Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1875.—-SIXTEEN PAGES. = TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. “MATES OF EUZSCEIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). e Prepaid at this Office. The cost of removal to the tax-payers will, then, be about as follows: Bent for five yéara, at $25,090 Constraction of adequate vauits on “the faith and resources of the natio: The resources of the nation are its revenue from taxes, and the taxes are measured by the property of the whole people. The in slips of twenty, and no money is taken on the cars. In 1874, the number of persons who used these trains was 266,560. The net profits were $7.16 per trip. The class of to produce ; capital is the result of the effort of yesterday, and furnishes new facilities, and helps to production for to-day’s effort. To hold that there is anything more sacred cons, or the young people might spell against the old people, andnow and then the Churches might unite and pit their ministers against each other. Thus the Churches might ac- State’: mn for high crimes, and every one of the others was a frequent inmate of alms. house and jail. Of the 623 descendants, 200 fre on record as criminals, and those of the others who lived beyond infancy have been, Bitied 7BS0 | Rietechlatenss5> 4°98 | New Astor, fumitare, es _ bis | by the property of the whole Pevrie’ ith | persons enrried has steadily Sproved. At | about today’s labor than there is about yes- | complish their purposes via brains suther Bundey Hai 3 col pI . «$185,000 which it is to execute its contracts. Tho first there was some prejudice egainst the | terday’s labor issjmply absurd. It is worse than stomachs, and disseminate education 4s | according to the report of the New York ‘The cost of leaving the Courts where they ‘yyorkingmen’s trains.” For a time women than absurd, because it is direct discourage- | well as morality. Give usthe spelling-match, | State Charities Aid Association, ‘‘idiota, im. th 5 ‘WastTzD—Une sctivo agent in exch town and village. Special arrancemonts mode with scch, ‘Specimon copies s=nt free. Toprevent delay and mistekee, be euro and give Port- Office address in fall, incloding State and County. ‘Rorulttencesmay bemade eitherby draft, express, Post- are is nil, for the expenditure to secure better ventilation will ba no more for the present building than for a new building. - As this is the only valid objection to the present loca- new monetary system is peculiarly free from any support either from the good faith or the resources of thenation. ‘The ‘paper money” ig not to be redeemed. The new system dif- fera from the old in the fact that there is to rarely traveled by them. There is no trace of this feeling now. The cheap trains have not made money at the expense of the regular trains. They have created a new class of moved into the ment of the habit of saving. If to-day’s labor is sacred and yesterday’s is not,—if the former has rights and the latter none,—then saving the product of yesterday's labor is an ungrateful and unprofitable practice. for bad spelling is a species of sin. = WAPOLEON iv. Within the past few days, the rumors of MacManoy’s wish to bring back the Boxa- beciles, drunkards, lunatics, paupers, and prostitutes.” 7 ‘We commend to disbelievers in compulsory ednestion, and to believers in the reckless charity which keeps alive the body and kills (Office erder, or in recistered letterr, at ocr risk. tion, and as it can be overcome at trifling ‘ ; j. | travel. Workmen have ‘<ErMs UBSCRIDERS. ane * . be no ent or redemption of this. substi- vi ‘ a at " pens, anne TO SET sunecAIEDS. | | expense, we feel justified in denouncing the | P=ne Paymen’ Oe iTyed itis issued for- | suburbs, and the old residents there go tothe | Put the workiagman upon the efforts of to- ca ee mtb agewrth Morera, | the son), this story, too true, of Mancanzz, Daliy, delivered, Sundey included, JO cents pez week. | proposed expenditure of $185,000 as a profii- ‘There is no “faith” pledged to re- | city more frequently than they did. The | day alone, unassisted by the savings of past ; 5 i » | the mother of criminals, 4 Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, ta i ved in the interest of some } CV™ ee + A ibuted to th a have gained sufficient strength at Paris to be ‘Comar Madison snd Dearborn-ste., Chicago, DL | 8° job, conceived in the interes! deem it, and no “resources” collected on de- | cheap trains have contribute © pros. | efforts; repent the operation from day to day, | + Jonraphed to this country. ‘The be = % person or persons with unrented buildings on | "9+ ¢°. its payment. It is not to be an evi- | perity of the railroad, the suburls, tho city, | and he would be #somy and wretched crea- Hee ee ee ho athiag meres tac, | _ The problem of, perpetual motion seema in ‘TO-MORROW’S AMUSEMENTS. their hands, ‘We protest against it inthe | PO" OF ant nor an “obligation” on tho | the workingmen, and so of society in gen- | tare. ‘He would stand oat in the world naked. dena anit ine delay ere aceate: | 8 fair way to be solved by the patriotic elec. “} name of every tax-payer of Cook County. t+ itis tobe ‘money,’ | eral. , He would have no clothes to keep him warm. Manon a Assem- | tors of Tipperary. On the 15th ult, Jomy ADELPHI TURATRE—Dearborn street, corner Mon- part of the Government; itis tobe yy ——_ pte bly to form a definite Government has made fatene ' ree. Varicty eatertainmont. == 1 f coin, and, like coin, whon are Ho “would have no tools to begin with. He aot Mrrenzz was elected to Parliament over Es —_— : THE NEW MONETARY SYSTEM. te take Che Paes et castaption ‘68. Gav" KANSAS AND HER SUFFERERS. | vould have no zw material to work up. | PedPle remember thee he owes his rise to the | Moone, Conservative, by a handsome majori : {ACADEMY OF MUSIC-Heletedetrestpetnomttst: | Ibis dificult to treat the proceedings of | ™% isened, to need no redemption oF OY" | ‘The country has been distress a jos in | He would haveno shelter to cover him, He | {P¥ of Naroueon IIL If the Emperor