The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-05-01
LEHGHToN COUNTY, SATURDAY, ],

whom the brayest of our police stood in
dread. The lady in passing a lonely
place was seized by several of the gang,
dragged on to little tug boat near by
brutally outraged by the villains, and in
addition to the shocking barbarity they
robbed her of her purse and all of her
clothes and then left her for dead upon
the wharf. The wretched woman
dragged herself to house some distance
off and word was sent TO the nearest
police station. and in few days twelve
members cf the gang were captured and
most of them were identified by the
woman. Six were tried last week. every
one was convicted; they were sentenced
to fifteen years each at hard labor in
States prison. Brooklyn breathes freer
for their absence. though, like Smiths
razor strops there are still few more
Of the same sort left.
The magnificent gift of a quarter Of
a million of dollars by the late W. II.
Yanderbilt's son to the new hospital
founded by their father, with the mag
niliccnt donation to the Maternity Hos
pital by his son-in-law and daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Sloan, makes their united
gifts something over million of dollars
to hospital purposes alone. The gift,
,N1n te te in
bounded by no narrow restrictions, but
is free as the air and the sun to the
children of every cline, complexion and
degree. The only conditions are, that
the unfortunate shall need its aid and
the best skill and the tcndercst treat
ment that money can procure is given
as free as the air he breathes or the
water that runs. Thinking over this
splendid charity and its far reaching
blessings-blessings that shall glorify
humanity when l am undistinguished
dust. / regret now that | have ever
spoken an unkind word of him who
leaves such a train of benson and bless
ing behind him. The journalist who
writes from day to day the current events
of the hour, cannot be expected to be
lnfallible in his Judgment; he has to
| take things as they appear at the time
not waiting for the deeper springs which
time alone deveIopes. Living, l may
sometimes have judged w. II. Wander
bilt harshfully and wrongfully, but now
fiom the deal mans grave l should be
unjust to myself if | did not freely ad-
mi, that from present appearances, it
looks as though the mighty accumula-
tions of the Nanderbilts were in good
hands, and that when each member of
the family, who now represents its
wealth and power, shall have worked
out his own problem, New York for all
aftertime may rise up and call them
blessed, and the name Of Vanderbilt roll
down through ages, not as millonaires,
not as railroad kings, but like Abou
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4 fellow men.
1t was rather startling reading two
weeks ago when we read of the strikes
in the West, but that was thousand
miles away. To-day, and we have it at
our own door and we don't like it..
People are beginning to ask themselves
"What is il all about?' In New York
the principal grevience appears to be
that some men don't care about joining
the Union, and some had the timerity
to speak disrespectfully of the Knights
OF Labor. One of the employees of the
Third avenue surface road was asked to
join and refused, they told him they
would make him, and he told them in
. general terms to go to Sheol. They
, then insisted on his discharge, and the
company refused to discharge him and
twelve others who appear to be obnoXi-
ous to the strikers but are great favor
ties with the company. On account o!
this row, which ought to have been
, settled ont back of the stable according
to the Marquis of Queen Il err rules
four or five hundred thousand people
, were compelled to walk to and from
: heir work for miles, among them thou
sands of weak women and children
though it was fat men that did most OF
! the cussin. If Mulligan spoke disre'
2 specially of the Knights of Labor
= what have got 10 do with that, why
' didn't some stalwart knight punch
. Mullgan's head and teach him better
5 manners. On Monday the streets looked
, like the entrance TO church where Z
! missionary collection is expected. The
! streets were aliYe with policemen anC
= they all carried their long night clubs
S and from the determined manner ii
which they gripped them it was quite
l evident that they meant business. j
I looks as though New York was to b'
e made the battle ground; and as the
i greatest city in the Union, probably thii
/ is as good place as any to settle this dis
o turbing question. Every man who ha'
n either humanity or sense recognizes thu
+, right and duty of labor to elevate
{ ameliorate and better its condition, ant
t to that end all combinations of working
n men are necessary and justifiable. TC
= receive fair compensation for their labor
i to regulate their hours of work, to co
c operate for mutual advancement anC
= improvement. All these things com
:, mend themselves to the judgment o.
e thinking men; but it is perfectly abhor
e rent to our ideas of freedom TO say tha
y an inhivihnal or cnrnoration should bI