Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-07

se.ecteo by the government lor the
rounding OF towns. These PAGES are
Anadarko, Hobart and Lawton. A
majority Of the people favored Lawton,
which is on the outskirts of Fort Sill,
and by Friday night thousands were
encamped in the vicinity, to await the
sale Of lots on August 6. Already the
town Of Lawton has some 400 Temporal
ry business houses, including a groc-
cry firm and newspaper. A national
bank has been projected. During Sat-
urday, Sunday and Monday, all kinds
of gambling was in full blast with no
authority to put stop it. Saloon
keepers have declared their intention
to commence the open sale of whisky
as soon as they can get houses, and the
authorities are preparing to arrest
them. There is a. law in Oklahoma
against the sale Of cigarettes and Gig
arctic paper, and this law is being
strictly enforced. Ice Is selling at 81
cents pound, and water is bringing so
cents barrel. There is much hard
ship and suffering on all sides.
The conference between President
Shaffer and other representatives of
the Amalgamated association and Pier
pont Morgan, Schwab and other heads
of the steel trust last week, looking to
a settlement of pending differences,
failed utterly. The principal point at
issue was the demand of. the Amalga-
mated association that all non-union
men in the employ of the steel COM
pany be dismissed. The Amalgamated
association was willing to allow these
men to join the union, but was not
willing to tolerate them as non-union
men. The heads of the steel trust in
sisted that they had no right to inter-
fere with the choice of these non-un-
Ion men. and declined to give them
the alternative of joining the union or
stepping down and out. AS the result
Of this failure to agree, it is now gen.
orally understood that there is a fight
to finish on between this most pow-
erful trust and the very powerful la
Dor organization. President Shaffer
says that his organization will not
again call upon the officials of the
steel trust for conference, and that
there will be no more conferences un-
I'll an advance comes from the other
side. He says the fight is one which
Will determine whether unionism is to
stand or fall, and he intimates that be-
fore many days all of the union men Of
the country. in any way connected
with steel working industries, will be
on strike.
-Leslie's Weekly: Whether the
strike lasts for long or short time, it
is certain to leave a bad taste in the
mouths Of good many men, and il
may be safely predicted that one Of the
results will be an appeal to congress
for more drastic legislation against the
industrial combinations known as
trusts. The blow will be aimed espec-
tally at Mr.. Morgan's concern, with it's
$4,000 stockholders and its billion and a
half of capital. Already it is given out
that the industrial commission which
has been investigating our industries
for sometimes past will report to con-
gress that the United States Steel
company has one-third water in it's
capital, or over OO,OO0,OOO. The pros
pect for damagogic denunciation of all
industrial combinations, good and bad,
when the next congress meets, is,
therefore, most excellent. The polit-
ical parties, will, Of course, be drawn
into the struggle, and President Shaf-
fer, Of the Amalgamated association, is
already demanding that the Republi-
can leaders interfere in behalf of the
strikers, while the sensational declara-
tions on the trust question in the Ohio
Democratic platform show which way
the wind is blowing in that direction.
1t may be set down as a safe predic-
tion that if Mr.. Morgan yields to the
demands of the Amalgamated associa-
ton, the United States Steel corpora
tion will eventually revert to that
shrewd and canny Scotchman, Mr..
Carnegie, who was shrewd enough to
take a first mortgage on the concern
in the shape of over $500, 100000 in
bonds. and not load up his box with
the common or preferred stock.
Says a Pekin dispatch of Sunday:
American and European residents as
Sert that the demeanor of the Pekin
populace is constantly becoming more
unfriendly and that, as the allied troops
depart. the Chinese resume their old
habits Of jostling and cursing the for
eigners in the streets. The legation
defenses are now approaching compile
ton. Generally speaking. they consist
of brick walls from Is to 20 feet high
and from three to four feet thick, loop
holed for rifles. The ministers of the
powers ignored the plan for a uniform
system of defense submitted by the
generals. and consequently the govern
mentS are working independently. 1t
is the policy of the ministers to avoid
conspicuous work of defense lest these
should prove an irritant, prokoving in
stead Of preventing hostilities. Most
of the engineers have recommended
stronger defenses than the ministers
will sanction. Major Edgar B. Robert
son. of the Ninth Infantry, who COM
mands the United States legation
guard, has written to Mr.. Rockhill to
prOteSt against what he calls "the de-