Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22
The Miners Strike.


The Miners Strike.
The condition of the labor market il
certainly against the strikers, for many
idle men are eager to take the places Of
the strikers for the poor wages they have
refuset.-T Toronto Globe.
The fuse has been lighted, and it is the s
general judgment that terrific explosion
will speedily follow unless the heel Of
friendly Intervention shall promptly be
brought down on the sputtering powder
New York Journal.
The strike of the coal miners is not like y
ly to have any other result than to make
the last state of the operatives worse than
the first. Circumstances entirely apart
from the grievances of the miners point
to that conclusion.-New York Tribune.
The hope is general that some sort of
an agreement may be reached by whlchN
the suferings that must attend long
strike may be averted until improved con-
ditions in the coal trade will enable the
miners to secure what they deserve fah
living vages.-Whecling Intelligencer.
If the strike shall last ten weeks and
the miners then gain the increase of
per cent demanded, it would require them
to work for fifty-five weeks at the In
creased rates to restore the loss they Sus
tain by ten weeks of idleness. This isnd
theory; il is stubborn facts.-Philadelphn
Times.
1t is unfortunate that the miners ar
compelled by their own miserable cond
ton to select the most unfavorable tim
of the year and a most unfavorable yea1
It is to lie hoped that they will abide
their very sensible pledges to refrain from
disorder and to maintain respect for law
In that way alone can they hope to sue ~
ceed.-New York World.
1t is in the power of Congress and th
President to arrest this gigantic STRIKE
hardly yet begun, by offering arbitran
to the laborers and capitalists facing eac
other for a struggle the anticipated a
compartments of which fill with dread eV
cry intelligent man acquainted with
history Of great strikes and Informed
to the special conditions that prevail
the coal mining regions.-New lGI
Journal.
1NO SlsLSS VI ldUOIcIS cullSIS tio INV" NN3*
and as hearty sympathy as do the Co
miners. The most Of their life is spT ~
in low, grimy, dimly lighted cayerN
severe and monotonous toll. Time ou,y
soon to come when only convicts ana
utter failures and incompetel9s VIII
condemned to this sunless and joyless
of the mines. Meanwhile every upllD
force in cur social system ought to ~
rected to aiding the miners to get deS
wages and improved conditions OF w"
ing and living.-Exchange
In G neral.
The United States might posslO!
able to get along without Hawai- w.
little while if it tried to do so.-opD
Bee.
The widow Ruiz takes sensible
Of the case when she asks for lndeAD
first ana vengeance afterward.-pe'
Free Press.
When Greece determined to tase
chances with the powers, rather Iu.t
continue fighting Turkey, the fat wv
the fre.-San Francisco Post.
Now Venezuela and England Cav
down in peace and argue aoou
Schomburgk line. Uncle Sam mas mas. -
arbitration uccessfIl.-Chicago f0''
The average recipient of the ho Ont
degree "doctor of laws" may 'lasif
lucky stars that his acceptance :.
| not conditioned upon his piSI Shh1
| freshman entrance examination
| Times-Herald. "A
While he isn't saying anything !. al Nd
his royal highness Albert Ed"a l,or
that sixty years reign bears en .r;S
| much resemblance to a civil =, SLIM :bnns
uge.-Cincinnati Commercial Af'D.
At such a season as the present i"
be nothing less than lnnuln aalept
Prince OF Wales to do anythln:s - .' and
to discourage the neglige s ,iastops
suspendcrless trouser.-Wasnin Lima
On July / Philadelphiaa,ns $, G ha1st
| $9,OOOOOO Of coupons. lney ;n IS %
holding some kind Of big do :sty sci
year. The Quakers are tnI Iatsr Os
earn their money.-Ch:cago LIZ