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FOR THE NEXT STRIKE.
Everybody will be glad that the railroad
strike is over, and of course many will be
inclined to rest in hopefulness that there
will be no more trouble of the kind. Mr.
Powderly has said so. Mr. Powderly means
well, no doubt—means all he says—but Mr.
Powderly does not quite control the ele-
ments of strikes. The same causes always
tend to produce the same results, and it is
safe to infer that there will be more strikes
by and by. The pertinent matter for the
public to consider is how to insure the
regular running of trains. In order
to solve this problem it is neces-
sary to consider with whom the public
has relations as to the performance of this
duty. When analyzed this question is very
simple in its elements. The charter of the
company indicates its legal rights and re-
sponsibilities. The State has no contract
with employes, but only with the company.
The company is solely answerable for the
conduct of its business. It takes as em-
ployes those whom it thinks it can trust to
do its work. If they default the world of
labor is open to the company's managers to
get other employes. The right way for the
public is plainly to let the railroad compa-
nies know that the State has no business
whatever with the laborers, but looks solely
to the companies and will tolerate no avoid-
able stoppage. When a number of men
quit work, is it tolerable that their employ-
ers, under contract with the public, shall
discharge other employes and prepare for
a siege? Apparently it is not, though an ex-
cuse may be found if it be the fact that ex-
perience has taught the managers not to
expect aid from the State in the promptest
and fullest application of its police power.
But the State must default no more in this
respect, then the management will have no
ground to discharge as superfluous any of
the employes because others have struck.
With a proper public understanding and
determination of public opinion the polios
power will be ready in a day whenever
needed, and the managers of railroads will
be expected to apply the police law prompt-
ly against every trespasser and obstructer.
jThey will do it when the forcc is within call
to execute warrants, and when they
are sterifly required to get out writs
or t.'Oce the consequence in suits for dam-
ages and forfeiture of charters. It is just
as easy to have order for the running of
iiifght trains as for the carrug? yf prtssea- .
gers and of tho «rtuils if the people iusist.
it is just as e-«tsy to have order ia twenty-
four hours as; to wait a month. It is just as
necessary co clear the yards of trespassers
as to Purest those actually tearing up the
track, Let the press and people look to
these two points—a police power ready co
clear the yards and track at an hour's no-
tice, and a determination that the compa-
nies shall he held responsible and must call
upon the civil authorities instantly and
proceed against every trespasser. Then
the strike, when it conies, will be
nothing but a strike, and no set
(if workers can prevent others from taking
the placcs which they have abandoned.
Managers of railroads have doubtless
gauged public administration in its lax-
ness. They will also gauge public opinion
in its intf lliger.ee and earnestness. They
will do their duty when protected and re-
quired to do it. Like all other men and in-
terests. tliey will guard themselves by tem-
porizing maneuvers until better protected
and held to a strict responsibility, which
implies full protection as a concomitant.
But the rate of wages, the hours of labor,
the continuance of certain terms between
employers and employes, are not public
questions. The employes can quit and the
employers can discharge any of them with-
out a public question arising so long as the
company con fulfill its contract with the
State. Its duty in this regard is conditioned
only upon its observance of the law. There-
fore it is a mistake to mix up private sym-
pathies and questions of fair dealing be-
tween employers and employes with the
one sole and supreme question of the duty
of the companies to the public and the
means of insuring, compelling and defend-
ing the performance of this duty, which is
purely a matter of police justice.
ORGANIZED AND DISORGANIZED
LABOR.
It is quite apparent that the Knights of
Labor, with Mr. Powderly still at their
head, are fighting now solely for position
whereby they can retire from the present
contest with something like a show of recog-
nition. Beyond this point, all principle or
claim to principle in the contest has been
abandoned. If the strike is not over it
ought to be, for there is nothing left of the
cause and nothing to arbitrate about. Mr.
