Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1887 — Page 4

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THE CN DIAJAPOIjIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1S87.

THE DAILY JOURNAL. M NDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1887. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 FoartMDt 6U F. S. Heath. Correspondent. HEW TO UK OFFICK 104 Tempi Court, Corner Boekman end Nassau street.

TOE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL f be foand at the following places; LONDON American .Exchange ia Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard . des Capacities. KEW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Kawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 6T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and -Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, J). C. Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone) Calls. Business Office.... ..238 Editorial Rooms 242 If the anti-Cleveland Democrats wish to prevent bis renomination they should devise some way to deprive him of that left hind foot of a grave-yard rabbit killed ia the light of the moon, that was sent him down ia Mississippi. The widows of many deceased men whose names were fraudulently registered in Baltimore have rendered valuable assistance to the Reform League in purifying the lists. No right-minded widow wants her husband to be voting three or four years after his death. The Democratic bosses ought to have had tense enough to know this, if they had stopped to consider. The operation of the new registry law has revealed the fact in some cities of Ohio that a number of foreign-born citizens have been voting for years without being naturalized, and have even held office without having reBounced their allegiance to foreign potentates. Perhaps it is ,just as well to clear up the record, and start anew. Native Americans ought to have a fair show in this country. THERE is a strong movement in Evansville for the enforcement of the saloon-closing law. A citizens' committee of twenty-five called on the Board of Police Commissioners, Saturday night, and presented a petition signed by seven hundred voters, and another signed by five hundred women, asking for the enforcement of the law. The case was also presented orally on behalf of the committee, in an earnest and able manner, and the board took the matter under advisement. .There should be no advisement nor hesitation in the matter. Jt is the duty of the board to see that the law 5a enforced. They have no discretion in this fegard, and should not attempt to exercise any -short of the strict enforcement of the law. Mr. James C. Matthews, the colored lawyer of Albany, N. Y., who was appointed Register of Deeds in "Washington by President Cleveland, but who was sot confirmed by the Benate, publishes a long letter to show why colored men should be Democrats. It hould require a very long letter to show. Mr. Matthews is evidently hoping the President will yet find a way to reward him with a lucrative office, and his appeal to colored men to support the Democratic party is correspondingly earnest. He concludes by saying "If you believe that in the Democratic party is a broader patriotism, a freer airy a manlier appreciation of free men, join us, and with a proud step keep time to the musio of that party that is the exponent of labor, which is our lot; of patriotism, which is our breath; ot freedom, which is our heart's best and sweetest desire." "We fully agree with Mr. Matthews that if there is a colored man in the United States who can find these merits and qualities in the Democratic party, he should join at once. That is the proper place for a man who eees things as crookedly as that. A "Personal Liberty" League has been formed in Philadelphia, and there, as elsewhere, the phrase and the movement represent opposition to the enforcement of law and a determination to make the saloon an active factor in politics. The league makes its appeal especially to Germans, who are assumed to be universally opposed to the American Sunday, and particularly sensitive in regard to "personal liberty." At least one intelligent German in Philadelphia refuses to be caught with this kind of chaff. This is Mr. G. E. Metzger, editor of a Republican paper, and until recently president of the Philadelphia Saengerbund. He says, in effect, that the Republican platform in favor of the enforcement of law suits him and ought to suit all law-abiding Germans. For this contumacy he has been expelled from the singing society, by the way, a queer illustration of "personal liberty," and he in turn has resigned from the Personal Liberty Society, which he declares is not rightly named, inasmuch as "every act is compulsory by the management, which is three-fourths socialist in ideas and principle." It will strike most people, we think, that Mr. Metzger is a good deal better representative of personal liberty than those on the other side. General Butler, counsel for the Chicago Anarchists, said to a reporter: "I am a lawyer, and I consider that it is my duty to do my utmost to save my clients from suffering the penalty of the law, and I think every upright lawyer will agree with me that as long as there is a loophole of escape for these men it is our duty to fight for them." That Is the theory held and practiced by modern criminal lawyers, but we labmit that it ' is opposed to good morals aiid sound legal ethics. The first duty yf a lawyer is to see that justice is done, and lhis may mean the punishment instead of the icquittal of the client. His duty is to see that his client is not unjustly punished, nor punished at all if innocent. If the lawyer honestly believes his client innocent he may labor for his acquittal, but if he has reason to ' believe him guilty in any degree or to any extent, be has no right to attempt to shield him from the penalty. General Butler's statement proceeds on the theory that society has no rights which a lawyer any more than a

criminal is bound to respect. Society is to be defrauded of justice, and the law is to be beaten if possible by hook or by crook. That is precisely the position of the criminal. General Butler's statement of the duty of a criminal lawyer is degrading to the profession, or would be if criminal lawyers . had not proceeded on that theory so long as to give it the approval of the profession.

