The Press., 1888-10-04
Issued Every Thursday Evening.
tFor The Press,l THINGS | DON'T LIKE TO SEE.


 Mir. Editor: If I were to mention all the things don't like to see, think you would put me down as @ constitutional grumbler. will mention therefore only few.
 I don't like to see men working for wages forming societies like the Knights of Labor and other similar organizations to coerce employers, demanding wages which no employer can pay, and threaten ing to strike unless their demands are granted. don't like to see them demand the dismissal of some workman not be- longing to their society, with the threat of strike if not granted, or boycott if he buys his raw maternal of any one except those they favor.
 l yield to no man in maintaining the right and duty of every wage earner to ob- tain the best possible price for his ser vices, just the same as I claim for the farmer or manufacturer to obtain the best possible price for his product.
 It would seem that the sad result of strikes for the last few years, and the mil lions lost by the strikers, would have taught them, by this time, that strikes had become an unproftable remedy for their grievances. Get from your employer the best price you can, and if not sufficient seek another who will pay better, and leave.
 don't like to see any class of employers banding together to depress the price of labor. If the price of the article you pro- duce will not compensate you for it's pro- duction, you may be compelled to suspend operations.
 Over-production in any line of manufac- ture may compel @ curtailment, or drive some out of the business.
 If employer and employed were in full accord, a scale of wages could be agreed upon that would prevent suspension of business, and the consequent loss of em- ployment to the wage earner, but, being antagonistic, and each struggling for the mastery, ruin to both may follow. | l don't like trusts or combinations of capital to enhance the price of articles needed for the comfort and happiness of the people. That few butchers and stock men of our western states should combine to raise the price of meat for the poor la- borer, as well as for the rich, is an outrage not to be longer tolerated.
 It is not claimed on account of scarcity.
 If l were member of congress I would introduce bill forbidding the export of meat when it's price in our principal mark cts exceeds a certain reasonably fixed price. l would not allow the consumers of this country to be obliged to pay an ex- travagant price for large part of the meat produced, and the combine to ship the balance out of the country at whatever price they could obtain. think such legislation would be entirely just and con- stitutional, and show a determination to protect the people from the unjust greed
 of combines. The nations of Europe do
 not hesitate to act on this principle, and
 forbid the exportation of horses, whatever
 may be the temptation of prices, if there
 may be any probability of needing them
 for purposes of war.
 The copper combine sell all the copper
 they can at fixed price in the United
 States, and ship the surplus abroad to
 sell at a much less price.
 Our extreme protectionists have never
 studied the mode of protecting the people but only the feaO faUored ones. We charge heavy duty on articles man ufactured abroad, and yet allow the same
 people who made them to come here anC , compete with our labor without any ob
 struction. don't wonder that our home laborers begin to ask for some protection , If the system of protection Is a just one they are right in claiming their share of it I don't like the sugar trust. The sugar rehners of the country have long been ia ) vored by congress with an unjustly dis ) eliminating tariff, rendering it unprofita ble to import sugars so far advanced as tC be suitable for consumption, and giving them the entire control of the market } This has made them rich and powerful 3 They now combine not only to gover1 ] the price of refined sugar, but to oontro the production, and also to fix the price 0 3 the raw, or unrefned sugar. As the i'm portation of good sugar is rendered impos sible by the discriminating duty, the, ? have the consumers in their power. : They say to us, buy nly SugGT, at nal price, or go without
 2 Much more could be said about this out TGge0us combine, which affects every man l woman and child in the country. An eas, - remedy is to be found. Abolish the dut ? on all classes of sugar and the sugar trttS 6 would be as harmless as a newborn kitten l will mention one more thing amon t those I don't like to see, and that is tn s continuance of war taxes in time of peace l, With a surplus of money in the treasury i. drawn from the hard toll of the people, t r the amount of over a hundred million l. of dollars, don't like to see the same ta1 t ation continued which produces it. l. don't like to see prominent statesmen S IbO-CdilOO, WuO dEO Ou EGOOEu h5 HI AhNOE VI It reduced taxation, the moment a measur r. to reduce the duties on imports is brough d forward, turn back upon their record, an k by all means in their power endeavor Iprevent action. Such men may be friend
 of class, but are not the friends of th
 people.
 . don't like to see men coming to enjo " the blessings of our free government an 2 liberal institutions bringing with theI i. their notions of socialism, and defiantl 6 proclaiming their intention to overthro r. our republican institutions. a- But, MT. Editor, must stop, for th to things don't like crowd upon my min r. in such large numbers that neither yor y patience or space will allow me to coI sT tinue. D. K. A VnIWmbIe AemedYs - Brandreth's Pills purify the Blood, stiml = late the Liver, strengthen the Kidneys, reg H. late the Bowels They were introduced in u
 United States in 1885. Since that time ov le fifty millions of boxes of Brandreth's Pil la kao ua hoaY1 oOncuuna1