Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

anarchy meant business. But Ravachol must reflect that he may, at any time, be tried on several other capital chaises against him, and next time he will not come off so easily. Of couse, the verdict will greatly encourage the anarchists. Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, showed physical courage in opposing the mob at Nashville, but he was lacking in moral courage when he did not uphold the dignity of the law as Chief Executive by putting a sufficient guard at the jail. He sent troops against the miners when they freed the convicts in the mines, but he did not call out a soldier dr an extra guard for duty at the jail, almost in the shadow of his executive office, when he had ample warning that the prisoners would be taken out of his hands and lynched. Tie stream of immigration pours in with increasing volume. The number of arrivals in March was 53,879, against 52,172 in March last year. During the last three months the number arrived was 98,004, and during the last nine months 363,363, against 86,048 and 116,237, respectively, for the corresponding periods last year. The greatest increase was over 2,000 from Russia, and it is to be presumed that the arrivals were largely Jews. There was a small increase from Austria-Hungary, Germany and Sweden and Norway, but a decrease ,pf about 1,300 from Italy and about 1,600 from the British isles.

Some good people who have been poorly informed continue to grumble because the United States will not enact rigid restrictions on immigration. That it will not do so is very clear. Of the two new projects of law proposed since the Immigration Commission’s report the one which is least drastic is certain of adoption. The other has been sent to the limbo to which a free country should consign all illiberal measures. In the Forum, Edward Atkinson, the wellknown economist, devotes a few crisp pages to ridiculing the notion—far too popular nowadays—that we have no more room for immigrants. He shows very clearly that the five and a quarter million of immigrants who have come to this country since 1881 are scarcely noticeable in the vastness of territory through which they are scattered. We have still, he cries in a burst of enthusiasm—but enthusiasm backed up by statistics—incalculable room for immigrants!

King Humbert is eager that his country should continue to rank as a first-class power. The Italian people are ground down by oppressive taxation, and the historic old Roman families are being brought to beggary. The attempt to make a small reduction in the army estimates recently the cabinet. A reconstructed ministry, ly making the proposed reduction, by an increase of taxation, and by a new national loan of $40,000,000, will try to make both ends meet. Increase of taxation! It is piling Ossa on Pelion. What is imperative in Italy is reduction of taxes. Kaiser William may be nervously ambitious to become the central figure in European political circles, and he may may his military drama to the impoverishment of his fatherland. But King Humbert, even if he did promise, as a member of the triple alliance, to maintain Italy’s war equipment at its present elevation, will soon find his promise impossible of fulfillment.

The suggestion has been made that the Keeley cure of dipsomania be recognized by law as a reform agent, and that any man or woman convicted of crime and proven to be addicted to the intemperate use of liquor should be sent to a prison hospital and subjected to this treatment. The State of Ohio is verging toward the acceptance of this idea. Recently there was introduced in the Legislature a bill for the experimental treatment of eighty-two drunkards to be chosen one each by Representatives in the Legislature, the Governor to appoint a commission which was to contract with a Keeley sanitarium where the legislators can bring their inebriate constituents and have them subjected to the double bichloride of gold cure at the expepse of the State. When the bill passes and the efficacy of the cure is thus officially demonstrated it will not take long to secure its adoption in penal institutions. The Ohio legislature adjourned without passing the bill, concluding that it was best to let public opinion ripen enough to demand its enactment, which it may do by the time the General Assembly of that State next meets.