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SCKANTON, JUNE 4, 1902.
For governor of'Ponnsylvanla, on the
lssuo of an open field and fair play,
JOHN . EXKIN, of Indiana,
subject to tho will of tho Republican
masses,
Tho Beginning of the End ?
THE SECOND day of the mino
workers' movement to force
u concession from tho oucr
ators' by threatening their
property with de&tructlon by water
ended ns far from success as the first.
With few and unimportant exceptions
the pumps are still running and the
precautions taken to prevent forcible
'interruption of those at work Insure
the continuance of pumping operations
indefinitely.
In his 'statement of yesterday Presi
dent Mitchell exhibited the first indi
cation of Irritability of temper noticed
since the strike movement developed;
a fact which Is significant. His at
tempt, to excite prejudice against tho
coal and Iron police may not be an in
vitation for trouble, but it Is likely to
have the effect of hastening It. The
.coal and iron pollco are authorized by
the laws of Pennsylvania, and the pur
pose of their appointment is to protect
iproperty. Mr. Mitchell and the oper
ators may not agree as to the degree of
exposure to which mining property Is
at present subject. Mr. Mitchell says
it is safe. We sincerely trust that he
is right. If it be safe, then the oper
ators, in employing large numbers of
coal and Iron policemen, are Injuring
nobody and putting into circulation In
the form of wages money which should
be quite welcome in business circles in
view of the scarcity i wages in the
mines. But if it should happen that
Mr. Mitchell's estimate of the safety of
property "would be found to bo over
sanguine, .the presence of a sufficient
pollco force ,ln' the vicinity of the points
of danger would manifestly be an econ
omy for the taxpayers, who would
otherwise be liable for heavy damages,
In addition to having to pay the ex
penses of calling out the National
Guard.
The failure of the attempt to flood
the mines brings within view the end
of the strike. Tho battle may be pro
longed until actual want shall force
the strikers to apply for work. Hut
whether ended soon or lqte. It is cleur
that the terms of re-employment will
be made by tho operators, and that if
tho union Is to survive ns a potent
factor in tho industrial life of the an
thracite region it will bo with its char
acter changed from a property-threatening
to an educational, insurance and
beneficial Institution returning to Its
membership for dues exacted some
thing more than the privations of
reckless strikes, which Injure all con
cerned, except possibly the salaried
leaders.
The parties who arc willing to "con
cede" a. victory for Mr. Klkln In Tioga
are coming out of tho woods.
Increasing Exports of flanufact
ures. THE DETAILED statement of
commerce for the month of
April, mid for tho ten months
ending with April, Just Issued
by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics,
. O, V, Auatln, chief, contains much en
couragement for our manufacturing In
dustries, One-half the Importations for April,
mid 10 per cent, of tho ten months' im
portations, were manufacturers' ma
terials, meaning, under tho Republican
protective tariff, moro work for our
wage-earners. The expoits of manu
factures for April show a heavy gain
over April of last year, the figures
being SG.B4 per cent, against 29,15 per
cent, of our total exports, and for the
ten months, 2S.65 per cent, against 27,40
per cent. The ten months total Import
of manufacturers' materials was 348
millions this year, ugulnst 280 millions
Inst year, a gain of CH millions. The
April gain of exports of manufactures,
j over April of laBt year, was 4,i mill
ions, and for the ten months tho short
age Is thereby reduced to but 5i mill
ions. For this ten months the percent
age 'of manufactures In our total ex
ports was higher than in any prior
year, except 1000. The main Increases
In Imports of manufactures arc;
Chemlculs ,,.,., 34 million dollars
Raw Cotton, su million to 87 million pounds
Copper Ore, S million to 12 million pounds
Fibres ,.,.., .IS million to 3 million dollars
Raw Silk.,,. .2:1 million to 3(1 million dollars
Tin .,. ,.,,,.,69 million to Ul million pounds
Leaf tobacco 13 million to 15 million pounds
Wool .', ,., ,.10 million to 15 million pounds
Wood ,.. i,13 million to 15 million dollars
Turning Jfo tho export side wo find
hat the largest Increase is in cotton
goods. For the month of April alono
tho figures were $3,032,7lfe, and for tho
ten months, $20,430,379. By Juno 30, the
total export of cotton goods will reach
$30,000,000. In this lino our exports havo
doubled since 1893. The figures are!
