The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-06-02

rive at an exact conclusion, but some facts are
obvious. A strike or a lockout Of course re-
stricts the demands for labor. Thus 10000
workmen are said to have recently left Chicago
because the strikes and Iockouts have cut of
their employment there. These men are seek
ing work in other fields, undoubtedly bringing
surplus of labor into some of those fields and
tending naturally to lower wages, even though
they work under union rules. At other times
labor disturbances elsewhere throw surplus
of labor into Chicago 1t is only by actual ex-
perience or by the study of figures that the in
telligent workman can arrive at just con-
clusion concerning thepros and conso Of strikes.
THE PRICES of some of the finished iron and
steel products have fallen but the sustained
values Of pig show that the whole business
rests on a steady basis. The foreign demand
for American pig is again swelling. for the
foreign producers are getting to the bottom of
their resources. The steady high price for a
time discouraged foreign buyers, but they are
again compelled to look across the Atlantic.
As long as this index remains firm, it may be
concluded that THERON and steel market won't
tumble much in itsprices, or if itdoes, for long.
The best trade is the normal. Long continued
high prices would induce to the overbuilding
of furnaces and over-production. 1t would
not be bad sign to see iron lower.
A DISPATCH from Washington says ian ex-
portation of $40, 000, 900 worth of manufactures
in thirty days is a record unparalleled for
America That is the record for the month
Of April, 1900. This phenomenal increase in
expectation of manufactures is especially strik-
ing when compared with the progress made
by European nations, our rivals in the attempt
to supply the worlds market with manufac-
tured goods. Great Britain's exports Of man.
ufactures show but slight increase since 1890,
and an examination of the export record of
the principal countries fails to disclose an in
stance in which the increase has been as much
as Is per cent, while that of the United States,
meanwhile, has been more than $50 per cent"
THE DEMOCRATS of Hartford held their county
convention at Belair on Tuesday and while
they had nothing to say about Bryan they did
pass the following resolution: "We, the DEM
ocrats of Hartford county, in convention as
sembled, hereby express our appreciation of
the interest and efforts of the Hon. George NJ.
Jewett in behalf of our party, and as an ex-
preston of our confidence and respect we re-
quest the delegates today elected to represent
Hartford county in the Democratic Congress
sional convention of the Second district to
commend Mr.. Jewett to the favorable consid-
Grafton Of that convention" Mr.. Jewett, who
is pronounced free silver man. favors the re-
nomination of Bryan.
SPEAKING OF the trusts and the political
parties the New York San says: Every polit-
ical party which places candidates in the field
at the Presidential election this year will have
something to say in its platform against trusts.
The difficulty of defining the precise thing
which it is intended to denounce makes an
antitrust plank safe enough for any body. No
one can say that it will lead toward any par
ticular method of procedure in dealing with
the commercial combinations which are the
objects of attack. "A trust is bad thing; let's
pitch into it = Is the substance of the politi-
clans reasoning on the subject"
AMONG OTHER things says young Richard
Yates, of Illinois, II want to take my old
mother back to the Gubernatorial mansion
where she presided forty years ago, the year
before was born" Good boy The proudest
moment in young mans life is when he can
show to a mother he is the worthy son of u
noble sire. The most touching act in the life
of Garfield was when, after his inaugural ad-
dress as President, he stopped to kiss the wrin-
killed. brow of his mother. Then was the cup
of her happiness full as the end of her training
received its complete fruition. n
ufifses,- K,.a.rs, prrsIuus inut rus nspuPncan
majority in New York this year will be larger
than any which the party has yet gained.
SulEer, of course, remembers that the Repub-
licans had lead of 26S 900 in New York in
1896. A broader margin than this would seem
to be useless, but Sulzer predicts that it will
come. And yet Sulzer, until short time ago,
was more Bryanite than Bryan himself.
Now THAT Mafeking has been relieved and
General Roberts with 10000 effective fighting
men is confronting the wavering Beers with
their 30, 600 force demoralized and foreseeing
the close of the war. the world may hear Of
its end at any moment. Even now it is ru-
mored that Dom Paul is suing for peace in most
abject terms. 1t has been a costly war, and
when John Bull gets full possession it is to be
hoped he will so govern as never to give rise
to another.
FROM PRESENT indications it would appear
that the war in South Africa is rapidly nearing
its end At first the British met with numer-
Gus reverses, but lately their forces have proven
victorious and their ultimate success seems
now assured. The war has been in progress
less than six months, but it has cost the British
government $500, 600, 600, while the Beers are
out SIC, OOO.O 900. Forty odd thousand men have
been either killed or disabled on both sides.
THE KsrATE Of the late George NJ. Pullman,
of Chicago, which was valued at about So ,000,-
600 when his will was filed for probate, has
increased it is said, to nearly or quite $4,000
900 under the management of the executors,
Robert Todd Lincoln and Norman B. Ream.
Their compensation for handling the estate, it
is estimated, will exceed half million dollars.
STATISTICS COMPLIED by the German govern
ment show that the oak is more likely to be
struck by lightning than any other tree. The
beech is the most seldom struck, and next in
exemption is the pine. Ofthe lightning struck
trees upon which the calculation was based
IS per cent. were oaks, 81 per cent. frs, 10 per
cent. pines and per cent. beeches.
THE HEADQUARTERS of the Republican State
Central Committee of Maryland has been To-
Gated in the building No. North Calvert street,
Baltimore. The new chairman, Mr.. Phillips
Lee Goldsborough, has selected for secretary
Mr.. Henry f. New, of Baltimore, to succeed
Mr.. Levi A. Thompson, resigned.
AT THE General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church, held at Atlanta, Ga,
proposition to give its support to woman suf-
frage was promptly declined. The assembly
refused to receive a paper from the National
Woman's Suffrage Association signed by Susan
B. Anthony.
THERE Is large cat farm" in Lincoln coun-
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