LYNCHING AND LAW. The lynching of Amer Green, while not differing from other acts of mob violence in principle, is peculiarly aggravated in some of its features. It was done deliberately, and cot in the heat of passion, and the preparations for the lynching were made so deliberately that the officers of the law ought to have been prepared to repel the attempt. The Governor's severe reprimand to the sheriff of Carroll county seems to be deserved, and it is only to be regretted that the law does not empower him to take vigorous measures in such a case. These repeated lynchmgs are, as the Governor truly says, "rapidly bringing the State of Indiana into public disgrace." The leading actors in this last affair must be well known, and a vigorous effort should be made to bring them to account for their violation of law. But there is another aspect of the case. "Why do these lynchings occur, and why are they increasing in frequency? The people of Indiana are not lapsing into barbarism, nor becoming more bloodthirsty than formerly. They are not retrograding in their regard for human life, nor are they growing more passionate and uncontrollable in their natures. Why, then, we ask again, is the resort to lynch law increasing in frequency? Undoubtedly because of the weak and feeble administration of law, and the slowness and uncertainty of justice. The people are becoming disgusted with the law's delays and with the impotence and inefficience of its administration. Far'too much crime goes unpunished, far too many criminals go free. What between the laxity of the laws and of their administration, of criminals who are willing to take every chance of escaping justice, and of lawyers willing to take every chance of defeating itj'what between weak and nerveless judges and faithless, sentimental juries, matters have reached a point where the people almost fear that justice will never . be done unless they take it in their own hands. The administration of criminal law in this country lacks two essential elements certainty and celerity. The terrors of the law are frittered away by delays. Nobody knows this better than criminals, or persona contemplating crime, and they take the chances accordingly. Lynch law is practically unknown in Europe. Why? Because there law is administered and enforced, not trifled with. There is not a country in Europe where criminal law is not administered with far more vigor and effect than it is in the United States. This country to-day is suffering in every interest, and to the remotest parts of the body-politic, for the want of a vigorous enforcement of law. The people are all right, but their legislators make loose laws, and judges and prosecutors permit criminals to drive through them with a coach and four. In no other half-civilized country of the world is there such an army of unpunished criminals to snap their fingers at the law. Again we say the fault is with the makers and administrators of the law. Given a law full of reprieves, delays, and hiding-places, a weak-kneed judge who is afraid of offending somebody, a half-baked prosecutor who is more concerned about his renomination than he is about the punishment of crime, and a jury that absorbs the general nerveless atmosphere of the court, and what can society expect against criminals aided by criminal lawyers? The people are constantly slain in the house of those who should be their friend?, and the rights of society are sacrificed to those of criminals. It i3 thi3 that is bringing the administration of law into disrepute and making lynchings more frequent. The people have a better sense of justice than those who are called to administer it. It is not the people who need reforming so much as the makers and executors of the law. SENSIBLE WOEDS FOR WOEKINGMENNo organization of workingmen ranks higher in public esteem or has accomplished more for its members and the cause it represents than the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. It is one of the oldest and strongest labor unions in the country. Resembling other organizations and unions in many respects, it differs from nearly all in the fact that it is seldom heard of in connection with strikes and that its animating spirit is one of f aim 383 toward and friendliness with capital. In this it has doubtless found the secret of the true and just solution of the labor question, viz.: mutuality and identity of interest between capital and labor, the substitution of arbitration for strikes, and the establishment of friendly instead of hostile relations between employers and employes. On this basis the labor question can be fairly, justly and permanently settled, and it never can be on any other. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers seem to have made further progress in this direction, so far as their own branch of labor is concerned, than any other workingmen's organization in the country. Its twenty-fourth annual convention, just held in Chicago, furnishes an illustration. A more orderly, harmonious, good-tempered convention never was held. Many of the delegates were accompanied by their wives and children, and it was a happy, comfortable, good-natured assemblage. In .the proceedings there was no wrangling or controversy, not a hitch nor a jar. The convention was opened with prayer, organ musio and singing by a trio of Chicago ladies. Mayor Roche delivered an address, in which no sentence was more heartily applauded than the one in which he assured the engineers that they "had succeeded in making the railroads believe that yon are their friends, as well as the friends of the public." Then there was a poetical welcome, and an address by Gov. Oglesby. But the two remarkable features of the convention were the address of Mr. G. T. Jeffrey, - general manager of the Illinois Central railroad, and the address of Grand Chief Arthur. The appearance of a railroad

