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THE DAILY JOURNAL. by jko. c, mew a 90s. WASHINGTON OFFICK-513 St. P. 8. Heatr, Correspondent. FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1880. RATES OP SUBSCRIPTION, ■fifties INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE —POSTAGE PREPAID BY THC PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One year, by mail ...912.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 Six months, by mail 6.00 Six months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three months, by mail. 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday..... 3.50 One month, by mail 1.00 One month, by mail, including Sunday 1.20 Per week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) 25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Per copy 5 cents One year, by mail S2.W THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL.— r' (WEEKLY EDITION.) " One year _ .....SI.OO Less than one year ovj*t three months, 10c per month. No subscription taken for less than three months. In dubs of five 'or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for their work. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal. Indianapolis. Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.— Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 It is said that Bismarck's income is "in the neighborhood of $100,000.” Nice neighborhood to live in. Mr. Keely again reports progress. He Bays his motor will be finished in three months, and that he has already completed his liberator. If this be a fact, why not liberat 'er now? Why wait? The Washington special to the Indianapolis .Sentinel gays: "Senator Harrison delivered in the Senate to-day one of his ablest speeches on the admission of South Dakota. It was an able argument from a legal stand-point, and ■well received by some of the great lawyers in that body.” Philadelphia has complained for five years of the impure water supply; but the recent fires have proved that it is lacking in quantity as well as quality. It is claimed that if there had been enough of the water, dirty as it is, the great loss of property by these conflagrations might have been avoided. Those newspapers which insist, every few fiays, that Mr. Blaiue, as a politician, is as good as dead and buried, are, curiously enough, -filled with the keenest anxiety to know that statesman's opinions on certain public questions. If ho is so completely out of politics as they declare, what can his views matter?

Possibly the reported gold find in Honduras may settle the silver question. The ■Australian and Californian mines sent gold 1 down and silver up. It would be a funny outcome of the silver dollar lunacy, on both sides, if the two metals should again change relative positions, and the silver dollar be the one at a premium. The hegira of negroes from the Southern States to places further west proves two -things: They are not satisfied with their sur- . roundings, nor are they dependent upon their 3ate masters for a livelihood. They are proving their ability to take care of themselves, and are demonstrating the fact that they are discontented with their treatment ■ln their old localities. verdict in the Taskell case, awarding the. Reused the full penalty under the law—-twenty-one years’ imprisonment—was a righteous pne. The penalty should be increased to lifej sentence for aggravated cases of this kind;| It is more infamous than murder, and its victims, if pure and virtuous, would better be assassinated. Many States prescribe the dearth penalty, and Indiana might well approach it. The criticisms of the local Democracy against the bold utterances of the Sentinel have had their effect. The editorial page of that paper no longer bristles with denunciations of the appointment of "thieves, highwaymen, bribers and dead-beats” to office by the national Democratic administration. The sudden silence of the Sentinel is a remarkable exhibition of the force of "organized public jwntiment.” The three tailors of Tooley street have a counterpart in the three lowa mayors who, on Wednesday, met in "convention,” at Des Moines, to resolve to work for the repeal of the prohibition law, to be substituted by a •license or local option measure. They have an undoubted right to meet and to "resoloot,” hut, in view of the few in attendance, a less formal announcement would have appeared less ridiculous. The robbery of a passenger in a cab at Cincinnati by means of a stupefying gas injected into the vehicle by the driver, is daring enough and devilish enough to belong to the past century or to be the work of Italian brigands. At the end of the ride, and a ride that the unsuspecting victim had no idea of taking, he is found in a distant part of the city, (lumped out into the mud and striuped of his

Valuables. Having no suspicion of danger, he had taken no notice of the cab or its driver, and consequently cannot identify either. There Is something peculiarly terrifying in this species of crime, and it will doubtless work harm to the hack-drivers of Cincinnati, who should unite with the authorities in trying ,to apprehend the scoundrel who has brought them into disrepute.

