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THE SCRANT01? TBIKTOE-FItTDAY MORNING. APRIL (5. 1894.
SCRANTON TRIBUNE
F. E. WOOD,
General Manager.
rcBMSBEl) DAILY AND WEEKLY IS SCIlAN
TON, PA., UY l'UE TlllUL'NE tULlbillNO
Com ha x r.
New York Oiricit: Tiudune BnttDIKO.
Fnank s. Uhay. Manager.
Bkltrtd at the PottoffiM at Senmton, rn., s
fcVtvnt- CVuiJ J'ai' blatter.
1 HE SCRANTON TRIBUNE.
SCHANTON. APRIL 0. 1894.
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IF the Lebieli Vulley HsiirosU com
pany ofliclttU will kindly indicate when
it bag supplied its wants, there are n
ffW million olher patiunt Americana
who are waiting for their turn ut Part
uer Lisseil's pis counter.
The Coko Region Strike.
In ordinary time?, 17,001) man are
employed in the coke works of Western
PennsylTania This spring, and dur
ing most of the winter, s,000 of these
were thrown completely idle, and the
9,000 who were so fortunate as to ob
tain work were furctd in tli great ma
jority of instance to accept wage re
! notions. The shutting down of fac
'orieB everywhere, during the turitf an
jrtainty developed nndrr Democratic
IgllUtton, had robbed the coke in
AiHtry of itsmnrket. the lack of pros
pective resumption had made iniprncti
31 the accumulation of .surplus stocks
)f coke and there was no other alter
native open to the coke operators but
to discharge some of their men, and pu t
the others on small p.iv It was an uu
planrant task, at best ; and it was made
woijo by reason of the presence, in the
eoke region, of many hundreds of
ignorant laborers brought over from
Europe, with a view to underbidding
the native Americui workers in the
u rformance of crude duties. Idleness
hunger and general discontent, fanned
us usual by men who derive profit from
industrial disturbances, completed the
c luses which have just culminated in a
widespread strike, a bloody riot and
murders that parallel the darkest inci
dents of war.
The climax was reached, ns the dis
patches inform us, when a body of
pevf ral hundred strikers marched into
the Davidson work) of the It. C. Frick
(,'oke company at Connellsville, Pay
ette county, where men were working.
Tl.e strikers had been there in the
morning to get the men out. but no
ouo was working. lu the afternoon
when they returned deputies hail been
placed to receive them. When the
strikers approached they were ordered
to stop. They came on and tried to
get nt the men in the ovens. The depu
ties fired. The strikers returned the
fire and charged, driving tin deputies
lind mn from the plant. Now note
this sequel : "Caisf Kugin tr Padlock
of the Prick company ran up iu the
tipple of the work-. The strikers fol -lowed
and shot him in the back of the
bead. They beat him and crushed his
head with stones and threw his body
from a tipple window to the ovens,
forty feet below. They then attempted
to fire Uia tipple, but left when they
s.iw the deputies returning with u
large force from Connellsville."
Nothing that wa conld a Id in any
way of comment would equal the ef
fectiveness of this single statement.
The unadorned facts r peerlessly
eloquent. For such rioters, in the
frenzy which kindles at sight of blood,
there is only one rmeay cold lead
Yet it would be idle to attempt to bold
these ignorant p-rsons responsible for
conditions of which they are merely
the victims. The system which per
mits the immigration under contract
of this particular type of aliens is one
cause; and the politics which gives
honest, upright and respectable for
eigners, as well as Americana, no se
curity again them, is another cans
that need attention of the most serious
kind, As an economic experiment cheap
labor, when it means also ignorant and
vicious labor, is a failure that amounts
to a crime; and it would In well if
public sentiment would punish those
who force that experiment upon the
people of the United States, both at
the ballot-box, in me markets or com
merce, at the social functions and in
the sanctuary of God.
A facktioL'S Luzerne county con
temporary fears that James Adalbert
Stranahan's position on tbo temperance
question would linterfere with his use
fulness as Democratic state chairman.
Mr. Stranahan, it is ti u-, is a prohibi
tionist, that being a prevailing tend
ency in Mercer. But in politics, at
least, he also possesses the saving char
acteristic of being able to wink bis
other eye at the exact moment when
that feat does the greatest good,
Speaking of Zell.
There is more truth than poetry in
the criticism that in giving Defaulter
Zell only four years for stealing f98-,
000 while many poor thieves get the
same sentence for stealing a loaf of
bread justice committed another of
br proverbial blunders. The circum
stances iu 'ell's case, so far as we bvo
been able to learn them through pub
lished testimony, waro inch as to in
vite rather more than ordinary sover
ity. Ho was paid an ample salary, He
was, we believe, happily married. He
enjoyed the esteem of many friends,
stood well in club tircles and had a
promising future. That he should not
be content with this, but should in the
first place want to get rich without
work, through the gambling processes
of race tracks and Wall street, nnd
next should lose faith in bis home and
leek for real happiness in the aommer
cial atmosphere of a gauiy fist set
would seem, iu most eyes, to be a pour
recommendation to judicial clemency.
