New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19
TIE MAR OF THE MILKY Way

The average citizen who unfortunately never
finds himself for or another, quite con-
veniently circumstanced 10 Keep COW this year,
and who likely enough has bleached baby or two
at home on the stcpmotherlY bottle, naturally takes
good deal OF interest in the current conflict DO
tween the producers and the mlddlemen OF milk.
or course he sides, and warmly with the former.
lie has been so long the helpless victim OF those
who with chalk and water give constant fresh
grounds for added complaint OF coffee; who out
herod Ilerod against the rising generation, and who
also murder the sleep Of early morning, that really
he enjoys the exhibition of their discontinue now
that the rural worms have turned. And they have
turned with such surprising vgor. not to say ven
geanre, that tho metropolitan taskmasterst to whom
they have been usually quescent heretofore. arc
laying awake nights trying to evolve plans for
qnelling the rebellion. They would gladly dlslo-
cate the snowy front-te they would rudcy re-
press the spirit of backbone; they would mash
milk cans, like so many huge hard hats, over eyes
and cars OF the strikers for fair pay.
But the strikers will not down. They stubbornIy
decline to furnish more bricks without straw; they
urc Mt last determined. they say. 70 break the
shackes OF what they call the worse than Egyptian
bondage which has long held them in duress vile.
SO. acting on the Emersonan idea that nothing is
impossible TO those who can preamble and resolve,
taey met a while ago in animated convention; set
forth their grievances ~ the planest kind OF Ian
guago. and announced the declaration Of the blessed
privilege of independence to fix their own price
milk OF their own production. or else feed it to
their pigs. This significant upr sing involves not
only the land OF Goshen. but the Midland route and
adjacent valleys as well and the reader may believe
that blood bos mp there even in this windy March.
Otterkin is dead bent against further encroach-
Shin IicIlov will not Inn he ski nued N
omlnous brroze stirs Pine Island; Thompson's
Ridge has elevated its back; Circleylle shows
disposition to cut straight to the centre and Sugar
Loaf is amably but firmly determined more
saccharino conditions or know the reason why.
The darymen OF these and many other points oil
over tho cream country OF the west.shOre
banded in battle array hundreds Of them all told.
doctor is their Moses or at any rate their Aaron
and he prescribes the heroics of ancient alopathy
1t is no time, he thinks, for epid bath and rawdust
grucl the lancets the thing aud the four-horse-
power cmetic. We must pocl. our issues. maintains
this pungcnt physician, and success will come on
tho double-quick. This system OF treatment Is
ably favored by tho rank and file, whose patience
having gone often TO the well, Is broken at last
linked metaphor Is allowable in writing of such
mixed matter as city milk, aud the programme is
being carried into effect by processes and with re-
suits OF which our local columns sive sprightly
details from day 10 day.
1t does SEEM at first flash. from the unsophisti-
Gated point Of view OF the outsider who only pays,
that tbe farmers are not unreasonable in wanting
three and half OF the ten cents per quart which
consumers are compelled TO hand in advance for
the manipulated article from tho middlcmen's
mugs. If this is n disresTectful manner OF speech
tho dispensers with pure milk must remember tho
If their nocturnal ways nave brought
them into bad repute it Ia the bitter rotr utlye har
vest Of their own sowing. Their record is I'M
savorY, and they know il; the blue traditions OF
!hoir trade are dark against them. They ranK in
OF the much-sulerng public with sinful
plumbers aud with contractors who hardly ever
clean tho streets Therefore, any effort to loosen
their avaricOus grip from the horns of the honest
COW is welcomed and appauded by the depleted cit
izcn, bled year after year by these grasping mem
bers Of the great family of the horse-leech who
standing between producers and consumers rolent-
lessly feed on both.
Out Of all the trouble the pathetic city Oliver |
with his mill-cup always empty. longngly hopes to
gain. IN his humble way he wishes tho strikers
well. And when they win. as win they may since |
even the cows are with them; when they come to |
their OWL, let them remember poor. hungry Oliver |
iuG his sympathy and his needs. He doesn't want |
beer from lean kline haf-lrunk. on brewery grains;
he doesn't want hard cider from sour ensilage; he
looms even want any IN his from the long tailed |
nock-c0w that pastures at the pump But he asks, |
and most reasonably for whole and wholesome milk
rom that " best physician for the children 1.-THE |
lean COW which divides the hoof aud chews the
,ud; which, rs Mr.. Beecher sweety says lies |
lnder tho shadowy trees in summer and looks as
sleepy as an August clergyman