Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1886 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOURh IL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. ~r 1 ' '■ ' t== WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Correspondent. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1886. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, (Jin be foopd at the following places! (jONDON—American Exchange in Earope, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Oapucines. JTSW YORK —St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. SINOINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street hOTTISVILLE—O. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. *r. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. House and Ebbitt float*. er.-;. 1 :: r . .. m grx Telephone Calls. Easiness Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 • We are still of the opinion that there will be telephone service in Indianapolis after the of inarch. Commissioner Black is now meditating on the folly of putting one's cart before the horse. An abler man would have grasped a great fact hke this earlier in life. The President wants it distinctly underAt<vd that r this is a reform administration. Tor particulars see the Postmaster-general’s private circular of instruction to Democratic Congressmen. Asa result of a Democratic administration 9f its affairs Evansville is about to be foreclosed on and sold out by the sheriff. The fate of Evansville may be that of Center township in case a Democratic successor to Trustee Kite is elected. The atrocities practiced iu Belgium demonstrate what may be expected when lawlessness takes possession of a mob. Workingmen cannot countenance violence without inviting inch scoundrels to the front. It has ever been thus and ever will be. The Philadelphia Press insists that Miss Kate Field should bo appointed Governor of Utah. Miss Field is undoubtedly well qualified for the position, but as she is suspected of having no Mormon proclivities the Saints would probably rise in a body and protest •gainst her as an offensive partisan. The reports from Charleroi read like pages from the “Tale of Two Cities;” even Dickens's imagination seems to have been outdone, in horror, under the lead of men who are held up by the demagogue pulpit and the demagogue press as “patriots” and “heroes” because they blow Czars up with dynamite. Ip any of the patrons of the Indianapolis postoffice have occasion to send a money order to any point within a distance of twenty miles or less, it is not certain but time Would be saved by delivering the letter in person. The attendance in that department ©f the office is exasperatingly slow and indifferent.

Despite tho hitch in the negotiations between Mr. Gould and Mr. Powderly, the work •f resuming traffic on tho Missouri Pacific railway is being renewed. There was no possible cause for the strike on this line; it never had the support of even the Knights of Labor, and, of course, it failed of any public sympathy. Under tho circumstances its failure was foredoomed. Answers to the Journal’s interest problem were received yesterday from a number of readers, one being from Erie, Pa., and another from Beaver Dam, Wis. As we stated yesterday, the responses to the publication Are an indication of the general circulation of the Indianapolis Journal, and of the care with which its columns are read. Now is the time to advertise. The managers of the soldiers’ orphans’ schools in Pennsylvania, claim that the recent Investigation by the Governor showed only one side of the case. Inasmuch as it showed that the pupils were half-clothed, half-starved and filthy, and were subjected to all manner of neglect and cruelty, it really seems as if nothing were left for the other side. One tide apparently covers the case. That the capable and ambitious workingman may rise to any position is demonstrated in the life of the men now prominently before ihe country in connection with the settlement of the strike. General Master Workmar Powdorly began his working life as a switchtender. Mr. Hoxie was. at ono time, a hostler at a hotel near Des Moines, and Mr. Gould earned his first money as a map-peddler. It will hardly do to have It understood that ft railroad owned by Jay Gould may be fairly and properly looted and wrecked. No one has said harder tilings about the scoundrelism of Jay Gould’s methods thau the Journal; but we warn the gentlemen who so glibly excuse ftli sons of crimes, on theground that theyare committed against Jay Gould’s ill-gotten property, that there is danger that thieves and scoundrels will not always be nicely discriminating. Tho law must be preserved, Jay Gould or no Jay Gould. The city of Evansville will find the policy of repudiation the most costly experiment ever undertaken. If the people and taxpayers are wise they will defeat the repudiation Democracy at the comipg election, for a timeiimay seem to bo very funny and ferave to cheat creditors; but sooner or later

