Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-11-15

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Mr. Powderiy has at last done what his best
friends have been urging hun 10 do for a good
while past. He has put down his foot hard
that the reverberation is ielt all the way from
Philadelphia to Chicago. IL has been well
known from the outset that he did NOS ap-
prove of the packing-house strike, and consii-
cred that the Knights of Labor who went into
it did wiuDdt a proper regard fer their
pledges and for the interests OF the order. The
wonder In every bodys mind has been that the
matter was allowed TO go on so far without In
reference.
The Board instructs yon Barry and Carl
ton" says Mr.. Powderly's letter of "Wednesday
last, 'to settle the strike by putting the men
back at the old hours. II the men re-
fuse, take their charters. We must have obedi-
ence and discipline
That last sentence is worth the whole docu-
ment. 1t strikes at the root OF the trouble which
the Knights an organization have had to
contend with from the day they began to exist
Men have joined the order full OF hope Of what
IL was going to do, and basing their expecta-
tons of its success the fact that it was strong
in numbers and compactiy bound together
They have made frequent use of a comparison
of their society to an army. But they have not
paused to reflect that an army is yalueless on
account OF its numerical strength or the COM
prehensiveness of the oath with which it is
mustered into service. unless the soldiers who
compose IL are ready TO obey orders on the in
slant, at any cost OF individual sacrifice.
III workingmen do not want to submit to dis
cipline, there Is no law compelling them to
become knights of Labor or join union. II
they do join, they must expect to do what they
are ordered to do by the officers whom they
Mr.. Powderly Is not forcing upon his subordi-
mates any qualification of his own taste for
power; he is not subjecting them to any form
of restraint which they could not have foreseen
before they enlisted as knights. He is only
doing what his wisest advisers and the most
honest well-wishers of the organization have
wanted him to do on more than one occasion
heretofore-to issue a command i'm such terms
As TO leave no room for a Hisunderst anding,
and 10 warn possible mutineers that the penalty
of disobedience would be Immediate dismissal.
Business men who keep one eye on their own
concerns and the other on Wall street are some
times needlessly alarmed by the fluctuations of
prices on the Stock Exchange list. \ weak stock
market, they seem to think, points to danger in
other lines of trade. This is q very misleading
view, as every one must see who stops to look
into 1t. The stock market, unlike the market
for dry goods or groceries real estate Is largely
controlled by cliques, who would make no profit
worth mentioning if values were long main-
tanned with any uniformity. These cliaues
study causes and conditions some distance
ahead, and prepare to turn them to their own
advantage. Ifit Is evident that money is going
10 be cheap after a certain date, and the prices
of stocks to undergo proportionate rise, thev
will act in concert 70 hammer prices down to a
point where they can buy all they want, and
then wait for the boom. II, on the other hand,
there is evidence of the approach of q period of
ssringeney, they concoct rose-colored stories to
send prices suddenly up, so that they can sell
shcrt right and lett and wait for the drop. Just
now there Is reason TO suspect that the cliaues
are getting ready for raid in the bear interest.
One condition that is especially favorable Is the
rapidity with which certain Clancy stocks
with purely speculative values have been
pushed up. But, beyond this, there should be
borne in mind the tact that at the beginning of
the new year, government disbursements for
the redemption OF securities are going to be very
large, to say nothing of the immense sums paid
out in interest aud dividends by private corpor-
atious. The influx of so much money all at
once is likely to stimulate the market, and, in
order to increase their profits, the cliques will
be interested In causing downward movement
within the next six weeks. There is nothing In
this that need cause alarm. The tendency of
general trade is upward, and a sag in stocks
will mean only that the manipuatOrs have
been at work. They can no more check the
rising movement in the Industrial and mercan-
tile world than they could prevent the sun
from shining on the rest Of mankind by getting
under an umbrella themselves.
The result OF the practical joke played by two
Of the employees in the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing Is so serious that there is little
likelihood that the same men will be concerned
again in such a performance. They may thank
their stars for SO indulgent a chief as Mr.
Graves, who is ready to take their past records
into account and let them Off with a mere rep
rimand and warning. The notion that there is
anything funny in inf1ictins pain upon fellow
creature ought not to be found among men of
sufficient intelligence to be worthy Of places in
the public service. 1t is to be hoped that the
narrow escape Of the victim OF the Joke in Mr.
Gravess division from death, and the equally
narrow escape Of its perpetrators from sojourn
in a cell and a trial for granddaughter. will make
an impression upon the minds of other persons
who confuse cruelty with wit.
Free speech seems TO be at discount in Mis-
souri,. Representative Glover received q black
eye In ~. Louis on Saturday evening for exer-
cising his privileges as q LAWYER too freely i'm a
case tried that day In court. In ST. Joseph the
same Afternoon. an editor was publicly whipped
by a local politician a punishment for dis
campaign If fisticuffs were arguments two
such occurrences in one day would carry dis
couragement into the ranks OF journalism and
the law; but both professions have survived a
good many years OF persistent assault with
worse weapons than the hand or the horsewhip
and there Is no danger that the crude code of
Missouri will frighten them out OF existence
In considering the proper name of the post
Office at the place now known as TenalIytown
or Tenleytown, it is perhaps well enough for
the department, authorities to ascertain and
adhere to the correct spelling OF the name of
the family whose cognomen IL bears. What
the authorities ought TO do, however when
that is DONE Is to shorten the legal n anne OF the
Office by dropping the superiuous and awk-
ward afiix ''town." Either "Tenley' or Ten.
ally" Is more convenient, more euphonious.
and more distinctive than the old form. And
In deciding between Tenally and Tenley the
latter has the advantage in breylty and
euphony.
Whether or not Mrs James Brown Potter, or
Brown James Pother, or whatever IL may be
mas entered into contract 10 go upon the stage
n . professional actress is just now violently
asitating New York Journalism. A long-range
rejection on the subject may not be worth
moea; but we observe that a certificate rs To
the merits Of a certain toilet article for I'M
proving the complexion, signed by the lady In
question, has broken out i'm the adyertising
columns OF the newspapers like n nettla rash