Workmen's advocate., 1890-12-27
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NOTES.
 BrddStreefs says that "the general industrial situation is not as satisfactory as might be wished" Great strikes are in progress or contemplated and the labor world has a troubled appearance, The business situation is hardly more satisfactory, and nearly everywhere the supply of money is not adequate to the demand.
 Depew is quoted as saying that the business enterprises of this steam and electric age have made the currency of the country incapable of meeting the demands of legitimate trade. We can not agree with Vanderbilt's poet. The currency is all right, but those who control it are all wrong; and 70 it is with steam and electricity.
 A new monthly, The Economist, has appeared in Cincinnati. Its name is old, its editor older, and it's conception of things oldest. We need not criticise it; a short quotation from its first number will do it justice "Nen may be urged to give to the poor, or endow charities or universities. The preacher l may preach the duty of love to man, and ones responsibility to divine power 1 for tte use Of the Lords money; but the action of the owner must be voluntary"
 With eight million bales of cotton to their credit this year, and enlarged crops of cereals, the former slave owners of the South have no cause to regret the abolition of slavery. But what of the negro laborers, who produced all this wealth? Have they gained much beside the liberty to starve:
 Our Canadian neighbors are combin ing, syndcating, consolidating and trustifying in the latest American fashion. The Dominion Cotton Mill, Company has completed the amalgama tion of the nine gray cotton mills ol Canada. These mills which were built at cost of $4,8O0,000 have been pur chased out and out by the company fol B, 500 900, and will come under the new management January 1.
 The Agent of the eleventh census ir charge of the enumeration of range cattle says that, while the tenth census showed over 13,000,000 head of cattle this would possibly not show eve 10,000,000, and while it showed 19000, 900 sheep, this census would likely shov 2S, 000,000. The hog ranches had pos sibly 4,0OO, ,0OO hogs, while the last cen sus showed double that number. From advance sheets of the report o the Michigan Labor Bureau, supplied t. the Jackson Industrial NeWS, it appear that the average employment of 32 wage earners engaged in the manufaC ture of agricultural implements and i , the iron industries of Jackson, was thi year fl weeks. Their average earning amounted to S462.3O per man. Eighty one own homes of an average value C $l, l,40G.54; but fifty-fve per cent. of tn , homes were mortgaged to the aggre , gate amount of $20, 465 Sixty men, 0 19 per cent, were injured while en , ployed.
 Report is coming from Europe tha
 not only Russia and India, but othe
 Eastern countries, such as Asia MinC
 and Persia, will soon prove formidabl
 competitors of America on the whes l markets of the world. The extren cheapness of their labor will enable thel
 to enter the field as soon as the railroad
 now projected by English compani, ' will have been constructed. The Amer l can farmer, crushed between the costl :. monopolist of Wall street and the pat a per labor of the East, will before lon
 have harder road to travel than he h&
 yet gone over, all sub.treasuries no ! Al.