the man or the corporation that does it is forced to suffer. The prosperity of Evansville will receive a staggering blow if repudiation is voted to be the future policy of ♦’ o city government. Better elect the Reublican ticket, pledged to an honorable arrangement with the city’s creditors and the payment of the debt at a reduced rate of interest. An adjustment of the Missouri Pacific troublos ha3 finally been reached. Mr. Hoxie announces his willingness to meet a committee of Missouri Pacific employes, and to arbitrate any alleged grievances they may have, and under this state of affairs orders will be issued to the Knights of Labor to resume work. Despite its costliness, this strike will result in good. A great many valuable lessons have been taught all around during the past few weeks; and under the wise counsel and advice of men like Powderly, and with the result of the movement so conspicuous to even the dullest, it will be a long time before another causeless strike is entered upon. In the language of the General Master Workman, “The day of strikes is past.” Both organized capital and organized labor have learned that there are limitations to their strength; and when that lesson is thoroughly apprehendod they will be in a position to regard each other with the respect and friendliness that will insure harmonious co-operation.

THE TOWNBHIP TEDSTEE. Other States and cities are moving in the matter of reform in State and city affairs. Indianapolis should not be left behind in this respect. The business of this township has been very badly and very extravagantly conducted, and needs overhauling. The current expenses have increased from $7,000 to $20,000 a year during the la3t four years. There is no telling what the figures will be if a change is not brought about. The people now have an opportunity to get a look at the books and to insist that a better state of affairs obtain in this very important office. In the person of Captain Many the people have a candidate of known worth. He i3 an expert accountant, a good business man, and is free from all questionable associations. His election would mean an overhauling of accounts aud a more economical administration of the trust. An increase of 300 per cent, in the running expenses of Center township is warning that there is something radically wrong in that office. The only way to get to the bottom of the affair is to turn the books over to such a man as will not feel compelled to shield the present incumbent. The increase of expenditures from $7,000 to $20,000 means that not less than $13,000 has been wasted or worse. The people want to know about this thing, and the only way to know to a certainty is to place the books in the hauds of a man that will make a full and impartial showing. This is exactly what the election of Captain Many will signify, and is the reason why certain schemers desire his defeat. Tho loss of $13,000 a year would prove a very serious burden upon the people of this township, and, worse still, would encourage other men to attempt similar raids upon the public funds. There is a speedy and effectual way to put a stop to these things, and that is to elect to this office the man who gives best guaranty that the duties of the trust will be ably and conscientiously administered. On Monday next the voters of Center township will bo called upon to elect a successor to the present incumbent, who has proved such an expensive public servant. One of the ways to improve the times is to lighten the burden of taxation, and to do this it is necessary to administer the business of the people honestly and economically. Tho Republican candidate, Capt. Charles J. Many, possesses every qualification to make him one of the best trustees the township every had. It will be safe to elect him, and very dangerous to fail to do so. No man interested iu good government can afford to neglect to vote on Monday next, and no tax-paying citizen should fail to be at home on that day, so as to do work to this end.

MR. CLEVELAND’S DISHONESTY. It i3 apparent that the speech of Senator Harrison was a center shot. It has attracted wide spread attention, and is being commented on in all parts of the country. This would not be so if it did not carry the conviction that it was a truthful presentation of the facts in the case. Yet the Senator has really presented nothing new. The facts cited by him have been familiar to the public of this State for mouths, to the scandal of the President's well-known and reiterated professions of a desire to enforce the principles of the civil-service rules, and to the despair of all who hoped that he would honor his obligations so ostentatiously assumed. Senator Harrison’s strong presentation of these facts has had the effect of drawing public attention to them and to set discussion in motion. We doubt not that the same disgraceful disregard of the true idea of civil-service reform has been manifested in other States. In truth, it is notorious that the President has not kept his pledges unbroken anywhere. Protests by the score haye been sent up from this State from the friends of reform, from men who voted for Mr. Cleveland because of his promises in this direction; but it has done no good. The gentlemen have been snubbed every time, until now they no longer care to invite insult by protesting to the President or to the head of any department. Such a complete backdown was never made by a President before. The New Yoxk Herald, a paper that has ever been the friend and champion of Mr.

