The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-12

HdJlOIldl COuV u1SlOu. II Single 1Lu1Vluual
may become the immediate cause of a
civil war"
And while man is fighting his battles,
while democracy is overthrowing plutoc-
racy in this country, and monarchy is
being wiped out in Europe, nature will
treat us to terrible calamity. ''In the
midst of our coming civil war the At
lantic coast will be wrecked by sub
mergence and tidal waves from the
borders of New England to the southern
borders of the Gulf of Mexico. There
will be no safety below the hills" Gal
weston, New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,
Jersey City and all other cities on the
coast will be, according to the professor,
partially submerged and damaged be-
yond estimation. The loss of life he
places at not less than million persons.
Professor Buchanan concludes his very
interesting article by warming all who
have faith in his judgment, and especially
those who have read his works, to leave
the lowlands of the Atlantic coast south
of New England within fifteen years. He
is in the neighborhood of 80 years old, and
does not expect to live to witness the
ful6llment of his prophecy. "It is with
great hesitation and reluctance" he says,
"that have consented to present this
horrid panorama; but truth should be
our paramount aim, and if there be, as l
maintain, any science which can look
into the future its proper presentation is
by the statement of the future, so far in
advance of the event as to constitute a
decisive test"
DR.. Lyman Abbott is out in The
Forum as an advocate of an industrial
democracy" to succeed our present un-
Christian and unscientifc system. just
what the gentleman means by his pecu-
liar industrial democracy" it is difficult
to discover from The Forum article. He
says it is not anarchism, communism,
socialism or capitalism. In fact, there
are many things which it is not. The
intelligent economist will be likely to
class it with Barnum's great "'What-is-
it." The doctor says the industrial
democrat" would adjust both control
and participation in the profits accord
ing to the measure of each mans con-
tribution," and that she would leave
open market" He would leave ''the cap
tains of industry and the privates of in
dustry to compete in a free and open
Market" and yet ''to every man he
would give share of the control in the
worlds industries" Do these statements
need analyzing to show how radically
they conflict? don't think they do.
DR.. Abbott would not abolish the COM
petitive feature of our present system,
which he declares to be wholly bad, but
would change the character of the COM
petitors by making combinations of
labor and capital to compete with SINH
lar combinations. In other words, profit
sharing would be brought to such Il pitch
that the laborers would knife their broth
ers in rival institution, instead of leav-
ing that homicidal work to the capital
lists, as at present. Competition, co-opera-
ton, capitalism, socialism, paternalism
and anarchism are all mixed into a hope
less tumble in the doctors mind. He
sees that things are all awry and the
times are out of joint, but he seems to
lack the courage to prod deep enough for
the cause of the trouble. When this
courage comes to him he will not be long
in discovering the only sure remedy.
An article in recent issue of The
New York Mail and Express painted in
glowing colors what it characterized as
"Tom Barrys Big Army"-the United
Brotherhood of Labor. 1t was stated
that this organization now has 10000
members and that it is rapidly growing.
to the author of this fairy
tale there is soon to be three cornered
fight between Gompers, Powderly and
Barry. The tale was evidently written
by some one friendly to Barry, but such
stuff is a damage to the labor movement,
whether intended or not. The writer
has been misinformed concerning the
present condition of the organizations
and also about the Barry revolt.
Tom Barry has done yeoman service in
the cause Of labor, and his honesty has
never been questioned, but in his contests
with other leaders he has not always acted
with the promptness and fearlessness that
his battles with capitalism.
the statements in The
Mail and Express want to say that
Barry did not secede from the knights
of Labor at the Minneapolis session, and
he was in no way connected with the or
ganization of the provisional commit
lee" in Chicago. "The efforts of this
have been largely successful,
and they have resulted in the organiza-
ton of the United Brotherhood of La
bor." This is an error, as the "provis-
lonal" had nothing to do with the United
Such small things do not
amount to great deal, but it is from
errors of this kind that history is some
times written.
Editor Eugene V. Debs, Of The Loco
motive Firemen's Magazine, has evident
Iy abandoned all hope of ever getting
Chief Arthur, of the Engineers Brother
hood, to take the fraternal hand which has
long been extended by the other railroad
Debs should and does
know P. M. Arthur; but he has labored
On for years trying to break through the
chiefs selfishness In the interest of JUS
tice to the railroad employees, who
have frequently had to fight COM
bination of magnates and locomo-
tive engineers. But the effort has
been in vain, and now The Firemens
Magazine says plainly what it thinks Of