Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, JULY 27, 18S9. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Correspondent. NEW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau streets.

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Hawiey A Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Drerln g. " northwest corner Third and JeSerson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Fouthern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rlggs Tlouse and Ebbttt Ho lse. The World never said that the Democratic party is not worth $2. What it said was that it had no desire to boss the Democratic rarty, and -would not give 2 to own it in fee simple. New York World. If that isn't a denial that does not deny, then what is it! A London "insanity expert" has a plan for capturing the Whitechapel murderer. It is to form a syndicate, composed of every possessor of a scheme, to capture the murderer. The various schemes will be laid before the syndicate, and tho best plan in the syndicate's opinion will bo adopted. Tho caso with which, a practicable plan could be thus evolved is easily imagined. The New York Times solemnly remarks that "the North Carolina 'revolt' against Mr. Harrison's administration is not a matter which, in the present state of the weather, is likely to enchain the eager attention of a perspiring people." Probablv not. especially as "the North Carolina revolt" is only an aspiring and ridiculous 6chemo of one Congressman who has no following. A cablegram from Bristol, England, says that until tho bounty system was put in force on the continent sugar manufacturing at Bristol gave employment to thousands and support to more. After this week there will not be a refinery in . operation there, the last refinery to shut down bavin cr informed its men that there will be no work for them after to-day. Great Britain has free sugar, but the development of tho industry in Germany and France, under protection and bounties, is closing her factories. The suggestion of an eductional qualification of the right of suffrage in the South does not meet with much favor. The pretended motive of the suggestion is to exclude ignorance and illiteracy from participation in politics. The Shreveport (La.) Caucasian is frank enough to say that such a law would not bo satisfactory, for the reason that "tho negro, up to a certain point, is as quick to learn as the white boy, and the public schools arc open to both, although they arc separate." Hence, as the Caucasian 6tates, "whilo many of the former blacks would be deprived of the ballot no inconsidcrablo number of the latter whites would bo in a liko condition." What the Southern Democrats want is some rule that will exclude educated negroes and admit illiterate whit men. The Journal's correspondent who protests against tho proposed mention of the cost of tho soldiers' monument on the corner-stone makes a good point. It matters nothing to posterity what it costs in dollars and cents. Tho monument of itself will testify that the people of the State were not moved by sordid considerations in providing p memorial for the soldier dead. They wanted a suitable monument, and if tho cost of such a structure had been twice as great would not have grudged it. By means of that monument they at onco express gratitude to their country's defenders and acknowledge tho debt they owe a debt that cannot bo paid with dollars. "Why, then, associate tho financial feature with it inseparably! ' As well attach tho florist's bill to a bunch; of flowers laid upon a soldiers grave, or label a gift to the living with the cost. It is not geuerally supposed that the divorce laws of Illinois, as administered in Chicatro, need to be made any more' liberal, but it seems they are to be. For many years past tho rule has been that the complainant in a divorce suit, where desertion is alleged as the ground, must have been a resident of the State for one year prior to the filing of the suit. Now it appears that a decision of tho Supremo Court rendered in ISSo nullifies that rule. This old decision, recently unearthed, holds that in contemplation of law the residence of the wife follows that of tho husband, and that desertion for two years by tho husbaud residing in Illinois, although commenced in a foreign State, enables the wife to obtain a divorce in Illinois. Courts and lawyers are at a loss to know how this old decision could have been overlooked so long, and all ngreo that tho effect of its discovery will bo to open the doors to an influx of divorco suits by non-resident women, and to make the present lax law still laxer. The prolonged investigation into the merits of electricity as a substitute for the gallows is evidently being conducted with a view to giving the public as little information as possible. The aim of the convicted murderer's attorney is to proye that the electrical current is an uncertain and, therefore, improper official in.strument, his hope probably being to buvc his client's life. The tlcc-

