Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1887 — Changes in Congress. [ARTICLE]

Changes in Congress.

Dems Krahnky lacks of being a Jowl. He Bays iua recent address: “Work= ingtnen, you dan not benefit ' your fconditlon by listening to madmen or parading behind red flags. To elevate yourselves yon must become. American citizens and barricade yourselves behind the American ballot.’ -.

- Naw York, still continuing to be an. object of great interest in connection with the next national election, the course of the prohibition cause there becomes a salient feature. In . the as! ten years the prohibition vote has been as follows:

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It is none of our business, perhaps, but it seems to us that the congregation of the late Henry Ward Beecher might* have found a clergyman worthy of their pulpit without sending to England for one. They are not likely to find a man equal to Mr. Beecher anywhere, but if such a person is living he is more apt to in America than England. Mr. Beecher was an American in brain, vein and tissue; he made b.s church the most distinctively American organization of its* kind on the continent, an 1 his spirit will hardly be pleased to see the place which he made famous occupied by the Rev. Charles H. Berry from England.

Thk Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, who is delegated by Great Britain to represent her interests in the fisheries question, madean excellent speech at the annual dinner of the New York Chamber of Commerce. He said that the United States has carried to the highest development the science of the production of wealth. , That, however, was but. one step in a nation’s progress; and if be did not mistake the signs of the times, sooner rather than later other important problems must be solved in America. The safeguard in those days would be the innate reverence for law, which, is the guiding idea of Ameriaans: the people should make the laws, the people should enforce the laws, and the people should respect the laws. A greater Englishman than Mr. Chamberlain expected tlie perpetuation of free institutions as long ss the people respected the staff of the constable as the symbol of the Government’s power. A lack of that respect was exactly the beginning of the anarchist troubles at Chicago.

There is such a thing as being too enterprising. The steamship lines that are inducing Italian immigration and cholera in order that they may make money are too-progressive entirely. It has al ways been contended that cholera travels around the world with periodical reguJantyp and itrwflF doubtless get ~| here soon enough without..any art ificial assistance. That quarantine measures are the only preventives of tl plagues has been fully Remonstrat' d by the history of the yellow fever epidemics. The time was when it was thoyght that the rigid enforcement of quarantine was'paying too dearly for the public health. But the great epidemic of 1873 taught a different policy, and it L now I pretty well demonstrated that br fhi.l i unyielding quarantine our southern' coast can be kept measurably free from 1 fever. Cholera should be more easily I handled than yellow fever.becan«e tb e>e ] are rio circumstances in thii country j which can combine to germinate it; whereas itis more- than suspected tnat yellow fever is indigenous to certain southern localities in the United States.

Indianapoj- Sews. The tout ensemble oi tn ’ senate will be good deal changed this winter. Of the senate ton years ago there will appear only Allison* Dawes. Sherman, Ed-' mumis, Morriil. Saulsbury, Joyes of Nevada, Cock reli ■ and Ransom—ten i■ all. Of those who were in the senate; ten years ago Logan is dead, Bayard isin the Cabinet, Jones of Florida is gone daft, McMillan has been retired, Maxey has given away to Judge Reagan, and' Cameron of Wisconsin retired to give place to Spooner. The Republicans have seven Senators who have been p the Senate for ten years, and the D. mo J ..........Cn^Jmt--ttoee.-----<YmsHleFHig—thoima; ■~* Senators 1 term is for six years, changes occur rapidly there. In the House Um proponion of old stagers is still SB). Her. Holman, Randall, Ketchams Bland, Kel-: ley, Harmor, Mills of Texas, Blount of Georgia, Sunset Cox and Charlie o’Nei’ are the only membe-s who were t ; • ten years ago. Out of 325 member Rut ten’thus remain. It is kdme.wl at inter©sting to note that in this list t ]r ■- - tection State of Pennsylvania has retain ed four Judge Kellry is ca’led tin father of the House, for he htoser vr-d the h-n.-—• contfiatjo - tefi niemb*-r. hayjng been first • 1861. Kilbs-t Cox has been a Congrej-.- two years longer Ran-.Mr, Kelie’. • it did-not serve coht i-i there l -.’ i g a fejhfflX Dt ~ t 2j he lefi G-oo and reacto fig .n? m New Y v'i’y. end ahc v.lmn.Li ctmeM Dter’to Turkey. K t New Y nt, has served eighteen yegrfe, Ey and in aj. that time Inn- n-v, r made-a speech.