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THE WEEKLY TElWaPH: MONDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1833
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WAGE EARNERS' CONDITION.
THE SENATE DEADLOCK.
We canaot ace that the situation In
Washington has improved. The fore
cast of the week’s work of the senate
sent out by the United Press yesterday
shows that during the next six days
no break In the dreary debate may be
expected. The obstructionists are nu
merous enough to relieve each other at
frequent intervals and as they can take
up the time reading reporls and news
paper articles there is no reason why.
under existing conditions, the sooalleil
debate should not continue until next
summer.
Nothing remains but for the majori
ty to make a test of the physical en
durance of the two sides by refusing to
adjourn until a vote Is reached or to
make a compromise. It la by no nionas
certain that a majority would win in
a test of endurance. The minority can
always demand that a quorum be pre
sent and could thus compel the con
stant attendance of nearly nil the ma
jority members. To reach a compro
mise is hardly Jess difficult. The
Sherman law, over the repeal of
which the struggle occurs, is
itself a compromise. It denies
the money metal character to silver,
while adding largely to the amount
of silver money. It is a compromise
which is admitted on all sides to be
a failure and it is difficult to see how
a new compromise can be made that
will differ essentially In principle from
It. The Faulkner proposition, which
Is the most talked about, merely ex-
viTimS !nch2n ff ! n ® 'ta
While no one denies that the labor
ing classes con live belter today than
nt any previous period in the history
ihe country, it has often been stal-
1 that owing to the wonderful im
provements in machinery and the
cheapening of the cost of production
of articles of consumption wages have
decreased to such an extent that the
laborer is really In a worse condition.
But according to the statistics issued
by the Bureau of Labor this Is not the
cause. On the contrary, wages have
Increased. The reason for this is that
a greater responsibility rests with the
laborer now than when hand work was
the rule and not the exception, as It Is
nt present
The coadltlon of the laborer, there
fore, is not made worse by the Intro
duction -oC.J>wnnv7af ueprMolon.
The following Hgnres will be of In
terest in this connection. They arc
compiled by Commissioner Wright, la
charge of the Bureau of Labor.
Countlaslonor Wright shows that In
1810 a laborer In a largo brewery In
the city of New York received 02.5
cents a day; In 18«0, 81 cents a day:
In 1806, *1.30 a day: In 1801, from
*1.00 to *2 a day. Compositors who
worked by tho day received, In 1810,
*1.30; in 1800, *2; tn 1800, from $2.30
to *3, and tho same tn 1801. These
quotations are from a well-known os-
tabliahment In the state of Connecti
cut. A building firm In Connecticut
paid journeymen carpenters In 18H),
from *1.25 to *1.02 aday; in 1800. from
*1.25 to *1.75 a day; In 1801, from *3
to *3.25 a day. A firm of builders In
New York paid In 1810, *1.50 a day
In 1800, *2; in I860, *3.50; in 18Dl!
83.50. Painter* received the same.
Blmllar quotations could bo mado for
carpenters and painters i n different
parts of the Eastern States. The rates
of wages paid to wheelwrights were,
in 1810, *103; |a 1800, *2; in 1S01,
*2.30. Cotton wearers (women) In
Masaachnsetta earned in 1810, on nn
overage, about 02 cents a day; In 1800
Wh cents; tn 1800, from 85 to no cents,
on the average; In 1801, *1.05. Women
frame spinners were paid about the
same, earning a little more in the later
years. Wool spinners, both Jack and
urale, earned leas than *1 a day in
1810, while In 1800 they earned *1.05
a day; In 1S00, from *1.80 to *l.uo a
day; in 1801, from *1.38 to to *1.75 a
day.
So much for wages earned in me-
chanical trades. According to reports
made by lion. W. T. Harris, United
States commisstooer of education, brain
work was paid as follows In the sala
ries of schoo teithen: Principal of
boys high schools in Boston received
P«r annum in 1810, *1,500; j n 18w
• *W; in 1800. *2.200; |„ ISO!, *2.100.
