Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 13, 1874, Page 4

= - —THIT CHICAGU DAICY TIRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 1 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. B TRAME O:llvfllsfll‘llzl"l'lnlx (PAYADLE IN ADYANOP), Iy, by mail,..., 8 Bunday, B Weekliners B GO0 ] Wanday Tartsot ayoarat the samo rate, To prevont 0 coudiress in fall, including Siate d County. Rtemlttances may bo made olther by draft, oxpress, Post ©Oficootdor, ur in roglatored lottars, at our risk, TERMA TO OITY SUDRORINERA, Dafly, Daily, aily, delivored, Bunday fncluded, D0 centa per wook. Address . THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madtson and Uearhorn-ats., Uhloago, Il TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. AOAD) nlated atreot, batween Mad. I B e Callong: **The Gladiator.” HOOLKY'S ATRI—Randoloh street, botwoon Gl A oot Be Rogors, ** An Unsqual Match." g 'S TIHEATRIE—Madison atreot, hetween DAthoch ar St - gsgomant of M1 Sao Goomon *lomeo and Julloi.* 3 -HOUST:--Mouros streot, botwoon DA aton, Givtous ap’ Kombiai Minstrols, Minatrolsy and eomioalltios, **Tho order Lily.' [ES—Dosplainesstroat, batwoon Mad. Troupe, Varietly performance, 2 IRATRE-Comer of Wabash a w0 o stnbat. gsormont of Havariy's i 5 O-HALL-North a0 oF Rlimie. Mes: Tiehioce fariwes Iark streot, cor- N AR SOCIETY MEETINGS. OITAPTER, No. 2, T, A, 3 —TTall 73 T, o iidnnar o tmportatco, Membors Ato Rersbynotified Toationd. Y RO R, Saorotary. Uhe Chitags Teibune, April 13, 1874 Monday Morning, Roohofort is looso, Ho has salled from Aus- tralla, Whothor Lo lutonds to locture us or burn " Parls, it is all one; his gain will bo our etornal -loss. The Chinsman who i enid to haye broken crockery and furniture at stated intervals in his household dutics, for the renson that he had scon lis bottors do o, hus a companion in his romontio solitude. Hawaii's now rulor has read tho arguments of tho inflationiste in the United Btatos, and, what is more surprising, ho has boen convincod by them. It is down on the billsthat tho Bandwich Islanders will make = large issuo of papor money, probably about the time our own printing-pressos aro set in motion, Throo of the temperanco sormons proached in this city yesterday will be found reported in our columns to-day, Among tho sermons on miscel- laneous topics are ono by the Rov, William Alvin Bartlett, of tho Plymouth Congregational Church, ontitled, *“Tho Harvest and the Laborers;” by tho Tev. M. J. Savage, on * Woman's Work ;" by the Rov. L. T. Chamberlain, of, the Now England Congrogational Church, on ** Meekness in Rolig- ion;” and by tho Rev. J. R. Hibbard, Bwoden- borgian, from the text, **Let tho Dead Bury Their Dead.” Mr. Florenco McCarthy is not the kind of man who wouldn’t bo a minister. Any doubts on this point which romained after his leoturo in Kingsbury Hall must now be dismigsed, Ho submitted to a congregation in Grow's Hall yes- terdny tho constitution of his new church, in which it is seriously proposed that the pastoral relation, whon once formed, shinll not-be dis- solved except by mutual agreement. Men and women who will agreo to eottle Mr. McCarthy for life desorvo no botter spiritual nourishment than that which he is competent and willing to give thom, Tho currency quostion comea up again in the National House of Ropresentatives to-morrow, »nd prosont indications are that a vote will be reached before adjournment. Tho previous question has already beon moved on the House bill and ponding amendments, ipcluding s mo- tion by Mr. Butler to substituto¥s Seuato bill Thero is no reason for belioving that tho Houuo has lately made any progress toward sound prin- ciples of finance; ordinary business sagacity and ability to discriminato botweon fictitious and real prosperity scom to be as far removed from it a8 at tho opening of the session, The best wo ean hope from the House is that it will not irrop- arably injuro the business intorcats of _the coun- iry. Tho Nafion thinks that Prosident Grant is tommitted in advanco to signing tho Senat in- flation bill, since his Administration has all along nagerted ita right to issue ** the £44,000,000 ro- servo,” and has acted upon that ides to the ox- tent of 1esuing $26,000,000 of it in advance of any law on tho subject. To veto o bill author- izing the Exccutive to'do a thing which the Ex- peutivoe bas already dono, the Nation thinks, would bo rathor & troublosomo fent, Wo think’ the Nation's inforence is exactly right; and wo prosumo that it was upon the same process of reasoning that Butler baged his statement last Friday, that the President would sign the bill it passed. Tno recent townmeotings wero disnstrous to tho holders of railroad-aid bonds. In Winne- bago County thero is one town, Rockton, whioh owos xailrond-aid dobt. At a recent meeting of the Bupervisors thero was a committee appolnt- ©d to consult with tha State’s Attorney to take steps to enjoin the collection in Winncbago County of auy tax under the tax-grab law of 1869. The extrs tax on Winnebago County for this purposo is $13,000, Application was made to the courts, and the injunction was granted. In Clinton, DoWitt Connty, tho town meeting tnstructed the Bupervisors to continue their procoedings in the McLoan Cireuit Court ogningt tho Gilman, Clinton & Springfleld Tailrond Company, aud, if necossary, to employ additional counspl to aid Mr. Crawford, the presont attorney, for the municipal stockhold- ers, They also instructed the Supervisor to toat by muit or otherwise the frauds connected with the Huvana, Mason City, Lincoln & Enat- ern Railway, sinoco consolidated with tho Iu- dianapolis, Bloomington & Wostorn Railway. Like resolutions were adopted in the Town of Tunbridge, in the samo county. In Claytou, Woodford County, a committce of soven oiti- zons were appointed to act with the Buporvisor in defonding the township in & suit for manda- mus now pending in the Bupreme Court, in which tho 0, P. & 8. W R. R. Company are complainanta and Olayton Township ia dofend- ant. The Ohlcago produce markets were gonerally firm on Haturday, oxcopt provisions, with less busmness doing. Mess pork was quiet and olosed 16¢ por brd lower, at $15.90@16.80@16.85 cash, and $16.872¢@16.90 seller May, Lard was quiot and closed 2¥@Bo por 100 1bs lowor, at §9.65 cash, and $0.673¢@90.00 aoller May, Monts were fao moderate demand and stesdy, st 5J{@53{o Lox shoulders, §0.2060.83 foy abiast xiby, 8je for lay and mistakes, bo sure and give Post doliverod, Bunday oxcentea, 2 conts por