Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1889

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, JULY 8, 1889.

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PATUS-Araeric&n Exchange ia Tarts, 35 Boulevard des Capucmes. KEW YORK Gilaey House and Windsor Hotel. PHrLAD'ELPHIA A. P. Ketnble, 3735 Lancaster venue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawiey A Co., 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. Peering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. -ST. LOUISUUnion News Comrany, Union Depot and Southern JIoteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rlggi House and Ebfcltt Honse. , American editors sojourning in Europe had better avoid extending their travels into Persia. If nature did not supply Indianapolis with a navigable fiver, sho seems to have been generous in furnishing sites for artificial lakes. . If Germany and Italy should conclude to swallow Switzerland, as a Berlin paper suggests, they may find her very hard to digest. The verdict of the coroner's jury is a strong presentation against tne owners of Conemaugh lake, and will go far to prove their responsibility for the terrible disaster. The verdict will doubtless figure in subsequent litigation. As an old soldier and G. A. R. man Commissioner of Pensions Tanner is in a position to speak frankly concerning pensions. While favoring a liberal policy towards disabled and dependent veterans, he is opposed to a service pension law at present. In short, he favors a disability pension law. While the Nashville American is willing to concedo that a man otherwise qualified may vote for a protective tariff and yet remain a tolerably good Democrat, it draws the line on voting for the Blair educational bill. No man can vote for that and remain in good standing in the party. Educated negroes are more dreadful to the Democracy than mills and manufactories, though both are bad. TnE constitutional conventions now in 668 sion in the Dakota3 and other Territories are all discussing a proposition to tax lands held by speculators the same as if improved and cultivated. The theory is to make it so expensive to hold lands for speculation that none can afford it, but all lands shall be held by actual settlers. Tlio American people will watch this feature with interest. Chicago's claim, since the recent annexation of territory, to be the second city of the United States, in population, may not be confirmed by the 'census. Philadelphia had 847,000 in 1880, and, with the natural increase since, will probably show 1,100,000 next year. Chicago will have to inflate very hard to equal that." But the annexation certainly places Chicago aHead of Brooklyn, and makes it a safe third in the list of American cities. In an educational address in Now York, a few days ago, Dr. Patton, of Princeton College, said "there could bo no greater fallacy than the supposition that education alone made good citizens. It must be supplemented by moral training." There is a great truth embodied in this statement, and it is high time the American people were realizing it. Our ideas of education and citizenship, and the relation of one to the other, have drifted very far from the correct standard. An enthusiastic Pennsylvanian wishes he just had a chance to vote for GiW. Foraker this fall he was so prompt in sending relief to the Johnstown sufferers. The good man may think this is the reason why, but he is mistaken. It is Foraker's general make-up that he admires. He was just as prompt in preri i i -l the rebel flags, and just ' as prompt on the battle-field. Bo patient, good friend. Foraker is a young man yet, and there is no telling what chances you may have to vote for him in less than a dozen years. V Storm clouds seem to ,bo gathering over Switzerland, but tho plucky little republic shows no signs of alarm. With Germany making arrogant demands, and threatening to enlist other powers in support of them, little Switzerland stands firmly on her rights, and defines her position with her enstomary bravery. It is probable the present causo of trouble will bo removed by Switzerland enacting more stringent laws in regard to the political refugees and agitators within her borders, but it is safe to predict she will not submit to dictation from Germany, or allow her neutrality to be violated by any of tho powers. Switzerland has fought for her rights before, and will not hesitate to do so again, if necessary. The fact that tho Bundezrath has ordered a loan of 20,000,000 marks, to provide new rifles for tho army, shows that they do not propose to be caught napping. The Journal must join issue with Assistant Secretary Tichenor, of Aio Treasury Department. Chauncey 31. Depew returned a picture to Paris to be touched up. It had already paid SO per cent, duty on its original importation, and now that it comes back mended, as it

were, Mr. Assistant Secretary wants to tariff tho whole thing CO per cent, again. This is absurd. Suppose a gentleman should return his imported pants to be patched by a Parisian tailor, would the Assistant Secretary want to retariff the whole garment? Wo trow not. The main portion had already become American by adoption, and should be admitted duty free. The very utmost that would be allowable would be a tariff on the patch, and it would bo allowable on that only because we are in duty bound to protect our menders as well as our makers. In the case of Mr. Depew's French picture only the "touch up" is dutiable, and the Assistant Secretary will please modify his order to suit this decision.