I rinapals In primary schools for both
boys snd girls in the same dty
n0glDe Bt * 230 ' **».
*700 and *0M per annum. Assistants
(women) hi the lowest primarv «eb«9!s
It) the city of Boston received', for the
Brat year of service. *300 In lsoo. *450
In I860, and *4.30 |„ Th,
for masters in grammar schools In the
same city was from *1500 in the ear
ker period to *2580 In the last year
that we arc considering. Stepping oat-
aide of citle*, the facta ara found very
complete for the remote districts of
Barnstable county, In the Mate of Mas-
"* ere “*» received in 1810.
'" ) * mouth; in 1800, 840.73 »
month; In I860, (SHOD a ,
lsoo, *08.18 a month. Women in the
same counties Nceived *1114, *11112.
*2253 and *3158 a mouth. PrinclpaU
(men) of district schools la Cincinnati
received, for four periods. tun
*1.200. *1500 and *1500 a year, (be
*»t two quotations being for salaries
it.er three year*’ service.
tenus me
terms somewhat, for a stated period,
when Its operations are to cease. The
free coinage men would accept it, it
at all, not as a final settlement, but
as a “makeshift” tn the hope that be
fore the term of the new law expires
they would be able to control con
gress and the president. The proposi
tion to coin silver of American produc
tion only is hardly an improvement on
the Sherman law and would not Im
prove the position of the white metal.
It would be nothing more than an at
tempt to “protect" those engaged in
the silver mining industry.
It is practically certain that Mr.
Cleveland is prepared to assume the
responsibility of defeating cither of
these compromises, even should con
gress agree upon one of them. In his
letter to Governor Northen he said that
he would “not knowingly bo implicat
ed in a condition that will justly make
me In the least degree answerable to
any laborer or farmer lu the United
States for a shrinkage in the pur
chasing power of the dollar he has re
ceived for a full dollar's worth of work
or for a good dollar's worth of the
product of his toil.” In view of the
conviction which Mr. Cleveland has
frequently exprc«sed_AtyL4jHUC«8Uft-_
1s refused the privileges of a money
metal by the rest of the commercial
world, would Inevitably result in silver
monometallism in the United States,
these words can hardly moan any
thing else. Thoroughly convinced of
hts duties In the premises, he Is not
the man to change his mind. If we
must have a compromise on the silver
question, he Intimates a preference for
the one already made, with the mak
ing of which he cannot he “implicat
ed.”
The outcome of the struggle la the
senate will be, in our opinion, cither
the unconditional repeal of the Sher
man law or tho continuation of that
law, unamended, upon the statute
book. In the latter event, we do not
doubt that tho administration wilt pre
serve the parity of gold and silver
money by whatever means may bo
found necessary—by the oate of Simula
If the gold to meet demands for it
con be obtained by the treasury in no
other way.
It is this situation which the Demo-
erattc senator* among the obstruction
ist* are facing. There are in It |hmh1-
b.lltics of dlsaater for the Democratic
party. They have already done every
thing that U necessary to reUerc them
of responsibility for the repeal of the
Sherman law unconditionally—except
to vote against It. Now the time haa
come for them to cast that vote. It
Is certain that they can gain nothing
for the free coinage cause by further
obstruction, and they should remem
ber that the senate has the right to
vote.
nothing porty nt the. very ie when
prompt and decided action isLcessary
to relieve the distress of thlountry.