wook, athering Burlesquo of slort cloar, and 10@10340 for swoot-ploklod hame, Highwines woro moro activo and stoady, at 030 por gallon. Flour was quiot and a shnde firmor. Whoat was lesa nctive and i¢o higlor, olosing at $1.22 cash, and §1,26 sollor May. Corn was quiet and 3{o highor, closing at 620 cash, and 65@853¢0 sollor May. Oats woro quiot and 2{o higuier, nt 430 cash, and 463{c sollor May. Ryo was quiot and unohanged, at 92@02go for atrictly frosh rocotpts. Barloy was in good do- nand and frmer, at $1.03@L70 for No. 2. logs wora nctivoand firn. Baloa of common to choico at $6.00@6.00. Tho cattle and sheop markets woro quiot’and nominally unchanged. ——— Dr. Dio Lowis mado moro of a sonsation in Doaton yestorday thau ho has succeoded in pro- ducing by anyof his tomporanco spoeches in othor placos, Mo had boon listening to & sormon in Musio Hall, The preachoer, {nnocently enougly, animadvorted upon Dr. Lowis and his mothod of working for tomporance roform. Upon the conclusion of his romarks tho Doctor roso in his eeat and attompted s ro- ply. The andlonce favored tho proposi- tion, but the Committeo-man insisted that tho hall-rent should firat bo provided for, This offoctually coolod Mr. Lowis’ ardor; the organ interrupted and drowned out the commotion in which the audienco had been thrown, aud ina short tima the preacher, the tomporance reform- ‘mer, and tholr respectivo frionds were played out into the streeta. THE DECLINE OF STATESMANSHIP, Oune of tho most discouraging plionomena of our political life is the contempt—ivo do not fool justified to usa amilder expression—in which statosmanship ia hold by too many of our Sona- tors and Roprosentatives in Congross, Amori- can statesmanship will soon bo, we vory muoh foar, oue of the lost arts. Political empiriclem and charlataniem aro fast uswrping its place. Tho sclence of politics is not loft uncultivated in Amerion; but the mon who fostor it and possoas it are raroly sent to Cougross, raxoly care to go thero; and when by some strango freak of fortune thoy find thomsolves in the Senate or tho Houso, thoy feel liko fish out of wator, and are sure to disqual- ify themeolvos for re-clection. Wuero now aro our JefTorsons, Frankling, Webstors, Sumuers ? Thoy are, indecd, fow. Dy a sttange law of evo- lution, our statesmon have blossomed into Tlanagans and Logans. In the etruggle for ex- istonco, the Jofforsous and Clays havo gone to the wall; and we have one moro inatance of the ‘“survival of tho fittest” in the inspired finan- ciers in the Senato and tho Houso. ** Old Tatum " istho highest typo of tho clasa to which the ‘Forrys, Flanagans, and Logsne belong. Wo wondor * Old Tatum * nover made his way into Congress. What a financior ho would have boon ! “'0ld Tatum” was & practical man, and had only a smilo of contempt for the theoriats, doctrinaries, aud visonaries who believed what they read in books, and who said that the sun did not move, but that tho earth rovolved aboutit. * Old Ta- tum " was an inspired astronomor. Forry, Flana- gan and Logan are inspired flnanciers. What caro they for tho sayings of tho Galiloos and Newtons of financo? Galileo and Nowton wrote books, for which erime thoyare to Lo provented from testifying on astronomy. Schurz and Bherman havo studied booke. Dewaro of the men who read! Hearken not to thom. Listen onlyto the practical mon, totho men who despiso thoories, to the men who have no theory, not even n theory against thoories. They alone desorve a learing, for they came into the world already versed in tho science of governmont, in the intricacios of finanao, and the mystorios of trado, With® their mothors' mitk they sucked in all sclence, political, social, economic. Henco thoy know intuitively how to govern a great nation. They Lunow all sbout tho limits of govornment; what it should undertako, and what it should not ; tho proximate and romoto oltoct of overy logielative measure on trade, national credit, and uational wealth [—know it cortainly, infullibly—by experi- ence ; by their own oxperienco! Out on the groat oceans of legislation and fiunnco they venture without a map, without o compass, 88 if no one had traveled it bofore. They learned the art of nevigation in n mud- puddle or & duck-pond ; learned it by their own experionce ; and what is the acoan but a pond of higher degree? Tinancinl maps, compasses, logarithms, principles,—what cara they for such bosh? The national finances, the intricacies of the currency question, are only questions about a numbor of 10-cont picces, and what is to be done with them ; and do they not know allabout 8 10-cent pleca ? , : There was & timo whon men in Con- gress inquired the effcct of tho moas- ures advoested by them on morals, com- merco, and nationel waalth, Thore are some, wo are happy to say, who ask these questions atill, and a fow, at lenst—a diminishing number— who aro compotont to answer them. But they aro old fogios. Tho moro pertinont question now ig : What will bo the effect on the next elec- tion,—on tho party ? Tho country first and party afterwards wos the motto of our statesmen till #¢0ld Tatum™ began hisroign. Now, party, solf, frionds firet, the country last. And the men who thus subordinato the country to their own fn- terest aro the men who seem disposod to make it an indietablo offonko for o Congrossman to road, If we could imegino n really great people decay- ing, we think their downfall would begin to show ituolf in the sneers of their legislators at culture, education, theory, training, REPEAL THE LAND-TAX, It tho most dovoted admirer of our prosent systom of Btato taxation and champion of our revonuo law could have witnessed tho oleotions in this city for revonue officers on Tuckday last, wo think his faith would have boon shaken, Chi- cago is assessod as having oue-fourth of tho to- tal taxable proporty of tho State, and it would biave been an instructive sight to Lave obaorved the manner in which the Assesyors of this prop- orty wero chosen, tho people by whom they wore choson, and the material from which thoy woro selected. 