Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1885 — Page 4

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TEE DAILY JOURNAL BY JXO. C. NEW & SON. MONDAY’. FEBRUARY 23, 1885. THE INDIAN.\POIiS JOURNAL Cars b found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchxu.ga in Europe. 410 Atraud. FART' - Exchange in Par’s, 35 Boulevard dee Ccpueines. KENS YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor riotelv CHICAGO—PaImer noose. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos., 15 i Vine Street. LOUTS VTLT.E—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUTS — Union Nows Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Office 2f?B [ Editorial Rooms 212 Tax Uie saloons. Lct Indianapolis men talk up Indianapolis from now on. Tin. friends of Mr. Cleveland evince a very uncomplimentary anxiety that lie should mako Lis message short. Friends of Mr. Thurman are hereby informed that they are in danger of overworking the phrase, ‘‘Noblest Roman of them all.” Besides that, it is not much of a compliment. Thosi: young British who rushed to Egypt, glad of the opportunity to get out of range of the turbulent Irish, are just now rushing out of Egypt, without any clear idea of where they want to go next. A MElm Eli of the Canadian Parliament has just distinguished himself by cowhiding an editor, having provided a bully to take up the fight in case he failed. This is the first intimation that Patten had left the country. A Democratic senator is quoted as saying that “Cleveland is not looking into nooks and corners for liis Cabinet. It will bo composed ©f men whom the people will at once recognize.” If this is the ease, Cleveland is not following the example set by tlio Democratic convention which discovered and then nominated him. TIIF. time has come for Indianapolis to enjoy another period of marked increase in population and wealth, if only advantage bo taken ©f opportunities at hand. The central and largest city of the State, with fifteen railways, radiating in every direction, make Indiana’s capital peculiarly desirable as a business point. United effort now will produce wonderful results.

Tin: information the Journal publishes this morning respecting the responsibility of Treasurer Coopers bond 'will be of interest to the people of the State, and may boa matter of news to thefl oviTiior, who docs not seem to be able to obtain very reliable data upon which to estimate the value of the document. It may tJso furnish a few facts for the edification of eminent bankers and financiers who rushed into print to suv that it was one of the most remarkable bonds ever given by a pub- < lie officer. Thu year 188f>, while it has not produced a disaster that would offset that of the earthquake in Ischia or on the Strait of Sunda, is working along industriously in a small way, and what with a score burned to death iu an asylum hero and there, a dozen or more killed l>y a natural gas explosion, a few ground up daily in railway accidents, and some done up by boiler explosions, it looks as though the total vrill he quite respectable by the time tho year closes. There is no reason for discouragement for the man or woman who gloats over horrors. That grim and ghastly destroyer, Asiatic cboleia, is at this very moment arranging his summer tour among tho provinces, with every indication that he will find lots to do in the crowded cities of England, after which he can extend his operations to the filthy tenement quartern of American cities. It is too early yet for survivors of railway accidents and asylum horrors to whisJle. They are not vet out of the woods. Tm: greed of New York merchants is proverbial: but there have been some late developments which show a selfishness altogether phenomenal. For years it has been charged that under valuation has been the rule in the New York custom-house, the effect of which, i>f course, wrjuld he to allow' their merchants to sell the imported goods cheaper than in other cities, where the valuations are honestly made. Chicago particularly has complained of this injustice, hut thus far there has been no remedy, as the New York custom house officials seem to he supreme. Then, again, the New York members of tho “National” Board of Trade—an organization comprising twenty four old grandmothers, who assumed to apeak for the business men of the country, with as much propriety and impudence as the three tailors of Toolev street did for tho people of England—petitioned Congress for certain regulations of transportation, tho benefit of which would bo exclusively to Eastern shippers, and they would not permit an amendment to admit Western shippers to the proposed benefit, although they consented to another resolution on behalf of the Western folks. Tho last demonstration of this selfishness is a movement in the New York Chamber of Commerce to abolish the system of inland transportation, by which goods may be imported at a seaport and transported direot to an inland city, and there entered tvb the local •ustom-houses, a3 an injustice to seaport jaerehants and injurious to the

There is nothing of greater value and cop venieuc© to inland merchants than the local Custom-house, and tho system whereby goods can bo transported in bond, withoufbreakage, right to their doors, without paying tribute to the Eastern merchants. Should this movement take a serious aspect, the merchants of every inland port of entry will combine to throttle it without mercy. Congress established tho inland ports of entry for the accommodation of inland merchants, and if New Y’ork cannot take care of itself without attacking interior cities, it will have to suffer the consequences with the best possible spirit of resignation. A LESSON WITH A MORAL. As has been announced in the newspapers and otherwise, tho Messrs. Oliver contemplate the removal of their extensive plow works from the city of South Bend to some other place, either in this State or out of it, where the condition of affairs is different from those of that city. Tho chief cause assigned by them for removing from South Bend is the lack of security to them of their property, their lives and their political rights, and even the privilege of the peaceable management of their affairs without the interference of outside parties who are in no wise interested in their business.

