Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 4, 1876, Page 4

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Clark and LaSalls, *‘Tha Californls Minstre Halated stret, betwesn Baratogs.” belwesn " McCOORMIOK MALI—North Clark strset, corner Kinzte, Concert by Hans Yon Bulow, PLYMOUTH ONURCH—Concort the German Military Baud, by SOCIETY WABIINGTON CHAPTER, NO. 47, Tt A, M.—Tteg- wlar Convocarion this (Friday) evaning, at 7:30 o'clock, for business snd work on P, and M, E. Degrses, Vis- iting Eamxlniml coriially invited, By ordar of ths ALEIL P, CHARLES B, WRRIGHT, Secretary, ORTENTAL LODGE, NO, 33, A, ¥\ & A, M.—Tll, 122 LaSaits-st—Btatsd’ Communication this (Friday) evening, st 8_o'clock, for business and work on the A.Degres. By order of the Master, E. N. TUOKER, Secrotary, COVENANT LODGE, No. 126, A. F, & A, M. —Rex- ulir Communieation this Fridsy, Feb, 4, b 7:30 o'clock, st Corinthian Ifall, 187 East Kinziest, for work on . M, Degree, Visiting brothren cordial 1y invited. By orderof the W, M., ‘WM, EERR, Bec. i S The hieane Tribuse, Friday Mormng, February 4, 1878, Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- ehiange yoaterdny closed at 88}. Clearing and coldoer weather is predioted as our portion meteorologically to-day. It has been ascertained that s majority of the House Committee on Banking and Cur- rency are in favor of the repeal of the Bpe- cie-Resumption act, but the Committoe will postpons their report on the subjéct until it shall have boon passed upon by tho Demo- cratio caucus, e e— The House Committee on Forsign Affairs report to the House that thera are now in tho Fmpire of Germany between ten and eleven thousand Germans who, at an anterior stage of tholr existence, have lived five years in America, securod the rights of American citi. zonship, and now live nearly scot-free of ob- Ugations to any Government. — It is suthoritatively stated that dispatches liave beon roceived from the United States Miniaters to England and Germany announ. cing the dotermination of those Governments to withhold thelr moral support from the proposition to interfero in tho Cuban quos- tion, They believe Spain ought to haves chance to disposo of the Carlist unplensant. ness before being pushed to the wall on ac- oount of Cuba. Gen, BuzmaaN has added his mite to the centonnial Prosidentinl canvass. In aletter to 8 member of the Ohio Legislatars the Gen- eral squarely and unequivocally goes on record with the declaration that he nover has been, is not now, and never will be, a candidate for the Presidency. Ho furthermore takes oc- caslon to express a personal preference for Gov, Harxs, to corrcet the improssion that ‘he 3 of the Roman Catholio persussion, and to nasert his dovotion to the common-school system, ——— Arguments woro heard yesterday in tbe TDulted States Distriot Conrt upon the motion to quash the indictments against Messrs, Hxamvoe, Remy, and Horr, Strenuous efforts were put forth by the counsel for the de. fendants to demonstrate the defectiveness snd insufficiency of the indictments, and the coungel for the Government were equally vigorous in maintainiog the regularity and soundnees of the bills. Judge Broveerr will decide this morning whether thoy shall bo temporarily released upon an amay of technicalities, or whother tho question of their guilt or innocence must be definitely sattled by @ jury of their peers. The exumination of the papers of WesTen. sax, the Pekin distiller, was concluded at Bpringfield yesterday, and it is expected that tue dovelopments resulting from the scrutiny of the documents will furnish the Grand Jury with material for several new indict- ments, A number of telegrams, bank-drafts, lotters, otc., regarded by tho revenue ofll. clals ag of great importance, arein disputs, WrsrerMax's counsel claiming that they whould not be allowed the Grand Jury for ex- smination, The Court will determine whath- r the doouments shall minfster to the pru- rient sppetits of & scandalloving publio or be relegated to the obsourity of Wastzmaan's A Now York dispatch contains information of interest to a very large eloment of readars, It relates to the new departure in Lase-ball matters, being the disruption of the National Assoclation, and the formation of & new or- ganization oonslsting of the eight leading professional clubs, four from the Fast and four from the Weat, to the exclusion of several weok clubs whose participation in contests for the champlonship can be dispensed with to thesdvantage of thegeme in general, The step taken by tho eight laad. ing clubs is purely in the interest of finan. clal proteotion, snd will be rocsived with grest favor among the admirers of base.ball, The plan kad its inoeption in the sporting columus of Tux Taeune fn October lnst. ‘The Obicagoproduce markets wore irregu. lar yestorday, Aleds pork was sotlve and 650 per brl higher, closing at $20,80 oseh and $20.45 for March, Lard wes in falr demand and 17}@200 per 100 Ibs higher, closing at $12.22) cash and $12.85@12.874 for March, Moeats were active and §@jo higher, st 7§o for boxed shoulders, 10jo for do short ribs, sud 1140 for do short clears. Highwines ware active and m«h::rd, % 9108 per gal lon, ¥lour 4rssdull aud stésdy, Whaat was Laas aative wiid snaley, cldelng M 980 seller Ly month snd 87¢ for Merch. Corn wasdall and Je lower, closing at 89je for February and 89f0 for March. Oats were quiot and firm, closing at 310 for February; and 3136 for ., March., Rye was quiot at ¢7@07}e. Batley wag moro active and firmer, closing at 74}0 for the month and 69@700 for March. Cat- tle wora fairly active and stoady., Ilogs wore in” good demand and firmer; and ahieep wero unchanged, One hundred dollars in gold would buy £113.00 in greenbacks at tho close. The Connty Board has given ita ullimatum on the Court-Honse question. It bolds to tha concurrent action of tho city and county anthorities whereby the Eaax ** compromise plan” was adopted, and tho county’s Lalf of the building will bo constructed in accord- ance with that plan,—minus, it is to be hoped, the ecxpensive and uscless tower, costing over 8500,000, which Mr. Eoax first embodied in the plan, but which he has sinco shown a disposition to abandon. As the County