PROPERTY VS. ANARCHISM. According to a cablo dispatch, M. Essippoff, one of the leading Anarchists of Europe, brings a singular charge against the United States. He says that some of the most ardent Anarchists had become corrupted by a few years7 residence in this country, and, having acquired some property here, did not hesitate openly to declare their contempt for and hostility to anarchy and all Anarchists. Americans are said to be too sensitive to foreign criticism, but we fancy they will not think it necessary to repel this charge. Indeed, it is one of the finest tributes ever' paid to our government and institutions, and the fact that it was not so intended makes it the more significant. It has been feared by some, and not without reason, . that this country furnished too f avorablo a soil for tho growth and propagation of anarchism, communism utuI kindred movements against law and order. Our mild form of government and onr traditional ideas in rogardtofree speech, free press, etc., afford greater facilities for such movements than exist anywhere else in the world. Latterly, tQo, they have the covert encouragement of a class of newspapers which, for selfish purposes, aim to foster the spirit of discontent and make themselves its organs by persistently denouncing capital and wealth as the natural enemies of labor and. of workingmen. Papers which constantly preach the false and dangerous doctrine that tho rich are growing richer and the poor poorer aro allies anil organs of communism. But the conditions which favor the growth of anarchism and communism in this country are not as strong or universal as thosewhich work the other way, and M. Essippoff unconsciously calls attention to one of the most potent of these. He says some of the most ardent Anarchists who have come to the United States have been corrupted in a short time by becoming property-owners, after which they become open enemies of anarchism. There is a whole system of political economy in this statement. Tho fundamental idea of anarchism and communism is war upon property. The fundamental idea of property is the maintenance and protection of private rights. The two aro diametrically opposed. It follows, of course, just as M. Essippoff says, that as soon as a man begins to acquire property he ceases to be an Anarchist. No man makes war on capital after he begins to become a capitalist. There are no Communists among the men who own homes or shares in building and loan associations. The moment a man begins to get ahead and own property he becomes an advocate of law and order. From an Anarchist point of view he is "corrupted." He is worthless for the purposes of communism. M. Essippoff does not intimate how many Anarchists have been corrupted in this way by coining to tho United States, but evidently he had soma in his mind who had thus fallen. Certain it is that hundreds of thousands of foreigners who have come to the United States have become property-owners, wealth-producers and capitalists. Tho process is going on continually. In no other country, and in no other age of the world has the acquisition of property ever gone on as steadily and legitimately as it is now going on in this country. Hundreds of thousands of poor men are acquiring property and getting ahead. Laborers are constantly becoming employers, and wage-workers graduating into tho ranks of capitalists. As long as this condition lasts, anarchism and communism will not make much headway among us. , The Legislature of Massachusetts, at its late session, passed through the first stage three proposed amendments to tho Constitution, all relating to the elective franchise. Tho first is to allow anyone moving from one voting precinct to another to vote for Governor, Lieu-tenant-governoror legislators in the town from which ho moved for six months after the removal. The second exempts soldiers from disfranchisement because of being supported as paupers, and tho third provides for the disfranchisement for not more than ten years of all persons convicted of crimes against the election laws. If agreed to by the next Legislature they will bo voted upon by the people next year. ! Ex-Minister Winston, who spent some time in Persia, and knows the Shah quite well, does not think the withdrawal of the Persian minister will have any serious effect on the relations of tho two countries. Probably not, as the relations amount to very little anyway. To a question whether tho Shah is friendly to America, Mr. Winston replied: "Oh, he does not know much about us. He looks upon this country as a big huntingground. He would like to come hero to gratify his strong passion for hunting." Perhaps ho had better come and hunt the editors who havo said disrespectful things about him. It has been asserted with great positiveness that tho Standard company, of St. Louis, had nothing to do with the bid of tho "Indiana School-book Company," nor with tho books offered by them. Said books purport to bo copyrighted by J. E. Blythe. Tho Journal instructed its Washington correspondent to inquire at the congressional library if the books were copyrighted, and by whom. Tho answer is: "Copyrighted July 1, J. E. Blythe, by Standard Book Coninauy."

This proves that the Standard company is tho real publisher of the books; that they aro the same books copyrighted several years ago, under different names and aliases, and that in order to give them the appearance of new publications they were copyrighted by the Standard company on July 1, the very day the State Board of Education held its last meeting. The Journal is defending the interests of the public schools in this matter, and it does not propose to stand by and remain silent when an attempt is made to unload on the State and tho schools a set of semi-obsolete and inferior text-books.

