Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1877, Page 4

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WO or wors on <o nviced. - 1y order PO O T ety L RDEN CITY LODGE. No, 141, A. F: and A, M.— ST Comm Ton” witl e lick Rezul 1d at Orfenial Bhali G Wedheramy cvaning, Oct: 1, Work wa.the 3. A Degree. Vielting brettren raternally fnvited. IULCOM, W Mo . RERXARD_COM el Gapelare ed: o'clock. W W J.0. DICRERSON, Recordel A PT] . 2 T AL M.—Tnll, 76 e R Lt I o acation SoR Ay eveathg ety Dezree, Visit Monro ol 20, ut 7:300'clock for work on the M. c. Visitors il tviceds By onier of | W. 13: FELD, X1 T E. TCKER. see. TRADE U100 ‘bers are regiicst 2 o'clock_ this afieru Taioa, Xo. 11, 10 th New York. OLLO . COMMAN] . Xo. 1, K. o‘;‘nl:\:.'\'-c on Tuesday evening at thelr Asyiu Toe-6L, a1 7 o'clock prompt. _ The Onder of will be'eorferred. Visiting SI7 Knfete e SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 18i7. CHEICAGO MAPXET SUMMARY. The Chicsgo produce markets were elow and steadier Saturday. “closed firm, at $14.50 for Octobel orJanuary. Lard closed tame, at SS. for October and £€8.25@8. . Meats were steady, at 6c per B for loose shoalders ard 7{c for do short ribs, Lake freights were mote active and easy, at Zc forcorn to Buffajo. Whisky was unchangad, at Flourwas guietand firm, Wheat at $1.10 cash and $1.0%% for 2d 2;G14c higher, at 45%c . Osts closed a shade for November. Rye ey closed tic higher, Toge were Cattle Norember. cash and 43, firmer.at 24%¢ wus firm 4t 3 a581c cash and 30%c for November. casicr, at $4.50635.10 f were dull a:-$2.00E5. 3 bu corn, 61,148 he cattle, There was inspect- ed into city Saturday morning, 279 cars wheat. 289 cars aad 10,600 bu corn, 66 cars s rye, and 58 cars barley. Total (702 One bundred doilars in gold in zreenbacks at the close. In Few Yerk on Saturdsy greenbucks tanged ot O To the other questions whick have been submitted fo Tox Lxycn~—Lien's candidate for County Treasurer—may be edded the fol- fowing: Did he or did he not contribute a large sum, sey £5,000 or thereabouts, o Lelp defeat L Moxye when the Iatter was Democr: candidate for Congress in the North Division ? A man who Bas en office for two years and inisters it economicaliy and faitkfully Jiave some claim to re-clection; but this serieinly does not apply to 2 man who has 2¢ld an oifice for four years and administered 4 extravagantly and scandaiously. It is the IL must have been an affectation of virtue which led a crowd of saloon-keepers and L=z’s bummers {0 exclude ore poor devil from their commities who Lappened fo be 2 jail a few months for burglery. Itis a mse of unfair discrimination; snd the ex- i bummer should refuse to aid his stuck-up essociates in the usaal work of re- peating and ballot-hox stuffing. A strong pressare is brougut to bear on the Secretary of the Treasury sgainst chang- ing the Post-Office front and locating it on Clark stroet, instezd of Dearbern strect as contemplated. Several - prominent citizons hare signed & vigorous remonstrance setting forth the title by prescription of Dearborn street to the contested front, Il;minflc!fl&mdmg recognition of their rights. sides are cl'o:nu)odle,ed in fl.\isg scramble, the build- inig will closely rescmblo the Irishman's hospital,—¢ the back fronting this way, yer ersare all on the side of the Lres-Lyxcm combination. It is only by the most comprehensive preparations and the most active’ vigilanea that this danger can be guarded against ; the Republican managers and the citizens should organize a similar system to that which was adopted at the local elections: two years ago. We believe the people are sufficiently in earnest to voto down the County Ring and their agents; theymust not be swindled out of their efforts after making them. h Ode of the very limited number of respect- able men placed upon the Democratic ticket —DMr. Avorrx ScroeNrvaEr—has declined to bo o eandidate for County Commissioner. He does not relish the association with ““the gang,” and refuses to be used as one of Lrep’s tools. . The filling of the vacancy de- volves upon Dave TrorxtoN's County Com- mittee, composed in most part of saloon- keepers, bummers, and Lizs's employes in the County Clerk's office. The vacancy will probably be filled by a counterpart of Tox Hogax, another of Lizs's candidates for the County Board. As is well known, the Ring necd only the election of one man of their kind to insure the continuance of their power. L will be pretty sure to have at least one of the Democratic candidates fill the bill. ~ The opponent of “Boss” Lien, whatever may have been the differences between him and the people on questions of policy in the past, is known as a thorough nnd reputable business man, who is competent to manage the Clerk's office in & business-like and eco- nomical way. He will be able to do with fifty men what Lren requires from 200 to 250 dead-beats and loafers to accomplish. If clected, he will not be beholden to the bummer class, and not expected to provide support for several hundred of that class during his term of office. If KrLorkE be clected, the five Commissioners on the Re- publican ticket will also be elected, and he will not be subjected to the bulldozing of thre County Ring, which will then have been scattered. But, if Lies be re-elected, the Ring will remein compact, and he will be subject to the sams dictation in the future ns in the past. This consideration alone, if there were no other, would be enongh to de- mand the change. The most contemptible position in which & candidate can place himself is to go about the streets exhibiting his sore head when he happens to be defeated for nomination to an office. Mr. Dave Haxowosp is making just such an exhibit of himself. He wanted to Be County Tressurer, and began his cam- paign early, worked industriously, and spent considerble money in manipulating prima- ries and fixing delegates. But he invested his greenbacks in vain. Many of the men he bought refused to deliver the votes contracted for; they took his money, but declined to vote for him in the Con- vention. This is his story. Thers are people of askeptical turn of mind who do not believe that Dave spent a prodigious amount of actusl eash, or that he is ont of pocket