Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-24
RDITORIAL NOTRS,

EDITORIAL NOTES.
Brace Brothers, a firm of Pittsburg laun-
drymen, have sued leading Knights of Labor
for 900 damages growing out of boycott
which was instituted last month. The Knights
are out with dodgers calling the suit t'perse-
cution." Their boycott, of course, was not
persecution.
Some of us may live to see an electric light
on the North pole. American enterprise is
felt at Hernosand, Sweden, which has just
been provided with the most northern cleo
trie light station in the world. The lamps
there are lighted at half past 2 o'clock in the
afternoon and put out at fifteen minutes past
12 O'Clock, midnight.
The Grant family is pretty "well off. )" Mrs.
Grant has received about $3.50, 900 from Gen
eral Grants book, and has a pension of
Sc, 900 from the nation, the interest on $780,
900. She also has the income from $3.50, 900
raised by George Jones from Jay Gould,
James Gordon Bennett and others. She also
has the income from 100000 raised by
George w. Childs. In other words she has
the income of not far from million dollars.
Nothing more characteristic of the manage
ment of much of the present ''lsbor move
ment' has appeared than the strike and its
settlement at the Wamsutta mills il New
Bedford, Massachusetts,. It was started by
Spinner Abelard Dubuque, who insisted on
his right to stop work by his own watch in
stead of by the company's time, which, he
kI~r
or not he insisted on beginning work three
minutes ahead of the company's time is not
stated. At any rate, proving obstinate, he
was dismissed, his fellow spinners striking
because he was dismissed The strike drag
ged along until the local merchants thought
it behcoved them to interfere to protect their
own trade. So they found Spinner Dubuque
place as barber at $12 week, guarantee
ing him steady work and pay if he would
kindly allow the other spinners to go back,
to which he agreed.
And now it appears that all the women do
not want to vote, even on the liquor ques-
ton. One hundred and fifty prominent Ia
dies of Boston, many of them officers in
charitable and educational associations, have
sent to the Massachusetts, legislature pro-
test against the passage of the bill giving
women the right to vote on liquor questions.
Promising that the bill is advocated chiefly
by the temperance element in the legislature,
the remonstrants object to having imposed
upon them the obligation of voting every
year upon liquor questions, and they add:
eve believe that women have done and will
still do much to lessen this monster evil of
our time, but we do not believe that by abdi-
eating our special and womanly methods OF
work and assuming political powers that we
shall increase our influence for good. We
therefore earnestly hope that you will pauge
and reflect seriously on the consequences be-
fore casting a vote to make this bill law
What electricity will do for the people OF
this world is perhaps yet hardly appreciated.
One of it's latest applications appears in q
patent which has been granted for methods
and apparatus to increase the tractive power
of locomotives and other self-propelled rail
vehicles by increasing electrically the frac.
tional adhesion between the driving wheels
and the rails. It is claimed that the tractive
| power can thus be nearly doubled without
| increasing the weight of the locomotive, anc
| that sleet and snow difficulties will be over
come. The invention consists of a dynamo
| electric machine on the locomotive, from
| which current of electricity passes through
| q converter and thence through the driving
wheels in succession and that portion of th'
rails between them, the latter completing thu
circuit as the wheels pass over. The current
of great volume and small motive force
causes enough heat at the point of contact, i
| is said, to vaporize at once any moisture OF
the rails, and they are therefore cleared a
the motor moves. The claims of advantag
are that ears can be stopped and starte'
| much more quickly than at present; tha
they can draw nearly double load; that tn
friction obtained is cheaper than sandin
without it's consequent wear, and that 4
per cent. grade can be more easily surnnouni
ed than Z per cent. one under the oil
system.
In Lord Randolph Churchilrs recen
speech on 'tEngland's National Defences,
the passage which made the most eviden
impression upon the House was the compar+
son of the cost of f'this remarkable arm
system" with that of Germany. The Britis
war office costs 100000 year, employs SO
officials and controls half million of men o
a war footing. The German war Office cost
e16o, 900, consists OF SOB officials and pr,
yides war force of 8, ,000, 900 men. The et
fective vote for the British army is et4 900
600, that of Germany ELS, 100000. BIT
Germany can put in the field 10 corps d
armee, and England only two. Lord Raj
dolph admitted that the Germans paid the
soldiers less, and neither fed or clothe
them SO we'll He had asked Gener
Brackenbury, when giving evidence la
year, what would be the difference. suppo
ing the German army were placed on tt
same footing in these respects as the En-
lish armyg General Brackenbury rsckon'
that it weuid cost Germany 927 800, 90