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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SOX. MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1885. THK INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 ■Strand. PARTS—American Exchange in Paria, 35 Boulevard dee Cap acmes. NEW YORE—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI— -J. R Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUTSVTLLE—G. T. Dearing, northwest corne Third and Jefferson street*. ST. LOUTS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel Hon. John J. Ingalls will be re-elected United States Senator from Kansas by a practically unanimous vote. JUST why Mr. Watterson went to the trouble of booming Sam Randall has not yet been made public. It was a boom, though. James G. Scrugham, of Lexington, has gone to join the Kentucky colony in Canada, taking with him $40,000 that did not belong to him. He was teller and assistant cashier of the Lexington City National Bank. The Salvation Army has 910 corps, 637 of which are in England, and but fifty in the United States. The United States has a half hundred that could easily be spared. It is a lunacy that should not be encouraged. The Louisville Courier-Journal calls the Southern prison “the Indiana pen." That has been the general understanding of the character of the institution for some time. Is it not about time to clean out that “pen?" • PRESIDENT ELECT CLEVELAND Will leave the office of Governor of New York to-morrow. After a visit to Buffalo and to New York city the ex-Governor will return to Albany, where lie will remain until he goes to Washington to be inaugurated as President. , . ■MnaHMBBHBBBM Mr. ITurd has formally notified Mr. Romeis that he wants the seat in Congress to which he £Romeis) was elected, and gives several reasons why. If the House is no more scrupulous than it was about stealing the seat from Mr. Peellc, of this district, Mr. Hurd will be accommodated. Major Mortimer H. Kidd has finally concluded to contest the seat of Hon. George W. Steele from the Eleventh district. Major Steele's plurality is only 54. In that fact lies the real reason for the contest. Major Kidd claimed that frauds in the count were jerpetrated in Howard county, but a recouut increased Major Steele’s majority by two, and the Democratic paper of Kokomo conceded that the election and count were absolutely fair. ______ Y esterday was a great disappointment to a number of esteemed citizens who have their headquarters at Chicago. They call themselves tho “House of Israel," or the Advent Church, and had arranged for the winding up of terrestrial things on the 4th of January. It •has been reported that a number of the faithful had procured fur-lined ascension robes, aud were all reedy to go up. As things have turned out, the members of the “House of Israel'’ mourn as they who have very little Loire.

Thk Cook county grand jury on Saturday afternoon reported that, owing to the lack of time, they were unable to make a report upon the alleged election frauds in the Eightheenth ward, Chicago. The grand jury of Cook county should find time to sift the fraud to the, bottom, lotting business of less importance riin itself. The time devoted to uncovering the rascality attempted could not be put to better use, and failure to prosecute the accused to the end would make justice a farce, and give fresh encouragement to renewed attempts to corrupt elections and defeat the popular will. Thk Journal is in dead earnest in urging that every effort be made to find out and punish the scoundrel or scoundrels concerned in the rape of the ballots from the court-house, and hopes to have the vigorous help of Judge Norton and his court, and of the grand jury. Certainly the breaking into the room where the ballots were stored under lock and kov was burglary, if no other crime was committed. C’au rooms in the court house be broken into j*t will, and the persons who do it not bo held amenable to the statute against burglary? Cannot burglary be committed again*! a court house, or a room in a courtkousef Mb. Uandall’s tour through the South, now concluded, took on the form of an ovation from beginning to end, exemplifying the immense advantage of advertising in the Louisville Courier-Journal’s editorial columns. The people everywhere poured out to see and hear him. They decorated their houses and halls and “hollered” themselves hoarse wherever he appeared, waving their hats and handkerchiefs like mad. At Birmingham, Ala., the occasion was unprecedented. Houses were decorated} some of the mottoes being: * 'Welcome to Randall;” “The Mountains of Alabama Welcome the Beloved Statesman;” “No North, no South, only America;” “Welcome the Champion of the New lie bell ion, the New South egainst the Old South;” “Peace, Pig-iron and Prosperity.” The trip can but result in good. It baa set bis hearers to thinking, and has twakened them to the foot that there are

other papers than the Courier-Journal, other towns than pokey Louisville, and other ideas than those of pro-slavery free trade and cheap labor. The new South is encouraged to think and act for itself, and taught to know that if it would continue to grow and develop it must stand up for those principles of government under whioh it has begun to enrich itself. The fact was developed by Mr. Randall that at the time of his former visit to Alabama, in 1867, but 1,600 tons of coal was mined in a year, while now a single mine near Birmingham puts out 2,500 tons daily. In 1861 there were produced in the State not much over 5,000 tons of iron. It is now estimated that 450,000 tons are annually product. The iron men of that region propose to lay down iron in Philadelphia at a cheaper rate than it can be made in Pennsylvania. Thus the competition fostered by protection is bringing down prices and increasing home manufactures.

