Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

"By reason or me multitude or oppressions they make the oppressed to cry; they cry-out by reason of the arm of the mighty;” New Hampshire' legislators are proposing to experiment with a prohibitory law. and will strike at the root of the matter’ by endeavoring to place upon the statutes a measure to make the manufacture of both spirituous and malt liquors illegal. As usu a .'.“the man who knows it all’’ is at work very industriously these days, at Washington, explaining to the übiquitous reporter his own peculiar ideas as to “what done it.” As usual, also, these ideas are as variegated as Joseph’s coat of many colors-

The war in Brazil is not over after all, if private advices from that unfortunate country are to be believed. A letter from Capt. Alincar. late commander of the famous rebel cruiser Aquadaban, to a relative in Philadelphia, makes the assertion that the revolutionists will vet succeed if foreign nations do not interfere, at least so far as to separate Rio G rande do Sul from the rest of Brazil. Those South American Republics certainly are iu hard,, lines. The pork packing industry of the country at large appears to be in an extremely active condition. At the leading centers, collectively, two million more hogs have appeared than at the same date last year. This from a known total supply of nearly six million less. The weight' is below the average and the quality inferior. The export demand is large. The southern demand for' bacon is also in excess of former years. No radical change in values can be expected until there is a falling off in hog receipts, Meats of all kinds are likely to be comparatively high while grain remains at present figures.

West Indianapolis was recently incorporated as a city. Mayor Tolen is the first chief executive of the new municipality. Recently the mayor granted a city liquor license on theinstallment plan, the vender of intoxicants, being short of cash. The Marshal arrested the saloonman for selling without a city license. The Council overhauled the mayor for his illegal action. The mayor acknowledged his error, but asked that the case in question be allowed to go by default. Refused. The saloonman asked for a refunding of the sums paid on account. Refused. Saloonman closed up and brought suit. Council adjourned, one member making a vigorous speech, in which he said the august assembly collectively acted like a lot of school boys. The muddled municipality don’t appear to have any idea “where it is at.”

John Burns, M. P., now traveling in this country on a lecture tour, stopped off in Chicago the other day long enough to be interviewed and expressed his disapproval of Chicago thoroughfares, which he denounced as “vile,” That is just what the business streets of that metropolis are, but the leading citizens of the World’s Fair city were not particularly pleased with the Englishman’s bluntness. They always expect compliments from foreign visitors on the vastness of their vanity and the colossal cheek of their business men. It makes little difference to Chicago, of course, what Mr. Burns may think, but it is pleasant to note that the first sight of the modern Babylon failed to inspire the hard headed labor leader' 1 with anything like the gushing admiration which Chicago always deems her simple due from great and small.

Kindness to the ‘‘loved ones at home” is a trait of human nature that can not be too strongly commended, and is also one which as time goes by will bring a larger reward in grateful recollections than can be obtained from any other source. Many people metaphorically embrace the world with their charitable impulses, yet “just behind the scenes,” in the privacy of their own homes, they are a “holy terror” to all the household—a standing menace to the peace and quiet of their own firesides—their presence chilling every semblance of the love and kindness that should reign su preme into Black and dismal embers of hate and discord. Kindness to all human beings is commendable, but ail will do well to recollect that the future has a terrible retribution in store for every person capable of human feelings who disregards the adage that “charity begins at home.”

Coldness to and neglect of those who are bound to us by ties of kind red blood will luring.in time a sure reward* of • unavailing.: remorse that naught but death can cure. aAuthorities appear to agree in the opinion that American agriculture is not at all likeiy to be permanently harmed because of the increased productiveness 'of India, Russia and the Argentine. Th; rapidly increasing population, of the United States, as well as the constantly augmented millions of th? already overcrowded- countries ol Europe, must be fed. Again a market for agricultural products is constantly making increased demands in the shape of corn for feeding stock for meat producing- purposes, for which output there is an almost ■undisputed outlet. Flour for foreign shipment, in the near future, will absorb out* surplus wheat without difficulty. The process of readjustment under which the commercia 1 world has been laboring for the past five years must soon cease, and in, the very nature of things the Unitec States must again resume its oldtime ascendancy and prosperity.

. The killing of Riordan by tfyp Australian pugilist, Fitzsimmons, a few weeks ago, was an unfortunate affair that was believed at the time would have a tendency to interfere with the alleged manly art of pugilism. Such, unfortunately, does not appear to be the probable result. Fights continue to come off, while other “mills” are arranged for.- It is needless to moralize. While money can be made by,and public sentiment is not sufficiently strong to suppress, these exhibitions, it is safe to say they will be continued'. A “plug ugly” knocked to “Ifingdomcome”now and then by a mislick is a mattor of trifling consequenceto the great public that delights in these brutal encounters.. Riordan is the fourth man to be killed in. sparring exhibitions in the past four years. All of the men who inflicted the fatal blows were acquitted except one, a “pug” in St. Louis, who received a sentence of imprisonment for several years. / . ■ -.

The colored labor organizations of this country have appealed to John Burns, the English labor leader now in the United States, to use his influence in their behalf with kindred societies whose membership is restricted to the Caucasian race. Mr. Burns is “getting on to the curves” of the United States pretty fast and finds himself in the position of the Dutchman who exclaimed: “The longer I lif the more I find efery day owit.” The hard headed M. P. is said to have been more astdnished at this appeal than any feature of the labor situation that has so far come under his observation. He had supposed that the colored man was accorded every right and privilege that his white brother enjoyed and had not dreamed that a down-trodden laboring man would himself deny to the black man even the few rights that he enjoyed. The color prejudice as it exists in the United States is an unknown quantity in England —largely, perhaps, for the reason that the colored population is a very small percentage of the whole.