The Irish standard., 1889-08-03

! organization and crowd the rank and
!, file of every army of construction and
labor that wins the bloodless victories
} OF peace in the broad n lei Of industry.
From Our Daily Contemporaries.
Tribune: Considering the object and
methods of the English syndieates
which have secured control of large
| number Of American industrial plants
during the past few months, the people
are amply justified in viewing with
concern this invasion of British gold.
English capital no longer seeks to earn
q profit bv applying itself to the task of
developing unused natural resources.
Its present aim is TO skim the cream off
of American productive activity. 1t is
not disposed to take great risks. 1t
shuns investments in enterprises
in which the profit is doubtful
quantity. 1t is not satisfied with any
thing but the best and most profitable
industrial plants in the country, and is
gradually acquiring control Of large es
adjustments in the East, the South,
the Northwest. and on the Pacific coast.
Upward to $50,000,0O0 has been ex-
pended already in the purchase of
breweries; many millions have been To-
vested in iron and steel plants in the
South; on the coast the Mossabay Iron
and Steel Company is British enter
rise; in the Northwest extensive ele-
vator pr. perty is about to be transferred
to English control. and according to the
latest advices English capitalists are,
endeayoring to gobble up cotton plants
and colt n oil mills in the South,
leather manufactures in the East,
more breweries where such are to be
had, and even general stores, in short,
everything of value in sight. This
fricture of an incipieut industrial land
! l5rdism is not inviting to the eye
Globe: 1t is quite apparent that ar
organized system exists for transport
ing European paupers to our shores.
and Notwithstanding the strictness Of
our immigration laws our national
hospitality is being severely abused in
! this respect. An immigrant family
landed at Castle Garden the other day
| admitted to the custom house officials
! that the English government had paid
their passage money and had furnished
them with small sum for travelling
expenses. Circulars are being circulated
through various parts of the realm an
nouncing that an agent of the British
government would send to America
any destitute families who desired to
emigrate. This is done upon the
the theory that it Is cheaper to ship
their paupcrs than to support them at
home. And so it is. But what have
they to say about having this heavy
burden of restitution and ignorance
! thrust upon our shoulders? 1t is diff
cult for the custom house officials to
detect these pauper immigrants, be-
cause, as a rule, the immigrants make
it point to conceal all knowledge of
how they get the money to come over
on. The best that our government can
do is 10 establish detective system in
foreign countries and spot the pauper
and criminal classes that are being
hustled out of their own countries to
be saddled upon us.
Journal: During the first fifty years
of Queen Victoria's reign, from 1887 to
1887, Queen Victoria received from the
| British treasury ''fOr her own use and
maintenance of her household. in the
the splendor and dignity BETTING a
sovereign 1914 1926, 600. while Prince
Albert, her husband. received in addl-
ton to this, S. 10000 in the eleven
| years prior to his death. The amount
paid to the Queen does not include tho
maintenance of the royal parks, another
nice item, nor does it include $M 4O5
paid annually in pensions to the sur
vving servants of King George Ill.
and Queen Charlotte, and to people
who got used to receiving allowances
from the Civil List under these
sovereigns and on those Of William Nv.
and George Nv. If the people of Great
Britain would stand that sort of 'mpo-
sition and robbery without indignant
and almost forcible protestit would be
good enough for them, but they do
protest, and the Queen is taking great
risks, so far as the perpetuation of her
line is concerned, in pressing this claim
how great she is too far removed from
the people to know.
The Boys Must Work.
The girls of Catholic families usually
have more opportunities for education
than the boys. Where one boy is grad
uated at college, three girls are grad
uated from convent academies. Yet
tie number of boys is slightly in excess
IF tho nnmhar of girls WhV is this