PAYING POR PROHIBITION. The decision of Judge Brewer, of the United States District Court of Kansas, that owners of breweries and distilleries in operation before the prohibitory laws were passed shall be -entitled to recover from the State for the jralue of property condemned or rendered 'Comparatively valueless, is not, we think, conclusive, and it may be that the United States Supreme Court will reverse the finding. The question is of magnitude, and affects so many people—in fact, all who pay taxes — that it will doubtless receive a thorough consideration. It is conceded, we believe, that saloon-keepers can not recover from the State, for the reason that their business has been conducted only by sufferance, and the term of license has always been limited, in Indiana to one year and in Kansas probably to the same period. This that at the end of that time the privilege may be withdrawn and refused renewal. Those engaged in the liquor traffic enter upon it with this understanding, and recognize the provision by annually attending to the securing of a new license, anew lease of life. Those who are inclined to the opinion that brewers and distillers cannot be classed in this category, but must be compensated in case legislation interferes with their business, are so persuaded because the business of brewing and of distilling is legitimate, not subject to shortterm license, but recognized everywhere as on the same footing with other industries, such as milling or manufacture in any of its branches. This distinction is a good one, so far as it goes; but it does not cover the merits of the case. When it is conceded that brewing and distilling are legitimate, or were legitimate prior to the enactment of prohibitory laws, the concession is no wider, and does not embrace the claim that these enterprises enjoy exemptions from the laws that bear equally upon all legitimate branches of trade and industry. The people, representing the State, ever reserve the right to regulate any and all lines of business that the good of society demands. With this in view are boards of health established, to the end that the physical welfare of the public may be conserved. And in this right city councils and town trustees pass upon questious affecting the health and morals of the communities they are chosen to represent. It is within the province of these officials to pass upon and condemn any slaughter-house, paper-mill or other establishment tending to interfere with the comfort or injure the health of the people. They are also vested with the power to interdict anything that may injuriously affect the morals of the people, or any portion of them. In other words, organized society reserves the right to defend itself against whatever it may pronounce prejudicial to it, and through the police power has regulated the manufacture and sale of intoxicants. This right has been recognized from time immemorial, and no man now in this business but entered upon it under such provisions. It has been recognized that there was no certainty of tenure of right to manufacture and sell intoxicants. It has been held that the police power of the State goes so far as to prohibit the manufacture of and traffic in intoxicating liquors. From this it follows that when society concludes that the traffic is harmful, physically morally or financially, it has only to assert this reserved and conceded right to put an end to it, and without prejudice or incurring liability, any more than it would in suppressing anything else after passing upon it as a nuisance. It is presumable that the brewers and distillers of Kansas knew about these principles of law at the time they set up in business, and did so knowing how uncertain the enterprise was. The time has come, in that State, when the people have felt warranted in exercising their police rights to interdict the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. There is nothing for the brewers and saloon men but to accept the situation and to make the best of it. The buildings and appliances used in the traffic must be used in some other business or stand idle, just as the owners elect. It is pretty safe to say that they will never recover a dollar from the State. This argument has nothing to do with the advisability of passing prohibitory laws, nor with the probability or possibility of their proper enforcement. It is quite apparent, though, that the law is measurably accomplishing its purpose, or such a desperate fight would not be made against it. When Mr. Hatch’s bill consolidating the Bureau of Agriculture, the labor, census and scientific bureaus, and the Signal Service, and several other branches of government work shall have become a law it will be necessary to invent a name for the conglomeration. Pooh-bab, who was not Lord High Executioner, but was lord high everything else, will be the only mau qualified to take charge of the department. The Philadelphia Press criticises the recent decision of Judge Brewer. It regards it as not only novel but unsound. It says: "If the owners of the distilleries, breweries and vineyards must be paid for all they lose through prohibition, why may not the owners of the saloons also claim damages for breaking