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Cleveland, expresses itself as follows concerning the showing made; “That was a damaging speech in which Senator Harrison, of Indiana, on Friday, gave some facts about the civil-service-reform work of President Cleveland. We have just been reading this speech, and if there are many more such facts as Mr. Harrison brought out we incline to agree with our Washington correspondent, who advises the civil-service reformers to put crape on their hats and endeavor to reconcile themselves to the death of their policy. If Mr. Harrison gave fair examples of what Mr. Cleveland has been doing and countenancing the country will no longer wonder at the suddenness with which he pulled down his curtains when the people began to talk about publicity.” It were the easiest thing possible to substantiate all that the Senator has touched upon. The facts are familiar to thousands. The President nor any of his Cabinet care to deny any of them, but are content to ignore all reference to these scandals. The lofty indifference manifested goes to prove that the professions made in the campaign were dishonest. There can be no other conclusion. No conscientious man could make such pledges and violate them so completely. The scandalous circular sent out by the Postmas-ter-general, with the consent, if not by the direction, of the President, shows his insincerity in all that he had so loudly protested. It is humiliating to be obliged to make such an admission concerning the chief magistrate of the Nation, but it is so palpably true that denial is out of the question, if indeed the President or bis friends care to make denial. The challenge to point to a single State in which the public service has been bettered has never been replied to, for the very good reason that a reply is impossible. The dare may be made even broader, and it may be demanded where the service has not been impaired. Scandals have been almost as frequent as appointments, at times. The most infamous means have been resorted to to get rid of officials, so as not to appear to violate the spirit of the civil-service rules, and the administration has acted on the principle that the average voter could not sound the fraud thus attempted. The thin disguise put on was intended to satisfy the mugwump, who, presumably, was regained as a very credulous individual, as in fact he was. Commenting on Senator Harrison’s showing, that several newly-appointed officials had actively engaged in partisan politics since entering upon the discharge of their duties, the Herald indorses the Senator’s opinion that these men should be removed, just as the President hfys removed Republican officials for the same offense. The Herald declares that “every honest man, Demoorat or Republican, in the land will say the same.” But suppose they do, what good will it do? The President has shown that he regards a dishonest partisan Democrat as better than a tried and honest Republican, and that he thinks a Democrat incapable of offending the law that works so disastrously to Republicans. Civil-service reform has been made a burlesque all over the land.

CRIMES IN THE NAME OF LABOR”. If J. J. McGarry, of St. Louis, judge advocate of the Knights of Labor, be correctly represented, he is doing organized labor a very bad turn. In an interview on Monday he declared that no matter how the arbitration results, all men must be taken back without discrimination being shown against any for being leaders or for any other cause. The principle of standing together is a good one, essential to the success of any movement of the kind the Knights are now engaged in. But if the utterance of this man is official, it is well nigh useless to talk of arbitration. The white man is careful not to say turkey to the Indian, and there is really no arbitration that is not entirely to the wishes of the Knights. It’s the ‘'you take the buzzard and I'll take the turkey, or I'll take the turkey and you take the buzzard” over again. No arbitration cau come from such a “concession.” To assume such an attitude is to indorse all that has been done in the way of destroying property. Locomotives have been disabled, trains derailed, bridges and paintshops have been burned. Shall the incendiaries be taken back into the employment of the company without prejudice? Shall these criminals stand on the same footing as men who would scorn to do such things? Is the law-abiding Knight to be brought down to the low level of the bummer? Is he to be made the apologist and defender of such fellows? It is quite within the bounds of reason that the Knights should insist that such as have acted as leaders should not be discriminated against, but to demand that the company shall take back into its employ such desperate and unscrupulous men as have wantonly destroyed its property, is asking something that the Knights themselves would not do under similar circumstances. No assembly would think of taking back a man that had destroyed its property, and especially if such taking back would necessitate the exclusion of men who had never harmed it nor interfered with its possessions. Should the road ask to have taken back into the Knights of Labor a man who had proved recreant to its interests, burned its records, and done it all the harm he could, the Knights would very naturally and very properly refuse the domaud with indignation. Buies governing arbitration must work both ways. But there are other reasons why the Knigh ts of Labor should not take this ground. If it can be shown that any man has gone to the length of wantonly destroying property, he should not only not be shielded, but should be expelled in disgrace from the organization. Men fighting for right and justice cannot afford to appear as the defenders of violence and wrong. There is but a step fi*om the infamy of incendiarism to the scoundrelism of ouV-

