Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 13, 1875, Page 8

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Kngagement of Aire, Rousby. “Twit Axand Crown.” Afternoon and orening, MOOLRY'S THEATRE—[andoton atrents between chee and haflatien Long oure’on the Bridges "Ar ternoon and arening. : ADELPHI THRATRE—Denrhorn street, cornor Mon. ton. Variety rntortaiamont. ** The Puor of New York." Aftornoon abd ovening, BOCIETY MEETINGS. TE. WW, BIGELOW TODGH, No. 458, A. T&A Mm Regular communication Saturday oroning, March 13, at A Nonecoratey Amorican ieayeens Huallding, Wark on Bs &, Dogres. Vi latins brotiicea nee goratell tpsited. THOMAS H. GREGUIL: WM. B. WARREN LODG Sloe ar Ovrencel iin, 1 ¥ a A jontal 1. ‘coma. By ordor of the W. WAR DECLARED—0: Canlial; only $9 to Mel s netof bret Guin Tosih. #3 gold iillings, ware ranted, and no fancy prices. Natiefaction glvon ur money relunded, Comer Clark and Randolph-stt. The Chitaga Tribune, B8aturday Morning, March 13, 1876, WITH SUPPLEMENT. Tho Illinois Senate yesterday passed the bill for the abolishment of the Stato Board of Equalization, Perhaps, after all, the most significant cir- enmstanco in relation to the prospect of ad- journment in the Illinois Legislature was the adoption, yesterday, of the ten-minute rule, Limit Warses aud Mennrrr to ten minutes in specch-making and legislative life becomes a burden. “Old Subsidy ” Postznoy is happy in tho possession of that $7,000 which the great tnd good candidate for re-election so gener- ously left lying around loose to help start a new National Bank. The Attorney-General of Kanens has decided that there is no au- thority for the retention of tho money by the State, and that it must be returned to Mr. Poxtenoy, less the amount used up oy costs in tho bribery prosecntion. SSS SS ‘That there is n limit to human enduranco of newspapor slander and obscenity is shown by the action of the Grand Jury in the find- Ing of four criminal indictments against Witnvr F, Sroner, editor aud proprictor of tho Chicngo Times, Threo of the true bills thus far found ara for the libel of individuals, end the fourth is for the publication of a grossly obscene articlo, Other indictments, for the publication of libelous statements concerning Judge Bronorerr, Judgo Witt rams, of the Cirenit Court, and Cuantes H. Rerp, Stato's Attorney, aro likely to be found against Mr. Sront: —_—_ There were two tests yesterday of the temper of the “Reformers” at Springfield on the subject of accomplishing the necessary legislation and going home. Mr. Cunzox offered o resolution providing for tho imme- dinte consideration of the Rovenue and Ap- Proprintion bills, There would seem to bo no great objection to such a proposition, but Mr, Cusnnxas, the Democratic leader in the House, clearly foresaw that, with theso im- Portant measures both disposed of, there was danger that some of the unnecessary and undesirable legislation agreed upon by tho Opposition might not bo reached beforo tho final adjournment, Accordingly he moved to tablo tho resolu. tion, and it was dono by a strict party yoto— 77 “Reformers” to 44 Republicans. Onco moro during tho day an effort was mndo to fix a timo for adjournment sine die, tho Ist of April being named as tho day, Mennrrr was furious, nnd threatened an amendment to ad- journ to-morrow. Unfortunately, ho con- claded not to doit, and the Democrats solidly aegatived the supposition that the session can bo brought to a close in three wooks, This action locates the responsibility of prolong. ing the scasion uselessly and ot o great ex- ponge. Fa ef Yesterday was a bad Turon day, Sasrocn, Wrrsrsoy, the avowed bitter enemy of tho Plafntiff-defendant, was on tho stand, and the continued absence of Judge Fuurernton left tho cross-cxamination of such o witness in poor hands, Mr. Winxzgon was B party to the drawing up of the tripartite covenant, and was Mr. Brecnen's chief instrument in hushing up the scandal at that time, if it could then he called a scandal, Ho then be- lieved Mr. Brecuen innocent of any wrong uct, and he more firinly belicves if now, It wos into Witxeson’s car that ‘Tinton poured his grievances, which, in 1872, wero finan. sial, and not connubial, According to Wirxeson’s testimony, Tr:ton’s complaint wos that Brecuen did not help him out of his aiMicuities, and he oxpressly declared that there was not a word of truth in the story of adaltory. This, so far ay it extends, is valua. ble help to the Bezcuxn sido and most dam- aging to Tinton; but, after reading Wiuxe- you's ovidenco, one ig still in the dark as to the object and tho meaning of that remarkuble letter of contrition and ro- morse, It needed Forrynron yesterday to sound Winxrson on this point. ‘The testi- mony of tho Rov, Epwarp Eaorzstow was mainly remarkable for the gratuitous lugging {a of @ slur in roforenco to Tutoy and an ‘unmentionable” Indy, = The Chicago produce markets wore gen. erally strong yesterday, with moré doing, Mess pork was active aud 80c per bri higher, closing weak at $18.60 cush, and $18.70 @1.72) for April, Lard was quiet and 1740: per 100 Ibs higher, closing tame at $13.50 cash, and $13.524@18,55 for April, Meats were in good demand and jo higher, at 70 for ahoulders, 10}o for short ribs, aud 10}o for short clears, Dressed hogs were in good do- mand and strong, closing at $7.60@8,35 per 100 ibs. Highwines were in good demand and firm at @1,11 per gallon, Flour was more active and firm. Wheat was active and | 1Jo higher, closing at 89$c cash, and 9030 for | April, Corn wns quiet and a shade firmer, closing at Uijc ensh, aud Tike for May, Onts were quict and tirm, closing at die ensh, and 6iJe for April, Ryo waa nominal at d7@08e, Barley was dull and wenk, clos- ing at $1,05 for March, and $1.02 for April. Noga wore active and 10@1ie higher, with soles at 26.00@7.90 for inferior to extra, The cattle and sheep markets wero un- changed. tained for it. Tho planter in the South pro- duces hy his Inbor