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CHICKENS COME HOME TO RoosT.

Strikes of both great and small proportions
are of such common occurrence nowadays
that their recital in the news columns OF the
press attract only moments attention. One
however, which was inaugurated early last
week deserves few words of comment.
1t appears that some 700 Italian laborers
employed by a railroad company in Pennsyl-
vania became dissatisfied with the rate of
wages paid them. demanded a raise OF 25
cents per day. were refused and so struck
work. The dispatches inform US that the
strikers assembled in mass, became very dis
orderly, paraded the streets with music play
ing and banners flying, and terrorized the
communitv.
1t is really too bad that the Italian laborers
aforesaid could not have been content with
the wages paid them, for most Of them must
know by this time, il they know anything,
that the principal reason for their employ
ment was that their labor could be bought
cheaply. We're it not for their cheapness an
entirely different grade OF laborers would
have been employed by the railroad company.
The Italians were simply used as club to beat
down the wages of the workmen whose places
they had taken at some not very remote
period.
In the strikes, lockouts, and other indus
trial disturbances now so prevalent it Is a
noteworthy fact that the vast majority of the
participants are composed of the ignorant and
degraded class of labor which has been pour
ing in upon US in an incessant stream for the
last fifteen or twenty years. These laborers
are mostly Italians, Huns, Poles and Slavs.
the dregs and refuse of continental Europe.
Doubtless a few OF them came here voluntarily
and paid their own expenses; but it is be-
yond question that large numbers are with
US in responseto the demands of great capital
lists and large employers OF labor in their
greed for more gain. Souless corporations
have been the worst and most conspicuous
offenders in this respect, but instances are not
wanting where heartless individual capital
lists have not hesitated TO summarily thrust
from their employ workmen who had spent
the best years of their lives in occupations the
most exhausting and fo- wages barely suff-
cient to afford a living, and all because still
lower rates were insisted upon.
To take the places of the expelled workers
came the Hun, the Pole. ct al. Ignorant, de-
graded, and besotted as most Of these people
were, there was one thing that they learned
very quickly. 1t did not take them long to
discover that they were being robbed III order
to enrich their hard taskmasters, and that
they we're receiving in wages but an insignitl-
cant proportion of the wealth their labor
created. The presence among them of some
OF the old workmen, for it was necessary that
a few Of the latter should be retained,
materially assisted the educational process.
The younger and more intelligent of their
own number became restive and discon-
tented. The labor organizer and agitator
soon appeared on the scene, and in frequent
instances and in a surprisingly short space Of
time the mass was ready to follow whereso-
ever he might lead.
What was the result? Ademand for more
The Washington times., 1894-05-06
INTERESTING COMPARISONS

The Star OF last evening contains most in
Washington and Georgetown by streets and
avenues, as 80 uI,4ral with the number Of
houses and stores. The footing up shows a
most gratifying result. We learn that there
are 40, $50 houses of all kinds in the city, and
that the Star has %, ,5O3 regular subscribers
among them. THE TIMES extends its con-
gratulations.
But what interests US most in the Stars
table Is the fact that through it we are en-
abled TO get a correct idea of the number Of
vacant houses. 1t seems that Washington
proper contains s, 1853, or about one in sixteen
and a-half, and Georgetown 225, or about one
in fourteen. The number of vacant houses to
all the houses in Washington and Georgetown
is about fifteen and half to one.
The question we ask here is, Why is every
fifteenth house (about) vacant? We all know
there is sufficient population in and around
Washington to more than crowd every house
in it; and We know also that all this popula-
tion would prefer to live in the city If they
could.
That population cannot live in this city be-
cause it cannot afford to pay the rents
charged.
The Star may not be a sufferer in its circu-
lation because Of this; it may reach out to the
suburban dwellers, and visit them in their
homes; but we doubt that as many of them
take the Star as would do SO If their homes
were here with US in beautiful Washington.
But these 2, 4Si vacant houses mean a great
deal to our business community; they mean
that large sales of necessaries of life, which,
were these houses occupied, would be bought
here where the bulk OF our suburban popula-
tion earn their money, are now purchased
elsewhere.
Let US look into this matter for a moment.
The houses now vacant are one, two, three
and four stories. We do not think 1t rash to
say, taken by and large, that these houses
could contain an average OF eight persons.
Now. it is safe to say that for food and
clothing and coal and lights and laundry and
incidental expenses, taking the average Of
living, each person spends s5 week in our
stores. Then the average houseful Of people
would spend $40 week. Multiply this sum
by the number of vacant houses reported by
the Star, 9. .is4, and We find the large sum Of
S179, $50 a week which should be spent here
but which is spent somewhere else. This, we
think is problem that will interest our busi-
ness men. Let them look into it.
The Washington times., 1894-05-06
HITS-OR MISSES.

