The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-19
The strike About Over.


The great coal strikei practically over
The miners in some localities are greatly
dissatisfied with the settlement and say
! they will not accept it. 1t is believed,
however, that they will change their
minds. They are potgerless to make the
strike effective any longer. Those who
have signified their acceptance of the new
contract will be able to supply the de-
mand for coal. Hence it would be folly
for these who have not yet accepted TO
refuse to do so. They would iniure their
| employers without doing themselves any
good.
The strike has been quite long one,
and has been productive of great deal
of suffering. The miners have suffered
greatly because they had a very small
amount of money on hand to aid those of
them who were needy and factory
employees have suffered because they have
been thrown out of employment by the
| shutting down of factories for want of
| fuel. Indeed, the effect of the strike has
been widespread. and working people are
not the only ones who have cause to
remember it.
| The strike was not uniustifable, The
wages of the miners had been greatly
reduced in many of the mining sections.
But it does not appear that the reductions
were made in order to increase the profits
of the operators, but to meet the condi-
tions brought about by the hard times.
The falling off in business brought
about keen competition among the opera
| tors, and the consequence was that the
price of coal was forced down below the
profit line. Wages were cut to meet this
condition of affairs.
The strikers have been more
successful. than it was thought they
would be when the strike was Inaugural
ted. They have obtained considerably
more than half of their demand, and
when times become prosperous, as they
Undoubtedly will, still further conces-
sions may be made to them.
The strike will be memorable one, not
only on account of the number of men en-
gagged in it, but also because Of the fact
! that troops were called out in number
of states at the same time to preserve the
peace. Some lives were lost and consid-
cradle property wantonly destroyed.
Those. who destroyed life and property
haven't the sympathy of the miners or
ganization. The ending of the strike will
not put stop to the efforts to punish
those who are guilty of lawlessness, and
it ought not to. That the strike is prac-
tically over no doubt gives satisfaction in
all parts of the country.
1t seems that Atalantis, the great hotel
to be built in the Atlantic ocean off Long
Island, is no joke. The MORNING News
some days ago reprinted an article ex-
planning the scheme. According to the
New York papers, Mr.. Coen and his as
sociates in the enterprise are hardheaded
business men and not cranks, as the out
line of the scheme at first suggested
| Their hotel on concrete columns, ten
miles from shore, will actually be an
island on stills, and an independent ma
ton. twill be outside the jurisdiction
of the United States. The status of the
island in international law will be an
interesting question; but this government
might be induced TO do little annexing
in this instance. An artificial island in
the broad ocean would be a novelty, but
there appears to be no reason why it
should be considered an impossibility.
There are numerous artificial break
waters that present solid front to the
open ocean and defy it in its most furious
moods. This being so, it seems the en-
gineers might set up number of col
umns that would withstand storms and
1 tides.
The western populists are talking
Gresham again. The Illinois contingent
Of that interesting party want Gresham
to succeed Shelby NJ. Cullom in the SEN
ate, Il is said Chairman Taubeneck of
the populist executive committee has
been exerting himself to work up the
Gresham sentiment. He says neither
the Republican nor the Democratic party
will be able TO control the next Illinois
general assembly, and the populists will
constitute a balance of power and eject
their man, 1t will be remembered that
two populist votes elected Gen. Palmer.
The populists will remind the democrats
of that fact and insist upon reciprocity.