Bonrd has put its foot down firmly in the matter of the new Court.Houso, and 88 the people will not consent that the building shall bo constructed npon two wide- Iy-varying plana go far ns tho exterior is concornod, there would soem to be no alter- native left the Board of Public Worka save that of acquicscence. ‘Wo print this morning some intoresting ex- tracts from tho Adeance, the leading Congro- gational journal of Americs, embraoing a lot- ter from the Rov, Ilrxay Wanp Brrones in reforenco to the Advisory Council, snd the editorial reply theroto, Mr. Bercurn at- tempts to explain nnd jostify tho action of Plymouth Church in *objecting” to Mrs. Mlovrton's choice of Dre. Bubixaroyn snd Sronns as members of the proposed Mntual Council, and labors to convoy the impression that not Plymouth Church, but Mra. Movr-. ToN, is responsible for the miscarringo of the Council negotiations. Mr. Breomzr would havo dono better to have left the letter un- written. No other conclusion is possible af- ter roading the reply of the Adcance, which demonstrates with caustio cloarness tho lame- ness of the plen, the falsity of the position, and the disingonuousness which character- izes Mr. Brrcuen's treatment of the ques- tion, In brief, Mr, Bezonxn hsa put his foot in it once more. —ee BrxareToN, of Mississippi, was the humble instrument chosen by Providenca yesterday tolead his party into another awkward pro- dicnment, being assisted therein by Haus, of Maine. Assuming to speak for the Southern Democracy, of which he is the representative on the Appropristion Committes, SmxarxTON announced that the South had but threo schemos to nccomplish in this Congress—~the construction and protection of the lovees of the Lower Mississippi; the Southorn Pacific Railroad—Hero he stoppedshort, and in reply to Mr, Hivz's question whether the refunding of the cotton tax was not the third scheme, ho declined to discuss that matter ! Perceiv- ing the peril of tho situation, Douaras, of Virginia, camo to tho rescus and ropudinted BrNorxrox 83 tho spokesman of the South; and Wruus, of New York, and Horaax, of Indians, applied the still more heroio remedy of flatly repudiating both the Southern Pa- ciflo and tho cotton-tax schemes, neither of which, they declared, wonld recoive the sup- port of the Democratioc party in the Houso. There waaa genoral rush to counteract the effects of SmvarrroN's rash zenl, but the mis- chief hiad boen dons, ond Harx enjoyed the satisfaotion of having stirred up a hornets nest to some purpose, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, Will; Tz TRIBGNE stato why it {a that, if Pree Trade sppeals 20 pawerfally to the undorstanding, the Cob- don Olub has always relled 8o fmplicitly upon bribery a0 means of propagating the mearure? We hold that this almost universa) custom of relying upon tribery and deception fe the strongut evideuce that the Cobden Club is consclous of propagatisg falss doo- trines, and that ite mansgers know full well thas their chiaf aimis to mislead the Amerlcan people, and in- uce the United Statos 1o legialata in tavor of England. —Chicago Journat, ‘We might answor this question Yankeo fashion by ssking snother, for instance: Will the Jourual explain why it is that, it % Protection” appeals so powerfally to the understanding, the Protoction Xeaguo has always relied so implicitly upon bribery aa a means of propogating its ideas and carrying its measures ? Thero has oxisted in Pennsylva. nia and New England a powerful and wealthy Lesgue of manufacturers, who havo manipu- Inted the legislation of Congress sinco Feb- ruary, 1861, who have dictated the amount «of duties on avery imported articlo, who have changed and raised tho imposts at almost every scssion of Congress for fifteon years, who have absalutely * ran" the legislation of Congress on tarilf matters all that time, who finally succeded in having enacted a tariff so high and ultra-protective as to arti- ficinlly stimulate and expand many branches of manufacture eto such an extent that the country was deluged with high.priced goods and wares for beyond ita ability to purchase, resulting in tho tremondous panic and explo- sion of Beptembor, 1873. Since then tho Loogue's warehouses have boen filled with unsalable manufactures too dear for exportation and too oxtenslvea for the liraited and prostrated home consumptlon ; and the Leaguo has been in a crippled and balf-bankrupt condition aver winoa thair greedy over.protection exploded them. Last winter their supersorvicable agents in Con-. gress serowed up the tariff 10 per cent higher, and passed anothor ** Little Tariff bill" besldes, and tho Statnte Revisers surrep. titionsly and fraudulontly ingerted yot higher duties on certain articles, and the Treasury Department always construes doubtfal lan. gusgo in favor of the highest imposts, Such, in brief, has baen the history of tarift logis. lation for half n generation past. Fasall this selfish epecial legislation against the farmers, planters, and non-proteoted classse been obtainad by the League without bribery or corruption of Congressmen? Wa shall loave the question unanswered, and let the reador coma to his own conclusions, 1t the Cobden Olub has boen ** relying im. plicitly upon bribery as & means of propa. gating its measure " [idens?] all theso years, it hias precious little to ahow for its money, It clearly has not put its funds where they would do the most good. Ita object, accord- ing to the Journal, has baon to secure the sbolition of daties on imported goods of British manufacture. The Olub necessarily must have used its money in buying the votes ot Protoctionist Congressmen and the aid of Protactionlst lobbyiste to influence them to vote for the repeal of the duties. It is mani- fostly absurd to suppose or bellave that the Cobden Olab would squander its golden soverelgns to influence the votes or opinlons of thoss who were already Free-Traders or opponents of Proteo- tion, as that would bs lke taking ‘teoals to Newosstle.” To *inducsthe Uni. ted Btates to logislate in favor of Esgland” oms only be Aone through Congless, The profle of ths United Biates, we ptasume the THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1870 Journal is