In his great speech at Plymouth (Devonshire) Mr. Gladstone made a powerful appeal and argument for home rule in Ireland. In the course of his speech he said: You -will often hear our opponents refer, undoubtedly in tho most shallow and superficial manner, to the case of the United Htates of America. They say."dld tho United States grant tho demand for separation! No, they thought it right to establish the supremacy of the Union." Perfectly true. They had a demand for separation which we have not. They established the supremacy of the Union, and what did the supremacy of the Union mean! It meant that there should bo ft federal government in Washington for tho transaction of imperial concerns, and that in aU tho thirty-nine or forty States tho legislatures should be absolute in local concerns. They are right in quoting the example of America; their only misfortune is that that teaches a lesson the direct reverse of what they say, because it shows that local authority and independence are not the opposite but are the tlnnest props and guarantees of just and imperial power. Mr. Gladstone's superior knowledge of our system of government enabled him to turn this argument effectively against . tho opponents of homo rule. He cited with great effect other historic instances in which the granting of home rule or! the establishment of antonomy had resulted in bringing peace and prosperity to the people. His line of argument was that home rule was as necessary to England as to Ireland, and absolutely indispensable to permanent and peaceable union. His peroration was very eloquent, and so good a specimen of his splendid stylo and diction that we copy it. Ho said: Oh! gentlemen, let us then give home rule to Ireland. And 1st us give it not only for her sake but for our own. Let us givo it for her sake, that she may be enabled to put forth all her energies and the great gifts with which Providence has endowed her, under the invigorating, I might almost 6ay the regenerating, influence of free institutions. Fur it is a great mistake to suppose that there Is no connection between free institutions and industrial prosperity. It ia the security of his labor which induces a man literally to bestow it. And as you look over the face of the world you wiU find in all the cases I have mentioned that in a most remarkable manner the sraut of autonomy, tho grant of freedom, in whatever form supposing it to bo a practical form has bee followed by a wonderful development and prcres of the economical resources of the ouutry. It is for her happiness, for the fultillment of her just though long-deferred hopes. You have done a phhI tleal for Ireland. You established religious equality. You mitigated the land laws. You gave tho power . of socret voting. You have conferred ou Ireland a franchise as largo as your own, and Ireland is grateful for all of these things. liutshc beseeches you likewise to give her a legislative or? an which shall bo associated with herself iu unity of feeling for every Irish purpose, while she is willing either to leave to you or to concur with you in tho provision necessary to bo made for every imperial interest. Give her home rule for her own sake, but givo it also for jour own. liely upon it that the effects of that measure will jnur in a golden Hood throughout the country. It will raise the country, it will unite the country, it will enrich the country: for new and better relations with Ireland will lead, ns I have said, to a greater development of all of her industrial powers. All those will be great benefits to us. Imt there is one benefit greater still, and which touches us nearer tho heart. When you have attained this blessed end j'ou will then have done more than merely strengthening end enriching tho country; you will have redeemed f our character lrom the reproach of ages for although there are some Englishmen who do not like to hear it, yet it is a fact palpable nsif een at r.oon-day that the condition of Ireland and the total failure to bring her into harmony with the general system of this vast empire Is; and has been, a reproach to Kugland for centuries, inlall ' the civilized countries of the world. Wo hope to reueetu our character from that 'reproach, and if we arc enabled to do so we shall confer upon her the greatest and noblest benefit of all. For, gentlemen, character is moral power, and moral power it is by which the sure, unshaken ' ordinations of (Jod, working In ways perhaps unknown to us but known and fixed by Him, and at such times and In such manner as He shall choose; moral power it is which eventually triumphs over every adversary and shapes the destinies of nation?, shapes the fortwuesif nations and determines all thedestinesof mankind. The report from which the extract is mado is frequently marked with "cheers' and cries of 'hear, hear," showing that the orator's eloquent appeal had sympathetic listeners. ' . A judge in Buffalo, N. Y., a few days ago mado tho following order: The sheriff will notify tho proprietors of the several factories that unless this whistling is stopped, they will be called before ; tho court for contempt." That is stretching tho law of contempt very far. That judge ought to arrest the drivers of wagons for making a noise in the streets. Some judges aro very sensitive to contempt. A iiakmless-lookixg wire, dangling in the air, at New York, knocked three men and a Newfoundland dog senseless within less than five minutes. It was a severed electric-light wire. When tho crowd discovered what it was, nobody made light of it. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Robert Louis Stevenson's mother, who was with her son in the South seas, reports him as in greatly improved health and about starting on another year's cruise. Oscau Fay Adams, the poet, is writing a lffeof.Jano Austen. At present he is in England, visiting her old homo and haunts to gather additional material for tho biography. There is a reasonable expectation that the Rev. Dr. Joseph Tarter will presently resign his pastorate of the City Tem-t pie, Londou. At any rate, he talks of doing so. Mmk. de Grouchy, tho widow of tho marshal who lost the battle of Waterloo for Napoleon by not comins in time to it, died at Pau on June IS. Sho was eightysix. Grouchy died in 1S43. . London Justice says that all tho people now living in tho world, or about 1.400,000,000, could rind standing room within the limits of a field ten miles square, and by aid of a telephone could be addressed by a single speaker. Miss Mary Waxamakkr, the Postmastergeneral's daughter, will make her debut in Washington society next fall. She is not yet out of her teens, but is an accomplished eirl of considerable beauty. She has had tho training of an excellent education and is skilled in music and languages. There are some Waterloo men alive in England still. The most distinguished is the Earl of Albemarle, who was a subaltern at Waterlooand is now hale and hearty at ninety. Tho Queen sent him a bouquet of roses Waterloo day. The Earl is the writer of a very interesting book, full of tho recollections of a long and busy career. H. Ward Leonard, tho new general manager of the United Edison Manufacturing Compan-, is a young man not yet thirty. He was an assistant under Mr. Edison six years ago with a nominal salary, but his income from his present position is greater than that of the ordinary bank president. He was graduated from tho Boston Institute of Technology in 1S83. At Harvard, last winter, tho Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks noticed three young men who cam to hear him regularby, and, as they looked like working men, ho was more interested than usual. Ho took pains to lind out who they were, and mado an opportunitv to speak with them. Having ascertained where they lived and what they did, he went one day to call on them. He climbed several nights of stairs, and knocked at the door. All three of tho young men were in. and they were taking their comfort in their, shirt sleeve. Natural

they were a trine embarrassed at being surprised by this man. to whom they looked up with so much respect. Dr. Brooks shook hands all round, and then said, with his cheerlnl smile, "Well, bovs, it is a little warm here; 1 think, if you will let me, I will take off my coat;" and he did, and sat down and mado his call in his shirt sleeves. General, Butler is described on his tour through Maine as carrying the usual bright red nose and "tipping his hat on one side of his head in the saucy Butlerlsh fashion." It is further remarked that while the General is unable to bend over quite as easily as he used to, yet he steps along quite smartly. Tho country .will lose one of its most picturesque features when the hero of Dutch Gap is gathered to hU fathers. Petek Van Antwerp, who died in Jersey City on Thursday, was a membeof tho New York firm of Livingston fc Van Antwerp, patent lawyers, and drew up tho first application of Elias Howe for his sewing machine. Ho was soventy-four years old, had been a member of tho bar for more than fifty years and prided himself on his pure Dutch descent, his ancestors having settled in Now York when it was still New Amsterdam. ' One of tho moat interesting of recent events in Paris was tho meeting between President Carnot and Marshal MacMahon. They met in the hall of the Society of Help to the Wounded, of which the Marshal is president, and accosted each other with a friendliness highly satisfactory to French Republicans. MacMahon is still as agilo and active as a young fellow of forty. Ho goes to tho exposition nearly every day with his wife, and takes a turn on horseback. Mr. W. T. Walters, the Baltimore millionaire, is tho possessor of a painting by Millet which is -sometimes ranked before the famous "Angelas" of that painter. It is a moonlight scene called the "Sheepfold," in which a shepherd, who has thrown his heavy cloak about him, opens tho gate of the fold for his nock. The atmospheric qualities of the painting are remarkable. Ono of the very best examples of Millet is that in. the gallery of Henry C. Gibson. A strange exhibition of religious insanity happened, at Bayonne, N, J., one day last week. Miss Leoni Steuvenal, who had lost her-reason through excessive study, during the absence of her attendants made an attempt to crucify herself. She secured a hammer and hat pins, removed her clothing and endeavored to nail herself to the door of her room. She succeeded in driving the pins throngh one hand and foot before she was discovered, and though the wounds were bleeding freely, sh6 gave no sign of pain. Sho is seriously injured. The Duke of Wellington detested being helped. One day a gentleman nearly as old as himself made some demonstration of assisting him to cross Piccadilly when crowded. When tho Duko reached the gate of Apsley House, ho touched his hat and said, "l thank yon, sir." The stranger took off his hat and said: "My lord, I have passed a long and not uneventful life, but never did I hope to reach the day when I might bo ot the slightest assistance to the rreatest man that ever lived." The Duke ooked at him calmly, and replied, "Don't ) a fooll" and walked into Apsley Mouse. The Bismarck-loving inhabitants of a village in Posen have just celebrated tho completion of their monument to the Chancellor, and tho following pompous inscription graces the front of tho stone: "To tho glorious rirst Chancellor of the powerful German empire, His Highness Prince Otto von Bismarck, this monument is dedicated in gratitude and reverence by the Parish of Wiuitze, 1880." On one side tho words are engraved, "Forged with iron, cemented with blood, unity grew. It weathered tho storms of the time:" and on tho other, "Wo Germans fear God. and nothing else in tho whole world" Carlotta Patti was noted for her prodigal charity. Tho poor who came to her never went away empty-handed, and sho never stopped to inquire whether tho object of her generosity was worthy of it or not. At one time a companion remonstrated with her for giving handfuls of coins to every beggar she met, but the artiste answered: "Suppose I should make a mistake by withholding my alms, and thereby neglect somo ono that deserved aidf No, no; as long as my money holds oat theso poor wretches shall have it." In every city in which sho gave a concert the parish church nearest her abode received offerings of wax candles and sums of money from her.