Gen. Harrison's jealous friends are running
his nomination announcements on the teter-
totter plan
The Populist- Democratic fusion in Kansas has
given the two members thereof an added appre-
citation Of the old Saw, distance lends enchant-
ment"
1t looks like collusion between retail coal deal
srs and coal miners
1t remains for the Ashland district Repub-
licans to nominate Miss Pollard and try the case
before larger jury.
Mr. Pence should reduce his snglo-maniac
name to plain cents
The wooden goods schedule seems to suffer
from wet-blanketing
The Senators who were yesterday long as to
sugar ere to-day long as to faces
Mr. Burrows, Of Michigan, is wise In preferring
his representative seat to a Senatorial one,
where the facts are Just now very numerous
And the !ewelry stores are exhibiting Jumps
OF coal in cities OF the strike region.
Now that a Pittsburg aldermen has been
bribed, Chicago and New York feel q temporary
relief from loneliness.
The government will henceforth pay eI-Mayor
Dewitt c. Cregier, Of Chicago, $50 for superin-
tending an Indian warehouse, and the Chicago
Times will again quivsr with editorial agony
Chicago Is jealousy watching for the attend
ance at the Antwerp fair on Antwerp day."
Late editorials In the New York Sun would
seem TO make the famous motto "If you see 1t
in the Sun, It's crow"
The Washington times., 1894-05-06
MISUSED PHRASES.

"Give dog a bad name and kill him." was
never more applicable than at present. The
arguments Of a large class OF the community.
and that not the poor or unlearned, consists
in calling names, and not often waiting to see
whether they fitted before applying. This
particularly has been the case with politi-
clans Protection has an alluring sound
which has captivated many more than if it
had been called restriction of commerce.
Free trade has been condemned by uncon-
sciously arousing a religious prejudice and
confounding it with free thought and free
love, which in turn are misused terms for in
fidelity and immortality. The name of free
dom should be cherished by Americans. in
stead of being falsely applied to mean and de-
grading ideas. Tariff reform is another
phrase which begs the question 1t is a
change and usually reduction of the tariff,
but whether 1t is an improvement is not so
clear just now. Honest and dishonest money
are terms which, if admitted, settle all dis
cussion; but the justice of compelling the
debtor to discharge his obligations in
a constantly appreciating currency, while
the value Of his products are as continuously
falling, cannot be settled in such offhand and
contemptuous manner. The money-lending
classes do not monopolize the integrity of this
country.
But the two words that are mangled and
misapplied most frequently and by people
who should know better are anarchy and So
cialism. When a man is heard arguing
against either doctrine he may be able to de-
fine them, but the one indulging in denuncia-
ton and abuse is generally ignorant ofthe
theories he Is assailing. Neither implies
violence or robbery, communism or dynamite,
bloodshed or idleness. Anarchy is simply
the absence Of government and pushes the
idea Of individual liberty to an extreme
which probably can never exist in practice.
The wild beasts are usually anarchists, the
bloodthirsty tiger no more than the timid
mouse. The beavers, on the other hand, are
socialists. They find it much easier to build
their dam In common, something like a
The Washington times., 1894-05-06
WHEN THE BOOT IS ON THE OTHER LEG

WHEN lhC DOo' 10 o-N ill., ~
Last Summer Governor Altgeld pardoned
some anarchists. because the bomb-throwel
being undetected, it could not be proved that
these men melted him to murder. Nearly
every national labor organization indorsed
his course, and the local Federation OF Labor
and District Assembly took similar action.
few enthusiastic adorers Of law and order,
who unfortunately are compelled to work at
base, mechanical trades, resented this step
and s.rove TO pass counter resolutions in the
subordinate bodies, but to no avail. Last
Tuesday one of these gentlemen who had
gone to the Capitol to witness the triumph OF
law. civilization, militia, police, ct al, over
the desperadoes who had invaded the sacred
precincts of Columbia and trampled on the
grass, was struck by a policeman. This Is
sufficiently sad, but worse follows. Not let
ting patriotism and devotion to law and
order serve as q healing balm to his bruises,
lie lodges complaint with the Commissioners,
thus willfully throwing obstacles in the path
OF progress and police, civilization and clubs.
Instead of admiring the zeal displayed by
our preserye-s and defenders, he kicks on
account of a little personal Inconvenience.
Is it possible that it makes difference whose
head is dubbed?
The Washington times., 1894-05-06