awaro, only legislates through tho Benate nnd Houso of Reprosentativos. It must, then have been the Protection members of Congress who wero ** bribed soimplicitly, " by the Cobden Club to ropeal the tarifl and substituta ** British freo trade.” When this wholesale purobiase of Protection Congress- men was effasted fa mot stated by the Journal, slthongh it would boa vastly im- portant pieca of politice! information. We airo vory desirous to have some light on this point. The Journalasks, ** Will Tnz Tain. uNE state why it is that, if Freo Tradosppeals so poworfully to the undemtanding, the Cobden Club has always relied so implicitly upon bribery as 8 means of propagating the monsure ¥ The Journals conunlrum oxcceds our guessing power, Wo aro utterly unablo to oxplain why the aninine * Cobdon Olub hns alwaya rolied so implicitly on Lribery to pro- pagate its mensure ¥ when it has nover ac- complished the Grst thing; whon the “bribery " ntterly failed to prevent tho high tariff of 1861; when it utterly failed to pre- vont thesubssquent passago of & “*Little Tariff bill," or a big tariff sddition, or a8 Treasury Department ruling making protective duties ligher, or Statate Rovisors' forgories doing the same thing. All thoso fifteen yoars * the Cobden Club has relied implicitly upon bribery " to propagato its measare, and yot the tariff has grown steadily and rapidly highor and higher, more protective to apeoial inter. osts, moro discriminating in behalf of favored Eastorn classes, mord oppressive on the farmers and planters snd noun-protected classes. The only reduction effccted in all thoso years by tho Cobden Club nnd its ‘bribe.money was that o? placing tea snd cof- feo on the'free list in order to mako an ox- cuso for taxing dry goods and wearing ap- parel of all kinds, implements, houschold furniture, and waroes etill higher. This is all they have to show for the mauny millions they oro alleged to have spent in bribing the op- ponents of FreoTrade, Tho Journal's conun- drums we give up in despair, and must pa- tiently awnit its solution by the end-men of that concern. —e HOW CAN THE_WHISKY.TAX BE COL LECTED:P Itis evident enough, or ought to bo evi- dent, to tho Treasury Department that tho present machinery for collecting tho whisky- tax is a failoro. ILis also ovident that the rato of the tax does not affect the onse of col- lection or dimimsh the amount of stealing. On tho other hand, the stealings grow bigger ps the rate is incroased. When tho present whisky rings wero formed, the rate was 70 cents per gallon. A year ngo, the rate was jucransed to 00 conts and the stealing was increased in proportion. It hos beon fixed at all possible figures, up and down. Originally, wo boliove, it was 20 cents, and it tws been 88 high as $2,50, upon which an avevegs of 14 cents was collected. Cheating has buen carried on industriously under every rats « tax, owing to the defective method of collse tion, and the defect of the method is clearly onough owing to the fact that the colloo- tion of the tax is risked entirely upon the honesty of the Government officials, and what the honesty of thess Governmont offl. cinls ig has beon shown in the whisky prose. cutiona that have already beon instituted. The dovelopments show that thess officials are chenp men,—Gaugors, Storekeopers, and small political bummers, who make a busi- ness of socking these places, snd who almost invariably stand in with the liquor men, and ghare the plander derived from ‘‘tho crooked.” This hos boen tho experionce of the Government for fourteen years. The prosent prosecutions may bo effective for the time, They havo resulted in punishing some mon, and it is to bo hoped will punish oth- erg, but they aro only temporary. Sccratary Busrow cannot remain in office forever. Thero must be a now Secretary, and under his administration there will bo nesw sots of revenue officials. Now bummoera will atep into the places of the old ones, Now rings will be formed. The old methods of robbery will bo improved upon, and the new whisky thioves will be aven more expert than the old ones in the business of plundering the rove- nue. We may predict with absolute certain- ty that this cheating will go on just so long 04 the present methods of collecting the tax are kept in operation, whatever firmness or vigor the Becretary of tho Trensury may dis. play. Tho temptations are too enormous and the opportanities too frequent to be resisted, especially when nothing stands inthe way ‘but corruptiblo offlaials who follow plunder aga profession. Io tho Old World, the experiences of the prominent Go vornmonts aro different. They linve an entirely differont mode of collection, which has worked to a charm, It is a little singular that onr Government offlolnls in the Treasury Department have not studied the European mothods, instead of leaving such important intereats at the disoration of minor officials who are paid 33 or 8¢ por day. We levy o tax of 70 or 90 conts, s the csso may be, and don't colleot it, whilo England lovies o tax of $2.50 10 gold and collects it clean, This tax is its principal source of rovenue, and overy yeor tho rovenus from this source is inorensing. In Germany and France, where the same method of collection is inopera- tion, thoy have no trouble. Their method ia to tax the maximnm capacity of the distillery, the capacity being caleulated by tho distiller at so many gallons per month, upon which the tax is paid in sdvance, and aftor this ca- paoity tax ik paid the goods are free, Thoro are no Government Gaugers or Storekecpers employed in the distillery, thé only ofcer being an Inspestor, who watches the progress of tho distillers, and tha distillers know noth- ing of stamps or anything of tho kind. All that the distillar has to do is tolive up to his declaration, and the Inspoctorhelps him do it. Under the oporations of this law no frauds of any importance have boen attempted, and the method has proved o completa that in Germany no changs has been made in it for Bty yoars. It bas worked with the same suc~ cosaful results also in England and France, Thers is no bribery, blackmuiling, or collusion jof Government oficials with dis- tillers for purposes of dividing plunder, A few cases of