Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-01-06

The Russians and the Turks are begin
ming to figure largely in our immigration
statistics. They are gennerally a bad lot
but, for that matter, so are those of some
other nationalities that are swarming
hitherward like the locusts of Egypt. The
question as TO how this swelling food
from the Old World, that threatens to
swamp the New shall be checked and
staunched, will loom up more and more
oOnpicuously from year TO year.
LORD STANLEY of Preston, who was ask
Cd to take the governor -generalship of
Canada some months ago, has accepted
the position, according to the Manches-
ter (Eng.l, Courier. He is the younger
brother of the earl of Derby, is member
of the Privy council, and has been a mem
ber of Parliament, a lord of the admiralty
and financial secretary for war ana for
the treasury. Lord StanIty is still in his
prime and is considered solid, but not
brilliant man of affairs.
JosEru CHAMBERLAIN Ia quoted at Otta-
va as expressing the hope that the fish
cries question will be settled by the com
mission. London dispatches indicate
that his letters to the home government
are not so hopeful. Governor General
LaEsdowue has ordered a generous sup
ply of orchids, which may have revived
the spirits of the commissioner since his
arrival III Canada.
The manual training of the young
either at the public cost or by private
enterprise, would have one good effect
whether it made the pupils expert
mec hanics or not. 1t would certainly
tend to ennoble and dignity manual labor
A vast deal Is said about the dignity of
labor but just so long as the State
teaches that the making of doctors and
lawyers ID of far more Importance than
the making of mechanics, the artisan will
be at a social discount. No boy can
acquire any skill in the use of tools with
out acquiring at the same time increased
respect for the skilled users of tools,
The Ohio labor commissioners annual
report is mournful document so far az
At relates to enforced idleness and child
labor. 1t Is estimated that the working
men of the state are employed as whole
but eight months in the year. The com
missioner fluids work shops crowded with
Z oh u Nf bA
and 30 cents a day, and he reconu' ends
that the law be amended to exclude al
children under IA from the factories.
Foreign immigration, foreign goods in
/ the home market and invention are the
! chief agencies in glutting the labor mar
| ket, he says. Aud yet We are told that
| girls to DO kitchen work are hard to find
/ at 81 and ST a week with board, while the
| factories are crowded with them toiling
for 80 and 10 cents day without board.
SOME advance facts and statistics from
the annual report of the Michigan labor
bureau make anything but a creditable
showing for the farmers of that state.
The township supervisors, in making
their assessusents last spring, asked each
farmer what, If any, was the amount of
the mortgage on his farm. The labor
bureau report is based on the supervisors
figures, which show total of many mil
lion dollars in mortgages. In one county
nearly half the farms are mortgsged, the
total reaching nearly one fifth of the as
sessed value of all the farms in the couu-
ty. Itis said that other counties are in
much worse condition, and that the
average proportion of mortgages to as
sessed farm values tor the whole state
will be much larger than for the county
! alluded to.
THF National Opera company is indeed
+ in hard luck. The officers OF the Law
, have seized the receipts from the sale of
tickets, tackled the business manager, at
tached the property 10 secure debts, and
! now she weather has turned sgGinst the
concern. Friday night the second sec
, tion of the company's special train car
rying the instruments, music, etc, got
: stalled in a snow drift while en- route fol
! Detroit. and owing TO its non arrival the
initial performance at that place had &c
be abandoned, TO the disgust of large
audience. II will take q good deal OF
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