modern fiat, than to erect individual and
isolated dwellings, The socialist believes in
extending the powers of government until 1t
embraces every industry and forms a gigantic
and universal trust, when every one will
have government job and be part OF that gov
ernment. cog or screw In the vast machine.
These ideas are as far distant as we from
the antipodes, and are based on opposing
principles, and yet people who would
resent the imputation of illiteracy insist on
confounding them. Secretary Herbert is the
latest illustrious example. There are several
socialistic ideas engrafted in the national,
state, and municipal governments OF this
country. The Post Office Department is an
instance OF pure socialism; the United States
courts taking charge of bankrupt railroad
is another; public parks come naturally under
that head; municipal waterworks and gas
plants come in the same category, and Gov
ernor Tillman's attempt to establish state dis
pensaries in South Carolina is the latest case
in point. The various monarchies In Europe
have carried these principles to greater
lengths, and government telegraphs, rail-
roads, and control OF the excise abound. Paris
has public pawnshop and Glasgow public
lodging house, both Of which are paying in
vestments. Neither of these antagonistic
ideas involve violence and explosives, and
they are often supported by the mildest man
nered men. AS well accept the old campaign
statements and call all Democrats rebels and
horse thieves, all Republicans corrupt ras-
Gals, and all Prohibitionists secret and hypo-
critical drinkers.
Call things by their right names and In
vestigate before denouncing. There has been
more anarchy, in its common acceptation OF
law-breaking, advocated by the local authori-
ties than by Coxey and his footsore men.
The Washington times., 1894-05-06

the public by doling out some charity to his
employees, Just as Andrew Carnegie builds 9
free library or music hall or gives $500 .
day to free soup fund.
The interests Of capitalists (not mopopo-
lists) and labor are identical. In competitive
industries, when the general rate Of profits Is
high, wages are invariably high and labor Is
steadily employed; when the general rate Of
profits is low, wages are low and labor is
frequently employed. There is, therefore, q
natural "proflt sharing more just and more
exact than any artificial system that could
be devised.
The question is. What causes these periods
Of stagnation when there are no profits? Why
Is it that in land capable Of supporting the
whole population Of the world and in state
OF civilization like ours We have always many
thousands, and sometimes hundreds Of thou
sands Of men unable to find an opportunity to
make living? 1t is because labor and capi-
tai are drained of their very life-blood by e1-
cessive rents. 1t is because land, city lots,
farming lands, coal fields, forests and water
rights, are everywhere withheld from use,
lOtcluS up INC price dHu LILO lout VI Wudt -
in use; 1t is because land, the natural reser-
voir and source of all wealth, the basis Of all
production, is becoming more and more mac
cessible to those who would use 1t and is con-
centrating in the hands OF a smaller and
smaller GLASS; it is because, in addition to the
drain of rent the workers are subjected to the
drain of billion dollars year In taxes, fines
on improvements and trade and industry,
most all Of which fall in the end on the con-
sumers least able to pay. And the remedy is
the single tax, which will take ground rent
for public uses. thereby destroying the selling
value of land and making 1t easy to procure,
which will fall as heavily on unused and half
used lands as on the best used lands, thereby
making it Improbable for any one to hold one
foot more land than he could use to advan-
tage, which would permit the abolition Of all
taxes on industry and the products Of In
dustry
The Washington times., 1894-05-06

wages; q refusal, often blunt and insulting,
and then the strike! Once on, and the
strikers filed up with bad whisky, the
leaders soon lost control The dreadful
scenes Of violence and lawlessness with
which the country has been regaled at
altogether too frequently recurring in
tervals, especially in the coal and coke re-
gions of Pennsylvania, followed as natural
corroilary. Sometimes the strikers won, but
more generally the employers came out VIC
torious. New men were imported as fast as
the steamers could bring them across the At
lantic, the leaders Of che mutiny were speedily
weeded out, business went on as formerly,
and the labor question was solved, for the
time being, in the particular industry af-
fected by the strike.
This, in brief, is history Of tho labor out
breaks, not alone in the coke and coal regions
of Pennsylvania, but it Is also applicable to q
considerable number of other Industries In
several different states remarkable fact
in this connection is that large majority OF
the strikes and lockouts of the last two de-
cades have occurred in the great manufacture
irg centers-in those sections Of the country
where, II what certain school Of politicians
tell US be true, there ought to be not only per-
manence of employment, but In which the
highest rates Of wages should prevail.
Can there be any doubt that the inordinate
greed Of the trusts, the corporations, and the
manufacturing Interests in bringing to this
country vast hordes of ignorant and vicious
laborers solely on account OF their cheapness
is mainly responsible for the distressing con-
ditions which now extend throughout the
entire continent?
And herein we find the explanation Of the
Coxey and all kindred movements. 1t is
case Of cause and effect.
The chickens have come home to roost
The Washington times., 1894-05-06

One HUNDRED AND FIVE years ago yester-
day the states general Of France met at
Versailles after an intermission of more than
$50 years, during which time the monarchs
were well-nigh absolute. The estates Of the
realm were called together by King Louis
XVI after every other expedient had failed
to provide ways and means for relieving the
nation from impending bankruptcy. Coming
SO soon after the successful termination of the
American revolution, the event marked one
OF the most important eras in the worlds
history. From this day dates the beginning
Of the French revolution, which, in the
language of writer Of the time, drought to
close more than 600 years Of slavery" Fair
France has passed through many revolutions
and the land has been deluged with blood in
order to attain the priceless boon of constitu-
tional liberty and a representative form Of
government such as the country now enjoys.
The republic is now nearly twenty-four years
old, despite all the plottinss OF royalists and
Bonapartists, and there is little likelihood
that the nation will ever again tolerate either
king or an emperor.
The Washington times., 1894-05-06
Better Than TIE Coxey Movement.
q the Editor Of LIE TINES.