rages such as have been perpetrated in Belgium in the name of labor. We cannot believe that American labor has reached, or ever can. reach, such depths of depravity. The Knights of Labor are strong, because, as a rule, they have been temperate and have deprecated lawlessness. It would be foolish for them, to surrender this prestige. With increasing numbers, if wisely managed, they can command the amplest justice without a contro-. versy. But, if in disputes like the one now engaging the attention of the country, they should assume to champion the cause of every scoundrel who may want to take advantage of the unsettled condition of affairs to do deeds of deviltry, they will ultimately find that they have alienated the best men among them—the men who give force to the organization, and whose influence is for good at all times. The Knights have choice: They can “back” the incendiaries, or they can condemn them and help give them over to justice, and thus strengthen themselves and the country. They can make their organization a refuge for a few scheming scoundrels, or they can keep it a citadel for true and honest men who labor for their living, and who would scorn to molest anything not their own. The hope of the real friends of labor is that they will ever keep their organization in the line of law and order, so that the noblest mechanic in the land may be proud to be a member of it, and may see in it the best assurance for the welfare of his children. - Labor can have its way, within the bounds of possibilities, without striking a cowardly or dishonorable blow. It can achieve its ends in a way that it can boast of without a blush of shame. It is right to organize, it is right to have leaders, and to stand by them, and it is right to strike if they so elect. But it is not only not right to bum property and commit outrages, but no honorable man will countenance such infamies. The Knights should keep their good sense, and not commit the folly of seeming to indorse such scoundrelism.

In the discussion of the Oregon disaster the British House of Commons grows very facetious, and the statement that the American regulation required boat accommodations for 1,216 persons—or 338 more than there were on the Oregon—provoked great laughter. This may be very funny, but if it be regarded impossible to provide temporary floating accommodation for every passenger that may be carried, it is a pitiful comment on the inventive genius of mankind. The mind that can conceive such a vast and perfect machine monster as an ocean steamer could easily devise boats aud rafts that could float all carried. In addition to the ten or twelve life-boats that are usually carried, it w ould be easy to construct rafts that could lie along the deck, to be used in cases of emergency. Appliances for floating every passenger carried should be required before the vessel is allowed to leave port. A train-wrecker was snot by a policeman yesterday, as he was running away from his crime, and the dispatch states that “the Knights are very indignant." Why should they be indignant because a cowardly scoundrel received his just deserts? Do the Knights indorse the destruction of property and the wrecking of passenger trains, as occurred in Kansas yesterday? The public would like a somewhat specific answer to this very pertinent inquiry before giving the Knights the strength of their sympathy and support. We do not believe the Knights of Labor, as an organized body, will in any way countenance the wild acts and insane words of the hot-heads who rush to the front at times like these; but there should be a firm, unmistakable and distinct disavowal of the ci’imes that have been committed by scoundrels who imagined they were advancing the cause of labor by their criminality.

Senator Harrison has let the light of day through tho specious claim of respect for the civil-service rules in Indiana. Let other Senators do the same for their respective States, and the dishonesty of the Democratic party will be demonstrated to the satisfaction of all true friends of reform. The Democratic campaign cry of 1884, “Turn the rascals out,” is given a significance now that warrants it in being applied. More rascals have been turned in duripg the first year of this Democratic administration than found their way in during the entire twenty-four years of Republican control. Let tbe light be turned on the President’s appointments. The Postmastergeneral’s confidential circular would serve as a splendid object glass through which to contemplate them. Delaware will elect a Senator next winter, and Democrats are already quarreling over the candidates. One faction insists that the State can be properly represented only by Mr. Bayard, while another division champions Mr. Lore. The result of the contest in the Legislature is expected to hinge upon the election of Governor, the struggle lying between one Dr. Black, who favors Bayard, and ex-Congreesman Biggs, who made $50,000 in peaches last year, and is Lore’s candidate. As matters now stand, “Old Peaches” seems to be in the lead. Lyon county, Kentucky, has a woman candidate for superintendent of public schools. She announces that she is a Democrat in politics, which is well enough, seeing that she is a candidate in that State. She further shows her good sense by addressing the voters as follows: I ‘l beg you will try me, not by the test of a ehivalxie sentiment of gallantry, which is all well enough in its place, but by the true standard of merit and fitness alone.”