MR. CARNEGIE’S SOCIALISM. The announcement made in behalf of Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire iron-master of Pennsylvania, that he regards socialism the grandest theory ever presented, is, on its face, a very remarkable expression, though significantly _ qualified by the admission that he is not ready to begin its practice now by a division of his possessions among the people. Andrew Carnegie nor any other man who has honestly come into possession of a fair share of the world’s goods, is ready to divide, now or at any other time. Mr. Carnegie knows, as every intelligent man knows, that there are many men too lazy to work, too indolent to do their share in the labors of Utopia, and hence cannot deserve the privilege of sharing with others more industrious and more frugal. Socialism may be a “grand theory,” but until all men are constituted alike, aud all alike are willing to do their portion of the work of this unsocialistio world of ours, the dream of its introduction is but a pleasing phantom that can never be realized this side the New Jerusalem. Without desiring to disparage the average Socialist, we would give expression to the opinion that, as a rule, with but few exceptions, he is a loafer, or a man who, while performing honest labor, proclaims socialism for the purpose of advancing his own selfish interests. The “friend of the workingman" only too often has an eye on a seat in Congress or in the Legislature. He wants to boost himself into one or the other of those places, and appeals to the sympathy and aid of men who earn their way through the world.

Andrew Carnegie is not yet ready to divide his millions with his workmen, and never will be ready. His actions belie his professions, for at this time hundreds of men are idle because Mr. Carnegie shut down his mills rather than pay them what they regarded as fair wages. He may, indeed, regal'd socialism as a grand theory, but in his action he proves that he has no confidence in it as a principle to be acted upon. Socialism never has succeeded in the world’s history, and never will until we get back fco the paradisaical conditions of Eden—a consummation not likely to be realized. The most ardent Socialists in the world propose to burn, and kill, and introduce anarchy to pave the way to that delectable condition of society in which all men are brothers and all shall fare alike. Rich men like Mr. Carnegie must consent to divide; and men unlike Mr. Carnegie, who have saved somewhat of the world's goods by honest industry and decent economy, must likewise divide or have their lives endangered and their accumulations scattered. But this is only one side of socialism. It were comparatively easy to kill the few rich men, and certainly an agreeable thing to portion out their gains. But what of the other side of the scale—of those in even greater numbers, who are too indolent to work, too improvident to save? What, of the professional tramps —men who scorn to work? What of the professional thieves and gamblers—men who live at the expense of those who labor? They generally have nothing to divide. What shall be done with them? Shall they be provided for when the grand theory of socialism prevails, or shall they, too, be put to doatb? And if the two extremes aye thus to be disposed of, where shall the line be drawn and the killing stop? It is quite probable that Mr. Carnegie has some object in view r in indorsing socialism. He may be coward enough to wish to hedge against possible socialistic disturbances, or it may be that he would like to go to Washington. uow that he is a millionaire. In either event he is guilty of a very oontemptible scheme. As for Herr* Most and his ilk, it would be money iu their pockets—such of them as are willing to earn money honestly—to know that any man, Socialist or Communist, or what not, who, singly or by scores of thou- ■ * sands, attempts to force a division of property against men who have come into possession of it honestly, and according to law, will be met fearlessly, force with force. It ought to be borne in mind that the man who has the pluck and perseverance to win a home of his own is going to have the hardihood to defend it to the uttermost, and with his life, if need be, against all com era, Socialist, Nihilist, or burgglar without such thin disguise. There is no place in America for socialism, and if any honest laborer be deceived by the specious pleas of its advocates, he will have his labor for his pains. With every man a freeman, every man the equal, before the law, of the Vanderbilts and Goulds, with the law in the hand* of the people, it is the fault of the people if they do not rule by lawful means, which means peaceable means. The scoundrels in Chicago and elsewhere who talk of slaughter are the enemies of the people. And if it ever

