Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1878, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY - 7, 1 878—SIXTEEN PAGES. Thye Tetbe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. . _ DY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPATD, Dally Edition. on 12.00 Pars of vear. ver month, 100 Liter: Léition: 2,51 i WEEKLY EDITI e cops. perse: i o fobr.o Epeelmen cop: eent trec. Give Post-Oftice address fn full, Including State and Cou Jiemittapces mey be msde either brdraft. express, Tout-Otfice erder, orin resistered Jesters, at our risk. TEEMS TO CITY SURSCRIGERS, Tef'y. dclivered, Sunday excented, % cents per week. 1 44y, delivered, Sunday included, S0 conts ver week. Ldcrees THE TRIDGNE COMPANY, Corner Ms€isou and Dearborn-#ts.. Chic: Oréers2or the delivers of TRE THIBUNE AL Engiewood. and Iiyde Park left In the Count{ng-room W flirucetve Lrownt attention. OFFICES. THP CRICAGO TEINTNE s catablished braneh ofices forthe recelptof subscriutions and advertisements os Y ORK—Room 29 Zritune Bulldiag. ¥.T. M- Manager. France—No. 16 Rue de 1a Grange-Batelicre. LAFAYETTE CIAPTE! SAGironsL. tfon Mouday eveninz, July Visitors ‘cor- and work. W. W REID, 11 P. . for liusing By or: 5, Secretars. D LONGE. OF PER ‘the Xinth and Teath Degrees of un Thursd: OS PETTIH ED GOODALE, Gr. , R A ML.—Rez- 1y K, af 8 o'cluck, Viatting Com= . BARNARD. H. P CHAPTER. No. 27, R. A. M.~Speclal Monday cveninj lock. Tast, and . s B, at 7 o'clock. . Deztees, P. TODEY, T. P. SUKDAY, JULY 7, 1S78. In New Ym-k'an Saturday greenbacks were worth 993 {0 99 cents on the dollar in gold aud silver coin. Oregon dispatches report continued on- counters between tho white scitlers and the Banrock Indians, and great clarm, extending even to the coast towns. No adequata forco of: Government troops hes yet reached the scene of the latest fights on the John Day Tiver. Depredations on Gavernment timber con- tinue. Reports from Lonisiana show that there are no less than sixteen saw-mills which are fed entirely with logs stolen from Government lands. This is what may be termed, with some degres of truth, Louisi- ans freud. ! 1t is confidently anticipated in Washington thet specie-payments will be resumed at an enrlier date than January next. There is a sufficient coin balance in the Tressury to warrant the supposition. However, if re- sumption really does take place, it will not bo sccomplished by any arbitrary dictam, ‘but by the natural processes of commerce. ——— Tho platform of the Arkansas State Dem- ocratic Convention, adopted just before its adjournment yesterday, is devoted almost eatirely to national finances. While several of the clauses are contradictory, they are perhaps no worse than the rest of the plat- form, which boldly demands subsidies for +Mississippi. lavees and a Southern Pacific Railroad. 5 The annnal Orange riots are expected to oceur in Montreal on the 12th of July, and the Mayor has proclaimed that the Orange- men shail not be allowed to have their usnal procession. Besides being in itself illegal, this proclamation has the effect of interfer- ing with the privileged recreation of Trishmen, who, though denied the sweet boon of self-legislation at home, have never et been hindered from whacking each other with cudgels and brickbats for the sake of xchigion once a yesar. The work of the Bexlin Congress is said to be nearly completed. Throughout the ne- gotintions the English representatives have displayed a spirit of concession as unexpect- ed as the spirit of greod shown by the Aus- trinu delegates. There promises st present to o u wide difference of opinion between Turkey and Austria regarding the occapation of Bosnia and the Herzegovina by Austrian troops. If this question is left, as proposed, to be directly sottled by the two Govern. ments, there is likely to be trouble end an undoing of much of the work of the Congress of 1878. The proclumation ef the Mayor of Montreal will probably Lave the effect of redoubling the fury of the ““Battleof the Boyne” in. stead of proventing a disturbance., The Oraugomen Luve issued o connter-procia- mation, declaring that they will meet end march as usual There will thus ba a three-cornercd fight, unless the h!n;pr retrents from -ite position already taker by him. Between the police. the Protestant Irishmen, and the Roman Cath- olics, Moutrea! will have a lively oxperience. Suc, at lesst, seems to be the prospect at present, although it s not improhable that the Mayor's proclamation will bo modified. Veea Sassurircr, whose recent trinl for shooting the Prefect of Police at St. Peters. burg created much interest in this conatry, Lius arrived st Genera, Switzerland, and tells a strange story of her adventures after the trial. Tmmediately upon her acqdiital a riot took place in the Court-room, and during the tumnlt she was hurricd away by police =zgents disguised as medieal students to an obscuro’ house in the suburbs of the Llussien Capital. She managed {fo escape from confinement in the druss of & Sister of Churily, and so reached Geneva. Since her arrival in the Iatter city she has been treated to a banguet, given by Ledical exiles of different nutionslities, who natarally regard her as a heroinoand a martyr 0 the cause of the red fla; Tt is said that the call of a special meeting of the Couucil for Friday evening was in the interest of Hrtoriry, the Democratic bum- mer aud ex-revenue-defrauder of the Seventh Ward. No meeting was Leld, becauso there Was not a quorum, and there was probably 20 quornm beeause the respectable members of the Council generally bad an intimation of the purpose. At the election of & year ago last spring, Hirorern claimed that he had received a majority of the votes for Alderman. Not only was this extremely doubiful, but he was ineligible for a seat in the Council because he was a self-convicted ofticer of the revenue. He wasvery properiy excluded. The Council, being the judge of its own membership, then disposed of the cose finally. Buot there hes been another effort