'We do not supposo that either one of thom has tho remotest iden of an Assossor's du- ty, or the slightcst knowledge of the values of tho property he {s to asscss, and report to the Stute. Thero lns not beon an assessment for Btato taxes mado in this clty for many yoars that hoshad tho elightost resomblance to an actual, in- tolligont, or bona fide assessment. No attempt hay boon mado to produce one. Why should there be? What interest hau the Assessor in the business? Ho keops & snloon, or a pawnshop, or something else perhaps not as creditable, and ho ia not going to waste his timo traveling over the town hunting up proporty and aflixing valnos to it Give him the legal do- seription of 100 lots in the town, aud the chauces ore a thousand to ouo that ho caunot toll within & milo tho location of any lot in tho to tholr fitnoss, A “town mooting" s got up, nt which 30,000 i voted to Lo ralsed by taxes. ‘Tho duty of tho Asaessor, Town Clork, Collector, and Bupervisor ‘ju to have this sum of monoy divided among the “Dboys" This {s sll the duty tlieso ofticera over porform, and that is all they oxpect to be asked to do, Tho pros- oot of rocolving £5,000, $8,000, or $10,000 for o labor s o tompting that it Is not surprising thit tho candidatos aro logiou, It ia romarkablo, aluo, that rarely over is & compotent man & can- didato, and in thoe fow instances whero suchn mnu {8 & candidato hio is nevor elocted. When tho town oflicors wore elooted in the fall at tho county oloction, thore was somotimes a botlor solection mado, but this year the seleotions find tholr ultimate criticiam when truthfully de- scribiod to be as bad as those of Jaat yoar, This is the macliinory of the rovenue law, and tho publio can form an Iden of its operation, In addition to tho spolintion of the Town ‘Tronsury, the Assossor, with tho old tnx-lists which como down from gonoration to gonoration, may, if so disposad, visit tho wholesalo grocors, dry-goods, boots and shoes, aud furniture dealers, aud sup- ply his housohold for 8 yoar or two, making thinga right on the asgossmont list, or ho may compound for cash, and among tha owners of 300,000,000 of property may find a fow bundrods or thousanda to put away on doposit for a rainy day, hio fixing things nccordingly on tho assoss- meut list. That this business has not beon dono mora extousively in this city is owing to tho blenk ignorance and stupidity of tho porsons olected a8 Assossors, And this is tho ma- chinory provided by Inw to oxcouts that provision of the Constitution which doclares that tho the nceded Stato rovenuo sball bo ralsed by “lovying & tax by valuation, o that ovory porson and corporation shall pay 8 tax in proportion to the value of his, her, or its proporty.” It is not strango that under such a system tho whole valuation is marked by fraud, corruption, inequality, and injustico; nor is it surprising that tho whole burden of taxation is put upon the land and its visible appurtenancos. An immense proportion of tho porsoual proporty in tho Stato is naturatly in the large cities, and of this porsonal property in tho citics none is ovor listed by tho Assossors save what tho owners voluntarily roport. This same rosult prevails whorevor tho valuation systom exists, Porsonal proporty escapos, and tho land and its products pay double taxation. Thoro is but one remedy for this monstrous abuse, and that is to ropeal tholaud tax altogethior. Thoreis no necessity forit. Tho Efarme and the live stook and town lots practically pay all tho taxes that aro collocted. All othor industrios and occupations cscape. This valuation systom includes an ad- ditional tax of 20 per cont to colloct tho rovonue, aud this 20 per cent of tho poople's substanco is taken to compensate an army of town officers of the kind wo have doscribed. Look at tho machinery of the valuation system, In {llinois thero are 102 countics, somo of thom under township organization and some not, In theeo countios thore aro elected annually 850 Buporvisors, 850 Asseasors, -850 Colloctors, 850 Town Clorks. Besido thosoe, in counties not un- dor township organization, there are 400 to 500 other officers, making mnearly 4,000 stalwart noldiers quartered on tho public to lovy, asaoss, colloct, aud oxpend tho public money. A tevory stage of tho businoss, {rom the first lovy until the money is paid out of tho Btate Treasury, thero I8 an oflicer to take toll out of the public tax. No wonder it is truo, 08 wo published somo days ago, that there are thousands of farmors preparing to loave tho Btato, bocauso overy cont thoy earn is consumod in taxes. Tho land and what is on it aro visible to thoe tax offlcers ; it aau bo scizod and sold for tazes, and consequently tho whole effect of our revonue law is to plunder. the land and make it pay the whole legitimato cost of the Govern- ment, and maintain an army of oflicoholders. Wo have herotofore shown in what mannor the needed revenuo can easily and economically be raisod. Ropoal the land tax | —— AN EBA OF BRUTALITY, Ii should bo o matter of serious quostion to the social philosophor, and thoso professing broad and progressive Lumanitarian viows, whethor, with all our churches and schools, our Chrigtian Associntions and Bunday afternoon lect tures, our improved appliances of oducation and means for advancing civilization, there is not a counter-current in socioty drifting back into barbarism, and marked by a love of tho cruelty snd sufforing which inspired the gladiatorial showe of Rome, in the days of Caligula, Nero, and Domitian, During tho past woek, four uotsble instancos have occurred which go to strongthon this view, aud thoy havo been allowed to acour without any protest from the suthori- ties, whoeo duty 1t is to enforea the laws which wora openly and boldiy violated, or from publio opinion excopt as it is reprosentod in tho daily press, On Thursdey last, ab Liverpool, Ind., tho Darwinian specimens stood up and pummoled ,oach other soveral hows for 8 paltry sum of $80, aud, on the samo doy at Iobart, a crowd of brutes gathered about a pit in the uppor part of a tav- orn to see chickens kill each other, and witnoss ropented scencs of cruelty of the most barbarous description. On tho following day, tho shocking scene was repeated, but not brought to tho in- tonded conclusion, becauso some bard-hearted brute bad been poisoning somo of the chickens that thoy might be the moro casily hacked to pieces with the cruol gafts of their oppononts. On Baturday, tho “sporta” of tho wook wero brought to aclose by a dog-fight at Tolleston, which was marked by somo of the most cruel, and at the smmo timo pathetic, fortures ever witnessed in ono of thoso infamous oxhibitions, These two dogs fought with desporation until ong of thom was almoet eaten up by tho other, With two of his Iogs completoly bitton through, with his ears langing o shreds, his meck and broset pouring torronts of blood, and unable to stand upon his foet or move, the noble beust wagged his tail in rocognition of his master. Tho