one-tenth part as much as he would have people suppose. But whetherhe squendered much o little money on suckers constituted no decent reason for the disreputable and unmanly course he is now réported to be pursning; his threat of bolting should be treated with contempt. What cause has he for bolting? None whatever. The gentle- man who received thenomination never spant adimeto getit; he ““fixed” nodelegates; he made no bargains, entered into no combina- tions, mede no effort whetever to obtain it. The nomination was tendered o' him freely ard unsolicited on his part.s He was nomi- nated simply because the Convention believed him to bo. tho strongest and most popular man they could select. If Mr. Hasnoxp is sn honorable man he will speedily heal up his sora head, take off wourning, snd turn in and help to ratify the choico of the Con- vention. This will be the politic s well s maily course for him to pursue. By bolting he will inflict on himself infinitely more barm than he will on Mr. McCrra. THE FOREIGN ENOW-NOTHINGS. From those whom we know to be of for- cign birth, and from those whose names in- dicate a5 much, we judge that Americans have been excluded altogether from the County Democratic ticket, except for the ju- dicial places, for which the foreign element on the Democratic side seemed to furnish no available material. This 1s a species of Know-Nothingism as offensiva in every way as a combination of native Americans with ihe purpose of refusing citizens of foreign Dbirth all politieal recognition. An exclusive alliance of Irish and Germans is Lom's poli- cy. It represents his single notion of polit ical success, because it was by means of such analliance that he was first clected to office. This was in 1873, when the foreign clements were united in opposition to the Sunday and saloonordinances. But he ignores the fact that the conditions of that ermpaign were pecal- iar. The Germans consented to an unnatu. ral political affilintion with the Irish, because Henor, snd the front on the back.” A St. Louis man has managed to fire him- sclf into the courts with a singular revela- tion of the 1aethod of transacting business in that villnge. e was in the employ of a firm of wholestle clothicrs, and one morning was accused of baving robbed the concern of %10,000. Locked tp snd refused all com- munication with friends, he finally con. fessed. and turned over the amount in bonds, These he sceks {o recover on the ground of inuocence, 2sking, betimes, $50,000 dam- ages. 'The singzlar part of the case lies in the fact that an innocent St. Louis dry-goods slerk had §10.000 in boxnds. ————— Among the other commendable actions taken by'the National Woman's Christian ‘Texperance Union Convention, which closed its lebors yesterday, wes a thrilling denun- clation of the American flag for unfolding its glories over the iniquitous rumseller. The delegates bhad been r red, white, aud llue, but Ars, Laranor, of Michigan, pointed out the impropriety of wearing the colors of a fag under whose folds the liquor-dealer finds protection, and n ker motion gold and white were selected s representing hues to which the ‘budge-dis- panser can present no claims, —_— The greatest danger that threatens Cook ot the voting-places. The reputable classes in Chicago Lave been cheated of their Tights in this manner on at least two previous oc- casions. The gang which made up Lrep’s two conventions—Industrial and Demoeratic —included all the practiced repeaters and ex- perts at ballot-box stuffing that are to be found in this community., The County Ring have the appointment of the election judges and clerks. The ballot-boxes, befors and after election, are in charge of the gang that run Lres’s office. The appliances are all at snd, and the repeaters and ballot-box stnff- wearing rosettes of County 2t the coming local election is fraud they believed their personal rights were threatened by fanstics, and conceived that it was only in this way that they could protect themselves. That allisnce, having sccom- plished its specific purpose, resulted so dis- astrously as to thoroughly disgust all reputa- ble and responsible citizens of foreign birth or antecedents; the bankruptcy of the city and the betrayal of public affairs into the control of the bummer classes demonstrated the folly and danger of any permanent polit- ical combination based upon nativity, race, or class affilistion. The Germans especially had reason to Tegret their relations with the Irish, who showed a disposi- tion fo absorb all the offices gobble all the emoluments, and bring tho alliance into disrepute by the low ‘character of the men with whom the departments were flled. It is doubtful whether even a specific pur- pose could again have cemented the TIrish and Germans into a solid political movement; but it is certain that, in the absence of such a purpose, the reputable citizens of foreign birth and extraction will not indorse nor act with suother “ People’s party ¥ movement. Thus Lixs has overreached himself. Tho purpose of excluding Americans has been made too epparent. It will not command the respect and co-operntion of respectable citizens of foreign extraction, any more than an attempt to organize & na- tive American party and | exclude all foreign citizens would command the respect and co-operation of thoughtful citizens of .Americ.nn birth. The principlo is all wrong in both cases. It means discrimination and oppression either to gratify low Pprejudices or toseize the spoils. In the Ppresent case, it is the spoils that *“ Boss” Lazs, his man Lyvca, and the remsinder of the foreign Enow- Nothings are coveting. *It is a desperate .efl'vrt to appeal to class and. nativity bigotry in order fa resist the ‘popular demand for th_e smashing of the County Ring. The tricksters and speculators hava connted with. out their host. The Germans have no desire to vote solidly with the Irish merely to keep o lot of irresponsible bummers in place. The reputablo and *property-owning Irish bave 1no desive to keep Amc}‘lcm}s out of office in order to mmx_:tmn exorbitant taxation. The sober, industrious, and hard-working Scandinavians, and other citizens of foreign birth, have moro interost in the honest and economical administration