Prior lo 1S05, tho highest wns.,,.$15,000,0CO
1S7 21,000,000
ISM ,,,,,. .,., ,. 23.000,000
1M)0 2l,O0O,CCO
1W2 (estimated) 30,UOO,OCO
The Increase Is In cotton cloths, and
largely to China, the consumption In
that outlet having doubled slnco lOOOt
for Instance, 161 million .ynrds in tho
ten months of 1900, to 372 million yards
In the ten months of 1902,
In exports of manufactures we have
nearly overtaken tho 10 months of last
year, and unless something unforsecn
happens, the close of business on June
30 will see us pass tho winning post
several lengths ahead of prior years.
According to all accounts the Chicago
meat strikers could take lessons In
politeness and docility from the ani
mals of a menagerie at feeding' time.
Not a Reliable Prophet.
The defeat of tho movement to make
Mr. Elkin the candidate for novernor Is
now practlcully assured. Philadelphia
Press.
THE ACCURACY of our es
teemed contemporary's as
sertion In this Instance may
bo judged from the fact that
when Senator Quuy ordered Elkln out
of the fight the Press said next day
that that ended Elkln; that his follow
ing would collapse; that few if any
moro counties would declare for him,
and that In a short time he would have
to withdraw. Tho Press predicted win
ter before last that the stalwarts would
not organize the legislature; and that
Quay would not bo elected senator. It
then underestimated John Elkln's abil
ity as a fighter and It underestimates
It today. It was Elkln who defeated
tho political Interests represented by
tho Press on that occasion; and while
they have since captured Quay and
Durham and made them turn on Elkln
It Is evident to all who are In touch
with the present state canvass that El
kin's chances for repeating the lesson
of two years ago havo been multiply
ing rapidly of late. That ho will be
nominated one week from today Is the
confident expectation of himself and
friends. They have the Votes already
pledged and they do not believe that
attempts to take their men away from
them, however desperately made, can
succeed.
The citizens of The Hague do not
seem to know whether they arc re
quired to rejoice or weep at the dawn
of peace in South Africa.
Why Is It?
(For Tho Tribune by Walter J. Ballard.)
THE CONSUMING power of
international commerce ag
gregates yearly, according to
a recent carefully prepared
tabulation by the treasury Bureau of
Statistics, $11,630,000,000, divided as fol
lows: Europo $ S,G00,09),O30
Asia 90O.0OO.C0O
Africa 4:0,000,000
South America .. 375,000,000
Oceanica 32J,00O,0CO
$10,330,000,000
. 1,300,000,000
North America ..
$ll,G30,0CO,OC0
The share of the United States in this
vast water-reached trade of $10,330,000,
000 is only $1,312,000,000, or about thir
teen per cent., made of sales to
Africa, 5 per cent of its im
ports, or $ 21,300,000
South America. 10 per cent, of
its imports, or 37,500,000
Asia, 10 per cent, of its im
ports, or 90,000,000
Oceanica, 10 per cent, of its im
port or 32,500,000
Europe, 11 per cent, of Its im
ports, or 1.102,000,000
$1,342,1)00,000
besides forty per cent, of the purchases
of Noith America, exclusive of tho
United States.
By this tabulation It will be seen that
wo are selling only a little over thirteen
per cent, average of the goods bought
by those countries whose communica
tion with us Is by water, while of the
consumption of Africa, with Its 175,000,
000 people, we are reduced to a miser
able five per cent., or $21,500,000, out of
$130,000,000.