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up their profitable business? If a State considers any trade or business prejudicial to the public interests, may it not interfere without making good the profits it thereby sweeps away? If Louisiana should ever become virtuous enough to wish to suppress the lottery which now flourishes there, would it have to make up to Ihe owners of that demoralizing enterprise the handsome income which they now realize from it?” The Cabinet have advised the President to decline to send to the Senate any papers relative to the conduct of officers of the United States who have been removed or suspended from office during the recess of Congress. As a constitutional question, we do not believe there can be two opinions as to the right of either house of Congress to access to all papers on file affecting the manner in which a public officer has discharged the duties of his trust. The position the President is about to assume is in direct conflict with the policy pursued in the administration of the government from the time of its foundation. If the President may decline to send to the Senate copies of papers on file relative to the conduct of officers, where shall there be a limit to the authority to keep back from Congress the information to which it is entitled, and which is essential to a proper and constitutional exercise of its duties? In addition to this, it is our opinion, as we argued some days ago, that where an officer holds by a joint tenure — the nomination of the President and the confirmation of the Senate—for a specified and determinate time, the President has not the authority to dismiss him peremptorily on his own motion. On the side of the morals and rightfulness of the President’s action there can be no question. It is immoral and despotic, infamous and cowardly, for the President, or anybody else, to dismiss a man from a public office under "charges,” and not allow him or any one else to know what those charges are. It is a species of political assassination which the people of this country will not indorse. Another thing: here is the great civil-service reformer, who pompously announced that no officer should be removed except for cause, and who, presumably, would be anxious to vindicate himself to the Senate and to the public in every removal he made, hastening to skulk behind an alleged constitutional prerogative, to avoid telling why he has dismissed a public servant from his place. It is a piece of pusillanimity, on a par with a man who buys a bill of goods, and when the bill is presented avoids payment by pleading that he is a minor, and therefore irresponsible. Grover Cleveland, the strong man, the giant of civil-service reform, hidtr.g behind a presumed privilege to avoid an honest responsibility, is a spectacle which the American people may well be amazed and disgusted at.

One way to make the silver dollar popular would be to make it a dollar.—Philadelphia Times. An assertion like that is as near nonsense as the wit of man can make it. The silver dollar is a dollar; it is taken over the counter of the Philadelphia Times every day for a dollar, and if the Times is honest in its editorial belief it is dishonest in its business practices. There is neither argument nor sense in such statements as the one here given. The matter with the silver dollar is, that a certain specified number of them is coined every month compulsorily, which fact alone discredits them. If gold dollars were coined under like circumstances they would be discredited by the manner of their issue. The silver dollar has never been treated fairly by the government. It is time it had fair, honest treatment. There is no use in changing the number of grains of silver in it; that would be sheer and temporizing absurdity. It is not necessary to put a button on the dollar to increase its weight or to clip it to decrease its weight as the fluctuations of the bullion market may suggest. The dollar of 412 1-2 grains is the dollar of the United States from the foundation of the government. Treat the silver dollar fairly. Stop its compulsory and therefore discrediting coinage. Turn it out in the world unfettered, and it will hold its own. Stop the issue of any banknotes of less denomination than five dollars; stop the issue of warehouse receipts in the guise of silver certificates; stop making the mints dumping-houses for silver bullion, and give to the people a silver currency for their ordinary trade and commerce. Let every man, woman and child in the country become acquainted with a coin currency, know it by sight or touch, and learn what real money is. This will give an opening for about $200,000,000 more silver currency. Let us use up the stock of dollars we have on hand, and only coin more when there is an honest and legitimate demand for them. Mrs. Virginia L. Minor writes of the Edmunds Mormon bill that "if the government can confiscate the property of the Mormon Church in time of peace, it can confiscate that of the Baptist Church also.” The sentence states one of the great objections to the bill concisely. It is an infamous measure, and Missouri can congratulate itself that Senator Vest did not vote for it.—St. Louis Republicau. In the first place, there is no confiscation of the Mormon Church property in the Edmunds bill. The Mormon Church is a public corporation, and carries on business as a corporation entirely outside of and independent of its alleged religious worship. The Edmunds bill proposes to wind up the business of this corporation, as the government undoubtedly has a right to do. In the second place, if the Baptist Church, or the Methodist Church, or any other church, should organize as a corporation, and set itself up to do all the minutiae