While, in this particular instance, should they remove their establishment from South Bond, tho citizens and tax-payers of that community would suffer most, yet the question is one which affects very seriously every citizen of the State, and even of tho whole country. Avery brief statement of the case is necessary to explain the condition of affairs. Tho Messrs. Oliver have been engaged in the manufacture of plows in South Bend for manj’ years. Their plow’s have a world-wide reputation, and are sold in almost every civilized country on the globe. Their works aro the most extensive in the world for the manufacture of that single article. They gave employment to from 500 to 2,000 mon, averaging 1,000, which means the support of 5,000 people. The wages of the Oliver employes will average $2.50 per day. The wages havo never been in arrears, but have been paid with punctuality. The works in South Bend cover about forty acres of ground, with more than twelve acres under roof. In addition, the Olivers havo contributed more to the building up of the city than possibly any other institution. They have built blocks of business houses, a fine opoiahouse, a hotel, and row after row of residences that would bo creditable to any city. Ail the money necessary to do these things has, of course, been expended right there, giving employment to labor and purchasers for produce and provisions, and all the articles required by the necessities of a thrifty population of several thousand people. In every way tho Messrs. Oliver have demeaned themselves as go<xl citizens —as they are—and benefactors in all good measures for the public welfare. While they have political opinions, and views as to what measures are for their own and the public good, they have never offensively paraded them, nor sought improf>erly to influence their employes in their votes or actions. Notwithstanding all these benefits that they have conferred on that city and all its inhabitants, and on the country round about it, a few pothouse politicians, bummers, loafers, publishers of imaginary newspapers, and committees composed of men who are too lazy to work, but who get themselves appointed and paid by labor organizations that aro lioodwinktxl by these vagabonds and idlers —these men who stand on street corners, visit saloons and all assemblages of workmen —have circulated the most incendiary stories, verbally and in print, against these gentlemen, until they created a strike and a mob, destroying their property and threatening their lives. The mob committed violence stopping only short of murder; and that murder did not ensue was by luck, and not from lack of design. Because of this mob spirit, proclaimed and preached by these incendiary vagabonds, aided by the outside help of Chicago Socialists —men more fearless, yet no worse at heart —the authorities of South Bend were, and are, unable to protect the Olivers in their persons and their property. Is it any wonder, then, that they seek a change of location? This is one example, and is local to South Bend, )’et that city is no worse than some others in Indiana, or other States. There i3 another city within seventy miles of Indianapolis where almost similar conditions exist. A large furniture manufacturing establishment has it in contemplation to remove or close business for causes like in kind and only less in degree. South Bend and the othercity to which reference is mado have as good people, and these, too, in the majority, as there are in the world; but the bummer element is active and malignant, and the “good citizens” passive and indifferent, hence these troubles.

