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CRIME AND POPULAR FURT.
The excitement in New Orleans over the
assassination of a good officer has been com-
parable to nothing so much as that in Chi-
cago at the time of the Haymarket massa-
ere. What would, however, be most cred.
itable alike to officials and citizens would
be such a degree of selfscontrol us to guard
themselves from illegal violence and unjust
acts directed indiscriminately against those
residents who are iu some way casually
classed with the supposed murderers. In
this case it has been the Italians who
have been made to feel the anger and hatred
of an indiscritninating spirit of fury and
vengeance. If the parallel may be drawn so
as to be felt by our very own population,
let the scene be changed to Mexico and let a
rough element of Americans perpetrate s
crime which would justly call for the ex-
termination of the desperadoes, what, hows
ever, would tho civilized world have to say
if the cry were raised of death and extirmi-
nation or banishment for Americans/ That
is tho caso brought home in a nut-
shell, and granting that the rab-
ble in all countries will be thus
unjust and of inflammable temper—ready
to sweep the good and the bad of a foreign
element to perdition on any provocation
through bad conduct of a small number of
individuals—it is the duty cf leading citi-
zens, and especially of officials, to interpose
their firm moral influence against passion,
prejudice and abusive speech provocative
of persecution diYected agaiust tbs inno-
cent. The Italian immigrants engaged in
honest callings, as are the mass of them, are
as good and honorable people as any
others and it should not have been
left for their own newspaper to
plead the caus* of justice and call
even the principal officers of the municipal-
ity to a sense of their duty, without which
who knows what horribie outrages may be
perpetrated upon inoffensive persons just
becauso they happen to be Italians/ The
superiority of American civilization can
not be demonstrated except by conduct
worthy of truly civilized people, snd part of
such conduct is to treat all individuals no
worse than their deserts, especially to
guard with abhorrence against the rabble
spirit, no dangerous when once aroused, so
hard to control and so hideous in its sense-
less malevolence.
Party spirit has been an inexplicable
craze in all ages of the world until the present.
It is now merely a spirit of greed, It means
beer and boodle and bounty, and this is all
there is to it.
THE FAMINE IN IRELAND.
The London Times comments adversely,
of course, upon the manner in which the
Irish league comes before the American
public seoking funds to relieve the sufferers
by the potato blight. But precisely be-
cause the London Times occupies a defined
position and can not expect anything which
it says on this subject to be generally ac-
cepted upon its mere word, it may
well be referred to ns contributing
perhaos to a comprehensive understanding
of the situation. The Times complains
that the leaguo has utterly ignored the re-
lation of Great Britain to Ireland and the
existence of humane feeling In England.
Ireland has been referred to as if the peo-
ple there must starve but for American
aid. The distress has been heralded In
terms which lead the public to suppose
that it is general. The Times says that it
extends to six counties, and names the
Ioagne as authority for the statement; that
relief will be actually needed by December.
Between now and than the British
public will doubtless show again that
spirit of humanity which bas not
failed to succor even very distant popula-
tions and Borne as thoroughly alien as could
well be imagined. Tho elections in the
United States are approaching. The agita-
tion of tho relief question so many weeks
before tho time for relief appears to tho
British organ as a species of rivalry between
democrat and republican to show which
party is tbo best friend of Ireland. It must
be candidly confessed that iu all meetings
for any sort, of political sympathy with Ire-
land Americarf politicians aro more numer-
ous than any other class. Their own per-
sonal prospects are obviously affected by
tliolr attitude. All this is observed
in Great Britain. But the Times
ia at least partly wrong, for it ignores if it
comprehends the fact as to the time re-
quired in America to arouse public sympa-
thy, all of which that can be aroused may
bo needed to relieve distress, and as for get-
ting the money in now, why now is always
the time for taking up a charitable contri-
bution if it is being proposed. Boms of the
advocates may have done wrong with the
usual good motive in allowing their read-
ers to suppose that this specific cause and
form of distress aro almost universal in
Ireland. There should always be a
plain statement of the extent of dis-
tress when relief is asked. This
course is demanded in pursuance of
a true conservatism of the reserve sources
of charUy; for imagine that it is not suth a
bad case as it was said to be or allowed to
be supposed, some one who has contributed
learns all about the case afterward, and tho
next time anything of the kind comes up he
is less easy to convince that aid is needed on
a large scale. There is always a great deal
of distress in Ireland, however, and the
Times will tell little of this fact. In sev«
eral respects it will be iar better that there
should be no dolay in sending relief. If the
Times does not care particularly for Ameri-
can contributions let it forestall them and
telegraph the information how much Eng-
land has provided and where the money is
deposited, 'lhe British public may now be
depending too much upon government
plans of relief. Charitable America will
not do so in a matter involving so many
lives.
