Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 20, 1878, Page 4

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Zoc work on the **Councll Degrec.” Al Royal Arch Atucons in this Grand Jurisdiction are fraieroally in- vited 10 meet with us, 2o fve the degrecs. B uF- der 1L TERMAN, K. P CHARLES B. WRIGH’ T unication” Friday evei ut Corinthian Mall, 157 Eas -t k . M. Degree. Visifing bretren are cordlally The members are also reauested 10 auend. H. W. WOLSELKY, W. M. WILLIAM KEEK, Secretars. CHIGAGO CUMMANDERY, N Conciave, Monday eveninz, tet. coruer Halsted and tandoiph- 1 requesied. ” Vislting Sir_Kulihits courtcous! By urder of the Emlnent Commander. T JAMES E. MEGINN, Eecorder. nvited. T (oni- between “Thind De- Vintiug 03 Twenty-cecond-s State-6t. and Wabash-av. Finit. Sccond, and srees conferred next Friday eveulog, Oct. 25. Urotliens vited. "By oraer ool e oop OF PERFEC- 5, will iuld a Special nlug pext. Work en the 5 order PETTIBONE, T. T, G. M. tary. fasons, w MO: ED. GOODALE, Grand BLAIR LODGE, NO. 393, A. F. & jor Commuineatian Monuay eventng, " Hall, 76_Monroe-st.. al Liincss und g L. Degree. Visiting ness and work on’ the M. on coraially Invited,. 1y ordér of retiren cordistlyfovited, W DICKTSsox. w. 3. LAFAYETTE CHAPTER, - X Viunroe-st. —Visitors cordtaly 1 Special Convocation, Monday welock, for work: on T and E. N. TUCKER, Sccretary. CORINTIIAN CHAPTE] ial Couvocation Monday e ‘Work on the P. and M. tuz Coiapanions are cordially ing APOLLO COMMANDERY. NO. 1, K. T.—Specis! Comelave next Tuesday evenlng, st 8 o'clock.” The Or- der of the Temple will be ¢ ed. Visitors are courteously invited. By order of the Communder. J. 1. DUNLOP, Recorder. ST. BERNARD_COMMANDER special Conciave Wednesday eveulng, 0 P Work on the Onder of the jted Cross. Iuig Cumpratons are courteously favited. ity ord SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1878. Clerk with absolute arbitrary power. The Committeca urges the party to take mno chauces, as it cannot compete with the De- mocracy in raseality. The London Zimes yeslc;dnry declared the Glasgow bank-failure to be * the result of mismanagement and long-continued fraud,” total and that the loss will #ggregate £6,200,000. The County Commissioners’ Ring con- {emplate asking the people to put a mort- gnge of £750,000 upon the taxable property of Cook County. In 1876 it cost 667,480 and in 1877 $700,000 to run the saveral de- partments and institutions of the county. These approprintions were denounced ns ex- orbitant. Will the taxpayers consent to in- crease (he latfer sum $4 0?7 Bex BurLER has been reading up ancient bhistory, and feels encournged. Ieforo Syrra defeated young Manrus, he saw two goats fighting. Old Stranisyus saw two gonts fighting on Boston Common, which he considers a favorable nugury. If he would only sacrifice Keanvey and exhibit his paunch, the people might be reconciled to Burrer as Consul for one year. Tom EwiNa, who barely got himself re- turned to Congress, was delivered of a lot of stuff in Washington yesterday. Iu the face of the temperate and seusible opinions of Senator McDosstp, Ewina declares that « opposition to resumption and bauk money carried Obio by 30,000 and Indiana by 45,000, and gaived eleven Congressmen.” Ewme’s figures, like his rhetorie, are unman- ageable. Au important decision was rendered yes- terdny by au Indisna Court touiching the re- sponsibility of bondsmen. Jons A. Droxc- avER, Treasurer of Fort Wayne, proved n defaulter in the sum of $50,000. He lad just been re-elected, and when the city brought suit to recover it was found that the names of his sccond bondswmen were all forged. The city then sued on the original bond, and got & verdict for $17,200. Col. AnxER Tavrox, one of the caudidates for Senator of the First District, publishes a card making a proposition to Mr. Grorge E. ‘Wmre, which, if accepted, will sctile the Senatorial imbroglio in the district at once. The Colouel is evidently disgusted with the shape the thing bas assumed. Hoeis tired of attempted arbitrations, and isnot disposed to lesve so grave a matter to a game of chance, or to skill in cards of ‘‘mmtual friends.” He has all along professed a will- ingness to withdraw unconditionally if Wrure would do the same, in order that a .new wman, on whom the whole party could unite, might be placed on the ticket and be elected Senator. If Mr. WarTe is sincere in his declaration that he is willing to withdraw if Tavror does, he has oniy to signify his ancceptance of the Colonel’s proposition, and the party will soon supply the vacancy with some acceptable candidate. If Mr. Wairs is not sincere, then let him quit fooling and openly state his -intention to sacrifice the seat if in his power to do so. In New York on Saturday greenbacks suled at 99} cents on the dollar- Tre, Tamose's