Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-11-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The folly of the Chicago strike Ii becoming

The folly of the Chicago strike IL becoming
very apparent.
Negroes in Georgia own property worth
So, 133, ,3O0 And the southern papers are
calling attention to this fact as an indication
that the negro is not oppressed.
South Carolina white farmers are urging
each other to organize at once for the centrol
of farm labor against the Vaccinations of
the Knights of Labor. They claim that ne
gro labor is now paid more than it is worth.
The plan proposed is to hire no man who be-
longs to a labor society who will not
promise to keep aloof from labor societies.
A new use for the tobacco plant has been
discovered Its stems and waste, it is claim
ed, are equal to linen rags in the manufac-
ture of paper Tobacco waste costs less than
$40 ton, linen rags $40 to $50. There is no
expense in asserting the former and very
little shrinkage, as against loss OF one-thlrd
of rags. The yearly tobacco waste is esti-
mated by the census reports at from 3,000,-
900 to 100000 of pounds.
The size of Henry Georges vote in New
York has inspired the labor vsters of Phila-
delphia to take hand in the approaching
municipal contest in that city. The name
that is now in general favor with them for
mayor under tho new reform charter
is Mr.. George w. Childs, and it is thought
that if his name were to be presented by the
Labor men the Democrats would indorse
him, as he is firm supporter of President
Cleveland. Mr.. Childs would make good
mayor.
One of the reasons given by Canon Farrar
for pledging himself to total abstinence was
that in England twenty thousand inhabit-
ants of prisons, accustomed to drink all
their lives, and the majority of them brought
into prison directly or indirectly by the use
of it, could be and were, from the moment
of their imprisonment, absolutely deprived
of it, not only without loss, but with entire
gain to their personal health. Men enter
prison sickly and blighted, are deprived of
drink, and leave prison strong and hale; and
women who, when incarcerated, are hideous
to look upon, after being made compulsorily
sober by act of Parliament, recover the bloom
of health and almost of beauty.
Clemens Herschel, the well known hy-
draulic engineer, does not agree with Mr..
Edward Atkinson in his estimate of the
value Of water power. Mr.. Hsrschel cites
the value of the stock of the Holyoke water
power, which for twenty years has paid ten
per cent and il now worth two hundred,
and of the Essex company at Lawrence
which is now worth threefold. Mr.. Herschel
lays down this general law, that steam pow
er, even in quantities of five hundred or six
hundred horse power, cannot be created and
maintained for less than $50 per horse power
per annum, while water-power will not ordi-
narily cost half that SUM- Wherever water
power can be produced ct less than half the
cost of steam it will pay to produce 1t and
offer it for SALE Mr. Herschel therefore an
ticipates no decline in the value of water
power, but adds: ''The reason water-powsr
enterprises need strong financing to carry
them through the perilous days OF their
youth is, to my mind, the very palpabls fact
that they require an outlay, at the begin
ming, nearly equal to their whole final cost,
while the income to be derived therefrom has
a small beginning and would ordinarily re-
quire say twenty years to attain consider
able magnitude. But this should be foreseen
and provided for, as 1t can be, in various
ways in trustworthy cases."
Professor Peter Collier, who has done