other oqually mnoblo benst, toucked to vity and compassion for bis prostrato enemy, and moved to a sympathy for his sufforiug which tho hard-hesrtod Lu- mans around could not fool, licked his wounds and showed Lis fooling In evory way but spoak- ing. The prostrato dog was rubbod down nnd revived, and once more his inhuman ownor triod toronew the battle, His dog rushed at the other with all tho strougth he had, but foll at Lis foot, unable to do more, Tho victorious snlmal again rofused to mangle his foo, and agaln sympathized with bim In the ouly maunor hocould express his tenderncss, If tho Dar- winian theory ‘neods moro proof, .it was certainly afforded at thu . oruol speota- cle, Tho brutes in tho pit tnanifestod that courage, gonornsity, magnanimity, and sympothy which aro supposed to bo charactore istio of mon, while tho men who were thoro en- Uah, Thowe mon are not salosted with aoy view l cousaglog thom to ght bad all ths low brutal inatinots which are supposod to bo chinractorlatlo of dogs, but should not bo ohargad to them any longer. Tho two doga I the pit, liko tho chick- ons in tho pit tho day bofore, wero the noblest animnls thore, and it 1s impossiblo for any por- son who lins a mpark of humanity In his bronst, to rond tho acoount of tho nontostof theso two dogs without having his admiration of tho noblo animals inoronsed, na woll as his dotestation of thoir owners and tho spoctntots who could look unmoved upon such n spectaclo. All of theso contosts originated In Chiongo, and wora attonded by brutes from Obicago, aud, although thoy took placo out of the jurisdiotion of Chicago, is it not timo that the suthoritios botirred themselves to stop thom in tho futuro ? It tho authorities of Lake County, Indiann, do their duty, they will obtain roquisitions from the Goveruor of Tllinols for tho approhonsion of those mon, and punish them to tho oxtent of tho Iawe. Thoy are all woll known, and havo long boon notod for cruclty of this kind. Our own suthoritios uve a duty also to porform. They aro alwaya awaro of the time and placo of theso fights, aud can ensily notify the authorities of the looality whoro thoy aro to take placo in time to provent thom, and lond their sesistanco to arrest tho blnolkguards who engage in them, Our ministors and leoturors con do much in organizing public opinion againet theso barbarous practicos. No minister could wish & more suggostive or moro cloquont thomo for Lis noxt Sunday's sormon tuan the do- talls of this fight. If tho polico, tho law nu- thoritios, the Humano Bocloty, and tho clergy would aot in concort, much might bo done to- wards breaking up theso infamous practicos. Will not some onoe spenk & kind word or soud & bLolping band to theso noble animals, and save thom from thoir mastors, who aro tho rosl brutoes ? —— CONUNDRUMS FOR CONGRESS, A Sinco tho notes of tho National Bank of France, put forth in 1718 undor the suporin~ tendenco of John Law and tho Regont Orleans, gradunlly became uttorly worthiess, and so brought Frauca to baukruptey and propared tho way for the rovolution of 1789, alihough the law riot only mado thom legal tonder but madoita capital crimo to rofuse to take them, why should not our logal tonders, which aro not 8o strongly sanctioned by law, likewiso doprecinte as suc- censivo Issuos of them are made, until thoy, too, aro worth nothing, and until thoy, too, bring bankraptey and porliapa revolution ? Binco tho papor roubles of Rassia, firat issucd in 1770, foll to about 80 por cent of their faco aud then fluctuated in valuo 8o constantly aud greatly that business bocame almost an impossi- bility, aud since thoy did this despito tho most stringont ulnses commanding morchants to take them at o flixed value, and despito PaulL’a threat of hanging on the St. Potors- burg Exchango overy one who disoboyed those cdicts, why may not our paper dollars equally dorango business by thoir fluctuntion ? Binco the Fronch aesignats, which were based on the national faith and land, produced rosults which Carlylo describes in tho passago: * As- wignats, aeaignats, long sinking, emittod in such quantities, sink now with an alacrity boyond porallel. ‘Combien?' said, ono to a Lacknoy- conchman, *what faro? ¢Six thonsand livres,’ answered he, some 300 pounds sterling in paper monoy. On the 1st of February, 1796, at the Bourso of Parls, the gold louis of twenty franca in silvor costod 5,30 fraucs in assignats,” and which suothor suthority sketches by saying: “The ossignats graduelly dwindled down to nothing, involving the wholo land in ruin,—ox- copting o fow lucky spoculators,—and rosulted: evontually in national bankruptoy,” why moy not American assignats do liltowise? Sinco the Continental curroncy, although sonled with blood to an extent that should muke Oglesby ns groan (with envy) as Ius favorite shinplastera are, was finally sold by the ponnd for old papor, why should not its ninetesnth- contury imitation go §ho samo road ? Binco England passed through o time of mone-~ tary troublo betweon 1816 and 1824 suchas we aro grappling with now, and got out of it by gradual redomption in gold, why should we hes- itato to tako the medicine that cured hor? Why, ot any rato, should wo take a tromendous doso of its opposite ? Bince tho irredeemable paper-currency of the Republic of Toxas, founded upon faith, and land, and water, and evorything clse, made Toxas bankrupt, why ehould our irredeomablo papor- currency fail to make us bankrupt ? Binco an irredeemable currenoy, by promoting reckloss speculation and inflating values, brought on the crises of '37, and '67, and 78, why should not a like cause produce a like effect ? Sinco Austria has plunged hersolf into banke ruptey by issuing quentitics of shinplastors, despite repeated pledges that no more should bo put in circulation, why should not Congross aftor Cougress violate pledgos as readlly as this ono hns dons, and so plunge Amorics into bank- ruptey by printing frosh millions of groenbaoks from year to yoar ? . Sinco, in short, all history shows that irro- deomablo currency is but o synonym for gam- bling, falso values, recklessnoss, panie, disaster, what i to hinder history’s repeating itself in our caso ? VEMERT IN FRANCE, Alcoholism and cromation aro fast becoming cosmopolitan quostions, Poople are waking up to tho convietion that it f8 woll to be burned; thot it is & sanitary nocessity thoy .should be burned; bub then they favor postponing tho procoss until the mortal coil has been shuflod off, Oremation internslly during lifo, practiced