• !=H!!!=S='
McKinley, for example, following the cue
of Mr. Harrison, in his Kalamazoo speech
denounced cheapness as an abominable
thing, degrading to manhood and blight-
ing to a country. "This whole system of
cheap things," he said, 'is a badge
of poverty, for cheap merchandise
means cheap men, and cheap men mean a
cheap country, and that Is not the kind our
fathers builded." But about the sf me timo
the republican campaign committee issued
a document declaring that the McKinley
act "will materially reduce the farmer's ex-
penses," and that It "will not raise tbe
price to tbe American consumer of one
■ingle article that can be termed a necessary
expenso." Here cheapness is recognized not
aa an abominable thing to be strangled at
all hazards, but as a material blessing
which legislative policy should sedulously
promote. And next comes Speaker Reed
with the assurance that, though the imme-
diate effect of tbe McKinley act is to raise
prices, a reaction must follow, which will
give tbe people tbe benefit ot low prices
Thus .he testimony and the pleadings of
these witnesses and advocates for the Re-
strictive and protective measure in ques-
tion prove them without a case and argue
them out of court. The fact is that they
are either ignorant themselves of the terms
they use when speaking of high prices and
of low prices and of cheapness and dear-
ness, or they contemptuously assume that
the people are incapable of understanding
or investigating tbe meaning of such terms.
Of course the terms are essentially relative.
Nothing is bought without something is
sold. The final test of every value of exchange
is in its use and enjoyment on the part of
the consumer. As for the word cheapness,
it properly means a good bargain, without
reference to nominal price. Whether
the seller, who is also a buyer, or
the buyer, who iB also a seller, makes
a good bargain or a bad bargain,
depends on the quantity and quality of
tbe value which he gets in exchange. The
whole drift of tho protective tariff policy
is to set up obstacles us to both quality and
quantity calculated to shut up the general
mass of buyers and sellers, producers and
consumers in a system of artificial scarcity.
Mr. McKinley is right in holding that this
system is at war with cheapness. It is at
war with the froedom which is wanted to
develop the resources of natural plenty,
and to the extent to which it suppresses
this freedom it makes the nation as a whole,
the pcoplo in general aud the world at large
poorer. But at tho same time it serves
to generate abnormal and parasitic tumi-
dities of wealth, and for this it is prized by
the buge appetite which has its feedinK
utensils in the dominant party and iu the
machinery of legislation. It would doubt-
less be very acceptable to this appetite if
laws could be enacted against cheap Bun-
light, cheap atmosphere, cheap ralu and
dew, cheap river and tidal water. Perhaps
indoed iu the progress of economic des
potism McKinley or some other champion
of tho appetite and leader of the dominant
party will insist on the abatement of these
nuisancos of natural cheapness and Hoed
or some other speaker will be ready to force
the passage of a bill to that effect.
for sugar prod action. It all goM to tbe capital-
ist—nothing to the laborer. Tb« government
does not need hie skill and is not promoting any
such object aa the early statesmen teemed
most worthy ol bounties.
Governor D. B. Hill seems to be more
of a demoorat when talking on the stomp and
apparently forgetting D. B. H. than he was two
years ago with hia load proclamation of person-
al oonvictions.
