The Wastefulness Of Mobs

A strike is always wasteful and harmful ; a ob ten times more so. The mob at Pittsburgh, while orying for bread and claiming to be at the point of starvation, dostroyed millions of property. That property was largely products on the way to Europe, to restore to us that golden balance of trade which we need to give the country prosperity. It is a pity that all inen have not the intelligence to know that this waste of the fruits of labor is a loss to the whole country, striking all interests, the humblost individuals the hardest of all. There could n't have been an event botter calculated to fix upon the country the iron yoke of hard times for a year to come tban the embarrassment of the lines of transportation from the Missi8sippi Valley eastward. There is another fact in this connection whioh all property-holders will do well to bear in mimi. That is that the property destroyed by moba must be paid for by the city in which the mob occurs. From this penalty there is no escape. New York city had to pay several million dollars for the proporty destroyed by mobs in 1863. Philadeiphia had its mobs in the Know-Nothing days, and had to pay heavily for the churohes and other property desstroyed. Pittsburgh has now had thirtysix hours of mob rule. Leaving out of view the loss of life, private property to the ainount of $6 000,000 has been destroyed, all of which will have to b paid for by hard taxation. Property of railroads, whole traius of proporty the manufacture of Pittsburgh, and other traina and warehouses of property owned by raerchants of that city, were openly fired and burned in the street. Private property of persons in Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia and elsewhore, in transit, was Süized by the mob and destroyed. All this will have to be paid for. Nor will Pittsburgh have any sympathy in this loss. It praotically invited the riot. lts citizens stood by and looked on approviug, while the mob stopped the trains, stoned the soldiers, and committed arsou, robbery and murder by wholesale. Their pólice and fire departments acted with shameful cowardice. They have had their dance and they can pay the piper. But surely no other city desires to follow the exiiiiipli!.