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cornea to an issue of arms they will go down. There are poor men in this .country, thour sands and thousands of thousands of them; but they cannot be enriched by going into civil war, nor can they any better work out reformation by the bullet than by the ballot. This is so well known to the great majority that they cannot be seduced into criminal violence, and the bummers who are so assiduously stirring up discontent and class feeling will discover that they are held in contempt by the honest poor men of the land. The free speech guaranteed such adventurers as Herr Most and Justus Schwab has made them drunk, and nothing but the madness of drunkenness can gain them followers. Intelligent laboring men may well unite to better the laws. They would simply commit suicide to tear down the institutions uow established.

THE DYNAMITE FRAUD. “A lady’s nose was cut by glass, and one gentleman had the side of his face and another a wrist cut. These are the only serious casualties reported." Such is the summary of “casualties" of the last Fenian outrage in London. Os a truth, the whole business of “blowing up Loudon" is a farce of proportions and of magnitude barely large enough to become a burlesque on anything like a serious and business-like undertaking to revenge the wrongs put upon Ireland. One would be inclined to ascribe these explosions to almost anything than an organization whose object is to compel redress for national wrongs for years put on a long-suffering people, and with little hope of deliverance. Somo such explanation—that a crank or madman had caused the explosions would undoubtedly obtain but for the fact that they will be traded on by unscrupulous demagogues ostensibly engaged in warfare against the enemies of Ireland. Were there no O’Donovan Rossas in America or elsewhere to roll up heir eyes and exclaim “I told you sol” after each abortive puff in Loudon, nobody would imagine that any serious or ooncerted attempt was being made against the tranquillity of the English people, The ntau or men engaged in this business, if they be self-appointed avengers of Ireland’s wrongs or the agents of any society having that in view, have every reason to be ashamed of their oowardiee and the puerile results of their operations. Just think of it for a moment. London has a population of over 4,000,000; the streets in the central portions of the metropolis are literally swarming with humanity, and one cannot in any portion of the city escape the jostling thousands. Now there is at least one society or organization whose sole purpose is to wreak venganoe upon the British government and people, to which end hundreds of thousands of dollars have been subscribed during the past score years, and standing appeals are made for fresh contributions to the “dynamite fund." The subscribers may be excused for calling for a bill of aocount. What has become of all the money asked for and received? To whom and for what did it go? In all the operations during the past few years, since, hostile attention has been specially directed against London, not one life has been taken, not even a limb broken. Asa result of the last explosion, throe noses are slightly cut—a showing that any live Irishman would be ashamed of with nothing more than his bare fists. If nobody is to be hurt, and no harm is to be done, what use of a dynamite fund at all? Why not arm a Donnybrook boy with a blackthorn twig, and turn him loose on the Strand, or make his way into Westminster Palace? The two explosions in tle underground railways, those at London bridge, at Victoria station and at Scotland Yard have caused perhaps SI,OOO worth of damages, and not a human being lias suffered physical harm. What kind of return is this for the tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars subscribed in America, and put into the hands of such worthless scoundrels as O’Donovan Rosaa? One of two things should be done: the cowardly scamps now having the matter in charge should be sent about their own affairs, and new aud more determined men substituted, or the whole disreputable scheme abandoned —the latter being the wiser and more manly of the two. If Ireland is to be freed, it will not be accomplished by the burning of a little gunpowder in London with no more result than a few skinned noses and some squares of window-glass shattered. One might be excused for believing the story lately circulated-r-that the explosions that have occurred have been brought about, not by the enemies of England bent on destruction, but by the connivanee, if not actual participance, of