of business as does the Mormon Church, and defy the authority of the government, and use its power to inculcate & spirit of hostility to and infraction of the laws of the land, the government ought to "confiscate their property,” just as it proposes to "confiscate” the property of the Mormon hierarchy. In our city columns will be found a full list of the places selected by the county central committee for the meetings of the Republican primaries, called for to-morrow night, for the purpose of selecting new members of the county committee and delegates to the district meeting for the choice of a member of the State central committee. Particular attention is called to this matter. The selection of committeemen is vital and fundamental to the hope of success in the approaching campaign. Every member of the party should feel an especial interest in the selection of wise, prudent, energetic and experienced committeemen. The Republican party has a most excellent prospect of returning to power in the State, but, to do this, must have the best possible organization in all the counties; and in no county is this more important than in Marion county. The Journal urges upon every Republican in Indianapolis and in the county the duty of attending the various primaries. The dawn of better things in politics will be when all citizens take an interest in the primary work of parties. After eight years of litigation, the Supreme Court of Illinois has set aside the will of Isaac Foreman, of O’Fallon, and given his estate, valued at $175,000, to his daughter, Mrs. Price, the wife of a St. Louis expreiswagon driver. Foreman left a will, bequeathing all his property to charitable and religious institutions, entirely leaving out his only child. It is a good thing to remember the religious and charitable institutions, but the Bible says: "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” It is apparent, therefore, that, tried by the Bible standard, the daughter must have easily won the case. We call attention to an article from the Charleston News and Courier, based upon Congressman Boutelle’s resolution of inquiry. It gives the Southern side of the war, and we are anxious that all our readers shall have the opportunity of reading it just as it is. It may be commented upon hereafter; but just now we should like all the people in the North to have the opportunity to hear the Southern view of the case just as strongly as our Charleston contemporaiy can put it. The News aud Courier is one of the leading and among the ablest newspapers of the South, and it is beyond question thoroughly representative of the Southern spirit. Mr. Edison, whose opinion certainly ought to be worth something on such matters, says there is no necessity for any complicated system of burying electric wires, all that is needed being a simple tunnel or horizontal hole in the ground. The commissioners appointed to consider the matter of laying the telegraph wires in New York have several hundred plans under advisement, and are wisely cogitating over them. As none of these gentlemen know anything about electricity the probabilities are strongly in favor of a selection of that device which is the most complicated and which they know the least about.

The difficulty witli the overly nice critic is that he fails to see how a man can be a sturdy partisan and at the same time an honest man. It is the fault of his mental make-up that he cannot appreciate how any one can have earnest, overmastering convictions. And yet history and current observation show that the country has lasting honors only for those who have settled, deep convictions and the courage of them. The milksop and the trimmer may seem to flourish for a time, but it is not long till the man of settled principles and unswerving fealty comes to his own. Miss Cleveland, who was among the visitors in the Senate chamber during the delivery of the Hendricks eulogies, is said to have listened to the speeches with a weary expression. If she has any regard for her distinguished brother it is difficult to understand how she could have looked or felt otherwise than tired. Those points in the tributes to Mr. Hendricks which met with most approval from the majority of the hearers were far from eulogistic of Mr. Cleveland. "He did not sprinkle rose-water on the enemies of his party, or give sweetmeats to the wolves ready to spring at his throat,” said Senator Vest, speaking of Mr. Hendricks, but with his gun aimed at Mr. Cleveland. Shades of Carl Schurz and the Evening Post! Has it so soon come to this, that the soft, sweet-spoken mugwumps ar3 denounced as enemies of the party they hoped to reform, and as "wolves?” How the Democrats do love their non-partisan allies, to be sure. The steamship City of Washington, built by John Roach & Son, is now on her onehundredth round trip from New York to Havana and Mexican ports. This vessel has made the fastest trip on record between these ports. Braving the danger of displeasing those bent on keeping John I?o%eh down, the Journal rejoices that an American firm has built such a fine craft, with scores of others equally seaworthy. An inquest was held on the body of Madame Moury, tho French woman who was convicted with Editor Stead in the Armstrong case. Tho report made by the Jury was that she died of