of | ty On the 16th, Disraeli gave notice that he 5 Bearer thas Live™ and ©" Tue Dodger. the Cleveland Convention, which has just or. | Ment or be of farther concern to the nation. | peated announcements of the destitution in |e ree arene ae te cates hime, Hyg | the French had not made him a Marshal, the | should ofr a resolution declaring him in ig —— ganized “tho Independent party,” with The new monetary system does away wi the western parts of Kansas, caused by the eGuld hark etnias handed and alone: will th French Assembly would never have made capable of election. On the 18th, Parliament i acres ee crete: Boul: | seriousness, ‘The party may be aT have | notes, obligations, and debts by tho nation. | ravages of tho grasshoppers last fall. Ap. | PU™' mn! Bt seacietar ee ke © | him President. Gen, Monx and Marshsl| OU .ae, new writ of election in the Ty 8 *¥ as You Like It." its central power in Indianapolis, where | 1* deals only with money. It abolishes coi, | penis have been issued by numerous organi- | °°? pe te uaa Tal i the Y *@- | Sennaxo farnish him precedents for restoring | persry District. On the 20th, Mrrox is = GRAND, OPERA-ROUSE—Clark street, oppotite | awells its expectant candidate for the Presi- and metallic money, and everything embody- | rations imploring immediate relief for the ties of pdagrah uauone i tna: an exiled Prince. The Marshal-President, presented himself as a candidate. On the SPGrategs Ae + toons ans Goncy. ‘The entire platform of the party is | iS labor valna, and substitutes therefor | wholly destitate and provision for the com- See eae atonal to wock andes te, | However, .is too proud of his place 1 | 11¢n inst, the second election took place, re q Sue is styled a new “ me «paper money,”—not paper promises to Pay; | ing season in the way of seed. The number iti 5 sanction the return of Narorzon IV. Snaank A Par 4 Sacrifice,” and ** The Swise Sains.” i si all these things are abolished ; but it pro- | nas been variously estimated, and by some as : end of his own seven years’ lease of er =n eee! ret % ————————— Ibis the daty of the Government to establish a] hehe z zs that furnishes him with clothes, and fc A than his first majority. Of course Parlia 2 SOCIETY MEETINGS. monetary system basod on the faith and resources of vides forpaper “money hich paver money high as thirty thousand persons. ‘These peo- i ues ele thes, and ood power, the sonof his old Emperor eo ald | he Be ee ee Or eae mo a once issued is no longer 8 charge up! ple have had no assistance save such as ‘é chosen to succeed his father, it cannot be| 14 tne “byes” of Tipperary will elect URGAS CHAPTER POSE CROIX, D.°.H.".R.*; Sor OA hala nreeuler Se ohorad Weir Bacrod the nation, in harmony with the genius of this Govern- ment, and sdapted to the industrial and commorcial needs of the country, To this end the notes of all Na- nation, but, like coin, the property of who- ever may hold it, to do with it as he please, has been voluntarily contributed by tho humane and charitable of other States. tools, and thus makes his present efforts a thonsand times more productive than they doubted that the Marshal would prefer him to a Prince of the Orleans blood, to a Gax- Mrrczen again, and, as the operation taker about a fortnight, we may expect to see Jomy 2. ‘Aiviam, on Thursday evoning, tae leth inst., for work on | | asa seeuld be withdegwa from ai a ° x n t! Sam Lieb and Uh Geert Up aW,. BB DL. waiitisa’ ‘and paper money ixsued by the Government | to sell it, or hoard it, or exchange it for what- | Giothing, money, and provisions have would ibe otheoyue. as pa capital, Hien 1, to Hi Ging, to anybody else who Se am oon teen soever he may need orcan get. Wesubmit|y.on forwarded in large quantities from | ¥UC1)8 e term applies savings of | cht clutch at the vacant chair. If the peo- ae naar a ack wagiine sa ED GOUDALSE, Gr. ‘WELCOME LODGE, No. 1, K. of P.—Al members petal bates ‘their’ Gastle Hall on Tharscay aro ca At 8 0" ‘a3 tbe consali- Sreaine, the 18th inst, at € o'clock sbarp, a the sie tb Gitiun of Nos. 1nd 1 wil take plac JORS J. MITCHELL, K. of Hand 3. eardisily invited. 33; 1G! . 4, A. FP. & A. ‘M.—Regular eLBICAGO LODGE, Moccing, tins of Onental hal, 1M LaSaile-st. Bicmbers are requested to be prosent 26 Lethe gare Te a es to obango of By-Laws. rhs g - MM. Boo. Rey spummnouten tered SHG i bate na ae a 0. H. CRANI ASHLAR, F&A. Mo LODGE, No 38, ALF. # A. Mf Te a favived. fi, Seorctary. \{TTENTI' ENIGHTS !—Stated, conclave of ext CS ae Gas ie Slonday evening, aig Seta a ee ne ta e001 ¥ Me 5 me GA. WILLIAMS, Besoorder. Lad ASHIN( IN CHA: 0. E. 8.—Second aD gacatle one. held at West T'wellth-st. Turner ‘Ball, Monday Evening, Mareb 15, 165. —_—_————— BUSINESS NOTICES directly to the people, in payment of the Government obligctions, without the intervention of any system of Danlang corporations, which money shall be legal tender in pcyment of all debts, public and private, duties on imports included, except that portion of in- terest and principal of the present public debt that is by express terms of the Iw creating it made payable in metallic money; this money to be interchangeable at the option of the holders with reqistered Government bonds bearing a rate of interest not exceeding 8.65 per cent per annum. ‘This system contains four propositions: First—A monetary system based on the ‘faith and resources of the nation, in harmony with the genius of this Government.” Leaving out of view the genins of the Government cs a poeticol rhapsody having no parhcular meaning, we are to understand that the re- sources and faith of the Government are to be the foundation on which the system is to rest. Second—That all bank-notes are to be prohibited and “paper money” issued by to the intelligence and common sense of all classes of the community, and especially of the great bulk of the people who live upon their daily earnings and wages, the probable condition of affairs when coin and coin-val- ‘ues will be abolished and ‘‘ money ” will con- sist exclusively of mere pieces of paper