What can the country hod for tf
the Democratic party fails 1 repeal
the Sherman law? There ipo part
of the party's programme H reform
which is easier to carry ou \pe de
mand for the repeal was i dc \n the
platform and was ovenvliniingly en
dorsed by the people at the oils. The
repeal bill Is approved cve by those
in the senate wbo prevent ion upon
it In Ihe Interest of free t aage. It
was approved by the vote
than two-thirds of the pei
sentatlves In the house,
support of a majority almt-a** large
in tho senate. No reform aid possi
bly have firmer or strong
from all quarters. It has
whelming majority of the
two-thirds majority of the house,
large majority of the seuatLind the
president on Its side. If It Ills, what
reasonable hope will romallthat the
Democratic party will be rile to re
form the tariff, repeal the election
laws, abolish the tax on bat circula
tion, institute measures of cjnomy or
do anything to cure the evlljresulting
from thirty years of patent
tlon by the Republican partyl
The new tariff bill will bar
position larger and more comt
the opposition to rhe repeal lijh, Dtyv
can this opposition mlnorllyibt over
come when Democratic scnalot* hav
demonstrated that a mlnorilyc.au bio--
legislation forever? The s.pie thin
is true of nil Democratic tuetijures
: of mor
' c'8 repre
has the
support
n over-
cople.
legists-
an op-
ct than
if the table Is correct, twenty of New
York’s twenty-five failures have been
of private banks, with which rhe state
banking department has no possible
supervisory connection. If the propor
tion is as great in other states, then
four-fifths of tho 560 reported failed
would be private banks, or 44S, lcav-
but tho 112 state bank failures to
150 national banks. The national
banking system has enough good
qualities without the attempt to create
erroneous Impressions ns to Us safety
compared with the state systems."
It is not probable that the propor
tion of private to state banks is as
great In other states as In New York,
and it is therefore likely that the num
ber of state banks among the 560 col
lapsed Institutions Is greater than one-
fifth; but the fact remains that the
Washington statement Is a very un
fair one. It will fall of Its purpose,
However long It may be delaycfi, the
repeal of the prohibitory tax on state
bank issues Is certain. It is a lax of
doubtful constitutionality, protective in
character and injurious to the best in
terests of the country.
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.
The “IntemUional Balance Sheet,"
published by Thomas .1. Ford, New
York, condenses into brief form the
statistics of the foreign trade of the
United States during the six years end
ing June 31,1893. Some of the facts
shown arc of a kind to put the reader
interested In commercial- laws and
movement!! to thinking.
y„qr*. taken as a
tacking old abuses. They mutt fall If I whole, the “Balance nt trade was in I worlu. ^ ^ __
Lie first Of them Is defeated by Ho our favor to the extent of *21:1,480,794. |A m “i(can ^rls'with kirife "for
mously wealthy, to Count Happen-
helm, the head of a family which has
figured In German history for centu
ries and ranked among the highest no
bility.. Possibly many American girls
envied Miss Wheeler her good fortune
in becoming a countoss and gaining ac
cess to the high circles of European
society.
A few days ago a telegram stated
that the countess had left her husband
and was coming home, and now the
Philadelphia papers give, by authority
of her family, the reasons for this step.
She simply found the fellow Intolera
ble. He owed so much In some Euro
pean cities that he could not venture
to enter them and his creditors pur
sued him everywhere. Ills increasing
need of money and his devices for ob
taining It made him contemptible in
his wife's eyes. He would obtain
money from her for specific purposes
and spend it in bis own way, leaving
the debt to be paid by her a second
time. Finally she eu: ’d stand the hu
miliation of Injit a ltH no longer, and
left him at tht- sini.lt English watering
place where thM!*?'.fakon refuge.
This lady'.- <u$gri*not> does not differ
greatly from ilWTpf many American
girls who have given themselves and
their money for a ti le. They find too
late that title docs not necessarily
carry with It dignity or distinction, and
that it is almost sure not to do so
where the owner Is willing to barter it
for money.
It Is perhaps Inevitable that In our
republic, where there are no titles of
nobility, such titles should be more
valued by persons eager for social dis
tinction than anywhere else In the
XU spite cf the miserable ex
perience of the Countess Pappenhclm
bill. Tlie obstruction and the talk n(
compromise all come from the minor
lty. The majority stand ready to ,vot e
at any time and give effect to the wm
of the people. Under such ctrcun-
stances the responsibility for the dj v
aster that will come to the couatrj.
and the Democratic party as the revolt
of the failure to do anything cannot i K .
evaded. Everybody will know where
It belongs.