the cotton which, when baled, is sold in part to the New England mills, and the surplus is sent abroad for n market. With the proceeds of the sales of pork and cotton, wheat and tobacco, the farmer and planter undertake to purchnse such supplies as may bo needed for their domestic uses. Estimating that each nas to spend £1,000 in ivon ware, colton goods, carpets, blankets, elothing, millinery, boots anid xhoes, larness, tools, paints, glass, and crockery-waro, they at onco discover the wido difference between the protected aud the non-protected olnsses. They find that their monoy must bo appor- eo ee) A savage arraigninent of tho Illinois Board of Railrond Commissioners is presouted in another column undor the title of ‘Railrond’ Cases,” in which it is alloged that the Board Lavo been guilty of trumping up suita againat the railroad companies for the sake of pre- serving an appenrance of doing something in return for the great expense to the State. Our correspondent lins etjoyed good facilities for obtaining tho information thus spread before the public, and if one-half of his allegations fre truc—and we can sea no renson to doubt their truth, unless it can bo shown that tho afiidavits aro clover forgeries—the Legisla. tected class somewhnt after tho following fashion : Paid for Patt tor taunty'taz, © yocds, $740 Tron-ware... Cotton goods Carpe Mank Cloth Milliner; Hoots and shoct Glasawaro, turois furnishefl an opportunity to invostigate Fasthen something which will pay for the trouble, | fame ‘These are chatges which ahould not pass un- | Toole noticed. TOER ssesesesssenvenevesseeeeeBS1209 6: That is the way tho unprotected class aro intereepted on their return from market ; out of their thousand dollars’ proceeds from the sale of their pork they havo to deliver 8:12.62 to be paid over, not to the support of the Government, but nsa bounty to the protected gentry who live under the spolin- tion of the productive labor of the country. We submit this exhibit of the financial chargetcr of tho packing Lusinesa of this city also to the gentlemen of the Legislature who are 0 flereo for tnxing oll money, capital, and credits, employed in this State, In tho fonr months just expired, £30,000,000 of homo and foreign capital wero actively em- ployed in purchasing this stock of the farm- ers, Without this enpital the hogs could not have been handled or purchased. ‘This eapital put them in motion, aud gave to them & valuo they could not have otherwiso ob- tained. In legislating on this subject it should bo borne in mind that any tax on the money or credits employed in the purchase of pork, or grain, or other provisious, ia as directa tax on the product itself as is tho cost of transportation. The ultimate prico of articles being tho prico paid in the foreign market, overy peuny added by way of domes- tic charges for transportation, handling, in- terest, or far, must be deducted from tho price paid to the producer, Any tax upon the use of money or credit employed in tho purchese of grain or pork is, of necessity, de- ducted from tho price at the place of produc. tion, and the remotal of avory tax, of what- ever form, is soinuch added to tho price of the hogs or grain in the hands of the produ. cer, Let the gentlemen at Springfield, be- fore they ndjourn, ask themselyes by whom is the tax tobe paid, and whether, like the toriff, the tax on capital is not so much of the proceeds of tho hogs and grain, confiscated, and taken from the.farmers. — eee Tho now-party ragmen at Cleveland proved themselves excellent and careful mechanics, When they had constructed tho party, they wero considerate enough to make o cofin to bury it in, They had Plenty of muaterinl ready at hand— the planks in that stunning platform, which promises peace and prosperity to every- hody, and bushels of paper slips, which, being “based on tho faith and resources of the nation,” will bo eagerly accepted in ex- ciango for tho clumsy and comparatively worthless heaps of gold and silver, which, not being based upon the faith or ro- sources of anybody or anything, peoplo all over the world will be anxious to get rid of as quickly ns possible. ‘Chen the bounties of soldiorn aro to ba equalized, and every river and harbor in the United States is to have a maguificent approprintion, It's a beantiful scheme, Col, Munnenny Srracns’ corn, hogs, and cyewater aro nowhere, compared with it, TRE PORK-MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO, ‘Tue Trimune yesterday contained a gen- eral statement of the operations of the senson of pork-packing in Chicago just closed, ‘Tho figures show that the season hay been one of ¢von more than ordinary activity, involving the employment of an extraordinary amount of capital and of general expenditure. Ex- cluding 105,787 hogs packed in October, tho total numbcr packed in the regular season of four months was 1,645,776 ho; ‘The aver. age weight of theso swine was 251} pounds, and tho average price paid for them was $6.62) per 100 pounds, The amount of money paid by the packers of the city for hogs during the season of four months was $28,913,000! Including those packed in October nnd those packed since the close of the official season, there was paid in Chicago for hogs the round sum of $30,000,000, This immense stock was handled through the aid of the national and private banks of this city, who made tho advances; they then sent portions of the paper est and had it discounted, and, with the nid of the capitat and credit thus combined, the packers of this city were able to send thirty millions of dol+ lars cask into the country in payment for this erop. Tho purchase of tho hogs was not all of the expenditure, There was money required for Inbor, for salt, for barrels, boxes, aud other packages, ‘The cost of these is of course to bo included in tho value of the raw material, and increases largely the aggregate amount of capital employed in the business during tho season, perhaps not leas than eight