manager in a convention of railroad employes as one of the orators of the occasion was typical of the spirit that governs the brotherhood, the spirit of friendliness between capital and labor, instead of hostility. The general manager was well received and made an excellent address which was heartily applauded. He addressed the engineers as co-laborers and said that "we have a common interest and a common object in view." He urged the necessity, first of individual manhood, and second,, of perfect confidence between employers and employes. There could be no good work nor good results where ..there was distrust or discord. He drew the line between labor and loyalty. A man's labor has a market value and can be bought and sold, but loyalty is above price. Mere mechanical work can be had for money, but loyalty and duty are not purchasable. Yet an employe owed these to his employer as much as he did mere mechanical service. "For my part," said this railroad manager, addressing the strongest labor union in the world, "after laboring in various capacities from boyhood, ' I am convinced that it is as unwise for the engineer to serve a corporation in which he lacks confidence as it is for a corporation to retain in its employ an engineer whom it cannot trust. The faith must be mutual; the respect be well grounded upon both sides. The confidence must be absolute and unqualified; and right dealing, truthfulness, honesty of purpose, consideration by each for the rights of the other, form the pedestal upon which this confidence must rest." These sentiments and others akin to them were applauded by the engineers. Chief Arthur's address was in admirable form well conceived and arranged, counseling devotion to duty, sobriety and moderaation, discouraging strikes and urging above all things the cultivitation of perfect confidence and good understanding between capital and labor, employer and employe. The key-note and inspiration of his address may be found in the following extract: "The aggressive civilization of to-day, the one that will conquer the world and supersede all others, the one that has proved the best for man and that has lifted him up to higher planes than any other, is that built upon and shaped by the teachings of Christ. The best thoughts of all the best thinkers and writers upon the industrial problem have found nothing equal to the words, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself, 'Do unto others a3 you would have them do unto you.' All correct philosophy, all sound teaching and reasoning conduct us unerringly to these simple truths, which combine in themselves every essential principle necessary to the solution of the industrial problem. A solution based upon these would abide, because it would be founded on simple justice between man and man." A ' And this from the chief officer of a t labor union with a membership of 25,000. These addresses met with a hearty response from the audience. Compared with them and with the spirit and harmony that characterized this convention, how mischievous and pitable appear the proceedings of some others where the ruling desire seems to be to establish and maintain a condition of perpetual hostility and chronic warfare between capital and labor. There can not be a doubt that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers ha3 struck the key-noto of the true solution of the labor problem in the establishment of friendly relations between capital and labor, and the preservation of peace instead of the prosecution of war between employers and employes.

The only question before the Supreme Court of the United States in the Anarchist cases, is whether an error of law was committed in the Illinois courts which contravenes the federal Constitution. Indeed, the pending question is less than that; it is whether there is a presumption sufficient ' to warrant the issue of a writ of error in order that the other question may be brought before the court at all. The points seemingly relied upon by the Anarchists' attorneys are that some jurors had read the newspapers and formed an opinion, although they swore that the opinion would give way to the evidence; and secondly, that because after the regular panel had been exhausted, the sheriff was directed that talesmen should be summoned from the best citizens; therefore, the prisoners were not tried by "a jury of their peers." Reduced to the simplest forms, the contention seems to be that no one can be a legal juror if he reads the newspapers, or is not the same kind of a man as the one on trial. In other words, a horse-thief must be tried by horse-thieves, a murderer by murderers. A lawyer would not state the points this way, but that is the plain United-States of it. Should the writ of error be granted, it by no means follows that the action of the Illinois courts would be reversed and a new trial become necessary, and in any event the merits of the case canhot be reached in the federal court. It is said that if the Supreme Court