Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-08-01

II Is expected that great labor strike
will be inaugurated in the Connellsville
coke region next Thursday. A convention
OF delegates from avery part OF the region
hasordered the strike, AMI decreed that 1t
shall begin August 1t and continue until
their demands be er, nted. There is moth
Ing new about this sgliae. It. is the old
story. EMPLOYERS and employed are not In
sympathy; the latter think they are not
getting their share OF the profits arising
from the combination OF their labor with
the employers capital and management,
and as the only way to adjust the diffAr.
enee they have resolved not to work or let
anybody else work until the more favor
able terms for which they ask are given
them. Their netl n IA TO be deprecated, Of
course. 1t Is good for neither their en-
ployers, the pnolic nor themselves; but the
outside community caubot interfere. II
must buy It's fuel somewhere ell %, as 1t can
readily enough, and leave the men and the
operators to satfle ,halr hispnts between
themselves. = Philadelphia Inquirer.
Judging by the past these strikers will
probably be protected" by the importa.
ton of Sloyacka who under the guardian
ship of pInkerton rifiss, will DO willing to
labor for the wages the strikers refuse.
There is an import dlty of 20 per cent ad
valorem on coke. II is hardly conceivable
that any foreign coke would come into
competition with the product OF the
Conceivable region were there no duty on
the article at all. But who can doubt that,
had coke been placed on the free list,
we should now be told that this was the
cause of the trouble. Per contra, since
il has not been placed on the free list, il
is fair 10 ask what benz fit the Connels-
vile laborers are reaping from this 20
per cent "prospction ?" What is to hinder
their employers from dividing with
them2 There is no Law against it.
An electric wire fenca is by no means
novel iien, but the idea has just been
out into practice over 80 miles OF fence
that enclose ranch somewhere in the
great west-the name of the state Is not
given. A local paper, the Amarillo
Northeast, thus breezily describes the
way the new fence works:
The engine was turned loose and the cur
| rent turned on for the entire line, and since
then, and from this on sha huns on tn
practical fencing neither surpassed nor
| equeled ty any other. 1t extends from a
| point about two miles out to point away
| over IN Carlson county, beyond the $ nth.
| ern lnsas road, and to say that the man
agement which grGsped at once Its utility
and had 1t built-'o say that this MANAGE
| mant OF this people who have inspected II
| are pleased, would be mild expression.
II Is simp y ona OF tia wonders OF science
and is monument TO It's inventor. Ga
| Saturday a party he'd n demonstration OF
/ It's Effectiveness. On one side OF the fence
| stood SONS doz4n or Is steers, oil the other
4 STOOD ems alone. He ind -rtoOk 70 brenk
| through aud go over to the majority. He
had no idea he Was tacklipg q buzz saw
1 when he struck that emooth wire fence
| We'll, sir, h. jumped like be was hit at once
with 40,0u0UO0 hornets, and with his tall
| "nllpd over his back he wheeled and only
sEruek the ground ia high places. Then the
! fifteen made dash to Din and follow him
! one 10y one they rubbed that electric
fence, and AS fast rs they did they jumped,
hiwlad, kicked, wheeled and sailed on rs
] though they had urgent business at the
north pole and only bad a few hours In
which to make II. That electric fence Ia a
sumner; It s the eighth and greatest
| wonder OF the world. Not ons OF these
cattle was hurt, but not one OF them will
30 near the fence again.
The salt trust, says an exchange, has
taken to It's hole and pulled the hole in
after it. 1t was not so formidable in its
direct prospective gouging either. II is
not probable that it wonld have added
more than % cents per year to the cost OF
an average family's livingeH enses which
seems q mere trae when compared with
the $40 per year which each family is
taxed TO make up the $40 Ou0 600 surplus
that is pouring into the national treasury
every month for the encouragement OF
GauneEism and other extravEgances Bnt
it was liks the last straw. III, protec.
tiouists, who had gruplbIed under the
snglr trust, began to kick at the salt mo-
nopoly. They declared right out that
salt should GO on tine free liat. II
vas this threat that knocked the
bottom out OF the scheme OF
the salt speoulators. And, concarrently,
we fnd it reported that sugar trust shares
have fallen from 1925 to near 500;
cotton seed oil trust shares from $50 to
ti3; distillers trust shares from $4S to
Si3, and lead trust shares from S35 to
1913. Also that Brsidwoof |, Ill. the centre
of the coal miners' strike, which usually
goes Republican, has ELECTED Demo
cratic mayor. There may have been
local causes for this, hut it looks very
much as though the des itute miners had
grown tired Of o system Of protection
That taxes everything they bny while not