petty frauds, involving a fow hundred dollars, have been dlscovered ; but in cach of these instances the fraud was prompt. ly dotected, the property was ssized and con- fiscated, and ths guilty party sent to prison. Now, hers la a system which in Europe hns suoceasfully stood the tests of fifty years' operation, . Why do not our Government otficials investigate it, and if there {s any de. feot in it point it out? If thers Jo no defect in it, if other Governmenta Lisve sucesssfully collectsd their.tazes under it, and also pre. vented corruption and fraud, why should it not bo adopted In place of our own wretched and worthless plan, which not only defrauds the revenue, but has also demoralized the publlo service, and transforniod méh who ave aaturally hon. oat intw oelminkls besaued they cannob revist the temptatiops it sots befors them? Itis a very simplo mattor. Wa have o method of colleotion that has been o failuro for fourteen years. In Earope thoy have a mothod that haa beon n sucooss for fifty years. What ia tha objection to the substitution of the latter for the former? THAE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCERTS. Trado.unions are Molochs to which fathers sacrifice their children, By rigidly limiting the number of approntices, they condemn American boys to lives of idloness, orime, and misory, Thero aro said to be, at this moment, in the zingle State of Pennsylvania, 160,000 children who are prevenied by the unions from learning any trade. This is an awfnl fact. Bupposs we put it in a differont whay, mora striking perhinps, but none the less true, A numbor of Ponnsylvaniana have de- liberatoly set abont training 150,000 children to steal and slay. Or it may be said thata school for thieves, like that of Old Faomv, has been opened m that State, and bas 150,000 pupils, It has branches, too, in every State. Tho schopls of the strect aro opon forovar, whils the doors to tho mechanio arts and to every department of skillod labor open only to the favored fow. This system turns hundreds of thousands of people who are natarally honest into scamps and swin. dlers. Tho wear and tear of publio morals ia enormous. Tho rulea limiting tho number of apprentices are dictated by fear lost an overplns of labor may reduco tho wagoes of tho particular trado, But tho moen engaged in that trade thus exclude their own sons from it, and yun in debt themsclves be. cause thoy bhave made it impossiblo for thoir children to labor, The averago family of a workingman consists of himself, his wifo, and three children. Tho reports of the diffiorent labor-bureaus in tho Eastern Btates show that this family cannot be sup- ported by the wages which the average work- ingman gota. Unless those are eked out by thosa of his children, they cannot pay for tho food, clothing, and shelter of five bodics. In Massnchusotts, ** 85 per cont of the heads of families azo able, by their individual carn- ings, to provide for thoir families' needs, while 65 per cont rely upon the assistanco of wives and children,” The earnings of wives aro 5o Jess, a3 n rule, than the savings they would make by staying ot home, that the main reliance is on child- lnbor. In Ponnsylvania, wheroonly one male minor is employed for every twenty-fivo men, how can the men oxpoct to eave snything or oven to pay their daily exponses? In faat, they do not pay them. They run in debt. Nearly one hundred trades pursued in the in- dustrial contres of the country are closed to American boys. ‘They are recrnited from our foroign immigrants and from American adults who have picked up by hook or crook some slight aill, Tho steady duslas in skilled la- hor in this conntry is due tu tho barbarous rayletions which forbid boys to renlly learn a tnde, Mr. Cooren, n State Benator of Penvsylvania, said in a recent speoch on this subject We want skilled labor, and wo must have it if our people aroto continus thelr progress—rather, If they aroto avold rutn, The timohss como, znd I beliove it has come to stay, when akill of hands is neceassry to success in life, Takow reglstry of tho tramps who dally march past your doors, o how many are skdlled 1aborers. Go to your prisons, and you will find lesa than ¢ por cont of men there who have ever so- quired ® handicraft. With the present restrictions upon trades, in thia Btato slone, 18 takes but fiva yoars to recruit and train sn army of 100,000 fdlers, and thesoare the muen who now defy the wisdom of Tegls- lators, Bad ss thoy are, thoy are more sinned sgajnst than sinnlng* A falso systom of labor has mads thom what they are, and that system iy extend. ing fta paratytlo touch to every Btata of the Union, Massschusetis, quoted 88 tha most favored Btate In point of prosperity for Ler workamen, quoted every- whero as thomosd temperato Blats, is yet a victim to this systen, and, 38 a result, showa I3 per cent mora criminala than Ireland, with ali of gay Erin's love for whisky, I tell you,end the truth (s ss old as ths ‘world, that {dlensss opona the widest door to vice and crime, Let us chock 1t by opening up every avenus to trade, Letus by solemn law bresk down the barriers placed in the wayof curboys, Let us make labor froa toall Whosro atrong onough to undertaks it, snd in- stoad of auffering from, it will profit by the compett- tion, Let s remember thio rocent uttersnce of GLAD- WTONE, that The best way o elevats labor 44 to keep our children {n {67 The cry of the fature will bo not only free trade but frea labor. If tho unions can bo checkmatad only ‘by the cstablishment of publio technical sohools, the people will e that such schools nre crested. They would aertalnly be of mora practical value to the many than the average high school i to tho faw. THE WAIL OF PENNSYLVANIA PROTEC- “TIORISTH, As was to be expacted, the Pennsylvanin and other Protection papors are excoedingly disgustod with the proposed amendments of the tariff, The two Chicago organs. of taxa. tion to support a systom of pauperism jnin in the protest sgainst nations! taxation for the personal benefit of tho few. Tho cry of “British gold" is o favorite mode of pasault, and the reference to the pauper labor of Europe is regarded by these people s in- teusely crushing., The Philadelphia Jnguirer