The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-06

Pickets and pal
fngs.... ....... 4,hHc ~ 5l.U. lU,1p 20
LathS......... Di,sl2 " lW.sl5 23.z1 ..
Shingles ........ 69.73s, l5s.0i. 24,il3 81
Pine ~clupbOalds lO 30 l.2l I'll "
spruce clap
boards ........ 2si3 $1,000 4,5io DC
God, unInanu-
featured ...... Jc,gD ,,,c w
Total. sf,012.O 63 IS
The New York Sun sees the far-reach-
ing effects of the Reading railroad strike
after it became an affair more strictly be-
tween the miners and their employers,
aud therefore a clear issue between capt.
tai and labor.
TIE SIN says that, Whatsoever way
the Reading controversy ends, the state
of o.her industries must stand or change
in sympathy.
"Fot several years past the great labor
upheavals have not been 80 much for the
increase of wages as for their mainte.
nance at the unprecedented standard to
which they have risen and the culmina-
ting effort to that end is now before us
in the shape of the Reading miners strike.
There is every reason for believing that
employers generally so regard it, and
that The working men are of the same
mind.
"The effect Of a strikers victory in this
instance would be, for some time at least,
10 Fecp wages where they are and the
result Of lowering wages would be doubt
less 10 broaden the area of the labOriDg
world, INT to tax in a great number of
those who at this moment are standing
outside of its present borders as the un-
employed. 1t is a situation Of mixed
blessings and evils. but no n can con-
template it without emotion or sympathy
for the great mass of laborers whose
good fortune is threatened with diminu-
ton
A dispatch from Chicago 10 the New
York Journal Of Commerce says. in regard
to the wheat, THAT the crop was put
into the ground late that it made slow
and small growth, and that the plants to-
day are generally weakly. On the other
hand, reports from Tennessee, Kentucky,
southern Ohio, and Indiana, all go TO
show that the wheat, Notwithstanding
the adverse conditions, is looking fairly
well. Southern Illinois shows more of a
checkered situation, and the only State
| which can be said TO be thoroughly pro
tected from the severity of winter by a
good blanket of snow is Michigan. SO
much for the coming crop. AS to the re-
serves OF winter wheat on hand there is a
surprisingly active interstate demand all
over the winter whea. belt from millers,
and it seems at the present time almost
a -, -, paua;kt1itu fn nat u-haos apnrnh IN
keep the mills running on full time"
Mr.. Sherman adopts the usual method.
lie shirks the real questionable dishon-
esty of extorting from the people over a
hundred million dollars more taxes than
they can Justly and constitutionally be
required to pay-and raises the false
issue of how TO dispose of the surplus.
Mr.. Cleyeland's object is to stop empty
ing the peoples pockets. MIR. Sherman
principally discusses how 10 empty the
Treasury. His logic Is remarkable. He
declares that the Democrats are response
bic for high taxation imposed by the Re-
publicans and retained by the Republi-
cans, and charges the Democrats with the
sin of allowing a surplus to accumulate
which comes from Republican taxation.
Like Mr.. Blaine, Senator Sherman is
ready TO give up the internal evenue, il
necessary, rather than allow any OF the
special Interests favored by a wal tariff to
suffer-N Y. World.
a correspondent Of the Boston Herald,
who is referred to editorially in that pa
per as "a well-known congressional cler-
gyman " of the city, declares that he has
reached the conclusion that the Sunday
newspaper has not only come TO stay. but
that il is an essential force in the devel.
opment of the society of to-day. He says
he has not deduced his conclusion from
the mere news side of the question, i'm
portant as that is, nor from the considera-
ton that many persons who do no go to
church will be instructed and kept out OF
vicious associations by reading the pa
pers, which is another forcible argument
in favor of the Sunday newspaper. His
plea is 1.-THE necessity as seen from the
social, ethical and religious view point"
-Erchaage.
Mr.. Sherman seems 10 be demoralized
by the exigencies of his candidacy, His
speech on the message yesterday was a
mere rehash of Mr.. Blaine's cable, and dis.
PLAYS poor Mr.. Sherman in the unpleas-
ant attitude of one Of Mr.. Blaine's most
abiect followers and imitators. So
closely did he copy his master that he
even suggested a distribution of the sur
plus, a piece OF idiocy on which it was
generally supposed Mr.. Blaine held a
patent, with the disposition to prosecute
all who should dare infringe it.-N. Y.