the polioe, The Irishman who cannot do no more harm with dynamite in one week than has been done in Loudon in ten years is no man at all, and has less wish to serve Ireland than to save his own worthless neck. The friends of Ireland living in America should refuse to give a penny to aid the lazy medicanta who are living at their ex pense on the plea of what they intend doing to annihilate the British government. It is amazing that they have been tolerated thus long, and they should be taught that they can no longer practice their infamous confidence games. Every dollar given them is a dollar worse than thrown away. It is a salary to incompetenoy, a reward for confidence schemes that have no other object than to live like lords at the expense of the credulous friends of a very unhappy people. Mr. Moody will oncounter great difficulty in saving souls at Richmond. Not that Richmond souls are any harder to save than the souls of less wicked subjects, but that those

in the late rebel capital are obstinate. They insisted that he slurred the character of Lee and of Jackson; and if ho did—well they have no use whatever for Moody’s religion or Moody’s heaven. One unreconstructed fellow, who fought with Lee, went to the Y. M. C. A. meeting on New Year’s and volunteered to whip the whole crowd that invited Moody to come to Richmond. Mr. Moody is there, and it remains to be seen whether he is strong enough in the faith to hold his own against this new phase of the power of Satan. The people of Richmond are in a bad way, and no mistake. A little old-fashioned religion would do them good. The action of Governor Porter in the matter of the police commissionership will be heartily and strongly indorsed by the Republicans of the city and of the State. The Democrats have had some experience before in an attempt to bulldoze the Governor. They tried it two years ago, at the insolent beck of the bummers for whom the metropolitan police bill was passed. But Bynum tfnd his disreputable crowd failed to move him an inch from the constitutional line of his executive prerogative. They had the numerical force and could carry their point then, as the State officers can now, in the election of a police commissioner; but the Governor may be relied on to stand firmly by his duty aud the proper rights of the party of which he is the representative. So far as Mr. Failey is concerned, we have nothing to say. He is a reputable and honorable gentleman, and* might make a good commissioner. But be is not a Republican, in the sense that Mr. Frenzel and Mr. Murphy are Democrats, and he was the choice of the Democratic officers for the sole and only reason that he was not a representative Republican. Ho is not the man for whom the Republican party desires to become responsible as a member of the Metropolitan Police Board, and it is to his credit as a man ‘and as a citizen that he recognizes that fact, and declines to accept the place. There were a dozen good men and good Republicans named, auy one of whom would be satisfactory to the Governor, to the Republican party and to the people generally; but it was not the purpose of the Democratic State officers to allow such an. one to be chosen. They not only propose to select tho Democratic members of the hoard, but the Republican member as well. If that is their determination, we hope the plaoe will remain vacant until Governor Gray’s incumbency, when they will have full swing. Then, for whomsoever they select, should he accept, the Republican party will be in no wise responsible, and for whatever he may do, or not do, the party cannot be held to answer. As for Secretary Myers’s coarse and insulting taunt to Governor Porter, that he was afraid of public opinion in his choice of a commissioner, it may, probably, be enough to say that the spirit of the remark was entirely worthy of and beooming to the Secretary of State. There is no man more conscientious than Governor Porter in the dischage of duty, and if he believed the right was across the path of popular opinion, no man would be less hesi tant in opposing the public clamor. But it is to his credit if, in the discharge of his duty as a representative of the people, he seeks to know what is the real and rightful public voice; and we may say that the time is not far distant when tho Democratic State officers and the Democratic members of the polioe board will regret that they had not taken counsel of the solid, righteous sentiment that demands a proper enforcement of law and an observance of their oaths by public officials. The overthrow of the party and the men that prostitute themselves and cover their souls with moral perjury, at the behests of a league of defiant lawbreakers, is as certain as fate.