agitis every dey in the liquor saloons of Chi- cago, New Yorlk, London, and other places, is by computent authorities declared to be as unwhole~ somo as posl-morlem cromation in & Biomens furnace i8 ealutary. Wo showed in our columns tho other day how doctors disngreed on the question whother al- cohol was nutritive or not; that some assorted it was and some that it was not, Not beinga Pope, we cannot decide infallibly on which side the truth les, Tho old school of chemints maintained that it was & food. When first dicoverod, alcohol was congidered not only a food but the food par excellence, It was tho ““wator of life,” Now Itis moro oppropriatoly considered the water of death, That it {su food, was meintained by Liebig, In 1860 a trio of Fronoh chomists publlshed & work attnoking Lio- big's viow, and maintaining that it was not a food, They found that it entered into the blood aud tssnos, but thut no oxidation took placo, that it did not raigo the temporaturo of tho body, and that tho amount of carbonio acid expired did not luorenso; that It loft the organlsm unoxidized, snd therefore was no good at all, It thoro bo any doubt whether it s » food, thoro Jia none as to its belng & poisou, Renco tho agitation ngalnst it,—an agitation which is spreading mot only In wnorthern oountries but in wine-growiog counttiss Lke France, 1874 - It* I8 & fact not gonomlly known, porbaps, that tho Trench Commune and aleokiol woro o o groat oxtent effoot and causo, —ntlonst tho grontost horrors of tha former woro in n dogroo duo to tho uso of tho Inttor, Honco the crusado against aleohol now going on inthat country, Tho Fronoh mothod of pro- cedura ia o little more rational than ours. Tho Fronoh Acadomy of Medicino hns taken tho in- itintivo fn tho war on alcohol. Thoy havo caused to bo writton and printed pamphlots showing tho migohlofs cnusod by the uso of tho poluon. Thoy Liave clroulated thoso pamphlots among the intolligont portion of the community, smong tonchers, manufacturers, elo.; and thoeso aro called upon to use thotr influenco to stay the ravagos of alcoliol. Thoro {8 a mothod of teach- Ing not yot resorted to, which wo thinl would do much good, viz: to administer alcohol to some of the lower animals, and show young poo- plo its polsonous and murderous effccts on them, The offect of nlcohol on dogs is just tho eamo as on men. They go through tho mamo stages of hilarity and doprossion og men to whom it has boen administored, It lias tho snmo offect on their tissucs. Tho war in Frauco la carrlod on againat uloohol only, not againat boor or wino. Thouso of boor and wino, howaver, oxcopt at monls, is discourngod. Itis grautod that laborors nood something to stimu- Into thom oocasionally during thoir labor; and tomporance associations bave boen formod, the mombors of which pledge themselves to tako nothing but tea or coffoe oxcopt at meals. ‘Tho ovils thnt spring from the uso of aloohol cannot bo ovor-ostimated. + It would bo woll to adcortaln, if it woro possiblo, tho number of ac- cidonts which 1t produces. It is woll known that it producas indigostion and dyspopsia. Tn- ebriato nuraos have been known to poison chil- dren. In 1870, there oceurred in Franco 687 nc- cidental deathe and 664 suicidos from tho uso of alcohol. In 1950, 12 por cont of the casos of inennity in France woro traccablo to tho use of alcohol, and, in 1870, 29 por cont. Wo think that tho fronch orusnde against sleo- Lolis pushed on the right principle. It is not an indiscriminate orusade, but simply & move- mont againet spirituous liquor which hias all the disndvantagos of other boverages with none of their advantages. And thon tho Fronch grant that gomo stimulantis nocessary and will bo taken. Tuolr offorts aro to supply a wholesome ono, and thus displaco such as aro polsonous, morally, intollectually, and physically. —e THE TAX-GEAB LAW AND WHAT WILL COME OF IT, Tho most deplorablo act of logialation in this State for tho Iaat thirty years was tho act of April, 1869, known as the tax-grab law. It was a crucl iuvontion. It was far mora to bo do- plored than the Internal Improvemont nots of forty years ago, Under thoso acts, tho original debts oreated did not exceed $10,000,000, and for this tho whole State was justly bound. Under the act of 1869, about one-third of the poople of the Stato have contracted n dobt of 16,000,000, tho averago intorest on which is over 9 por cont. How it was intended to pay this dobt is now be- coming painfully notorious. It was woll known that theso municipal bonds, if issued upon tha naked Tesponsibility of the towns, could never bo sold. A million or more of thom issued in 1867 and 1868 could find no purchasors, oxcopt to & limited extont smong tho credulous citizons of the municipnlities issuing them. Something more was nocossary, The rosult was the act of 1869, which is fraudulont in letter and spirit from the first lino to tho lnst. The first fraud was upon tho peoplo of the various towns and counties, by seemingly giving thom an oxomption from Btato taxation for ton yoars to an amount equaling the wholo of the debt votod. Under thisspocious provision, those people were taught to believe that whatever amount of bonds thoy should voto would be paid by tho other towns and counties of tho Stato, in the shapo of an increased rate of taxation for Stato purposes. Tho second fraud was upon the poople who wero to purchaso the bonds. We do not mean the railroad contractors, nor the Credit Mobilier companies, bocause theso were all parties to the fraud, but we moan ihe mon and women, trus- toes, adminlstrators, and guardizne, all over the country, who were to be seduced into investing their monoy in them, The law was 8o framed and worded that those peoplo were led to believo that the State of Iliinois had undortaken to bo responsible for the interost on theso bonds, and to provide a fund for paying tho principal, and that o State tax was to bo levied and colleotod **at the samo timo und in the samo mauner a8 tho tox to pay tho interest on the Stato debt.”