of public affairs than in the mnintenanco of alot of bummers because they bappen to be of Irish antecedents. Foreign Know-Noth- ingism is & weak and suspicious appeal for general suffrage ; and when the movement is led by a Jacobinical adventirer lilte Lies, it will call out moro resentment than support. The great evil of loeal politics is that the lonfers, the saloon element, tho dend-beats, and the vicious classes generally, attach them- selves to one party or the other, and the party to which they are appended is the one to bo avoided by the reputable and tax-pey- ing classes. Lren’s party, in tho present campaign, bas catered to the irresponsible classes. This was amply shown by the two Conventions—ono called the Industrial and the other the Democratic—which he control- led. It is evident from thecomposition of the Democratic Central Committee intrusted with the runping of the campaign. It is further spparent from the fact that Tost Lyxcm was taken up in the hope that he would distrib- ute his whisky profits liberally among tho gong. The suceess of Lirn's ticket, if it shall be successful, will be duo mainly to a combination of these vicious classes, and th.e County Government will bo run for their Dbenefit. This is the trme purport of the ostensible German-Irish combinntion repre- sented by Lizp aud Lrycs. It was the bis- tory of the similar combination in 1873 for the control of city affairs. It is an outcome which should be combated by all good citi- zens, whether of American or foreign extrac- tion, as menacing tho common welfare of the community. THE DEFICIT IN THE COUNTY FINANCES. The people of Chicago have not, wo fear, given that attention to the proceedings of the County Government which their interests demand. In 1873 the People’s party elected a Mayor azd Common Council which in two years and a half reduced the City Govern- ment to n condition of bankruptey. There was a flonting debt exceeding three millions of dollars, an authorized expenditure largely excecding the revenue, credit goue, snd the city’s paper under protest. Public interest was aronsed, publio indiguation cxpressed, and the people, siuking all ordinary differ- ences, united in putting both Mayor and Common Council out of office, and placing public offices in the hards of other and moro competent and trustworthy men. A like condition of affairs prevails in the County Government. Tho county has now two floating debts. The first of these con- sists of expenditures made to an amount ex- ceeding $3350.000, for which there is no pro- vision, except such money as may be col- lected from backor uupaid taxes, extending several years, even as far as 1872, The sec- ond debt is of the present time. The first item of this is for money paid ont in excess of appropriations ; this amounts to about, if not more than, $430,000. The appropria- tions for all the county purposes were pur- vosely made too low, in order to include ono for the Court-House. Having reduced the approprintions, the Commissioners have re- fused to reduca the expenditures, but have largely increased them, and especially by the creation of new offices and o liberal increase of salaries. The result has been a deficiency, which by December will amount to half a million of dollars. In addition to this debt of $800,000, it is understood the comnty is largely in arrear to the contractors on the Court-House, to the extent, probably, of §200,000, showing an aggregeteof one million of dollars, which can only be carried by temporary loans ; and so weak has become the county credit that these loans cannot be obtained at 8 per cent, while the city can orrow all it wauts at 6 per cont. The men who have brought the county to this condi- tion of financial distress wero elected in 1874 and 1575, by the same gangs who elected tho Aoyor aand Couneil in 1878 ; and since the outraged people rescucd the City Government the gang Las given especizl attention to piundering the county. The county debt iaes now reached that point that it requires all the revenue that cen be lawfully collected (75 cents on the 100 of assessed taxable val- uation) to mect the current expenses of the connty when honestly and economically menaged. Thero certaiuly can be little or nothing spared for the Court-House. ‘Those merbers of the present Dosrd whose lerms expire this fall Lavo been repudiated by all parties, aud the Board will know them no more forever. Batthe * Boss"—the man who sits in the County Clerk's office, and who manages the polities and directs the leg- islation of the county—is still in office; and is a candidate for re-clection. If the Demo- cratic Commissioners (who we believe ars respectable and honest men) should bs elected with Lrzn they will of necessity be ruled by their party chief, and Loz, if re. clected, will justly claim and exercise ab- solute control. What his control means may be scen by the pay-rolls of his oftice, pub- lished elsewhere. The number of his sub. ordinates, names giver, was 226, and the pay-roll in September nggregated £11,639, or st thorate of $139,668 o year, when three years ago he offered to run the whole office, free of all expense to the county, for £45,000 5 yeor, he then avowing he could male $10,000 a year profit at that rate. The X~ traordinary expenses of the Clerk's ofica will account largely for the deficiency in the county revenue, Twenty years ago the pub- lic protested against tho magnitude of that office; but the expenditure of 140,000 a yeer for solaries alone exceeds even tho wildest notions of waste gnd ex. travngance. The service performed by Lis clerks may be guessed at when it is known they composed n lmrge portion of the ‘Workingmen's and the Dem- ocratic Conventions, Whenever he wants a bummer for politics he puts him ox the pay- woll, and hos Lim psid $+ o day ont of the County Treasury. We shail not be sur- prised if the pay-roll of the County Clerk’s office for October rench $15,000,~the extra men being employed to work for Lren’s elec- tion. The county finances, however, require at- tention. The county will be, on the 1st of December, perhaps £1,000,000 in arrear, and how i5 it to be extricated from the qiff. culties? There isa question submitted to popular vote directing the issue and -sale of §500,000 of bonds on account of building the Court-Homse. Shall this power be granted? The credit ~of the county is exhansted. A large flonting debt exists, and must be piid. Not a cent can be spated from the ordinary revenus to be spplied to the Court-House, and that work must stop, unless these bonds be voted. It is & grave question to stop the building at this time, but it is equally grave tovote ahalf million of doliars extra fo bo hondled by a Board of Commissioners acting under Lm:f's control. The choice befween these two evils must be mnde by eachivoter. . He must deter- mine whether it is betler'to vote the money andtake the chances of having it expended nn- der Boss Lies's direction, or of rejecting the loan and suspending work on the Court- House until an honest County Government is elected and secured. In either case, th.o duty of the voter is n clear one, and that is to vote agninst Lien, - Defent him, and there will be at least a beginning made in the way of honest government, and then the Board of Commissioners, no matter of whom con- stituted, will be relieved of bis influence and control. THE RELIGION OF AMUSEMENTS, X Asceticism has not flonrished in Americn, either because the soil hes been too rich or the climate too invigorating. It is to be wondered at that the gospel of self-denial has not been more widely embraced here, for the degree of renunciation required by it is less in proportion fo the temptations, and the temptations are less in new communities than in old ones. There bas been, it is trae, some sssaults upon amusements for their own sake. We have known the Puritan Sabbath in all jts formal austerity; and there bas not been one kind of innocent enjoyment which Lis not excited the concern of some godly people. But thero has been comparatively littlo exhibition of a malevolent and soured disposition in the crusades agniust the good spirits of our people. The crusaders have been couscientious, and often rational in their methods. They have proceeded some- times by appeals to the sensibilities of those they seek to improve, not by threats of pun- ishment and the terrors of the law. The or~ dinary method in the older countries is dif- ferent. Authority is exercised by State clergymen to maintain the dignity and the traditions of the Church; and the great ends of the Church are often lost sight of in the pursuit of its temporel glory. This is true of the English Church as much asof any other. In the rural communitics of En- gland tho interferencs of tho clergy with the amusements of their parishioners pro- duces almost an abridgment of their per- sonal liberties; and, although tho authority of the clergy is derived meinly from the sa- cred character of their calling, apart from their own qualifications to judge of such matters, it is not on that account less weighty with the masses. Within a generation there has been o strong renction in England against flabby Christianity. Cmaries KiNesLEY was per- haps the first to advocate a change in the physical development of the Charch. He taught the doctrine of Muscular Christianity, and enforced his teaching to such a degree by example that he wrought a marvelous effect. Tlo made smusement not only a privilege but a duty, and removed from nemrly every form of human activity the seal of condemnation fixed upon it by a pre- vious generation. The good that KixesLey did, it is a pleasure to observe, lives affer him. He has left disciples to carry on and megnify his work. Their voices were he ard in the great Church Congress at Croyden early this month when the question of * Pub- lic Amusements” como up for discussion. The essayist of the occasion exhibited the usual reverence for a decaying Asceticism, and found ample support in the conservative sense of the Congress. The Rev. F. Goe said it was not the business of the clergy to cater for the amusement of their parishion- ers. In bis opinion, any form of amuse- ment that indisposed a Clristian to engage in devotions afterwards was questionable. Ho advocated * the home-circlo ” and the in- flnence of pious parents ag remedies for the want of entertainment complained of, 'This fawiliar platitude brought up the Rev. J. W. Horstey, who seems to be an excellent type of the modern, sclf-reliant; well-balanced, muscular Christian, o said: The people of the Charch would be, must he, and should be amu: and it was the daty of the Church toregulate, not to ignore or condemn, their deeds. Diviner of a former generation considercd an atmosphere of refined and gentle melancholy the proper tone for mortals, bat the clerzy of tne vresent day cared not to persuade men that the rource of joy was in their hearts oy hanging out the eign of the Prince of Darkness in their faces; and for their poorer brethren at least they might be allowed to think that they had betier be sung to than groaned over. ([Applause aud laugiter. | dJoux BuNTaN #poke with rezret of the young woman whose name was DoLt—how prohific she wag, and_hov rarely her descendants had emigrat- ed from England. Panem et circenscz wasahu- man, and nota purely pagan crv. The Church had learned that there was a religion of health: it must also learn that there was & religion of amusement, and that the calling of an amuger was a sacred call- ing. [Applause.] ‘The Religion of Amusements is barely sug- gested by Mr. Horstry, who, indeed, had not the desire to expand it into a system. His main iden is that religion cen work efficiently throagh the everyday life of tho people. He would have nothing sanctimoni- ous nboutit. Recogoizing as ¢ part of tho human constitution the universal desire for entertainment, ho awards it » place smong the works of Gop. Assuchit is to be re- spected and cuitivated. It is too important a part of man to be neglected. Mr. Hors- 1xy would probably consent to advanco a step farther and say {hat the exisience of any form of amusement is prima facie evidence in its favor. Pernicious influence must not be assumed but proved. In the caso of the theatre, for instance, the pre- sumption is that, since it is an histerical in- stitution, deting its origin back hundreds of yenrs, it bas o basis in sound sense and good morals. The deterioration of the thentro does not require