to ten TRIAL OF THEODORE TILTON, She somersault which the Brooklyn scandal has taken moy welt lead the thoughtful reader to imagine whether this is the Brecnen case or tho Trntoy case which is on trial; whether Mr, Beecnzn is on trial for loving ond kissing Mrs. Trnroy et al., or Mr, Trtox is on trial for loving and kissing Mrs, Wooprutt et al, ; or whether anybody is on trial for loving and kissing anybody elso ; or whether all Plym- outh Church is under arraignment for tum- iug the house of the Lord into a pavilion of Cupids, or what is the matter, Ths legal whirligig rovolves so rapidly and presonts so many now phases daily that it has nt Inst be- come the despair of the earnest seeker aillions, after, tho truth, who wanders in 4 ‘The manufactured products havecommand. | dazed condition among this crowd ed good prices. ‘Tho prices are of course | of saints, sinners, white souls, free. mainly regulated by those of the foreign inorket, This is one of the lines of man- ufacture which is not “protected.” The man in Congress who owns a mineral spring at Saratoga, with gushing tears in his eyes, implored the House to protect tho gushing mineral springs of this country against tho competition of the pauper springs of Europe ; ho declared that, unlesa these Amorican springs were protected, their owners would become bankrupt. In a Congress whero a majority of the members ropresent. ed somo protected mill, or forge, or factory, or patent, tho appeal was a reasonable ono; it was but s demand fora share of the spoils takon from the people, But here isn domestic manufacture which, after supplying the home market, has an im. mense surplus to sell to other countrics. No Jens than one-fifth of the whole number of hogs packed in Chicago were packed under direct orders for Europe. Of tho manufac. ture of other houses a large proportion was also purchased directly for the foreign mar- ket, which fixes tho price of the wholo crop, Ono feature of the Chiengo packing-trade is that of cutting tho meats to suit the local tastes and habits of various places in En. gland, Ireland, and elsewhere, and in tho list of tho meats put up this season aro the fole lowing varieticn: “Staffordshires,"” “Trish Cut,” “ Yorkshires," “ Birminghams,” and “Wiltshires.” Another feature is the variety of singed bacon to meet a foreign demand for bacon cleaned by firo rather than by hot water. In these special variuties are included nearly fourteon millions of pounda of meat, We havo on several occasions sought to direct publio attention to the fact that those classes of American manufacture that enjoy protection never produce any surplus that eau bo sold abrondor beyond the local demand. ‘They aro in the condition of the mau who Produces from day to day and yenr to year ouly enough to meet his own consumption, To adds nothing to the general wealth, In the absonce of falsely called * protoction,": all theo manufactures would strive to uxtend their business and compote in other markets with the manufactures of other countrics, just as our unprotected farmera and plant. cra do, Hero fy an instance of s domestic tanufactura which thrives and flourishes without protection, which meets all the do- lovers, Lotharios, spiritualists, hoterodoxists, deacons, angels, inothers-in-law, poets, re- porters, religious editors, children of dark- ness, and children of light. It is = motloy array, o snd masquerade, a perfect conglom- eration of tho world, the flesh, and the devil. But where is the Bercuen caso? What have the cunning manipulators of all these protty ond amorous puppots done with it? When this caso was instituted, it was understood that it was tho intention of tho plaintiff to prove Mr, Beecurr guilty of adultery, and to show that Mr, Truron bad been sinned against by the venerablo preacher of Brooklyn Heights, who had loved Eurza- DETH not wisely but too well, This was after it hind been talked of and nowspapered & whole year; after charges, confes- sions, statements and counter-statements, afildavits, lottera, declarations; investiga. tions, and indictments had been piled upon ench other like Ossa on Pelion, and all bear- ing upon this question, The question was simply whether Brecren had wronged T11- Ton, and whether he was guilty of adultery, If ho was not guilty of this crowning offense, then what wrong or indiscretion had he com. mitted, for ho acknowledged he had been in- discreet, and wronged him so badly, and it pained him so much that he was not only trendy to stop down and out,” but ho liad contemplated cold poison? For two months the testimony has been steadily pouring in, Mounron, Mrs, Movuton, the Widow Uanr, Woopnury, and ‘futon sent terrible orond- sides into “ the old man,” Ho waspalted with lotters and confessions until his case looked as Diack asa thunder-cloud, In vain bis conn- sel sought to break down the damaging testi. mony. It stood like a wallof stone. Dur. ing these two months the case proceeded up- on its original basis, but ‘suddenly there ia a gyration, a circumloaution, a piroustte, The thing turna round, and what becomes of tho Bexonen case? A new c4so ison hand, A new defendant Appears, A new line of indiscretions bogins to dovelop, more poetical, mare picturesque, more bizarre thin Breouen’s. ‘The now Lothario is metaphysical, religio-philosoph- ical, cosmopolitan, and humanitarian in his amoura and glances, We begin to get into a whirlpool of beau-ideals, affinitics, and coun- terparts, Instead of a more so-¢o strain, this hew amoros movement summons up remin- iscences of Hexen, Beatnice, La Fornania, New, Gwennz, ond the Countess Guicorons, It in envelopod in a soft, dreamy haze, The iferenco between tho two ig the dif. ference between the real and the ideal, be- twoen the direct, blunt practicality of aga and the vague, restless, uncertain, theorotical loves of robust aud heterodor youth, which dallies with temptation but docs not defy it, which plucks the flower but docs not crush it, Mr, Brecuen