If he were starving, the theft of a
beggarly crust might appeal to merci
ful instincts, inasmuch as the deed
would be in obedience to an irresistible
natural law. But the spectacle of his
downfall in the midst of comfort aud
iifHuencs, of hia gradual weakening
under the seductions which a strong
man would have spurned as beneath
him, and finally of his complete plunge
into social infamy, crime and flight,
presents no such palliating circum
stance. It inspires pity only be
cause It is so typical. It induoss to
sharlty only bscaute in it we see re
vealed so common an outcropping of
the instilled falsities and the integral
weakness of onr present systems of
education aud mode of life.
Had Zell, for example, been put
through a school which did not regard
the psrcquette-like ability to con ju
gate Oreirk verbs from memory as a
thing at ali comparable with a charac
ter strengthened in its unfolding attri
butes of manlinesj, truth, justice and
honor; had he received his tuition in
an atmosphere where there was less
machine-like crowding of intellectual
gim-crucks into the distended minds of
"smart'' ycuug boys aud girls, and
more serious atteution to the indi
vidual needs of the individual pupil
needs not alone of mind, but as well of
heart and conscience, and cbaracter it
is a stfe guess that he could have gouo
to New York with perfect safety, and
could have withstood, like a man, its
artificial blaudishmants and hollow
fascinations, Ouly upon the philo
sophical erouud that he was the pre
destined victim of a pernicious system
can we s(o any justice iu the leuiency
of his sentence.
The POLITICAL liar is beginning to
msko himself felt agaiu in Pennsylva
nia politics, if wo may credit as his
work eveu one-half of that which vio
lates all probablity. One specimen iu
point is before us iu the foum of hti al
leged interview with Congressman at
large McDowell, in which the genial
Aharon mxjor Is quoted as threatening
all kinds of dire things in case "the old
man,'' referlug to Senator y my,
"doesn't soon pull Hull out of tho
field. " We know, of course, that Major
McDowell never said such a thiug ; first,
because lie is a centlemau aud. secondly,
becauso he is old enough to understand
that Senator (Jusy'l pulling powers
this year will lollowthe bent of the
popular inclination. Mr. Hnff is in thu
field fairly and sqnarely,and,if the peo
ple prefer bim to Major McDowell
they will doubtless find it no inconveni
ence to say so.
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Real Principle Involved.
Poslnnster Ueueral iiissell is quoted
as predicting that the appointment of
John J. McDonald to tho Kingston
postmastershlp, without the knowledge,
ndvice or consent, of tho Democratic
member from Lnzerne, will uot hurt
Mr. Ilines' chances for re-election, for
the excellent reason that he hasn't any.
Mr. Bissell is even more cruel than this.
When a-ked what he thought of Mines'
indignant protest, coupled with
threat never again to darkou the door
of the postofiice department while Bis
sell la at its head, the corpulent Buffalo
representative of the Lehigh Valley
railway company is said to have roplied
with contempt: "I am sorry to have
offended Mines, but he will not come
within a thousand miles of re-election.
I would not bo surprised to sea him de
feated by .",,000 majority.''
Wo believe that Mr. Bissell is correct
in his diagnosis of Bines' oast, If tlto
Republicans of Luzirns county rise to
their opportunity by the nomination
of a strong and popular condidatu and
then give their loyal support, it will bo
possible not only to defeat the present
demagogical representative, but also to
give the defeat such proportions as
would convey an impressive lesson to
men who deliberately misrepresent the
interests of their constituents. But
this is not the point just now of chief
importune. Let Mines be what he
may, iu a partisan sense, ha is, until
defeated, the regular official representa
tive of the people of the Twelfth dis
trict. He is the man through (whom
they are supposed to voice their prefer
ences in the choice of local government
officials. They have a valid right,
through the recommendation of their
congressman, to express this prefer
ence. To deny them thh right would
be to deny the very principle above all
others upon which our government is
founded, the principle of home rule.
To foist upon the pople of Kingston a
postmaster without consultation with
the congressman who represents those
Kingstonians is to put an affront, not
only on Ilines personally, but upon
every voter within the borough of
Kingston, and, indirectly, upon every
voter in Luzerne county.
It is charged that Mr. McDonald's
appointment was decided upou by Mr.
