The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-05
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
WHAT THE KFTROPOLI7Ay THINK
Frs THOUGHT YESTERDAf

strik.s-Th. situation a. 1angier-H""
Trust. Affect Working Men-Mr. Cham
b,rIsin on the Fishery Treaty.
Referring to the pending railroad
strikes. the New York Times has the fol-
Lowing clear statement OF the legal pear
ings of the case:
"It is about time vigorous effort wa
made in the Northwest to enforce lhe law
which requires all railroads engaged IN
Interstate commerce 10 receive, trans
mort. and deliver all freight that i con
stoned II them The law Itself l. per
fectly clear, and it holds responsible not
only the officers Of the corporations, INT
Their employes of every class IL applies
Jus, rs clearly 10 men who drive engine
lar set switches as TO the officers AID
managers OF the roads, and these men ctn
ne punished for refusing to obey The Law.
Not only that, but If they combine a 'n--
ployes of railroad corporations or onl'ldc
of their service TO prevent the execution
of the laws requirements, they become
lgniliy Of conspiracy TO commit an OF
Tense against the United States. and are
subject to still seyerer penalties.
The report by Consul General Lewis
ION the situation at Tangier, though It re-
Icites what our foreign representatives are
very glib in calling insults To the nag,
Iclearly shows that arbitrary powers have
been exercised by our Consulate Tor
which there IL no justification. Anu tnls
view of the case seems To he taken ny
ldisn,eresled observers in OTHER coun-
tries -,
Mr. Lewis tells Us that he informed the
Moorish Minister substantially that the
Iouestion rs 10 whom he (Le~ls) should
or should not protect" was "a mailer
about which the native authorities had
nothing TO say This question al once
Iopens the doors for those abuses which
tanpear TO have been abundantly com
milted by Mr. Lewis predecessors, Ana
ttheie are those who assert that he MIN
self has stretched the American flag over
more territory than it was entitled to-
". Y. World
TuE WRoSG TO LABoR.-Nery well,
listen A trust is "A combination Of man
lufac,uring capitalists 10 check produc.
tion. feed the market with only limited
supply of their goods, and Illus keep
prices high.
| Their aim ia to manufacture less and
lcharre more. But if they make less
goods, that means that they will employ
fewer workmen, or give those they keep
Ion less steady work. Hence a trust Is It
blow at the w0rkmen.
| II there were no high protective duties
trusts would be impossible, because me
moment manufacturers here combined to
limit production and raise prices, that
moment goods would rush in from abroad
to supply The market. 1t Is the high
ltarin. therefore, which is the basis at
trusts. The tariff shuts out foreign goods;
thereupOn manufacturing capitalists COM
bne to limit production and raise prices
AT home: and in doing this they nccessa-
lrily fniure their own wOrkmen because
they deprive them Of full work, and injure
the people at large by forcing them to
pay artificially high prices for goods
| v. Y HeraM.
Labouchere, in his cable letter to the
Hoyd, says OF Mr. Chamberlain's account
of his visit 10 America:
He was, he explained with that in
lgeniOus self-appreciatiOn which has be-
fore now excited many smiles, the one
man who could settle the dispute between
THE Dominion and the United States, and
therefore he felt ii mis- duty. when called
upon by the appreciatiye Lord Salisbury,
to encounter the perls of the ocean and
to betake himself to Washington. 1t
was true, he added, that the dispute was
not vet settled. But if the treaty be not
ratified by the American Senate and &C.
Cepted by the Dominion Parliament,
what of that To deserve success is more
mertOrious than to succeed. The fact Is
that at any moment an arbitrator might
have settled the fishery question on the
lines of common sense"
If Judge Kelley will take the Republi-
can wooden manufacturers Of Republican
PHILADELPHIA into his confidence, every
one OF them will admit that free wool il
q necessity 10 meet the changed condi-
ton of that great industry, and all wOull
say so publicly but for the fear that the
wool-growers would retaliate upon wool
ems If Judge Kelley will take the Re
publican Philadelphia iron men into his
confidence, every one of them will tell
him that free ores would greatly benefit
the iron trade; that the ores imported are
Il necessity to produce iron for the pres
ent markets; that free ores would cheaper
their product and enlarge both protection
and consumption, and all would say so
publicly but for the fear OF retaliation
upon iron.-Paa Times.
The spring immigration from Europe
has opened upon a scale that leads to the
opinion that the rush To our shores this
year will be unparalleled Every ship
that reaches our port is crowded from
stem to stern, and Castle Garden is con
stan,ly swarming with the hopeful myri-
ads who have come here to improve their
condition in life. Last year the arrivals
there reached the enormous aggregate Of
$50 S45, or 1881 more that in the pre-
ceding year, and the officials have com
puted that this years immigration will be
over half a million.-N J. Sun