San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-11-23
A Sensational Divorce.

Great excitement has been occasioned
In New York and in railroad circles by
the statement that Mrs. A. Lawrence
Hopkins, the second wife of the vice.
president of the Missouri Pacific rail-
road. has separated from her husband
and filed suit for divorce on the ground
that her husband has been too affec-
tionate towards her lady's maid.
Mrs Hopkins was formerly Miss Dun
lap and daughter OF prominent
Chicago merchant. She has been a rec
and Is very popular. The estranged
couple were married in 1876 and have no
issue; until this bad break they have
lived happily together.
Mr.. Hopkins Is the friend and conf
dent OF Jay Gould and is well known in
the city and throughout the state.
The last general assembly Of the X. OF
L., at its. Richmond session, took up and
carried forward In an intelligent sys-
tematic manner the work OF craft con-
solidation begun the year before. By
this movement each industry. so far as
practicable, will attend to its own af-
fairs, perfect plans for carrying on its
work as an organized department OF the
| great labor congress and army. but each
| of these individual crafts will be subor-
| dinated in all that concerns general
| labor, work and interests to the general
| assembly In which they find Il recog-
nized and regulated representation.
| This work, as it is carried on, combines
| the whole labor movement Of America
for the carrying out OF such measures
| for the general protection and advance
| n q a w n hn ind In
ment Of the general assembly. Recent
events indicate that the conservation of
| power, as we'll as the conservatism OF
action, is sought by the supreme body,
and that 1t is rapidly gathering to itself
such power cannot be denied. The re-
| suit Of this perfected organization of the
labor hosts will be to prevent i'll. advised
| or hasty action by faction or section,
| and bring the whole force of the Organi-
ZatiOD in all its various departments to
bear upon single point at a
command from the controlling
powers. The immense strength OF such
an organization can only be measured
by the obedience Of it's membership and
the genuine conservatism of its action.
Wisely directed, so as not to alarm its
opponents, or create discussions within
itself, in two or three short years it will
| udNC tuC ihpol VI thls
continent acting as a unit for any given
purpose. Cooperation, as q natural adj
junct to such consultations, will follow
and out of this may come what has so
long been hoped for, the solution of the
labor problem. The recent strike at
Chicago has put on foot a project among
the wOrkingmen for the creation and
conduct of a pork packing business OF
their own. OF the capital necessary
therefor there will be no lack. One
weeks earnings of the packing-house
crews would give capital OF nearly
half q million. Three months saving
would furnish all the cash necessary
Experienced agents and trained bust.
ness heads would be required, and the
education of these from their own ranks
would naturally follow. The solution Of
this problem is in the hands of the labor
of this country, and 1t cannot be taken
from them. The move has been made
in the right direction. Avoidance Of
conflict with capital; greater unity
among workingmen themselves; organi
zation for general purposes among al
workingmen; cooperative Industries
sobriety, thrift, and increased intelli
gence to conduct these cooperative en-
terprises. Out of these will come indie
pendence and mastership Of the indus
trial situation.