. Sovoral other taking Lut mosn- Ingloes sontences wore placed in the bill, so that pious brokers and religions newspapers might wrgo their purchase by persons of small moans, This notorious and infamous fraud attracted littlo attontion in this Btate, because fow of the bonds wero hold here, and bacause the swindling provisions of the law did not take practical of- foct at once, In 1870, 1871; and 1872, the Audi- tor levied a spocial tax on the proporty of tho municipalition owing tho debt to the amount of tho intorest. Tho Stato sescssment in those yoars wad but littlo in excess of tho assessmont of 18G8. In 1872, ono or two municipalities re- slstod tho tax becauso of fraud in the issuo of the bonds. Other countics failed to pay their wterost, so in 1878 there wns & grand raid of the bondholders, the Btato offi- cors co-oporating, and the Stato assossment was raised from §480,000,000 in 1808, to $1,843,- 000,000 for 1878, This change threw an immenso incrosso in tho valuation Into .tho towns and rountics owing these dobts, the tax on which was oqual in round figures to one million of dollars, As the tax for torest was also levied, tho railrond-aid tax in1873 will excoed, if col- locted, two millions of doliars. As this robbery of one million of dollars of the Btato rovenue necessitated an incrense of the taxon other counties and towns to an oqual swount, the agt for tho first *time booame ag- gressive, and waa promptly resisted. The col- loction of this tax has beon onjoiued in perhaps 100 instances, In tho meantime, the Bupremo Court has sponged out of oxistence various isgnes of fraudulent bonds, ‘amounting to a miltion of dollars, Boveral countics and somo ity townships Liave enjoined the collootion of any furthor tax for oither interest or principal of tho raftrond-aid debts. At the late oleotions for Bupervisors, tha lssuo in mauy counties was rosist- auce to any more taxea to pay debts of this kind. In exohango for theso fiftcon nullions of dollars of bonds the sovoral municipalities ought to havo & corresponding smount of capital stook of the railroads; but this stook hus, as a gonorz} thing, beon blotted out by railroad Directors, who hava mortgaged the proporty to threo times its value, aud havo voted uway capital atook to construotion companies for more than tho amount held by the towns, As the recent elootions, tho Bupervisors ware spoolally tnstructed in muers ous townships to resort to tho courta to oxposo tho fraudulont managomont of tho railways, and to protect tho rights of the municipal stockhold- ors, Tho prosent yoar will bo important with respoct to this whole tranunction, Tho Bupromo Court will in'a fow wooka rondor it doctsion on the valldity of tho act of 1809, so far as relates to tho diversion of theBtato ravonuo for looal prrpose os, and an Incronso of tax to aupply the doflcienay, Bo that deotslon, howovor, what it mny, wa think wo may gnfely assumo that the prineipal and in- toroat of tho groat bulk of theso bLonds will not bopsid aftor this yoar, oxcopt aftor n long soagon of Iitigatlon. Wodo not approve this policy, though wo have no doubt o majority of tho bouds are fraudulont, Wo sre, howover, not disoussing that polnt now, Wo are statlog disagroenblo facts, forced upon us’ by tho tondency of current events, and wo wish to lay tho Tespon- sibility for all the porsonal and munieipal dis- lhonor, for all tho frauds and ragenlities, npon mnjority of the Inst Leglelaturo, to tholr shamo aund dishonor, refused to ropenl. Tho credit and financial charactor of tho poople of this Stato will suffor disastrously from thio non-paymont of theso bonds, and all this will be duo to' tho not of 1869, > Tho Grangors of Minnosots hnve got into troublo with regard to Catholis Patrons. Somo of tho Cathollc clorgy, having dissunded thoir flocks from joining the Graugers, becauso they wore a mecrob organization, the Folkeblad and Farmers’ Union, of Minncsots, pub- lished & statomont that & Catholic member of the Legislature who wished tobocomo & Grangor consultod Fathor Iroland, who reforred him to Bishop Grace, who referred him to tho Popo, who replied that ho might join the Ordor if its principles wore not in confliet with thoe principlos snd practicos of tho Ghuroh, Upon tho strongth of this authority, numorous Catholic farmora commenced joining the Gran- gors, wheroupon Fathor McGalrick, of Shiclds- villo, suthorized the statomont that no such lettor was ovor written by tho TPopo, and that neither Tather Ireland nor DBishop Grace were ever consulted aboutit. The papers thus challenged wero un- able to produce thoeir proofs, and tho result is o groat hubbub among tho Granges, and more delormined sction upon tho part of the Catholic clorgy to provent Catholica from joining, It would seem that there ought not to have beon | any doubt about tho 1ight or wrong of joining, 88 it is & woll-ostablished rule of tho Catholic Church that its mombors cannot join any organi- zation In which an oath of secrocy Is roquired, and a8 such an oath is vory foolishly and noed- Tessly requirad in tho Grangos, of course tho rulo applies to them, —_— Tho Bar and press of Minnosots have boen shocked at tvo Excoutive appointments in that Stato. Onowas tho olovation of Judge Mo- Millan, Asgociato~Tuntico of the Supromo Court, to tho Obiof-Juaticoship, and of AMr, Goorge B. Young to the vacaucy. Gon. Cornell, for whoso appointment to tho highest ofice Minneapolia potitioned, was rojoctod, and Minneapolis fools vastly fudignont., Detween tho olovation of Judgo MoMillan, the rojection of Gon. Cornell, and the appointment of a gontloman of whom Minneapolis profosscs to kuoiv nothing, the ity is shocked by a triple disappointmont. Tho Tribune snys: *“Wo havo oxamined the dictionnry, snd we find there no words suitable to convey the dis- gust of our peoplo in view of thia wholo trans- action." Tho grostest disqualification of Ar. Young is his extrome youth. The St. Paul Press unys: **To tho grent majority of our road- ors the name of Mr., George Young will have boen firat hoard in connection with tho aunounco- mont which summons him to & seat upon the Beuoh of our highest State Court.” Ho hns been a residont of the State about four years only, and dorived his logal knowledge from tho Harvard Law School, tho oficos of William Curtis Noyes and David Dudloy Field, snd a brief practico in Now York and Minneapollu, Judge McMillan, on tho other hand, is tho old- oat Judge on the Donch, £ —_— Another Congrogational Council is now in ses- sion at Worcester, Mass,, attonded by sll tho prominout Congrogational clorgymen of Massa- chusetts and othor Now England States, which increating considorablo oxcitomont. 