ro- deemable at no time or place, and not even bearing the character of a promise, or even the-evidence of adebt. How many reams of such stuff will it take to buy a dinner ? THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION. Now that the dust and smoke of the battle in New Hampshire have cleared away, it is possible to ascertain results and see how the two parties stand. The Democrats have elected two of the three Congressmen,— numerically a gain of one, but practically of no importance, considering the majority the time to time, In the early part of January the Legislature of Kansas met, and the sub- ject was brought to its attention, not only by the Governor, but by the members repre- senting the suffering portions of the State. The winter has been an unusually severe one; and after,being sixty days in session the Leg- islature, notwithstanding the incessant ap- pels of the starving and perishing people, and the confessed want of seed forthe coming season, adjourned without taking any action. ‘The bill appropriating the $100,000 surplus revenue in the Trossury was defeated, not be- cause of any question as to the power of the Legislature, or any doubt as to the duty of the Stete thus to provide forher own afflicted citizens, but becauso of a difference of opinion as to tho justice of making the amount thus distributed a charge, in the nature of a debt, on the counties in which past efforts essociated with presont efforts, entitled to the same rospect as labor, which is present effort encouraged and helped by the savings of past efforts? Is there any reason why capital should sustain all the loss in bad times, and labor none? Shall misfortune be visited upon past efforts alone, and savings thus made unattractive, whilo present effort shall be rewarded always the same? It was the gross ignorance of the Pittaburg puddiers which betrayed them into this sophism. They choso idleness and total waste rather than bear their proportion of the decline in the nominal price of the commodity they helped to produce. ‘They overlooked the fact that, if they would receive fewer dollars for their work, the money would have more purchasing power, and that $5.50 lest year would go as far as $6.50 before the panic in purchasing the neces- ple of France vote, in 1880, for their chief magistrate, their votes will be probably cast and certainly counted as the powers that be will Intimidation and ballot-box stuffing were elevated to a fine art under-the Empire. The story of the vote on the cession of Nice- Savoy to France, as Prof. Apaxs tells it, reads like the record of an election in Louisiana in 1872, or New York City, under Tammany Hall, in 1868, If Naroxron IV. is one of the candidates for the executive power, the sup- port of MacMaxon maybe the one thing needed to turn the scale. It is by no means improbable that the boy who waits at Chiselhurst for France to call him will hear the call ere long. He has graduated at the great Woolwich School, efter a public examination, with high honors. The staid Spectator says that his standing proves conclusively that he “has in him the until Parliament adjourns or some one dies. The Tipperary electors, having discovered this effectual method of keeping o thorn ir the side of Joma Buzz, Will not be likély tc desist so long as there is an opportunity to keep Mr. Mrrcnet in motion. ‘We may now dismiss all apprehensions that we may have felt of the coming of a flood. It isnotmore threatening than the destruction by fire for which the Millerites have fixed anothez date. We can safely tell the modern Noag to go on with his ark, and that it ‘ain't much of a shower.” As we look back at it, we must all feel surprise that there were sa many people ready to entertain any notion of a flood. Of coure we—you and T—never dreamed of such a thing. Je knew there would be no heavy rains(?). We knew the snow would silently steal away into (ne the Government directly to the people. | Dro ocnts alrend, 3 a : ; 3 iy have in the House, this Eb betoe 3 OAT Care Oetenes zoe reach, idea dad | THird—This “paper money tobe a legel | Co having been gained owing to the per. | the money was used to feed the hungry, See aes Beslas fact they demanded | o¥ing of an able man.” ‘This seems like | river under the amorous glances of old S:1 Sibottbin Gun Teota, Firsciees osld lilies wat- | tender in payment of all debis, including da- | 161 not politieal, unpopularity of lis op- | clothe the naked, warm tho freezing, and | 1.4 of the panic rages, and that too tee | patting too much faith in one examination: | TWe knew that a gradaal thaw undera gracions furnish seed for the crop of 1875. Unable to P ‘4 "The fact that a Yorkshireman pussed a better | spring-time sun would bring back nature with Fanted, end no fen’ refunded. nd po feng rics jamiolpaate She Ghvags Ceibune. ties on imports, except in peyment of such interest and principal of the public debt as kes been contracted to be paid in gold. Fourth—This paper money to be interchange- able for,registered bonds bearing interest at ponent. The Republicans have secured the joint ballot in the Legislature and the Gov- ernor, and the Democratic majority of last year of 1,500 votes has been wipedout, This rosult shows that the Democratic current hes get mortgage on the property of those ro- lieved to secure the return of the money thus advanced, the Legislature adjourned, leaving the destitute to suffer from want, and to go which they insisted upon would buy more last winter than $6.50 would purchase in 1873, before the panic, when overything was inflated and dear. The waste of labor and eapital thus in- examination in French than the Prince did will not be considered as a proof that the latter does not know his native tongue. Still, the examination put a feather in the cap of all its glories of slush and mud, and without the penalties that have been inflicted on mora wicked communities. We have an ides that ‘we must partly thank the ba? quality of the :, the rate of 3.65 per cent. Before proceeding i ithout seed for their crops. the