to crowd him into 2 seat in this Coun- cil. Tt is understood that the Committee in charge of the matter will present two reports,—the majority report Lolding that the decision of the praceding Council cannot be set aside, which is good law and good sense, and the muority raport bolding to the contrary. It was probably thought the matter conld be sprung upon the Council at n specinl meeting, with only a small number of Aldermen present, snd that a vote favora- ble to HiLnzery could Lo obtaiued, which would stultify the Council and disgrace the city. This plan has been defeated for the present, and the reputable members of the Council will probubly be careful not to give the bummers any opportunity in the future to carry out such a programme. HILDRETR WAS never a proper man to put in an appear- ance in public life, He is a fellow who has 10 brains, no education, no charncter fitting him for public office ; and, now that there is 8 legal and sufficient excusc for koeping him out of office, furnished by his own confession of Liaving defrauded the Government, it will be & public scandat if he shall ever again bo allowed to sit in the Council Chamber. The Rev.. Dr. Tmouas 15 one of those prenchers who say tho right things at the right time. A volume of generalizations is not so effective as a single sentence of pat and pointed application. It was very prop- er, therefore, that Dr. Troxas should have taken occasion during the funerai-services of the murdered Mazie StevENs to illustrate the fallacy of = certain theory of repentance that is entertained by some of the orthodox churches. Stevess, the husband, Las ac- cused his wife of conduct which the oxthodox people believe will be punished here- after, if not fully ropented; but STEVENs Jlfed bhis wife, and gave her 1o opportunity for repontance. committed a murder,—certainly 2 more heinous crime than his wifa ever committed, if she ever committed any crime at all; be will be put on trinl for murder, and per- haps condemned to die. but he will have several months in which to complete au elsborate death-bed Topentance; and prepara his soul for future happiness and reward. It was of this peculiar situation that Dr. Trox- As took oceasion to say that he did not be. lieve the murdered Maane Srevess would go direct to Hell and her murderer direct to Henven,—the dogma of repentanco to the contrary notwithstanding. We think, in the strong light of just this one caso, most intel- ligent and fair-minded people will agree with Dr. Tnowas. It is not necessary to argue the question of fuinre punishment in con- nection with the ease. The proposi- tion is that the mwurdered woman will not go to Mell, because violently deprived of the opportunity for formel repeatance (in case sho was guilty of any crime), if her murderer, guilty of the greater crime of taking her life, is going to Heaven ns soon as he shall be hanged becanse he will bave enjoyed the time and opportunity for formal repentance. Perhaps if Stevexs had given his wife even five winutes for prepara- tion, she would in that short space of time Dave developed more genuine repentanco for trivial faults than he will develop in six months for the most heinous crime that ecan be committed. A wiso and omniscient Providence will be judge of this, aud proba- bly tnke it into account. We think Dr. Troxas has made up his mind that the or- dinary dogma of repentance juust be ma- terially modified in order to command respect from just and reasonable people, and took this very striking illustration of its incon- gruity in order to impress the fact upon the Charch as well 0 upon the lay community. TRADES-UNION COMPLAINTS, Tast Sunday = large number of the trades- upions of this city held a picnic at Ogden's Grave, the purpese heing partly social but mainly political. They were addressed by various persons, two of them being roving agitators from Nassachusetts. As an em- bodied statement of thu grievances of labor, and the wrongs which workingmen endure, a lorg declaration (heretofore published) was read. TFrom the list of sccnsations sgninst employers we take the following items of indictment ; They [employers] demand free trade or u high tariff. us it will beet serve their investments, They receive Government aid and putronaze for their railrond and manufactaring ¢ Their wares are exh world's fairs and centennial shows at Government expense. It must be remembered that this is pert of the indictment of omployers by workmen, who insist that the former ere making war npon tie latter to exclude men from lnhor, aud to reduce wages. The three sllegations made to support this accusation furnish of themselves u direct refutation of the charge, Tho principle of protection, and of unprece- dented protection, hus been racognized in this country most of the time during the last eighty yeors, nad continnously during the Iest cighteen years. That policy hes heen ‘supported vigorously by all the manufac- tnrers fu_all sections of tho country, and by all the Iaborers and mechanics emploged Ly the panufacturers. The motive for this support has been the same by hoth ewployer sud omployed. Tho capital. ist eogaged in every form of mnnufae- tares, end in purchasing rw 1aterinl and converting the same by Iabor into every form of sslable goods, has demonded and insisted on protection for the purposa of bettoring his investwents. Protection, he argues, «nables him o sell his productions at a greater price than he could without it. With protection he could invest his capi- tal, could employ lsbor, aud sell goods, and without capifal he conld not invest money, employ Jabor, or sell goods except at aloss. With protection, ths more money he investedand themore workmen he employed, tho greater would be his profits and the greater the rate of wages, and of the aggre- gate wages he could distribute. In fact, with protection there. was a field for the ecmployment of Ilasbor and the production of goods only limited by the means of cousaners to purchase, and the Ineans of consmmers