1t appoars that about wo yoars ago the Rov. William f, Parry camo to Worcostor from England. and, ba- ing favorably receivod at tho Old South Church in that city, he consontod to ilt the pastorate for n yoar. Aftor o while his eccontricitios and peouliar atyle of prenching brought Lim into troublo and caused & disruption of tho'church, He loft the pulpit Jau. 1, and organized a new socigty called "tho Tabernacle Church, taking with Lim maoy membors of the Old South, The Council bag been callod for the rocognition of this chureh and the installation of the pastor, It hias alrondy dono the former, but tho question of nstallation has nesrly hopelessly divided tho Council, and bas given rise to angry and oxcited discussions, His church has also got into o fer- mont, attonds the sessious of ihe Council, and heartily hisses those momberawho spoak against thoir pastor, At last accounts there was littlo prospoct of agroomont, and a very fair prospect that tho Couucil itself may bo disruptod, NOTES AND OPINION. The Xartford Courant shows that the Ropub- lican losses in Connectiout are pratty ovonly dis- tributed over tho Btato, by Congrossional Dis- tricts, v ‘Firut Distrlct, (Hartford snd Tolland). ... Hecand District, (New Haven sud Middlnox) Third Distriet, (Now London aud Windhun; Fourth District, (Litchfeld and Fairflotd), ., 1,704 loss —1In the days whon Buckingham was Govornor of Connocticut, the vote of Windham County alected him moro than once, and in thoso days a. Domocrat in the Connecticut Legislature from Windhom County, would lave beouna novelty indocd. Now tho county sonds up ten Domo- crats to the Iouso, and one to tho Seuate, and the Republican candidate for Governor isin a minority of all the votes, Whou oftico-holding Ropublican editors como dowa to details like this, they may find some signifiennco in tho Con- uecticut slection. —The Utios* (N. Y.) Herald, Congrossman Roberts' papor, and Bonator Conkling's organ, bas hoard Homothing]drop, It says: N 1t looks as though tho Republlcans of Conmectiout were not Inclinod to uttor thelr sanction of all things dono ut Wasbiugtou, , . . . It will not do to tritie ‘with futolligout people’ when fhey demand assurancen that their party s fuliled its promises, Loon true to its profoasious, is without apot or taint'of job, Tho proteat of Confootiout Ropublicans should ok pass weded, —The Baltimore American, tho Ropublican or- gan in Maryland, spoaks thus: “The vigorous bLiows struck at the very vitals of the Republican party by the courao of atfairs at_Washing- ton aye Linving thoir uutural ofioct. , . . Thenthu #lasma which lae distivguisliod the Xopublicau organi- zation 8 thing of the past, o . . ‘Phe greut 1mnss of the peoplo caro very little who hiold the pubiic oficos, Lut they “do care whether or no tha offiy ro used to shape aud fori and control tho dostinies of the party, Also tho Whoeling Infelligencer, tho Republican orgau in Woat Virginiu, says: 1t (tho Counccticut election) oliows that the people ara weary und fuipatiout of the way thiugs are being douo at Washivgton, and that they ure ruady to mail- feat tlelr dfsuntinfaction at the batlot-box, —Tho people have possod the time when a moro nawme could boguilo thom; they %p longer yleld obudionce to u party ory. ‘Lhoy seo oflleind malfousauco, extravuganco, ‘and corruption nil around them; one gigautic political fraud after anothor 14 exposed ; one wrong after another un- oarthed; one demagoguo aftor anothor rising iuto higher places of trust aud honor, and, with uo other way ef rodress but at the polls, thoy ool it there.—Philadelphia Inquirer. ~—Butlorlew, Grantism, Balary-Grabs, Oredit- Mobilior swindles, aud moloty frands are gotting to be too hunvil for the Republican party to carry, and malo it too obnoxious for thoe pooplo to sustnin,—ddrian qncn.) Press, . —But whore shall the procoss of unloading bo- l flnr Who ahall unload, and who shell bo un- oaded? Who or what is to be thrown over- board P The "feneflnfi sores " have broken of out all over the pariy, ttennaus 1e in Lis very “bones, Toadlng men of the part; tho authors of the infamous not of 1869, which o | inall kinds of fraud.—@rand Rapids (Adich.) Democrat, ~—The Mophiatopholes bohind tho pupoots ix Bon DButler, tho prosont party-whip, He hne managed the whole businoss, pulling now toie and now that wire. Lot this bad man and hig wonk tools be doposod from thoir high positions, and punished for thoir offonnca as thoy richly morlt.—Fort Wayne (Ind.) Sentinel, ~—Itlcharduon, Boorotary of tho Tromsury, it cithior & fool or o Imave. "It o“'f romaing to ba dirclosod the possession of which one of theue quulitics moved Grant to appoint him, Itis roally n fonrful rofloction to think of a man of the nrrant knavery or elso deplorable ignorance of Richiardson boing clothed with tho tromend- ous powor which tho prosont loosely-framed and viciously-construed laws give him.—Zerrg Haule (dud.) Uaselis, —1his perty in power is not the Republican arty of tho War ; it ia ity bastard, born of tho ust'of powor. . . . *Whom tho gods would dostroy, they first mako mad.” 1t was madnoss to violato all faith, and ostraciao the truc men ot tho party,—Philadelphia New Age. —Tho Republican party has hiad, and still hos, too mnny dond welghts attnohed to it—mon clinglng to it not from principle, but for policy and profit. Theso must bo consigned to other quartera—givon to undoratand that the Ropubli- cau lmrty haa no place for men who abuie tho coniidonce and trust roposed in them.—Indiano- la (Jowa) Herald. —It {s au abuse of Inngnngio to longor call tho Ropublienu party tho radical pnuiy. Ten years 880, boforo utealing and plundoring under the varlous gutsos of Crodit-Mobilier, solary-grab, Custom-houso frauds, Sauborn contracts, oto., tho party inaugurating and foutmnfi theeo schemes could vory proporly bo callod thoe radi- cal partys buf, siiico stonling lug becomo the rulo, nnd Lionesty tho oxcoption, it {s a misnomer to call tho party that pronoses to continue i its old footsteps radical. Stenling, undor thoso va- rious guisos and dovices, has becomo CODBOTVE~ tism, and Louosty radicalism,—Fayelte CQounty (Iowa) Union, —Wo do not know why inflation shonld bo dubbed specinlly & *Westorn " heresy. For oxamplo, Bon Dutlor is nimost the loader in favor of inflation—our two Ohfo Senators ond o respoctablo shara of our Reprosontatives aro O‘K- posod to it. If thore wero noed for it, wo might add Kolley, of Punnuzlvnuln, and » number of othor * prominent Iastorn men as favor- ing inflation, while .a number of other Wostern mon aro opposed to it. Sposking for our own Btato, tho nowspapers of tho State aro largoly in opposition to indation, Tho Oincin- Dati Enquirer 8 about tho only paper of any gmtuunéun that favors inflation.—Ohio State fournal, —_—— SPIRIT. OF THE ILLINOIS PRESS. Party bonds, s such, are evidently losing thefs Liold upon the poople.