The Atlanta Constitution has come to the
conclusion that it does not feel comfortable to
stand on one foot all the while and excuse tbe
other. It says it ia oat of the protection ditch.
The Constitution is In with the rest of the
country It must be patient and not expeet to
suddenly reverse what it was so long content to
admire and advocate in a slightly milder form.
Thb city of Austin will have the finest
manufacturing power In the state until a ma-
chine is constructed to utilize the tide. In the
next few years Austin Is certain to become a
favorite location for foreign capitalists who
will start manufacturing enterprises In the
most peaceful and prosperous state In the
union.
The high prices and profits resulting from
tho McKinley bill only need systematic adver-
tising .to bring in all the manufactures the
southern states need.
THE STATU PRESS.
Texas Are
The sons of the Puritans are coming south
and west and Mew England 1b being peopled by
Irishmen, French Canadians and Swedes. The
original Yankee finds the best Dlace at last.
The outlook for democratic success in
November is mOBt assuring. We see but one
source of dauger. That is the possibility of
over confidence. Over confidence begots in-
difference. Defeat almost certainly follows ln-
dliferonce. Democratic inertness is more to be
dreaded than republican aetirlty. In this coo-
test wo represent the rights and liberties of the
people, aud wo huvo the votes. It depends upon
you whether we shall also have the victory.
[Address of the Chairman of the Virginia State
Democratic Committee.
Those are wise words for every democrat to
reflect upon, and reflecting, so act that he will
have nothing to regret In any possible event.
Governor Gordon's friends declare that
vote against him is a stab at the heart of
every ex-confederate soldier. If this is not
waving, shaking and tearing the bloody shirt
what is.
ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY AND NAT-
URAL PLENTY.
Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, talking to the
locomotive engineers at Pittsburg, took
occasion to assure them that most of tbe
stuff written about the relations of capital
and labor is worthiest rubbish which it is
waste of time to read. Then he proceeded
to decorate the subject with some flimsy
trash of his own, coupled with a patroniz-
ing sprinkling of rose-water advice for his
hearers. This superior didactic style of
speaking to working men and the unprivU
leged masses generally is not peculiar
to Mr. Depew. It has become a habit
with the republican loaders when ads
dressing the people in behalf of legisla-
tion in restraint of their industrial and
commercial freedom. They tell the people
that this legislation, though its inevitable
j operation is to create difficulty and organ-
| ize scarcity, is bound to result in the general
improvement of their position with respect
| to prices alike of what they hare to buy
and of what they have to sell. But recently
these advocates of the restrictive policy,
otherwise known as the protective policy,
have got into a fearful muddle of contra-
I dictions with aud among themselves. Mr.
Carl ScnORZ addressed tho Massachu-
setts Reform club at Boston lhst Monday oa tho
tariff nnd republican party degeneracy. Ho
gin o a rational history and analysis of tho pro-
tective policy in this country sinco the estab-
lishment of the government, but with tho dis-
tinguished ability characterizing all Mr,
Schurz's speeches the more rocont facts and con-
ditions woro brought out sad principally held in
view in a moral light. Tho address engaged
the undivided attention of hia auditors during
two houi s. It is of rare merit from every point
of view. It appears in the Boston Herald of
Octobor 21 aud in tho Now York Times supple-
ment of the same date. Tho Times conceived
and executed the happy idea of printing in the
same issuo with Mr. Schurz's address the great
speech dolivered by Senator Carlisle In tho sen
ate on the liOth day of September, together with
current testimony regarding tho enhanconiont
of prices since the passage of tho McKinley aot.
The union soldier who jumped the boun-
ty Is now jumping the pension.
For real, live, genuine news consult The
News.
Colonel Mills and other democratic
statesmen who are non-residents of the states
of Illinois and Wisconsin seem to have made a
common mistake In discussing local or state
matters like the Bennett law and compulsory
education. They could have left those ques-
tions alone and thereby gained some advantage
for the caUBe of the national democracy which
they ao ably advocated. The Bchool question
was a dangerous detail into which they should
not have descended. Many democrats are In
favor of the Bennett law. There was no good
reason why they should have been driven off
by a violent onslaught upon their hobby, ad-
mitting it to be a trifle out of line by the old-
fashioned democratic compass.