weakness andchagrin. It would bo interesting to know how they discovered this. Did an autopsy disclose the existence of chagrin in the Mad a rue’s interior? When a Louisville man goes intc> business, he does so with the idea of making all he can out of it Henry Langraft, of that city, recently sold a dog—a yellow dog, probably, of but nominal value, and that doubtful —to a neighbor named Grass. In a day or two the brute saw Langraft, and, naturally, followed him home. Being of a thrifty disposition, Langraft conceived the idea that a man who would buy such a brute might be induced to do it onco more. With this idea he dyed the dog and tackled Grass once more. Grass would have bought him had not Mrs. Grass discovered the trick, and driven the dogseller away. Some women have no idea of the rules of traffic, or the ethics of commerce. “Nor yon. ye proud, impute to them the fault, If o’er their humble dust no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. The pealing anthem swells the notes of praise." This is enough to make the whole of StokePogis church yard rise up and smite the Philistine, hip and thigh. The snow-slides of Colorado are very different affairs from the toboggan-slides at Saratoga and other Eastern resorts. The former can hardly be classed under the head of amusements. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mr. Lloyd, who has just been re-inaugurated Governor of Maryland, is but thirty-three years old. Three papers in New York—the Citizen, the Cook, and To-day—have suspended publication. Lack of money, that supreme necessity, was the cause in each case. Miss Alice Jordan, the only female student the Yale law school ever had, has withdrawn, as the faculty notified her they would give her no degree on account of her sex. One of the two new Freneh periodicals, La Revue Illustree, is avowedly modeled upon the English and American magazines. Its literary department is said to resemble that of Harper’s Monthly. Governor Lloyd, of Maryland, is only thir-ty-two years old, and is not in robust health. At the reception given in his and Senator Gorman’3 honor at Annapolis last week, he was obliged to retire at half-past 9. Gen. John S. Billings, of Lafourche parish, La., declares that the cold wave which recently swept the South has positively benefited the stubble-cane in the sugar section, as it will prevent too rapid a thawing out Politics is hotter than the atmosphere in the land of oranges. The Florida Times-Union declares that the burning issue in the State is whether Senator Jones ought to be paid a salary for “the pleasant pastime of sparking a widow.” An energetic colored preacher in Cobb county, Georgia, maxes each member of his congregation responsible for a definite amount of his salary, and when they have no money to give him he makes them work on his farm until they pay off their debt. Dr. Fillmore Bennett, who years ago wrote, the “Sweet By and By,” is reported to be living in great poverty in Richmond, 111., and it is presumed that the public singers who have profitably sung the popular song will hasten to the author’s relief, that is, in the sweet by and by. A movement is on foot in the House of Lords, at London, to present Earl Granville with a testimonial in honor of his thirty years’ service as Liberal leader. The sum of £I,OOO has already been collected. The present will probably be in the form of a picture of his wife and children. It appears that French doetors are placing patients afflicted with gout on an entire milk diet with success, The venerable French statesman, M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire, has lived for years on milk. He rises at 5 o’clock in the morning, nevor wears an overcoat, walks from his residence in Passy, a suburb of Paris, to the Senate and Institute, and back.

The official organ of the city of Paris contains the decree adopting the throe children of Olivier Pain. The motive for that measure, as set forth in the preamble, is that it is the duty of the city to take under its # protection the children of a man who resided for many years in Paris, and who was, by his acts and writings, an ardent servant of the democracy. The death of the second Lord Brougham at the extreme old age of ninety-one will relieve the pension list of a considerable charge. He was formerly a master in chancery, and when tho office was abolished, in 1852, was compensated by a full pension for life. This was £3,225 a year, so that the total amount paid to him by the country has been £103,200. A wonderful and little-known flower has been on exhibition at the Philadelphia Horticultural Society’s rooms. It is called the moon flower and blooms in the evening. From a small bud an inch and a quarter in diameter comes a beautiful flower four inches in diameter. The development requires less than an hour, and the buds can be seen opening. Senator Chace, of Rhode Island, is described as tall, slender and rather delicate in physique, while his face is that of a refined and scholarly man. His manner is one of fine courtesy and gentleness, which seems to proceed as much from his heart as from good breeding. He is a Quaker, and still uses the "plaiu ’language,” addressing his colleagues by|their Christian names. In a country district of England destitute of telephonic communication a physician has inaugurated the novel system of using carrier pigeons for the rapid transmission of perscriptions. He makes his daily round of visits with a basket of carrier pigeons. When a patient requires remedies urgently, the prescription is secured to the bird, which at once flies home to the surgery. There the medicine is compounded andidispatched at once to the patient, thus 6aving valuable time. Jersey Justice has been called upon to take the bandage off her