the conclusion that it hos survived its usefulness. Thero mny bo o milder remedy than fire for the evils it prop- agates. Mr. Honster holds ittobe the daty of the Charel: o roform and purify the stago rather than to condemn it. ‘The Richard I7T, of Invia spoke to his mind, and the Rip Van Winkle of Jorrzmson to his soul, in n" way that could not casily bo forgotten. What is trac of the theatre is truo in an equal degree of music-halls and oll other forms of amuscment. Tardly ono of them but is susceptible of such reform that it can be made the ally of true religion. When this subject is taken hold of . in the right manner, the clergy will find that they bave brought themselves near to the hearts of the people. If the man who makes the ballads of a mation ean afford to despise the one who makes the laws, how much more can he who controls the amusements be powerful for good or evil! Tven if Lien’s management of the County Clerk’s office had been satisfactory to the people, instead of being extravagant, waste- ful, and scaudalons, the public interest de- mands a change. Tho term is four years, which is equivalent to two'terms of most of the county and city offices. The office is intimately connected with the County Board, and 2 chaoge of hands is essential to the smashing of the Ring that have obtained control of that Board. Solong as it may be used for political hangers-on and dead-beats, it will nue to be an important agency of the Ring in the perpetuation of their power from year to year. LiEs cites, in extenuation of the exorbitantcost of running the office, that be has been compelled to submit largely to the dictation of the Board; this is a confes- sion that he will continue to do so if re- clected. What the public needs, however, is the substitution of a man who will not sub- mit to such dictation, but mannge the office in a business-like way, and expose and oppose the operations of the Ring at every point. SOME NEEDS OF THE CHURCH. The Nation, which usually deals with politics and finance, has at last grappled with a religious question, or, to speak more strictly, social pheses resulting from an absence of religion. The problem which it discusses is the dishopesty of church-mem- bers and the irreligion of the poor,—a prob- lem which recently engnged the attention of the Triennial Convention of the Episcopal Church. The former branch of the problem is certainly an important one, when it is considered that nearly all of the large de- faulters, forgers, and financial pecalaiors who have been lately exposed were not only members of churches, but active mem- bers, who have been conspicnous for their eeclesiastical industry and their prominent sianding in the Church. It is but justice to the Triennial Convention, as well as to the Nation, to say that neither of them gives n very well-defined remedy for the evil they discuss, and perhaps no one else can. The Nation, however, presents a cause for church scandals that Tre Cmrosco Trinuse in times past has suggested, but which is well worth repeating by way of emphasis, and that is, the loss of faith in the dogmatic part of Christianity. The Nation says: *Peoplo do not believe in the fall, the atoncment, the resurrection, and o future stato of reward and punishment at all, or do not believe m them with tlie certainty and vividness which are needed to make faith a constant influence onaman’s daily life. They do not believe they will be damned for sin with the assur- ance they once did, and they aro conseqnent- ly indifferent to most of what is said to them of the need of repentance.” Without ac- cepting this declaration in its sweeping char- acter, there is undoubtedly much of truth in it. Arguing from this bnsis, is it not logical to assuwme that the Church itself, rather than tho world, is largely responsible for ihis fail- ure of relimion to act s a rule of conduct? With the rapid development of science, the general progress of thought, and the enlargement of ideas, the peoplo keep even pace, and it is nataral that they should; bat the leaders of the Church, those who expound its theology and seek to en- forco its discipline, not only do not advance in any rotio with this progress, but they stand still and oppose it. They are consery- ative to the degreo that everything 'must square with their dogmas or else be rejected. Their dogmatism is so inelastic that it will not yield It will surrender nothing, com- promise with nothing, investigate nothing. Science and human thought in all its depert- ments must lay -aside all their pretensions, or else Science must be Anathema Maranatha. The oonsequence is the people are ruaning away from their leaders, and, being without spiritual guides, are acting after the manner of the world, without restraint or discipline, 50 that the carnal man frequently gets the better of the spiritual man. The Nation,in despair, suggests as a remedy that “ Church membership onght to involve dis- cipline of some kind in order to farnish moral aid.” But what shail the discipline be? Who shall enforco it? How are the Church leaders to enforce it when they are s0 far behind their flocks that they cannot reach thom? The toughest of all duties for the average men is self-deninl,~that is, not to do the very thing he wants to do,—which lies at the basis of religions success. If the leaders and the flocks are not in detive sym- pathy, if the leadler is preaching what the flock will not concede, it is but natural that the average man should do just what he wants. Humanity is mot ascetic except under compulsion,—some hope of reward or fear of punishment,—and that compulsion must result from a discipline well-nigh mar- tial in severity. It is possible, if the bar of dogmas did not loom up so forbiddingly and blankly between pew and pulpt, . ihat the leaders might come closcly enough 1o the people to suggest a form of asceticism that might not necessitate utpr withdrawal from the world. It is a hard problem to solve, but are the leaders making any effort tosolve it? Does it ever come up as o ques- tion for examination in Synods and Conven- tions? Is it preached upon in the pulpit or wrestled with in the prayer-meeting? It is more vital than forcordination. predestina- tion, transubstantiation, consubstantiation, or