grants the writ of error in the Anarchist case months must elap3e before a decision can be reached. The probability of such a delay, not only in this but so many criminal cases, is what makes mob law. One of the most noted criminal cases in England of recent years was that of Lipski, the Polish Jew murderer. There was great doubt raised by interested parties as to his guilt, and a formidable movement inaugurated in his behalf. The case was carefully examined; it was taken hrough every legal step of review and appeal, even up to the Home Secretary, who, with the Cabinet, gave a patient hearing to the case. When everything had been done that could be done, without avail to change the sentence, Lipski made a confession of his guilt. In less than one hundred days from the commission of the crime the murderer was executed in Newgate. The case illustrates the difference between English and American criminal methods, and it also indicates why they have no lynchings in England. Inside of three months all the legal processes involved in the arrest, conviction, investigation and punishment had been gone through with, guilt was punished, the law was vindicated, and society was given the protection for which the law was designed. THE Chicago Tribune thinks it highly probable that the Supreme Court will allow a writ of error in the Anarchist' cases. As to the effect of this preliminary action it says: "The writ, of course, will stay the execution of the sentence of the Illinois court un-

til a final decision is reached by the federal Supreme Court. After allowing the writ of error, argument will be heard on the main question, which the court puts in this form: la there a United States question involved; and, if so, was it correctly decided by the court below?"' The public should not mistake the decision on the allowance of the writ of error for the final determination of the court. The writ will probably be allowed early next week, but it may be weeks or months before the final conclusion is announced." "

The Democrats of Iowa have got the political assessment matter down fine. - The party managers do not demand contributions from federal officials in cold and formal terms, but address them thus: "As you are receiving some, of the fruits of our victory in 18S4, 1 take the liberty . to call on you for a voluntary contribution. Such a contribution at this time would be very acceptable and will be instrumental, in a large degree, in aiding us in 1 paying - obligations already contracted and carrying on campaign work that we have laid out." Of course there is no pernicious activity or offensive partisanship about a voluntary contribution; but lest the innocent officials should be at a loss to know the proper amount to offer, it is thoughtfully mentioned in the circular that "presidential postmasters &ro generally contributing from $25 to $50; fourthclass postmasters from $2 to $25; railway postal clerks, $10 to $15; members of pension examining boards, $10 to $15." The President, it is to be supposed, has no "official" knowledge of this circular, and it is hardly worth while to disturb his serenity by calling his attention to it. It conflicts with the law, to be sure, but the administration policy is one of non-interference when Democrats are the law-breakers, and it is not probable that the offenders in Iowa will be t reprimanded while Maryland rascals go unrebuked. A correspondent of the New York World thinks strikes can be neutralized and the labor problem otherwise simplified by teach ing every American boy a trade. If this would be a good thing for labor it would be a great one for boys. The World correspondent says: "As it now is the American boy is boycotted so that only one apprentice is allowed in each guild or office. The consequence is that.the foreign boy learns his trade and comes to our country as a full-fledged journeyman. He takes that which is forbidden to the American boy; but at the same time the influx does not supply the demand for skilled labor. Justice to the American boy, and to the American employer as well, will be attained by compelling the education of every American boy in the public schools to a trade. Such a law would at once neutralize the scheme of the trades-unions to limit the supply of skilled labor and thereby control it, to the wrong of employers." The idea and the advice are excellent, but how to carry them out is the question. The public school system is overloaded now, and thero is no room for a manual labor attachment. Most boys are not anxious to learn trades, and most parents are unwilling or unable to control them in the matter. It i3 doubtful if the end could be accomplished by compulsory legislation; yet it may come to that. Ds STRICT assembly No. 49, Knights of Labor, of New York, held a meeting a few nights ago to protest against the execution of the Chicago Anarchists. The American flag was draped in black and a circular was distributed which contained the following: "The judges who have affirmed the sentence stand on a level with the notorious police bandit, Captain Bonfield; with the barbarous persecutor, Ebersold; with the monumental perjurer. Schaack; with the corrupt jury, with the tiger of the bar, Grinnell, and with the scoundrel of all scoundrels, with Gary, the manager of the greatest 'judiciary' crime of our times. The boasts of capital want blood. Their hirelings have shown themselves ready to seize the best and noblest