tricians uso technical language, which, naturally, befogs tho unscientific, and aro suspected of a purpose to conceal the dangerous nature of the fluid from general knowledge for business purposes. There can bo no doubt that an electrical current may easily be produced that will produce instant death in every case, and that if no reasons existed for mystification of the ignorant, every scientist on the witness-stand would say so promptly and emphatically. ' THE SALT TBU3T. The North American Salt Company is now fully organized, and is publishing its prospectus in various papers. It is to have a capital stock of $11,000,000 and will issue bonds to tho amount of $4,000,000, bearing G per cent, interest. This is expected to furnish a working capital of $15,000,000 for "tho purchase or control of nearly all of tho existing salt-producing properties on tho North American continent." Of the $11,000,000 of stock $4,000,000 is to be preferred, and entitled to the first earnings up to 8 per cent. The remainder will bo common stock, drawing such interest as the business will 'pay after providing for the 6 per cent, on tho bonds and the 8 per cent, on tho preferred stock. On this basis tho company offers its stock and bonds to investors. It is organized under the laws of Ncw York, and has tho legal form of an ordinary corporation. In fact, it will be a trust of tho most approved type and oppressive character. The scope of the .scheme is further indicated by the fact that it is international. .. It embraces British capital and incorporators as w'ell as American. There is already a salt trust in England. Speculative greed knows no dividing lines of kinship or country. Corners, syndicates, combines and trusts aro cosmopolitan. Money recognizes money everywhere. I'ho alliance between the English and American salt trusts will place the people of both countries on a common basis of oppression and extortion. To use the slang phrase of tho day, they will both be "in the soup" together, and the soup will bo without salt, except at trust prices. No doubt the promulgation of this scheme, and especially the first advance in the price of salt, will bo followed by a general demand for the repeal of the duty. . The free-trade press will lead in this demand. For many years past salt has been as cheap in this country as in England. The duty has developed the industry, and competition has made it cheap. The New York Herald, a freetrado paper, said, not long ago: The salt manufacture in Michigan and New York during the last ten years has been placed upon the market and sold at substantially the same "price for which English salt has been sold in Liverpool. In fact, there is no market in th wond where the same grades of salt can be purchased as cheaply as in Michigan and New York. It is somewhat remarkable that the formation of every trust on a protected article is followed by a'demand for a repeal of the duty. It would be quite in keeping with the well-known methods of free-traders to encourage the formation of these trusts for the purpose of furnishing a specious argument against protection. The fact that British capital is engaged in the Salt Trust and that some of its American managers are prominent Democrats gives color to this idea. . The prospectus of the North American

Salt Company foreshadows their plan of campaign. . They propose, as a feeler, to raise the price of salt 10 cents a barrel. This is not much on a barrel, but there ,are a great many barrels of salt used in the United States, and this increase will represent an enormous sum. It remains to be seen whether tho people will submit to the extortion. If they do not attack and smash the trust they will have to. The place and the way to attack it is in the courts. Repealing the dutv on salt would do no good, as tha trust embraces British as well as Amer ican salt factories. It should be attacked in the courts, and it should be somebody's duty to do it. If necessary, tho people should form an anti-trust league, and raise money by popular subscription to fight the question in tho courts. Tho Salt Trust and tho Sugar Trust can both bo smashed if the people will only determine to do it. THE NATION'S YOUNQ DEFENDERS. The militia encampment now drawing to a close has been beyond comparison the most interesting and successful held in the State since tho war. Some previous encampments have been attended with more "fuss and feathers," and perhaps a larger allowance of picnic pleasure, but this one has shown by odds tho most military spirit and discipline and much the nearest approach to tho true standard of such affairs. It is an auspicious beginning of tho creation of a good State militia, It is interesting toreflect that the stalwart, manly-looking young men in uniform who have been seen on our streets during the past few days belong to a generation which has come to the front since the war. Most of them were either babes in arms at tho time of the surrender, or have been born since. To them the war is largely a matter of history or tradition. Of its glorious excitement, its patriotic impulses, its high emotions, its fierce passions, its marches, battles and victories they know nothing by personal experience, though all have heard the story from their elders or learned it from books. Happily for them and the country it is a glorious and honorable record, aud fit to bequeath from sire to son. Happily, too, for the country, these stalwart young men of a new generation are as patriotic and brave as those of tho last who responded to its call a quarter of a century ago. Let us hope the country may always have and deserve such defenders.

A tree roust be judged by its fruits. In view of the re&ulta of the school-book law thus far, the pretense that it was intended to break up school-book rings, or to benefit the people or tho schools in any way, is a brazen fraud! ' As a matter of fact it has already established a worse school-book ring than any that ever existed before, and threatens to inflict irreparablo damage on tho schools. No neibou with the &UghU6t regard for the

school interests of the Stato can contemplate without- indignation the prospect of their being sacrificed for cold-blooded speculative purposes. The remedy lies with the people. They should refuse to play into the hands of the monopoly, and, at tho earliest opportunity, should demand the repeal of the law. Tho best books in the market are none too good for Indiana, and the people are entitled to buy them where they please. The attempt to force a set of inferior Missouri books upon Indiana by legal compulsion is an outrage. The pretense that it is done in their interest is adding insult to injury.