Powderly will scarcely prove himself wor-
thy of his recent circular if he holds out much
longer for a soft place to get out. The case
is lost and lost for all time to come, be-
cause it was undertaken in error and
prosecuted with the knowledge of this fact
before the participants. Mr. Powderly
himself has admitted this. It is high time
that the laboring men of the country under-
stood distinctly what is involved in re-
cent proceedings and what is to be
avoided in the future. The News claims
to understand something of the.principles
of organized labor, and to be friendly to
the same. It claims the right to be heard
upon this point, its own establishment be-
ing the seat of one of the best—if not tho
best—organized labor movements known
to the world. The News refers to the
Typographical union, an organization that
has stood the test of nearly two centuries,
and which has never been defeated in any
of its contests where the principles of the
union were alone involved. There is
scarcely a first-classprinting establishment
in the United States or in Great
Britain that does not foster and
encourage this organization, because
the organization from its intelligent and
compact form conveys reciprocal advan-
tages. Every subordinate union is responsi-
ble to an international executive authority,
and the affairs of each separate establish-
ment are controlled by " chapel" rules,
again constructed under constitutional
principles. The whole thing is simple and
complete. The union holds its members
strictly to an account in observing princi-
ples agreed upon between employer and
employe, and this is done with as much
fidelity when the rights of the employer
are invaded as when the principles of the
organization itself are disregarded. This
is organized labor of a high and intelligent
grade; such organization, in fact, as Mr.
Powderly states in his late circular to be
necessary before the Knights of Labor will
ever make themselves respectable or com-
mand success. The News is not presuming
to tell the Knights of Labor how they shall
proceed to reorganize, but in drawing at-
tention to the organic principles of the
Typographical union The News is desirous
of showing what the Knights of Labor
should hereafter avoid. Suppose the Typo-
graphical union should admit to member-
ship every blatherskite in the land who
claimed to be a friend to organized labor.
The strength of the Typographical union
lies in its compactness and identity of in-
terest, ordained through intelligent and
conservative training. It will be remem-
bered that the Knights of Labor ordered
the union printers in The News office to
strike upon a recent occasion in Galveston,
because of some supposed grievance with a
certain portion of their membership with
the Mallory Steamship line. The sense of
the Typographical union absolved it from
such idiotic proceeding against employers
wilh whom it had no grievance. The dic-
tates of the ward politician and the
designing and loud-mouthed demagogue
could have no power with this intelligence.
Mr. Pow derly concedes the vital defects in
the organization of which he claims to be
the chief, but over which he apparently has
little or no control. Subordinate assem-
blies, ignorant of their power, or wilfully
determined upon exceeding them—acting
in many eases independently and at ran-
dom—can never expect to perfect anything
tut organized disaster. Ignorance and
viciousness within the ranks of the order
are the rocks upon which the Knights of
Labor have been wrecked. The honest
toiler is not to blame for this—for he has,
as usual, only shown himself the dupe and
victim of the scheming agitator and the
worthless demagogue. These are the kind
of people all men should avoid.
THE HUMILIATING TEN-SIIIP JOE.
Congress is in paltry business when talk-
ing about admitting just ten foreign-built
steamers and no more, to sail under the
Americ an flag. Of course, their admission
would be preliminary to getting a slice of
Mr. Frye's proposed $1,100,000 subsidy, and
perhaps a like sum regularly every year.
The Philadelphia Kecord wonders at the
opposition to what it calls a harmless mea-
sure, and says that opposition " can
not originate with any Philadelphia ship-
builders, since the ships described in this
bill are not built in this country."
But the Kecord should consider that whe-
ther or not the ships are to be for the pre-
sent excluded from the coasting trade, their
admission as American ship's would mean,
possibly, less shipbuilding for American
shipwrights. Whenever any subsidy legis-
lation is had, or whenever American ships
are layered, as proposed, for example, ia
exceptionally low tolls on the Tehnantepec
(ship railway, American shipbuilders look
for a job of building. Were there no
advantage expected it is not per-
ceptible why the petitioners should
particularly wont to sail the shijis under
the American flag, for they can own ships
and sail them under other flags and pay
less in taxes than they will have to do un-
der the American flag. There is some op-
position to the bill because it is special
legislation in contempt of all reason. If
ten ships, why not ten locomotives, to bo
admitted duty free? If untaxed importa-
tion of ships for international traffic on
more liberal terms than domestic traffic,
why not untaxed locomotives for traffic
with Canada and Mexico? If ten, why not
eleven — why not a hundred — why not
ns many as people here wish to buy? The
proposal helps to reveal the abject state of
bondage in which the American people
have complacently put themselves as to
their vehicles of transportation and com-
merce, and if it were not a job, still it
should be rejected. What is wanted is not
a patronizing concession by a congress at-
tempting to judge when the American peo-
ple require half a dozen or a dozen ships,
and how many, as if a ship were something
dangerous and criminal, but freedom for
honest bargaining or nothing.