from the ranks of the people and render them up to their senseless rage." In the light of such utterances and publications as this, it should seem that there is more danger from too much freedom of speech than from too little. Men who circulate such literature as that have murder in their hearts. The Richmond Telegram gives some interesting facts respecting the persons in charge of the Insane Hospital at the present time. It is a refreshing spectacle of Democratic reform. The Telegram says: "If anybody cares to know in what direction the Insane Hospital is being 'reformed' now. he shonld study tbe personnel of the present employes. One who has enjoyed peculiarly favorable opportunities for ascertaining this sums it up as follows: "'Look at the medical staff as it stands today: Dr. Thomas, ex-confederaie officer, newspaper man of questionable character, etc., but never known as an average doctor. "'Dr. Wiles, a man unknown as first-class among the profession, but became prominent because he was arrested for conspiracy to defraud in election! P. M. Gapen was on the jury before whom he was tried and saved him. Wiies is Green Smith's and Burreli's man. " 'Dr. Howard, known as a sporting man, a political bully, who was to do , certain things, and last winter was under contract to keep Gapen & Co. in at all hazards. " 'The new superintendent was a 'specialist in diseases, of females' at Seymour, and was never in but one other hospital for the insane, and that but for a few hours.'" The Sbelbyville Republican, referring to the New York World's contemptible attack on Hon. Ruf as Magee, United States minister to Norway and Sweden, says: "Dr. Fleming, who recently returned from a five months' tour of tlie contioent. met Mr. Magee in Stockholm, and, when shown the sqnib, denounced the same as a tissue of falsehoods. Mr. Magee gave hi party the uiost distinguished attention while in Stockholm, and was extremely polished and diplomatic in his manners. The visitors found him a perfect gentleman, and never bad better treatment from anyone. The minister made it a point to make the visit of the party a oieasant one, and they left feeling under many obligations to him. Dr. Fleming stated that Mr. Magee was very popular at the court of Stockholm, and everyone liked him. He refutes the charges in the most positive terms. Some time back Mr. Ma gee lost his wife and since then bis - life has been an unhappy one. He told the Doctor that he was lonesome away from his native land, and a very unhappy man. Tbe World might be in better business than slandering Ruf as Magee, who is one of the worthiest and most popular citizens of Indiana. " AB0DT PEOPLE AND TUIN'GS. The King of Corea furnished his winter palace with $18,000 worth of American chairs, beds and tables. He also bought an American steamer for $28,000. A widower, with thirty-one children, living in Parkeraborg. W. Va, ia now married to his eighth wife. He is determined to control the politics of bis own ward. Mrs. John A. Logan has written a recommendation "to whom it may concern,' saying that a bast of John A. Logan, by Miss Adelaide Johnson, of Chicago, is by far the best that has been made. John I. Blair, tbe richest man in New Jersey, owns three railroads in Kansas, two in Missouri, and one in Iowa. Although seventyfour years old, and worth a dozen millions, he is still planning new money-getting projects. The first meerschaum pipe was carved in the early part of the thirty-years' war, and Walleaatein is said to have bought it The true clay is to be procured only at Eaki-Scher. in Asia

Minor, where there are large -deposits, and whence it is sent direct to the manufactories at Ruhla, of which there are at present forty, employing almost the whole population of the dis tries. - " 1 A Mrs. Martin, of Atlanta, has sold her ten-year-old son to Joseph Burns, of Chicago, for $200. Burns was a discarded suitor, of Mrs. Martin a dozen years ago, and now, rich and childless, he purchased the boy, and will adopt him. : .... After the dinner given by the Century people to Mr. Roswell Smith, Mr. Frank R. Stockton remarked carelessly: VfWe were seven hours at the table. Now, three meals a day at that rate would be all that any man ought to expect." The proDosal to build a memorial in London to Charles Dickens recalls tbe fact that the deceased novelist in his will solemnly prohibited any such act ot the part of his friends. He defired no other memorial than his published works. A German physician, in an article on the late Professor Langenbeck, enumerates the many improvements which surgery owe to him. His methods were used during the last war with France, and thanks to this circumstance thousands of soldiers now possess their limbs in sound condition, which the doctors of the old school would have amputated. Chauxcey M. Depew's private secretary is kept busy booking dinner-dates for his famous chief. The date of a dinner is placed in one column, Mr. Depew's acceptance or declination in another, and tbe Bubject upon which he is expected to speak in still another. Just at present the number of invitations flowing in on Mr. Depew is very large. General Butler has been following his own advice in relation to buying and for the sake of obtaining the value that other people giye to it. Last year he offered some property south of the Capitol, at Washington, to the government, but it did not want it then. The property has since been appraised, with