The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-04

A TRUSTS HEARTLESS ACTION.

piisihB Inc sugar TRUST nave Deen Snut
down, ostensibly for REPAIRS" and 1000
employees have been thrown out OF employ.
ment for an indefinite period one Of tho
post election Industrial movements that re-
| ceives no extra head lines IN the rupubli-
! can press.
Tho Boston Herald. however. is indie
pendent and honest enough to condemn this
action OF the Sugar Trust and attribute 1t
to the right calsc--puro sel6shncss, unin-
u.nccd by any other considerations The
Herald says
| The sugar ring Is an enormously
| wealthy body. which pays fat dividends on
| vast amount of hetviy watcrei stock
| what g more, II liz, In way. penslofrr
| of the government for II enjoys the spe-
cial protection of differeltiai duty,
claimed bv 4 from congress on the fal %
but effective pretenEe that IN election
| was needed to enable It 10 give employ
n,snt to American workmen; Under snc h
| Circums iices the public has moral
right to expect that the sugar refinerles
Will deal generously with their workmen
But here there is no seclb.ance of gen
orSsity or even of common fairness. EX-
| perts n their own line of work. AMI with
| out skill W any other. the men thus
turned ndrMt must support themselves on
| their own Scnnt resources until the re-
| f.ner!es reopen.
Evidently the sol!citude If tie Sugar
| Trust for a National honor victory was
not In order that 1t could successfully
prosecute its REGULAR business, bat rather
to see In power again a party that would
| continue to pamper the trust IN i Possibly
add somewhat 10 The ..ansi0n wh'ch 1t las
received from tho government. L. Ia this
| trust that has stood chiefly III tho way Of
.. q. lid,
try, and II was one of the rrnwihs that
democracy was pledged to out down. Now
that tho fear Of attack from government
source has passed away. It scianhly shuts
up The rcnncrics aud turns It's 1000 en-
ployes adrist at n lime wncn It's ing is par
tcularly piuched and hard in inc North.
The same thing has eeen rccori"l of other
large cooperate enterprises la,cly. Many
Of tho too conndinR eniplov"s who we're in
duced to stand Inv The republican party dur
Ing ;he late campaign for the protection of
"Netioral honor" are learning Ivy .his time
that great bunco game rin be as success
fully worked urcn large Plumbers u people
as upon the occasional victim Who trusts
too much TO appearances md ll.i speech.
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The inaugural OF D'aa as president Of
Mexico for aro,hcr term .usuras to the
southern rcpuhlS' a coutlnuat.o on az tho
perod If development and prosperity hat
has run through his cntir' ndmlalstrl-
lion. No modern ruler ha,i 90. as much
as plsz to promote the rroErcss o. hs
pe3pc ua,eHs # hc the mikoGo Of laran
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Tor ou,erprls.us effort
-
fsw daye ago tho News sail u Womb
push rGlhcrson TO ervapo mp majority
OF 6ooM. /. WI he observed thai tho
News rs now humping itsclr 20 hud the
naJor!tv below 7o0n, Tho Posts ,~t!mat.
ga tn morning after thu election stlll
sticks except thai Il was q shade too
modest
Tho Northwestern hliz2arl is Incoming
moro ami moro lively Immigration agent
for tine South
All the Southern Soapor,s arr ob,a n,ug
add uoual tucs Of shlns now between ,ur
southern coast and Europcaa po.nis. And
they are cetUng then. strange to relate,
for the asking. rh",e IS no reason Why
the Wi awake Southern town should sat
lett these DAYS.
II can not be- dened thai there L. cone,ii
cradle dos re- IN thg country 10 try orr
new navy on spain
Il appears to have been dere,i,ely asecr-
te,nel tha, Se9a;or Quay does not want
John Wanamakor az a colleague Ia tn
senate. y tcs; mcr'1i Ike thu, to a ma0's
worth wcnll hc valuable to him ou,si!e
OF rcnnsyhAnn.
II corhctt ever meets Fitzsimmons now
& win only bc on coudi on that rs man
aRpr shnll prk the rrfcroe.
50 the Vafsar college sir!s with the OK.
copuoa az the freshmen class, are allowed
TO indulge tn round tunce4 hereafter 1t
is safe TO say no freshly win ever fan to
rake the sophomore class from THIS date
forward.
Gro,cr uay intcnd after MI to leave
Nick 5plev With fight on ma hands IT
Wouldn't he the first i!me Grover put the
fighting on another fellow
Tho railroads claim to have CARR
10000 people to Canton durrg the ,-lm-
paign. Now THAI thc rush Of the office
seekers has commenced, tho companies
have broken the states.
The rloois iu Wisconsin add another 10
the years wonderful! list OF disasters, The
fun extent Of that one of November . we
shall only be able 10 estimate later on.
pr, Parkhurst SAYS there arc about
2Eo. 400 unfa!thful wives and Husbands IN
New York CRY. The doctor must have
been doing a good deal OF Summing that
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