Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-13
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

The great English coal strike which
ended a few days ago cost the miners,
niue owners, iron men and railways,
Sl55, OOO, 600; threw over 1000 600 per.
sons cut OF employment, and left 8, 500, o
90 persons Ia destitute condition.
and now the miners go back 60 work,
gaining nothing and losing what they
can never recover.
What q disastrous mistake those poor
fellows made They realize 10 now.
Distress gave death an abundant har-
vest in their ranks, while they waited
for months ia hali-starved idleneSs.
IL was hard on the women and chill
dren who lost their bread when the
strikers quit work. The loss TO the
miners aud their families was a dead
loss. 1t has plunged them so deeply in
debt that they viii never work out or it.
The mine owners lost heavily, too, but
they are able % stand il.
The history OF this great strike is
enough % turn all wage workers against
such methods. Almost anything is bat
ter than strike.-AHOHtG C0BStitlI-
ton.
At the dedication OF the Presbyterian
Church last Sunday among the suO-
scribers % pay off It's debt was a liquor
hrm, which gave $50 Dr.. Willis c.
Craig, 81 NJ Cormick University, Chicago,
commented the 6rm for It's uOeralty,
but noticing a smilein the congregation
he learned the cause and merely said;
That's sll right And why not? Why
should not the money of sin, as the Pro-
hlbitiOuists regard it, be made to serve
the cause Of Christianity? In all works
OF charity who asks certificate Of
character from q dollar? It may in its
career have been stolen, 10 may have
been won or lost 10 gambling, 10 may
have been a factor in horse race or
prize fight; &c may have aided any abet-
TED many wicked things, but IL will help
as we'll TO pay a church debt or the
minister's salary; 10 viii buy food and
clothing for hungry and naked children
IS well as a dollar fresh from the mint.
Their is DO faint on a dollar 70 prevent
IT'S doing g0od.-Chicago Herald.
A cutlery company Of Meriden,
Conn, posted q notice in their works a
few days ago, stating that the Wilson
bin made reductions Of about go per
cent on cutlery, and il 10 passed their
employees must look for a reduction Of
their wages OF from 40 TO so per cent.
THIS IS pure humbug, The Wilson bin
puts the rates on cutlery substantially
back where they were under the law Of
1883. The Marden firm did not in-
crease wages when the Mckinley bill
added 40 TO so per cent 20 their profits.
Not bit OF TO. They pOcketed the Gd
ditional protection they have been hav-
ing these years, but they propose TO cut
labor when the duties go back 10 what
they were when the present scale was
arranged. This Is pretty good sample
az projections. dishonesty. -PittSbUTg
Post.
According TO returns gathered by
OhiO's State Board Of Equal iZation, SIS
counties OF that State show marked de-
probation ia farm values; and the accu-
racy OF the figures is atteSted by statis-
tics showing 8 CORES pOndjng decrease
in the enumeration Of school children.
The moral taught by these returns is
that Ohio, falling 20 compete prO6tably
with the agricultural States farther
west, must turn 20 diversified industries
for her prosperity; aud success in this
direction can only be assured by free
raw Observation-Disclosures Record.
Newspapers that have been abusing
Attorney General Olney TOR his assumed
neglect OF duty in failing 20 enforce the
antitrust law viii have food for re-
Election 10 the fact that within the past
wear judgments against such asSoCia-
lions have been recovered which aggre-
gate S2SJ,O54. This does not indicate
serious neglect of duty on the part Of
the Attorney General. He Is maniiestly
faithful to his own official trust, though
hostile to trusts Of other kiuds.-St.
Paul Globe.
Wages are vastly higher in American
than inEuropean mills, but some Amer
ican mills are to-day producing the best
pig iron at a lower price than the poor
est English iron sells for In the London
market. How IS 10 done, with wages so
much against tho American? Our boot
and shoe operatives get much higher
wages than their foreign competitors.
But the American shoe is to-day under
selling the English TO considerable eI-
tent 10 the latter'S own market. How
IS it possible?-SpTiRgtCld Republican.
Major Bent, OF the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, said several years ago:
"Give me free raw materials and will
food Europe with American steel rails"
The Wilson bill will give the PenuSyl-
vania Steel Company, and all other
manufacturing interests just the thing
they want but which they have been
afraid 10 ask for.-CjsdUiCld Public
Spirit.
Mr.. Cleveland wrote 1.-THE United
States are" Mr. Oiney's report has it
The United States is" The Attorney
General deserves rsprimand from the
White House. lie has dealt carelessly
with phrase that touches a principle.
Sc. LOUIS Republic.
Maybe Mckinley is counting bis
Presidential chickens before they're
Matched. III IL depends on counting,
Reed is bound to beat him.-Phi0dCl-
phiG Times.
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