VoLAPUK is being studied by over 2,000,-
000 people and promises to be something at last.
As the nations of the earth get closer together
the need of some universal lingo is apparent.
TnE McKinley bill slaps the spirits of
Christopher Columbus and of Ferdinand and
Isabella in their faces.
The Charleston World, blinded by parti-
san zeal, condemns vigorously, as hardly less
than treason, the following piece of common
sense and sound American doctrine proclaimed
by Judge Haskell In his spirited campaign
against Mr. Tiliman:
Wo declare against the Infallibility of party
and that whon tbe caucus or convention fails
to present fit candidates, it is the high privilege,
as well as the bounden duty, of all good citi-
zens to withhold their votes from such candi-
dates and, regardless of party affiliations to
support tbe best men presented for official
position.
Argumentative discussion of religious
and political subjects Is probably making fewer
converts in proportion to the discussion than
it has made in any previous age of the world.
The tendency of modern education and training
Is to convince young America that h9 knows it
all or to lead him to claim that he does an d not
to give his ignorance away.
A man spends mora in keeping up ap«
pearances than in keeping np himself.
When the "hoodoed" dog begins to rush
around in a circle after his own tail we think
once more of the long-winded orator who per-
sists in beginning again where he left off.
Brethren of the press, now is the time to
rress forward and collect subscriptions before
the cotton Is all gone and the sweet potato
orop consumed;
We say that "good Indians are dead Inn
dlans." This is an idoa we doubtless found on
the tombstones and monuments of our own
country.
Thb census shows only about 64,000,000
people in the United States, "mostly fools," as
Carlyle would have said.
Literary fame nowadays is soon won,
bat it does not last long.
In the early days of the republic the gov-
ernment gave a bounty to fishing vessels, but It
was divided between the owners and tho crew
the sailor, got flve-elghths of the bounty,which
was intended to encourage seamanship, which
the country needed for defease. In the later
days of the republican party a bounty ia gives
CAUGHT ON THE CURB.
A representative of The News yesterday
called at the United States engineer's offioe aud
found that Major Allen, engineer in oharge,
had just received from the war department the
documents relating to the government work ou
Galveston harbor The major was shown the
dispatch from Washington which was pub-
lished In Friday's News, and was asked to ex-
plain the statement made In that dispatch that
"the work Is to continue as appropriations are
made by congress." "Here." said he, "is the
law upon the subject. The river and harbor
act, approved September 18, 1890, says: 'Im-
proving entrance to Galveston harbor, Texas:
Continuing improvement, $300,000; provided,
that contracts may be entered into by the sec-
retary of war for such materials and work as
may be necessary to carry out the plan con'
tained In the report of the chief of engineers
for 1886 for the improvement of that har-
bor, to be paid for as appropriations
may from time to time be made by law.
"You see, then, that the statoment made by
your Washlngton,correspondent Is oorrect. The
contract will be let for the whole work. The
same man or men who get the contract will do
all tbe work, but they will not be allowed to do
more work during any period than congress
has appropriated money to pay for. For In-
stance, thore is an appropriation already made
of $500,000. When that sum Is expended the
contractor will have to cease work unless oon-
greBs has in the meantime made another ap-
piopriation. If the appropriations are made
regularly the work will go on regularly. No
work can bo done unless tnere is money actual-
ly appropriated by congress to pay for it. The
reason for this Is that no officer or employe of
the government Is allowed to run the govern-
ment in debt. The law is very Btroug on that
point.
"I have all the documents relating to the
work to be done and will Bend out the adver-
tisements tor bids at once. These bids must all
be in within sixty days, aud 1 know of no good
reason why the award should not be made early
in January. I would liko to see all these de-
tails arranged as early as possible, because if
congress sees that wo have gone to work zeal-
ously in! earnestly it will be much easier for
us to obtain the f 1,000,000 appropriation we will
neod next year.