BLACKBURN'S AMENDMENT.
means now being employed.
It is tbe prospect of a shatiefnl fill-
ure brought about by the le ders of
the party In congress that Is demoral
ising the party at home. If tat pros-
pect is realized, the deme oilmen
will be well nigh complete, knd the
party will be compelled to g^c way
for another, with leaders brave and
true enough to carry ou the pK-igcs of
Its platform.
The worst crime the Democrale par
ty can commit at this time is/to do
nothing.
AERIAL NAVIGATION;
One of the many congressesvacUl iu
Chicago In connection with thcflVorld’s
Fair was composed of persons Inter
ested in solving tho problem (if aerial
navigation. A few years ago fetch n
congress would have been reotrded as
nn assemblage of cranks, anin perhaps
would not have been wronged-greatly
by that opinion. But the men,in at
tendance on this occasion woy> any-
CAUSE OF DISSATISFACTION.
It Is said that Governor N’orthcn's
letter to the president, which has not
been published, represented to him that
the Populists were making great In
roads tn the Democratic ranks, which
could be checked only by a statement
from the president that he desired fur
ther legislation In favor of silver. We
do not know whether the governor said
anything of tbe sort, but the rumor
that the Populists are gaining is heard
In many quarter*.
If It he true that the Populist* are
raining converts, wc do not believe
their success Is due to the failure
congress to provide for the free coinage
of silver. The people expected only
that the pledges of the Democratic
platform would be carried out Among
these pledges was not one to open
the mints to silver without re-
ganl to It* market value or
the action of other nations,
but there was one that the hateful
Sherman law should be repealed. It
is not because the president refuses to
pledge himself to <he unconditional
free coinage which the party In con
vention overwhelmingly rejected gut
many Democrats are now discouraged
and disgusted, bat because the parly
In congress Is showing itself Incapable
of doing anything. It is Justifying the
"**r of Its enemies that it is a do-
According to tho widely accepted Hk
ory that International balances of
trade must lie made good with specie,
this should raeon that during the
same years the United States received
for more specie than was sent out of
the country—the balance of trade be
ing so largely in Its'favor. As a mat
ter of fact, the excesa of Imports of
specie did not balance the excess of
exports of merchandise. On the con
trary, the excess of the specie move
ment -vns on the same side as the ex
cess of the merchandise account, and
was even larger—amounting to *262,
338517. of which *182,503,916 was gold
and *79,414,001 silver. Wc thus gave
to foreigners In our trade with them
*523,528,011 more than we received
from them—about half in merchandise
and half In specie.
In the Innumerable transactions be
tween private individuals atvl firms,
which went to make up the enormous
sum of our International trade during
those years. It is not to bo supposed
that the Americans were cheated.
thing but cranks. On th>- vHmtrary.
they were scientists „ 1 nC^uRDecIally ... . .
sklllftfi mechanic,iZZ
ful, nor proved thaV'success f
tijccess-
ertaln
eventually, but they hare nevStheless
done much to inspire the hojli that
aerial navigating machines willlyct be
come something more than experimen
tal toys—-interesting but practically
useless. The fact that some ft the
moat successful inventor* of tHIs gen
eration have attacked the Jptoblein
shows that, in the judgment oflilie men
best qualified to judge. It ts not Inca
pable of solution. From • the] labors
and experiments of Iltram Maxim, the
famous Inventor of the Maxim gun,
moat, perhaps. Is to be expected. Nat
urally the aerial machine which ho is
trying to perfect Is Intended for the
uies of war, and tbo French Inventors,
who are devoting more attention to
the work than those of any other na
tion, hare the same purp-io in view;
but if they establish the principle we
may be sure that It will be promptly
utilized In expediting peaceful travel
and commerce.
