Evening star., 1923-07-22

n SOdI SilOTld ldBe was threatened
fifty years ago as il is now by
pio s / u
Mulcting the Public strike in the
in Hard-Coal Prices. anthracite anti
would seem from the following com
ment in the Star of July IA, 1873, thai
the strike was believed to be a par.
OF the operators game to insure an
advance of prices:
The fact that the coal producers
and shippers engineer the Strikes.
so-called, among the miners for the
purpose of restricting production and
advancing prices is so we'll understood
that 1t seems strange that they
should think it worth while TO keen
up the transparent farce and GO
through this tedious circumlocution
70 erect their object. But IL seems
tney propose TO resort to the stale.
9io TRICK. and 1t Is given out accord
lngly that labor troubles have begun
again IN the coal regions and there
are indications of a general strike
Gotemporaneous with this is the an
ana Iron Company has stopped ship
ment until the 18th. In fact, the
parties to the existing ring of coal
producers and shippers do not con
q
out months ago that on the prin-
ciple of gradually accustoming con
sumers to bear the heavier tax
1t Is the purpose to collect an
ly would be established and the.
course of the market has given
evidence that the program was au-
thentic. As pointed out. however, by
the. New York Journal of Commerce.
single item of calculation seems TO
| have been left out, or underestimate
ed. The natural increase OF the de
mand was apparently counted on and.
accordingly. though it was determin-
ed that the market should not be
| oVer-stocked, we find that the large
production OF 1872 had been exceed
ed. up to the 2sth ult.. by 25S632 tons
| The delayed returns since that period
will probably show a further increase
OF this excess. The market, however
| has not taken kindly to the manip-
| ulation of the ring and has been
slow to absorb the supply. 1t there
fore became likely, some weeks ago.
that production would have to be
arbitrarily lessened or that the
advance of prices would fail. The
reliance of the public must be on the
failure of the. ring to hold together.
| combinations together, cupidity. Is
generally apt to be the means of
their early dissolution"
| X X
| The other day in the police court
a dog was acquitted of being a nui-
sance on the
Caleb Cushing's score of noe
| Dog-Barking Suit. tarnar irr tr,a bari ar.
trict courts did not have this prece-
dent in the case thus noted in The
Star of July 16, 1873:
| "a good many afflicted people who
have had their rest broken by the
yelping ours that infest Washington
| will bid Caleb Cushing godspeed in
his endeavor to show that citizens
have some rights in the matter thai
dog owners are bound TO respect lie
yesterday brought suit in the Dis-
trict courts against the owner of one
of these pests. claiming $1,000 dam
age on the first count and $4,000 on
the second. He sets forth that the
defendant did wrongfully keep a dog
bark coE..nually by day. and night.
and that on Saturday the 18th in
stant, the defendant did then and
there allow the said dog TO bark
through the whole day and night
following. and did thereby hinder and
prevent the plaintiff from studying
and transacting his l lawful business mess
during the night, as injuriously to
to affect his health and the peaceful
use of his property The second
count alleges the peeping of the same
dog and that said dog was danger
GUS one.
| "Mr. Cushing originally sought
remedy for his grievance before the
board of health, but that body held
that they had not the power to re-
llieve him and he accordingly brought
the matter before the court He is
too good a lawyer not to know what
he is about. and the fact that he has
instituted this suit will give. great
encouragement to those troubled by
the same nuisance to believe that
they have legal rights IN the prem
ises."