Even’ man in this country has equal rights —tho rich and tho poor, the employer and the employe, the capitalist and the laborer. Ea<\h has his right to live, his right to vote, and the right, within the law, to do that which he deems to be his interest. Labor and capital are dependent one on the other, and both equals before the law’, entitled to equal inspect, but with sympathy always toward labor and tho laborer. Labor has the right to organize. Labor associations and trades-unions are right and proper. No one can reasonably object to them. They may prescribe the rules that shall govern them and boa law to them. Tho right to strike, tho right to prescribe the regulations under which they will work, no one can gain<MQr ©r deny. Yet others havo rights. Many <MMt *fa© wo qualified in every walk of life,

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from the highest to tho most humble, do not belong to labor associations, or to any sort of organization. They, too, have the “right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” which, under the federal bill of rights, every individual must respect in a republican government. Tho members of a labor organization may say that no member of their society shall work where any are employed who do not belong to their guild; but they have no right to say that others shall not work; that other men may not earn their bread or support their families; that because Smith does not belong to their particular union he shall not support his wife, children or aged parents. Any other doctrine is monstrous, and the community that recognizes any other course is sure to suffer. The idea that any man shall be proscribed in his right to buy where he pleases, sell where he pleases, labor for whom he pleases, hire where he can and’whom he can, is not the doctrine of a republican government. This is the case of South Bend to-day. It may be ludianapolis, or some other town, tomorrow. AWAKE, INDIANAPOLIS! The people of Indianapolis. ought to be awake to the fact that anew era is dawning upon Indiana’s capital, and should not fail to meet the new order of things with all the energy and enterprise that characterized Indianapolis before the panic of 1873 put an end, temporarily, to tho advance then being made. Since then the city has suffered severely, but wo are again ready to go forward, and it remains only for our citizens to unite to that end. By co-operation there is no doubt that the industrial interests of the city can be speedily and greatly developed. The city's shipping facilities, its central location, tho protection and encouragement it affords to all its industries, the healthful sentiment of tho people here, and the fact that here is located the largest city in tho State, and that so large a percentage of its working people own their own homes, all unite to make this a location desirable to any man or corporation to embark in business. Indications now aro that business will soon experience an improvement not felt during the past ten years. The building outlook is better than for years. With the passage of the necessary bill by tho Legislature—which seems assured —anew union railway station will be speedily built, an improvement long needed. The Board of Trade gives evidence of new energy, and unless factious opposition interferes, will soon begin the erection of a building that shall reflect credit upon and add to the architectural attractions of tho city. In addition to these public enterprises, there is no exeuso for longer delay in the matter of building anew market-house, one that shall afford hotter market fa?ff?fies and be an exponent of tlio city’s enterprise and thrift. Leaving out the question of a city hall, which is not a pressing one, a market-house would certainly prove a paying investment in every respect. These, and numberless inside private enterprises must soon engage the attention of every citizen anxious to sec the city grow in population and wealth. There are great industrial enterprises seeking a location in Indianapolis. The slenderest possibility of securing the Oliver chilled plow works should set all enterprising citzens at work to afford every encouragement to induce the proprietors of that vast manufactory to locate here. With unsurpassed shipping facilities, it ought to bo an easy thing to secure the contemplated removal of these works to somo point on or near the Belt road around the city. Why would it not be the wise thing for the city to offer at low terms such portion of the alleged Garfield Park as may be required for their purposes? Should this industry come to us, an addition of not less than 5,000 would be mado to tho population within a year, and a million dollars added to tho volume of capital invested. The good effect would bo felt