LAW-BREAKING AND LAW-EXECUT-
ING.
Telegrams already printed have stated
clearly that the reign of ruffianism in Bel-
gium proceeds from men who were actually
starving, reduced to that condition by the
speculative mine operators who shut down
to raise the price of coal and this threw the
men out of employment. The horrible bar-
barities perpetrated by the rioters are not
acts of reason, and it is a question
whether the speculators who caused the
distress are not more responsible than the
imbruited humans who turned themselves
loose to pillage under the pangs of hunger.
At such a time for a portion of the
political press to try to make party
capital out of such a terrible state
of things, by considering it as a result
of non-extension of the suffrage, is a piti-
ful exhibit of the audacity of mere politi-
cians. Some of the rioters may feel as if
they could help themselves by the ballot,
but if they all had it they would
probably be in insurrection all the
same, as the ballot does not con-
trol matters of labor and property,
but the professional politician never stops
to weigh the absurdity of his pleas. Some
more politics is his sovereign panacea. It
can hardly escape notice, however, that the
government of Belgium was very prompt in
taking measures to suppress the riot. And
yet Belgium is not much more powerful
than the state of Texas. Traffic on a great
public highway in Texas had been suspend-
ed because of riotous and lawless proceed-
ings for three weeks, and government made
liaidly an effort to show that it was not
in sympathy with the law-breakers. Texas
is a sovereign State with a republican form
of government, and Belgium is a constitu-
tional monarchy. The speculators ply their
trade in Texas and in the ether states of the
American Union with as much ease and
poverty of conscience as they do in Bel-
gium, but it can be said for the Belgian
government that it has backbone enough to
suppress lawlessness, no matter how great
the incentive to lawlessness of those en-
gaged in it. But this is not an argument in
favor of a monarchial form of government.
A republic is the strongest government on
the earth if the officials intrusted with the
execution of law would only do their duty.
GLADSTONE'S IRISH MEASURES.
Mr. Gladstone announced in the House of
Commons yesterday that he would submit
his bill for the future government of Ire-
land on April 1), and his Irish land bill on
April 15. It is probable that Mr. Gladstone
desires to make one measure contingent on
the other without exactly uniting them.
This is a strategic movement. The premier
has probably a thorough understanding
with the Irish leader, and can count upon
the support of the eighty-six Home-rulers
for both measures. The Radicals are ia
favor of home rule for Ireland, but are
opposed to the land purchase scheme.
The Whigs would very generally favor
the land-purchase scheme, but many of
them, under the lead of Lord Hartington
and Mr. Goschen, would probably oppose
home rule. Mr. Gladstone will bring in his
home-rule measure first, and the Radicals,
almost to a man, will support it. It is
thought that Hartington and Goschen can
not succeed in pitting more than fifty
Liberal votes against home rule. It will
require a Liberal disaffection amounting to
eighty-two votes to defeat the bill, provid-
ing the Tories vote solidly against it. If
Mr. Gladstone succeeds in steering the bill
safely through the House of Com-
mons, he will then push his land-
purchase measure, which will probably be
opposed by Mr. Chamberlain and other
Radicals. It is thought that Mr. Chamber-
lain can not get more than thirty Radicals
to oppose Mr. Gladstone. With the Whigs,
Irish and Gladstone Radicals supporting
the land bill it would safely pass the Com-
mons, and the grand old man would have
carried his points by preventing a union of
the extremes of his party, which would be
almost certain to occur if both measures or
the principles of both were united in one
bill. Then both measures would be sub-
mitted by the premier to the House of Lords,
and a grand contest between principle
and selfishness would ensue. The Tory
lords would be inclined to oppose home
rule to the bitter end; but the Irish land
agitation has gained such headway that
landlords' rights are not very profitable
nowadays. Under the circumstances, the
lords would be very much inclined to sup-
port the land purchase bill, which would
put money in their own pockets; but the
home-rule measure has precedence, and
must be acted upon first. Of course if the
home-rule measure should be rejected
by the Lords, the government would
either appeal to the country or pigeon-hole
the land-purchase scheme until the House
of Commons again passed the home-rule
bill. Whatever the result may be Mr.