The Adams Express Company owes something more to young O’Hara than allowing him to step in by the back door and resume his place in their employ. Without discussing the quality or the force of the circumstances that led ablo detectives and lawyers to conclude that he was probably guilty of the supposed crime, and passing by, for the time at least, any debate of the mysterious return of the missing package, the fact remains that the surveillance which he was placed was public, his commitment to jail was public, and his suspected connection with the alleged robbery has been spread all over the country, to his serious detriment. It is quite certain now that O’Hara was innocent of the disappearance of the package, as he must be of any responsibility for its remarkable reappearance. —if the reappearance is remarkable—and the company owes it to itself and to Mr. O’Hara, as well as to the community, that the reparation for the wrong done the young man be ample, open and ungrudging. The Charleston News and Courier, of Saturday, says: “It is evident from tho special reports published in the News and Courier yesterday that the emigration of the oolored people, about which so much fuss was made, is not sufficient in extent to interfere with the supply of labor in the State. There is no exodus. A few hundred colored people have been.induced to go to the Southwest by the promise of less work and more pay. Some of them have already discovered that there is no place like home, and have returned hero. Others will oome back before long." We are glad to know this; for the South itself would be the worst sufferer from a forced emigration of the colored people, who are, necessarily, the laborers of that section. We have faith to believe that under the awakened oonsoience of the Nation, and under the new circumstances, industrial and otherwise, that

are coming to the Sonth, there will he, before long, a cessation of the frauds and murder that have disgraced the people and done violence to the “natural rights’'of the negro. The bloody lane of the past twenty years must have a turning. The Utica Herald says of Mr. Beecher's speech of apology to his Plymouth Church congregation: “Mr. Beecher's apology and explanation to the congregation of Plymouth Church for his political conduct during the presidential campaign would be an incredible performance in any other man than Henry Ward Beecher. We are only saying that it was an entirely natural performance, when we describe it as maudlin, incoherent and sentimental. It is the quintescence of slush, as applied to the politi-co-religion, or religio-politics, of a great man gone to seed.” There are a few encouraging facts about 1884. The penitentiary earnings show up pretty well.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The earnings would be increased were the election swindlers of this city and of Chicago brought to justice. The peripatetic gentlemen who are now being escorted to the city walls, where they are beaten with many stripes and admonished to “git," are directed to the fact that a kind-hearted lady of Gilroy, Kan., has constituted herself the good angel of all tramps. She not only gives them a square meal but wine and cigars. There is nothing like it in Indiana. The widow of George T. Chambers and her step-son, Harold Chambers, were married at the bride’s residence, on Thirteenth street, New York, yesterday. Harold is now twenty-one, and his bride forty-five. Harold is the third husband. The mother, mother-in-law and bride is worth millions. Mortgages seem to boos no legal value in Kentucky. A Louisville plurabor says that bursting pipes give plumbers no harvest. Workmen have to be taken away from profitable contracts to go to the pipes to do work for which, in many cases, no money, can be collected. _ Ellen Terry ran a foot race with her son in the long corridors of a Pittsburg hotel.—Eastern Exchange. Well, now, which is it? Some say it was her poodle aud some her son. We’d like to know which beat _ That Washington wns a pious man is denied anew by the Rev. E. D. Neill, who says that the story of the prayer in the woods at Valley Forge is a Ho. —New York Sun. Don’t say lie, neighbor, say Valiev Forgery. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal! State in your paper what day of the week the cold New Year’s came on in the year 1864. Jan. 1, 186-1, fell on Saturday.