immediately in all branches of trade, and the city would bo tho gainer by hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. But the Oliver Brothers are not the ouly manufacturers looking toward our city with the view of locating hero. Others, only less important in the magnitude of capital invested and number of men employed, aro anxious to get where they can enjoy the superior advantages hero offered. The present duty of citizens is to offer every encouragement to commendable enterprise. Indianapolis has reason to grow much larger and much more wealthy. Few cities possess sucli advantages without pushing them for all they aro worth. Few cities are so favorably located, with ready and direct communication with all the great cities of tho West and South, and all its great agricultural and consuming region. The manufactories already in operation here send their products to all parts of the world. The fifteen railways centering here, and united as they aro, by a belt road, afford shipping advantages that no other city in tho country can offer. Coal in inexhaustible quantity is at hand, the best of hard-wood in abundance, and all the inducements that can be askod are here. It remains, then, only that the citizens of Indianapolis co-operate to push her claims. There is etery incentive to do this, and it can be done in the fullest confidence that good will result to all concerned, to those who invest and those who are thereby afforded employment. Let tho city, and such corporations as can, set the example by proceeding with contemplated improvements. Let our merchants, business men and manufacturers wake up,

and let tho country know they are alive and doing something. Wo need anew depot —let it bo built; anew market-house—-let work on it begin at once; anew Chamber of Commerce that shall afford accommodation to all wishing to have offices near it —let it meet the heartiest approval. Let old enterprises be revived and new ones encouraged, confident that tho future of this city, like that of the country, is bright with better things in store. Indianapolis must not lot sister cities outstrip her. To stand still is to let others win the race. The time is here for another advance. GOOD WORK OP “GOOD CITIZENS." The conviction of Mackin, Gallagher and Gleason, at Chicago, next to the conviction of the notorious “Boss” Tweed, is one of the *4 ' greatest triumphs of justice in the history of the country. Mackin, like Tweed, aspired to be a boss in municipal politics, and, when arrested, the latter, like his great prototype, sneered at the idea of conviction. “What are you going to do about it?” was Tweed’s defiant query. “Just wait and see,” was Mac kin's sneer when it was suggested that he was in a tight place. Each of these bold scoundrels — for such they have been proved to be —should be sent to the penitentiary, with even more certainty than though they were burglars or footpads. Tho ordinary thief’s offense is against tho individual. That of Mackin and his tools was against the interest of every citizen of the Nation. The man who willfully and criminally tampers w’ith the ballot-box to change the lawful result of elections is the enemy, not only of public institutions, but of every man who believes that the majority should rule and that law should bo respected. “Boss” Tweed manipulated elections and marshaled educated thieves by battalions. Had he succeeded in perpetuating his reign, in defiance of law, ho and his fellow-scoundrels would havo plunged the city into deeper debts than have already been contracted. His hands were against every honest man in the metropolis. At the head of a university of thieves, his influence was a menace to the very integrity of municipal government. While Mackin did not reach so wide an influence, so far as those under him were coucorned, his ambition was ex on greater than that of the New York Boss. Tweed contented himself with stealing millions; Mackin proposed to steal the suffrages of tho people for the purpose of advancing his own rascally interests. By stealing a seat in Congress for another man; by changing the ballots, days after the election, in order to send to tho State Legislature a man not elected thereto, and thereby elect to the United States Senate a man of his making, what might he not havo hoped for in event of success? It would have given him a power for ovil in Chicago and in Illinois that a thousand honest citizens could not have counteracted. The men ot Chicago who united to bring this fellow to punishment havo done well to secure his conviction. Indications aro that they will follow up the appeal taken by his attorneys and see to it that ho is lodged in tho penitentiary. Good citizens everywhere will unite in congratulating those who have accomplished this victory.

