Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-21
ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS

Discuss the Present Turbulent situation
In America-The Causes for It All as
seen by London Writers.
LONDON, August 2O.-The Chronicle
says: affairs suggest the questions:
What grave crisis is forming itself for
American people? What are we 10 say
to such startling phenomena in coun-
try which enjoys, on paper, complete
democratic institutions? American pa
pers and statesmen will attribute every
thing 10 Anarchists; but that Is q
supine and unworthy excuse for social
and political shortcomings. In the main
the American people have themselves
TO blame for the lack OF the true public
spirit in the American republic is one
OF the saddeSt facts Of our time.
The American people had the most
splendid inheritance ever conferred on a
nation, and they have grossly miSuSed
il. Hordes Of vulgar office seekers
have been permitted TO fatten on the
public body; great cities are given over
To men who ought 10 be in priSiOn, and
millions on millions Of valuable public
lands are given with a light heart TO
rail way corporations which now threat
en- to strangle the republic in their octo-
pus-like grasp. This is the real, prac-
tical anarchiSm which ruins States,
compared with which the anarchiSm OF
handful of desperate fanatics is
almost innocuOus.
That is the general moral OF the la
Dor war; but there are special questions
relating TO railways and convict labor,
so monstrous that no SELF respecting
community could possibly tolerate it.
Excepting the Russian and German
monarchs, no men In the world are
clothed with greater power than Ameri-
can railway maguates. Things come TO
a pass where the whole people have to
consider what is TO be done with the
railways. 10 is impossible to allow the
owners to do as they please. There is
no solution except the putting forth by
the State of its undOubted supreme au-
thority % exercise rigid control under
which the managers shall be State Off
Gals instead Of private servants OF
Goulds and Vander0iltS."
The Standard says: 1.-The Importance
of these upheavels of the lower grades
OF the working classes IN America lies
as yet not in the power OF the men to
subvert aud defy the established author
ity, but in the bitterness Of the deSper-
alton OF the rebels. Men do not fight
ike tigers and wreck property with
savage fury unless driven desperate by
want. Evidently a point is reached
where the men feel that life is not worth
living. Never since the abolition OF the
Corn Laws has England experienced
anything like the blOOdthirSty hatred OF
capitalists manifested in these riots.
They are vivid commentary on the ig-
norant or dishonest league OF political
jackalS who have for so many years led
the American people astrsy by the
fetch OF protectioniSm.
The Times SAYS: "The labor troubles
in the United States have taken form
not easily disguised from civil war. We
cannot yet venture 10 think the danger
ended. 1t is small wonder that the
course Of atIairsis watched with alarm by
those in whose memory the events OF
1877 are still fresh.
The DdiIu NelCS says: This labor war
in the literal sense OF the word justities
the prediction OF many diligent students
OF American politics and society that
social troubles come earlier, and prove
infinitely more .bitter in republic
than In the old-faShioned mOnarchieS OF
Europe. Although the strikers are
cowed for the moment it would be pre-
mature TO believe that the back Of the
disturbance is broken"