Gladstone has given a fresh display of his
shrewdness by his manner of approaching
the difficulty, and it is not at all improba-
ble that liis tactics may be successful.
The New York Times thinks that Mr. Mor-
rison and his friends are now engaged in
an effort to tinker their tariff bill to suit Mr.
Kanditll or, at least, to deprive him of the
support he counts on from certain interests
in the House, and the Times infers from
what it knows of Randall that they will have
their labor for their pains, as Mr. Randall
can not be suited. Randall is more of a
protectionist than a Democrat, and more of
i:n enemy to Morrison and Carlisle than
either, and the revenue reformers must act
en this fatt if they expect to uvcomplisb
anything. The Times is very much inter-
ested apparently in getting free raw mate-
rials for the manufacturers. That is the
modern form of cutting off the dog's tail
ajul feeding it to the poor dog, no matter if
great journals call it tariff reform.
Why can't Ross and Swain meet and
throw dice for the governorship? The peo-
ple seemingly are not taken much into ac-
count.
Bismarck has declared war on European
socialism. It is only a few short yaars
since Bismarck declared war on the papacy,
and yet the chancellor and the pope afe
now kissing each other by proxy. Perhaps
"history may repeat itself" and that Bis-
marck nmy be courting the socialists in the
immediate sweet by-and-by.
Any resolutions the Senate may pass will
not alter its constitutional status or that of
the president.
It would be rare fnu to see tho Edmunds
paity in the Senate attempt to imprison a
cabinet officer for contempt. Why not at
the same time make it contempt for the mi-
nority in the Senate to vote against the ma-
jority? Nothing is so ridiculous as fussy
impotency, and the Senate is utterly impo-
tent in its partisan quarrel with the execu-
tive.
Is it possible that settlements don't al-
ways settle?
It seems that they have discovered soma
worthless cannons in the Turkish army. It
is barely possible that a close examination
of the Turkish military establishment would
find more than the cannon rotten. In the
meantime the news as it stands will be a
handsome boom for the war party in
Greece.
The Terrell boom is probably taking on
ballast. It soared high for a while, viewed
the situation from its lofty position, found
things favorable, and is now getting down
to solid work.
Mr. Henry Milsom has been appointed
chairman of the Democratic executive com-
mittee of Galveston county, and has ac-
cepted the appointment. Mr. Milsom will
make a good chairman. He is, first of all, a
thorough Democrat. He is a good organizer,
a man of education and intelligence, and a
thorough believer in practical politics by
means of compact party organization. He
is a kid, and the editor of the Fortnightly
Review, which has made it so hot for moss-
backs for the past month or two. Mr. Mil-
som, if he can train the county committee
to his way of thinking, will give the Demo-
crats of Galveston a clean and efficient
executive organization. Milsom is a Demo-
crat from principle, and a politician for the
love of the thing.
Somehow the spring strikes always end
pretty quickly. The disturbance to busi-
ness is real, but why securities should de-
cline is a conundrum. There are always
some people who believe that the world is
going to chaos, as there are people again
who think all is made right for all time.
There will be many changes ere this old
earth is quiet.
Ik the Republican senators would only
take up Edmunds's threat and imprison
the attorney-general for contempt, an Ar-
kansas man would stand an excellent
chance of being the next' president of the
United States.
Gladstone's land scheme, ns now outlined,
only makes England advance, not give, the
money for getting rid of the landlord <11(11-
cnlty. Ireland Is to repay it ultimately. That
is a position w hich ought to be more satisfac
toryto the pride of the Irish people. [New
York Mall and Express.