Boys: “The bill 1a 80 swoeping In ita pature as 10 be Mikely to meat with, o part, the condeniuation of every seo- tion ef the country, for, whilo it strikea » blow at all the great {naustrizs of the nation by » large redustion of import dutfes at tbe very time when they moet ned the encoursgement of & high PROTEOTIVE TABIFY, 1% resmposea Le obnoxious tax o 16 and coffes, or, 28 has beon pertinently sald, upon tha poor man's break. fost Lable, As o the first, It 80 reduces the import rates of duty 88 to bring Into unfalr competition with our own manufscturers sud workingmen tie manu. fa0turcs of Europe, manufactrred by & clase littls abaye that of American paupers. The reault will cere tainly be olther the closivg of our mines, forges, fac torios, shope, and mills, or a great reduction of the prico of labor, Under this Tariff bil), if our manufao. turers are to compets with forelgn manufacturers, ooy Isboring claases must consent to aceapt duch starvation wages o2 are pard to forelgn workmen, and they must further pay an enhanced price for their tea and cof- foe. ‘The Philadelphia Bulletin xaya : The Waysand Means Commitise tntond to-day to Teport Lo the House a Tariff bill which will greatly modify tho existing revenue laws, the purposs belng 10 reduce the duties upon imports #o s to carry ond tha favorite Democratic dea of & tariff for revsans ouly, 80 far as practicable, The Philadelphia Press gays : . This very week tho Lonadale Mills in Rhode Ialand ‘went 0 work at reduced wages after a threo-weeks' strike, The factory omploys some 1,400 hends. If tho Lonsdale Mills wers cowpolled 1o zeduce wages under the exiating tazif, we supposs they will prefer 10 stop making goods altogether under the proposed one, Mr, Bwrwronsald, oo Baturdsy night, 1na speech ba- fore s workingmen's mass Taeeiing, that ho was ut- terly satonished on arriviog in towu st being informed that there wers here betwaen 60,000 and 70,000 men out of work,”” We quote from the reports m yesterday's papers. Purhaps thero {s some exsggeration in the atatemant, bus there {s 1o question that an appaliing pumbdar of men, sud sapacially thioss dspendent on teotaries, sre lying ldla in Philadelphis, and the seme 12 tzae all over the country, Theso expressions are notable, The Jn- quirer claims that a “"high protective taxiff" is mofe needed now than ever. Tho Bulletin denounces the bill aa proposing a tariff *for revenuo only.” The Press insiats that the condition of the laboring class in that city and n ali parts of the country is deplorable; that from 50,000 to 70,000 persons formerly employed at tmanufecturing in Philadelphla ars iow onb of weilt, We Kave haretofore published Mr. Kerrer's statement that thou- ennds of his constituents, including men, women, and childron, therotofore crployed in manufncturing, had beon pmetically idle sinco 1873, and that so dreadful and protracted Tind beon their poverty that thoy wero grato- ful for the crnsts given to beggars, and that thousands of able-bodied workmon had boen forced to become tramps, soeking for food thoy had no opportunity to earn. We have published also the statementa of Benator Wartace (Democrat), dotniling the wretched condition of the unemployed workmon of Pennsylvania, Wo bave no purposo to discredit theso storics, Ponnsylvania has onjoyod most lib- eral protection to all her industries for fif- teen years, aud enjoys it now. What has been the effect npon the workmen ? During hio Inst ten years hor miners hove not been employed oven at *starvation wages" moro than an averngo of elght months In the yoar. Hor furnaces ore extinguished, her mills idle, her fnctorles aro closed, her workmen, ond workingwomen, and children havo baen forced to tho lowest pauperism. This, with » “protection " rauging from 50 to 00 por cent. Compared with this the condition of the workingmen of Europs, who are repre- rosonted as working at * pauper woges,” is far abovo that of thesa 70,000 working-peo- plo of Philadolphin, who cannot got work at oven ‘ pauper wages,” For fiftcon years the country has staggored vnder a welght of taxation for the benefit of Pennsylvania such 08 10 othor people were ever subjectod to, and what i the result ? The bankraptcy of tho employers and the pauperism of the em- ployed. The manufacturers of Now England have been in the end but little more successful than those of Peansylvanin. There, too, thero hins not been work enough to give em- ployment to labor at more than one-half time, and that at the lowest scalo of wagos. The operatives in tho cotton mills working on half-timo have had, howaver, to pay the tnx of 40 per cent on the cotion made by their own hands and worked up into their own shirts and underclothing, While tho num- ber of workmen employed - has beon reduced and the time of their employment and tho rates of wages cut down, tho grest, over- whelming taxation on all their clothing and on all tho other thinga indisponsable to com- fort and life has continued; their scant wages has been consumed by tho very tax supposed to have boen levied for their cspecial benefit, Our mnnufacturers have been working un- der a fallacious system. They have so taxed overything that they have cut themselves off from all markets except tho domestic one, ond have reduced consumption in that mar- ket. They cannot produce o ns to sell abrond, and they have to closo their mills ona aay ont of three to prevent having an unsala. ble surplus. Instend of reducing the cost of production, theroby adding to the consump- tion of tho homo market and being able to oxport their wares to all other markets, they bavo run their mills on half-time, and left | their laborers to starve. During 1875 Great Dritain sold in cotton piece goods within o market which might bo exclusively oceupied by the cotton manufacturers of this country to the following valucs : Unitod Btates,..