The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-20
CREAM OF THE PRESS. .
CURRENT COMMENTS
CAREFULLY CtLLtb.
The Sugar Trust HOPE OF ''"""'
Haunting the Prire-fignters- vailed {"
IN. ua,t-where are shc Pledges =
TANNER and the surplus -other ropes

.,,u,,uc the Prirc-fighters- Nniied ~
the wsN- where are che Pledge, =
r.uuer and The surplus Other Topics.
TIE SUGAR TRUST. In consideration
Of the fact that Congress Will meet De-
fore many months. the Sugar trust
sboNs some signs Of alarm. The mana
GERS pretend that they would gladly re-
duce the price Of refined sugar. but mat
thev are compelled TO maintain IL by
reason OF the high cost OF raw sugar.
The Trust alone keeps mp the price Of
the raw material. In London on
Wednesday the price OF IA"
sugar was 81 cents. aud for DC
tober sugar little less than
4 cents pound. Ia New York on
"wednesday the price Of the same
quality of raw sugar was y cents, and
the wholesale price Of refined sugar
was % cents pound. Something else
must account for the wide difference
bctween the two markets besides the
alleged failure Of the sugar crops.
That something else is the manipulation
Of the Sugar Trust behind its shelter OF
a duty Of - cents a pound upon refined
sugar. -Phaadeiphia Record.
THE HOPE OF LABOR. Two recent
utteraDces upon the labor problem con
tain much that is significant and sug-
eestive. Cardinal Gibbons expresses
the belief that the hope Of the laborlng
IA.
opsratiOn lie assert. that the tendency
Of the times IN every endeaNor II
toward the union Of large forces into
powerful combinations. To meet the
plottincs Of S)cialistic societies and 10
successfully Ward off the encrOach-
ments Of business trusts and capitalistlc
monopoly laboreIs must unite Tor
mutual benefit and defense.
With this comes the expressed views
Of Mr.. PowdeFiy relative 10 the work
ingman and the ballot. He maintains
that the working classes afe onslaved
bv political manipulators.-Bo baltimore
Hcrdid,
HUNTING TIE PRIZE FlGHrERs.-Mis-
sssippi detectives came here looking
for "Charley Mitchell and Mike
Donovan. Hiram + seconds IN the ai-
legged prize fight that took place al
Rchburg. and to get evidence against
others. They are now sad to have
been instructed not to arrest Mitchell.
Mitchell. above all the men connected
with this disgraceful exhibition. should
not be allowed 10 escape. lie had more
10 do with arranging the hippo.
drome" than any one man. lie makes
his living 10y breaking the law, aud moi
content with defying the authorities I
his own country, comes to America to
do it. He is about as interruptions
rufian as exists at large, and there D.
no place in the world he Will adorn Sc
well as a prison.-N. \. star.
NAILED TO THE MAsT-But great
aud honest party does not abandon Ms
principles because defeated. nor seek &
gain power by "adrOit' cOncealment OF
its convictions and purposes. Tine
Democratic party has nailed TO its flag
staff the banner OF tariff reform an,
will keep it flying. the condition OF
working men. Of manufacturers and oil
farmers is so different under "A perpet
uated war tariff from what the Repub
ican oracles predicted il would be tina
the country bids fair to be ripe FOR
change before 1892.
But in any case the campaign of edu
cation will proceed and the Dem0cracl
will stand by its colors and its guns
| y. !. World
The sugar men are piling mp the IA"
material and preparing To- squeeze th'
market and raise the price.
However. it is all night, for, as Dir
Blaine remarked. the trust "ls largely
a private affair, with which no citi
zen has "a right TO interfere. -Nec fof'
HcrdId.
WnTRE ARE TIRE PLEDGES Not Ion,
ago the Reading Iron Works spended
ONLY this week did Mr.. Carnegie an'
his men come to settlement over th
reduction Of wages. Now it Is an
nounced that the largest wollen mali d.
| Connecticut is inso,vent andrWlil no
pay ten cents ON the dollar. Where an
the promises made last year that ma
tional prosperity was sure 90 come Will
a fresh triumph Of high tariil fo
twenty four years one policy has beer
pursued. and i'm all that time there ha'
not been a good business year. Ne
last year the people were RECALLED Wit
the same old pledges. and. strange &
saw. believed them again. For nation
as smart Is this il hardly seems credl
bic that its voters should allow them
selves to be gulled So often without re
senting it.-E.rchnnge.
TANNER AND Ills SURPLUS. Pension
/ Commissioner Tanner has tackled ID
surplus with q degree Of Skill and ener
Nv which promises tO dissipaie it mt
less than nothing ia "a very few months
tie began by "rc-ra.ing Senate
Henderson as a pensiOner, and sui %
ing him with GOgcrnmcr: check lo
nearly $1,000. The Senator had heci
making pension laws FOR over siN years
but lac didn't even suspect that he va
entitled TO be "rc-rated with blg al
rears until Tanner had done 81 ANA sen
him the money.
Having re-rated 80 "a leading Senate
and thus put good big lump pension
"wheIe it would do the most good,
Commissioner Tanner helped his c'nii
dental clerks 10 ere rate each othe
into enlarged pensions with big iuml
arrears. and now the antl-surplus ma
chine Is ready for wholesale IRE
rating" trade.-PhHadeiphia Times
RArTLE-TRAP FACTORIES. - TIM
Philadelphia Times warns the Souti
against the purchase OF the plants %
Northern mills and factorics that ar'
offered for sale at apparently reasona
Bile prices Il says that these plants art
the most costly that could be bought
for the reason that they are rattle-tral
concerns.
The Times goes on 10 say that there h
not cotton or wooden plant iO
sale anyw where in the North that Is
worth transporting to the South
Owing TO their old and imperfect m,