Railroads, telegraphs and steamships
have almost revolutionised the ways of
living In fifty years, change-1 most of
the conditions of warfare and affected
greatly the letter and the spirit of tho
laws. They have done much to make
of the world one community of com
mon Interests, and. In spite of surfaco
indications to the contrary, worked In
the interests of universal peace. Wo
may well expect a successful system of
aerial navigation to baTc even pro
founder Influence In the same direc
tion. What nation will then willingly
go to war? What will be the tut of
protective or revenue tariffs, when
foreign goods will hare no need to
make a landing near a custom house7
The problem which the congress as
sembled to discuss ts no doubt a very
difficult one, but at this stage of me
chanical development tt takes a bold
man to say that Its difficulties will al
ways prove Insurmountable.
AN UNFAIR STATEMENT.
A statement haa recently licen sent
out from Washington, intended to dis
credit the movement in favor of re
pealing the tax on the kune* of state
bank*, in It a table Is given showing
the number of state, national and pri
vate hanks that haTe failed this year,
and the number which hare rtsnme-L
The effect of the statement is to con
trast the record of national banks
with that of state and private banks,
the latter two classes being treated as
ono. Thus, It Is stated that from Janu
ary 1 to September 1, 300 state and pri
vate banks failed and only 72 resumed,
white 155 nattonat banks failed an-! 70
resumed.
To this Mr. Preston, superintendent
of the banking department of the New
York «ate government, makes an ef
fective reply. “The fact Is," he is
quoted as saying, “there bar* tx-.-n fire
failures of state banks In this state
since January 1-thr canal Street
Bank and the M Kqiufi- limit
of New York City; the Cataract Bank
of Niigara Kalis; the (Jneen city Bank
of Buffalo Resumed), snd the Com
mercial Bank of Brooklyn- Therefore
selves In trade. The balance against
the country of half a billion dollars Is
not due to the want of shrewdness of
our traders, but to conditions over
which they have no control.
To account for tt fully Is not easy,
but most of the half billion no doubt
represents interest payments on for
eign money loaned or Invested In this
country, freight money paid to foreign
ships and the expenditures of Ameri
can travelers In Europe. However ac
counted for, the figures we have given
go far to show that the balance In onr
favor tn the merchandise account must
every year approach *100,000,000 it we
are to avoid drafts upon our stock of
specie made la the regular course of
trade.
EMIGBATION TO EUROPE.
The fact that emigration from the
United Ktates now largely exceeds ihe
Immigration Into the country Is attract
ing considerable attention. Even if It
be true, however, as stated, that two
persons are leaving the country for ev
eryone entering It, wc see no reason
why anybody should wonder greatly
or be apprehensive of evil consequenc
es. The fact 1* mainly interesting be
cause the country has heretofore not
hail the same experience nnd because
It illustrates In a very striking manner
the Improvements which have been
made In the means of travel during
the last few years.
Not long ago when a laborer or me
chanic came to this country from Eu
rope be knew that, in all probability,
he wonld never be able to return un
less be was unusually successful In ac
cumulating money. The Journey
across the ocean was long, slow anil
expensive. To reach the coast from
the West, where he usually settled,
also cost a considerable amount ol
money. Now the situation Is very dif
ferent. Of recent years the steamship
companies have carried back to their
old country on increasing number or
men who left the United States to e*-
cape the dullness of tho winter season
tn tbe trades to which they belonged.
They found It about as cheap to pay
the coat of several tbotuond mile* of
travel as to HTe In Idleness.
The present movement means mere
ly that, being thrown out of employ
ment, some thousands of unassimHat
ed Europeans are returning to their na
tive countries until tbe business situ
ation In this country improves. If
they most be Idle, they prefer to spend
tbe time at their old homes where
they can lire cheaper and be among
friends. Tbe cost of steerage passage
acmes the ocean (s so small that tt
does not prevent even Italian labor
ers from taking this course. After a
little while, doubtless, most of these
men will return, and In the meantime
It la well enough that thl« country Is
rid of them.
tunes will buy titles and humiliation,
Just as she did; but possibly they will
learn after awhile that the character
of the man bearing the title must also
be taken Into consideration In making
the bargain.