With all his opposition to certain legislative policies favored by the government, Mr. Gladstone has never, in his long public life, failed in respect to the Queen. In arguing in favor of the royal grant he declares himself averse to "any measures of economy that will impair tho dignity and splendor of the crown," and thus shows himself possessed of tho traditional English loyalty to the sovereign. His course in tho matter, though bitterly criticised by the opposition, is one that deserves admiration, since if he were influenced by small motives he might, for personal revenge, have objected to the measure. Since taking his present stand on the Irish question ho and Mrs. Gladstone have been persistently ignored in a social way by the Queen, and for three years have received no invitations to royal entertainments. Recently, when it came to her Majesty's ears that tho ex-Premier had declared his intention of supporting the grant, she 6miled upon him onco more, and has even bidden him to dine with her. Had she not done so Mr. Gladstone would have advocated the grant and then have gone on his way undisturbed. He was simply doing what he felt to be his duty as a loyal citizen anxious to preserve royal prerogatives, and not as a politician currying favor. The saloon-keepers of Cincinnati have taken a position of open defiance to tho Sunday-closing law. At a massmeeting, attended by several hundred of them, on Thursday, tho following resolutions were adopted, with cheers: Whereas, The well-known Owen law, through which corruption and hypocrisy can sneak in everywhere, threatens to become established in Cincinnati, and Whereas, No concerted action has been taken to resent the said law, which is an insult to common sense; therefore, be it liesolved. That we, the saloon-keepers hero assembled, openly oppose this law, which is unpopular, aud damaging to our business; and. therefore, we have decided to keep our places of business quietly open on next Sunday, and on all succeeding Sundays, conducting our business as on any other day, and avoiding all disturbances. Resolved, That each saloon-keeper who signs the resolutions of this meeting shall have our solid protection in every case of prosecution, and the expenses thereof cdiall be defrayed by our own means. "Wo do not recall auything quite so defiant as this by tho advocates of free whisky anywhere. It is simply an open declaration of war against law. These saloon-keepers undertake to say that the law is "an insult to common sense" and "damaging to our business," therefore they will not obey it. On that issue, made in that spirit, the city authorities of Cincinnati should enforce tho law if they have to call on tho Governor- for the aid of the State militia to do it. An article by Attorney-general Michener, copied from the last issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, gives a very clear exposition of the division of constitutional powers and of some of the moro flagrant usurpations of our last Legislature. No Legislature of any State ever passed so many acts calling for tho immediate interposition of the courts in defense of the Constitution and the rights of the people. The Attorneygeneral notices three of these acts, which have been set aside by the Supreme Court, and follows with some general views in regard to popular government and the constitutional distribution of powers, which will command the assent of all good lawyers. Incidentally, he notices tho general tendency of legislative bodies to encroach on other departments of tho government. If the extraordinarily bad record of the last Legislature shall have the effect of calling public attention to this subject, and of arresting this vicious tendency of legislative bodies, it will have served some good purpose. There has been no better presentation of the subject than the Attorney-gen eraVs article. An Iowa man and his wife entered into a formal contract, to the effect that the latter should keep her homo and family in a comfortable and reasonably good condition, and that the husband should provide for the necessary expenses of the family, and in addition pay his wife for her individual use $200 per year in monthly installments. The woman fulfilled her part of the agreement, but the man failed, so far as the special payment was concerned, and she therefore brought suit against him. Tho court has just decided against the woman, holding that the enforcement of such a compact between husband and wife is against publio policy, and, furthermore, that it was her business to do what she agreed to do without any compensation. This decision will doubtless be hailed by the champions of down-trodden woman as one more sample of man's injustice; but other women can content themselves with the reflection that if a husband is too mean to give his wife money of his own free will he can be depended on every time to evade a law requiring him to do so. Eastern scientists, with a prize in view, are eagerly suggesting plans for tho successful extermination of the mosquito. A New York genius suggests the propagation of dragon ilies, better known to the multitude as "devil's darning-needles," in the mosquito-ridden regions of country. A Fhiladelphia