The Labor enquirer., 1883-08-04
OUR EXCHANGES,

In responding to the toast to the
American team" at banquet in Lon
don on Wednesday night Colonel How
ard said he chopped the feeling Of friendly
brotherhood stirred up by the toast
would spread among the people so thor
Ough that the first American military
visit might mark new era leading to a
time when the American national guard
and the British volunteers might claim
to be One," etc. There is a certain class
in this country who are doing everything
in their power to bring about this happy
state Of affairs, but they aim to make
them one in the same sense that the
lion and lamb are one when they lie
down together-the lamb inside of the
liOn.-St. Louis Union.
1t occurs to the Globe thatlwhen a re-
form paper fails to aid in filing up the
ranks of the reform movements with the
view Of ultimately getting them all
united into one grandparty, and devotes
its space to denounGing this movement
or that faction failure, that it is with
out mission-that it has outIived its
usefulness, andthe sooner the reformers
let it starve out, the sooner our cause
will succeed. A reform movement can't
fail, the chanting of its enemies to the
contrary notwithstanding. Let reform
papers cease aiding the old parties by
den0uucing our movements failures
indianapolis Globe.
The Tribune says the telegraphers are
Striking on a falling market" For
twelve years that we wot of that journal
has never been able to descry an oppor-
tune moment for an increase Of wages
or a strike. If an advance we're limited
at, the market at once began to totter
if strike were ordered, everything went
instantly to what Joseph jocosely calls
the ''demnition bow-wows. ."-Western
Workman (Chicago).
The English language cannot express
our contempt for Carey. All the Ian
guages in the world could not express
our contempt for the country which
hired and paid an assassin, and then re-
fused its felIow-murderer the protection
hich any citizen should command.
Carey was very bad, but the English
government which debased him, paid
him for his debasement and then left
him to the Justice Of the world-and the
Justice of the world meant his death-iS
infinitely worse. At the least it should
have protected its associate in crime
Denver Tribune.
jay Gould and Cyrus w. Field with
their stolen millions could never pur-
chase such a manifestation of good will
as has been displayed for the telegraph
ers in every city, town and village
throughout the length and breadth of
the land. Those who began to grow
despondent over the future as they saw
the shadows of gigantic monopolies
creeping over and darkening the face of
the country take heart again as they
hear the cheers that proclaim that the
entire continent, from Maine to Cali
fornia, is thrilling in sympathy for the
men and women who have risen up and
told one Of these mOnOpolies, lou must
not and shall not trample us ruthlesslY
under foot. These cheers are inspiring
because they prove that the people at
heart are sound. They show that the
corporations, though they have succeeded
in buying up courts and legislatures,
have not been successful in molding
public opinion, which, after all, is that
higher law" before which legislatures
and courts must eventually bow in sub
mission.-Irish World.
Many of those who have gone from
| Canada to British Columbia are return
ing. They report living high and the
labor market over supplied, on account
of the Chinese, who are swamping the
country. One Hamilton man writes that
q 900 were expected to arrive the day
following his writing. In addition to
this all the tillable land of the province