There would not be much risk in electing a woman of this kind. She is evidently better equipped for the place than many a male aspirant would be. The crimes committed against railway property at Atchison and other points are the work of scoundrels and criminals. There is no occasion for, or justice in, minciug words about the outrages upon property and persons that have cropped out here and ’ there pending the strike of the last month. That they may be done in the name of labor and for the presumed betterment of the condition of workingmen does not mitigate their character, nor alleviate their infamy. The strike on the Missouri Pacifio railroad is confessedly a causeless one, and the destruction of property resulting fiom the conditions brought about by this causeless strike is simply wanton and willful criminality, andahould be so regarded and treated by everybody, There is ho advantage to be gained by labor through the violation of the law. Chaplain Mile urn has a rival in the person of the reverend gentleman who was chaplain of the Pennsylvania Senate at its last session. This gentleman answers Milburn’s “prayer” against monopolies, by a sermon, in which he denounces the conduct of the Knights of Labor in the Southwestern strike, and derides the cry of monopoly, saying it can have but a temporary existence in this country of active competition. Some remarks laudatory of railroads, give rise to the suspicion that the speaker has been retained by the Pennsylvania road as an antidote to Milburn. There is something the matter with the climate at Detroit. Another case like that of Senator Jones, or worse, if worse is possible, has been reported. A love-sick lawyer named Wood • ruff has been smitten by the charms of the daughter of one of the leading families there, and persists in making a fool of himself on every possible occasion. Last winter he was simple enough to send her a present, accompanied with a note stating: “I have denied myself a winter overcoat in order to send you this.” Instead of melting her, it rather froze the maiden, and she refused to smile on his suit. Almost any sensible girl would have done the same. Since then he has persistently haunted her house and followed her to church. Threats of pounding do not deter him, and the relatives are afraid to chastise him ou account of the notoriety into which it would bring the young lady. Os course, there remains the possibility that these stories may be but “fairy tales,” concocted for the purpose of working off old stock, slightly shelf-worn and decidedly out of style. It is hardly possible that the girls of Detroit are so tavishiugly beautiful that to see them is to love them to madness.

Answers to the four-boy interest problem have been received from J. M. Hager, Chicago; G. D. McDill, Clinton, la., and P. A. Borrows, Stamford, Conn. All agree as to the solution. The problem is evidently an easy one, but its publication served to show the remarkably wide circulation of the Indianapolis Journal. Now is the time to advertise. An increase in the number of barefooted girls with sunburned hair, tramping over Southern mountains, after being set in motion by Harris and Craddock, may now be looked for. A young Georgia woman has written a “brilliant and powerful novel, with a local coloring," that the reading public will presently be called upon to admire. Jat Gould is not only a “liar," but is likewise a horse-thle? of high degree. “So, Mr. Gould!" ___________ ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Master Workman Powdkrlt worked in a machine shop in his youth, and conned his books by a candle’s fitful flame. Although he owns valuable property at Paris, Dr. Schliemann has just paid*slso,ooo for an estate on Potsdam street, Berlin, which he will make his permanent home. The late Mark Pattison, in speaking of the deeirablility of condensing as much as possible in writing, said: “1 think it must have been the scanty supply of paper which made the classics what they are." Ten per cent, of the present freshmen class at Cornell are girls, and Professor Jones, of that institution, is quoted as saying that the average scholarship of the young women is superior to that of the young men. General and Mrs. Fremont are in Washington, hard at work upon the General’s memoirs. Jessie is nominally her husband’s secretary, but bears fully half the burden of arrangement of materials and composition. A young woman who was earning S7O a month in the Treasury Department at Washington, resigned, in order to study for the stage. For a while she was paid S4O a month as an “understudy," and she has just been dropped as wanting in capacity. During a visit to the seaside Sarah Bernhardt saw a madwoman daily casting pieces of bread upon the waves. The poor creature explained that she was feeding the fishes so that they would not in their hunger devour the body of her son, who had been drowned at sea. The actress made a note of the case, and has now illustrated it in a marble group. Says Mr. Carnegie, in hia new book: “Whenever an American is met abroad with the assertion that government iu the Republic is corrupt, he can safely say that for one ounce of corruption here there Is a full pound avoirdupois in Britain; for every ‘job’ here, twenty yonder. One nobleman gets £4,000 ($20,000)' per annum for walking backward before her Majesty upon certain occasions, and so on through a chapter of ‘jobs’ so long and irritating that no American could patiently read through it." A Washington correspondent writes that the false teeth that are responsible for the peculiar expression seen in portraits of George Washington are in the Baltimore College of Dentistry. The lower plate is carved out of one piece of ivorv, teeth and all. The upper plate was carved from ivory, as near like a plaster cast of the mouth as possible, and the teeth, also of ivory, were riveted on. The upper plate split after it had been worn awhile, and the pieces were fastened together by two thin strips of iron riveted on the plate. A novel use for bald heads is thus described When the Crown Prince Frederick William made a sort of royal progress through United Germany, at the close of the hostilities (with Franco), each town vied with his neighbor in presenting some novelty by way of honor to his Imperial Highness. One capelmeister conceived the idea of utilizing the ancieut opera-goers, and upon the entrance of the Prince into the box, already decorated for him, certain men in the pit stood up. making the letters of “Unser Fritz” in bald beads below. Earl Poulett, who kas at last been forced to disown his nominal son and heir, Viscount Hinton, on the latter’s arrest for wholesale swindling of tradesmen, is understood to contemplate