Why do we make so poor u bhowlng
as. this? Why Is It that with our over
whelming natural resources, our thou
sands of well equipped, factories,, our
five and a half millions of operatives,
our up-to-date processes of manufac
ture, our systematized factory manage
ment, our millions upon millions of
acres of food-producing lands, our
teeming Hocks and herds, our "captains
of Industry," with their billions of
dollars of capital, our Increasing active
consular service, our well Informed
statistical departments, our trade-cn-couruging
government, and our ener
getic, domlnutlng, American spirit of
enterprise, we nro not selling at least
fifty per cent, of the outside world's
consumption, nnd thereby make tho
record to read as follows:
Wo should sell GO per cent $3,163,000,000
Less present sales 1,312,000,(00
Gain lu foreign trada $3,823,000,000
or a gain of nearly three times as much
as our present totul sales?
Why Is It that our capitalists, our
wage-earners, our merchants and our
farmers are deprived of tho Increased
dividends, Increased wages, Increased
trading profits and increused farm
earning which would follow the In
creased foreign trndo?
Why Is It that by the absence of this
Increased foreign trade, and In view of
the Incontrovertible fact that tho bulk
of what we sell or would sell abroad Is
the product of our natural resources,
or tho manufactures thereof, our nat
ural wealth Is not augmented by nearly
the entire selling value of tliat'lncreuBo?
Why Is It that of tho trilling thirteen
per cent, of Unit foreign consumption,
which wo do with great difficulty now
sell, wo have to hire foreigners and
foreign vessels to deliver more thun
nine-tenths, at an expense to ourselves
of more than $200,000,000 yearly for
frelKhts?
Why Is It that we find It almost 1m-1
posslblo to get our young men to take
up navigation as a profession?
Why Is it that our navy is insuffi
ciently manned with trained and ex
perienced sailors?
Why Is It that otir capitalists have
been compelled to combine foreign ves
sels even with tho condition that the
most Important of those vessels shall
retain their foreign allegiance nnd for
eign flag, and be subject to foreign call
In time of war?
Let thoso congressmen who nre op
posing or fearing to vote for the ship
subsidy bill, passed by Nmtr patriotic
senate, answer, rcmemberrng that fail
ure on their part to do what is right
nt the right time Is ns fatal In Its effect
as doing what Is wrong,
m
Senator Mason has ngaln given an
Instanco of tils' courage of his convic
tions In the matter of misapplied elo
quence. All save the fault-finders appear to
have emerged from the South African
war with honorable records.
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain may be
pardoned for indulging in a vindicated
expression of countenance.
Tho seventeen year locust prophet
expects to get his dates properly ad
justed this season. "
Candid ComnKnf
About the Strike
Estimating the Chances.
From tho Philadelphia Press.
Tho miners have failed In their wholly
Indefensible policy of trying to lnjuro
property by flooding tho mines. The rati
roads and operators by their own confes
sion hold at their work but one-half of
tho men holding tho best-paid and most
permanent places in the industry. Tho
two sides stand deadlocked. The publtn
pays tho cqst In Increused prices for coal
a necessary of life. When n strike
reaches the situation now apparent In
tho anthracite the railroad companies are
sure to win. Time, capital and possession
nro all on their side. But tho victory Is
being won at a very heavy price.
About Coal and Iron Police.
From tho New York Times.
Tho Immediate question now is that of
vlolcnco on tho part of tho strikers In
resistance to tho efforts of the operators
to man the pumps and engines. Mr.
Mitchell says: "A perfect army of irre
sponsible men have been employed by
tho coal companies to net as coal and
Iron policemen. The services of these
men are unnecessary and their presence
unwarranted." This Is a very foolish
statement. The history of strikes. If It
teaches anything at all, teaches tho les
son that they are exceedingly apt to lead
to violent and destructive acts on the
part of tho strikers. Tho agent or man
nger of a corporation, with this lesson
before him, who did not tako measures
to protect the property of his company
would bo a fool. Mr. Mitchell himself,
by Issuing tho order withdrawing tho
men from tho engines and pumps, has
attempted to destroy the mines, or nt
least to make them useless for months.