were forever increased by the sdditional wages fund distributed cmong the ever-increasing number of work- men. The workmen, without whose active political support the protective legislation would not survive an hour, have insisted on protection on thegrounds that it enabledem- ployers to invest their capital and to employ more workmen, and ensbled them to pay their Inbor larger wages than was possible with- out protection; that it enabled employers to sell their goods at such prices as allowed the payment of more liberal wages than they could afford in the absence of protec. tion ; and that, of all things, protection was the invincible Egis of American workmen, who, under its shelter, lived like freemen, happy and contented, in brilliant contrast witl the unprotected pauper labor of other and less wisely-governed nations. If there ever were & question in which the interests of the employers sand employed—men, ‘women, and children—of the United States have been supposed to be closely identified, it has becn in the matter of protection. StevENs has- United in the defense of a common inter- ost,—the employment of the largest num- ber of workmen at the largest possible amount of wages,—the employers and work- men have overwhelmed all opposition, and have, to the surprise of civilized mankind, kept on the statute-book the high protective tariff to serve and promote the interests of the working classes, and especially the trades-unions, of the country. : The second charge—concerning legislative aid for railroad nud manufacturing enter- prises—is peculiarly inconsistent. All these grants have been made in the interests of Isbor. ~ The demand for railrond-building was to give omploywent to Tabor in grading, in building culverts and bridges, in felling trees, and supplyivg ties; to give omploy- ment {o labor in mimng iron ore and coal, in runuing fuenaces and rolling-wills, in build- ing cars und Jocomotives, in operating trains, in building station-houses nud new towns, in moving people to new farms, pro- ducing more grain and live stock, increasing labor in transportation, opening new wines, creating new waats, and necessitnting in- creased employment of labor. Tt is true that wost of the eapital invested in these railroad mines and manufacturing enter- prises has been hopelessly sunk and lost to the original investors; still, labor bas been employed and has been paid for all the same, and the roads continme, directly aud indireetly, to furnish employment and wages to labor, while the capital invested has faded out of sight. Obe-balf the railways of the United States are now operated by Re- ceivers, tha gross receipts bemg applied to pay the wages of thoso cmployed in operat- ing them. At the lato session of Congress the only memorials for subsidies for rail- ways and steamers were from the mechanics and workmen of Pennsylvania and other jron.producing States. Whatever may bo the justice of subsidies, they are alweys granted to give work and incrensed wages to trades-unionists. The third .grievance is that employers Lave their wares exhibited and advertised at world’s fairs and centennial shows nt Gov- ernment oxpense, Whoso wares? Who produced those wares? What do theso wares represent? Do they nob represent he skill and labor of the workmen, and do not their cost represent the wages paid for their making? Are not the world's fairs and centennial shows advertisementsof the works of American Iabor? Does not the manu- facturer ndvertise and exbibit them that he may enlarge their market, increase their sale, necessitate a larger production, and nacessitate a Jarger employment of labor, larger profits, and an increase of wages? Is not everything that can aid or promote in- creased production of any nature and kind in aid of workmen and au increase in the distribution of wages? Can sny man invest his money in any production without giving sdditional em- ployment to labor? The larger the invest- ment the greater the necessity for labor. The man who ean find work for 100 men at aprofit will sirain every nerve to find em- ployment for 1,000. The man who makes 10 per cent protit on the product of 100 men will have an aggregate profit ten times greater if he can find work for 1,000 men. It is the interest, personl aud direct, of every man having money invested in pro- duetion to Incresse his business to the ut- most extent, and to swell his own profit by amploying all the labor he can command; and, the smoller the rate per cent of profit may be on each man’s labor, the stronger the inducement for bim to have as many men employed as he oan find work for. The wholo arraignment of employers by the trades-unions in the several instances we have specified is an illustration of the loose- ness and recklessness of the men who aro perambulating the country procluming the necessity of revolution to right the wrongs and outrages” committed upon work- men by employers. Ineach of the instances named ns outrnges mpon workmen by em- ployers, the fact is indisputable that the thing complained of is in tho interest of Iabor, and to increase employment and wages. OUR CAXTER WANTED. Col. Porx, the late Doorkeepor of the House, who wns removed for certain irregu- larities, among them tho employment and payment of wen in defiance of law, does not propose to remain quiet under the indignity, but has handed Gen. J. D, Cox, of the Com- mitteo on Civil-Service Reform, a letter, in which he charges the Civil-Service Com- mittea with unjust aund illegal scts. His principal allegation is to the effect that the pny-roll snbumitted io the Clerk of the House is unjust, illegal, and partiel, and claims that, according to every principle of justice aud decency, he shonld have been called npon 1o testify &s to the fustice of any ona of the claims allowed to those pretonded employes under bim. He says boldly : T never made a fletitions roll, nor any roll that was not aporoved by the owmittee ou’ Accomurs, orother proper authority; but your Committee, fortunate in having 1o restezints 