a view to its purchase, and the General is to receive $2,000 more than he offered it for last year. Joaquin Miller has a vast amount of trouble in bis domestic affairs. Not long ago his favorits daughter married an actor against her fathers will, and now "Hal" Miller, a son of the famons poet, is in jail in Nevada City for horsestealing. "Hal" is a young fellow not yet eighteen years of age. He offers another illustration of tbe fact that his father's life has been one of verses and reverses. The Paris Figaro eays that if you want your children to have pretty teeth you must begin with the second dentition to press back with the finger every morning the teeth which have a teudency to project forward, and to pull forward those whieh tend backward. As a wash boil in a tumblerful of water a pinch of quassia wood with a pinch of pulverized cacao. It strengthens the gums and whitens the teeth without injuring the enamel which covers the bone. Wash the mouth after each meal with lukewarm boiled water. The largest gymnasium in the world is said to be that of the Young Men's Christian Association at Liverpool. Harvard is said to Lave the next largest. Ladies as well as men are admitted to the Liverpool gymnasium, and : so enthusiastic are tbe members that they will go out inte the slums and induce the. street araba to come in and be taught tbe use of their muscles. Over 400 ragamuffins have been taught in this way in one week. Until less than two years ago the association refused to allow boxing in its gymnasium, but now it is as. freely indulged in as are other sports. David Hostetter, of Pittsburg, Pa., who has made a vast fortune in the manufacture of bitters, is a man about seventy years of -age. Physically be is insignificant. He is not much over five feet in height and of very slender build. His hair is whiter- and he wears a gray mustache. He has a large family. His eldest son. who was threatened with consumption, is now in California, and is in much better

h health than when he left Pittsburg. Mr. Hos tetter s wealth is estimated at between $o,000,000 and $6,000,000. There was a time when he peddled his medicine on foot. "I cannot bo content with less than heaven," Said Mr. Bailey, a poet of much worth, . Not so modest he as many later, , Who would be sati6.ed with the earth. Life. COMMENT AND OPINION. "It is easier to manage a surplus than a deficit," remarks Colonel Grant. . That is a good anti-poverty idea. New York Tribune. It is all well to talk about lucky men, but what the world wants is men who make their own luck. Philadelphia North American. The speech-making round of the President is completed. He will now retire with his valued cyclopedia, and begin the preparation of his annual message. Baltimore American. , The men who bold office in this country will average for honesty and capacity with any otherclasses, and this general shriek of boodling is nonsense not even good enough for an election cry New York Herald. It seems that the Anarchists expect the Supreme Court of the United States to turn them loose and fill their wallets with bombs because one of the jury that convicted them occasionally read a newspaper. Louisville Times. Chairman Edgerton, of the Civil-service Commission, is placing such liberal constructions on tbe civil-service law as may suffice to cover a multitude of pernicious activities. It is getting along toward tbe eve of another election. Detroit Tribune. Ixdscriminatb immigration was in our national infancy a youthful folly; bat in oar maturity it is an inexcusable national crime. To expect that we can continue committing that national crime and escape the penalty is to manifest cot a folly of youth but a degree of mature idiocy that cannot be either measured or compared. Chicago Times. The Presidential tour has enabled the executive to see a goodly portion of these United States and to make a score or more encyclopedic speeches. It may have put a prop or two under the renomination scheme, but it has given no impetus to the re-election movement, for the sufficient reason that the people are not fools. Brooklyn Standard-Union. The programme which Mr. Gladstone only hardly hinted at Nottingham certainly involves consequences of the gravest character, and it needs to be gravely regarded by all Britons and by all who believe that tbe maintenance of the present paramount influence of tbe English-speaking race in nearly all parts of the world is of the first importance as a promoter of the higher civilization. Philadelphia Telegraph. Courts and means of justice, badly and continually at fault, breed such things as feuds in Kentucky, or tbe White Caps in Indiana and then permit them to go on with mobbery and bloodshed long after wrongs have been avenged. Revenge begets revenge, and it is after scores of assassinations have been perpetrated that tardy courts assert their power and check the reign of blood. Louisville Commercial. It is not essential to success in this work of Christianizing this Republic that all differences and disputes be settled, or that all men conform to one rule of faith, or adopt cne system of government; in diversity as well aa in unity is strength found. The glory of our American institutions is as much in our local differences as in their national traits. But say unto this people that they go forward. Louisville CourierJonrnal. Householders who have been pleasing themselves with the consoling reflection that their