rival maintains that the spider is the most deadly enemy of the in sect in question, and recommends their encouragement. As between spiders and devil's darning-needles, most people have no choice,, but will prefer mosquitoes. Science is great, but not always practical. A GOOD many people are being killed by lightning in various parts of the country i these days. If tho people in New York, who are inquiring how much electricity it takes to produce death, could only measure the current in these cases, they might have tho answer to their problem. To tiie Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; It is asserted here that President Harrison's Cabinet Is principally comroswl of persona of the Roman laiaouc iaitn. is mis true! Lynn. lad. Patron. No member of the Cabinet is a Koman Catholic. Some of Mr. Bluinea relatives

are members of that church, but he is not. People must have very little to do to trouble themselves about the religions beliefs of others.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A writer in the Business Women's Journal advocates a dress with eeven pockets for business women. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is in much better health this summer than last. Her physical condition is 'superior to her mental. . It is said that the Princess Louise is not to have a very large or a very elaborate trousseau, and that, as was the custom with the Queen's daughters, she is to have many pieces of stutf uot made 'up. Some years ago the Hon. Francis D. Kernan had an eminent Chinaman for a client, and won his caso. Ever since the latter has sent, several times a year, a box of choice tea to Lis lawyer as a token of remembrance. Geroximo, the wicked Apache, who has been a prisoner of the government for some time, has grown so fat that he looks very little like an ideal chieftain. He was not well at Fort Augustine, but at Mount Vernon Barracks. Ala., he has increased in weight rapidly. George Alfred Townsend has become one of the most daring of the modern iconoclasts. He has discovered in his journey through France that Lafayette was a man who possessed neither talent nor enterprise, and that he was vain, insincere, and generally a trifler. Down goes another one. Miss Alberta Gallatin, a granddaughter of Albert Gallatin, one of tho signers of the Declaration of Independence, and Miss Alice King Hamilton, a descendant of Alexander Hamilton, have been engaged by Daniel Frohman for the Lyceum Theater, New York. Hoth the young women are actresses of some yearsr experience. Miss Gallatin has starred in the South and West. Norris Peters, the government lithographer who died a short time ago, leaving $1,000,000, was famous for his knowledge of all that pertains to good living and dnnkiug. He is credited with the invention of several new dishes, and the recipe of a sauce is said to be the valued possession of a friend who hopes to introduce it to the market as a rival of the English Worcester. Gaston Calmette says that Millet, the painter of "Tho Angelus," was "big and corpulent, with wooden shoes, hair brushed back from a frank brow, and clear blue eyes, the neck and shoulders of a bull, and strong hands, liko those of a peasant." M. Calmette contends that the story about Millet dying in comparative poverty is a myth, which the family of the artist have been quick to disprove. Writing of Wales to a friend in that country, Mr. Raskin says: "My respect for its ancient and heroic nationality is, indeed, limitless: and well conld I wish for ray England's own sake that beyond the Severn the modes of life, tho language, the music and the hearts of the people she once oppressed so cruelly might remain forever in forgiveness, as your stones of Aberystwith are wrought by the cruel sea to their fairest colors." The career of DoWitt J. Seligman, the editor and proprietor of the New York Epoch, is one which has few parallels in the annals of literature. When twentyseven years old he withdrew from Wall street, after having made a fortune of nearly a million dollars, and is now devoting himself to journalism. It was after his marriage that Mr. Seligman took to study, entered Columbia College, and graduated with honors. The Shah's English escort during his stay couldn't quite understand why his own suite took such elaborate trouble when waking him if he happened to be asleep when approaching his railway destination. Tho cause was not the dread of royalty, but the Persian idea that during sleep the soul Wanders away from the body, and if a sleeper bo so suddenly aroused that the soul cannot return in time to its accustomed home, death will be the result. TllE negotiations for the preservation of the graves of Keats and Severn, in tho Protestant Cemetery at Rome, hayo result ed in a convention between the German embassy and the municipality, wheroby the latter undertakes, at its own expense, to provide that the tombs of Keats aud Severn shall be preserved in their present position, a large place being railed o If anil orna mented with trees; that all other tomb stones and remains shall be removed in such a manner as to avoid olfense to religious feeling, and that a considerable enlargment ah all be made of the new Protest ant