COMMENT AND OPINION. Canada has in her the makings of a mighty empire, and it would seem to bo good political policy, if it can be done, to tuck her under our national wing belore sho grows too big. Boston Globe. England and Germany may have "viewy" schemes for partition of empire in the Pacific, but American common seuso repudiates the notion of participating in such rivalries. New York Tribune. It may bo set down as a safe general proposition that the pardoning power is too freely exercised in this country, and those cases are rare' where . the verdicts of onr criminal courts need to bo set aside or mitigated by executive clemency. "The way of the transgressor is hard" and it ought to be kept so. Springtield Republican. With tho on ward' inarch of intelligence come all the attending benefits of a higher ideal, a higher standard of civilization and a strict regard for religion and morality. Wo are tending that way, and the Republican party represents the most advanced and progressive ideas of the Nation. New York Press. ' The workmen should beware of their insidious enemies the Anarchists. The Haymarket riot brought the last eight-hour movement to a disastrous close. Yet at Thursday's demonstration several Anarchists were permitted to make intemperate speeches. If anarchy is permitted a voice in the eight-hour movement that movement cannot prosper. Chicago News. If the enormous resources of the South enable it to produce iron and steel more cheaply than any other section, it will produce enormously. This may cause a decline in production elsewhere, but as all home production is in the end for the common good, it must be foste ed wherever within our bounds it may finally center. Philadelphia North American. . Beyond question tho suppression of bribery, the purity of tho ballot, and tho making of returns in accordance with the true showing of an honest count are points upon which legislative action should immediately be taken, to tho end that tho declaration of votes at any election may be officially made in a way to command tho respect and confidence of tho public. Washington Post. The postal service was not instituted to make money, but to serve the public. It is 6o nearly self-sustaining at present that a rednction of letter postage to one cent an ounce can be afforded easily, especially since it has been found, in this ana other countries, that every rednction of postage has been followed by such 'an increase of business as to nearly or quite make up the deficiency in tho revenue that otherwise would have resulted 'from the decrease, and in some cases an actual profit has resulted. Philadelphia Inquirer. The Preponderance of Probability. Brooklyn Eagle. e 1 There has not been a square race in America in ten years, and there has not been a political contest in these States, in twice that time, in which tho 'betting class" have not proved themselves possessed of aquality of judgment as disentitled to confidence as would the prospectus of a company for projecting the establishment of an ice-honso in hades. Tho Eagle deliberately advises its readers to regard a fair neat as tho raostuulikely outcome of the struggle that can be thought of. Presuming that the miracle of a fair fight might occur, in spite of the intention and desire of both sides to have it unfair, there is a preponderance of probability in favor of the theory that Kilrain will whip John L. Sullivan. Hoosler Greatness. Washington Tost. Out near Brazil, in Indiana, they have discovered that what was supposed to bo a large sunken rock is really a petrified turtle, weighing 53,000 pounds. It is such discoveries as this that make us regret the fact that human nsh does not petrify. Think what wonderful specimens of tho prevaricatore gigantis might bo nuearthed by posterity if only some of tho Hoosiersof to-day could be turned to stone!