home are heated and lighted at a minimum of cost, trouble and labor, and a maximum of comfort, will have to moderate their transports to some extent. Natural gas is not tbe harmless toy and perfect servant which they nave imagined it to be. It needs to be watched and kept under ward; or else it will become the deadliest foe of the household. New York Tribune. Hon. Kufus Maeee. Atlanta Constitution. Mr. Magee is as much at home in good society as any of our representatives abroad. In this country people have never discovered that he lacked ability, education, or good breeding, and it is not likely that be has undergone anv marvelous transformation since his arrival in Sweden. It is a noteworthy fact that all eminent Americans in public life, with perhaps only one or two exceptions, have always been, and are to-day, models of courtesy. Tbe know what is doe to both the masses at borne and the classes abroad. Even those among our great men -who have struggled up from the depths of obscurity have, as a rule, borne themselves as gentlemen. If Mr. Magee had ever been the clumsy lout that the World makes out he would never have received his present appointment. . . Insists on a Little v. . Evansville Courier (Dem. 1 We regret to see that the Indianapolis Journal continues to speak of the senior Senator from Indiana as Van Voorbees. The prefix is all right except that it should be written with a small v. When written with a eapital letter, van means nothing but a wagon for the transportation of passengers and small packages of freight. We do not understand that in placing

the van before his name our distinguished and el on nnt Senjt. ftp int An A A a 4vk Kim..ii

a general carry-all. He merely wished to acquaint tbe world with the fact ot his ancient lineage that history might not be silent on a subject of such interest as the ancestry of a truly great man. To write the van with a large Vis an orthographical. Philological and genealogical solecism that not only displays ignorance, bat is extremely offensive to the blue bloods who have the right to wear tbe prefix in front of their surnames. If the Journal expects to make any political capital by such mistreatment of our able Senator, we believe it will fall short of tht mark. The testimony of history should never be trifled with, and in this case it demands the use ot a small v with as much blue blood in it as oae can stick. - - MAURICE THOMPSON'S METHODS. He Has Attained Success by Industry, Thrift and Judicious Recreation. . New York Letter in Louisville Courier-Journal. ... Maurice Thompson, the Indiana poet and writer, famishes another instance of early and immediate literary success. In reply to soma questions on this and other points Mr. Thompson writes: "From the very first my writings have been accepted and paid for by the publishers. Prior to 1873 I had written very little. About that date I sent the manuscript of an archery paper to Harper's Magazine. They paid me in the neighborhood of $300 for it, but it did not appear nntil the Jane or July number of 1877, I believe, simultaneously with a paper I wrote for Scribner's Monthly. Meantime 1 bad written a number of papers for Appleton's Journal, the New York Tribune and some poems for the Atlantic. Horace Greeley was very kind to me, and, although we never met but twice, be took a great interest in my writings. Francis Lieber, discovering that I was somewhat given to nature Btudv, also took kindly to me and gave me good counsel. This was while I was but a youth. I have never permitted mself to depend wholly upon my pen for a livelihood, not because 1 have looked npon tbe profession of literature as more precarions than tbe other professions, bnt because I like to mingle with the practical business world and make my fight with it. I may say, however, that my income from my pen has been quit sufficient of itself to fully meet the requirements of my household for some years past, so that I have laid by my earnings from other sources, and am humbly, but comfortably well off in this world's goods. Or, I might more safely say that I am ahead in the world about the fall amount of my literary earnings to date, say from twenty to thirty thousand dollars. I see no reason why an author should not be as . k-;. . . 1 j T tuiu.jr s muy vtucr pnrouu, nor uo A-bob any reason why any one of the other professions should mortally affect the profession of literature. What little reputation I have as an author was fairly won, while I was a bard-working and successful lawyer. On the other hand, my literary work never interfered in , the least with my law practice.' I look upon a well-set method of working as the chief secret of success in my undertaking, provided the "native ability" to succeed be granted. 