any other “ ation” in theology ; and until the Church, through its leaders, can devise some meaus of making religion act as a prac- tical, everyday rule of conduct, the Church cannot offer its certificates as infallible guar- antees, or even of more value than unsecured moral paper. The otber branch of the problem is not so diflicult to mect, as it docs not involve dogma. The poor are irreligious because it is too expensive for them to be religious. No poor man likes to make public conces. sions to his poverty, oxcept with his butcher aud grocer, The pride of poverty is quite as exacting as the pride of wealth 1If, there- fore, the poor man must come forward and sue for religion in forma pauperis be will be likely not to core at all, especially in these latter days, when Communism has seduced some of the working classes and the bee of cquality is in all their bonnets. But this is the fendency, and it is almost universal in the Protestant Church,— the Roman Church being elastic enongh, aud possessing machinery exnetly adapted to mecet this want. As' the Nalion puts it, ¢ ecclesiastical organizations ” “which sell. cushioned pews at aunction, or rent them at high rates, and build million-dollar churches for the accommodation of one thousand wor- shipers, can mever convert the. working- mou. The matter of dollars aud cents keeps bim out. He will checrfully pay sl worldly taxes, but refuses to be nasessed for religion. Ho will take o back seat in the theatre, does not Iny it to heart that he is not invited to the revels of the upper tea- dom, and cheerfully aceepts an inferior place in all worldly arrangements; bat ho will not consent to a back seatina public place of worship, nor a2dmit the Christiauity of the church-goer who will not kneel besido him on terms of social equality. The Koman Church does this better. There is first a binding obligation upon every per- son over § years of ago to go to church; and, second, the opportunity'to go is for- nished by providing a place where there is free, continmous church service for all, ‘where dress isnot required, and where high and low may meet on strict equality one day straction. To.meke religion a rule of con- duct requires s dogmatic and spiritual re- construction. However practical the one may be or difficult the other, they must be met by the leaders of the Church if they ex- pect to arrest backsliders and convert the working classes. The cheracterof the Church is none the less sacred, its aims are none tho less exalted, because the.problem isnotmet ; but, if these agencies are not utilized, that growth which all good men desire and pray for cannot be expected. - A SORE-AEAD, The Journal havine neard that DAvE Hau- MOND proposed to run for’ Uouaty Treasurer as asore-headed bolter, yesterday intervicwed him, whereupon e yielded the following preclous bosh: lam on the track. Iam s candidate. Idon't sce how [ can get out of this matter honorably in any other way.” I have been accused of selling ont fote JfeChca. and [ want o let_the neopie Know swhether I belong to Mr. McCrEa or myself, replied 3. Hawnoxo. {Who made that ineffably silly and ridiculous accusation? Who bas accused bim of selitng outto MCCREA"?! DAvE, thatis a littletoo thin.] Reporter—You don't believe that you stand any show of election, in case you run, do you? Hdmmond—I aon't know how this thiag is olng to turn ont. 1don't care whether [ get 50, 1. 000, or 5,000 votes, 1 am going to run in any case. [After further talk, Hasuoxpsaid that ke had becn sold out by his own delegates. His first statement was, that it wasbeing reported ne had sold out to McCrEA!] Reporter—Xow were you sold out? Hammond suid: 1 don't biame the delegates so macl 45 those whom T trusted to carry on my cam-. puign. 1 didn’t take the troudle to %o around to all the delegates, but trusted men who zave me to understaud Wt 'certain delegates were plodsed to me. Notone of tiose delesates whom I thought werc pledged voted for me in the Convention. Al thuse that T had waken the trouble to sce stood by me. C next day people bezan to. talk, and it was said on the streets that [ kad sold out to McCuea for $8,000. Then I determined to let peo- now that § wasn't owned by McCrEa or any- y else, and to do taat | have made up my mind that there 13 no other way to set out of this bon- orably than to run indepcendently. Revorter—What was the strength of the delegates that you thought were pledged to yon? Hamuwond—T thought that I wenl into the Con- veution with fully a hundred delegates in my favor, and that they were all right up 1o Tuescyy morning. JRteporier—Do you'intend to make any formal an- nouncement of your candidacy? Uammond—I don't know. [Who are those *people® who told him that e had sold out to McCrea for $8,000? Lethim name them. Were they not Lyxca's gang? Has be heard any report that the Lyxca crowd offer to pay him 38,000 if he bolts and draws away enough votes from McCeEa to elect LyNcu? If he will listen be will hear just exactly that re- port, for it is talked quite publicly.] ——— The office-scekers among the Industrials who negotiated the corrupt bargain with Lies and Lxxcy, when they fonnd themselves diddled and bamboozled, set up a flerce howlof foul play, Punlc faith, as well they mighs at such an cxhi- bition of treachery. But there were other hearts which had aright to grieveat the treatment they had received. We copya passage from the literal report of the Industrial Ceatral Committee meeting last Thursday evening, called to mourn, execrate, and purge thelp ticket: ' Mr. Kerys remarked that they were burning to establish their principles,—to tand independent of all parti Mr. W, GTOX asked Mr. KEnys to point ot a single Republican on the ticket. The nominees were all Democrats. If there had been fairness it would not have ocen so onc-sided. Mr. LAREY gaid the Workinzmen's Indastrial party was composed of Democrats, and that fact coulin’t be zot around. The rank and fle were in their ranks, and the Democrats coulda't help them- sclves. Men were mot nominated because they sere Democrats, —Each one stood on his own mér. ite. The Republicans should bring all the strength they could to the ticket, Mr. Drxox understood now just how mnch