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. POSTON has thirty-seven resideuts assessed at over $1,000,000 each. A bronze portrait bust of the late Dr. J. Marion Sims hu3 been presouiad to the Medical Library Association of Boston. Tbk origin of the earliest collection of by the Methodists in this country was long a mystery, until now it hqs been found to be identical with Robert Spence's ‘‘Pocket Hymn Book," which La the one that John Wesley so vehemently attacked. Mr. Walter Allen, for the past year and a half editor of the Portland Press, has resigned his position to become associate editor of the Boston ’Daily Advertiser, with which paper he was long connected as Washington correspondent, aud editorial writer. Gkn. Tom Clinuman, of North Carolina, is about to publish his book proving that the tobacoo cure panacea will reduce human suffering 90 per cent., and an appendix might bo added to show that a judicious use of old double-can rum would materially mitigate the 10 per cent, balance. Mb. Osoab Wild*, speaking at Glasgow, recently, on “Dress," said a Lancashire mill girl, with a shawl over her shouldors aud wearing clogs, knew more about dress than a fashionable London lady recently returned from Paris, because in the former case there was comfort, while in tho latter there was discomfort. Thk New Orleans Picayune elaborates a comparison between William Walker and John Brown, who, it says, “wont forth the one to buttress African slavery by planting its offshoot in a foreign State, the other to overthrow the some institution, as accursed," and who were “embodiments of antagonisms which have passed away forever." MiBB Nellis Calhoun, a California girl, who becarao stage struck in the wilds of San Bernardino, has just been appointed leading lady at the Haymarket Theater, London, and on her appearance as Dora, in “Diplomacy," achieved a marked success. United States Minister Lowell has now taken her up, on account, it is said, of the memory of hor kinsman, John C. Calhoun, and will see that she is presented at court some time before Lent. I\OSK Evtingk writes from Montana to the Dramatic News that the handsomest house, the only brick one at .peer Lodge, in fact, belongs to a Butte City gambler. Remarking upon it to her escort, who was a local pioneer, she said: “Industry and economy evidently lead to wealth here as well as anywhere else."- “Yes'm," was tho reply; “’specially if ye deal a square game aud travel well heeled." The actress did not waste any more proverbs in that direction. Mu. Dolby's book on Diokens as a lecturer confirms tho opinion that Dickens brought on his death by overwork and overexcitomeut. Aocording to Mr. Dolby, the reading of tho murder scene in “Oliver Twist" by Dickens brought up the reader’s pulse from its normal 72 to 118. “On these occasions lie would have to be supported to his retiring room and laid on> sofa for fully ten minutes before he could speak a rational or consecutive sentence " Yet this reading he gave very frequently. Some of Richelieu Robinson's letters to the Tribune at the time of the inauguration of James K. Polk are being now read with a good deal of interest. In one of these letters Richelieu said the scenes on the streets of the capital were a disgrace to civilization, and the town was in possession of thugs aud rough, and ladies stood behind rich curtains and waved Sheir handkerchiefs at- reeling ruffians, while a white man, painted like an Indiau. with a huge ring In his nose, walked in the procession under the influence of liquor. Pkpk Hyacinth has fallen upon evil days since his return to France. He is, indeed, a voioo crying in the wildernes, as religious bodies of all denominations refuse him their pulpits, 'fixe other day he proposed to deliver a discourse at Neuilly, in the neighborhood of Paris, but oonld find admission nowhere. At last, in desperation, he besought the English rector of a little Anglican church, recently erected, to grant him admission and at first the English minister was os obdurate as the rest. Finally Pere Hayciuth woti him by promising to pronounoe a panegyric on Luther, which he did, comparing him to himself. The congregation amounted to spvon. Prokkssok Blaokik has been taken to task by the Scotoli Sabbatarians for the sin of breaking the Sabbath bv lecturing upon that day about “The Love Sotigs of Scotland." His reply to these miserable critics is crushing. He asks for any text of Scripture which lays down a “law of talking monopoly in favor of Geneva gowns;" he refers his censors to St Paul's teaching ou the Sabbath; he wants to know if it is more improper to discuss the “Love Songs of Scotland" than the Song of Solomou; and. finally, he thinks that “good advice is no better for being given with a sour face," and “no worse for being seasoned

with a smile.” For my part, I think there is raov# real religion in the genial Professor than in the sous humbugs who find fault with him. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. No course of education and no Sahbath school can keep men with criminal instincts out of the penitentiary. But. Kunday-schoola act most powerfully in preventing the formation and development of irregr.• lar or vicious habits. Parents or guardians cannot afford to ignore such a beneficent agency in fixing the moral status of future generations. The Sundayschools should be kept filled.—Philadelphia Record. MR. Gladstone has inherited the mistakes of the governments that have preceded him, as in Ireland he has had to undo, against a century of prejudice aud many centuries of misrule, the ill-tied knots of former legislators. As he has succeeded measurably in Ireland, so will he in the long run triumph, we believe, in Europe, for greater, as he himself has said in Parliament, than armies in array and navies in line of battle is the spirit of Christian civilization which shows mankind that the good of all nations and individuals is really the good of each.