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Fifty Years Ago
In The Star
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"The Star quite agrees with the Sun
day Herald" says The Star Of December
w.,.., a.. 1886. that a new
"ashihs 'oh gas company will by
Gas Supply. no means insure this
community against the
evils 1t now suffers at the hands of the
present greedy monopoly. The Star
knows very well that the proposed
remedy is an exceedingly risky one. since
there is always a strong tendency on the
part of competing corporations to COM
bine their forces and grind the public
to o finer powder than ever between
the upper and neither millStoneS thus
brought together, but really there seems
to be no other chance, as things 60, to
get q decent article Of gas in Washing
ton. Congress has the power, as every
one knows, to afford relief, and it ought
to see that it is afforded, even if it be
necessary to that end to amend or re-
woke the charter of the existing concern
AS 1t doubtless has the right to do, but
for some occult reason, while appearing
to be active, that body does nothing. A
new company was only suggested by
The Star as a last possible means of
escape, and what it aimed to emphasize
the objections to the establishment of
another company here are nothing like
so serious as they are represented to be-"
Relations between labor organizations
and radical forces were a subject of dis
cussion fifty years ago
Aaoor anu as now. The Star Of
Anarchism. December %, 1885,
says:
"Mr. Powderly is going to wage offen-
sive as well as defensive war. it seems.
Not content with sitting down and let
ting his enemies abuse him, he has
issued an order commanding the return
to the treasures of the various local
assemblies of Knights of Labor. in dis
trict No. "a, in Chicago, of all money
drawn thence for the defense of the
anarchist conspirators or for any other
object not contemplated by the con-
stitution and bylaws of the Knights Of
Labor. This Is in consonance with the
advice his best friends having given
him for q year past. They have urged
upon him the necessity for an aggres-
sive campaign against that element in
side Of the society who do it more dam
age in a week than Jay Gould and Philip
Armour combined could do 1t In year.
The endeavor of some Of these internal
foes has been to identify the knights
with the anarchist propaganda. They
have also striven to convince the outside
world that a man Of the conservative
tendencies and judicial temperament OF
Mr.. Powderly could not enforce his
orders in Chicago"
M. Clemenceau," says The Star OF De-
cember 80, 1886, referring to the French
Clemenceau man who many years
and Germany later was tower OF
strength to the
French in the Great War. "endeavors to
put a quietus on warlike rumors in
Western Europe by saying that 1T would
require q gross provocation indeed TO
rouse France to war with Germany. And
yet this statement will satisfy few people
with q memory sixteen years long. It
will be recalled that France went to war
with Prussia in 1870 on a gross provoca-
tion:-an insult which could be wiped out
only in blood, in spite of the fact that
it was never given. When gross provoca-
tions can be found in interviews that
never took place, and filings and sights
can be manufactured out OF no tougher
material than the cobwebs in mems
brains, such assurances as M. Clemen-
ceau's must be accepted with caution"