Bissell in obedience to the expressed or
implied wish of persons closely identi
fied with tlm largo corporation by
which Mr Bissell is permanently em
ployed. We do not know that this is
true, and we also know nothing con
cerning Mr. McDonald personally
which would incline us to believe his
selection unwise. It is, however, an
unfortunate fact that in certain other
instances .Mr Bissell has evidently con
sulted the wishes of the Lehigh Valley
Builroad company even more closely
and more solicitously than he has con
sulted the wishes of the people , aud
Mr. McDonald, through the summary
inanuer In which his name was decided
upon, therefore rests under a burden of
undesirable doubt. While no one
blmnes the Lehigh Valley Railroad
company or any other large company
for getting all the good things of life
that it can get, without violation of
law, the pjoplu of this state, irrespec
tive of party, have a right to txptot
more consideration nt the hands of the
American postmaster general than thoy
seem to b getting nt the bands of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad company's
Bnfflo attorney, temporarily sitting
in Mr. Cleveland's cabinet.
i
It 13 a pleasing symptom of the gen
eral interest in fish proposition aroused
by Pennsylvania angWrs that the de
mand for Irout fry far exceeds the
available supply. Yet while we permit
lumbering companies to dtsuoil our
forests and pollute our forest streams
it is a pitiful waste of energy and fry
to try to keep the trout streams
stocked.
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Double Standard in Morals.
It is an encouraging fact in connec
tion with the scandal now uppermost
iu American thought that there it
no disposition to shield the man at the
expense of tho woman. Perhaps this
is due to the extraordinary depravity
of the man's course, judged in the leni
ent light even of his own admissions.
Perhaps It is due to his mature yeais
and to the disparity existing between
him and bis sompaniou iu guilty.
Perhaps if be had been younger aud
more ardent; ptrhapt if there lud
been in bis narration of the crime a
single element of pottry, chivalry or
romance, public opinion woold have
been inclined to exteuuste hit fault
and to re admit him to Ub favor, as It
has pardoned olher offenders beforo
bim.
Nevertheless, the fact that nothiug
of this palliation has suitlded Colonel
Breckinridge from a condemnation to
which there is uowhere respsctabla
distent is of itself a hopoftil augury.
It may be too much to exptct that
within the lifetime of this generation,
if nt all. the often inconsistent and il
logical thing which we sail "s.icisty";
that is to say, the subtle circle of ac
tivites which is domiuated SXOlUtivtly
by the femiuiue lustinc'.; will advauce
to a stage of progress Wbtrt it will ac
Otpt, as applying to men, tho same re
lentless codo of morals which it applies,
often with a refined cruelty that is ex
quisite, to womankind. But In the
larger tiibuual which we call public
opinion, iu the forum whertf the judg
mentl rendered are made of the aggre
gate common sense of both sexes aud
all classes and conditions, no truth Is
clearer than that tho former easy con
donation of undo license has given way
to a stricter uud fairer accounting. Wo
saw this instanced in the downfall of
Sir Charles Dillte and l'ainell. Wo seo
it exemplified today iu the utter repu
diation by nil honest men of theuroli
bypoorits, Breckinridge, And we may,
if wa look closely, view the same law
outcropping In u thousand minor di
rectlons all indicating tbo existence of
a sliding scale of masculine morality
whose natural chanuos are iu the direc
tion of stricter standard
If, therefore, the existence of a dou
ble standard of morality be an injus
tice, it should, iu fairness to civiliza
tion, be said that this anomtloni dis
parity is a creation and a protege of its
very victims, and not a monument to
the deliberate tyranny of man. Wo
men have always been the greatest sut
irrers from it; yet women have always
accepted it as just, and have, in sheer
perversity, defended it against pro
posed reforms. Whenever women wish
to see this unequal arrangement re
placed by a single code, applicable
alike to either sex, they have only to
hegiu tho crusade and it will quickly
enough achieve permanent victory.
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In A BIKULB stretch of woodland
north of Westport, Pa., one Williams
port lumbering firm lost last week 8,
000,000 feet of logs, owing to forest
lires. The firm estimates tho market
value of these logs at 13,000, which,
of course, does not tako into uccouut
the damage to standing timber caus-.d
by the same tire, or the destructiveness
of that bls:'.e with reference to growing
shrubs and sprouts. Wo have never
been able to got a satisfactory approx
imation of the fatal yearly loss to
Pennsylvania from forest fires; but the
amount mint be enormous, in our
community wo know it is a serious pre
sent loss, without calculating at all the
tremendous lOOTlfioa which wa are en
tailing upou the future. Recent
showers have fortunately quenched
tlwse fires for a tiiu9; but until we be
gin to do onr duty toward the disap
pearing forests in a business-like man
ner, occasional rains will afford a sorry
guaranty for posterity,
The Philadelphia Evening star isn't
as thick as mill stono nor as big as
barn door, yst it has passed its twenty
seventh birthday and still has a crust
of bread. One of the reasons for this,
perhaps, is that it hasn't sacrificed
quality to quantity, hasn't desp lired of
making merit win and hasn't believed
itself to be under any necessity of muf
fling its mouth aud putting felt, on its
tongue whenever it wanted to say any
thing. After all, thu people do like
gtit.