1o their will, have made an unfair and nojust roll for the payment of versons who performed no service. Your Commit~ tee have allowed persous puy who_had been pre- viously pnid for their rervices, Your Commitive lowed tosome dollar: d to others cents far the same time and ecvice: and your Commit~ tee buve allowed claims uvon ineuflicient. mony ana against the records und my protest; an ax members of Congrese, have violaled the law quoted in your speech against me, which law, or any other, was not violated by me. The unfortnuate Doorkeeper poes still farther, and claims that some of the mem. bars wrged him to do the very things for which be was discharged, and be singles them out hy name. He charges that the whole Damocratic delegation of Pennsylvanin urgad him o make four mora appoiutments for that State, with the understanding that the Houso would incresse tho force sufli- ciently to cover themn; that Cramesox N. Porren opposed him becense he would not plnce an improper man upon the soldiers’ roll; and that * Another Civil-Service Re- former, your Chairmau, Ar. TIarnisox, knew at the time I was being tried that the As- sistant Sergeaut-at-Arms waiting on your Committee had, sfter the resolution to in- vestigate me had Leen referred. to his Com- mittee, urged me to appoint. him to a placa os the price of HarrisoN’s influence in my support. Failing to corrupt me, he ap- proached my Assistant, Col. DoNovay, and, failing in that quarter, he resorted to threats. T say Mr. Harrisox knew these facts, and still retained this man as an officer to the Committee.” Now, will Carter Hazrrsox rige ond explain ? We do not want to seg his Congressional record stained in this man- ner. Of what avail will it be that lie saved the Marine horn-blowers, discharged a Door- keeper, and constructed the most astonish- ing eagle ever known, if he has been trying to buy up the Doorkeeper he helped to bounce? Was he, while charging a fellow- Democrat with violating the law, violating the very same law? As Our CarTeR is now at leisure, and it is too hot for his Eagle to fly or his Band to blow, he cnn undoubtedly find time to meet the very serious charges made against him by ex-Doorkeeper Porx. ‘have allc nd. We have heard so much about Democratic reform and economy in tlie Civil Service, and so much from Qur CagreR on this point, that these charges are very extraordinary. Is Democratic reform after all a humbug and the cheap buncomba of desperate politicians ? Can it be true thet even Our CarTeR has been an adept' in ways that are dark and tricks that are vain? If we cannot trust the man who made thé American Eagle fly from the billows of the Atlantic to the sprays of the Pacific, whom can we trust? THE ROAD TO GOOD TIMES. Sscretary Suenyay is reported to have de- termined upon following Horace GREELEY'S advice as conveyed in the historic aphorism: “Tha way Lo resume is toreswmne.” Whether ornot this was true at the iime GrEELEY snid it, it is certaily true to-day. There is 1o donbt that the Secretary of the Treasury may resume Aug. 1 as easily as Jan. 1 next, which is the date fixed in the Resumption nct; in oither case, he has only to declare the intention, and the thing will be done. ‘We hope that the report which comes from Waslingtou of Lis purpose to announce re- sumption before the meeting of the next session of Congress will be veritied, and that he will nol postpone tho nunouncement be. yond the first of next month. We know of no law which prohibits the Secretary of the Troasury (rom redeeming the Government demand-notes whou they aro presented for redemption. The promise of the Re- sumption act is that these demand- noles shall not go unredeemed beyond dan. 1, 1879; but we conceive it to be the privilege and the duty of the Sceretary of the Trensury Lo announce his readiness to redeem thoin as early, as he foels that it can be done. It is his privilege, because, as the financo officer of the Government, he should redecm: demand-notes when presented, just ns tho cashier of a bank should give legal- tendor for the notes issued by his own bank when the demand is made ; it is his duty be- cause the manifold advantages that will fol- low resumplion, as they -are now compre- hended and admilted by intelligent people, will thus be attained five months oarlierthan if he shall await the date fixed in tho Re- sumption act. The power of the Secrctary of the Trens- wry to resume aud maintain resumption, as the Iaw uow stands, cannot rensonably be doubted. He has in the Trensury $197,415,- 132 of coin,—legal-tondar gold and silver,— which is an increase of §52,252,659 over the amount on hand one year ago. . Of this re- sumption fund about $46,009,000 are specinl deposits for which Government certificates are outstanding, but this sum may be fairly regarded as & part of the Government coin roserve, s can be easily shown. These cer- tificates will immediately become loanable funds when resumption is aunounced, and sooner or later they will find their way back into the Treasury, not in exchange for the gold they now represent, but in exchange for greenbacks, which will be more desirable. So long as specie-payments are suspended, the gold, and Lence the Government gold certificates, have a special value, because they discharge a special service. They are used for the single purpose of keeping goid in the Treasury with which to pay duties on imports. But this function ceases with resumption ; after that, duties can be paid in greonbneks us woll as gold. It will be un- protitable end unbusinesslike, then, to retain these certificates in bank-vaults; they will como out to seek Investment. Having come out, they will soon be converted Into green- backs, for two reasons: (1) Because green- backs will bo the more couvenient, since one largo certificate can ia this way be divided up into several investmant -funds ; and (2) becaugo greenbacks will not only be oqually redocmable with certificates in gold, but the greenbacks willalso be legal-tender, whils the certifieates