Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-17

crease the net earnings of the Union Pacific the management of that road has so curtailed the operating expenses that the rolling stock, track and general equipment have fallen into deplorable condition, which threatens disaster A | large expenditure of money is now necessary to restore the road. Thus is the Union Pacific able to plead poverty l before Congress-
 A delegation representing the Farm | CTS Alliance appeared before the Ways | and Means Committee last Tuesday to | advocate the passage of the Picker bill, creating sub-treasuries in different parts | of the country for the reception of staple | crops produced by farmers.
 The Euening Sun IS advocating new armories, with citadels attached" Chas. A. Dana is particularly anxious to have one of those citadels erected in the vicinity of City Hall Park. GAS matter of discipline" says he, If for no other reason, the next regiment that applies for new site for its own armory should be placed within five minutes walk of the City Hall" What discipline" has to do with the matter is not "as plain as pix staff;" but behind the "City Halr' we can readily see old Dana shlvering with fear as if the antiquated curiosity shop known as the Sun building were another Seawanhaka.
 We have the authority of our august Senate for the statement that in this year of great plenty "there is deep and widespread depression and decay of the agricultural interests of the Ameri- can people, an enormous and appalling amount of mortgage indebtedness on agricultural lands, total failure of the home markets to furnish remunerative prices for products and palpable in- sufficiency of money in circulation in the hands of ths people with which to effect exchanges of property and labor at fair rates. We should now have the authority of that same august Senate for the statement that it's class legislation has brought all this ruin upon the nation.
 "Wheat growing. observes the able and liberal statistlcian of the Depart ment of Agriculture, ''has become a philanthropic mission to make cheap bread consistent with low wages in Great Britain. It is perfectly true that the capitalists of Great Britain have en- couraged wheat growing in India for the only purpose of making bread so cheap in England that they might corre- spondingly reduce the wages of their mechanics and operatives. And yet the American wheat grower, armed with the most improved machinery, could sell his product at fairly remunerative price in competition with the ryot labor of India, armed with wooden blow of antediluvian construction, were it not for the Amerlcan Robbin Hoods, who own all the avenues of transportation and exchange from the farm to the mar | lyAt f iS fotr tn all hn of this wholesale robbery to the British capitalists; our own monopolists and spectators, from Jay Gould to Old Hutch, are entitled to good share of that public esteem which is usually be- slowed upon smart" rascality. Our schemers, in fact, tower above those of England as giants tower above pigmies, for they manage to reduce the price of wheat to the farmer without reducing the price of bread to the laborer.
 In reply to Congressional inquiry Secretary Windom has made public some interesting figures concerning the circulation of money in the United States, as compared with the estimated circulation of the principal countries of Europe. According to the Secretary s estimate, on the basis of a present popula- tion of 64,00O,0 GOO, the amount of metal lie and paper money in the United States, not including any portion of the amount held by the treasury of the United States, is S22.j6 per capita, or more than in any cf the leading coun-