Tiie bill of Representative Floyd [H. R. 411], which provides for the designation by the Governor, and Secretary and Treasurer of State, of certain depositories for the safe keeping of the public funds, was at first received with favor, and was to havo been reported from the ways and means committoe, with the recommendation that it pass; but after this agreement had been tacitly reached, the Demoerats began to fear that under the provisions of the bill there might bo an investigation into the condition of the State Treasury, or at least, that the real facts might be made known. When this became even a probability the report upon tho bill was not made, as at first expected, but the Democratic members will oppose its passage, in harmony with tho determination of tho majority in tho Legislature that under no circumstances, and by no means, shall the actual condition of the Treasury bo discovered to the public. Tho pertinacity shown by tho Democrats to keep the lid on the Treasury as tightly as possible, is remarkable, and can but deepen tho serious suspicion and apprehension already rife in tho public mind. The Journal’s Soundness. We shall be pardoned for printing a letter from a woman of unusual mental endowments, and whose history and character carry weight with her words. Possibly the letter was intended to be private, but, aside from the compliments to the Journal, it contains sentiments that will find an echo in the heart and mind of every honest thinker. The writer is a resident of Indiana; “What I say to you concerning the paper is no formal compliment, but exactly the opinion as expressed to others. The reputation of the Journal is dignified and patriotic. Away back in 1870, during that terrible crisis when the destiny of a nation trembled in tne balauco, the voice of the Journal was ever heard on the side of right. Its tone was rich and mellow with tho ring of pure cold, strangely in contrast with that of the Courier Journal, with its trumpet of sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. I had a good opportunity to compare notes, for I was spending that winter in Kentucky. * * * “Again, during the days of awful suspense which followed our recent election, the Journal's position was the same—loyalty to country and submission to tho will of the majority above every other thought. Great heavens! (I speak it reverently) what a disgrace to our Nation when Grover Cleveland brought down tho scales, and James G. Blaine was lost to the couutry. I think even the better class of Democrats must feel the humiliation when they look the two men fairly and squarely in tho face. “Then, too, treason i3 making itself ‘so much at homo’ since this glorious (?) victory. Please do not think me uncharitable. 1 try so hard to bear in mind‘the greatest of these is charity,’ but I cannot tolerate this effort to break down ‘the middle wall or partition between treason and loyalty.’ Shame! shame! on the spectacle of Jeff Davis gusning over the old Liberty Bell. I wonder the old bell—poor thing —uid not rise up and resent the insult by cracking itself all to pieces. Your suggestion to ‘now take it to the groveof Benedict Arnold' whs good.

I was pleased with yonr editorial on the subject. Please accept ray thanks for tho same. The words of tho immortal Morton must never grow dim. Yes, ‘there is an eternal difference between right and wrong.’ “I believe in a ‘charity that sufforeth long and is kind,’ and only God knows how long and bitterly we did suffer— the hours of agony brought upon us by treason and robellion. “Looking back over those dark days I see a very dear friend—grand and noble in his young manhood —falling on Shiloh’s bloody flel ’ his head pierced by a rebel’s mime ball. I c 't forget it. Neither can I forget another si r —my friend—who was shot down by rebel at. ssins on Kentucky’s neutral soil. And lastly, tho tender-hearted boy in blue, my step brother, who said with his dying breath, ‘I could havo saved myself, but it looked like deserting the colors.’ “Ah yes, let us freely forgive; but let us not wrap the mantlo of sentimentalism around our manhood and womanhood, and say thero is no difference between the ‘blue and the gray,’ and, judging from the tone of much of Southern literature, such would seem to be the basis of fellowship. I believe in tho old-fashioned ‘right hand’ of fellowship, and just how to go about feeline comfortable in offering it to tho Charleston News and Courier, in view of its sentiments expressed on tho occasion of unveiling the statue to tho confederate dead, is to say the least puzzling. It says, and it speaks as one having authority, ‘Tho children must be taught while there is yet time what were the 'causes of tho war, and that it was might that triumphed over right, in order that the ways of Eternal Providence should be made manifest for our good in the end, for the good of tho sinning and the sinned against.’ ” Thk judiciary committee of tho House has de cided to report unfavorably tho bill introduced by Representative Schley, xroviding for the control of the fire department of Indianapolis by a metropolitan commission, to be appointed by the Governor and the State officers. The committee were opposed to tho whole principle of the bill—Legislative Item. What does the committee think of the “principle" of the metropolitan police bill, by which the police of the city is placed under the control ot a commission appointed by the Governor and State officers? J. L. Whiteside is a cheerful ghoul. At this late day he cards the Cincinnati Enquirer tc say that the bodies buried in tho federal cemetery at Chattanooga wero buried wholly without regard to their identity, and that tho names placed above them cannot bo relied on as correct. Mr. Whiteside will be excused from testifying further. The mayor of Cincinnati suggests that the “natal day of tho birth” of George Washington be observed within the borders of his satrapy. George himself would have done better than that. _ A North Carolina negro went right on playing tho fiddle after a bullet had been fired iuto his brain. Exasperated people will hereafter fire at the fiddle. The shock of a sudden transition from boreal temperature to tho base ball season is what the American public must brace itself for. Mumbo Jumbo having bad his say, tho Washington monument will probably stand “four square" to all the winds that blow.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. It is reported that Mr. W. 11. Bishop, tho novelist, may be asked to accept tho vacant professorship of English literature at Vale. Mary Andkrson is so persecuted by importinent starers at church on Sundays that, according to tho London Court Journal, ’‘she has been compelled to change her place of worship," but it is presumed that she sticks to the old form. An exhibition of the works of Hans Makart has been oponed in Vienna. His pictures are to be found in most of tho great European galleries. The Art Association of Vienna dosiros gradually to collect as many as possible of them. it The Very Rev. Edward Henry Biokerstcth, who has been promoted to tno bishopric of Exeter to succeed Dr. Temple, who has been made Bishop of London, is the author of the poem, ‘‘Jesus Christ, tho same yesterday, to-day and forever." A peculiarity of most of the Paris papers is that they rent out the financial column by the year to anybody who wants it. A well-known banking-house pays tho Figaro 160,000 franos a year for tho use of their financial column, and puts in whatever it pleases. It has a ten years’ contract. Isaac V. Wilson, who is discovered to bo the richest man in Philadelphia, boasts that while acquiring his fortuue of $15,000,000 ho also acquired such abstemious habits that his personal expenses now are not more than $1,500 a year, which is the income, atper cent., on a fortune of $50,000. A Boston lady recently invited Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to one of her small receptions, and then half apologized to him, fearing he might think the invitation was inspired by a double motive. “Oh," said he in his usual kindly manner, “use me just as you please. If I can be of any service to you, I shall be very glad." A WRITER in the Atlantic, speaking of the maliciousness of the mocking-bird, states that if young birds are placed m cages where the parent bird can have access to them, they will feed their offspring regularly for two or three days, and then, as if in despair, will poison them, giving them tho berry of the black ash. Speaker Carlisle is making a collection of the the most curious communications lie receives; such, for instance, as a letter from a Minnesota Bourbon, who wanted an appropriation by Congress to provide him with a good sleigh. Ho told what kind of wood it was to be made of, how many bells it should have, and how thick the steel of tho runners should be; and, in a post-scriptum, intimated that the salvation of the eountrv depended on the appropriation being made promptly. Senator Lamar stepped into one of the “bobtail" cars on Pennsylvania avenue, and, after fumbling in his pockets for some time, linally pulled out a half dollar and absent-mindedly dropped it into the box. A friend sat on the opposite side of the car, and reminded the Senator that the fare was only five cents. ’tWell, w-oll," replied the Mississippian, smiling, “that’s just like me." And, once more putting his hands in his pockets, he drew therefrom a nickel, which he quietly deposited on top of the half dollar. Maiilon llollanu, who abandoned his pronerty near Bangor, Me., several years ago, and settled down in the Northwest as a trapper and hunter, died three years ago. and recently his relatives, who had been in charge of the farm, decided to bring his remains East for interment. Those who went after his remains found that Holland had been buried in a box made of old boards, and that he could not be taken eastward until he w-as put in a more substantial coffin. In making tho transfer his missing will was found, giving Holland’s proporty to his relatives, as he had promised, and also a memorandum stating where he had buried $2,100 in gold noar tho lake. Tho papers had been buried with Holland by mistake. Now that Mr. Henry Janies lias found so many capital subjects for burlesque among the pooplo of Boston, it is a matter of wonder what some other novel writer does not deal in similar strain with a ono-tirne