are not legal-tender. The coin now in the Treasury may propetly bo re- garded, then, asa part of the resnmption fund, and by Aug. I there will be $200,- 000,000 of coin with which to resume, as ngninst about $316,000,000 of greeubcks outstanding. If there were any danger of s run wpon thie Treasury for coin,—of which there is not the slightest,—the Government would be amply protected under the authority of the Sacretary of the Treasury to purchase coin. ‘The Iaw (Revised Statutes, See. 3,700) simply provides that * The Secratary of the Treasury may parchnse coin with any of the bonds or notes of the United States anthorized by Iaw, at such rates and upon such terms ns he may deem most advantageous to the public inter- est.” That is enough. All the gold that could be needed under uny possible combi- nntion of circumstances may he obtained by the Secretavy of the Treasury on ¢} per cent bonds at par. But who will ask for aither gold or silver, so long as the greenbacks nare to Ve kept out to an amonnt not less than $546,000,000? What special use will gold havo to overcome the ndvantages that green- backs possess in point of convenience, safoty, nud chenpnoss of baudling? 1t will not bLe needed for the payment of duties. Tt will no longer be needed for the payment of interest ou bonds. The American holders of bondw will take greenbacks in payment of their conpons in preferonca to gold just a5 soon as greenbacks shall have an abso- lutely equal and interchangeable value with gold. The {foreign holders of American bonds will got their moner at London, sterdam, Paris, or Frankfort, and the eonpons will be sent te this country in pay- ment of balances; hare they will be ex- changed for greenbacks. The foreign trade of thislast year shows that the peoplo of the United States have fnrnished the people of Turope with commodities to an smount exceeding what bas been purchased abread Dby $250,000,000. This difference must be paid over to this country, and it will como in the shape of bouds, coupons, and gold. Gold will flow into the country under the existing conditions of things; there will be no draft npon it for export, and the Govern- 1ment veulis will ba the safest and cheapest place to deposit the surplus over that hich is kept in active eirculation. The true policy of the Secretary of the Treasury is to annonnce to the country—ssy Aug. 1—that he will not merely redecem greenbacks with coin, but that he will also issue greenbacks in exchango for coin. The strong probability is that, within a fow months, more coin will be brought to the Treasury in demand for greenbacks than there will be of greenbacks in oxchange for coin. The proof of it may be fonnd in the fact that the special deposits of coin in exchange for certificates have increased stendily from year to yoar. The certificates bave been preferred to the coin itself on account of convenience, safety, snd poria- bility. But the certificates thus taken have not been legal-tender—only redeem- able in coin mupon demand. After resumption, however, the greenbacks will be not merely redeemsble in coin on demand, but also legal-tender. They will be as safo as the certificates have been in the past, and will have besides & commercial use and value. The practical result of resump- tion will be to bring out all the coin that has been hoarded and stowed away during the past seventeen yoars; this will come into circulation, and a certnin amount will remain in circulation for the smaller transactions. But it will be found that the amount of coin thus brought into active use, along with that which will be contributed by foreign coun- “tries in payment of American balances, will cxceed the demnnd for active circulation in addition to the greenbacks. The green- backs, always convertible into coin, will be preferred, and the coin will seek the Treas- ury in exchange for greenbacks ns fast ns they can be provided from the amount oute standing. Tt is no exaggeration to say that, within & year or so, under the natural operntion of the law, tho Government will Lo more embarrassed to furnish groenbacks in exchange for the coin that will be offered than it will bs on the date of resumplion to furnish coin for greenbacks presented for re- demption, - Che . American greenbucks will immedintely assume the same position all over the world now held by the notes of the Bank of England. The Amorican traveler 1n foreign countries will no longer need to provide lu'}'nself with letters of credit or fond himsolf down with coin, for the paper cur- | rency of his own Government will be recog- nized and received everywhere. We shall havo at home a coin cmrency of uniform and stable value, in addition fo the coin itself, which will seek investment and grow in volume upon the annual yield of ihe American mines and the annual payments of foreign balances. Resumption is the surest rond to good times; and the sooner Secreta- ry SHERMAN announces resumption the soou- er will the country escape from the depres- sion that now weighs it down. WANTED: A NEW RELIGION. The new number of the North American Review contains an article purporting to be from the pen of “ An Evolutionist,” snd bearing the startling caption, “An Adver- tisoment for u New Religion.” It scems at first glance to be an stheistical attack apon Christianity; but we are not sure, cn a closer inspection, that the purpose of it is not satirical. Cortain it is that tho suthor Drings up st sach appalling couclusions that his scheme will scarcely prove attractive to thoughtful readers. Ho advertises the want of a religion, bat acknowledges no responsibility to furnish one, either for him- self or his friends. He declares that the world is waiting now for the new religion to be born, as it waited for Christinnity after the deficiencies of the Panthe. istic system had been proved, and for “Polytheism when men ceased to believe in the Fetich. The birth of the nev religion enanot be long delayed ; neither can it bo hurried. There must be a period of transition between