$10,000,000/P6rT, 400 s 8,800,000/ Chis Horo at our own doors, protected by over 3,000 miles of distance, we have permitted all this vast trade in cotton to pass into other bands, and reduced tho sales in our own markets, and what has beon the rosult? Spasmodio prosperity and eventual bank- ruptcy and pauperism ! At lnst, the manafacturors of New England have discovared the improvidence of Protoc- tion, and have resolved to produce goods for export. The export of cotton and leather gooda hns begun, and will prosper, insuring enlarged production at a reduced cost and an enlarged consumption, giving regular and continuons work to labor, One of the greatest blessings that conld be oxtonded to American lnbor would bo the ro- peal of avery proteetive tax now on the stat- ute-book. The effont would bo tho immedi- ata expanslon of American manufactures in overy brauch, giving employmsnt to doable the number of hands now employed, at pro- portionstely larger wagos. Proteotion has sccomplished its natural and insvitable ro- sult,—tho pauperism of labor,—and tho sooner it is abolished the better. The insincerity of the Democratie pretenss of reform, urged as a rosson for giving the Democrats the control of the Government, s ogain illustrated by the defeat in the House of the proposition to limit tho eligibility to tho President's chair toonoe term. Following the lend of Honacz GrenLey four years ago, .the Democrats declared that this idea was tho very hend and front of Civil-Service Reform, and it was tho Democratio party which wes to mako this reform a reality. But the Damo- crats out and the Demoorats in are very differ- ont offairs. As soon 08 the Democrats ob- tained posscosion of the House they applied the old doctrine of * To the victors belong the epoils,” and made n clean swasp of the old Union soldiers to make room for the Confederates. And now thab they are satisfled that there is no movemont in the country to renominate Gen. Gnawr, who they seom to beliave could beo elected over any Democratio candidats, they do not propose to ghut their own party off from the contingent availability of ranning a Presi- dont a second time. Thia part of theirre- form programme has gone the same way oa the anti.subsidy sontiment which has prompt- ed the Domoornta to introduce private and other billa to sppropriate soma $54,000,000 of the public moneys for tha benefit of indi. viduals and corporations. It now remains to be scen how the Domocratic House will troat Mr, MonzisoN's bill for reforming the rev. ente, The prospeot is that this reform will have about the sama outcomoe aa the othors, The decision of Judge Drrrow, in Bt. Louls, ordering Me, Ostox, President of the Weat. orn Union Telegraph Company, to appear ond bring with him all the dispatches that passod between Bascoax, Joxox, MoDoniLp, and others, covering s long perlod of time, gooes further in this direotion than ever be- fore. It has boen the custom heretofore to compel the production of dlspatches that could be spacifically described as to dates, porsons, and contenta; but the order in this case ia vastly more comprohensive, and calls for all dispotchos signed * Bancoox,” ¢ Bas,” #B,," 4 Joxce," “J,," ¥ MoDonaLp,* ¢ Myc," #3lrg, Jovom,” etc., passing between theso and other parties, The effect of this is to make publio many dlspatchies that may have 10 bearing whatever upon the case in hand, ond It may expose matters to the general 429 which are of the moat ssored ohisradter, may wall be 2oubled whether this précedent o' wise one: Ib cartainly placsd & very lasge excopt to got into powor for sakeof the spoils discration in the courts, and, if followed up, it would destroy the privaoy of tho telegraph a8 a means of communication, which has al. ways been maintained by the telograph com= panioes as casentinl to their success fn bual. ness, Itisa very difforont matter from or- doring specific dispatchics kuown or bolieved to be in the handa of the company. pared (o mocept that measturs as for which tyy parly can bo held rosponsible, Tt i6 aven dontufe, whether a favorable report on ‘it can be aeoursd frory the Committos on Ways and Means, though Me, Kagy 18 understood to have appointed the Commiites with view of pledging the parly to soma decided stap toward Revenne Reforin, It that Commities triny with the Tarif bill afler the fashlon sdopted bythy Committeo on Banking and Cnrrency in deallng wity the question of nwls‘n yments, it will not bersady €0 present any report this seasion, . . Tho Times seems to think that Democraily “profosslone in bebalf of Revenue Reform apg hollow and bypocritical. If they are not afg. coro on that question, on whiat one are they sin. coro? A Washington dispatch to the Cincinnatl ZInguirer—Qonfederato organ—anys: The tonsof the Repubilicans herofs very dofiant,—~ much moro so than it was at the beginning of the ses slon,—and it fa quite falrto prosume that thoy have eon emboldemed by the seeming insction of ths Dom- oaratio House, Thoy seem to take it for granted {hat the tnaction of theXouss (hus far s queeithor to timidity on the part of the Democrats, oF to & lack of knowlcdge as o the proper metbods of procedure, Itis due to both. The Demacrats and Confederates are renlly agroed on nothing s 1t is sad that & Democratio papor should el Our Oantar * The best dreserved spscimen [y tho Unitod Biates of tho old-fashioned, bel. montbed blunderbuss," aud “a relic of the reign of Etizapera.” But the Demooratic or. gan whichdoes this is published in 8t. Louls, an] tho utterances we have quoted mre thersfors, in all probability, mero abullitions of wpita againat one of Chicago's shining succesases. Ogr CaRTEN'S oagla s igger than avything In 8y Louis except tho mortgage on the blg bridge, snd the folks down yonder oanuob conoeal thely chagrin at the fact. 4 A Washington di mercial of Veb, 1 5t Thers {# & proapect of naw developments in the Q. of office. They can unite on no programme ; they seem to hold no livo issues in common and not many dead ones. They even do not ogree in support of tho 8tate-Soverclguty resolutions of ’98, nor of the right of soces- sion, They are also boginning to differ 08 to tha expediency or policyof saddling the loss. g es sufforod by tho Confedorates duting | ctgo Whisky iling, of & psturs more sariling thig thelr Rebollion npon the Union tax-payers of ;‘d.