AMONG THE TARIFF SLATES. Scenes of Prosperity and Contentment Es tablishments Where Strikes Are Unknown. Hartford (Conn.) Letter in New York Tribune. The labor convention lately h eld here deVoted ono day to a practical investigation of the condition of working people in this State, and, upon invitation of proprietors, visited three of the largest and most important works the Cheney silk-mills, at South Manchester, tho thread-mills of the Willimantio Linen Company, and the Ponemah cotton-mill at Taftville. On a special tram from Hartford about ninety members of the convention and invited guests started. At tho Cheney mills the guests found about 2,000 hands, one-third males, and inspected tho wonder-working machinery in rooms C30 feet long and CO feet wide, splendidly lighted and ventilated. The beautiful grounds, through which were scattered the neat cottages of operatives, of which the company owns 2iX), about $0 per cent, being for one family each, were surveyed with peculiar interest, but it was learned that about 20 per cent, of tho families owned their own homes. Grounds decorated with llowers, houses hidden by vines, a large and elegant hall, a tine library, told how "the tariff slaves" of Connecticut lived in South Manchester. At Willimantic, the new mill of tho thread company was entered through a vestibule, in which rare plants were growing, while on either side were the boxes, one for each emploj-e, in which . their outer garments and bonnets were placed. Beyond was a vast room, 820 feet by 85, perfectly lighted and ventilated, filled with busy machinery and workers, while all around were growing beautiful plants, a belt of living green about tho entire room. "Why do you have these plants!" a surprised Westerner asked. "Because it makes better thread," was tho manager's answer; and the bright, inter-!, ested and happy faces . of tho willing workers supplied the explanation. Tho 1,000 operatives were abont two-thirds: females, from fourteen years of age upward, whoso earnings last year averaged $6.24 per week, whilo the male hands, including unskilled labor and boys, averaged about 9.25. In the great stone mills beyond, in tho'carefully arranged dwellings, of which the company has 200, about half for two families each, but fifty for one family, and fifty for four families each, which are rented for SG0 per year for each family, in tho library of 2.500 volumes, freo to all workers, the visiters found much to interest them, and some of the reasons for the fact that the company has had no strike for thirty-five years. The manufacture , of linen ceased when tho supplies of flax were cut off by tho Crimean war, and the company employs its twenty acres of floor space, 1,200 steam and 2,000 water horse-power in production of fine Lisle thread and yarn for knit goods and hosiery. It works up fine Sea Island cotton, which may cost. $100 per bale, and when turned into the finer thread is worth $700. Next tho train sped to Taftville, where Senator Chace and many other distinguished men from Rhodo Island met the investigating party in the broad, cool and airy rooms of the public hall building. Then all entered the great mill, of which ono part, 750 feet long and four stories high, was connected by a low building 100 feet long with a second structure 500 feet long. Tho wonderful spectacle of 2,700 looms and 117,000 spindles under one roof, so to speak, the beauty andexcellence of the proancts, the perfect cleanliness, order, ventilation and comfort of this enormous workshop, the ocean of spindles, with hero and there human heads rising, on that great upper lloor, 750 feet by 85 and 20 feet high, without a single pillar to break tho effect, impressed all visitors greatly. With 1,C00 hands, about one-third males, this establishment turns out fine cottons of qualities which were formerly supplied almost exclusively by foreign looms, and has already driven the foreign goods of many lines quite out of tho American market. The wages here are about thesamo as at tho other mill, and the beautiful and healthy site and surroundings, the excellence ami completeness of tho numerous tenements,,, which are rented at $50 to $60 per year for each family, all were appreciated by the visitors. A substantial dinner in the large diniug-hall opposite -the works was also welcome, and the expedition then returned to Hartford. - Throughout this tour of investigation the attention of the commissioners was specially directed to tho condition, circumstances and appearance of the working people. Long before the trip was finished tho term "white slave" had become tho standing joke in every man's mouth. "When I see more than half the girls wearing llowers as they work," said ono commissioner, "I wish my constituents out West could have a look at tho spectacle." As the throng left the greatmill at 12o'clock one commissioner wondered "whether tariff slaves so comfortably dressed could be seen in auy other land,'' and a second added that their brisk walk did not look to him much like starvation. "Oppressed, are thejT' said another. 'Well, luever saw so many bright eyes and hopeful faces among oppressed peoplo in ail my lifo before." As another mill was entered, the long array of neat bonnets and outer garments was noticed, and ono solemnly asked whether the immigrants had such clothes as these when they landed at Castle Garden. "How i9 thisl" said a commissioner, walking throngh tho 1,200 feet of crowded looms at Taftville, and noting tho ruddy glow of health in faco after face; "if so many girls work ten hours a day at these mills, aud carry roses in their cheeks at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, is that starvation!" Another distinguished gentleman from the West related what ho had found in the tenement-houses: "Seven rooms for a family, Brussels carpet in tho parlor, shades and llowers in tho windows, and furniture as comfortable as can be found in most Western farm-houses." Passing along the streets, the convention constant