is no longer on trial, Ho and Exizaperu havo mado their exit, and they are fast fading out of tho sight of the public with their “white souls,” their “na. villons of love,” their ‘ragged edges,” and their “caves of gloom,” and ‘l'uxopons and Victoria take their places, It {a now a ques. tion whother Tuxopans loved the Woopuvin ‘ inands for home consumption, and has 9 lnrgo surplus to send abrond. It is a domes. tic manufacture that docs add to tho na tlonal wealth, though fearfully taxed to sup. port tho non-surplus-producing protected classes, Let ua trace tho progress of this manufacture, In the first step, the farmer by his labor produces the corn, ‘This property being bulky, he reduces in dimensions and welght by feeding it to his hogs, whereby it is conyerted into pork, weighing loss, but of auch greater value per pound, He drives hla corn, thus converted into living pork, to market, where it is sold fur cash, Tho pork iy thon manufactured into meats, other ma- terials being added; the cost of lnbor, bar- roling, und of haudling is added, and the manufactured product is shipped to Europe and sold of such price as can there be obe tioned between goods and bounty to the pro. | THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1875.--TWELVE PAGE and others, and to the solution of thin ques- tion the astute counsel are bending nll their mighty energies, Wo nro told that Trtox regarded hor with an amorous glance; that when he looked upon her he had akind and tender smile upon his lips; that he talked in an amatory tone to her,—that is, with softness and gentloness; that the guileless Woop. nut, Despemoxa fashion, acknowledged that Tinto was the neorest approach to her bent-ideat of o perfect man ho had over met, and that Tiros recipro. ented hor esteem, Moro thau this, wo are told that ho went to Concy Island with hor, and in the tumbling, salty surf and “ cruel, evawling, hungry foam,” they disported thom. solves after the fashion of dolphins and mer- maids; that ho rode with her in carringes ; that he recoived hor at his house; that ho presided at her mectings; that one day ho and she met in tho mystic Pantarchy and sho wont into raptures over “his sphoro”; that ho kissed her and others of tho gentler sex whonever tho opportunity presented it- | self, just as Exizaneri waain the habit of doing with the sterner sex. This is not atl, We aro gravely assured that on his lecture tours this irresistible heart-brenker trav. clod with 9 27-year-old school-girl, who read him to sleop with ‘ Paradiso Lost’ in # Winsted inn, hinwelf meanwhile dishev- eled and deshabille, and that one day the 27- year-old child appeared toacountry bumpkin, stariig into the room, in a costumo which made him inquire confidentially of the land- lord, ‘Who are these in white array?” He was thinking of the “Woman in White,” but not ‘All Alono,” Now, where is all this going to bring np? What other result can it havo than that this poor, pationt, long-suffering, distracted jury will eventually bring Mr, Pron in guilty ? That jury is no longer accountable for its acts. It will be ina mood by the time the trial closes to convict anybody, and as Tite ‘oN is now the only one on trial, and will be the only one to the end, ho will be bronght in guilty without much doubt, snd Mr. Brecurn and Enazaveta will goon their way rejoicing, and gontly fado out of romembrance os having ever beon in the stern clutches of tho law on trial for adnt- tery. The curious antiquarian may possibly discover, in looking over musty newspaper files, that they had o remote connection with this caso in its enrlier stages, but beyond this thoy will not figure, The great question of their guilt will theroforo disnppoar from the public mind as mist. But Troy, thewretch, will bo branded as guilty of amorons glauces and dallinnces with Detrnana, and his memory will bo consigned to esccration therofor. All this remarkable transposition of the parties litigant, os well ay the enormous con- sumption of time in the trial, grows out of the Anglo-Saxon forms of trinl adopted and practiced in America. In France they do thesa things better—not scandals, but trinls, There, tho Judgo summons the witnesses, and all the witnesses, In this case he yould have immediately summoned Brecrer and Mrs. Beecwer, Tinton aud Mra, T1xroy, Bows, Besstz, the Woopuuin, Susax B, AN- ‘tHONY, Mrs. Cany Stanoy, and evory one else cognizant of any facts in tho caso, nnd would have first questioned them hi:nself, sharply and severely, and then turned them over to counsel for further examination. All rele- vant questions would have been allowed, No technical objectiéns would have been allowed. ‘Thus witness after witness would have been rapidly sifted down to the vory roots of his or her knowledge, and every fact in the enso, big and little, would have been brought to light. Hnd this caso been in a French court, it would have been decided aud judgment en- tered up 8 month ago, Tho Anglo-Saxon form of trial is conducted upon the basic of excluding, concealing, ud covering up testimony; the French brings overy fact, pro anid con, to tho light. It isn good thing for Brecurn, however, be- cause it gives the oldman achaneo.” How ean he be guilty of a dangerous indiscretion with Exrzaneri if Turononz was guilty of an indiscretion with Vicronra and an embar- rassment with a 27-year-old school-girl? Of course ho couldn't, ‘The case is dismissed. “Tn the caso of ‘T1nton vs, Bercnen, the de- fendant being charged with adultery with Entzanetn R, Truroy, we, the jury, find 'T- ‘ton guilty of casting amorous glances at V10- tort Woopiuiy.” MONEY IN RUSSIA. Ono of the most difficult things for a man with 9 financial bee in his bonnot to under- stand is that money obeys the same laws all over the world. He knows that the valuo and tho usofulness of wheat and iron, corn and cotton, depend upon the same causes in America, in England, in Germany, and in Russia; but he is unnblo to grapple with