asking the House of Lords to pass upon his son’s legitimacy. The Earl, when twenty-two years of age, won, at the seaside, a wagor, made when intoxicated, that he did not dare to marry an unfortunate girl, the daughter of a pilot there. Six months after marriage this Hinton was bora. The mother died in 1871. The Earl has a son by a later marriage? There is a woman in the Chicago postoffico whose employment is to correct misdirected letters. Her brain is a business directory of the United States, and she knows where to locate every firm of any sort of prominence. If a clerk calls out a misdirected letter, as “Smith, Jones & Cos., Chicago," she will very often indicate the correct address, as Louisville, Milwaukee or Springfield, Mass., without taking her attention from tha work s)i3 is engaged in. During her term ol service some 200,000 misdirected letters have been saved from the dead-letter office. The Marquis de Maussabre is the diplomatia agent of the Prince of Monaco in Paris. A short time ago he employed a French tradesman, M. Duval, to execute somo repairs at his residence. in the Boulevard de Latour Maubourg, and when M. Duval presented his bill the Map quis smilingly reminded him that he would not pay it. An action was brought, and the Marquis pleaded diplomatic immunity as the representative of a sovereign state, the Principality of Monaco. The French- court had to admit the validity of the plea, and M. Duval will give no more credit to ministers plenipotentiary. The Rev. Dr. John Fulton, one of the most eminent Protestant Episcopal clergymen of the West, has tendered his resignation, to take effect on Oct. 1 next, of the rectorship of St George’s Church, St Louis, and will, for a time, at least, withdraw altogether from the ministry. This step he takes after months of careful consideration, and is outspoken in his reasous lot it He has, he says, a feeling amounting to diegust for certain features of the judicial system, of the Episcopal Church, and he thinks a loud and indignant protest necessary to .rouse the church to reformatory action. Regarding hie future occupation Dr. Fulton has no definite plans, but it is possible that he will practice law. he has been a clergyman at St. Louie for jusl ten years. Residents of Athens, N. Y., are mystified by the carious actions of a partridge that appeara in a lonely part of Griffin woods, on the road from Catskill to Athens. It always appears at dusk, and seems very tame. On Thursday evening, while George W. Loud and his daughter were driving through the woods it appeared trotting along the road by the side of the horse. The horse was stopped. The bird stopped also. Mr. Loud jumped out and tried” to catch it It ran from one side of the road to the other, but did not offer to fly, and at length hopped into tht woods and disappeared. On two or three previous occasions it alighted on the back of Mr. Loud’s horse. Other Athenians say it hae alighted on their horses. The spot where the queer bird is seen is described as being a very “spookish place."

