The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-11-30

The knights of Labor were a great
power under Powderly. How will it be
without him?
That tariff bill will hardly suit the
out-and-out freetraders. There's plenty
of revenue in it.
A resort to violence will exhaust all
the sympathy the public now has for the
Lehigh strikers.
The minority tariff reb PSI has not yet
been made manifest, and the minority
should always be heard.
That it is practically the beginning of
the winter season dosn't give any addi-
tional spice to labor strike.
Perhaps, in his forthcoming me sage,
President Cleveland may condescend to
say something about Hawaii
The woolly chrysanthemum and the
two>headed foot ball player will go out
together after Thanksgiving.
The arctic wave got here just in time
to remind the Thanksgiving turkey that
this is cold and unfeeing world.
For the President. at least, Secretary
Carlisle is casting bigger shadow than
any other man in the Administration.
1t seems that the House Ways and
Means Committee are sadly divided on
the income tax question. So are the
people.
A confidential bookkeeper in Chicago
Gem held the jewel of his reputation
cheaply.
Those proposing an income tax should
first take their bearings we'll. Ii it's
adopted they'll see how the land lies
afterwards.
Powderly evidently thinks the Knights
of Labor organization built on the tad
pole principle: the head ten times big
ger than the body.
If Uncle Sam could collect that little
claim of $30,000000 he holds against the
Union Pacific railroad he would be bet
ter fixed for Christmas.
Everybody has undertaken to aid in
the settlement of the tariff problem
but how about the old addage that too
many cooks spoil the broth.n
Looking back on the history of the
Lehigh strike, need it be said that this
way of righting the wrongs of labor in
this country has played out?
Both sides of the Hawaiian question
are coming out, and by putting extreme
views together and dividing by two one
gets somewhere near the truth.
# Congress is as prompt in passing
the new tariff bill as the Ways and
Means Committee was in preparing it,
the country may be happy yet.
Ii reports be true, Hon. James w.
Marshall is not entirely in sympathy
with the Ways and Means Committee in
their efforts to equalize the tariff bur-
dens.
Congressman McKeighan, of Nebraska
is on trial at Lincoln for beating a
board bill" We always thought those
Western silver statesmen would bear
watching.
A good way to settle this Democratic
: fight for national office would be to give
the places to those men whose bailiwicks
showed an increased vote last election
over that for Cleveland
A large number of Democrats and Re-
publlcans of Birmingham, Ala, have in
vited Governor Mckinley to lecture in
that city on the tariff. The South is
not unanimous for ''ffee trade'' by any
means.
The reelection of. Powderly as Grand
Master Workman of the Knights of
Labor in the face of violent opposition
was a signal tribute to the acute diplo-
macy of that gentleman Powderiy
missed his calling when he failed to go
into politics.
The Rev. John S. Stewart, United
Presbyterian minister, is on trial in HI
inois for the offense of advocating the
doctrine of "divine heaiing.n If Chris
tianity does not teach ''divine healing,
curing by miracle and faith cure it does
not teach anything.
Elk Representative Cable, who was in
charge of the last Democratic Preslden-
tial campaign in the West, and who is
himself mau of large wealth, favors
the proposed tax on incomes,as also does
Ir. Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts.
until recently First Assistant Secretary
of State.
A Philadelphia contemporary says
that Secretary Gresham's political ca
reer has gone to smash on the coral reefs
surrounding the port of Honolulu. y
Well, Judge Gresham still has more
retary of State, and that much of his
career has not gone to smash"
Tariff reform, as most people under
stand it, means the placing of coal, iron,
salt, lumber, tin, sugar, rice and tobacco
on the free list. But tariff reform as
sweeping as that would be voted down
ia Congress inside of three days. Some
thing less radical will be the outcome of
the deliberations of the Fifty>third Con-
gress.
The annual report of W. 7. Harris, the
United States Commissioner of Educa-
tion, shows that the total number Of
pupils enrolled in the public schools OF
the United States for the year 1892 SO
was 1924, 1913, the average daily attends
ance being $685.. 85l. The enrolment for
15,04s, e8s, and the average attendance
s.407,5 $50.
The President has indicated as his
desire that no delegations visit him in
the interest of any OF the candidates for
United States Circuit Jude to succeed
! the late Judge Bond, of Baltimore. He
prefers that all applications and recmo~