Jniperial dida d his 3 25 = Bundsy Morning, March 14, 1875. ey . Pa come to a stand-still, and that the party has | without seed for their crops. " = . e cy pel candidate, an is party | Chicago River for our escape. Good, so‘id, to examine this platform it is well to under | 104, set-back, It is substantially a Re-| ‘The same Legislature was liberal in its ap- vate De of work bas redtnesd the | iro wild with joy over his suc- | gubstantial ice couldn't form there. The ice, Producing | cess, He will mow, doubtless, go | like the water, was the product of the «: ANOTHER? COUNTY JOB PROPOSED. ‘We understond that the Commitiea having the matter in charge is being strongiy pressed ond urged to recommend to the Courty Board that the county shail rent some building or ‘buildings in the city, or a portion of several buildings, at a rentel of not less than $25,000 a year, for the necommodation of the Circuit and Superior Couris. ‘This ian job. The Courts are now located in the City-Hell, where they have been since its construction shortly after the fire of 1871. ‘The ground and building belong to the city, which has’ charged the county only nominel rent for the large amount of room it occupies. It is mot pro- posed to advance the rent. The fact is that the property belongs to the tax-payers __ pf Chicago (who constitute both city and county practically), and it is used for their benefit. It is now proposed to abandon this property, which would be useless for any ether purpose, and compel the tax-payers to pay $25,000 a yebr for the next five years, besides large incidental expenditures which might be saved. "Phe reasons assigned for the proposed re- moval are bad ventilation and insecurity of the vaults from possible fire, If these objec- tions really existed, and were insupers- ble, they would justify a removal, even et the great expense involved. But one of them does not exist, and the other may be overcome very easily. The vaults are not only not insecare, but they are probably the best vaults in the city or State, and are certainly tho most spacious. They are formed from the walls of the old reservoir, around which tho City-Hall is constructed, and are of immense thickness; they were built orig- inally to sustain a large and heavy body of water, and are consequently altogether moro solid and substential than ihe ordinary vault walls of firstcloss business blocks. The space within these circular walls hes been di- vided into segments, and a number of very large ond convenient vaults construct. ed, which are easy of access from the different Ccurts and offices using them. No mstter how much combustible material may be in the City-Hall itself, and around and about these circular walls, no fire could ever penetrate into the vaults if the doors were closed. There is certainly no business block im Chicago, tenanted or untenanted, which contains vaults that are as Jarge, as substan- Gal, or as convenient of access; and to con- stract them in another building would cost from $40,000 to $50,000. As to ventilation, we have the testimony of a competent architect, and one of the highest reputation, and who bas constracted some of the finest buildings in the city, that good ventilation can be provided ct aw cost of $2,000. Is it not better to spend $2,000 in this way, or ice or thrice that amount, than to pay $25,060 a year for another building? Bo sides, the same expense would have to bo incurred in providing proper ventilation for any private building that might be Jeased. Buildings not constracted for public pur- poses and large crowds have no better yentils- tion than the present City-Hall; most of them not so good. The City-Hall isa build- ing 200 feet each way. The larger court- rooms are 40x40, and the smaller 35x40, feet in dimensions. All of them are Aftcen high, —es high asany of the rooms in private or business blocks, Any need for ventilation in the City-Hall would elso be felt in equal de- gree in any building the county could possi- bly rent, and it will cost uo more to ventilate one than the other. ‘The present location has great ndvan- tages over any other that could be selected. Ko building could be found that would for- nish the same amount of court-room in two stories. Itis more likely that some of the Courts would be located on the third, fourth, and perhaps the fifth storics, ins new build- ing. Judges, jurors, clerks, lawyers, and Gants would have to climb several flights of stairs, instead of one or none 2s at present. stand the condition of affairs to which it is to be applied. Wo have a public debt which, excluding the bonds issued to the Pacific Reilrosd Com- panies, amounted, Jan. 1, 1875, to $2,251,- 690,468. Of this sam $497,000,000 bore no interest, $14,000,000 bore 3 per cent interest in peper, and $1,719,000,000 was represented in bonds. Of all this debt represented in bonds, the law creating it required tho inter- est and principal to be paid in coin, except the 5-20 bonds of 1862, which were suthor- ized before the greenbacks were invented or made legel tenders. No mention of coin was made in the lsw acthorizing their issue, be- cause nothing but coin was then known to thelaw. Of the whole bonded debt, there is none upon which there is any ques- tion as to the contract to pay in coin save these bonds of 1862, of which there were in December last only $169,090,090 ontstanding, end of this sum $35,000,000 hes been called in since, leaving only $129,000,000 yet to be taken up. Theso aro the only bonds whose charecter as gold bonds, interest and principel, has not been defined by law. Admitting that these, by an act of bed faith and a violent construction of law, may be lawfully redeemed in legal tenders, they form but an insignificant por- tion of the whole debt. The interest on them must bo paid in gold, because the green- backs have never been a legal tender in pay- ment of interest. The new monetary system is to be applied to this condition of things. Having abolished all other forms of currency, it requires the issue of legel-tender United States notes “‘ di- rectly to the people.” Of course the people who receive theso notes must give something in exchenge for them. Théy must surrender their bonds, or they must render service, or exchange property for thom. Tho ordinary expenses of the Government ere $160,000,000 a yesr, exclusive of interest on the debt, and these, we suppose, are to be paid with paper money, The Government is also to receive them in payment of daties on imports in place of gold. In short, the new system substitutes what it calls ‘‘paper money ” for all other forms of money known to the world, except, as we have shown, in the payment of interest and principal of the bonded debt. As this interest, amountingin round numbers to $10,000,000 a year, kas to be paid in gold, that much coin will have to be purchased, and, instead of receiving it at par for taxes on imports, under the new systam, the Treasury will go into the market and purchase it with greenbacks. Tho importance of this change will dcpend somewhat on the value which the legal tenders will have in exchange for gold. They are now worth 88 cents on the ~ doller, and when the new monetary system will go into effect they will, in all probability, have a less value, —say, for illustration, 75 cents,—in which case it will require $131,000,000 in legal tenders to purchase the $100,000,000 of gold to pay the annual interest on the debt, This will ba equivalent to on addition of nearly one- third to the present rate of interest on the public debt. But justice requires that it should be stated that all the legal teiders issued under thenew system may be regarded as clear profit,—they aro‘never to be redeemed. It is true the holder of tham is to have the privilege of in- vesting them in 8.65 per cent bonds, the ia- terest and principal of which are payeble in legal tenders, Being redeemable only in others of the ‘same kind, they are practically irredeemable. Human ingenuity has never yet devised a note or other evidence of dabt that did not contain, expressed or im. plied, o promise to pay, and the value of the debt is not in the paper evidence thereof, but in the promise to pay, and the means to enforce the performance of that promise. The present legal tenders con- tain a promise to pay. Under the new mone- tary system thereis to be no promise; on tho contrary, they are to be issucd npon the ex- pressed understanding that they are not to be redeemed at all The roader oan estimate for publican victory. There was no reason why the Democracy should not ‘have achieved a decisive Victory in New Hamp- shire,—s victory as extensive as those which occurred in November. They were in power in the State. They had the precedents of November to work upon. Their election took place immediately after the adjournment of a Congress which, to say the least, had not been s popularone. They hed vigorously canvassed the State with Northern and South- ern orators, firimg the popular heart. There was also no reason for tho Republicans to ex- pect to carry it. They fought in a forlorn hope. They not only contended with the Democratic party in power, but with the Re~ publican blunders and mistakes. The result shows areaction. The currenthasstoppedinits onward course and turned the other way,—a mostominoussymptom for theDemocracy. It shows that, notwithstanding the present fail- ures and mistakes of the Republicans, the people are hesitating ebout placing the Gov- ernment in the hands of the Democracy. ‘Their professions of reform are at a discount; there is a lack of faithin them. It shows that the deluge of November was not com- pletely overwhelming. It gives the Bepub- licans of New Hampshire a position from which fhey can hardly be dislodged, and it argues that, notwithstanding the reverse of Inst year, the Republican party is still alive, strong in the popular confidence, and that its principles are still necessary to the welfare of the Government. Wherever the Democrats are in power they show no improvement upon the Republicans, but have done worse, and the New Hampshire election only proves that the people ara already beginning to distrust their protestations of reform. HOW TO BUILD UP OUR SUBURBS. The entire success of the experiment of running cheap trains for workingmen on the Boston Railroad should not be lost on men interested in suburban real estate here—or anywhero, Every large city contains thou- sands of workingmen who live with their families in damp, dirty, unsunned tenements, on undrained and unpaved alleys, Their homes. sre squalid, destitute of attraction. Tho men themselves seck relief from their dismal rooms in the saloon, and their“chil- dren run away to the schools of the street. They psy for thess wretched hovels 8 sum wrbich would yield 2 good percentage to any holder of suburban real estate who should rent them a small house and good-sized plot of ground at the same rates. If they should move into the country, the gain in health, comfort, and chances for intellectual and moral growth would be great, very great. Moreover, the hegira of part of the work- ing classes into the suburbs would enable thosa who remained in the city to get better lodgings at cheaper retes. Three things prevent such an exodus from Chicago toour suburbs. Trains do not ron at such hours that 2 man can come into town, dos fall (ortisan’s) day's work, and get back home in time for tea; farea are too high; and there has been no organized effort to attract mechanics, clerks, and laborers, to any par- ticular suburb, A ‘great profit waits for the owner of a suburb who will persuade the managers of his connecting railroad to run the sort of trains the Boston Road has found so successful, and who will then sell or lease, on fair terms, small houses, built on good-sized lots, to Chicago mechan- ics and mercantile employes. The trains must leave the suburb about 6:30 a. m., as they do Lynn, and must leavo.the city about 6:30 p. m., 28 they do Boston. The fare should be 5 cents for the whole distance, or any part of it, so that the men can use the steam-cars os cheaply as they can the