ATTACKING THE LORDS.
Mr. Gladstone’s speech nt Edin
burgh the other day was made after
weeks of deliberation nnd was intend
ed to be a careful exposition of tbe
Liberal party’s policy. It was a re
markable speech from a man now-
close to Ills eighty-fourth birthday,
considered simply as an Intellectual
and physical effort. It was even more
remarkable In Its showing that the
aged leader is yet progressive in ills
political Ideas and unaffected by the
conservatism that usually Imposes it-
self upon the old. The programme
which he announced for hi* party is a man
bold one, such ns would have been ex
pected from one of the younger lead
ers of the radical wing of his party.
Not the least remarkable part of his
speech was the open attack made upon
tho house of lords—a body which he
re*, here tote® treated with a show^of
Ing to become »u of Its .members.
Now be speaks of tt a* irresponsible
nnd obstructive, arrogating to Itself the
right to defeat the will of tbo people,
and making a mockery of England's
claim to being a self-governed country.
These words, coming from a man of
Mr. Gladstone’s standing, foreshadow
the abolition of the house of lords or
a complete change tn Its character. It
may be aald to exlat by sufferance, and
reprotents a political principle long
since, practically abandoned by the
English people. It Is on anachronism
which ha* been allowed to continue
because it did not force itself upou
public attenoion. Now that tt has dono
so, by defying the national will on the
home rule question, It is not Improba
ble that in tho near future the Liberal
party may make the “mending or end
ing” of the house of lords ono of the
leading Items In its programmo of re
form.
AN AMERICAN COUNTESS.
Ihn-e or four year* ago “loclety” in
I Plnladelphia and other Northern citle*
I was thrown Into a flutter of excite-
I meat by the "brilliant” marriage of
I M’« Wheeler, 1> lutlfnl and t a r-
It Is not Improbable that, It a cum-
promise is forced on the silver question.
Senator Blackburn yesterday no met
tlie terras of It. They are. In brief,
that the mints shall be open to all s:i’.
ver offered, but that It shall be re.
celvcd, not at the coinage but at the
market price—a charge for mintage
covering tho difference. The difference
Between the coinage price and the mar
ket price—the seigniorage—Is to be
used in buying gold to strengthen ihe
reserve.
We have no hesitation in saying that,
in our opinion, this would bo an im
provement jipon the Sherman law, anil
that it nearly fulfills the conditions for
free coinage Imposed by the Demo
cratic platform. It Is true that the dol
lars coined would not contain a dollar's
worth of silver, as demanded by
platform, but what they lacked of it
would be held in the treasury lu gob
At the present price of silver, for evorj
dollar coined nearly sixty centB In gob
would be added to the reserve in th
treasury.
It Is probable that under the open
tlons of the law there would be vet]
little coinage of silver. Tlie owner
of silver would have a constant, mar
ket for it—for the government wouk
In effect be a purchaser—but a mart
In which no higher price was pa|d tha|
In the other markets of the wort
There would be no profit to them i
the free coinage provided for, and
they would be obliged to take tit
pay in silver dollars. It Is probab
that they would prefer to sell In othi
markets for other forms ot money. K
this reason, It is l.kcly that there won]
be coinage exactly to the extent th
there was need for silver dollars
business and no more. If. howeti
for any reason, silver should be bn
to the mints in large quantities, i
use of the seigniorage in buying g
would not only provide a reliable
serve but would create a drain on
gold stocks of Europe that wot
eventually prove very embarrassing
the nations on that side of tbe wa|
It would be better to repeal the SI
_ law unconditionally, and we
believe that will be done; but to
Blackburn belongs the credit of ha-
devised the best alternative yet
ferod. /«
RESPONSIBILITY FOR DELAY.
A Washington correspondent says
that he has just had n conversation
with an anti-repeal senator who re
cently returned from a visit to his
state, where he met nnd talked with
hundred of his constituents on the sil
ver question. Of these hundreds, the
senator said, only one disapproved his
course In fighting the repeal bill, but
aU of them said: “Do something, one
way or the other, to nave the Demo
cratic party from disintegration.”