the old faith and the new. During this period men must either cling to the old and esploded rligion, or do without oy, In either case their condition will be deplorable. For, as there is no efli- cacy in religion without faith, so there cin be no pure morality without religion. If wo take awny the faith of men aud give them nothing in its place we break down their self- control and set their minds and imaginations going without the possibility of restraint. The author of the North rAmerican article writes: *I have been cursed by a young man who has fallen into vice, and who charges me with lending him from the feith in a God and Mediator in which his mother had reared him, and who says he is disposed to believe in a God,—which is us certain as that every effect lins 2 cause,— but does not uow know the way in which to approach Him.” The author apparently re- ceived this carsing with complete indiffer- ence, for he has nothing better than **de- velopment " to suggest as & means of flling ““the void which it s created.” Advanced thinkers, it is said, have dscided apon two points. One is, that all the old religions, including Christinnity (in one sense tize best and in another the worst of them), are waxing old and must soon die. The second truth is that man is a religious animal, and must have some gort of worship. The Radicals themselves constantly exhibit this religions sense. Hume used to go nt vimes to church in Scotland. Kavt called in the practical ressonm, the con- science, the day ‘of judgment, immortality, anda God, snd thus restored what he had destroyed. -VouTammE erected an altar to Gop. Rousseau iy full of pious sentiment. Hoxrey advocates the use of the Bible in the common-schaols * beeause it is the only hook fitted to form the character of the young.” Trxpaitasys thac * No athoistic Tensoning can dislodge religion frow the heart of man.” Herorrr Seences has allotted o very spacions region to Gop aod to Relig- ion, the Uvknown und Unknowable, and commends the Athenians for eructing au altar to the Unknown God. * In short,” the writer goss on to say, ‘‘the great men who have risen like monntains in the world have all beon profoundly religlous; thus, to name some of them in their historical order : SoonATes, Prato, Bacos, Drsoartes, New- TON, Srixoza, Lexitz, and, iu this last age, Hersours, Famapay, Maver, snd Hexsy.” Havicg decided, then, that the old roligions aro sick, dylug, or dend, nod that man cannot do withoat a religivn, it remuins to cousider what shall ba the vature of the new religion. Some things may be nogatively affirmed of it. Pirst—It caunot havo a God, living aud persoual. Second—Itcaunot insist on a personal immor- tulity to tho soul. Third—There must be no torrors drawn from the day of judgment. Fourth—There can be no ghostly sanctions ormotives derived from a snperuntural power or the world to come. Iiftb—Everything beyond what can be seen must be repre- sonted as unknown and unknoowable, Posi- tivaly, the pew religion must huve worship of some kind, but, us Huxrey suys, ** chietly of the silent sort.” With Iuamenity asits God. it must promise iwmortality, after which all **Along with this belisf, thers might bs fetes and festivals to" rival the grand Catholic ceremonies.” There wonld be some kind of Snbbath, called Snnday, and held ouce in ten dnys instead of oace in soven, to distiuguish il from the Jewish institution. On these oc- casions there would bo loctures of the true American type, inculeating the theory of de- velopment. There wight be hymns ju honor of the great Mothor Nature. There might De also idols representing in symbol the great world-powers, such as Evolution, Per. sistence of ‘Force, Herodity, Panzoism, and Physiological Units. We have given the drift of * An Evoln- tionist’s?” argument in order to do full jos- tice to it, and particularly to show the lame and impotent conclusion at which it arrives. Ifit had been written from the ntilitarian point of view in support of Christianity it could berdly have been more convincing. For when it is confessed that Christinnity fur- 1 nishes that moral fibre which is needed to mnke men honest and women pure; that it satisfies the cravings of the religious nature of man for objocts of belief; and that its chief Book is ** the ouly book which teaches 1morality,"~—more and better things ara said on its bshalf than its feebler advocates would claim. Whether “ An Evolutionist,” having said this mnch, ean reconcile it to his conscienco to attack a system of balief which has brought safety and happiness to so large o portion of the human race, and whether the North American Review can justify itself in- printing doctrines avowedly sub~ versive of sound morlity, are questions that the candid reader may ba permitted to answer for himself. 2 TEE COLUMBIA-COLLEGE VICTORY. It is but a few months ago that O'Lzary, oo American-Trishman of Chicago who had gequired considerable muscle and wind in peddling Testaments and - delivering let- ters, went over to London and casily out- walked ail the leg-representatives of Eu- gland, Scotland, and Ircland. His vietory was a victory of American logs over English sbanks in a countryi which prides itself upou its walking abilities, sud whero paople get up early in the morning for the sake of & walk before breakfast. Here we make little sccount of walking. Most people prefer to ride in carriages it they cap, 1 street-cars sud ‘buses if they can't afford & turnont of their own, and on au express-wagon rather than not ride at all. Instead of gettingup appelites by constitutionals before breakfast, it is with difticulty that the average American can walk down-stairs Gefore the break- fast-bell vings. He tinds Jittla use for his Jegs except in getting him to and from bis business as emsily as Qe can, and resting them upon a fable or mantel when not in actunl use. No Knglishman thinks he has fulfilled the whole duty of man nntil he has climbed fo the top of Mont Blanc nud looked down inte the vents of Vesuvius; but