AS the excitement attending the advent of the
army of indus;rials into Washington, and the
attempt of its leaders 20 petition Congress for
the relief OF the unemployed has abated, my i'm
preston of the army and its doiEgs is totted
down In the following lines, also my opinion as
how such movements should be conducted and
by whom.
In the first pluce the appearance Of the 800
did not present that look of intelligence and
quickness OF perception that is always discerni-
Bile in the average body of American working
men, especially those belonging TO organized la
Dor and trade unions, and it is doubtful If one
tenth OF their number could sustain an intell-
gent conversation upon any subject that they
proposed 10 present TO Congress. Neither would
they compare in physical build with the men,
bers of the various societies of working people
throughout the United States, and gre not likely
to revolutionize any government or carry TO q
successful issue any plan of compaign for the
amelioration of the present condition of the
working classes.
As to their leaders, II seems to me grotescue
and lauehable the manner in which they have
conducted themselyes-one reclining in car.
riage drawn by thoroughbred horses, putting up
at frst-class hotels, and leaving his army every
other day to visit some large city to transact
business, also having his daughter riding around
upon a prancing steed The other leader,
mounted also on a high-priced stopper and
dressed in picturesque style, issuing verbose
and windy orders and proclamations (and whose
record in the workingmens anti-Chnese crusade
OF fifteen years was very unsayory), showed his
utter unfitness FOR the position lie occupies He
is fakir pure and simple.
l believe shat any movement that has for its
object the bet.erinent OF the working classes in
the passage OF laws by Congress providing
means for the relief of the unemployed and 10
cure the present financial distress, ought to be
conducted by the representatives of organized
labor, who represent the great bodies of Ameri-
can worknen, such as the american Federation
Of Labor, the Knights of Labor, the Farmers
Alliance, and other kindred bodies, who would
truly represent the intelligence and worth of
the american people. The manner in which
the subject OF the governmental control and
ownership OF the telegraph Is being handled il
an Illustration In point as TO the mode of pro-
cedure The monopolis;s have nothing to fea-
from irresponsible bodies led by fakirs and those
seeking no;oriety. Tho reforms that will come
ana must come viii be through intelligent
organizatioua and methods, with the bsIlotebox
as the source Of securing theIa. woRxINGMAN
The Washington times., 1894-05-06

We LIKE the magazine and we like the
name, The Epitome. 1t is edited by Mrs. Jean
B. Lockwood and Mrs. Joseph Kay. both
ladies OF culture and energy. to whom We
tender our congratulations and best wishes.
This is the woman's age truly. and every step
upward and onward made by her cuts a
swath that makes progress easier for an
other. An able article from our esteemed
fellow-townsman,W w. ]. MCGEE. opens the vol
ume Prof. MCGEE holds high position in
the estimation of the people of Washington,
and no better selection could have been made
for an essential essay 1.-THE Antiquity OF Our
Indians is subject full Of interest. ITO
getherness, from the pen of Alexander Kent,
brims with good suggestions from higher
religion than do unto others as you would
have them do to you," and urges the ITO
getherness" that develops the best in man.
Rubbish, from the pen OF R. Grant Barn.
nell, is thoughtful production.
Wa. Croffut, who has taught Us to expect
good things, gives an amusing historical In
cident.
Two charming stories. one from the pen OF
Miss Wilmington, who won the prize offered
by the Short Story Club for the best story OF a
certain number OF words, and the other by
Miss Gerald. from whose graceful pen We
hope to hear again, are published therein.
In all. We feel proud Of the new magazine
and wish It every success.
The Washington times., 1894-05-06

THE government has entered into an invest
igation Of the Carnegie-Frick armor plate
frauds. The line of defense will be to not
deny the charges, but to shift the blame.
They do these things better in China. When
great and good and rich men like Carnegie
and Frink are caught in crime they stand up
manfully and admit the crime and then pay
some poor person literally to undergo the
punishment, even to the death penalty. Car
negie and his philanthropic friend have been
caught, but they are going to have one or two
wicked workmen to step out and say that
their good employers didn't know Of it; that
they did it in the hope that more money could
Scotland.