ly saw throngs of chubby, hearty, joyous children. "Emaciated let, ain't they!" said one. "Well," said another, "if tarifl

slavery raises such a swarm of such chil dren" and then ho was in terra ped by another, who declared: "When I go home, if my Western folks tell me again tho stories they have told about white slaves of New England, I shall just answer that 1 rod for half a mile at Taftville past tenementhouses with wire mosquito sashes in every window." , . To tho thoughtful student of sociologic and enonomic problems, one conclusion was forced homo at every step: "In this way, at all events, the questions between labor and capital can be settled so that thev will stay settled." There are no strikes in mills, or mines, or other works where true captains of industry honestlv answer tho question: "Am I my brothers keeper!" or obey tho command, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." The convention has done good, for it has brought representative, thinking men from twenty-two States to a better understanding of tho work they have undertaken, aud to a desire for more earnest co-operativo effort. A great part of its success has been due to the exertions and good judgment of, tho commissioner from Connecticut, Mr. Hotchkiss, and to tho president, Mr. Wright, to whom, with the secretary, Mr. Hntchins, of Iowa, was intrusted, by vote of the convention in executive session, the task of recommending to the boards of the various States lines of inquiry or matters of record in which they could all unite. ' Should Be a Citizen of the World. New York Commercial Advertiser. . The old order changeth, and in America newspapers say what they please, "let Zal and Rustuni thunder as they will." Not only do they speak out their minds in regard to tho Shah, but they dare even to berate Prince Bismarck when occasion offers. They will not let even the President of the United States alone, and havo been known to assail each other with bitter ridicule and heartless vituperation. They manage things differently in Persia, but a PerBiau minister should be a citizen of the world, and when he is at Rome he should put up with what tho Romans do. There is no help for it. 1 Masonry and Liquor-SeUing. Milwaukee WiacoDsln. The Wisconsin Grand Lodge of Masons, in annual convention assembled, havo resolved that saloon-keepers and liquordealers are ineligible for membership, and that those who are already in the order cannot bo advanced to higher degrees. This course has also been adopted by the States of Kentucky. Missouri, Nebraska and Michigan. The Masons are a large and influential body, and generally on the side of law and order and morality, and their influence must be large. Their indirect condemnation of the saloons shows that they regard restrictions on the liquor tratho essential to tho weal and welfare of the

commnmty. Tho Masons are not Prohr bitionists, but eenerally high-license men. who regard that as the wisest and bes form of abating tho evils of tho liquor traffic. A Very Shallow DI pi ornate.' Philadelphia Recort. Among tho many shallow and prcposterons persons who have been accredited as diplomates at Washington the peonle will easily single ont Minister Ghoolv Khan, of Persia, as entitled above all others to bo decorated with the Order of the Supremo Jackass. The insistance of this interesting personage that nothing disagreeable ought to bo printed in the newspapers concerning himself or his master, the Shah, should eara lor him, morcver, the right to wear the insignia of theComnanionsof the Block-head. M e have had foreigners galore engaged ia diplomatic duty at Washington, and some of them niisht easily have made complaint similar to that of the Persian minister; yet! he has been tho first to maintain that tho customs of the country need not to be taken into account in determining the public position of the attaches of a foreign legation. Minister Ghooly Khan may be numbered among tho victims of the vicious scrapbook habit. If ho had devoted more time to studying the spirit and temper , of tho American peoplo and less to perusing multitudinous newspaper extracts referring to himself, he would not now feel himself compelled to return, a broken vessel, to his semi-barbaric native land. None of Man's Boslneaa. Philadelphia Press. An indignant woman thus invitet-men who talk about dress reform to mind' theirf own business: "Now, why should a man bother about tho health of petticoats! Ha doosn't havo to wear them. Tho Lord didn't build him so that he was to have them hung around his hips, and when Ho mado woman Ho did. Those marvels of lace aud silk were thought of, and it was known that their appearance would be entirely spoiled if they were slung from her ..shoulders by a pair of braces. Take any 'wild country where civilized dresH is unknown, where the natural woman is found, and you will discover that he carries her baby on her hips and a pitcher of water on her head, but that 6he slings nothing over her shoulders. 