—lilinois Stale Journal. —The old party divisions nre wearing awey, and new ones are springing up ; and this (inflas ton) is to bo the leader of thom all.—Bellevills Advocate. . ~—The politicsl aspect of the recont local olec- tiona indicates a gonoral breaking-up of old party lines, ospaciolly in the rural districts and in tho umall tovns,—Peoria Democral, —T'he fact is, tho Ropublicans aro not staying at Lomo anywhero to any oxtent; but they nra coming to elections and voting against Ropub- cnn nominees, Tho peoplo ovorywhere want a chiaugo.—Quincy Herald. —Livory day adds new intoreat to the politicnl situation of the country. ‘The old party loaders aro trembling at tho thought that their days of political supromacy aro drawing to a cloge, and that forever.—I'ord County Journal. —Adyonturors have beon robbing the Treas. ury ana plundoring the pooplo, while thoy dis- traoted public attoution by purty orles. 1f thoro is anythivg wo can ever afford to dispenso with foralittle whilo, it is partisanship,—Rock Is- land Argus. —T'he producing classes can emancipato thom- solyes from the rule of corrupt, designiug, political knaves wud corruytioniuta. and they propoye to doit. ‘Tho yoar of jublleo Is coming, sud the frionds and advocates of monopolics, big salarics, and rogues refellng in high places, -IIL\I'B near tho day of judgmont.—Henry County Vetos, party in powor and wish & chango; thoy nro doterminad to bavo a change and put down the sniveling bypocrites who talk through their noses about honeaty, whilo they have thieir arma in the Public T'reasury up to the elbow.— Cairo ‘Bulllein, —It is idle for o-called Domocratic leadors, or the Y stick-to-tho-ship” Domooratic press, to offor to a hard-worked, over-burdened, and tax- riddon pooplo the consolation of Domoacracy. That cousolation is_a deinsion and s suace. « + + o Why? Becsuse, within every ring of corruption tiiroughout the land, the recipi- ents of tho profits acerning from the steals and other dishonest practices, whethor uuder the color of law or no, Demoeratic aud Republican lenders have beon found cheok by jowl.—Cens tralia Democrat. —T'hose who aro interested in an honest and puro government, no mattor what their forier political sontiments, aro combinivg with - great lnmuimi? to offect reform. And these reforme will be effacted just o soon as the Republican party goos down to its doath. Iu it is covrup- tion and anurchy; in its donth is liborty and purity to tho peoplo. “Judge ye this dny whom you will sorve.”"—Bloomington Anti-Monopolist. —We havo gloried in our syatom of freo gov- ornment. That froedom has promoted tha growth of a wonlthy oligarchy, of which Vaudor- bilt is the roprosentative, 1t now remaius ror tho Amorican pooplo to feo to it that, whila they havo securcd to themesolven & porfoct uys- tow of civil government, they have not fosterad i their midst o dospotism as burdensomo ng horeditary monaroby itself, — Rockford Anti- Alonopolist, K —It bocomos daily more ovident that the bank and cwrroncy questions are going to be tho important issuos of tho next political campaign, and that the ruiroad question will take a buck ;!l;“ ,Il:l.m tho banks are disposed of.—Aurora ferald. - —Add a hundred millions to-morrow to the stock of greoubacks aud National Bank notes, sud the powor of tho banks, monopolists, ao atock-gawblers will bo enhanced to that oxtent. Iuflation strengthons them and weakens thevery clags whose name is usoed to promoto a policy thut rosts upona rotien foundation and a speculative theory. . . . Theleadors hope that by ine flation thoy may create & flctitious appoarance of prospority, blow up prices, aud meke men for- ot pay-day until aftor tho Prosidential conteat. Lhis is the lnst stalio of & desperate sot of par- tivan gamostors. This is tho whole sohome of political juflation at Washington, outside tho class of apeculators who irade upon the suflere inge of the poople,— Wilmington Advocale. e CORN-PONE. Atoxa, Ghoctaw Nation, March 31, 1874, To the Editor of T'he Chicago Tribune: Bin: I noticed an article in T TRmuNE of March 15, headed *Corn for Humen Food,” its author wrging you to enlighton your readera as to tho use of it as an articlo of food, I would like to make a fow remarks on tho subjoct. I have traveled all through the Soutl, and North also, My experiouce toaches mo that the North- orn cooks aro by far superior, in the gronnruunn of corn in any shape, to the Bouthern cools. The way it is prepared down hore, it is not fit to eat. Tho pone, or corn-cake, that Afr, "luoker #peaks of as being so deliclous, £ will give you tho Southiern recips for, as follows: Take ono quurt of monl that has not boen bolted or siftod ; atir in wator onough to mako it tho consistency of n stiff batter; add a little Iard or greaxo, just whioh you have handi- est; this is gonerally bakod in ah old-fashioned Duteh oven, Judgo for yourself if this would bo palatable. I could give the Northorn method of cooking it ; but I don't think it necossary, bew causo every housewife throughout the North knows a batter mothod than thio above. Ihopo this will wind up tho i{doa of corn-pone belug nutritious diet Jouy 8. MoDANIELS, (Half-brocd Chesokae), —— GRANGERS AND PLOW-MANUFACTURERS, CoxzeviLLE, Ia., April 10, 1874, To the Kditor of The Chicugo 2riouns ; Bm: Tho following resolutions have beom adopted by tho Oukland Grauge, No. 714, P, of 11, Louisn County, Ia.: WizuEAs, Cortain farm-mplemont menufacturors Liavo resolved wot to sell thoir fmplonients 10 Grangen and Clubs oxoept the uame bo ordered through thoir agents,~theroby wmauifeuting o determination to cone tiuuo the obnoxious ugonoy=ystowu, o oxtremely Al tagonfatio to tho wislies uud futoresty of tlia furmar of thy groat Northwest ; therefore, Resoloed: Furat—1That wo wilf lowve this littlo would. be monopoly entizaly alone, *to stand Ly fta agouts,” while wo will contrive to patroulze thowe manufao- tuirery who canie forward whon our Ordor was in its infaney bud cordlally seconded our reformatory offorts Ly furniuhing us fwplowents suporior in many polite aiid {uterior i uone to thoso nindo Ly any metnber of {0 Glieage vl ut wholusalo priocs, without tha intorposition and profits of mlddlomen, Second—~That wo dosiro it Jioaltively linderstood thas wa will not iu any case kuowlngly purchase any {mples ments whatevor 0f_any company or frm who will o ::& gl.r‘ml.v ‘With Graugers and other farmers’ organte G W Davs, Bearecarg, aro implicated - Tie peoplo are heartily disgusted with the'