the fact that money, wheat and iron, corn and cotton, are all commodities, and that cach of them {fs affected in the same way by the sama things the world over, So he pooh-poohs tho financial facts of other countries and prates of ‘the Amorican system,” as if there wero something in onr climate or Govornmont which gavoa pleco of gold or a piece of pn- por certain qualities not to bo obtained in tho “effete despotiams” of En- rope, Tho unprojudiced student knows thot tho laws of political economy cannot bo superseded by those of Congress, or Parlinment, or King, They work in Turkestan as thoy do in tho Unitod States. We havo already cited proofs of tho ills of jitredeemnblo paper monoy drawn from the history of many othor countries, Wo sup- Pplemont this mass of proof to-day with a roo. ord of Russian finances, {n 1709, Caraentne IT. founded two banks, each of which issued 1,000,000 paper roubles, ‘The papor was issucd only in exchange for coin and on the pledge of merchandise, It had, then, some tangible “ faith and ro- sources" to depend upon, Novortheless, as the record raus, “the number of assignats tupidly increasing, the monoy Bpeedily fell in value." In 1810, the paper circulation was 557,000,000 roubles, and wassinkingstill lower in value, Nusela then resorted to the favorito expediont of Austria and solemnly declared that this sum should bo the limit, She then followed tho further'expediont of Austria, and broke the promise, In 1817, 836,000,000 paper roubles wore afloat, Contraction fol- lowed. In 1839, when the paper circulation lind been cut down to 600,000,000 roubles, the value of tha rouble had risen until it only took threo and a half pivces of paper to buy ono piece of eilver, ‘The currency was re- deemed at this rate, Then came more paper. which st frst remained at par, ‘Then there was inflation, and specie-payment coaued, “Crown payments were also made in papér, and ooin vanished all the more quickly a the value of the notes became atill more de- prociated.” Tho banks were now, (1800) issuing paper on the plodgo of land and of serfu, In 1861, depreciation was chocked by the issue of large notes in exchange for those of smaller denomination,—a noteworthy ox. ‘pedient, which England Las used to ad. vantnge. In 1862, 78,000,000 roubles wero retired, but the Bourwrrt-Ricitanpsox plan was anticipated by reissning 28,000,000 of these, Tho financial history of the country rince haa been a sericea of makeshifts, Ono point in the wholo record should be empha- rized. When tho Russian paper-money had gold for a basis, it waa at par and did not fluctuate, When it was based upon merchan- dise, or Innd, or serfs, or “faith,” it was not at por and dil fluctuate, ree THE PARTY IN POWER. Wolo not sco what point Tis Cntcago Thinune and other profersedly Republican jonrnals expect to mako in procisinting (hat (ho Republican party ta now practically nut of power,” ‘Tho assertion ta un- true, ‘The party has lost control of the neat House of Representatives, but it has the Sonate and the Exocu- tive, A Democratic Hongo eat azeomplish nothing without tho concurrence of the Senate, and the action of Loth {a Iikely to bo abortive without the Prosident’s approval, The Democrate havo gained o amall share(!) of power, int thy preponderance rematns with tho Re- publicann for two years (o come, nnd a full restoration ta Ukely to follow.—Rock faland Union (Rep). , Tho Union scoms to have lost sight of the fnet that when a party loses the authority to initinte, control, and direct tho legislation of a popular Government, it censes to be the party in power. The Democrats have an immenso majority in the Honso of Ropresontatives, ‘They alono have tho power to originate all measures of revenue, of taxation, and expend- iture, Without their provious action, the Sonate and tho Exceutive are utterly powor- less in these particulars, Tho Republicans must accept auch legislation on the subject of taxation, revenue, and expenditure as the Democratic House proposes, or take tho responsibility of leaving the Government without anysupport. ‘Tho Democratic House may refuse appropriations for the army or navy, and necessitate their practical disband- mont, and tho Exeentive and the Senate are wholly powerless, A party which has lost tho legislative authority cannot claim to be “the party in power.” ‘Cho Senate and the Executive have each, it is true, a veto on the action of tho House, bnt that is not a controlling power; to exorcise that voto is simply to cut off tho supplics or support of the Government, ‘Tho Houso of Representatives is, theoretically and in fact, the represented’ will of the people. The present House was elected by a popular ma- jority of not less than half nmillion! It is the Legislature of the nation for two yenrs, and, though the other branches of the Goy- ornment may offer a factious opposition to its proceedings, it is nevertheless the people's representative in the Government, and must be respected as the responsible legislative nu- thority of the country, The Republicans, for tho next two years, cau noithor make laws, repeal laws, nor amend laws, and how then con it be claimed that it is the party in power? Tho Democrats nro therefore re. sponsiblo for tho legisiation of tho country until such time ny the people shall revoke tho authority given in 1874, and Repnblicans must wait until that revocation is made be- fore they can again become tho party in power, Such a bargain, however, is void at-lnw, and sult cannot be brought for fees or spoil undor it. In some enges poor meu havo undoubted- ly gained n part of thoir rights under it when they could not have gained anything in any othor way, but the mass'of such suits aro dis- creditable to every attorney engaged in prosecuting them, Nearly all tho dis. graceful dower-snits of the Inst hnlf- dozen years have beon champertous, They have had a bad effect on our credit, since they Inve mado Eastern buyers and loancrs suspicious. Champerty