COMMENT AND OPINION. .Sensational prayer is the latest output of tn > reform era. —National Republican. It is feared that the deities to whom Chaplain Milburn’s prayers are addressed are the gods of the galleries.—Boston Record. The man who invented patent insides for country weeklies has died, but the man who reads them is as well as could be expected.—St Louis Post-Dispatch. Were Mr. Cleveland’s neck forty times as bljj as it is, and his backbone three-ply, he will havo to choose between the Democrats and mugwumps.—Macon Telegraph. Another contribution to the fund of new political phrases—“the pterodactyl in politics.* Senator Ingalls is the father of the expression, and it is a meaty one.—Minneapolis Tribune. The free-traders are coming out of their fight with the protectionists in a state of disfiguration which shows very plainly that thov have had a livelier time than they expected.—Philadelphia Press. There is a profound belief in Mr. Cleveland’s theory that a public office is a public trust. Furthermore, there is a very general longing to sea it put in practice in the case of Augustus Sr* Garland.—Philadelphia Press. Congress oneht to look this Indian business in the face. These people should be educated and civilized, but at their own expense. Thi present system is iniquitous, and there is no excuse for its continuance.—New York Herald. The House labor committee is discussing the question of arbitration in labor troubles. ' Bui Congress is the last thing to which the country ever looks for relief in matters of this, or, sos that matter, any other kind.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Ti.e New York Sun thinks that “overwork ia the most ridiculous vice of which a man can ba guilty." That may be true; but there are a good many men who can’t help being ridiculousj however much they would like to help It.—Boaton Advertiser. Great strikes, which come of irreconcilable differences, are as costly and full of suffering as great wars, and will more and more be avoided. When labor is fully organized and intelligently led, strikes will disappear and matters of controversy will be settled by less expensive and more reasonable methods.—Louisville Commerial. In seeking to obtain fetir wages and reasonable hours of labor, and to improve their con* dition, the workingmen have nothing to seas from the widest publicity. Therefore we recommend to the Knights of Labor, as well as to the United States Senate, to transact business with open doors, and to do nothing which they are not willing the world should know.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Any man who has reached middle age can recall a dozen times when the country seemed on the verge of ruin—and it Isn’t ruined yet If wa have managed to live under a state of things in which Jay Gould has scrambled to the front, we need hardly shake in our shoes because of the labor movement which has men like Powderly aud Arthur Among Its leaders.—Springfield Republican. There is plenty of silver in the Treasury, and the bond call would afford a good opportunity tq get a few millions into general circulation. Bui Congress will have to order the thing done. Both Cleveland and Manning are too deeply committed to the anti-silver cause to pay out silver without positive orders. A brief joiut resolution on the subject would let them down easy.—Philadelphia Record. ■ All coercive treatment of employers tends to drive the best men out of business and to hand it over to the less conscientious and more un j scrupulous. A good employer is better than a bad one—at the same wages. We are glad to sea workmen getting better wages, but we fear that the new forms in which force is used to gain an increase will damage the cause they serve for tha moment —New York Advocate. The plans, as outlined by Mr. Powderly from time to time, are intelligible, are commendable; the threats made by Irons last week are a menace not so much to society as to the labor organization. Had the suggestions of Mr. Irons been acted on, and a general strike ordered, tha consequences would have been disastrous; tha revolt of the public acainst such domiDAtioa would have crushed the organization like an eggshell.—Louisville Courier-Journal We must leave it to the effects of time, of reflection, of experience, to show the man of tha masses who is struggling against wrong that fortitude as well as aggression is needed; that ha must accept compromises as well ns exact rights; and that great results cannot be achieved exoept by the operation of complex causes in which he is only one of the factors. He will learn this lesson ultimately. Toleration, charity and sweetness will come; but turbulence and warfare, in tha very nature of tilings, must precede. Education has its dark and trident phase, as well as its suave and genial side. The one is as necessary as the other.—New York Star. Mb. Cleveland ought to understand that tht American people will bear with ignoranee, with mistakes—with graver faults, even—in their public men; but they do not like hypocrisy. Ha ought to read Senator Harrison’s speech from beginning to eud, and then be ought honestly either to pull up his curtains ami expose tha Representatives, Senators and others who hav< led him too easily into very dirty waters, Qi else he ought to announce formally and officially that he has been humbugging the people, and will hereafter do so no more. “Let us corns upon an honest basis," as Senator Harrison sai& -New YwkaemM.