Perhaps not. Those who are to pay should
be allowed to make their own bargain. If
England sees fit to take the matter out of
their hands and fix the price, England will
deserve to have to pay it herself.
It is generally understood that Garland
and Edmunds are very warm personal
friends. Edmunds has just forced a reso-
lution through the Senate censuring Gar-
land, and it is hinted that Edmunds now in-
tends to havo the attorney-general impris-
oned for contempt. Is it possible that, as a
matter of personal friendship, Edmunds de-
sires to make Garland president of the
United States?
The riots in Belguim appear to have
spread so far as to amount to a very se-
rious problem for the government. These
things do not cure themselves by giving
them time to spread. Meanwhile Prince
Bismarck has been talking about French
socialism, and his remarks affect the Paris
Stock exchange. Perhaps Bismarck would
not be averse to sending a few regiments
into Belgium to suppress an insurrection.
The law of Great Britain requires the
Bank of England to purchase gold bullion-
all that is offered—at £317s 9d per ounce;
in other words to give in coined gold the
weight of uncoined bullion offered, barring
an allowance to cover the cost of coinage
and such slight royalty as is further per-
mitted. If silver were treated on equal
terms it would simply be requisite to give
at the mint say ninety-seven silver dollars
for as much silver bullion as would weigh
100 silver dollars.
A Sacred Principle.
Flilladelpia Evening Bulletin, March 27.
Vice-president Hoxie, of the Missouri-
Pacific, agrees to the suggestions of the
governors of Kansas and Missouri in terms
that present a fair test to the Knights Of
Labor upon one of the vital points of their
organization. Mr. Hoxie agrees to pay the
same wages that are paid on any road in
that section of the country; to give thirty
days notice of any reduction of wages; and
to re-employ its striking employes, so far as
the business will allow, without preju-
dice on account of the strike. So far
Mr. Hoxie follows the exact lead of
Governors Martin and Marmaduke. He
proceeds to say that he will not discharge
men now employed to make room for others,
aLd that he will not employ men " actually
engtged in the destruction of the company's
property or in advocating such destruc-
tion;" and it is in the latter clause that he
fairly submits to the Knights of Labor the
test referred to. The Knights of Labor
have distinctl enunciated the sound prin-
ciple that they do not countenance any re-
sort to violence in the adjustment of labor
difficulties. They very wisely recognize
the fact that the moral sense of the country
is naturally against any such resort
and they repudiate it accordingly.
Vice-president Hoxie proposes to act
in accordance with the principles avowed
by the Knights of Labor and to employ
only such men as he has fair reason
to believe will live up to that principle. His
position is a logical one, and the Knights of
Labor can not object to it without bringing
the sincerity of their professions into seri-
ous doubt. Men who destroy the property
of their employers deny and dishoner the
principles of their order, and it would
be as unreasonable and inconsistent to de-
mand their re employment as it would be
to ask a man to take back the cook who had
put arsenic in his soup. It would be most
unfortunate for everything that is good in
the organization of the Knights of Labor
if it show any hesitation in standing
squarelv by its own principles in the issue
presented in the settlement of the western
jriili'oatf trouble,
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Newspapers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
The Clnrksville Times says:
The Knights of Labor may be a good in-
stitution, but its methods no reasonable
man can indorse Shall law or an-
archy be on top? Every property-holder is
interested in upholding tne rights of pro-
perty, just like every human being is inter-
ested in the safeguards thrown around life.
The Mineola Reporter remarks:
If we have laws for the protection of so-
ciety, let those laws be rigidly enforced. . .
The state laws are all-sufficient. Let public
opinion force their faithful execution. . . .
The present strike is not a contest between
capital and iHbor so much as it is a strug-
gle of law ocainst lawlessness. To make
the strike effective, the strikers must needs
f.'o beyond the warrant of law in disabling
the company's property and intimidating
outside labor. Hence the public expres-
sions against the strikers from all quarters.
J. W. Watson, colored, who claims to bo
a preacher, writes to the Austin Citizen
(colored man's paper) that he was refused
a seat in a first-class car at San Marcos
though he had a first-class ticket, and says
in anything but a meek and lowly spirit:
So colored people had just as well prepare
for dying for they are dying gradually daily.