cemetery adjoining. A Swedish statesman recently inveighed most eloquently in Parliament against oleo margarine. Next evening ho was invited to din with the King, who loves a joke. There was only oleomargarine on the roval table, and the statesman libcrallv partook thereof. At the close of the meal the King asked him: "VY ell, sir, how do you like our butter!" "It is excellent." replied the statesman; "the contrast between it and artificial butter is very marked." "But," said the King, "that is artificial hutter!" The other guests roared with laughter, but the "old parliamentary hand" returned, quick as a flash: "Your Majesty, if one can be deceived so easily, there is all the more need of strict laws against bogus goods:'7 A correspondent of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph reports that the Hon. George H. Pendleton, formerly minister to Germany, is a hopeless invalid. He is now traveling with his daughters about the health resorts of Europe, and hopes to re turn to America this fall, but he will never attain appear in public life. His friends Yeluctantly confess that he is threatened with softening of the brain. His daughters are devoting themselves to him constantly, and he has to be watched and cared for by au attendant, who is obliged to bo with him at all times. His decline is due to the shock given him by the death of his wife. who was killed in a runaway accident in this country while he was abroad. There are more ways of taking a journey by water than to swim or employ a boat. Not long ago Mrs. E. Parks, who lives near Bangor, wanted to cross the flume of the Forbestown Ditch Company, going from her place to the residence of her daughter near by. As 6he could not jump, she placed a board over the ditch and started across. On the second step the board broke and she was precipitated into tho water, which was running very rapidly, one was carried through the ditch and flume down to the "dump." about three-quarters of a mile distant. Remarkable to relate, she escaped without injury and accomplished the crrand sue had set out to ao, bciore she re turned to her home. There was a young girl In a school. Who tightened her coirets by mle; From shortness of breath she came to her death, And that M as the end oi a iooi. Boston Journal. COMMENT AND OPIKIOX. Talk is cheap, and minority votes are not vitally dangerous; and Englinh royalty is still strong enough to outlast a good deal of both. The established church and the lords must be swept away before a direct assault can be made upon the crown with any show of success. 2s ew lork Press. The world has become very practical. Thus far no good has resulted from polar expeditions, aud there is no prospect that any good will ever result from those that maybe conducted in the future. The best thing that can be done with the north pole is to let it severely alone. Chicago Herald. There is in Illinois. Kansas. Iowa and Nebraska sutneient acreage adapted to beet-root cnlture for the sugar supply of all America and half of Europe. The speedy development of the beet-sucar trade is certain, provided only that tariff . i ' i . : t . proit'cviuu is aurcu. vuiiaKw xuicr Ocean. Kkttkr the trusts than socialism and an archy. We have dealt successfully with graver difficulties than this, and yet have uot violated any of the true principlestpf repubhcauism, or done harm to any of our cherished institutions. That rare quality of common sense for wiucb our country is everywhere celebrated, will deliver us iioxu the evil of trusts, as it has. heretofore

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reasonable. St Louis Globe-Democrat. 1 here is no reason why the investment of foreign capital in this county should be discouraged Those persons, who are bought out by the foreign syndicates will not postpone tho reinvestment of their money very long, and the influx of foreign capital should assist very materially in prolonging the present era of prosperity in this country. Chicago Times. It is perfectly legitimate for England to invest her capital in America. There is no law to prevent her endeavoring to influence American legislation in a proper manner. It is for the Americans themselves to guard and protect their own country and its interests and industries; and we are sure they will be guarded jealously and zealously. umcinnati commercial uazetie. Our proposition is that a heavy tax 6hould oe levied on the fortune of the American girl who insists on throwing herwould make the guardians of our heiresses more careful of their charges. It is too often the fault of the guardian that the heiress mates with a foreign bird of doubt ful antecedents. Pittsburg Dispatch. Capital seeks always the safest, rather than the most speculative ventures, and it is a matter of congratulation' that tho conservative capitalists of London, after trying Jndia, Australia, South Africa, China and South America, have turned toward this country now in preference to all oth ers. It is proof conclusive that American prospects are higher, and surer than those of any other country. New York Graphic A JiTrfiK in this country is onlv a lawver on detailed duty, and. as a rule, is completely dominated by his former associates at the bar. He is not checked by the pres ence of a layman with whom ne must ad vise, -and is not expected to show the slightest respect for the "common mind," but rather, to display professional pride and zeal in administering trades-union lawyermade law in the interests of lawyers. Chi cago Tribune. ' LEGISLATIVE USURPATION. Some of. the Unlawful Aggressions, of Indi ana's Late General Assembly. Loals T. Mlchener, In Frank Leshe's Illustrated xewapaper. .