Dem- ;mmtie workingmen loved their Repablican fel- oys. The notorious fact is that three-fourths of those acting in good faith with the Industrials have been Republicans and neer were Demo- crats. The poisy, brassy, grab-all fellows are the Democrats, full of office-seeking and inso- lence, like the cbap Laner. We cannot con- ceive how any man who cver had a drop of Republican blood in his vefos can act with a set. of men who snub and insult Republicans, and use the Industrial orzanization for the benefit of such Democrats as Lies and Lyxcm. They are in pretty poor company; and if they have eventhe spirit of mice they will back square out of it. ———— A terrible pictare of woe in the once beaatiful “Vale of Roscs,” ncar Shipka Pass, is painted by acorrespondent of the London Times: Alt the way from Shipka to Yeni Saghra, at which place we took the rail, the air is polinted with the remains of the killed. The bodies of men, women, and children are to be met with in all staces of decomposition at the roadsides, in the corn-fields and zardens, on the banks. of streams and in the beds of risvulets. Some hun- dreds were choking the shallow river within o marter of a mile from where we camped at Yeni Snehra. Desolation and ruin appeared along the whole way. The remains of fornterly prosperons villages, ‘which it was impossidie fo pitch tent even near, riopling mountain strcams in which our hores refused to drink. the howling of wolves around us at night, brousht down frum the mountains earlier than usaal by the horrid feasts repared for them (the larzest T have ever seen Ty dend, ovidently recently shot, by the side of the roud) not far from Yeni Sachra, and, worse, the occasional ehricks from human beings, folo lowed by solitary rifle reports. which made one shudder moze than the damp night air,—all these 8120ta and sonnds went to form one ereat horribio [hantasmagoria, wich none of us are likely to ive long enough to remember withoat parn. e~ One of the Parisian newspapers has invented amnew aud inzenious method of advertising it- sel. It prints in its dramatie column a fac simile of a tivket of sdmission to one of the theatres, with the notification underneatn that if the reader will cut out the ticket and present it at the box-oflice he will obtaln a seat ou payment of 2 certain sam from 25 to 50 per cent less than the ordwnary price of admission, In this manoer the paper, the theatre, and the reader are ail benetited; the paper gets a good advertisement, so does the theatre, which also attracts a ot of new visitors, and the reader saves the difference between the amount of the reduction and the cost of the paper. The jdea isavood one, and onc that some American mavagers who are casting about for a graceful way of coming dowa {rom ante-war prices mizht adopt with proiit. —— Four years are pienty long enonsh for any man to hold the office of Connty Clerk, with its vast patronage. Eight years are altogether too many. Let us have a change. Things have zot to running even worse than they dld towards the end of Sheriff AGNEW’S term. The Demo- crats felt constrained to rotate Aayew and nominate a new man, and the change has been immensely for the better. Why aid they mot rotate LiES, and nominate a new man With a clean record? Why did they allow him to pack A convention on them with his clerks and henchmen? It is the duty of decent Democrats to scrateh his name off their tickets, as his con- tinuance in office will be of 1o benefit or honor tothem. Heisa bad ez —— SITTiNG-BorL’s reputation as a diplomat, achieved by his direct method of consigning the late Commission ** to the Devil,” suffers some- what in the light of the complications with which he has aged tosurround himself. He refused to surrender to the United States au- thorities, and now e is warned by the Dominion Goverument that if he crosses the border with warlike inteot; he will e soundly whaled by the British soldiers. This puts BuLt in a fix, He dare not chirp in Canada, and he can’t CT0S3. iato the only country in which he is sure of suc- cessiu a fight. Verily BoLw bas been yoked to misfortune. — Mr. SasMsetT Cox is around telling .good stories about himself. “WhenT wasa fresh- man at Brown University,” he says, “I went to collewre aze morning in a hurry and made 2 bee- line across the grass from the gate to the en- trance to my room. (You know how the gravel walk winds about through the front campus?) Well, 1 was abont half-way across when I no- ticed Dr. WAYLAND'S tall form coming out of the chapel: Inawinate he was beckoning to in the week, even if they do not the other six. To meet the necessities of the poor, there must be a material and worldly recon- me in bis stately way. Then I madea bee-line for him. My son, where did you come from* T ansiered that I came from Ohio. ‘Don’t you sce these gravel walks? was his next Question. Ireplied that I did. *Then why dow't Souus; them? T don’t know what put it into head [said Mr. Cox], instant. *I doo’t knov, sir, cause there is more erass than gravel Where came from.’” From his late knock-downip s candidaturs for the Speakership there scems y be more gravel where Le is now thau‘lhmg, [grass anywhere. : — Is it not about time for American womeg f enter a practical protest aguinst the practice of calling themselves pet names? The evil hagey. tended through 21l classes of society, ill we gy in momentary expectation of se¢ing some pyl. piteer rise and speak of ABE’s wife, SaDee, o the fidelity of Rermig, or the difference fe. tween the sisters MoLLiE and Marmiz, Ny woman with a weakling name can attajn 20 pro. eminence in any worthy pursuit. Could My WILLARD command respect if she were calleq Fax? Or what would the public think of Mg DICKINSON or Miss ANTHONY if they their names NANNIE and Scstg? b ———— A divine, representing imselt to be the Rey, MARTYN. preached a sermon in New York re. cently in which be characterized the newspapey as the ** American Bible,” and then went for it aud the style of nows it presents. “We regqgy 4 newspager,” said he. ““about a man in Oraggy County who has succeeded in Taising a squasy that weighs fifty pounds. What of it \fhas do we care about fifty-pound squashes? Ther are greater things in this world than even filty- pound