They must lift their hands and kill some of
these imposers and die in defense of their
rights. Such things are occurring all over
the country—shall we hold our peace?
His reverence was not as brave as the
colored lady at AVharton who took a club to
the conductor, and was fired out and fined
^25 instead of being slain as a martyr.
A Velasco correspondent of the Wharton
Independent makes a statement that will
make the Sabine Pass Times howl. He
says:
The time is coming when there will be
twenty-five feet of water on our bar, and
then we will have a market. If our mem-
ber of Congress will only do his duty con-
scientiously in presenting our claims for an
appropriation, and the amount be expended
in carrying out the work in a manner cal-
culated to Insure tho best results, we would
soon have deep water and the best harbor
on the coast.
The war (of races) that for a space did
fail now doubly thundering swells the gale.
It broke out at Wharton last week, on the
"kers." The Independent says a negro
woman was determined to take a seat in a
coach set apart for the whites. The brake-
man objected. She struck him with a club,
and then the fur flew. It was nip and tuck
for awhile, but the woman came out second
best, and the train was allowed to proceed
on its way. The taffy colored heroine was
arrested and pleaded guilty. Twenty-five
dollars and costs.
Says the Marlin Ball:
Labor has rights, and so has capital, and
so has the public. There is but one proper
way of securing these rights, and that is by
the strict enforcement of the law and the
elimination of all unjust laws from the
statute books. Revolutionary methods and
monocracy, however, will not attain the re-
medial measures necessary.
The El Paso Times slings figures at ran-
dom. It says:
It is now estimated that this city is send-
ing out for supplies, vegetables and fruits
at the rate of $2,000,000 per year.
This would amount to about $-100 a year
for each inhabitant.
The Waxahacliie Enterprise says:
"De subiec am exhausted." Hal Greer
and N. A. T. both enlightened the public in
the same issue of The Galveston News.
Brother Cranfill, of the Gatesville Ad-
vance-Sun does not fling away ambition,
although he does not aspire to be governor
at present. He tells how anxious he is to
serve the country in other ways, and
especially in making people temperate and
teaching them the virtues of cold water. He
should have the epitath Keats—the poet-
wrote for himself, "Here lies one whose
name was writ in water."
The Orange Tribune says:
Southeastern Texas and southwestern
Louisiana, or the lower Sabine river coun-
try, embracing the counties of Newton,
Orange and Jefferson, and the parishes or
Calcasieu and Cameron, have sustained a
loss exceeding ij-1,000,000 by the destruction
of their orange groves. Orange trees do
not commence to bear fruit until they have
reached the age of seven years, and the
cold winter has left in all this section, of
many magnificent groves, only a few dozen
trees.
The Uvalde Hesperian says:
The strikers are still striking, but their
iron seems to be growing cold. They have
a perfect right to step down and out and re-
fuse to work for anybody, but we do not un-
stand their right to prevent others from
working and thoroughly paralyzing the
commerce of the whole country. The com-
panies are abler to close down than the
strikers are to lose their earnings, so let tho
latter abandon the roads and tackle some-
thing else, and in this peaceable; way force
the roads to higher prices.
The Bryan Blade says:
Our merchants are beginning to feel tho
strike.
The Blade, however, sees the silver lining
of the cloud.
Although trade is dull, yet Bryan is evi-
dently on rising ground, we hope, and the
horizon of its fruition rests upon the golden
brow of ripe Octotrer.
The nights are cold and dark and weary
at San Antonio now. The Light says:
Since the departure of the professional
sporting men from the city, the Main and
Military plazas have a dead, grave-yard
appearance after dark.
The Enter) rise reports an excursion
over Sabine pass bar to ascertain tho depth
of the water, and says:
The soundings showed a minimum depth
of nine feet in the channel crossing the bar.
This is a clear gain of fully a foot since the
last soundings were taken by Captain Ray-
mond, United States engineer, in February,
and a total increase since August last of
three feet. It was only on lumps, or close
to the jetties, where the current is retarded
by friction, that a less depth than nine feet
was found.