lias had a curious career in Illinois, It was declared legal by the Supreme Court some years since, on the ground that our statute, by defining the offenses of barratry and maintenance, oxeluded the kindrod common-law offense of champerty, and implied tho righteousness of the practice. This decision hag juat been overruled by tho Supremo Court, A specious Dill was theronpon introduced into the House which declared champorty illegal, except when. professional lawyors undertook suits for poor clionts on shares. ‘The exception covered tha whole cnso, 60 that the rejection of the bill isn matter of congratulation, Bannen, who introduced it, spoke in its favor, but it was killed by a good speech of Hennon,—ho of “acephalous" fnme,—ho put n hond on it, COMPULSORY EDUCATION—PRO AND CON, Wo print elsewhero a letter against ‘ com- pulsory education.” ‘Tho writer has the modesty to attempt to reply to arguments which he boasts, nt tha outsct, that lio hag never read. Ie thus writes himself down a Dogberry at tho start, His frequont viola- tions of English grammar, and his marked freedom from the shackles of the spelling. book, show that a little ‘‘compulsory eduen- tion” would have dono him substantial good. ‘Thogrenter part of his lotter is moro assertion, —*. g, “the other side [tho divino right of every parent to mako his child a dunce and a fool} is espoused by atl who have at heart tho welfare ond preservation of soci- ety.” Ho asks what right wo have, in tho faco of what he calls “preco- dents,” to advocate o sound school law; scarefully refrains from quoting auy ‘ prece- dents;” and then answors his question with tho telling argument: “J say, none, sir, whatever.” ‘This sort of thing generally con. vineea the “I” and his wife, but nobody else, ‘When his egotism -permits him to try to arguo the case, ho shows—what might, in- deed, bo inforred from tho beginning—that ho does not undorstand what he writes about. Ho radically misstates tho theory of com- pulsory education. A lnw to onforce educa. tion creates no new duty, It enforces ona alrendy existing. It is the duty of the parent to educate his child or havo it educated. ‘The Stato simply prevents his shirking that duty, It provides Innd, school-houses, tenchors, desks, fucl, light, everything but scholars. It throws open tho door to knowl- edge. If the parent stands before tho door, puahing back his child into the outor darkness of iguoranco, dooming him to pauperism, crime, and stupidity, inflicting the most bar- barous of all wrongs upon him,—thon the State collars the unnatural father and says to him: “Knowledge is your child's right ; you shall not rob him of it; if you will not educate him elsewhero, you shall not keep him from tho cdueation awaiting him here ; the Jaw will not lot you starve his mind any mora than starve his body.” Our correspondent edmits that the State should oncourage education by providing everything it does now. Ho admits, thon, tho right of compulsory taxation for such pur- poses. But universal taxation mmplics tho duty of the State to provide for universal education, Edueation, to be general, must bo something more than voluntary and op- tional on the part of tho parent, If taxation is compulsory, education should be so also. The citizen who pays a school-tax has tho right to have that tax used in tho way in which it will do most good. The right to tax for school purposes involves tho duty to keep the schools full,” Tho highest right of tho State—that of self-proservation—makes compulsory educa> tion an absolute duty, -becauso o necessity. Universal suffrage without universal cduca- tion merely prepares the way for, first, corruption; next, anarchy; Inst, despot- ism. Narorzon III, always had tho inert, ignorant masses on his afde, Hoe was Emperor by the grace of Ignorance, Educa- tion is the Demagoguo’s conqueror, The crafty nave misleads confiding fools, Mako tho fools the intellectual equals of the edu- cated knave, and they are misled and decoived no longor. ‘They see through the man whoso blind dupes thoy have been, The public schools have been rightly called the corner-stone of our political insti- tutions. But if those schools are empty, tho corner-stono is but 9 shell, which will col- lapse, and so bring down everything founded upon it, “Tho provinco of the State,” says our let- ter-writor, ‘is to suppress crime end licen tiousness, and to protect the rights of the people.” Itis better to prevent crime than to suppress it, Anvil merely suppressed breaks out elaewhere. Tho cheapest and best way to provent crime is to diffise education, There are fow rights of deeper import and mora sncred ‘obligation than tho right of o child to education, Tho child is mentally and physically hotpless to enforce that right, Yet the boy ia “parent of the man,” If tho care. lewmeas, or the hatred, or -tho greed of ita paront keops it out of school, it is powerless, Hero is surely o case in which State protec. tion of rights is urgontly needed. If our cor. respondent is mad enough to deny that edu- ention checks crime, hoe ia respectfully re. ferred to statistics compiled in any and every civilized nation on the fnco of the earth, He will find that sclentife education proves that the ratio of ignorant criminals to tho ignorant classes’ far exceeds that of educated criminals to the educated classes, Ho will find, sgain, that crime varies in- voraoly with education, And he will find, finally, that the best educated States and countries aro the least criminal, os well as the most powerful, prosperous, and wealthy, He states, noxt, that the education of chil- dren is a “parental right," which must be “respected and protected” by tho State, But thore is no right without a corresponding duty. The parent’s right to educate in- volves hig duty to educate, If he neglecta his duty, ho abandons his right; and the Stato thon steps in and respects and protects the rights of his helplosa children, . He argues thes the State has no right