eyes aud watch those hay dealers who load down baled hay with heavy pieces of wood which add twenty-five or thirty pounds to the weight of each package. People who object to having so much wood in their hay have procured the introduction of a bill in the Legislature providing that tho wood, iron or other material used to bind or confine such bay shall not constitute more than five per cent of the gross weight of the bale. Prince Bismarck’s health is causing the gravest anxiety in Germany. Continual sleeplessness is said to have worn him out He gives audiences to the Ministers lying in a great easy chair, from which he rarely rises, and lassitude of body, indicated by his attitude, is also said to have affected his mind, which is rapidly losing its fertility of idea and resources, and even its firmness. At night he is racked with rheumatic gout pains, which banish sleep, and which themselves have defied every specific that his physicians can devise. One Sunday night, at the tea-table, the conversation chanced to turn on the Bible story of "Elisha and the bears.’’ Little Jennie was much awed by it, and her tender heart wept for the sad fate of the children. Not long after, she was sitting up stairs with me, and had occasion to go down. She soon came back, saying, "Auntie, dear, grandpa’s got company Mr. R. has come to see grandpa.” Still something seemed to trouble the little curly head, and 6he looked thoughtful and anxious for a few minutes; then, with a fearful glance about her and speaking very slowly (you might say reverently), she said, "Nice old man. auntie, very nice old man. but the baldest headed old man I ever see.”’ Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, says: "I was not a Hayes Republican, nor was I an admirer of General Garfield. I like a robust article of politics—something that you can take pride in and avow anywhere. 1 don’t believe in tempering or playing fast and loose with neople. The Republican party must go back under its old leadership if itfia ever to regain its lost place.

Men like Conkllng are men to lead. They are honest, and able, and aggressive, and nobody is called upon to defend them or to apologize for them. My Republicanism is a matter of fact and of a much more reliable character than that of a good many people whd seem concerned about it.” COMMENT AND OPINION. Evidently the mugwump is at a discount in the Senate.—Atlanta Constitution. Next to no law at all, saloons thrive best under a law that cannot be enforced.—Springfield Republican. Let mugwumps say why Hill may not keep his Sterling as well as Cleveland his Higgins. —Syracuse Standard. Prohibition gains a step in California. The wine producers have nut up the price of their product 20 per cent. —Philadelphia Record. Mr Roscok Conkling is a Republican candidate for United States Senator in the Democratic papers, and nowhere else. —Philadelphia Press. If a man could be bitten by a mad dog aud not know it he would not have hydrophobia. The difficulty is in not knowing it —New Orleans Picayune. Mr Canda may be a very good man for the assistant treasurship, but isn’t liis name unhappily suggestive? Canda and Canada seem very much alike.— Boston Record. Another boy preacher has broken out in North Carolina. lie is a year older than Harrison, being nineteen, but then Harrison has the advantage of thirty years’ experience.— Maoon Telegraph. The decision of the courts in Utah is spoken of as “a blow at polygamy.” But blowing won’t crush it. It will require something of the energy of a pile-driver to knock polygamy.—San Francisco Examiner. The attempt of the leading Ohio Democratic politicians to break into the penitentiary may be tolerated, strictly on the expectation that good care will bo taken against their breaking qua again.—Pittsburg Disc Events are moying very rapidly in England just now. Gladstone’s time lias come again. The storm is near at hand, and the man who handles the tiller must have strong and steady nerves.—New York Herald. Mr OwnfiCHiLL will now sit in silent meditation on the benches of her Majest} ’s opposition, while his American wife reads that passage from Longfellow about the things that might have been but haven’t.—Chicago MaiL If England were to be just to Ireland, to grant her proper demands for freedom from oppressive British rale, the National League would cease to exist, for it lives only upon British injustice to and oppression of Ireland.—Philadelphia Inquirer. A rural exchange publishes Senator Beck's silver speech, and hopes every citizen will read “these inspired utterances of the Kentucky Senator.” There are few States that produce as many gallons of inspiration as Kentucky.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Whatever disorderly or revolutionary proceedings may hereafter take place [in the Ohio Senate] can be easily traced to the flagrant action which made the Senate Democratic, although the people had voted it Republican. —Boston Transcript We can force the holders of our bonds to accept silver dollars worth only 80 cents for ths gold dollars which we contracted to give them; but the speculation is of a kind which honest nations and hone3t men are alike forbidden to undertake.—St. Lonis Globe-Democrat The good advice of Senator Platt to the workingmen, “Do not too plainly conclude that all public men are your enemios,” might well be supplemented with this further counsel: Do not too readily believe that all public men who profess devotion to your cause are your best friends. —Boston Herald.