The Beaumont Enterprise says:
Mr. J. J. F. Gilliland, of Sabine Pass, has
been in the city this week. He reports that
soundings have been made on Sabine pass
bar since the Neches and Sabine rivers
have been on a boom, and which show an
increase in the scour on the bar of from IX
to 2 feet.
The Orange Tribune raises it a foot and
shouts:
O, G! There are now ten clean feet of
water across Sabine pass bar. The high
waters are forcing a grand volume of water
through the channel of Sabine pass bar,
and the scouring is immense, and the chan-
nel grows deeper each day.
A good fresli-water freshet beats United
States engineers and brush contractors.
The bar at the mouth of the Brazos river
has periodical fits of this kind. The Tribune
says:
The friends of Sabine Pass must not
weary of their work on the ground that the
battle is over. The fight is not through un-
til Congress and the president shoots the
last gun.
The Houston National Reformer says:
Senator Terrell would be willing to go be-
fore the people in a canvass for United
States senator. That is manly. But the
learned senator ought to know that the
United States senator is elected by the
legislature, and that legislatures are to re-
present the people, but they hardly ever
do it.
The San Antonio Light, in its light, jocu-
lar way, remarks:
While it is not openly charged that the
people of the coast towns of Texas are cow-
ardly, and especially Galveston, it is be-
lieved that it would not be difficult to make
them take water.
It is not so easy to make somo editors
take water, unless there is something olse
mixed with it.
The Lockhart Register hopes for an ami-
cable settlement of the strike at an early
day. The Register says:
Our udvice to the people would bo to
choose men for the legislature who are
trustworthy and capable to make good and
wholesome laws, and let the question of
who shall be United States senator be left
to them. Men who are competent to enact
laws for the great state of Toxa3 are cer-
tainly capable of knowing who would best
represent us in the Senate.
Powderly's Peons.
Chicago Times.
A correspondent, who is a mechanic, says
in a letter to the Times (that appears m an-
other place) that he can " imagine no lower
condition for an American mechanic than
to abdicate his manhood and place himself
under an irresponsible directory that tells
him when he may work and when he shall
cease work, fixes the price of his labor and
prescribes to him the conditions under
which he may perform it."
A remarkable manifestation of the degra-
dation alluded to by the writer was seen in
the case of the striking switchmen at Kan-
sas City. In a body they left their work
upon the order of an irresponsible directory,
assuming to control their personal liberty.
Why they quit work they did not know.
They simply obeyed an order that com-
manded them to do so, though some of them
appear to have had a vague notion that the
order related to a question of wages. But
that was a question with the adjustment of
which they had nothing to do; it was an affair
of their masters, not the six companies that
used to import cooly labor from China,but of
a company of " knights " that makes con-
tracts for cooly labor that did not come
from Asia. After two or three days of idle-
ness an order from the same irresponsible
directory commanded them to return to
work. The men obeyed the order, "but
they are ignorant of the terms of adjust-
ment or of the wages agreed upon," says
a dispatch. " They are known only to the
company and the officials of the s wit oil-
men's organization," though the workmen
" expect to know in a few days " the prices
for which their masters have contracted
their services.
In the blessed d ays of the southern chivalry,
slave labor was often subject to similar
contracts. Slaves let for hire by the owner
had no knowledge of the prices agreed upon
for their labor, and, indeed, as they did not
own themselves and received no share of
the pay, it was not a matter that much con-
cerned them. They knew only that they
must obey the order of the master who con-
tracted their labor, or suffer the consequence'
of disobedience. The switchmen at Kansas
City who quR work and resume work upon
the order of Boss Monaghan are not slaves
in the sense of involuntary servitude; but in *
that of voluntary servitude their condition
is neither more dignified nor less degraded
than that of the southern blacks that were
not owners of themselves. Between the
system of servitude that they accept and
that of Chinese coolies and Mexican peons
under the old Spanish viceroys there i3
scarcely a perceptible difference.
Of such men the society on which repub-
lican or popular institutions of any name
can safely stand is not composed. They
are onlv fit subjects for a despotism like
that of the Czar Powderly.
The Late Prince Torlonia.