- ,: The recent session of the General Assem bly of Indiana is notorious, because of its frequent usurpations of power not belonging to it under the Constitution." So fre quent were those usurpations that Governor Hovey felt compelled to exercise.tho veto power more frequently than had ever been done by any other Governor. In each in stance the Legislature promptly and de fiantly passed the acts, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor. A number of these acts, since the adjournment of tho Legislature, have been considered , by our Supreme Court, but I shall only speak of four. One of the acts imposed upon tho Su preme Court the duty of preparing and delivering to the Reporter the syllabi of the opinions of the court, and of supervising the making of the index and tables of cases by the Reporter in publishing the opinions of the court. ? The Constitntion vests none other than judicial powers in the Supreme Court, requires tne court to give opinions in writing, and forbids any of tho judges to report the decisions. The act was passed for the avowed purpose of .reducing the salary of the Reporter, and that was to be justified by requiring the already overworked aud underpaid mdges to do the work which properly belonged to the Reporter, and not to the court. The power oflthe Legislature to impose such burdens on tho Supreme Court was questioned immediately, and the law was held to be unconstitutional. In another of the vetoed acts tho Legis lature attempted to create a Supreme Court commission, consisting of five .persons, "of suitable qualifications," who were after ward chosen by the General Assembly. When these gentlemen came to the capital to enter upon the discharge of their duties, they were met with an action by the Gov ernor, brought for the purpso of testiug the power of the uencral Assembly to pass such an act. The supremo Court held that the act was unconstitutional, because tho Constitution created a Supreme Court of hve judges in existence at the time of the passage of the act; and vested in such court the entire appellate jurisdiction of the State. Lven; if there had been constitutional warrant for the creation of a Su preme Court commission, it would not have been competent for the General Assembly to choose the commission. So the hve "commissioners" do not perform service or , draw pay. i wo other acts are those locally known as the "Curtis bill'7 and the "Uigham bill." .The first was to authorize, in cities of . 50,srr. a 1 . a a m . . uuu or more inhabitants, tne establishment of a "Hoard of Public Works and Affairs." to consist of three persons, who-were afterward chosen by the General Assembly. This board was to have control of all public improvements; construct, clean' and re pair the streets, alleys,- bridges,,1 sewers, sidewalks and curbing; and to make contracts for furnishing light and water for the city. All these things, and others, too, were to be done at the expense of the taxpayers of the city, but they weronot allowed the privilege of choosing the board. The"Uigham bill" provided that, in cities of 29,000 or more inhabitants, there should be established a "Board of Metropolitan Police and Fire Department," to consist of three members, who were chosen by tho Legislature. The members of this board were authorized to exercise control of tho police and hre departments of the citv. and of all the property of such departments. All expenses were to be paid by the taxpayers, but they were not to select the members of the board. In a word, these acts took from the people of the city the power oi local sell-government, and vested it in the persons chosen by the General Assembly. This was done in defiance of the fundamental principle embodied in the first sentence of our Constitution, "that all power is inherent in the people; and that all free governments are, and of nht ought to be, founded on their authority, and instituted for their, peace, safety and well being." The fabric of our institutions rests on this great and essential principle. iieuer oegms nis great cnaptcr on sen-! government as follows: The last constituent of our liberty that I shaU mention hj local and constitutional self-corern-nient. Many of the guarantees of Individual liberty which have been mentioned received their true import in a pervading system of selfgovernment, and, on the other haud, are iu lefreshing tprlngs. Individual liberty consists In a great measure in politically acknowledged sellreliance, and self-government is the sanction of self-reliance and self-determination in the various minor and larger circles In which govern ment acts and of which it consists. Without. local self-government in other words, self-gov ernment consistently carried out and applUMl to the