squashes™” Tnat’s so, but it will be s sad day for the memory of the Rer. Marrrx when the American public loses its interest in squashes. but I guess it 35 be- Weare greatly evatified to observe that the New York Sun is becoming confirmed in ity Communistic tendencies. For a second tima Citizen Jons Swixtox has been leading Citizen ScHWAB'S rabble to disurder. Whenever the Communists of New York riscin tueir migat, we trust that Citizen SwixTox wilf content hix. self with executing as Lostazes Cardinal Mc- Croskey, Chicf-Justice DALy, and a few clergy- men and policemen, and not insist on decimat- ing the editorial staffs of the New York Ppavers, which, as 1 rule, do not take kindly to his Com, munistic preachings. ———— When Mr. McCreA heard the ridicalony stories of “ buying and selling,” which were so distressing to Mr. Haxiosp, he very frank), and emphatically exonerated bim. He declared that there had boen no understanding, bargaiu, or arrangement between them; that for him- sclf, he did not spend a nickel azainst Mr. Hax- 3MOND or any other man to obtain the nomina- tion for County Treasurer; that he bought no delezate’s vote, tried to influence nobody’s vote, and used no effort whatever to obtain the gomination. It came to him unsolictted. ——— A New York Coroner recently found the orpse of 2 young and handsome woman with it throat cut, a couple of bullet-holes i jts breast, and a caved-in skull. He held an jo- qmwst on'it as the body of an unknown man of 68 who had died of pulmonary phthisis, and the jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the facts as related by him. Next day the hus- band proposed to a dashing widow for whom he had bong entertained a passion, and the Coro- ner litted a mortgage on his house, — Withs view to the education of the Govern- ment instatecraft, the New York Tribune sug- gesta: It mightbe well for the Cabinet to follow the re- cent examile of the House of Representatives, and adjourn octasionally to assist at a_ borse-race, o some kindrid form of stimnlating and hazardons amusement, for the purpose of gathering a funted experience of an exclusively woeldly natare. Fa- miliarity wity the elements of moral science I3 hardly an adcyuate equipment for a zame of bin with Pennsslania politicians when a foreign mis- ston is the statcy . ——— Happy thousht! Sposin’ we should put Saxnry Cox, and the Z¥mes’ grammatical editor, and the Count JoANNES, and the savings-bank directors, and Tox EwixG, and Ta AGE, and the coutributor who writes on both sides nf the paper, andall tha' sort of people, on 2 reserva- tion, and exasperaic them into flying into Cans- da, and then senc a TERRY Commission to induce them to staythere. Big thing on nice, eh? e Nasr’s thumb is in 1 condition to rotate, and he comes to the surface with an illustration of the millentum, representing the tizer and the lamb Iying down togetier. At first the lamb does not show up plaitly, but a card on the Dreast of the Democratic'iger bears the lezend, *For the Kepublican lamb,inquire within,” aml a degree of plethoric solidity about the ribs of the carnivora indicates the fate of the sheep. ——— The change of administraticn of the City Gov- ernmeut by which the COLVD: zang were ronted out has saved ‘the taxpavers nct less tian one million of dollars per anpum. The County Government expenses will be cut down in equal proportion if the Republican ticket is elected. This is morally certain. But let the Lies zang retain control and there will be no roform and Do retrenchment. ————— The wild whoop of the coming commentator on the varions *plasms re-echoes throuzh Morti- cultural Hall, Boston, where 240 babies are com- peting for a variety of prizes valued fa the agererateat 31,000. Boston papers are inined to tiink that all hands are likely to take prizes for lack of size and want of lustiness, bui in in- telligence they cousider the infauts far in ad- vance of some of the old scttiers. ———— SaMmr Cox, talking about “Gov.” Hires after, on the 14th of March, addressing him as “Mr. President” and “President United States, is an amoosin spectacle. 1t is true that when 8a3n1r Cox recognized the President be wanted a fasor; but on the whole his condn™ is such as to authorize us to describe him as the Man-with-the-Tron-Cheel — e — Among decent people there i3 a general feel- ing of regret that the four darling ducks. Mc- CarrrEY, HoLpESN, CamROLL, aad Schmor, were not renominated by the Democratic Con- vention. The universal desire upon the part of honest people was to give them sucha testi- monial at the polls as they would feel proud of all the remaivder of their days. —— The advance-guard of the noble army of Kea- tackian martyrs that went down to Baltimore to bet on Ten Broeck had advanced pretty well across Maryland at last agsie ing continnes good and the supply of acorn mast ia the woods of Pennsylvania and Obto holds out, it is expected that most of them will reach home by Christmas. ————— CALCRAFT, the ex-hangman, is preparing an autobiography. 1t is said to be a book of singu- lar fascination, full of noose; the interest is always maintained and never allowed to drop; and the reader will be sure to bang over it with cestasy. —— ‘The result of the great race at Baltimorc on Wednesday last will undoubtedly be to quicken the greenback moverncnt in Kentucky. People who hetted on Tea Broeck will clamor for moro money. ————— The Democratic Conveution might have done better than nominate for County Commissioner anold political ward hack like CASSELMAN, ¥ho is forever running for oflice. \Why not give him arest? . ——— The Chicazo ZTimes calls the County Clerk *“Lazy Lies.” This is a misnomer, for he is the most active, nimble, indefatigable office-hunter inthecounty. He should be called Light-foot Lizs. —— If LiEs is defeated, the expense of running the County Clerk’s office will be rednced from $40,000 to $30,000 per annum. Is not that sum worth saving to the sorely-oppressed taxpayers$ ——t— The Cincinnati Enquirer, having gottenout a Ppage of fizures on the Ohio election, is writing letters to itsclf inquiring how many “ ems” the table contained, and replying blatantly that the number wos 126,700. How manv *‘ems” did but I answered og gy, ¢ and if thewalk-