Many American travelers, stopping a
short time in Rome, see carved on tho fa-
cades of many palaces and other imposing
buildings, on villas, gateways and other
places, a great A, and on asking its signifi-
cance are told that such buildings are tho
property of Prince Alexander Torlonia,
one of the richest men in the city. To all
who have received this answer the follow-
ing account of him and his death, from the
Of servatore Romano, may not prove alto-
gether uninteresting:
Last evening about 8 o'clock a report was
circulated in the city that Prince don Alex-
ander Torlonia was dead, and the sad news
spread like lightning into every corner of
the city. His enormous wealth, but still
more, his many endearing qualities, had
made his name popular and dear, and no
popularity was ever more merited. Of his
love for religion and culture we have abun-
dant testimony in the restoration of many
churches, notably those of the Gesh and the
Santa Maria dellaVictoria,and in the solemn
services celebrated thousands of times at
his expense. Of other works completed by
him it will suffice to mention the draining
of Lake Fucino—a colossal work that was
ineffectually attempted by the Csesars of
antiquity, and which the royal Bourbon
family of Naples abandoned when half com-
pleted. He succeeded in completing it at a
cost of 35,000,000 lire. But what attracted
the affection of all during his life, and what
will call down the benedictions of the peo-
ple upon his memory are the enormous
charities that he dispensed in his daily
rounds. We will not recall, and itwouldbe
impossible to do so if we wished, the
daily lists of charities and aids to poor
families. But there is an institution that
will always speak his good heart, and it is
the establishment of St. Onofrio. There is
an infant asylum for the little ones, school
for the children, hospital for tho aged, an-
other for the sick, "free medicine for all,
and throughout all charity is watchful, pro-
vident and inexhaustible. Upright of heart
and deeply religious, he was and always re-
mained affectionate and devoted to the
pope, whose royal poverty he relieved many
times.
Born June 1, 1800, he was in the SBth year
of his age. But in the midst of his riches,
and the gratifications they procure when
wisely and wholesomely spent, he had also,
his griefs, and among the greatest of these
Was the long illness of the princess his wife.
Yet he had a great recompense for it in his
daughter, Donna Anna Maria, duchess of
Ceri, and in the grandchildren she bore him
after her marriage with the Borghese prince,
Don Giulio, and who remain heirs of his
name, of his wealth, and, we are confident,
of his many Christian and civil qualities.
His old age was passed for the most
nart happily. Less than two years ago, a
violent attack of sickness brought him.
almost to the grave, but in spite of his great
age, he recovered and enjoyed fairly good
health afterward. Only yesterday he went
out for his customary carriage drive, and
returning afterward to the house, stopped
for a moment to kiss his daughter, and
talked some minutes with his little grand-
children. While the servants were taking
him in his chair—as for some time has been
his custom—to his apartment, all at once
lie became unconscious and fell over on one
side. He was dead.
The body of the deceased is still lying on
the bed in the modest chamber that he oc-
cupied, and to morrow morning it will be
in state, open to the public. It will be taken
privately, at 5 o'clock p. in., to-morrow, to
the church of the Holy Apostles, where the
funeral services will be held on Wednes-
day. His will is very short. Nearly all of
his property—amounting to GO,000,000 lire
r«al and 40,'000,000 personal—is left to his
daughter, the duchess of Ceri. To the duke
of Ceri he left the use of the ducal lands,
which produce 100,000 lire per annum, to-
gether with the rights to transmit the title
to his successors. He gives to each of his
male descendants 6000 lire, provides for the
continuance of his customary charities and
the maintenance of the San Onofrio estab-
lishment just as it is, and if any one at-
tempts to interfere in its management it is
to be closed up. He pensions all his ser-
vants and gives innumerable legacies of
small amount (that he calls remembrances)
to various friends, among whom are many
of the clergy, and does it with the order
that bis funeral shall be " without pomp
and without display." The choir of the
Sistine chapel will sing Palostrina's mass
and the body will be transported to Castel
Gandolfo, there to lie for ten years, when it
will be placed in the family vault at the
church of St. John Lateran.
The French minister of public instruction
proposes sending a scientific commission to
study the subsidence of British coasts. It
is well known that parts of the east coast
of England have been greatly encroached
upon by the tea within the past century.
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