to ietertere with the family. It appears, then, that all our Jaws about marriage, divorce, do- ineutio cruclty, starvation of children, mar- ried women's rights, and obildren's rights, should be repealod! Tho husband and father must be left absolute lord and master, ag he used to be in barbarous times, If he marries a dozon womon, he must not be inter. fered with in the bosoms of his family, If be cgate off his lawful wife, or maltreats her, REPEAL OF THE REGISTRY LAW, ‘The State Senate yesterday passed a bill repealing the Registry nw, Messrs, Harves,- Kenor, and Roniwaos, of this county, voting for the repeal. We do not understand the motives for such action, Tho repeal of tho Inw, co far as it applies to rural districts, might not have been of any serious conse- quences ; but tho repenl of the registry in large citics removes the last barrier to frauds, Thero is no longer any check upon voting. All that s man has to do is to offor his vote and it must bo accepted. Requiring fraudu- lent voters to swear that thoy are lawful voters has boen shown by long experienco to be of no avail. Any candidato for office ttn largo city, by the expenditure of money, can contract for avy number of ilogal votes that he may need, This has beon dono hereto- foro, and, now that the Registry law is re- pealed, it will be done again, Tho voters of tho First, Second, Tenth, and Eleventh Wards will hardly underatand why Mr. Haines should voto to rondor illogal stections and fraudulent voting not only pos- sible but 9 certainty. Tho whole voto of these fonr central wards may be overruled by the numbor of reponterg who may voto in any one of Kenor’s wards, Mr. Senator Roprx- 8oN represents tho rural towns of this county, and we would like to know if ho thinks the people of thoso towns favor the ropenl of tho Registry Inw in this city when the illegal vote of a single ward in Chicago may overwhelm the entire country yote. Wo think that both of theso Senators, in this vote, sadly misroprosented the wishes of their constituents, and not only of Republic. ana but of the Democrats who favor honest elections ond honest voting. Both Tames and Ronison were elected by Republican votes; both districts aro strongly Republican; and both have been grossly and treachorously represented by their votes for tho repoal of the Registry law. Cincinnati pedagoguos appear to havo united in an attack upon the study of gram- mar by definition and rule, ‘The young idea is crampod, not cultivated, by having to mem- orize pago after pnge of what seems to the loarnor utterly unmoaning rules about cane, tense, and mood, syutax, and prosody, Tho thing learned by o child studying grammar does him little good, and the time wasted inight have been used to good purpose in somo other way, Tho Cincinnati teachory, at arecent meoting, compared o number of compositions, some of them written by scholars who had been. carofully drilled in technical grammar, and some by scholars who bad learned grammar only by rending and copying masterpieces of English litera- turo, Tho formor were as incorrect, technically, ns the Intter, and tho Iattor wero written in a botter style than tho former, This tends to show what many other teach. ers havo claimed, that tho only sonsiblo woy to teach grammar is to make pupils familiar with the choice language of great authors, Then they imbibe a good style, unconscious. ly, and write well, because tho phraseology of Tuaoxenay and Hawruonng is fresh in their minds, not because they know that o nominative is the subject of a verb, or that the conditional subjunctive ia tho proper form of a verb to express doubt, Many will wish Cincinnati instructors success in their good work, ‘That itis botter fora child to study Oxtven Gonpaura than Lipier Munnar is tho opinion of many thoughtful persons, Technical grammar is properly a study for high schools, dcadomies, and col. logos; for adults rather than children, ‘The Iinois House has dono +> good things this session,—stroego to say, Tho first was to pass the Tuterest bill, and so keep the Iluois ~carket opon to forvign capital. The se-snd was to kill the bill which pro- posed to logntizo champerty,—the practice of taking law-sults on shares, Sbyater attor- neys do this constantly, But wo regret that prominont lawyers often do the same, or oxorcises the right given him by the Ro. man law of killing his son, thore Tuat still bo “no intorference with the family." The law now obliges him to provide food, cloth ing, and shelter for his childron, but this it seems, should bo loft to his diseretion, For if ho can be compellod Ly tho State to tke cnre of the growth of the child's body, why * Bhonld he not also he compelled to cxorein, equal cara for tho development of its mind? atleast ho certainly should not hayo the right to provent the Stato from ning it, Compulsory educntion simply means that the parent shall not have the privilege of Prevent. ing his child from attending the school Pro. vided hy soctety, in caso he refuses to Bend it to any other school. Wo havo written on this subject for think. ing, reasonnble minds, and not with any fiea of converting blind, besotted, opponents, who Donat that they have nover rend what try to auswer, ‘The man who can end ¢ myrind of weak words by saying: “y have conclusively shown,” and I have no hegita, tion in denying that my conclusions ean bo Gainsaid,” exhibits n mental composition which we neithor hope nor desiro to convince of error, for ignorance, imbedded tn egotism, is something to be laughed at tather than argued with, for what cannot bo cared) iuat be endured, THE NEBRASKA PAMINT, Tho destitution in Nebraska, oopccinlly tn the frontior counties, as reported by Moj.