The operators, in tho attempt to protect
the mines, are hiring other men in place
of tho strikers and in tho attempt to
protect these new men they have en
gaged reinforcements for the coal and
iron police. Mr. Mitchell's position Is
that they have no right to do this. Such
talk Is strange from a man of his repu
tation for good sense.
If the strikers make assaults upon tho,
new men or attempt by other means than
those of lawful persuasion to prevent
their going to work, there will he blood
shed, and then the cause of tho strikers
would inevitably bo lost. The operators
could not yield to violence. Public senti
ment would condemn them If they did
yield. Apparently they are determined
not to yield at all.
Significant Beluctance.
From tho Albany Journal.
It Is somewhat significant that there
Is evident reluctance on the part of
President Mitchell and the other officers
of tho mine workers to take the steps
toward tho calling of a national conven
tion which would bo called upon to con
sider the advisability of extending the
strike over the bituminous regions. When
that plan was first broached It seemed
to bo enthusiastically received by tho
miners. It wns argued that if tho supply
of soft coal, too, were cut off, n condition
would bo produced which would compel
the mino operators to grant any and all
demands that tho miners might make.
Slnco then tho sober second thought
has evidently prevailed to some extent,
and tho flaw in tho argument has been
discovered, perhaps through carrying it
to Its logical conclusion, which Is, that If
all persons In tho United States who
work for wages should refuse to work
for a time, they could coerco all employ
ers Into making nny concessions that
they might demand. Tho absurdity of
such n proposition Is nt once apparent.
Men who argue that tho moro extensive
n strlko Is made and tho moro men are
forced Into idleness, tho more quickly and
certainly employers will bo compelled to
grant demands made upon them, leavo
out of consideration tho essential fact
that It Is Impossible for many men to live
long in Idleness. It Is true tjiat by de
priving tho whole country of Its coal sup
ply tho miners could produce on intoler
able condition, but it Is likewise true
that they themselves nnd wago workers
engaged In other' occupations would suf
fer first from It. nnd most severely.
That to call tho bituminous miners out
would be suicidal In ono of two ways Is
certain. If the order should bo obeyed,
tho United Mino Workers would In a
very bhort time bo absolutely without
funds and tho members would bo com
pelled by sheer nceesslty to return to
work under any terms that might be
offered. If It should bo not obeyed, tho
authority of tho organization would bo
nt onco discredited.
Words Fitly Spoken.
From tho Troy, N. Y Times.
Tho Pennsylvania coal region Is now
experiencing tho unpleasantness of an ex.
tenslvo coal strike. At such a tlmo men's
passions nnd prejudices nro opt to be
come aroused and Judgment Is not always
ns calm and Impartial ns It might be.
When theso conditions exibt It Is not the
part of wisdom or falrnebs to add to the
prevailing uneasiness or attempt to stir
up further bitterness. Yot a Plttston
newspaper, published In tho henrt of the
coal region, docs this thing. In an edi
torial nrticlo It remarks:
"Following tho authoritative announce
ment mado a week ago that the salary
of President Trucsdnle of the Dolawnro,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad com
pany has been Increased by the very neat
sum of $10,000 a year comes tho message
from over tho great waters telling how
J, Pierpont Morgan, tho mun who holds
tho anthracite coal mining and carrying
business In his hand, has Just been mnk
Ins a llttlo present worth $10,000 to His
Majesty Ring Edward, And yet some
people wonder why the men and boys
who grind out a miserable existence In
tho coal mines and who furnish tho
money for these capitalistic 'barons' to
revel In luxury nro discontented."