horse-cars, It is es- sential, too, that the continuanceof the trains for at least four or five years shonld be guar- anteed by the real-estate owners. Compliance with these conditions, and judicions advertis- ing, would, we believe, cover many acres of any convenient suburb. with the homes of workingmen and wage class employed in Chi- cago. We have already published copious re- propriations for public buildings, salaries, and the payment of claims, but voted nothing for the suffering people who had been visited by the calamity, and they passed resolations thanking the benevolent of other States who had sent aid to Kansas, but gave noaid them- selves, This proceeding is most extraordinary, and one whith the State will have cause to regret. It will have ao serious effect in checking pri- vate aid. It will be accepted by the country as susceptible of two interpretations: first, that no Legislature would have thus acted hed they any faith that the destitution existed with the soverity represented; and, second, that the Legislature songht to throw the whole business of aiding the unfortunate upon the kindness and benevolence of the people of States, cities, and communities out- side of Kansas.- Either conclusion must be fatal to the credit of the State. A LESSON FOR WO2XINGHEN, The experience of the puddlers’ strike in Pittsburg, which has lasted all winter, should not bo overlooked by workingmen in any section of the country, nor in any branch of industry. It is a startling epitome of the want and suffering which the laboring classes may bring upon themselves by ignorant judg- ment and ill-temper. “It is a solemn warning against the indulgence of mere prejudices end the assertion of unrensonadle demands, at the sacrifice of eniployment, savings, and the comforts and happiness of homo. It is another and conspicuous example of tho in- efficacy of “strikes” as o means to enforce compliance with demands that exceed the limits of ordinary prudence end profit. It is & new and conclusive proof that, however much capital may suffer in 0 dead-lock and enforced suspension of business, the lnbor ing classes suffer a hundredfold more. Strikes are utterly inadequate to the adjust- ment of the relations between employers and the-employed; the former may sustain ao serious loss af capital and the interest there- on, but the latter suffer the loss of bread for themselves and those dependent upon them. This is true even when the cause of the} strike is a just one; when the strike is the result of excesaive and unreasonable de- mands on the part of the sirikers their loss is all the greater, for the employers can better afford to allow their capital to remain idle than to use it at a loss. ‘Tho: Pittsburg strike shows the far-reach- ing nature of the resulting calamity. The number of puddlers who refused to work at the rates offered was only 1,700, but it is es- timated that their action threw 20,000 men out of employment in and about Pittsburg, and 60,000 men throughout the country, whose employment depended upon the orig- inal work of the puddlers, The strike arose from the unwillingness of the workingmen to bear their share of the losses incident to the penic. Iron went down toa figure where it ‘was no longer profitable to employ puddlers at the old wages, which were $6.50 per ton. ‘The employers notified the puddlers that they could not afford to pay $5.50; tho pud- ders demanded $6 or nothing. Work was stopped at the iron-mills, and consequently at the factories working up iron into all sorts of utensils, Tho puddlers thought the price of iron would increase, owing to the falling off in production, On the contrary, it decreased, and the owners of the mills are not able to- day to pay more than $4.50 a ton, while the men might have had work daring most of the winter at $5.50 per ton. . The puddlers re- mained obstinate, and the result is that’ the industry of a whole city has been prostrated, and a great business interest paralyzed. The unemployed thousands have exhausted their savings, and are suffering from hunger and want. Their employers are badly off, it is true, but the workmen are in an infinitely worse condition, as the consequences of this miserable civil war. 2 ‘This strike came, a3 we have eaid, from the refusal of the workingmen to share the re- verses of a panic and hard times, Their ro- fusal is the direct outgrowth of a@ mysterious eapacity of labor—present effort—to the ex- tent of this destraction, which is estimated in Pittsburg at ten millions. The only peaceful and profitable solation of differences between employers and employed in iron-making and coal-mining is a fair dis- tribution, according to results, of the prof- its of the industry in question. In some branches of industries-this can be determined by a sliding scale of prices, according to which wages shall rise and fall with tho mar- ket price of the commodity produced ; in others, arbitration at any time there is dis- satisfaction on the part of employer or em- ployed is mor» practicable. The principle is the same in buth cases, and is entirely just and equitable, The working classes have it in their power “to secure this adjustable system of psy whenever they shall have over- come their absurd hostility to capital, and learned thet strikes are only productive of total waste, in which they suffer infinitely more than their employers. SPELLING-XATCHES. "The latest mania which has seized upon Young America is that of spelling-matches. They have spread as rapidly as the epizootic did. It is an old custom which had fallen in- to disuse, but hasbeen revived with a rapid- ity which is troly astonishing. Commencing in New England, only a few weeks ago, they have quickly spread to the West, the last place to be attacked being Nebrasko. The object of these matches is a very excellent one, the proceeds and rewards being given to the poor. They are innocent in charac. ter, not liable to lead people into temptation, and are cheap and tranquilizing. They do not excite the passions, keep people out very Inte at nights, or distract