Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08

II no workmen ever struck except those
who wished to do so there would never
be any strike of aserious nature. 1t is
the contented workmen, compelled by his
slavery to the union to quit his job against
his will. VINO is at once the tool and the
victim of the paid fomenter of labor diff
culties
PRESIDENT CARNoT has received letter
from the King of Dahomy. in which the
latter complains that the French attacked
him without warning and without declar
ing war against him. He further says
that when his father died France alone
omitted to send him letter of sympathy.
The King declares that the French mer-
chants now in his power will be kept as
hostages until the end of the war.
UNHEEDFUL of the example of the
United States and the lessons of history,
Mexico seems to be of the opinion that
she has only one man who is competent
to direct her destiny An amendment to
the Constitution has been proposed by
which all restriction to the reelection of
the President is removed. Nineteen State
Legislatures have asked that the amend
ment be made, in order that Diaz may be
reelected if the people desire it. Mexico
has yet to learn that the political future
of a republic should not rest upon a one
man power.
THE Standard Oil company has run
against snag down in Ohio in the shape
Of an independent company which trots
right alongside of the big corporation, if
not little ahead, and doesn't seem to be
worried much in doing either. AS re-
suit of this rivalry the producers of the
crude oil are getting all the best of it, for
the price of their product has gone up $50
per cent. and is still booming. There is a
time, according to an old adage, when
honest men get their dues. This time
seems to have come to the oil producers
through the fight between the oil COM
panies.
The Mississippi river question seems
to pe TOO much for congress and the scien-
fists The government has spent immense
sums in constructing levees only to find
them entirely inadequate and with a pros
pect that in the near future they will be
found even more so. The advocates of the
outlet system are now having their inning,
and in the meantime the Mississippi river
continues to roll on its food of waters to
the gulf, careless of what congress may de-
eide. The Father of Waters has a lien on
the whole valley and on occasion will con-
tinue to appropriate as much of it as may
be necessary for his purposes.
JUSTICE seems to have recovered her
grip slightly; at Least in Maryland. Archer
the embezzling state treasurer, is to be
tried. He belongs to one Of the most in,
iiuential families in the state, and great
effort has been made to prevent criminal
prosecution, despite the fact that he stole
$118.000. But justice readjusted her band
age and poked her fingers in her ears, SO
she would be deaf to the immunity plea,
and has commanded that Archer be
brought before her. If the blind goddess
an but maintain her nerve until the end
Of the trial it will be a great and good
thing, not only for Maryland, but for the
whole land.
The haunting fear of the rich is that
some day they may become destitute. This
impels many of them to penuriousness
and makes them in effect suffer all the
pangs of poverty; so that though they are
rich they are poor, and with millions at
command, they dare not expend them to
secure the comforts of life. An instance
of this kind is furnished by Millionaire
Shoemaker of Luzerne county, Pennsyl-
vania. He was engaged to be married to
an heiress but the fear of future poverty con-
trolled him, and he apanodned the engage
ment declaring that he wanted wife who,
when reverseS came, could work for a liv
ing. Following out this misery idea the
millionaire sought out pretty servant
girl and married her Now his relatives
have had commission appointed to in
quire into his sanity and the chances are
that he will be declared crazy and locked
up. So much for the possession of mill
ions!
THE New York Evening Sun, admit
ting the curse of Chinese migration, and
the fearful proportions to which it has
recently attained, suggests that the ad-
minstration should ask the Chinese gov
eminent to keep its people at home, There
are two reasons why this would be useless
The first is, that the Pacific steamship
lines, which profit chiefly by the trans
portation of these Cinnamon, are more
powerful on the Pacific than is the United
States government. They will spend
more money and make more exertion to
keep up the importation, provided the
market for their human freight be kept