River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-02-25

The death of Ex-Governor Horatio
Seymour. following SO quickly that of
Generals Mcclellan and Hancock
leaves Mr.. Tilden the last living of the
unsuccessful democratic candidates
for the presidency.
The price of drapery has gone up in
Washington. Secretary Manning re-
ports the expense of draping the
Departments on the death of General
Grant as 2,442. But TO drape them
for Hendricks cost "a. AS. Possibly,
however, the administration wore its
mourning twice as thick for Hendricks
as it did for Grant.
~.A.&
The LOngfellOw Entertainment TO
be given in Brackets Hall next Sat
urday evening by our local Dramatic
Club is awakening a widespread
interest both here and elsewhere.
Sleigh loads of pleasure-seekers are
coming from Ellsworth, TrImbelle,
Clifton and other neighboring towns,
and the occasion promises TO be one
of the pleasantest of the season.
Tickets Is and % cents.
An anti-Chinese congress was re-
Gently held in Portland, Oregon. The
congressman claimed to be enthusiast
tically in favor of peaceful removal of
the heather. One of them said that
he had been five days in Jail already
for peacefully" removing some of
them from his town, and if permitted
to go on he would be willing to spend
a year aud half more in Jail. The
congress vociferously applauded this
peaceful remover, and it begins to
look as though the Chinaman had
better go at once than wait to be
peacefully removed by the gentlemen
who are SO ready to 60 to Jail for the
privilege.
The convention passed some resolu-
lions prefaced by whereases, the most
peaceful of which was one demanding
the impeachment of Governor Squires
of Washington Territory for prevent
ing the peaceful removal of the five
hundred Cinnamon of Seattle, and
employing General Ben Butler. of
Massachusetts,, as the attorney of the
congress to prosecute the impeach-
ment ceremonies to bloody issue.
There is no doubt that the organi-
cation of labor, if properly directed,
is of great benefit to the laboring
classes, but in many instances imprOp.
Ell Influences brought to bear upon
labor organizations lead to unfOrtu-
nate and damaging results, and the
closing of the Mccormick Reaper
Works furnishes a striking Illustration
of this fact. The men employed in
that establishment made a demand
for increased wages and their demand
was acceded to. After securing their
increase of wages they demanded the
discharge of six nOn-uniOn men EN-
ployed in the moulding department
and threatened to strike if this de-
mand should not be met. AT this the
manager of the works thought it was
time to insist that the Company had
some rights about the institution
which were as sacred as this unrea-
sOnable demand OF its employees, and
to avoid strike shut down the estab-
lishment, throwing fourteen hundred
wOrkingmen out of employment. =
This large body of men has been
thrown out of employment, not be-
cause of any financial reverses of their
employers, not because they were
working for too low wages and struck
for an increase which was not grant
ed, but because they made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to thwart the right of
their employers to hire men who were
doubtless as needy and deserving as
they but who did not belong to labor
organization, Such instances as this
deprive the labor organizations OF the
country of much public sympathy
which they would otherwise enjoy in
their unequal struggle against the OPP
preston of capital. The Mccormick
Company is on record as possessing a
fixed determination to exercise its
right to hire any man it chooses to
employ. This reminds us of remark
once made by the late S. S. Merrill,
who was for many years General Man
ager of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul system of railroads. When Mr..
Merrill begun the work of wedding
out Incorporate employees he was told
that he had no right to say what 9TH
ers should or should not eat or drink,
to which he replied, mo, but | have
right to say who | shall employ"
thus intimating his ability to carry
out the reform he had inaugurated by
employing only temperate men.
Remarkable Recuperation.
ID. NJ. Ferry & Co, the well-known