Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1883 — A Medical Opinion on Kissing. [ARTICLE]

A Medical Opinion on Kissing.

Promiscuous kissing has been inf finitely more productive of disease or various kinds than the public evedream of, and it is a practice that should be discountenanced. The people should confine their kissing propensities to members of their oyn families, and even then it is not always safe.—Medical and Surgical Reporter. Joseph Cook says: “In Boston the question is, before admitting a man to society, ‘Have you written a book?* in Chicago, ‘How mnch are you worth?’ in San Francisco, ‘Who owns you, the railroads or the sand lots?* and in Washington, ‘Are you likely to be reelected?’” Mr. Cook observes that the state cf this country demands civilservice leagues. w One lawyer at Des Moin£s lowa, has put through 189 divorce cdses within a year. . ' J

The Confluence of the Rings. The powerful rings now gathered at Washington exceed in numbers and in wealth all that have appeared here for eight years. During the period of Demy ocratic ascendency in the House of RejA. resentatives for three Congresses these corrupt combinations were driven away from the capital and impoverished. With the return of a Republican majority they came back naturally to resume the old business. It may be said that they were invited to renew it. When Secor Robeson, the most notorious of public jobbers, got the leadership of the House, the invitation was too plain to be misunderstood. These rings expect to do their most effective work in the few remaining weeks of this Congress. All the large and many of the lesser special interests involved in the pending or in the proposed changes of the tariff are represented by active and influential agents, outside and inside of Congress. They have pooled their issues, and will make common cause. The navy ring has won the first engagement in the House. It remains to pe seen if the Senate will confirm Robeson’s work. - The great ring of land grabbers has succeeded, by the action of the Judiciary Committee of the House, not only iu preventing any legislation adverse to this immense interest, but also in keeping the subject from getting before the House at all.'' The whisky ring will soon make its last desperate effort. The real truth" in this case does not appear upon the surface. The distillers and manufacturers of whisky have little concern about the bill passed by the Senate extending the bonded time two years, or in any legislation that may be substituted for it. Speculators and. banks are the parties most anxious and most disturbed in mind about the action of Congress. There are about eightythree or eighty-four million gallons of whisky stored. The banks have advanced between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000 on warehousing certificates. About twenty millions of this paper are held in Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago. The remainder is scattered in the great Eastern cities. It is undoubtedly true that the banks are seriously embarrassed by the accumulation of these discounted certificates, and they can get no relief from the speculators, who put them up as collateral, security. The banks, therefore, are practically the owners of the whisky; and their situation is rendered more critical because they will be compelled for self-protection to pay the tax on this stock as -it becomes due. The aggregate tax will be about $74,000,000 or $75,000,000, distributed over two years and ten months. It is thus seen that the banks whibh-have loaned much of their capital, tempted by high rates of interest, bn the whisky now in bond, are the actual supplicants for legislation, though they do not so appear before Congress. Some of them are in a bad predicament, and are unable to carry this heavy load. They are timid about taking any active part, fearing that a disclosure of weakness might precipitate disaster.

One-half of the present House of Representatives will go out on the 4th of March. Most of these members will go into private life permanently. Not a few of them will be annexed to the stationary lobby at ’ Washington, in which some of their predecessors are now established. They have no responsibility to confront, and this is their last chance to convert votes into cash.A rally will be made in these closing weeks for bills with “money in them.” The Rings are mustered in full force, and they will join hands for a general raid on legislation. —Washington Cor. New York Sun.