Evening star., 1941-03-30
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Even as now, the most prominent item
in The Star of so years ago was one
concerning strikes.
Strikes of "strikers use
so Yeors Aqo Bombs" reads the
headline. and the
article goes on to say that ''rioting pre-
walls throughout the coke region (Uf
Pennsylvania. The JimtoWn works were
raided by 1900 strikers and 20 workmen
were driven from the yard IN great con-
fusion. dynamite bomb was
exploded at the Leisenring No. plant
which tore a hole six feet deep in the
ground, but no one was seriously injured.
The coke troubles now
threaten to develop into war
between the operators and labor or
ganizations. Shortly after 2 o'clock
dn the morning. 1000 strikers at More
wood, armed with clubs. iron bars,
stones, revolvers and other weapons,
commenced firing revolvers and made
dash toward the ovens. The deputies,
hearing the bullets whiz by their heads
uncomfortable close, commenced seeking
places of safety. The strikers then began
tearing up the Larry tracks for dis
tance of 500 feet They burned other
property, tore down fences and COM
mitted other depredations until O'Clock
this morning"
OF especial interest is the 1891 news
from Norway. That country was seeth-
ing with dissatisfaction
News From it would seem with con-
N. siderably less reason than
it has today "One of the
freest and most intelligent populations
in Europe-the inferior of none in
genuine pride and enterprise-the Nor
wegians have chafed over even the small
control exercised by Sweden. They have
a separate Legislature. local administra-
tion, war and navy establishments, school
system and other governing apparatus,
but they claim the final exercise of sover-
eighty included in the proposing and
making treaties with other nations. The
declaration of a republic may occur very
soon and form part of the movement by
which certain northern nations ally
themselves with certain southern ones
to rectify frontiers and make square the
accounts of long ago. This movement
is the more significant because it is a
symptom of a general demand for an
extension of rights and privileges which
comes up from Great Britain's depen-
denotes, the people Of Belgium, the people
of Denmark, Spain, Portugal and Italy,
not to speak of such countries as Austria
and Russia. In the phrase of the old
party press In the United States, the
signs of the times are portentous.'
Those who claim that there never has
been time in which Europe was not at
war or on the verge of it may use the
files of The Star of so years ago to prove
their point. A column headed European
War Talk" has painfully familiar ring,
and could have been written, with a
change of names of the people involved,
at almost any time since:
Semi official organs in Germany are
advised to ignore the renewed war alarm
and not to notice reports coming from
various sources which indicate early ag-
SlCSSlNC dSU1Oll Vic PdlO Va ACtASS
and Russia. &. =. The intentions of Russia
to abandon her attitude of reserve have
been for some time known to the chiefs
of the Dreibund. ... The recent prediction
of Signor Crispi, ex-Italian premier, that
war was certain to occur during the cur
rent year is considered indiscreet. 1t Is
believed in Bulgaria that the murder
Friday of M. Baltscheff, Bulgarian min
lister of finance, is the opening of game
of secret intrigue preceding open con-
f1ict. M. Briois, military attache OF the
French Legation at st. Petersburg III is
fully conversant with Russia's projects
for the mobilization of her forces, and
upon his return to Paris some scheme
for simultaneous action will be agreed
upon by the French war office"
Another curious sidelight is thrown
by the statement that all the armies Of
Europe, with one exception, were being
honeycombed with subversive socialistic
propaganda. Social democracy has been
spreading its doctrines through armies
and navies" The one exception, believe
it or not, was Russia.