"I can't say whether the whole of the
$8,200,000 will be expended or not.
If we obtain the desired results with
half that sum so much the better. It is
the harbor we are after and not tbe expendi-
ture of money. When our object Is attained
we will quit work of course. On tbe other
hand, there Is nothing In the bill which pro-
hibits the expenditure ot more than ?6,200,000
shculd It be necessary. The government has
simply undertaken to make Galveston a first
olass harbor and has adopted tbe $6,300,000
basis because that was the estimated cost fur-
nished by the engineers' department."
# * *
"From time to time I have seen suggestions
in Toe News about forming committees to look
after manufactories and other things," re-
marked Mr. Julius Runge, president of the cot-
ton exchange and board of trade. "No doubt
tho9e who make these .uggestlons do so in good
faith, but 1 think they make a mistake and|could
add both strength and influence to what they
hope to do by acting through regularly estab-
lished channels rather than by seeking new
ones. By uniting with us these public spirited
gentlemen can do good in two ways.' They can
help us and themselves at tho same time Our
exchange bas outstanding at present 160
memberships held by 151 members.
Considering that nearly all directors of
leading corporations in this city are mem-
bers of tbe exchange it can be readily seen
that less than 100 citizens have to perform
an unusual amount of hard work, besides con-
tributing funds tor the maintenance of the ex-
change.
"Our members would certainly be gratified
if many of the public-spirited oltlzens who are
not members of the exchange would join and
perform duties as members and pay annual
dues. It is a serious mistake to try to organize
all kinds of committees independent of the ex-
cha ge when labor and money oan be saved by
concentration. A11 those who desire to do
oommittee work can rest assured that the di-
rectors of the exchange will be glad at any
time to appoint them on committeee to promote
the interests of Galveston."
OUT OF THE GENERAL RUN.
The entire south will pray that Senator
Blackburn's injuries received at Versailles
a day or so ago will prove to be slight ones
and that the distinguished Kentuckian will
be able to take his seat when congress
meets again with his usual strength and
vigor.
...
Poor James Gillespie Blainel No sooner
does he overcome one obstacle before an-
other larger and stronger presents itself.
Murat Halstead Is now his friend.
...
The National Farmers' alliance Intends,
so it Is reported, to boycott all papers not
friendly to their cause. A bluff like that
may bave some effect upon newspapers of
weak backbone, but journals of indepen-
dence, journals that speak what they think
and mean what they speak, have no fear of
them. They will continue to criticize the
Farmers' alliance in the future at in the
past, when they need criticism. Their or-
ganization is not too Bacred tor that.
Never look to a partisan political newspa-
per for the truth. You might as well look
to an Angora goat for ssalskin.
* » *
The Memphis Avalanche and the Mem-
phis Commercial have quit quarreling and
yet no sign* of the millenaam hav# ap-
peared.
What th. Paper. Throughout
Talking About.
