The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-08-29

a constitutional Bull, aud though hehas
been ruined several times, like good
eat he has contrived to land on his feet
every time, and when the Bears thOaght
they had him for prorender he has
turned on his tUrmentors and taught
them sNeh lesson that they have beer
exceedingly cautious how they went fol
him again. He can see as far into 9
millstone as most men, and on his judg
ment lprognosticate considerable boon
in stocks. There are certain infallible
signs that indicate the rise, not comfort.
ing signs, but almost unerring. l. say
not comforting, for they point to the
success of giant monopoly. Two of the
most gigantic monopolfes have struck
hands where before they locked horns
the New York Central and Pennsylvania
Central, and these two corporations, alb
sorbing all the collateral lines on theil
routes, control with them entry intC
New York city. The Western UnlOr
stamps out opposition after opposition
till it holds the entire communication OF
the country, by telegraph, in its grasp
1t is in vain that invention after inven.
ton sinplifies and multiplies the meth.
DDS photography. Each new invention
as soon as it is tested and proved, is re,
morselessly swallowed up by this grasp
ing monopoly. Opposition with them
all continues up to the point of destruc.
tiOn and dissolution. Vanderbilt nc
sooner gets possession of the West
Shore than up goes the fare from one tc
| two cents a mile, which is the fare al.
lowed by law. The Western Union
when it strikes the opposition of the
Baltimore and Ohio, telegraphs quite
reasonably, but it costs as much to tele.
graph few miles out on Long Island,
or even across the river from Brooklyn
to New York, as it does to the city OF
Washington, two hundred and fifty
miles away. 1t is pretty evident now
that there is a combination of all these
elements-the Standard Oil Company
included, to boom stocks for their own
salvation. A strike on the Gould sys-
TEN of roads may slightly interfere, but
the effect will be imperceptihle. For
every Knight of Labor who strikes, un-
fortunately the necessities of dozen
compel them to ill the vacant places.
The hand of monopoly lies heavily on
the poor, and it is difficult to see the
end.
The condition of the labor market
was well illustrated at the Navy Yard
in Brooklyn, About two months ago
the Navy Yard was cleared of offensive
partisans as clean as shot gun. Five
hundred and sixty offensive partisans
were kicked out because there was no
money in the treasury to pay them and
no work to do for the Kings Navee
Well, the offensive partisans being all
disposed of, it was suddenly discovered
that several ships in the Navee needed
immediate repairs, and ukase went
forth for six hundred men, and on Mon
day morning two thousand inoffensive
partisans were gathered around the
Navy Yard gates, and every man had a
paper in his pocket signed by some
prominent politician or the officer of his
ward association, testifying that he was
a straight Democrat, that he was o
member in good standing in his ward
association, and that last fall he voted
straight for Cleveland and Hendricks.
There were only six hundred places and
there were two thousand applicants.
And the fourteen hundred that were
turned away swore that the whole thing
was swindle from first to last, and that
the country was going to the demnition
bow-wows, and the result is that there
is trouble in the camp.
A relative of George William Curtis
has been bounced from the Custom
House, at which it is said that George
William is very much wrought, and it is
whispered that he may shortly look for
a stunning leader in Harpers' Weekly
on the ingratitude of Republics.
Notwithstanding the prognosticated
rise, my advice to my friends is: Let
stocks severely alone. The chances are
hundred to one that the stock you buy
for rise is just the stock that won't go
up. Let the Bulls and the Bears fight
it out among themselves and all get rich
together. The stock market is no place
for an outsider, and if after this warn
ing one ventures in he deserves to get
stuck.
To people outside New York it must
almost read like a romance the breaking
up of the Mohawk gang. In certain
wards of the city all along the river
front on both sides of the city there have
been organized bands of robbers for
years. They are generally made up of
young men and boys whose ages range
AiOhi SlAbSNi W twenty -llNt years IL II
marvellous that such organizations can
exist for years with our police, our mill
tary and our detective force. This par
ticular gang was the terror of the West
side, and such terror had their name
inspired that when they were arrested
for crime it was almost impossible to
convict them as the witnesses were
threatened with death if they appeared
against them. Many of them have been
sent to States Prison, some hung and
others killed in street rows and midnight
forays, but the vacant places are soon
filled with new recruits, and the gang
lives though the members die. One
thing these Williams thoroughly appreci-
ate, and that is the power of organiza-
tion; taken sinGly they are the most ar
rant towards that ever lived. When
five or six of them can attack an unpro-
tectcd man they are brave as lions, but