Tho Scrauton Tribune, a near neighbor
of the Plttston journul and also located
In the coal country, administers a fitting
rcbuko to thesQ utterances when It euyu;
"Wo must confess that wo aro unable
to seo wherein this supplies a sufficient
reason for discontent. Rightly under
stood, It elves encouragement. , If In
stead of raising President Truesdale's
salary, as Is alleged wo don't know
whether they did or not the directors of
tho Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
had cut It by tho amount named) and If,
instead of Pierpont Morgan having had
enough spare money to buy tho Kins of
Englntid a valuable present ho should
bpcome a poor man, not able lo take hold
of bankrupt railroad properties nnd build
them Into money-making and wage
paying Institutions, In what respect would
It contribute to tho contentment of tho
men and boys who work, or Htrlke, In
tho coal mines? To havo Truomlalo or
Morgan pulled down would not lift them
up a hair's breadth. It would not In
crease their earning capacity ono penny's
worth, It would not udd In tho least to
their qualifications for anvanccment' In
life.
"Wllllnm If. Trucsdnle began nt tho
bottom of tho ladder without pull or
Inherited weullh to help him climb up.
Ho arose not by figuring out plans how
ho could most effeetunlly mako trouble
for his employer and forco moro pay for
less work. His success was won by ex
actly tho opposite tnetlcB. HIM continual
endcuvor was. to servo his employer faith,
fully and efficiently nnd nt the snmo tlmo
to lit himself for lnrgcr responsibilities.
Ho succcodod In both ambitions. But
there Is not a man or boy In the coal
fields who has not before him tho samo
opportunities which confronted young
TrUesdalo, When things did not go to
suit him Trucsdule did not get mad and
strike. He simply gritted his teeth, put
In hnrder licks, was moro careful to save
his earnings nnd waited nnd watched for
tho chanco to better himself. Tho Trues
dalo policy won, but ho holds no monop
oly of It. Any Inhabitant of tho coal
fields with the right kind of stuff in him
can do likewise, and many of them havo
done so.
"Wo havo observed, by tho way, that
these much abused capitalistic barons nro
better appreciated when times nro hard
and wages aro scarce. When they run
their railroads and coal mines at a lobs
In order to supply employment so that
men ' who have worked for thorn may
earn food and this has happened moro
than once nnd will happen again tho en
deavor of tho men nnd boys of the conl
regions Is not to bring thCBo operations
to a standstill nnd flood tho mines not
a bit of it. There is a rush and a crush
for tho first chanco lo get a place to
work.
"Morgan's gift to King Edward repre
sented just so much wages paid to labor,
and no doubt will bo a means of secur
ing moro wages for labor when Morgan
gets from Edward whnt ho 13 after.
With all Morgan's millions ho cannot eat
any moro than the humblest miner; he
cannot wear any warmer clothing or
keep farther out of the wet when It
rains. Tho percentage which ho person
ally uses out of his money as compared
with the percentage which ho returns to
the public In the usefulness of his In
dustrial and commercial operations Is a
small ono compared with that of tho en
vious boy or man who feels that Morgan
Is robbing him. The men and boys who
'grind out a miserable existence In the
coal mines,' If suddenly put in chargo
of Morgan's and Truesdale's properties,
couldn't hlro men to administer them
in tho efficient manner In which they arc
being administered today without paying
more, Jn one way and another, than
Morgan and Truesdalo nro costing. The
chances arc they would pay much more,
if not wind up In bankruptcy."
These aro brave and timely words, and
they are as true as they are seasonable.
A great deal of the denunciation aimed
at capital which Is tho handy term used
for all that represents successful effort
Is tho outgrowth of envy and domagog
lsm rather than a Justifiable protest
against oppression and unwarranted ex
actions. That corporations and capital
sometimes abuse their power no one will
deny. But that In tho main tho profits
whlcb make men capitalists aro tho re
sults of legitimate Industry and well
applied ability cannot bo disputed.