Kentucky doe. not appear, to judge from
he report* of the newspapers, to have taken
a very prominent part iu the proceedings
on Kentucky day iu the Dallas fair. It
needed some Old Mortality to brighten the
links that long ago united that state with
Texas. Had some gifted orator been in
possession of the many reminiscences of
this writer an interesting narrative might
have been woven out of the events which
have transpired since h* first saw the light
in Jefferson oounty, Ky., on the 1th day of
September in tbe year 1814, in the midst of
the war of 1812, tbe same month and year
when the Indians massacred whole families
on the Indiana side of tbe Obio river, with-
in twenty miles ot his birthplace. In that
war, at the battle of Tippecanoe,
the gifted Jo* Daviess and Colonel
Abram Owen, favorites of Kentucky,
lost their lives, and Colonel Hichard
M. Johnson won lifelong fame that kept
him in congress during tbe remainder of
his life, with the exception of four years
when be was vice president. Colonel James
Love, who was afterward a member of
congress from Kentucky, and who was
one of the founders of Galveston, where be
ended his long life, was a youthful volun-'
teer and fought under Colonel Johnson at
tbe battle of the Thames as aide to his
brother-in-law, Judge Joseph M. Eva, who
died in Galveston In Juue, 1843, when
United States minister to tbe then repub-
lic of Texas. Judge Jesse Bledsoe, once
on* of the foremost men of Kentucky and a
senator iu congress, died at Nacogdoches,
Tex., during the revolution in 1836. Major
John M. Allen, who commanded a company
ac the battle of San Jacinto, and was the
first mayor of Galveston, and died here
while United States marshal, was a nativo
of Fayette county, Ky. He had beon Liade
a lieutenant in tbe United States navy,
but resigned to volunteer in tbe ser
vice of Greece, when that country was en-
gaged in a struggle for independence with
France. Captain John G. Tod of the Texas
navy was a native of the same county, also
a lieutenant in the United States navy, and
resigned to enter the service of l'exas in her
struggle for freedom. Dr. Brenham, after
whom the city of Brenham is named, who
lost his life In tbe lottery of death which
was imposed on the Mier prisoners, was
born and reared in Shelbyville, Ky. Dr.
Motley, the noblest martyr who fell at San
Jacinto and expired in tbe arms of bis
weeping friend General Husk, one of the
signers of the Texas declaration of indepen-
dsnce, was a Kentuckian. Jos. B. Woods,
another of the signers, was a Kentuckian.
Colonel Ben Milam, who led the attack
against fearful odds that ended in the cap-
ture of the fortress of tbe Alamo from
the Mexican* in 1835, was a native of
Franklin county, Ky. Sidney Sherman,
who commanded a division at San
Jacinto, was not a native of the
dark and bloody ground, but married there,
and his force was made up mostly of Ken
tucky volunteers. Colonel Clark L.
Owen, one of the soldier* of Texas
in 1836 and a famous Indian fighter,
son of Colonel Abram Owen, named
above, was a native of Shelby county, Ky.,
and gave ud a lucrative business to voluu-
terr in tbe service of Texas. He died in tho
confederate army at Shiloh. General T.J.
Chambers, though not a native of Ken-
tucky, grew to manhood and finished his
education there. He gave $10,000 to the
cause of Texas and recruited nearly 2000
men in Kentucky for th* service of Texas
during her war for independence. Governor
J. W. Henderson (Smoky) abandoned his
studies In Scott county, Ky,, to come to
Texas at that time, and afterward finished
bis study of the law amid the mud and dis-
comforts of Houston, in 183T-88. Albert
Sidney JohnBon, tbe noblest Homau of
them all, was a Kentuckian, and re-
signed his commission in the Uni-
ted States army to link his for-
tunes with those of Texas in the darkest
days of th* young republic; led a regiment
of Texans in the United States service in
Mexico in 1846, and resigned his commission
as major general in the United States army
In the war of secession, not because he was
in favor of disunion but becausa he regarded
his supreme allegiance aa due to the lone
star. He had been commander-in-chief of
tbe Texas army in 1836 and secretary of war
of the young republlo under President
Lamar. These are but a portion of the
worthy Kentuckians who have shed
luster on the names of the two states, all of
whom but Colonel Milam it bas been the
good fortune of this writer to know. Ken-
tuckians were among the leading pioneers
from tb* older states to Texas. They first
settled the region about Dallas, and a few
of them and many of their descendants are
scattered all over the state. It is impossible
to refer to them by name, but squally hard
for those who have known to forget them.
"Old faces throng around me.
Old forms go trooping by."
In a little while the last of them, with
the rest of the pioneers, Will have passed
from the stage forever. But they hav* left
an impress on the history of the times that
should not be forgotten.
The Signal says 7000 bales ot cotton bad
been brought at Lnling up to Thursday.
The Anderson Post, M. C. Howard, edi-
tor and proprietor, is a new Grimes county
paper that enters the field as a matter of
right. It says.