Mr Sherman, a farmer east of town, planted corn on Christmas day and the day following —fifteen acres in all. Solomon Fields planted considerable corn about the same time, but we did not learn the exact number of acres. Tho ground was in good condition and the plaDtin. was done as an experiment —Mulvane (Kan.) Record. Indiana Democrats drew the line in federal appointments so as to exolufl men who have served more than one term in the penitentiary for robbery. It strikes us the Hoosier Bourbons are getting entirely too particular, and, if their rule is allowed to stand, many of the most active party workers will be shut out from rewards. —Pittsburg Chronicle. What reason can there be why the pulpit and the press should be inimical? They labor for a common end. They are coadjutors, not antagonists. They should be allies, not foes. The church cannot destroy the press. The press would not, if it could, overturn the pulpit They have a common cause, and united they would be irresistible. —New York Star. The peculiar function of money as an equivalent for other property and a legal tender in payment of debts makes it possible to keep silver and gold coins on an equality, notwithstanding a considerable difference in their value as merchandise. All that is necessary is to keep the cheaper metal within the demand for it, and the one can then be used to offset and control the fluctuations of the other.—Chicago Tribune. The present Mormon attitude towards the United States government is about as treasonsonable as it could be, short of active hostility. We do not seriously impair the moral sense of the murderer by depriving him of his knife. Disfranchisement is disarmament. It is not impossible that the deprivation of Mormon weapons against the welfare of the Republic may be resorted to of necessity sooner than is popularly imagined.—Washington Post. As soon as the Senate can make op its mind to abandon a tradition, the dignity of which has been sometimes ludicrous and sometimes suspicious. men who seek appointments that must be confirmed will have to encounter the same publicity of criticism that is encountered by those who seek elective offices. The time is likely to come, too, when the names and indorsements of applicants for appointment will be published before appointments are made.—Brooklyn Eagle. Every honest American citizen belongs to a class which is dependent upon some other classes for the fullest possible profit from its work, and this working together in harmony of so many interests is what makes this a great country. It is not the 7,500,000 farmers alone: nor the 4,000,000 manufacturers alone; nor the 6,000,000 other workers alone—all are needed in our system and all are benefited by the principle of protection to American industries.—Louisville Commercial The Ohio Republicans are engaged in an effort to prevent the consummation of outrageous frauds on the ballot-box, and to defeat a flagrant attempt to control a legislative body through a falsification of the vote of the people, and it is of the utmost importance that they should succeed. If there are honest and sober men among the Democrats they must see that the course which they have adopted cannot fail to prove injurious to their party if persisted in.—New York Times. It may be that when tho South has had more experience with European laborers, has tried Hungarians and Italians, and tested the ability of Kniglits of Labor to defend their own interests. it will learn to appreciate the value of the' colored man as he is to-day. When, however, this measure of experience has been secured, the best of the colored race may have left the South, and the remainder have learned the art of asking and obtaining high wages.—Boston Advertiser. Only in instances of parental tyranny over children who have reached years of discretion can there be the shadow of excuse for secret marriages. A woman is necessarily degraded by a failure to enter upon the wedded state in any manner but that sanctioned by religious and legal ceremonies, and in the presence of family friends. If this truth can be made to reach the minds of those misguided persons w’ho see but the romantic phase of life, there will be fewer divorces, fewer wrecked homes. —Chicago News. There is altogether too much talk about this uselessness and imbecility of our diplomatic service. It is not warranted by the facts. It is absurd and it is unpatriotic. Our service has received more eulogies from foreign sources than from any other. It has always been found equal to every emergency, and it has never yet failed in courage, address and force. It may lack something in courtiorship—in the false gloss of insincerity which occasionally passes for astuteness —in craft and cunning and duplicity; but it is conspicuous for being simple, manly and straightforward, and it has a reputation that we should be insane to imperil by experiments, —New York Star.