‘,‘:{“' Riss Baaouea hiad, sevebving Hitleria nssiy the North, There scoms o be somo squirm. Doea this moan that some of the mlesing links ing among tho doughfaces at awallowing that | ara likely to bo found ? Or waa it merely put ly dose. On the currency quostion they are all topsd out s newsless dispatch with s smail, at 508, and they appear to b splitting asun- barmless roorbach ? Thore have beon counticey der tho Enstern Democrats from the Weatern | FVROT of this soct from Waahington, but they on the highly important matter of the tariff unro sl M“Mm' rovislon. It begind to look agif the promised reforms would all exd in smoke, b to the Cincinnst! Com. Hero are a few chiolce axtracts from editorialy in German papors on TitoMASAEN'S orime Only out of the American culture conld a who could plan wilh such profasion of genius auc: horror, . . In such an example as this m: of masce through solf-interest, tho [American} national Spirit 1n ita full essence comen Lo & dresdful pitch, Tho nchool which raises mousters liks TrmoMas b {ta doora wida open in the United Eistes, o o Thi so-called practical American realistiolife o " ." fuds ita natural climax {n the most hideous brutality, The Independent of the 3d inat. givoa s colama and a hialf of such extracts, The movement to establish United Btates Courts of Appeals, 05 proposed in a bill in- troduced by Mr. MoOnany, seoins to bo well- wdvised, if it does not carry with it too largo an exponso, 'Thero are two yeasons why such a chango sesms to be desirable: (1) Because tho United States Supreme Court is alrendy overcrowded with work, and appeal to it is inoumbered with great expense and serious loss of time; (2) the United States District Courts now have almost too absoluto a power in finally disposing of questions of practice and form. It is probmble that a provision for Courts of Appeal located in all the Cir- anits wouald lead to s liberalization of tho practico and & specdior rovision of errors in tho Jower courts. The Suprome Court, too, would bo infinitely relioved by confining its Jurisdiction to writs of error when tho sum involved exceeds $10,000, and leaving it to the consideration mainly of conatitutional, State, and national questions, If tho dotails of Mr, MoOrany's bill are as well-conceived s the principlo which prompts it, it should receivofavorablo considoration from Congress, and is likely to ba productive of good results. 5 Gov, Cusxpearars is elill trying to olevase tho Augesn atablos of South Carolina politics, Anafidavit was Isid bofors him. lsst month, which mooused sn official, one CavmNDES, of blackmailing some croditors of tha State. The QGovernor asked for sn explanstion, and Cav- ®NpER pleaded guilty to oharging m 20 per cang commission for dolng hus duty. Then the Coy- ornor asked him 1o resign. Ko refused, and way promptly romoved. — Tho awallow-tail and short-hair . tight hias bro- kon out in Chill, as It is boand to do in every domoorsoy. AReTIDES Was ostracised for boing s swallow-tall, “In the Bouth American Repub. lio the Presidentinl candidates aro ANImALE Prv. 70, 8.-t,, nominated by the alamal of tho Natlon. sl Univorsity, and Bex Macxexya, Irdsh-born sod short-hair. Tho alomni are making spasche @8 for Axtnars and bots on Bax. -— Theo first intsrnational exhibition of the year— that of Chuli—has falled, Tho show did not pay. During its progress, tho foreign Commtssionors obaerved tho successive Babbaths by glving froe side-shows. The Amorioan Commissionsr outdid all the others by chartaring » cirous. e Tho Philadelphin Jnquirer,—a rapid Pro- tection monopoly sheet,—speaking of Monar. sox's Rovonue Tariff bill, says: ‘It first lorgely roduces the dutics on all manufac. tured articles produced abroad, and then im- poses A tax upon imported necessaries of o PERSONAL lite.,” This amounts to saying that the pres- ont nltra high tarlff doos not impose a tax on | Tweed hisa been seen in Csuada. the imported necossarics of lite! What | '*JennieJune™ earns 84,000 & yesz with her about the 50 to 60 por cent tax on sugar and | PoD. molnsses? Ara they not necossaries? What Von Mfoltkoe never works on Sanday, exoopt i abont the 40 to 80 per cent taxes on cottons, "?":l ‘;!:;h‘ i op}a il vs Baiieg wh s john 01 Dm woolons, linens, silks, earpots, glass, crock- istimsaat for wife-baating. ory, cutlery, dry goods, groceries, iron aud stoel of all frme? Also on coal, salt, lum- bor? Aro.all these articles mere luxuries which can bo dispensed with? Are nope of them nocessarios of life? Aro toa and cof- foo tho only néchdanties of life ? Tho Benate of New Joreey hax shown itsolf {ust twice as patriotio as Our OARTER, it having autharized munieipalitios to spend monoy in Centennial fostivitios at a rato not to exooed 7 conts for each inhabitant. It will bo romem- bered that when Qur OARTRER lot loose that un- common eaglo of his, and tho bird commenced his flght from tho dsshiog Atlantto to tho sprays of the Pacifle, he waa lnstracted to scroam only 83¢ conta por head, Now Jersoy, therefors, has 1ot looso an oagle twice na big aa Oar OAnTER'S, who thorefore bacomos a common eaglo after all, Not only this, but Now Jersey, although s for- olgn country, will hsve twico as many fireorack- ers, flags, cannon, and blunderbusson as any Stato in the Union, Bho will havo twico as many orations, snd they will be twice as long; twice a8 many pooms, with twice ma many vorses; twico a8 many banquets, with twice as much to oat; twics as many esgles, with twice aa much fluttering sud scream- ing. A groat doal of patriotism can be extescted from 7 cants, at lesst twice a8 much na from 8% canta. While some Btatea will spend 1more money in bulk, having s largor populatioh, 1t fs m 8ad thought that the averags man will bo only Lialf a8 hiappy, patriotic, and flamboyant aa tho aversga Jersoyman, Tho saddost thought of all, howaver, is that Our OAnTER's eaglo, upon whom ws had plumed ourdelves as no common eagle, baa met a Jersoy oagle with a spread and & squank twice aas big as his, It is eaid that tho condition of Prinod Bis- marek's koalth is atill very critieal. Bon Butler's successor in Congress {s » fluazd sud graceful, but not forcible, spesker, . Misa Abbott, the singor, askod the Pope's bless- ing on her volce. He told her to pray for it. Matiidn Fletchor ia baving great succesaia Jows with her loctures on *The Old Boy ™ and ©The Ethica of Marriago." P. P, Wintermute, the morderer of Gen. 3lo- Cook, is hopelessiy