372 acres, and an onion patch by
9 rods over. If we divide the population
into famil es of six persons, each family
could be allotted 227 acres. Allowing
one quarter of the land to be mountain
ridges, sandy and stony tracts, and other
chad lands, there would still be left
the regulation "quarter section" Q60
acres) for each family. But the census
figures nov being made up are for
June, 1880. Since then over 1000, 900
people from foreign lands "have come
to stay" as American citizens, and the
natural increase has been considerable 4;
the total increase from 1870 to 1880 was
3 per cent. per annum. So we have now
March l, 1882 nearly 81, 900, 900 inhab-
itants. As the area of land does not ex-
pand, there are now less than IS acres
each, or not 152 acres per family, and
the average amount is rapidly decreas-
ing. No cause for alarm, however.
With the best culture, one acre will sup
ply plenty of food for one person, and at
this rate we can allow more than 400
900, 900 acres for waste land, and still
have an acre each left for the estimated
entire population of the globe, which is
somewhat over 400, 000, 900. This is a
great country Thanks for the iron
sinews of the 100000 miles of railway
lines and telegraph wires, and the speak
ing tubes OF the postal department, we
are, as people, brought into one close
ly united family, occupying Uncle
Sans great farm. -Anericoa Agric4Lt-
alriSt.
Fri0htpnad