Here is proof of the correctness of
what the Telegraph said yesterday-^
that tbe manifest dissatisfaction in tho
Democratic party Is due primarily to
the failure of the Democrats In con
gress to do anything and not to the
course of the administration on the sil
ver question. The anti-repeal senators
are responsible for It. The demand of
tho country Is that something be done,
and they obstinately refuse to ulluw
anything to be done, though they are
in a minority and the house passed the
repeal bill by a two-thirds majority.
The senator’s constituent*, who in spite
of their opposition fo unconditional
repeal, yet urged that "something, one
way or the other,” be done showed a
cleverer comprehension of the facts of
the situation than he has himself yet
manifested.
We cannot help but believe that this
senator and other* must Anally awake
to the unreasonableness of their course.
They are demanding a compromise
n;hen a large majority want none.
They advocate a policy deliberately re
jected by the eountTy and by congress,
ami they block all legislation and
threaten the destruction of the Demo
cratic party in an attempt to rompei
the adoption of that rejected policy or
of some modification of It. In doing I ^
this they are fats- to the Democratic nt
principle that the majority hum
and carries* of tbe welfare of
party, which la discredited, and <
Otis to be disgraced, by their act
The ninth week of the extra
Is near its do*-. Nearly all ot
time has been devoted to the dl-<-i
of tbe silver question. Long tip
miml of every senator wj, mad-
’■> h » I. iilld '■ ' on t.i-- l
A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.
There ore 350 members of the H
— —but tho tllspat|
reported yesterday that tk.
a certain question was 14 to HI
solutoly no interest Is m£lfestrl]
tho members themselves or bj T
country In tbo proceedings ot |
bouse, though tho bill being dLv
la one which ten yean ago woulllj
roused party and sectional ptu
Its whitest heat. The Republican:
her* oppose tho repeal of the I
port election law* nnd the Krpol
press does its best to fan the tlm|
sectional hate because the Dei
arc trying to repesl them, bnt ttil
position of the members is languid I
the effort! of the press frtmleu |
yesterday's debate, the apeaken t
not And enough In tbe repeal bill t
tcrest them, and used tt as a <
the discussion of other questional
All this means that tbe bloody f
is ot last worn out. Nobody can)
frightened with it and nobody ran
longer follow It as a party eniign- I
Ibis tlie country ha* reason to 1 |
foundly gratcfuL It haa been 1
tho cover of sectional prejudice I
the worst legislation during tlu I
thirty .year* was enacted. No P-
question, because of It, could be I
gued or decided on its merits 1-H
it poeslble for a false and sickly «|
mentality to take the place offer
patriotism.
THE VAN ALEN APPOINTNK
Mr. Horace White, editor of tbe^
York Evening Post, started tbe i
inont in opposition to Mr. *^j
ambassador to Italy, and Is still « •
ly opposed to hi* appointin' 01 -
hts opposition ts based solely 1,5
fact that Mr. Van Alon was a
contributor to tbe Democratic
pslgn fund. ITo such contribute]
thinks, should be given an opp’-l
office. But Mr. White does net C
pathlxc with the attact made
Mr. Van Alen’e character. 1°JH
article, presumably written by h*
Evening Post «ay* *b e
gran »»d disgraceful; that ** ]
Alen is a gentleman posse** 1 *'
ocoomplhkants and fitura* ' J
place than any man who bn
for many years. This tesfl® 1 ^
an opponent that the ap
not an unfit one, except Wl _
reasons, ought to go ttr tow* 1
InT’t.'le a" I'-ks
The stoey that tbe °P
mule in fulfillment of a barf**
by Mr. Whitney -that th'
Irtnatly liooght nnd soid-h ^
l the dental now made by * •
v.. It woe believed ooly
un to geeept any .**.^51
tactful to Mr. (V" 1
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Camden. Ark , Oct. •.' )
this city today that Li^
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