ill, nad has gons to Fiorids with the hopa of prolonging tus life. Gon, Dick Taylor, of Xentucky, has made & great soclal success in England, having socured tho peraonal friendship of the Prince pf Wales, The Popeiaawrittens brief toallthe Cardinals, desiriog to know 1f, in their opinion, they thunk i oxpodient for him to rocognize the Italisn Gova emment, o % Prof. John Stuart Blackie's efforts for tho oa- tablishment of & Olsir of Csltio Languszes in Edinburg University aro about to bs erowned with succens, 1t {8 rumored in Indiavapolis that Dan Voore hoes contomplates taking up hia residonco per- manontly in 8t, Louls, The Tall Bick o' mors wants to got {na Demoerstio district. Mr, and Mm. Bcott-Siddons loft Boston on Bunday evemng for Cshfornis, Japan, Chins, snd Indis, Thoy will return to this contineat, by the way of England, in elghteon months. Fashionablo !sdlos in New Yotk now wear & #quare apron, or tunio, which, it is sald, owes its origin to & Parisian belle who took her pate tern from a atone-breakor at work on the road. . Benator Booth livee in fino bschalor-quarters at Washington, sud in vialted by 8 refined class of people, malnly military men, Htarary men, and sach company as Eesex and Ralagh would bave liked. So says “*Gath,* The Crown Princess of Germany las rogular free-thinker. Whon Strauss, tha suthor of the v Lifs of Jesus,” died, his portralt wss bung over her bed, like the imsge of & patron-saint. Btraues’ book and the ** Life of Voltaire * ccoupy the moat prominent plsce on her centre-table, The Cincinnatt Commercial judges that a slight sensa of mtsgiving touches the reader of the first ' book of *Daniel Deronds, George Flot's naw novel. ‘Thoro 12 an awfal possibility ibat the whols work may be something in the general nature of ® combination of Bulwe: and’ Misu Braddon. ' Col. Mapleson, the London improastlo, is s, fino musician, Ho used to sing delightfally in s fresh and highly cultivated tenor voice. Ile nlso plays woll on a violin, Mlls. Titlsas bas beon for nearly twenty youra his lesding vocsl- ist, and eujoys his confidence and that of Lis family in & very high degroe. It sosma that the Now York women, or some of them, are stifl making fools of themuslyes over Montagne. The otner day, st s lifih-| avenus mansion, tho eldoat daughter of tha honsa declared that when Montague, as D'Alroy, took Esther In his arms, e wonld bave given nino million dollars to bave been Esther, 3 The Sun hopes James Gordon Bennett wily make a good driver on ths proposed new line of coaches on the North Rver. Line upon line, precept unon precept, is Ar, Bonnott's motto. His precepts are put in the Heraud, and his lines ase cast (n plentsat placer. The Gentlemen's Coaching Olub is largaly indebtod for its exist- ance to Me. Bannatt, 4T, awrfally ta," is the new alsug in London. Ta, oF ta-ta, is baby talk, and means *thaoks,” or ‘‘thank yon." A oorrespoudent explalus it thos, aod eddst ‘Qrown-up bables havo adopted i, and 1t now brightsns the lifo of oy an ardent adorer when, in retura forsome trifling attention, the dear, cheery Lipa part, and thers drop out those brilliant Bowers of spasch. Ta, awtully tal” % Henry M. Fleld, of the New Yori: Zwange'ist, writes lome; *There are a good many Amori: oan familios on the Nile chis winter, Aswe $were golog up, wo mes Alr, Bancroft Lavis, oo Minister to Ba:lin, returning; and on our ro- ture, on Monday, we s Ar, Weshbarue, from Paris, golog up. Both were furolshed with & stesmer by the Khadive, Obristmes-Day we tistal Luzon the Bev, Dr. Potler, of Grace Choicb, sad Mies Woltey of Madlsss ‘squars. A Bt. Louia special dispatch aays s The severo abuso of the Govornment witnesses and ex.1nombers of tha conspiracy by counsel for McKzz'd defense haw aroused these mun, in some fnstancey, tha highest pitch of rego, and they aro threatening to tell great deat more than bua yet been divulgod, Une of them sescrts fo-dsy that atono time it wau the fu- cDowarv, and other laading pointment of by Dredsoossar, o the Secretaryahip of th wiji be remembered that FoRD was one of the five rediplonte of the weekly divide. Hiad this Utopiun achome been succesafully convummated, the higlest axpectations of the Ring would Lare Been realizad, and they could heve defed detaction, ‘Those desperate ringsters piayed thoir bands for all they were worth, and a3 aacoess causes boldness, and then temerity axfd recklossnesa, it 18 possibla they may have thonght of plasing one of thoir number at the hoad of $hé Treas- ury Department. Forp waa ons of the moat popular men in 8t. Lonls. Ho was highly re- spooted, supposed 10 ba sirictly honest, snd posasssod very considerable ability, and stood quite high in the graces of the Prosidont, It may be true that the Whisky Bing cantemplated taking advantage of thess eircumstances snd makiog & “ihirteon strike,” It {s said thas fools rush in where sngels fear to tread. el alionlt Our Firesids Friend, the only literary and story paporof large oiroulation publishad in Chi- cago or the Weat, was purshased several weeka ag0 by Mesars, Downrrixy, Lovd & Mirxs, Tho editorial management and oontrol of the paper pasa fnto the hands of the last-named member of the firm, Dr, A, P\ Mrrxn, formerly the senlor member of the firm of Minrxs, Looxe & Co., publishers of ihe Toledo Blade, and since that time conneoted with other publlahing bouses, It will boremombered that under the mansgement of uvrxs, L.ooxs & Co. tha Toledo Blaga sssumed st onos a declded individuality, and was pushed to a clrcolation larger than that of apy other politieal paper st that time in the United States. Thia feas e mentioned to {llas: trats the charsoter sud success of the present editor of Our Firestde Fyiend, who has cezualnly made an excellent rsoord, both as publisher and editor. Under ths now managemens, Our Fire- side Friend biss bson much Improved, and will “k:l; highesrank as a domestic sod ltesary weokiy, ‘Tue New York T¢mes {8 not sanguine ae to the paassge ;: Mornrisox's Tarif bill, I observess As tb te will need lican pase 2eb Monatton o Tortd bl the sbvioes Beosoty of dolug samething 10 incresas the productivensss of the sarviceabls thare 8p) oustoma TEVATA WAy h & 3 e favor, 'M"“' » pu"fiufi'f' el S R