-Gou, 2 0. ©. Onn, U.8. A. is avery day incrossing, Tho wintor bas beon a long aud severe ono on both man and besst. Tho recont curollnsat mado by officers of tho army, nnder oath, hors that tho effect of the scourge {a constantly jp. eroasing, Tho Nebroske Rollof and Aid Boclety iswued, in January, 9,000 rations daly; in Feb. ruary, 19,500; in March, 16,000; and April will probably increase it to 20,000 daily ratious, and thia navistance will have to ba continued until about tho Ist of August, boforo any crops will maturo, to enablo them to assist themselyee, Tn threo counties xecently enrolled by oftteers of tho army, thore was found cea than oon bushels of grain, all told. Their domestic ane mols aro dying, and their horecs nro unit for work in their preaout coudition, Their snine havo long sinco died, and tho poor people ary atricken with a calamity such as never bofor follupon tho industrial portions of the com munity of this uation. : ‘The Stato of Nebraska laa appropriated tothe Inst dollar which hor Constitution will elloy, and her private citizens, while suffering undu the stagnation of businona which this calamily has brought upoa thom, havo donated to thal: suffering follow-citizons with a liborality which has never beon oqualod ; but the destitution fy so oxtroma snd wido-aprend that thoy aro forest to mnko one more appeal to friends in oy States." ———— Tho manner in which the average Jorsoym evades tha paymont of taxos fs novel. Iti quires a little perjury, but that counts for noth ing when a fow hundred dollara are at ateks, The Essex County Court fe just at proront ep gaged in oxhibiting to the world at large th modus operandi, the defendant in a criminal suit of thia kind being one Heynry I. Jaques, of East Orango, N.J. This porson, it fa aiemod, on the day tho assossment was levied, investel all hia taxable property in untaxable United States bonds, selling them again a day or tw eftorward, Ho swore that ho had a balance of tu: 3553.53 in bauk, and owed that coucorn £35,000, Bs statement is contradicted flatly by witnesses ‘or the prosecution, which goca to show that Sr JaQues must havo committed perjury ina very Diundering and roprohensiblo manner, Dut the faet that to failod to apply the principle proper. ly docs not show that the principle is a bad ove, nor should it scare othor rogues from trying the samo respoctably iniquitous device. —_— For the past six months wo have been cco: stontly in recoipt of paragraphs aont to this of fice referring to tho imprisonment of one Lrmt W. Hennrnoton in tho jail of Lycoming County, Ponnaylvavia, Tho chargo against him is pris ing and circulating obacono Iteraturo, ‘This ist Dailable offonse, but it appeara from tho newe papers which make poriodical mention of tot caro that Wennixaton bas been in jail elght months without the privilege of bail, andiext far from obtaining & trial ashe over was. We know nothing of the merits of tho cago, batil the above allegations are truo, and the Willis port (Pa,) Sux und Democrat affirms that they Gro, serious injustice haa unquestionably bee dono, 3fr. Sroney will probably be allowed bu! for the same offense, Some few journals in the country, of which a examplo may be found in Chicago,—thongh not at the newadealora or among the newsboys,—st8 engaged in the business of sanding silly, hsll- brained people off to the Black Hilla, Sach mut bo the rosult of printing the glowing, st in many cases lying, roports which ara forwarded from the frontior cities of lowa concerning the large roturna realizod by tho expedition now in the Black Hills country. The journals refers! toro doubtless animated by no othor fooling than s dosire to gain aomo sort of notoriety, ff not roputation; happily, since thelr circalation and influencosre both inconslderable, thoy wilide no groat damage, eh eS eee ‘We spoko a fow dayaago of tho spelling manls and tho way it is raging all ovor tho Unios. It , lins got au far West aa Nobraoks now, Tit Eastern people havo bogua to practice refine ments of tho original torturo, Last night a grand match waa held in Providonco, R. [., the coo testanta in which wero sixty young gentlomes from Brown Univereity and an ogual number of young Iadios from tho State Normal Sobool. Tu goneral expectation seemed to bo, at laste! vices, that the collegiana would be vanqulsbed though not ingloriously, They are too gellsol to give e seat to a lady when alo wishee to stn up, and, besides, they ara not as good spellet as the Normal students, polenta ley es It waa a little sovere upon the British Gover mont that, whilo with much ceremony it wad take ing possession of the Fiji Islands by the abi tion of King Kaconay, a rare cannibal entertsla- ment was being given in ono of tho distsol islands of the gronp. ‘The first news was dit eroditod, but additional roporta confirm the aE Honncomont. ‘Tho brig James Birney, of Sy ney, which sailed May 4, 1874, with crow of $20 man, to collect beche-do-mer, pyt in toone the islands, and tho natives ato the crew. only conaolation civilized peoplo can find ds that tho canpibate had a protty tough meal, for tbe svorage Sydney mariner is rathor a hard case. a ‘ Frosh oncouragoment of the ao-called game of chess bag boen found iu the use of poutsl-cards. A cont a move {4 cheapenough ; and, by pate tothe mails for communication botwoen ts players, evorybody has time enough to let * thoughts surge over the board. Then yaa the satisfaction of knowing that no deluded low-creatnre is boing robbed of bis natural ines Aud sloep in consequence of the quoon's late esting situation, or the Ling’s imminent perth F , any leager comp!ications, pment ‘The New York Dulletin affoote to bo surprised 48 recent bill Introduced into the Maine ad lature to regulate the sale of eggs by Welé Te ta truo that the bill wan rejected, but vat ago would have surpriaod nobody. 4 stall whose Legislsture dictates what » men drink, should feel no sstoniahmont at tue Pe sage of w Jaw regulating the method of cooking eggeas well selling thom, ———— ea r Officers of the Chicago City allway Compe! have Loen inquiring Lato the facts of the ba ly allegod assault upon s lady in one of bere night cars, and they have produced 62 ” from one of tue gentlemen in the cat § they