A BOUT
A rt and Artists.
In a review of pictures shown at a
New York art exhibition recently
uiven in the Sun, the name of J. W.
Rutight is meutioned among the artists
whose works are worthy of more than
passing notice it will be seen by the
abovo that the productions of Mr.
iUught, a native of this city, are
recognized by the highest metropolitan
authorities upon what constitutes
artistic merit. This calls to mind a
poculiar circumstanco illustrating the
vagaries of Scrantou picture buyers.
Dnnug tho holidays Mr, Raught, who
had passsd th- mtumsr nesr Fieetville,
making studies of the delightful
scimery in that locality, exhibited
his paintings at Stewarts gal
lery. The collection embraced
the very pictures that have
been so much admired at the New
York and Boston art exhibitions. Thu
canvasses were a revelation as com
pared with the usual collections that
have been shown in Scrantou, Yt, it
is understood, not a sale was made.
Mr. Raught bad scarcoly removed his
pictures from the gallery in tbit city
when a livoly-tongued stranger, from
no one knows where, secured space in
the place where he unpacked a lot of
"dreams" of doubtful origin, whose
chief attraction seemed to be tho gilt
frames In which they rtsted. By the
usual clap-trap methods the paintings
brought here by tho dealer were all sold
iu less than a month.
set
"Silas Kind, the talented sketch art
ist, who returned to this city some
time ngo, contemplates the establish
ment of an engraviug plant for the pro
duction of lino etchings uud hall -tone
plates.
S, ranton contains many art con
noisseurs and numerous artists of mors
than ordinary ability, but the people
who buy pictures appear to be infill
enced in every instance by tho olo
quenco of the exhibitor lather than
by tho merits of a picture. Colonel
Balrtnao, In reference to whose abili
ties there have been many contro
versies, undoubtedly has produced
most excellent specimens, especially In
sky effects. But It is probablo that In
the majority of instances the sales
made tu this city were effected almost
solely l.y the Colonel's business tact
and persistence.
as
Mrs. Agues Booth, exponent of the
Prsug Art system in the public schools,
is au Instructor of great ability, auo
her IsborB are aiding uitleriullv in
creating taste for and appreciation of
art among tho rising generation,
tee
Bcrantonlinf, however, are still seek
ing for light iu art circles, ami tho
Klectric city Is the home of many en
thnsiastio artists, both amntenr and
professional, who are doing tuucii to
ward creating additional taste 'or the
beautiful among our people. Piouii
uent among the number may bo men
tioned Miss Hester A. WoYtbnft;n,
whose studio is situated in the Coal
Exchango, aud who is one of the most
conscientious and painstaking instruc
tors iu the city. Miss WortQlngton is
a sketch artist of marked ability, es
her excellent crayon work will testify
aud she has had flattering success in
imparting the inspiration to many of
her pupils.
John L. Hanoi, the wool engravu
and designer, who bus been obliged to
take s vacation from work upon ac
count of ill health, it is said will eoon
resume operations In this city.
Mis Frederick Litoge, in addition to
taUnls as n punter and sketch artist,
exhibits also mnrk-d ability in the line
of wood carving. Her work shows ar
tistic tastn as welt as mechanical skill
In this branch of art that is gaining In
popularity as a fad.
Ml
Mrs. W. W. Barry, wife of the well
knoWII jeweller, is an adept at c til mi
painting and has produced excellent
work in that line.
Among tbo most talented of Scran
ton's young lady artists may be men -tieued
Miss Grace Norton, whoso still
life studies in oil have attracted ntteu
tiou wherever shown.
Mrs. Harriet Clav Penman, the well
kuown writer. Is au artist of much
ultilitv liar work i n nhitift HAnAeaiinh
Is exquisite and is greatly aduiirod by
connoisseurs.
60NG.
There It. u Humlrona Btory
That 1 Would ling tO thee,
A SOim "f Gulden flur ,
Love's fatih ami constancy
Tbt winter day t sailed,
hut In thu sky above
- a thousand lights uro blended,
The thousand thoughts nt Imu,
Bright thougbl .of love,
. 'i la uratttrn nkles are ut'ldun
Au sume great w beaten i.timf,
but brighter far ihut olden
Sweat tuk- of luve's belief.
Tho sunsets UU mid vatilth
With each ilc-jartiii.' duy,
Hut ears serve not to banir.li
The lovt that livosuhvuy,
Anil this Is U eons.
I'luvel Stolt Mines tu (Joiluy'ii Lady liuok.
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B
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