We feel that we have • right to establish
a paper that does not oppose any undertak-
ing that tends toward the development and
prosperity of the town and country.
The Post promises to work for instead of
retarding such measures.
The Palestine Advocate says:
Justics S. V. Spohn, republican candidate
for congress in the Galveston district, per-
mits Nat. Q. Henderson to go 'round and
make speeches with him, and Judge Spohn
ought to be beaten tor that if for nothing
else.
The Economist reports cotton shipped
from Crockett up to Thursday, 2718 bales.
There have been about 900 bales of cotton
•hipped from Grapeland.
The Belton Journal of Thursday reports
receipt* at Belton compras* to data 14,776
bales; same date last year, 11,374 bale*.
PERSONAL.
Adelina Patti has stated definitely that
she does not contemplate returning to this
country.
Brst Harte has foresworn social pleasure*
for the present, while finishing his literary en-
gagements.
Queen Victoria will leave Balmoral castle
this season on November 20 aad return to
Windsor for the winter.
The New York board of aldermen have
appointed a committee to receive Messrs. Dillon
and O'Brien on their arrival in this country.
Tho reception committee is to consist of Presi-
dent Arnold, Ylce President Noonan and Alder-
men Flynn, McLarney, Lynch aad Morris.
CURRENT COMMENT.
"It is true the advances which hav* been
made in duties were altogether inexcus-
able," says that prominent republican paper,
tbe St. Loui* Globe-Democrat, "and will
call for correction in the next congreaa if
tbe republicans retain control of th*
hous*." If the Glcbe-Democrat desires that
the influence of the protected manufactu-
rers shall be extended in support of repub-
lican candidates for congress, It should
carefully avoid *uch predictions as this.
If it could be shown that a repub-
lican majority in the next house would
"correct" the tariff by cutting off "tbe ad-
vances which have bet-n made in duties,"
the manufacturers would turn a very cold
shoulder to all republican collectors of
campaign funds. They have been told that
the new tariff "is good for at least ten
years," and tbe Globe Democrat wil. find
McKinley and Heed and its republican con-
temporaries in tbe east urging the people
to elect a republican majority for tbe ex-
press reason that In that way any change of
those "inexcusable" new rates can surely bo
prevented. [New York Times.
Th* Time* la now warrantsd In making
the announcement that tbe election frauds
planned for thi* city will either be aban-.
doned or their authors, lucltiding masters
and servants, buyers and ssllsrs, will bo
exposed, prosecuted, convicted and impris-
oned, regardless of their personal or politN
cal influence. A careful canvass of the city
by precincts is now well under wav, and
tbe registrations in many districts ore the
most reckless and lawless ever known. The
assessors who are clearly guilty of criminal
wrong will be promptly arrested and their
trial pressed upon the courts, aud the sys-
tematic purchase of votes that Is now con-
templated will be uncovered by the best de-
tective skill of the city, and all guilty par-
ties will be prosecuted. [Philadelphia
Times.
It may bs t. u*. as the Times-Union says,
that "in the cities and towns many negroes
and whites may be expected to vote for Has-
kell," but it is undoubtedly true, as our
contemporary add", that "tbe farming pop-
ulation is largely in th* majority and the
farmers will elect Tillman." It would be
to tbs interest of the colored farm laborers
throughout tbe state, if they voto at all, to
vote with tbe farmers who employ them
and not for a ticket which depends for its
success almost entirely upon the suffrages
of proscribed race. The white farmer and
the black faimer should stand together at
tbe polls in November, each for tbe other
and both for the democratic party, tho only
party which guarantees equal and exact
justice to all men. [Cbarlestou News and
Courier.
There are all sorts of people in these
United States, and not the least interesting
class is made up of those who contend in
and out of season for tbe admission of
women to full political equality with the
sterner sex. A number of these enchusiasts
have petitioned President Harrison to ap-
point Elizabeth Cady Stanton as associate
justice of tbe United States supreme court,
in place of the deceased Justice Miller. It
may be doubted whother Mrs. Stanton
would care at her time of life to assume
duties so ousrous as those of a supreme
court justice. At auy rate, she is likely to
see many more years before such an appoint-
ment shall be tendered to her. [Phila-
delphia Record.
