The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-07
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now THE SCRIBES "a UGHT on TO
TIE NEWS YESTERDAY.

Pacific Railway Lobby-The Big strike
| and the Kiots-The Tribune" and
Popcry-The CoIored Exodus Traud-The
| Conviction of Callan aud Harkins.
The Thomas Boyd episode at Wash
ington proves that the Central Pacific
Railroad and its lobby agents are at their
old tricks.
Representative Thomas Of Wisconsin
introduced resolution looking TO re.
covery of the nnearned land grants at
this corporation. And because he Is too
honest a man TO have things explained
to him by agents" whom Mr.. Hunting
ton has admitted that he maintains at the
Capitol for this purpose, the Congress
man was secretly msligned by Hunting
toms man Boyd az "a " blackmailer,
whose purpose it is to bear the stock
or to strike the company.
The same tactics were resorted 10 last
spring, when halt was called on the at
tempt TO rush the funding bills through
| Congress, and an investigation into the
methods and conditions OF the companies
was demanded " y. Writ.
The Schuylkill strike must be promptly
and absolutely separated from all partici-
patton in, or sympathy for, the bloody
shenandoah riots, or it will tie madness
10 hope for any good results from the
strike. Strikes and riots won't mix in
| law loving and law maintaining Penn
sylvana.
1t is clear that the Shenandoah riots
were precipitated by Huns, Poles and
othe foreigners who were lately inn
pOrtPd to cut down the wages of our le-
Ultimate labor, but these foreign merce-
narics would be powerless 10 create riot
Gus disorder ii they were not aided or
encouraged Ivy other strikers who have
all the interests Of home and family At
stake in the issue.-Phikt. Times.
Referring to the enormous additional
taxes of $70,000,0OO asked for by Bis
marck, the New York Times discusses
with great ability the principle on which
the military establishment sap' the vitals
of a counlrys laboring classes, and says
If, still further, the time should come
when the Prince Chancellor thinks il
needful TO use this force, then these 100
600 men will be taken from the best of
the productive labOrers Of the empire,
and simply 10 maintain them-tO feed,
ciothe. shelter, and care for them-wiii
take all the possible savings of still
greater number Of labOrers If, in adj
diiiOG 10 all this these 100000 are sent
into the field, it is quite impossible 10
compute even approximately the burden
that will be imposed upon the people by
their destructive activity"
The Republican organs are in Dire d.
full quandary between their efforts TO
work up No Popery" boom and their
desire to secure for Mr.. Blaine's second
candidacy support he assiduOusly
courled in 1884 However, the IribaHc
finds no great difficulty in working both
ends of the racket" by publishing Mr..
ellis dispatches and those of Squire
Smalley at the same time Now that Mr..
| Blaines campaign is being run from for
eign headquarters, this dual cOrrespOn-
dencc is very useful. Those who think
that the Pope is Antiarchist, and that
Balfour is the cynosure of modern states
men, can read one set Of London dis
patches; while those who are trying TO
lind some excuse for supporting Blaine
in the role of friend of oppressed PEG
pies, content themselves with the DIS
patches Of tue Irish member.-N. \. star.
Thousands upon thousand" of ne
groes at the south are ilOcking TO the
/
ments have been about completed
with a Boston line of steamships to
transport them from that city to their
destination at Sl4 per passenger. The
sagacity which collects mutitudes Of col
Ored people in the South and takes tn m
to Boston To 20 To Brazil and the Argen-
tine Republic speaks for itself There
will bc about three hundred thousand
ready TO start in the spring, adds the
Kansas Moses As it will take some
where between five hundred and one
thousand steamship loads TO accOmmo-
date this number. we are sufficiently in
tercs,ed in American shipping To be GU
rious as to the name OF the Boston line
that can undertake this contract-A. J..
W0rH
Revenue reformers all agree that Il tariff
is intended 10 be, and actually is, a tax
upon consumption, and that such charges
are passed along from hand to hand aud
are finally paid by the persons who use the
article, taxed II it is proposed to reduce
the price of goods to the consumer we
reduce the tariff if We desire to raise the
price of goods 10 the consumer we raise
the tariff In the absence of other CON
Trolling factors, such as trusts and eN-
Iport duties, "A low tariff will result in
cheap goods, and dear goods will follow
a high tariff Wash. Post.
Referring to the conviction of Callan
and ilarkins, the New York World says :
The 'c0nspiratOrs were alleged To be
the two prisoners, man named Cohen,
now dead, and another named Melville,
who had returned to this country. Not
a particle of actual proof seems TO have
connected these men. Cohen was sup.
posed to have dynamite in his room in