their at- tention from business. In these respects they are much to be preferred to church lot- teries, religious raffles, Jarley wax-works, and other similar modes of spreading the Gospel into heathen lands. Some of the facts con- nected with these matches are very peculiar. Although nearly all women are accustomed to have bad spells at times, they almost in- variably come of victorious in theso matches, and put down the tyrant man without any difficulty. Men of literary pretensions heye been floored with ‘‘faccid,” ‘‘ flageo- let,” “ballast,” “balance,” ‘‘ privilege,” *‘capillary,” “colossal,” ‘‘ correlate,” “ ap- pall,” and even little monosyllabic words, hurled at them by the gentler sex. At a spelling-match in Indianapolis, the other day, Prof. W. O. Benn, editor of the School Journal, and formerly Superintendent of the Educational Department of the city, spelled “allege” with a ‘‘d,” and, upon his retire- ment, was made the recipient of a huge esbbage bouquet. Other persons in literary walks of life were spelled down with very simple words. * Asacheap form of popular education, the spelling-match is to be commended. The condition of the public spell is simply fear- ful. We receive daily scores of communics- tions written for Taz Cmosco Tamoxe whose spelling is bad enough to make one's hair stand on end. The fault does not seem to pertain to any particular class. The poets, of whom Tue Trrscxe has about 4,000 in training, perhaps spell the worst, but, as they ere laboricg under a “fine frenzy,” they take any lingual liberty they please with impunity. The ministers and par- sons are frequently frightful spellers. We obtain every week manuscript sermons for publication which require the whole force of the office to unspell Politicians, story- writers, lawyers, merchants, clerks, and cor- respondents of both sexes, send their favors to us without a blush at the enormities they perpetrate in orthography. For this reason, we are glad to see that the spelling-match is abroad in the land; but what i8 Chicago doing? Why do no’ our churches institute these matches jinstesd of exhausting people with parlor concerts, dramatio entertainments, wax works, half-and-half operatic entertainments, sociables, etc. ? through the stereotyped formula for exiled French Princes. He will write a neat, epi- grammatic letter, offering his services as a soldier to France. ‘The offer will be declined. His party press will blazon the fact. Thou- sands of people, natural-born dupes, will say or think: ‘He loves his country andis de- nied the chance to serve her; it is unjust.” When he makes his real appeal to the people, he will have much in his favor. The disas- ters of the Inte war have been skillfully thrown upon subordinate Generals. Bazarve is one scapegoat. Wrerren has been made another by the Bonspartist bully, Paun pa Cassacvac, who has _per- suaded a jury, before whom Wrme- FEN sued him for libel, that his charges - that the surrender of Sedan wes due to Wnerren ere true. Then, a great-deal of bad feeling was buried in the grave of the dead Emperor. His son inherits all of the good and only part of the bad. He bas the glamour of o great name behind him. He will come as the representative of universal suf- frage, and that fact will have enormous weight. The Assembly bas shown itself willing to limit the franchise, and the classes affected thereby are looking backward—and forward—to the days of the Naroxzoy rule, when the franchise was and will be free. The peasantry always sustained the Empire. They may do so again. THE STORY OF MARGARET. Itisnota pretty story. It is short and foul. If expanded into a volume, it would not be considered one of the books without which no gentleman's library is complete. It would not do for a Sunday-school book, be- cause Mancarer never became converted. She was a very heterodox person. Her probable disbelief in the hell of the here- after cannot be condoned by her exertions to organize an earthly hell in the present. Still, despite these disadvantages, the story is of sterling value. Its awfal traths should not be lost on the soft souls whose foolish, reck- less charity to-day is breeding the paupers, the idiots, and the criminals of to-morrow. Eighty-five years ago, Manaarer was 8 little waif in one of the villages on the Upper Hudson. Her parents were dead, or had de- serted her. She was thrown upon the world. ‘The world had three things todo. It might have sent her to school and trained her for a life of active and honorable toil; or it might have left her alone, and so insured her Speedy death; or it might have thrown crumbs and cast-off clothing at her, and so kept the wretched body just alive, while mind and conscience were starved into nothingness, It chose the worst of the three. Educating the child would have been on ‘interference with the parental rights ” of her loving progenitors. It would have been an “ intrusion upon the domestic circle,” an act of “centralization,” or ‘* papa government.” It was not to be thought of. So the child was not sent to school. ‘There wos no interference with her proud privilege of growing up dunce, fool, and knave combined, As for letting her die, the world had not then been educated, and has not yet been, up to the point of seeing the palpable fact that death is a thousand times better than pauperism, and that the truest kindness to society and the individual is to let the beg- gar perish,—unless ke can be reclaimed from beggary, as he generally might be and almost never is. The village on the Upper Hudson cursed Mancansr by keeping her alive and a beeeee + She has cursed the country in re- As she grew up, she attracted to herself two other girls in the same plight. Without training, without 2 home, with nothing to do but to beg and sin, they pursued their sole occupations vigorously. They were mere children themselves when they began to bear illegitimate children. Mancarer was the most prolific of the three, but they were all human rmbbits. Their children were born thieves, panpers, and prostitutes. No. “‘com- pulsory-education™ law interfered with the ers. It was rotten, and went to pieces at first breath of s warm breeze from the sout1- west. And so we are safe. For some time past the Park Commisrion- ers have been engaged in a condemnation vese to get possession of the W. fractional hal ot the N. E. fractional 3 of Sec. 24, T. 38. RL 14, containing some 77 acres. On Saturday the jury brought in s verdict of $5,700 per acre, ‘The land lies at the south side of the most southerly South Park, and is from 14 te 13 miles south of the Hyde Park Hotel, and some 8 miles south of the Cour! House, Before the location of the Park it is safe to say that il could not have been sold for $500, and bow any jury could have brought in such 2 ver dict is past ourcomprehension. Adjo‘ning lands are advertised this morning at $2,000 per acre, and lands very much nearer the city can be bought for that figure. Juries, like office-holders, seem to have no conscience when money can be filched from the tax payers. We understand the suit will be ap- pealed, and it is hoped that something like justice will be reached before the J. court. It will be news to many of our readers that to-morrow the amendments to the Posta! go into effect in the Chicago Post-Oiiee, which will add materially to the postege on transient newspapers, though its effeo:s will not otherwise be felt. The amendmert sub- stitutes the words ‘one ounce” for ‘two ounces,” which makes the clause relating to postal matter of the third class one cent for each ounce and fraction of an ounce, iastecd of every two ounces and fraction of two ounces. This doubles the present rate of postage an newspapers. The postage on a trensient copy of Txe Tamuns’s Sunday edition of sixteen pages will, after to-day, be five cents, The new regulation will co into effect at the Post-Office in this city to-morrow, and thé authorities are desirous to heve the matter folly understood in advance. Tho limit of matter of this class is four pounds, 2s for- merly, the substitution as above given being the only alteration affecting this class af mail matter. # Probibition is in a very precarious condition this year. The vote in Now Hampshire ws way down below the general expectation, it being commonly supposed that the gradual and con- siderable increase of the three previous yeara conld be fully maintained. Asamatter at fach the Prohibitionista made scarcely any abowing at the polla. In Iowa there is much the samastate of affairs, The Prohibitionists were defected i2 every one of the town elections held cn the 1st Inst. in which the issues of Lcense or no license was squarely prescnted. Massachnsetts began the stampede last year but there the change bas not been so complete 4 was desired. Tho Legislature has got into 2 1% muddle, and in the attompt to compromise +3 fair to pass a law that will satisfyno party 7%? State, combining the local-option idea v= * modified licsase eyatem in such a way as t¢23%9 an intolligent experiment of either kindt#cll- cally impossible. The advance in opilo2 is, however, notably in the direction offec will and individual reeponsibility. pices dace ee The most profitable form of moth-in-lav lam is reported from Council Bluffs. £20 yourg couple had long remained uncométable under the approbension that the aged la’ 788 witch, Dut subsequent events proved + Mother-in- law approached her eon and hisf@ when. the latter drow the solemn circle otte Epi around her with anew silver ren, see hammered the old Indy with /*mily Bible. “As this,” says the voracious epaicler, ‘the old witch’s head apparently bu” Sttering quszis of fire and silver.” Tho f ¥8% Of course, no object, but the silver wo ‘have s fair markot value. The chronicte or# to state whother the old lady recovered her “borat” ssid whether ahe has conti !0 yield specie in re- turn for biblical ment. This ill-timed silence ia eapecialy®"7i03; because many 5 © devoted son-in-law’ rejoice to learn som> mothod of puttin’? U4 lady Into the way of supporting him bead, oF even split-bead. ‘ -, 1 SHARON aro represonting Ne While JON"). States Seoato, their able No private building, constructed for offices or | himself what the velue of such paper will be | ports of the success of the Boston i- | iti i = es b b i experi- | snd senseless conviction that there is some- | Spring is idh it i . ” : i big apace would acne = are id in schemes for labor-prodaced commodities, | ment, but we summarize its history here to | thing more sacred about labor than there is strawberties. "will soon be ae ae pas at “rights” to train Shore hapless off- Neg the sata ara busily engaged in gee present court-rooms which, after all, retain their gold value; and | bear out the assertions of this article. about capital. This doctrine is utterly non-| deluge us with strawberry feaivals, Why eights ive tenluprepeae eats ot i ser Or amy ‘our drinks of whisky each daily rf y Maroa- = trade. The Btate of Nevada, in moval will necessitate the purchase of new hesting spparatas, boilers and mechinery, ges-fixtures, deaks, furniture, etc., etc., which will require froxi “$18,000 to $20,000 more, the reader can estimate nt what rates he can get credit when his debt is to be paid in this The cheap trains were put on the roed in November, 1872. . They ran between Boston “money.” ‘ ! ard Lynn. The fare for the whole distance, sensical. Labor is the act. of producing wealth ; capital is wealth produced by labor, end saved. Labor is productive ; capital is or any part of it, is Boents, Tickets are sold | reproductive. Labor ie the effort of todoy not give us some spelling-matches instoad of these everlasting stale, flat, and ‘unprofitable strawberry occasions? Each Church might institute o spelting-match’ betwean the Dea Ber have come into being. In one generation, there were twenty children, Three died in infancy. Nine of the seventeen survivora Gerved an aggregate tarm of fifty years in the pate snd Saazox, bas a population of with $00 Itqaor-saloons, taking it Of G@iMadsy. There isa satoonte tacks 7ertcns, And the per eaptia expendh each