—Brooklyn Engle. It ought to be plain to any intelligent observer that the country is now in greater danger from an enlarged pension list than from all other evils which threaten it,. The arrears bill has cost so much beyond even the wildest estimates of its opponents that it m’gbr well stand as a continual warning. With more than 300.000 pensioners on the roll the Nation cannot be taxed with ingratitude, and it might well be permitted to recuperate its resources for a time, until it can relieve the suffering millions to whom the war and its attendant dangers are little more than dim traditions.—Philadelphia Times. We will say to these fancy and play Socialists, however, that they need not hunt far to find a perfect socialistic theory. They have onl> to read the New Testament and to weigh the words o. the founder of Christianity. If they and all Christians should in fact and in truth live up to those sublime doctrines, now nearly two thousand years old, the problem over which they waste so raanv words would be solved, and the millennium of which this iron manufacturer speaks would already be here. But, verily, it is hard to be a Christian, especially for a rich man, harder than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. —New York Sun. The business of picking holes is not the best training for monding them. In England it has often been deplored that the most active and successful assailants of an administration should for that, reason be chosen to supplant it when the country is convinced that their criticism is sound. There is practic ally no choice, however, except between this method of government aud that in which the governing class is practically irresponsible. The latter method is naturally the more pleasing to Prince Bismarck, but the whole civilized world is against it, and it cannot be successfully practiced much longer, even in Germany,—New York Times. Every intelligent, fair-minded man. whether he t>e a radical Republican or l-übid Democrat, won Id say. if he were wholly fi ank, that Mr. Randall's general idea of tariff revision, the idea which lie has expressed to the Southern people wit hin the last few days, D the true and just one, and that upon which all honest Republicans and Democrats could wisely unite. He has made if perfectly clear that freo trade is an utter impossibility, that no such policy can be tolerated in this country. Then he states the policy he would have adopted, and only selfish interest or ignorance can say that it is not a good policy.—Philadelphia Telegraph. Whether man would not have been wiser if h® had continued the ancient policy of keening woman down, is not now a practical question. Sue is up and cannot again be put down. The alphabet in her hands broke her bonds. The Irrepressible conflict must go on, and man must take the consequences, whatever they may bring to his ancient empire over woman. If the signs thus far in this conflict may be accepted as testimony, the consequence will be that man shall find retribution in being himself reduced to that condition of subordination in which he bad kept woman in all the dreadful ages.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. So long as the community is faithfully served by a postmaster he cannot be fairly said to have perverted nis trust to political ends though he should spend it deal of his time in perfecting his party organization. And yot we believe that such an official has made bintself so obnoxious to the President-elect's party that his removal will be demanded and made. We further believe that there are not, a huudred Republican officials in the North who have not, by their interest in the success of their party, made themselves so obnoxious that they will be removed. We may be in error; we hope that we are; but there is nothing in Governor Cleveland's record and no change in the purpose of the Democratic party to warrant a different conclusion. Furthermore, the view of the Journal is that of the Democratic managers at large to-day after reading Air. Cleveland's letter.—Boston Journal. The American people are not much concerned about political preponderance in Spanish America. Our population and our wealth will give us all the preponderance wo want without treaties, it is not necessary to buy preponderance, and our experience with Brazil shows that the article is not for sale. It is far more to the the purpose that we should make up our minds to a definite commercial polioy than to be bothering our heads übout. preponderating. It is impossible to run a commercial country with one eyS on protection and the other on free trade. In ons part of his letter Mr. Freliughuysen says that his policy is “the essence of wise protection.” while in another he points out the advantage of “securing customers for articles we produce in return for tho products which we cannot profitable raise,” which is pretty sound free-trade doctrine. So long as the government is thus muddled on the principle which is.to guide our future commercial policy, we had bettor go slow in making treaties which mav bind us for a term of years.—Sau Francisco Chronicle.