'r -.1 ,. l . i i a . j. ueuevtf in mo uiorsi inuaenca ana vitalizing force of playing. A man or a woman needs pl&y, recreation, or whatever is the opposite of work. I have always found time for oat-door sports, and have been the gainer from them in every sense. I is a morbid view of life which would show that in order to succeed one must work all the year round. Play is profitable if held within the bounds prescribed by good judgment. I have frequently lost 'business' in my profession by being absent from my office when a client called, bat it has not made me poor or wretched. On tbe contrary, I have gone right on getting together a eomfortable Utile fortune, despite the clients I have lost, and I am glad whenever I think about the pleasure I had at my out-door recreation, while some nee tier or more money-loving lawyer was getting a few 'cases' at my expense. To some people it may sound like romance when I say that for nine years past I have spent on an average three months of time successfully practicing law and pursuing literary work with sufficient return to make a very eomfortable bank account. Meantime I have been cheerful, in good health and at all times glad to be alive. What is the secret? ' Steady habits, promptness in meeting every obligation in law or literature, and a conscientious reliance upon the value of painstaking labor." Gov. Gray and tbe White Caps. New York Times. There is a humiliating confession involved ia the effort of Gov. Gray, of Indiana, to induce the United States district attorney to prosecute the band of outlaws calling themselves "White Caps" in the federal courts, on tbe ground that in tbe counties overrun by these ruffiaus they have control of tbe courts, and for this reason all attempts to punish them under the State laws have hitherto been unsuccessful. Tbe crimes of which the "White Caps" are guilty it was never intended to include in the jurisdiction of the federal courts, and no branch of tbe na tional government should be asked to Interfere for the enforcement of the laws of Indiana until the Governor has exhausted all his constitutional powers for the same purpose without success. The eountry has been accustomed to hear of lawless bands terrorizing whole counties of Kentucky without restraint, but that such organizations are able to gain a foothold in a State like Indiana, and the Governor should confess his inability to uproot them, is a revelation for which the general pnblie has not been prepared. It is a disgrace to Indiana that the "White Caps" have been tolerated at all, and if it be true that they have virtual exemption from punishment bv controlling the courts of tbe State, it if proof that tbe judicial system of Indiana is is sad need of a healthy reform. At all events, lk- faH...l .An tr a will rV Vl w h-v,VMntfMik about meddling in a matter which is so purely a State affair as the lawless acts of the "Whitt Caps," and Gov. Gray's appeals will go unheeded unless it is made very clear that the Ku-kluz laws really oover the crimes of the outlaws. ' . Cbarleston Feels Safe at Any Rate. Cbarleston (S. C.) News. The fact is that we believe, .and with good reason, that Cbarleston is about the safest plaee now it, the United States, so far as earthquakes are concerned. We have bad our "shake" and have got over it. Other parts of the country have not so much reason for expecting safety in the future. If it had been generally known, indeed, in Cbarleston on last Sunday morning that communication with the rest of tbe United States bad been suddenly cut off, we should have felt very much concerned for the rest of the United States. We would not have rushed into print, perhaps, to express our fears, bnt we should have felt uneasy nevertheless. The incident up the road, then, will not be without its good uses after all. The next time that the wires break down we will sleep in peace, trusting that only a barn has been burned down somewhere, and. that when the smoke clears away the Republic will still be found to be intact. The Same Everywhere. New York Tribune. j. lie political aiuance oetweeu toe uemoenKiv party and the saloon, liquor and brewing interests grows plainer and more distinct every day. The lienor men expect through the Detnocratio party to secure sweeping changes in the present laws for the restriction of their traffic. They want the Sunday closing laws stricken from the statute book, and every other enactment that in any way limits their sale of liquors. It is the serious question of the hour whether this political liquor power shall be allowed to dominate State legislation. Art In the South. Springfield Republican. A good deal of innocent amusement may be derived by examining the portraits of President and Mrs Cleveland in tbe Southern papers. In Tennessee the distinguished pair look like octoroons with startling white blotches npon their their cheeks. In Georgia they figure as the tattooed couple; while they turn up in the Alabama papers rugged with cruel scars. Our "Reform" Mail Service. Philadelphia North American. When after a long term of fair mall service the exchange editor begins to get tbe Pittsburg morning papers on tbe afternoon of the next day instead of in the evening of the same day, and other papers proportionately late, it is mildly suspected at this office that the postofi.ee employes are attending faithfully to thir campaign duties. Thanks to Ah Sin. Philadelphia Becord. We may thank Ah Sin for one slang phrase which has fastened itself in the current speech of the country. "All tbe same4 makes a very fair substitute for "notwithstanding." It seems to take three words, or a combination of three words, to convey the meaning intended. J . sT" He Can Afford It. Philadelphia Inquirer. The report that Jay Gould is going to Europe for a year is under discussion again. There is every reason to suppose that Mr. Gould can afford to spend a year in Europe, if he chooses, and nobody in this country shows any di position to hold him back. Heroto Treatment. St. Loots Post-Dispatch. English lords have become as unnecessary as English sparrows. They need tbe same kind ot , reformation.