not one. Ameriean m ten can see any sense in climbing up a hill and then climb- ing Jown again, if thers is a comfortable lounging-placs, a bottle of wine, or a keg of beer, al the base. The Awericans, as a race, don's like te walk. 1t is characteristic of them from youth up. The Americau small boy will chase n vehiele holf a mile for the sake of stecling a ride for half a block, and will spend fiftepn minutes hauling his sled up n shppery hill fortho sake of riding down in one minute. Under such cireum- stances, the triumph of American legs is all the more extraordinary. Having benten the English leg, we have now triumphed over English arms. In the rocent boat-races, the craw of our own Co- lambia College casily won the Visitors’ Chal- longe Cup, though pitted agamst the strong college crews of Hertford and Trinity. In the.race for the Steward’s Challenge Cup the London Rowing Club were victorions ; but the splendid rowing and easy menner in which the Shoe-wae-cac-mettes of Detroit ~won the first heat show that, had it not been for the sudden illness of one of their men, they would have carried off the eup. It was 2 Ditter disappointinent to thewm, but they have the consolation of knowing that they demonstrazed their - superiority over the Eu- glish crows, and were deteated by an acci- dent that could not have been guarded against. The victory of the Columbias, like the victory of O'Leary, is ail the-more gratifying because thp English have paid greak attention to rowing, and their colleges have had annual contests from time immemorial They have kept their supremacy to the present time, and have made fraquent bosst of the prowess of British brawn, but they have now dipped their colors, and for tho first time an En- glish racing-cup comes to America, snatched from Oxford, Cambridge, Hertford, snd Dublin. Our collegs boys have a right {o be prond of their work, all the more so that they were fouled two or three times in a manuer that looked suspicious, to cay the lesst. Iu this connection, what are our own boat-clabs doing, right here in Chicago, that the Eastern clubs should carry off the palm? There is probsbly not a better-equipped club in the country than the Farragat. It has sixty-five wembers, we believe, seven- teen fine hoats ot all kins, and an elegant boat-hause—probably oue of the finest in the United States. Out of thesu sixty-five mombers there ought to be orguuized a crew capable of winning victories from the East- ern clubs, selves long enongh. Our boys should bestir themselves. THE DECLINE OF LIFE-INSURANCE. The New York Times of a recent date contains o suggestive article upon the de- cline of business in life-insurance, in which sre given some data from the znoual State Report of more than ordivary interest, As the status of the business 1s about the same the country over, the New York statistics may be considered representative; atleast there is not suificient diiference of condition to make the busivess in Now York excep- tional. According to the figures of the Report, the number of compnutes in good standiog aud operation has decreased from forty-one to fifteen daring the past seven veaws, and the volume ot outstanding in- surance has boen stoadily shrinking since 1871, when ii was at its height. In 1876 therc were but three of the seventeen State companies aud six of the twenty-one out- side compnnies whose business did not fall off, while in 1877 there were bat two of euch class that heid own. The net decline in 1876 was 4,000, and in 1877, 286,092,000. The foilowing compnra- tive tebles show the . porcentagu of this T CONPANT Lt s 3 2 - 40.40 Undoubtedly the general stagnation of Dbusiness consequent upou the panics is ac. countable for much of this waste, Where evory other basiness is affected, it wonld in- deed bostrange if life-insurance escaped. Where values have been squeczed out of overy other form of property, even the most stable, it would be little less then miracalous if & business as speculative ns life-insurunce has been should not suiler very material con- traction. DBut theva are futts which show that the general financial depression is not the ouly cause of the loss. The Zimes points ont that the falling off commenced before tha pauic get in, and thet the drop- ping off of policies is ns heavy in companies known, or atloast comsidered, to be sol- vent, 85 in those which have fallen under suspicion. 'The loss of popular confidence is a much more fruitful cause of disasterthan the operations of the panics, and bad man. agement has sent companies to the wall much faster than the general shrinkage in values. No business can survive the loss of confidence. When that is gone, the whole is gore, and undoubtedly lifeansurance has been ono of the heaviust sufferers in this They have had the ficld to them- regnrd. Life-insurance should be one of the safest clnsses of business. Conducted upox its merits and within tho infallible certain. ties of the actaaries’ tables, it mnst maks money and commend itself to cvery one as 2 desirnblo investment and almost as a sacred duty ; but it has not been condneted in tius manner. Tt hns been managed ns speenia. tion, and the competition of managers has led them into all sorts of extravagance. Enormous salaries have been paid to officials, Elegnnt but superfinons buildings have been erected, costing millions of dollars, Tiao farnitare and appoiiiments have been of the most sumptuouskind. Advertising hns been conducted in the most reckless mauner, The business has been forced, and tha forcing Dbas been characterized by ihe grossest mis- management as well as by corruptions and frauds. The wholo basiness, indeed. has been conducted after the siyle of the patent medicine traflie, 2nd rival agents, and companies even, have been es reckless in their opposition to each otber as the venders of rivel pos. trums. In this movner Iife-insurancs, ot one time a safe and sound business whea kept down to its level, Las tzker upon itself the mathods of speculation, and bns met the