Th*' Medal lor George William Curtis. Bostou Journal. Last April, after the return of Mr. Georg® William Curtis from Boston, where he doiiverod his raemorablo eulogy upon the late Wendell Phillips, he advised the committee in whoso charge were all the arrangements connected with the memorial services, that he was unwilling to accept pecuniary compensation for hi* services. The question of making some other fitting recognition of the debt which the committee felt themselves to be under to Mr. Curtis has remained in abeyance until hist week, when an order was given to Messrs. Henry Guild & Son to make a gold medal, upon one side of which is to be a medallion of Mr. Phillips, with the date of bis birth and death, and on the reverse side the seal of Boston, surrounded with an inscription of the purport of the memento. Mr. Curtis has been advised of the committee’s action and has acknowledged the receipt of the communication sent to him in*,a touching and characteristic note. Gov. King To Uo Secretary of War. Special to Brooklyn Eagle. Hon. R. S. Dement, of Lexington, 111., is authority for the statement that Horatio 0. Kiug. of Brooklyn, is to he the next Secretary of War. Mr. Dement is believed to be a little premature in his prognostications. Certainly the information would have been more credited if, instead of coming all the way from Illinois, it had been sent from Albany. Mr. Cleveland ig understood to entertain a high opinion of Gen. King, having appointed him on his staff, but there is not the remotest probability that he will offer him a scut in the Cabinet ■ i A Mugwump Opinion of the Irish Vote. Sew York Evening Poet. If the Democrats are wise, and wish to bo th® party of the future, they will take no pains to win back what they have lost They have long been ruinously weighted by their dependence bore on a body of voters dominated by foreign ideas and foreign aims, and are sure to ruin any party which make a point of conciliating them, and who cannot be reached in critical times by the art by which all permanent-party success must be achieved iu a county like this —the art of open persuasion. The Gentleman the Hell Goes South With, New Orleans Tlmos-Democrat. Three of th® largest and handsomest members of the Philadelphia police force will undertake the mission of bringing the Liberty Bell to the world’s exposition in this city. Each of th® envied trio—sergeant Matin and Officers New maun and Patton, all of the reserve force—are over six feet high. The Very Mural Canadians. Now York Tribune. A Chicago man who stole SG, 000 fled to Canada, and was. of course, perfectly safe from arrest But unluckily for him ho swore out loud one day and iie was promptly jugged. Those Canadians will not tolerate any humoral practices. - The Depths of Experience. Southern Dentocrut. It is a mockery to wish a newspaper man a “Happy New Year." when his subscribers neglect to pay up. and he tremble® at the approach of hi® creditors. The Facts Against 111 m. New York Bluil nnd Express. Mr. St John is no match for Editor McOullagh. especially as the facts aro against the late caadulate of tho Prohibitionists.