resident of that city who is an eminent author. Tho literary gentleman in quostion lived in Mount Vernon street ono winter recently, and kept tho wholo neighborhood in an uproar with his “norves." All tho cats had to be killed so that his slumbers might nut be broken by their midnight cries, the servants went about in list slippers and spoke with bated breath, and overy bell in the house rang with a muffled tongue. Even to thqp day that season is named “that terrible winter." And the voice of rumor whispers that tho pervous autocrat who thus made life not worth living in his environment bore Iho name of Henry James. A Virginia Cm, Nov., paper says “Tho energetic hissing nightly accorded to the heavy villain in the melodrama, now running at the Baldwin reminds old residents of the first theatrical peefornuraoe over

given in Virginia City. Most of the miners had not seen a play for a score of years, and when the Johnstone troupe opened in ‘Othello,’ tho hacse presented a packed mass of rod shirts. Edwin Booth was the lago, and so faithfully did he portray the traitorous friend that the audience lost control of itself, and, in tho second act, began shooting at the fell conspirator. One shot struck Othello’s swoni hilt, and all hands had to lie down on tho stage and roll into tho wings. The indignant miners were finally quieted and the play proceeded, but the final denouement was so taken to heart by the spectators that Booth remained in the theater all night for fear of tho vigilantes, who talked seriously of lynching the ‘ooldblooded cus’ off hand. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. It is reversing the order contemplated by our syitem of government for congressmen to advise th® President what to say. It is for him to advise Congress what to do, taking care not to interfere in any way with its independence bv attempting to coerce that body through the abuse of executive prerogative. There are three estates under our federal Constitution, and neither should be guilty of impertinent modtiling with either of the other two.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The moral and religious people of our country ought all to bo advocates of an international copyright law, if only fur one reason—that such a law would largely preserve us from current French literature. Now there is no restriction at all on the reproduction hero of foreign literary works, but under a copyright law they could not be published here without arrangement with the author, and this would operate as a very wholesome check on the entorpisc of our publishers. It might deprive us of some good books occasionally, but. it would also save us from an infinitely greater number of bad ones. —St. Louis Republican. Possibly if he [Washington] had )>oen called t® command such au army as fought under Grant ha would have failedto handle it triumphantly: and there have been emergencies in our politics during the last quarter of a century that he might not have met with perfect success had hr. lived in our day and been acting as President. But all this is of no importance, so far as regards the well-earned and splendid renown which must ever be associated with his name and career. We can think of but one man in all the list of American choice and master spirits who is wholly worthy to be classed with him, or likely to be as long and fondly remembered. That man, of course, is Abraham Lincoln.—JSt. Louis Globe-Democrat. The passage of the bill to restore to the public domain the 15,000,000 of acres comprised in the forfeited Texas Pacific land grant is the occasion for this expression of public thanks. It is, however, a declaration of thanks to public agents who have done no moro than a simple and plain public duty, and who. if they had done less, would ha ve earned an ineffaceable stamp of historic infamy. They have simply arrested a colossal programme of land-piracy—an attempt to seize and transfer to a company of speculators more than 23,437 square miles of public land—about equiva'ont to the area of South Carolina, or ouohalf of Illinois. That robbery is the right name of the undertaking, every fact in its history proves. —Chicago Times. We cannot sec why the godly and tho ungodly need of necessity mix at the skating rinks any more than, on the promenade, at the public school, or iu the customary intercourse of business, except they should both chance to try to dig in their heels and stop when they happen to be within a few feet of each other. Indeed, it seems to be one of the least dangerous of places where young folks can go to amuse themselves. They do not. have to speak to each other or touch each other at all if they don’t want to. They aro not thrown in contact with drunken men, * for such drunken men as the rink manager does not throw out, the skates inevitably throw down and discourage. Their ears arc not polluted with vilo language, if for no other leason Hum that the skates make too much noise. —Pittsburg Times. Where a society, city or State undertakes to afford relief for those who, through poverty, accident or the nature of their disease, cannot be treated at tlieir homes, that society, city or State becomes responsible for the lives of those it thus takes in charge, and any additional injury inflicted through the want of proper care is a crime. In every large city there is need of a refuge for the hopelessly sick poor, for women whom society dooms to destruction, and for the victims, both well-to-do and poor, ot accident aud sudden injury. If all or any of these, whose lives might otherwise have been spared, perish from the absence of sanitary conditions, from lire or from neglect, the supposed refuge is a pretense, those who perish are lfturdcred in the name of kindness, and the city or State which has permitted such abuses to exist is guilty of th© slaughter.