fate of speculation. ore than this, it was placed before tha people ns = speculstion, At a time when everything was inflated, and people were spending money with reckless freedom, and were ready for investients of auyeseription, lifs-insurance was advertised s a-way to make mozey iustead of 2 way to save it, nnd 83 a way to secure interest at ouce instead of laying up for one’s family, The word “disidend,” which seems to havo a magic inflnence upon every orie, has been mavipulated in every possible form by the managers, until people have actually been led to take up life-insurnnco as an jnvest ment and good specnlation. Janaged like a specnlation, pleced before the pnblic as a spacalation, and taken up by the pablicas a speculation, it bas gone tho way of specnla- tion. As the T'imes says : People actually were hrought to believe that tiey coull make money by insn ic lives: somp expected & current interest income from all thoy patd and the meurance hesides, and 1f not_many thought 50, many acted s reully false, even though collar of {nsurance which for on behaif of their fam paging Lusi i of *‘compunnd terest,™ in which there 18 really no maic at all. ‘The folly of all this does not need mach dewmonstration. One has only to look about him in auy direction to see the proofs in the wwuks of life-insurance companies. Tho moral of it all is, that life-insurance on terra Jirma is safe and scund. When it attempts to fly like a balloon, it must expect to take the chances of balloo 3¢ one, Tie To e saifed for Enrope Yesterd: n the Russia, of the Cunard Line. N harf wers thronzed with v attracted by a desire to £ce the man who was rightfully entitled to an olfice. of which he hud been U 4 by frand first ri- Mr. Ti ar- Ftreets leading to ti wharfmen or the such priva I his presence in Custom-Hlouse Inspectors xn: the steamshin, i for one handsome . J n white lower: . Tin: W the Expo-ition, vat pot until e has.made an ex- tended wour, e N urday. It ew York San, ‘That's where yon fooled yourself, Swr-ny. was S. J. TILDEN'S nepiew and names youth of 3. And vet In some respe were right. The thronys that crowded the streets were “not attracted by a desire to see the man who—" *Not evcn the Custom-House Inspectors knew of his presence in the steamn- ehip.” Al this is very true. This is another instance of fraud triwinphant in American his- tory. ————— The Cinciunati Commercinl is ot for the “*man on horseback,” aud dentes that he oper- ated 2s a strengtheninz-plaster to the Repub- Tican party fu the South. It says: The peole of tne Umted Stazes must gerionsly take into convideration the question whetaer they want Gen: GraNT fora third term. He is in ths field and pushed with :d abundant re- sources. Jie is toreturn i Jupan, and California. Th is to be worked ub and mede 3 mexorabie cle. The people are 1o be aupealed to tnrouzn their imavination. Then GraNt i3 to cross tie continent in u & lacé-cars placzd at hix disposa). There can be no doubt avont it that. if the Repuolican party were this day repre- sented in a National Convention, the old. Graxt ings—railroad-plunderers and whisky-swindiers, rubbers and army and navy coutractors, t-baggers, te wachinisty ke i i be in posscesion, sud v would nominate GRANT. It I3 for this reason that tnird-term ralk becomes sizmicant, and the people at larue should not treat the sev- Jeet with tevity or indifference. ——— The Builalo Ezpress (:leged Republican) saya: Why does not the President - muster sufficient manliness aud resolution to say a frauk zood-by to the corpse and put it under the ground¢™ Well, among other reasons, because he was elected on a plat- forin adopted at Cincinnati a little over a year ago by a lot of people claiming to make up the Repubtican Nutional Couvention. The fiith and sixth planks fn that platform Jdid not assune Ctvil-Service reform to be dead; no more did President HAVES jv a certain letier of accept- what s our Bulfalo friend’s ! Crooked whisky, Indian eping by treble-eutry, or what! mion mottaes carried last gmien do @il the work, " According to this g the trades-unionists work for nothing * aud boand tbewselves. What philanthropists they wusc bé! Another motto resd: **Labor must and shall rule what it ereates.”’ This means thal when a jour bootmaker builds a palr of boots aud receives his pay thereior, be has stll a right to *rule” tie bouts, and the man who furnisned the Jeather, and the wages shall have no cuntrol over thém. This would be pretty rough on the **hoss”—to lose both his lesthier and his mones. How lung would be ruu the shup on such term soiies oot o SR At the battie of Monmouth, HendERs 3 though the Brity “peculiar wan coutracts, hookk One of the tr: Sunduy ki burued bis house, they didu’t suceced fo Snding the silv On the centenary-day last week neak-thieves happened along and ot the swaw, thouch they didn’t burn the tiouse. Which shows the suneriority of the wodern Amverican sacak-thief over the British veteran of Kevolutionacy days. Andyet he was nu stouch whew it was a macter of silver- LETEN R Sax RANpALL made a straddie on the tarilf question lust week two sucressive views, on two su cessive dinners, in a straddie that Fieeb VORES izht have envied, But we fear Sax overdid it, and that his friends nay Just us well take him out and bury humin two segments. He—or, rather, they—will hardly keep till 1550, e e There is a curious seutease in last Sundas’s trades-uniou resulution,, Itr ¢ Capitalis advocate chesp Jabor instead of cheap ma- chinery.” ‘Chts would scem Lo mean that cap- italists were oppused to the tse of *cheap ma- chinery * and the trade: sts in favor of it We bud supposed it was just the other wag. ool The fotlowinz beautiful air has been daily sung to crowded commitieeyonms aud received with Inme And usk ber, kure t lie. Mr. Procion ks still uncasy as to the sun’s distapce. The measurements made by the British observing parties have, be says, beea chauged vnce agaiv. The tirst estimate of 53 85 S O, i FRFEBIOE £ 4l 3 ki 1 s § 4 % R T e e e H i