Tho Scranton Tribune has tho facts
and tho logic on Its sldo in the cases It
cites. Tho Truesdalcs and the Morgans
and others who have succeeded In like
manner havo been constructors," not de
stroyers. They havo built up tho proper
tics they control Into profit-paying enter
prises, and in so doing have furnished
means of livelihood to thousands on
thousands of other men. To rashly and
hastily denounce these "captains of in
dustry" ns heartless despots Is tho height
of absurdity. Suppose all tho construct
ive capacity which theso creators and
organizers of Industrial forces represent
were to bo suddenly blotted out would
the wage-earners for whom tho critic as
sumes to speak be better or worse off?
Would not the industries of tho country
bo faco to face with conditions threaten
ing chaos, with idleness and ruin as dis
astrous consequences?
Professional Arbitrators.
From the New York Press.
American industrial life must reckon
In theso days with a graver danger than
the evil of the walking delegate. The
development of the coal strike discloses
the professional arbitrator as the most
baleful Influence with which conflicting
capital and labor havo to contend, com
pared to which tho mere conniving of
tho paid agitator was only fractionally
productive of mischief. The professional
arbitrator works far moro insidiously
and he gets moro destructive results. To
charge up tho present idleness of 150,000
miners and the privation and dltcomfort
of the whole country to tho machina
tions of tho professional arbitrator might
be difficult of proof, yet when tho whole
story is told his share of tho responsi
bility will bo found to bo not small.
We guess that already to tho puhllo
mind tho Identity of tho self-seekers who
control tho conciliation board of tho Na
tional Civic Federation, to tho exclusion
of the disinterested gentlemen who or
ganized that excellent movement, Is sug
gested with distinctness. Their motives
nro ill concealed. For an astonishingly
long time they have preserved tho Illu
sions of unselfish regard for tho laborer
and an earnest desire to mend his lot.
This they have succeeded In doing despite
the curious inconsistencies offered by
their own Industrial and commercial ca
reers with their new-found notions of
philanthropy; for notoriously with at
least two professional arbitrators their
sympathy for tho laborer did not spring
from study of tho conditions of the men
on their own pnyrolls, nor was their keen
appreciation of employer's duty to cm
ployed derived from their practice of
that duty as employers of labor. Their
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motives aro so well suspected, If nol well
appreciated, that they scarcely need to
bo stated. The advancement of ft vault
ing ambition by means of courting popu
larity with Inbor as a class Is not new
.In political tactics. But tho employment
of Btieh pernicious methods as now nro
seen nt work Is nt onco a novelty and a
menace It In fooling with dynamite.
Tho coal mine owners maintain nn un
compromisingly hostllo attlttldo toward
tho "conciliators." Not only do they
frankly avow their distrust in the men
Who control tho arbitration board, but
they say bluntly thnt their meddling
caused tho present strike. This explains,
nnd oven Justifies, the rcsoluto rofutml of
tho operators to submit the differences
with tho miners to arbitration, a courso
which has been widely commented on
and generally condemned. In vlow of tho
belief of tho employers that they could
not hope for Justice from such Judges
they can hardly bo criticised for not go
ing Irtto their court. While tho conl oper
ators do not say as much flatly, they be
llevo that tho miners, by moro or less
dctlnlto promises thnt tho conciliation
board would obtain concessions for them,
wcro incited to make the demands lead
ing up to tho strike, There can bo no
direct proof for such a charge, but many
circumstances will creato a general pub
lic Impression, before tho troubles end,
that It Is not an Idle accusation. How
over that may be, tho fact remains that
by putting tho coal operators In nn atti
tude of lmplacablo hostility to them the
conciliators havo failed to conciliate, they
have destroyed their usefulness nnd they
havo brought tho cause 'of arbitration
Into rHcvoub disrepute.
It is fortunate that the prlnclplo of
mediation has como Into such wldo ap
proval and Its application bcon so bene
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even when they capturo tho chlof means
of its operation. If tho professional ar
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litical fortunes first by fomenting Indus
trial strife nnd then by posing ns all
powerful peacemakers havo not done the
best Interests of labor an irrcpnrablo In
jury It Is not 'their fault. And If these
political manoeuvres get out of tho sorry
mess they have made wltnout mooa on
their hands they can thank their lucky
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