—Philadelphia Record. The suffering which has been entailed upon the miners, their wives and childien by this prolonged strike [in Hocking valley | cannot l>o estimated in dollars and cents. Which side in the controversy was i® blame, or whether both sides were culpable, it is not now the time to decide. Before this point can be determined tho bitterness engendered by the strife must have time to die out. The lesson which the oooaaion touches, however, should be enforced. Ifashii.ro only of the patience and endurance which have been exhibited ou both sides in maintaining the struggle had been devoted at the beginning to adjusting tlx© controversy, the long conflict might- have been avoided. But if the loss and suffering caused by this ton months’ strike have taught these virtues to tho employes and tho employed, this bitter and protracted struggle will not have happened in vain. —Philadelphia Press. In tho political history of Engl aud there bo found the names of but few men who hav* served their country aa long, wisely and honestly as Mr. Gladstone has done. If he had a fault it was his houesty, his great desire to bo right. It was that as much as anything that has made his foreign policy a failure. England h:ui no l ight in Afghanistan, into which Beaconsfield had forced her, and Gladstone called her out of it; she had no right in Zululand, whore Beaconsfield had sent her, and Gladstone brought her out of it; she had no right in Egypt, into which Beaconsfield had thrust her, and Gladstone would have drawn her out of it had he been able to do so. But. events greater than his purposes provonted; and, undetermined what to do in tho premises, he waa sluggard and wavering, and while ho loitered aud wavered the Mahdi gathered great armies about him and pushed them forward to tlio overthrow of one British contingent utter another.—Philadelphia Telegraph.

The Olivers anil South Bend. South Bend Register. No roan who carefully and without prejudice considers tho matter will say. speaking of the Olivers, “let them go; somebody else will come to take their place.” If the Olivers leave South Bend it will be on account of the labor troubles of tho past few weeks, which show no signs of cessation, and it is rather unreasonable to expect other men to come here and encounter what the Olivers are seeking to cscapo. The case of the Olivers does not sound the depths of this question. If they cun bo driven out of town through tho influence of political demagogues, what is to hinder the'same influence from not only driving away other factories we havo but keeping away those wo might have? There is no safety except in a combined resistance to tho efforts of men who would rule or ruin. I; tho Democratic party of this city prepared to shoulder tho responsibility which these demagogues arc saddling upon it, or will it denounce a policy which threatens tho very life of ourcityl This is something for responsible Democrats to think of. May Prove a Boomerang, Saturday People. Our solons should havo a caro in thbhr apportionment law. They may possibly overdo it Wo once lived in a neighboring Slate where a particular party had it all its own way. It doesn't matter which party that was—it has been so long ago. That party, whichever it was, got too big for its boots. It went to work and gerrymandered tbo State, for tho sole purpose of keeping itself in power. Tho thing was so apparent that at tho next general election that party was beaten, snowed under completely. Tlic people arose in their might and put. the seal of condemnation on its action in apportioning the State for political effect. lienco wc say the Democratic majority of our present Legislature should havo a care. They should not show their hand too plainly. The people aro not to be trifled with. In their apportionment let them endeavor to deal fairly as well as politically. A Valuable Pointer. Philadelphia Press. Private and personal nolo to drover Cloveland: Please remember that tho inaugural address which you aro now preparing will l>e addressed to the country and not to Mrs. Beecher. The Time Is Out of Joint. Chicago Herald. Something is wrong with the futes ''’hen A lunatic asylum is burned every week, and all of the legislative hails go unharmed. With Good liesults. Now York Mall and Express. High license is now the law in three States, and has been tried in live. In every case, so far, the results of it have been good. Information from Abroad, Sprlnefirld Republican. Tho Indiana Legislature is giving favorable ‘ consideration to a civil servico reform bill