1 think it is only necessary for mankind to trouble themselves about the way we wear our petticoats when wo raise au objection to the adjustment of hia .trousers." The Law Stopped the Free Train. Concord Letter In Boston Traveller. ; The interstate law produces some stran ge results, and tho New Hampshire Legislature experienced one the past week. With all previous legislatures tho Northern railroad has furnished a special train to tho members for the purpose of attending Dartmouth College exercises, issuing passes to the party. This year, for reason of the law, they were unable to do so, as it would havo been necessary for tho train to go out ot New Hampshire to reach the Passumpsio road at White River Junction. Governor Goodell and Council were taken by special train to Lebanon on Thnrsday, and. for reason of the law, were taken from that station to Hanover by carriage. On the return to Lebanon Governor Goodell was tendered a reception, CoL Frank C. Churchill, of his Council, being a resident of that enterprising town. Biggs Didn't Strike Them Right. New York World (Dem.) Governor Biggs, of Delaware, is a clever, genial old gentleman with long hair and a lino stock of ante-bellum reminiscences, buthe rellectsno credit upon his Stato when he comes to New York, under tho auspices of Tammany Hall, to plead for tho maintenance of tho barbarous whipping-post and to denounce tho civilized system of conducting popular government under civil-service rules which mako public office something more than plunder for politicians to wranglo over. A man who regards the whipping-post as an ad-' iunct of civilization no doubt believes in imprisonment for debt, witch- . burning, and must certainly regard

slavery as the proper method ox expressing the relation between a superior and a servile race. Delaware is a small State, but Governor Biggs should he kept within its confines. It ant None but Full-Fl edged Americans. Philadelphia Inquirer. The project of an Irish-American republic, which has been broached in Chicago, is not a bad one, provided that some place can bo found for its location. The location must be outside tho limits of the United States, for that is the mutual desire of the American peoplo and the gentlemen who are organizing the republic. It must bo entirely independent of this country,, in order that our government may have no responsibility for its actions. And there should be an international agreement that all Irish-Americans must iivo o the Irish side of the line. We want none but those who are willing to bo full-lledged Americans on this side. Sound Principles of Justice. -New York World. It is a well-nnderstood principle of Jus- , tice that tho law-breaker is rightfully held to have intended all tho mischief that results from his offense. There is another old legal teaching that flagrant recklessness, resulting in the loss of life, is to be regarded as the equivalent of malicious purpose. When theso two principles are enforced against the fool with a gun somebody will be hanged or sent to tho penitentiary, unexcused by the baby plea that h "didn't meau"to do anybody harm, and after that life in New York on tho Fourth i of July will be safer and moro comfortable than it is now. A Chance for Prohibitionist. Kansas City Star. License as defined by the Indiana conrt is "a restrictive special tax imposed for tho public good, and in the exercise of the police power of the State." Tho Prohibitionists, in turning from the wreck of their hopes in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, may find in this ruling a way of entrance into tho camp of temperance reformers who prefer the plan of regulating the liquor traflic by practical means to that of slighting all of tho agencies for reducing the evils of tho drink habit in a visionary effort to crush it out by legislative edict. A Precedent for Other Acquittals. rittsburgClironlcle-Teleirraph. Tho man who killed editor Dawson aud escaped legal punishment is now threatening to call upon his critics with a shotgun. If McDow were to be shot by one of the men thus threatened, tho previous verdict would certainly be a precedent for another of the same kind. Valuable Recipe. Chicago iTlbune. How to destroy tho English sparrowgrasp it firmly by the legs, hire a boy t hold its head down on a smooth block of wood, and with a keen hatchet cut its neck in two. If the blow misses the sparrow and cuts off the boy's fingers secure another, boy and proceed as before. Free Sugar Would Kill the Trust. ' Washington Press. -1 A single shot will kill the Sugar Trust tho monopoly that is robbing every fatuity in tho Lnited States. Freo sugar is th only renied'. A two-line art of Congress will lay the monster out. The fiffht ought to bo just as short, sharp and decisive as that Should Co-Operate In All Good Works. Washington Press. The pulpit in various parts of the country, persists in its etlorts to down the Sunday newspapers. The thing can't be doue, brethren. Better co-operate with the Sunday papers in all good works, than try to injure them. Where tho Theory Falls. 6L Louis Globe-Democrat. Tho death of Simon Cameron leaves Jeff Davis one of the three oldest living exUnited States Senators a fact which certainly ca.inot be accounted for accordiug to the theory of !tho survival of the fittest." Payne and AVhitney Also. Philaxleli'hi Press. Governor Wilson, of West Virginia, is all wrong in his assertion that a monopolist cannot bo a Democrat. William L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, if a living contradiction of that absurd notion. A Sight for Solomon. Philadelphia Recont Sometimes wo wonder what Solomon would havo thought it he had seen a woman careering along on a bicycle. Would he thereafter declare that "there b nothiua new uudcx the tuni".