realities of life, and not remaining a mere general theory there is no real self-go vcrnmeDt according to the Anglican views ana reelings. In his work on "Representative Govern ment" John Stuart Mill says. "It is obvi ous, to begin with, that all business purely local all which concerns one single local ityshould devolve upon the local author ities. Tho paving, lighting and cleaning of the streets of the town, and in ordinary circumstances the draining of its houses. are of little consequence to any but its in habitants. The nation at large is interested in them in no other way than that in which it is interested in the private well-being of any of its individual citizens." in People vs. Hnrbut, 24 Mich., 44, Jndge Cooley 6aid: vfhe State may mold local institutions ac cording to its views of policy orexpediency; but local government is a matter of absolute right, and the State cannot take it away. It would be the boldest mockery to speak of a city as possessing municipal liberty where the State not onlv ehaued its government, but at discretion sent in its agents to administer it; or to call that system ono of constitutional freedom under which it should be equally admissible to allow the people full control in their local affairs, or no control at all." And in Tl, Onl va f "itv Irnu TV V rr- , was said by Judge Allen: 'This right of self-government lies at the foundation of our institutions, and cannot be disturbed or interfered with, even in resuct to tho smallest of the divisions into which tho State is divided for governmental purposes, without weakening the entire foundation; hence itis a right not only to be carefully guarded by every department of the government, but even- infraction or.evasiou of it to be promptly met and condemned: specially by the courts, when such acts become the subjects of judicial investigation." m , The views stated by these writers are fully concurred in by De Tocqueville, lilYce Dillon, Fik, Bancroft, and Jeffer

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plainly opposed to the principle of local self-government, and they were 'declared to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Jo thse who believe in the JcrTersonian doctrine of tho neparation of powers: iw muse who iiuuk that tho democratic nartv i th fender of the right of local selfgovernment; and to those who do not know to what extent tVi 1 )o,-nrT-has become possessed of tho thirst for power, place and the emoluments of odice, it will be a surprise to learn that these acts were passed bv thnt r?rtv vt .nK - j .. nutij l(a the case. In each house of tho General Asserauiy mere was a majority cf Democratic members. Every member who voted for these bills was a Democrat, and their introduction and passage was mado a Dent ocratic measure in caucus and in tho legislative halls. It is unnecessary to sav mnr f Aki. Tory of tho bills, or of the objection to them. I would not hare written these lines if bills equally objectionable had not been passed by legislatures in other States. The legislative is always the aggressive) yyw cr. n is not content 10 occupy its own field, but it is everywhere and always try mg xo iaKo unto useii tne rights aud pow. Cr of f hn rn.nriliiintn ilnrfirtiimit nf rr,- - w v v - . W - 'U UIII bJ v 4 sxv eminent. Tho power to legislate is too nfii : a. i i ? -i i , . wticu icu iu men wno, inmviuuaiiy, ieel bllt little rf 41im fAerirtnciliili v rs(incr nn the whole body, and from this sense of di.1 , coyuniuimy comes au arrogance rumeumes seems to oe weu-niga MAllTllI 1 A. A. - place barriers to the legislative power. vuc uj me lunaamental ideas in all ?l ?v -African constitutions is that the powers of government shall forever be kept and exercised separately, and upon this great principle we must relv: mnm thill rn n n tr tVAv t the maintenance of our free institutions. vur cuusi minors uivide the powers of gov ernmcnt into three distinct departments those which are legislative to one, those which aro executive to another. and thnn wliiMi dicial to another and no person being of v luvrc u.)iuiiiiicuw nuan exercise any power which properly belongs to another. the judicial construes it, and the executive eniorces it. .Montesquieu. Jeflerson. Madison, and all the sages, have warned us that when two or more of these powers are taken by or nnited in the same person, or in the saineT bodf . tViftrft r.nn lkM n r liKrtv anil '-no eminent is at an end. Jefferson tells u a that "the concentrating theso in the same nanas is precisely tne aennitiou ot despotioJ . . .... A ?i Washington,in his farewell address, saidi ei.e of political power by dividing and distribute ing It into difterent depositories, and consti tuting each the guardian of the public weal lira Inst invasion iir tlm ntliora ha ln ornn,i by experiments ancient and modern, some of iiiclu iu uur couuiry aim unucr our own eyes. TO) preserve them must be as accessary as to instl tute them. When cither of the denirf ma rf trnv eminent encroaches upon another or upon," the rights of tho people he deserves tho title "first and foremost of patriots" who' resists such encroachments with all tho weapons which the law gives him. By tho exercisa of sleenlesa viirilvrrA nnA in