The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-26
THE WEEK.

The past week has been one full of crime
1t has taken columns upon columns of space
in the daily press to record in it's disgust
ing details the sickening story OF mans
wrong doing-his thefts, robberies, whore
doms, rapes, duels and murders, to say
nothing of the lesser crimes. Then after
reading through the awful record one must
recollect that only fraction of what has
been committed has found its way into the
press dispatches.
In addition to the long list of crimes the
industrial commontion throughout the land
has been considerable. The strike at the
WORKS of the Worlds Fair grounds. in
Jackson park, Chicago, has just closed, but
1t is with the understanding that there
will be another attempt to gain the object
of the laborers later on. The strike in
Pennsylvania coke and mining districts
was kept on, during the past week, the
conflict between the strikers and the officers
Of the law at times growing serious and
resulting in bloodshed and death. the
laborers resisting eviction until one could
easily imagine that he was reading of Ire
land instead of Pennsylvania; and only
yesterday were to be read accounts of the
strikers manufacturing dynamite bombs to
destroy the property and homes of their
employers.
At Mount Pleasant, in the same state.
the miners were drilling nightly, in order
to be ready for resistance the coming week,
Another dispatch announced that about
ten thousand five hundred men engaged in
the building trades would be either locked
out or would strike the first of May, in Pitts
burg; while from st. Louis comes the news
that over two thousand union carpenters
had resolved to strike On the 1st of Nav
Above seven hundred Italian stone masons
struck in New York the other day, and for
time riot was imminent between them
and non-union workmen who essayed to
take their place. The street cars of De-
| troit are tied-up, the city's traffic is sus-
pended, the lines apparently being in con-
| troll of the striking workmen.
| If we look at the condition of affairs in
foreign nations, the prospect is not much
improved. The crop indications through
out Europe are decidedly discouraging.
1t will be a depressing year to agrlcul
ture. The miners strike at bort
mund, in Germany, is becoming
serious; fully 10000 men are out and a
general strike throughout all Germany in
all kinds of employments is threatened.
while the workingmen of France are
clamoring for the passage of an act making
eight hours a legal days work, which, if
refused, may lead to strikes ana lockouts
without end.
In the midst of these existing commo.
tions and future threatened upheavals in
the Industrial world, the political uncer-
tainty that exists in various quarters is
not calculated to promise much relief to the
situation. Russia, that ever restless
threatening power to the peace of the rest
of Europe, is massing troops on her south
and southwest frontier, to the great alarm oil
King FRANCIS JOSEPH and the Sublime
Porte. France glares at Germany acros,
Alsace-Loraine, longing for the time tt
arrive to wipe out the disgrace of 1870; anG
Germany, half afraid of Frances ally
Russia, rather than of France, expects ani
awaits the conflict. England lords it owe,
Portugal, and because of the indiscretior
of the Portuguese colonists in far off south
Africa in OBTAINING two British ships, she
sends three men-of war to the scene of thu
trouble and demands an explanation
from the authorities at Lisbon; ant
the Portugal authorities, wiser thar
the people of that little kingdom
under the pressure of Lord S4LIs46nY',
ultimatum, in which he plainly limited tina