Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1886-05-14
There are 100000 men en-

- ~ Suoiesees of sat7sa FfoPrietor.
There are 100000 men en-
gagged in the eight hour move-
ment.
There is a big difference
between COW boy and China
man. The chinaman doesn't carry
revolver.
After all the talk of the
"Globe-D Democrat, it turns out that
c. /. Filley did more to bring the
strike to an end and start the wheels
of commerce, than any other man
In the state.
An assignment in business
is common thing, but the first
time we have ever known it to be-
come necessary in politics, is in
the case of the Kirksville post
Office.
The officers were quick to
arrest the Cinnamon, last week
and make them pay dearly for
their little diversion, but not a
thing was done with the boys who
stood on the same corner yelling
and swearing.
The May number of the
Future has been received and is
filled with interesting, scientific
matter. 1t is a paper that should
be read by men of all trades an
professions. The weather predic-
tions, by its editor, c. c. Blake
have been fulfilled to the letter in
this part of the country. In the
June number he promises US some
startling revelations. hsin.
The London Globe pro-
nounces the riots in America the
latest ebullition of the socialistic
wave which has recently passed
over London and Belgium. II
thinks that the vigorous actions OF
the New York authorities in con-
nection with strikes and boycott
ting is assurance that the Ameri.
cans will treat the other accurse6
exotic at Chicago with equa
vigor. @
The Pail Mall Gazette, com
menting on the anarchist riots a
Chicago and Milwaukee, says tina
Europe, having adopted a system
Of exporting paupers to the Unit
ed States, is primarily answerabl,
for the trouble, and secondly, tina
America has shown fatal kindnes
in receiving these paupers, and i
now reaping the results of he
folly in trying to make America
citizens out of the scum of Eu
rope.
The ablest writers on labo
questions in America are beggin
ming to discuss the eight-hou
movement, the general sentimer
apparently being that shorte
hours would be beneficial to th
working classes, and the resu
need not be, in the end, injurior
to employers. But the condition
which some of these writers nam
should not be lost sight of b
workingmen. One of them is that di
ferent lengths of the work-day al
necessary in different employment
or in different localities. Anothe
is that the matter should be left
arbitration in each field Of labo
and not attempted to be settled
legislation. Men should be lie
free to work as many hours in
day as they wish. There has n
been more reasonable suggestie
made than that of Senator Sta
ford, of California-that lab
should be paid for by the hou
each laborer choosing the leng
of his own work-day. ~ aa,e
Mr.. Goulds lieutenant, Hol
kins, wants it made crimin
offence for employees to combil
and strike against railroad. Z
did not suggest that it should
made criminal offence for raj
roads to combine and stril
against the public; to regulate Il
output and price of coal; to put l
the rates ON grain when navig
ton closes, and to put them doV
again to fight and kill off frei
water navigation lines as soon
the ice melts.-Post Dispatch.
William Whiteside, of Lanca
n