flii way only, will we preserve our institutions. FUIXER'S CLOSE SHAVE. IIow It Came About that John G. Carlisle' Was Not Mad Chief-Justice. New York Sun. "I eee that the Sun continues to inaisa that Chief-Justice Melville W. Fuller mua& shave off his disfiguring mustache," 6aid i Kentucky politician at the St. James Hotel. "i'erhaps i; uller has heard by this time of the close shave ho had for the chief justiceship, and prefers to remain away Iroin the barbers chair. The storv ha never been in print, but I will vouch for its accuracy. John G. Cailisle should have been Chief-instice of the Supreme Court, and he would have been, too, but for tho treachery of a certain Senator and the cowardice of Grover Cleveland. It came aboutJ in this way: The President was a great ad mirer of Carlisle, and let it be known to a chosen few that ho was going to offer tho chief-justiceship to Mr. Carlisle. Senator , it may bo Vest, of Missouri, 1 will not be positive", called on the 'Presi dent aud told him that it would never do to appoint Carlisle: that his personal habits were such that the Kepublican ma jority in the Senate would reject the nomi nation, and that it would be a great blow to the party. I ho President had gone so far as to put Carlisle's appointment iu writing. Carlisle heard of the objection, ihat had been mado to him and went imme diately to the President and told him that he would not accept the appointment, and that it was his wish that his name should not be considered. A friend of Carlisle) went to every Senator on the judiciary committee then in Washington, aud allot them, without reirard to nartv. Tilediroil themselves to report his nomination favor ably. Ihis friend, after four days of hard work interviewing the Senators, rushet into Mr. Carlisle's room in the House. where he was being shaved, and announced tho result of his labors. Mr. Carlisle's only answer was: ihe President has just ap pointed Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago, u to be Chief-justice of the Supreme Court." A Democrat Who Wants Out of Office. TJUca(N.Y.) Herald. McElwec, the sugar examiner in the New .York custom-house, whose dismissal by Appraiser Mullin for drunkenness the Cleve land administration would not permit, 13 anxious now to get out of the service by resignation, but cannot. Ho has cut a broad figure ns an incompetent, a talc bearer, a "hilarious" character, aud lis retained in order that his conduct may be investigated and dishonorable dismissal meted out to hira if he is found to deserve it. " McLlweo had a powerful hold durimr the incumbency of Secretary Fairchild, and though he was shown tobe unfit for any place of responsibility, he laughed at every efi'ort to get rid of. him. He made a mis, take in not going when his partner went. Iet It IJe Thorough. .- Philadelphia Tress. . ma V V AA V mM 1 . 1A, 1 . y m... . aa . . r investigated, by all means, if it will afford . - A' A A A" ' , il . any saiisiacuon to our menus, me enemy. 11 mere nas ueeu auy (ulji;ii;-uu in mac department since the Republicans took holditistimo the thing was discovered aud punished aud while the authorities , - . j, i 1.1 r i a a . are auoui 11, mey snoum not, lau to extend tlwir vnrk r as to ilicludo . Rpnrrlitni post-mortem examination of the management of the late Pension Commissioner iilack. Ihtre are elaborate and emphatic HiiT-f 1 f Inrlirntiniia fh:it, ftometliinir in a. A o caying condition will bo found in that direcuuu. Southern Situation in a Nut-Shell. Anfjnsta (Ga.) Chronicle. There was a South of slavery- That i dead. It served its purpose. It had it dav and generation. Wo say we rejoice at its'death. We would not restore it. Let it rest. There is a South of freedom, the magic of whose matchless products is tilling the world with admiration, aud whoso possibilities are only bounded by the wants of civilization. Why He Is Full of Old Nick. New York Graphic. Gen. Dan Macauley. tho former Mayor of Indianapolis, who was with the Ilepnblicau national committee last fall, is now known as "Old Nick." Ho saj-s he was full of "Old Nick" as a boy and is full of "Old Nick" as a man. It comes from the privileges he has secured from the Nicaragua CanalCompany of selling supplies on the line of their enterprise. The Expensive Uurden of Koyalty. Iowa State Register. The Englishmen who delight in tho pomp and parade of their royal institutions may be willing to pay tho bills, but there are tens of thousands of other Englishmen who have no uso for the passing show. They see no occasion for pride or pleasure in being taxed to keep up the expensive trappings of royalty, and they are not afraid to say so. The .Mystery Explained. Omaha Republican. Omaha seems to have had less trouble iu enforcing tho Sundny law thau any of tho - . 1..- , 1.1 11 u f 1 . . k I. I I asUTIMiiiiSi 1 u.tk ju iciu-iuurrtru that Omaha is much nearer a prohibition State than they arc, and cau get all tho supplies it wants by fcitnply crossing th river. When Satan Dons Skates. MlnnespolU Trtlmn Seuator Vest thinks Montana will ga Democratic this fail. Not thia fall. Senator, Mime other fa VI when Missouri goes K publican and thcie is good skating in thai other &trouby Democratic region.