TRIFLES.
Pitching pennies is very uncertain, and
yet it enables a uian to turn his money.
[1'onkers Statesman.
Yon can never tell how mnch the lines in
a man's face count till you see him in a
wood cut. [Now York World.
A man is obliged to die before bis will
amounts to anything, but that o( a woman
is always in force. [Ham's Horn.
There is one consolation to a deaf man
arrested for a crime. He gets a bearing
like any other man. [New Yoik Press.
Queen Victoria: Albert Edward, you're
too cross to-day to talk to. Prince of
Wales (significantly): No cross, no crown.
[Judge.
William: The part Was decidedly
coarse. Henry: "But her acting of it was
fine. William: Of course. [Boston
Transcript.
If a woman was as careful in selecting a
husband to match her disposition as she is
in selecting a dress to match her complexion
there would be fewer unhappy marriages
than there are. [Atchison Globe.
A party of lynchers at Jefferson City
jstponed a banging five minutes one even-
ng last week to give the victim time to
finish his cigar. Puck has often remarked
that tobacco has prolonged life. [Pnck.
caminer Fitzpatrick: Were you ever on
the police? Applicant: I didn't tbink you'd
r.sk me that question; but if I've got to
answer It, I did sit on Houndsman Kelly's
nbek a spell durin' tb' riot at McAleenan's
last week. Seef [Judge.
Sambo; What did de doctah say ailed yer
mostly, Bilir Bill: He 'lowed dat I had a
conflagration of diseases. Fust, do salva-
tion glan'a don't insist my digestion; dat
makes a torpedo liver, cose I'm liable to go
off any minute. [Texas Sittings.
Charlie: Somehow I don't think Miss
Meal is simple and ingenuous. Do you
kuow she never looks me squarely in the
face?
Fannie: There, see what injustice you can
doagirli Katie merely thinks you admire
her profile. [Life.
Boy: Mister, I want to get a—um-I—
want a pint of—a—thunder—I forgot.
Druggist's Clerk: Little man, have yon
forgotten what you came for?
Bov: That's it.
Clerk: What's It?
Boy: Camphor. [Life.
A BIT 'O WARNING.
[For The News.1
Stop! young man: I want to whisper
Words of warning in your ear.
Wasn't that some fellow's sister
You just spoke of with a sneer?
Sod forbid that you hav. spoken
Gossip false or gossip true.
But tho measure you have broken
Shall be measured back to you.
Stop! young man; was that yonr mother
You just left in grief and pain?
Do you know there's not another
Would receive yon back again?
Hearts like her'a soon oan be broksDt
Nov.r h.r love so tried, so true.
But the language you have spoken
Shall be measured back to you.
Stop! young lady, all that cbatteiL
Talk of topics more subline.
Heaven help so small a matter,
That consumes such precious timtk
Can't you realize your danger?
Will you never understand
That to let a perfect stranger
While out walking hold your hand-
Makes you common talk, andT>ften
Takes yonr name in haunts of vice!
There is nothing that will soften
Hearts of stone or hearts of ioe.
Let not any man assuming
Right o'er waist, or lips, or hand.
Tell him that he is presuming.
And he'll quickly understand, /
Ah! my lady, let me call you
From the lethargy of sleep.
Know you not of priceless jewel.
Which Is worth yonr life to keep.
All inviolate and sacred—
Modeety, a priceless pearl.
Is like blushes on the rose leaf,
Is the safeguard of a girl.
Keep yonr "good name" all untarnished,
And yourMlf from off the street.
You'll be valued far more highly
By the gentlemen you meet—
Hound yonr father'. Amide, and on* day
You may trust your name for life
In the keeping of a stranger.
Who wiillove and call you wife.
X. 8. Cox.
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