Milwaukee correspondent, Tinving carefully surveyed the ficld, pro- nounces Marr Canrexten politically dead. Definite advices from Waterproof, Ln., declare that the ramored insurrection of no- groes in Tensas Parish had littlo or no foun- dation. i A rcspec!nb!b colored woman yesterday positively identified Jomy Laxs as the man who fired the pistol which resulted in the death of Officer Race. Lasm, who had been in custody, was remanded. The Nationsl Democratic Committee, like the Fiat baby, bas inflated and busted. It s closed 1ts doors at Washington, and W. J1. Bansvy, the Chairman, has gone back to the Tifth Avenue Hotel, New York, where he has resided ever since he was elected Sen- ator from Connecticut. At Memphis, yesterday morning, hundrads of people rose early to see the frost whe perhaps had not seen the sun rise in. years, und when they saw the frost, like frolicsome echoolboys, they gathered it up into little balls. The fever is now certain to abate in a few hours, or days at furthest. Yesterday morning a gang of desperadoes attempted Lo capture an cast-bound train on - the Knnsas Pacific Railroad near Fort Hark- cr. The train-men, with more thau average cournge, lowever, repulsed the robbers and captured the leader, one Mikr Rourgr, who is now safe in jeil at Brookville. The new Caundien Ministry was announced Festerday, as follows: Interjor, Sir Jonx A. Macpoxarp; Finauce, S. L. Trurzey ; Public Works, Cmarues Tupeen; Agriculture, J. J. Pore; President of the Council, Jomx O°Coxxor. James McDoxarp, Member of the Privy Couicil.and Mimster of Justice. The Committee appointed o’ investigate the chargoes against Congressman AcrLEY, of Louisiona, report in favor of Lis removal from the ticket, and, in view of the fact that a generat Convention cannot meet, the Com- 1mittee requests the Congressional Committee 1o name a candidate in place of Ackrss. Another Demacratic official of Congress Dins Leen overbauled in the commission of crime, Jomy KiiNck, messenger to the Clerk of the House, was detected yesterday in purloining letters, abstracting drafts, and forging the mame of GmEEN Apas, Chief The evidences of his guilt wero Cleri, fouxnd in his trank. An important arrest of counterfeiters was made by Detective Pengins, of the Govern- nent force, in Bradford County, Penusylva- ain, yesterday, The gang was well supplied with $10 notes on the First National of La- fuyette, Ind., $5 notes on the Hanover (Pa.) National, 2nd counterfeit gold and silver coin of all denominations. J. 0. Laxpar, Stato Register of Voters in Louisiana, decidey’ that *° the National party is o faction,” and not entitled to represents- tion on Election Bonrds withthe Repubiicans and Democrats. As this decision is final, the probabilities are that SaarCary's and Hewanee Syrra's friends in Lonisiana will Lereturned on the lists as “* scattering.” — The National Republican Committee ad- vises the Jowa Republicans to give the_ques- tion of electing Congressmen in November o thoughtful consideration, assigning tho very proper resson that past experience demonstrates that 8 Democratic. majority is capable of almost any political outrage. In view of even this contingency, the last livuse changed the rules, and clothed the THE HERESY OF DR. THOMAS: The Rock River Conference, in scssion b Mount Carroll recently, adopted a series of resolutions censuring Dr.” Tmoyas. Resi- dents of Chicago and members of the Meth- odist Church throughout the country do not need to be informed who Dr. Troyss is; but, for the benefit of others; it. scems well. to explain that ho is a Methodist clergyman who, though now barely 40 years of age, has Iou‘g been prominent in the Northwest. For o number of years past his liberal tenden- cies have been noticed with apprehension by the strict constructiomsts in hisown Church, and with unfeigned pleasure by the Liberals themselves. This is not the first time he lhas been remonstrated with by his brethren in the Church. Iis connection with the Chicago Philosophical Society, whichincluded in its membership a number of avowed infi- dels, was a source of anxiety to many good Methodists; and the meetings of the Society in the rooms of the First Methodist Charch, formerly under Dr. Trouas’ pastorate, were finally - forbidden. To such a stage did the dissatisfaction with his teachings advance that, a fex years ago, when the new assignments of Conference wero made, ke was exiled, as it was supposed, to Aurora. But he made himself felt even in that comparatively small place. Ile de- hivered there a series of sermons on ‘‘The Origin and Destiny of Man,” which attracted the largest audicnces in the Northwest. These sermons have since Dbeen published, and, though cxtremely unorthodos, are now sold largely at the official depository in this city. Trom Aurora Dr. Toxas came again to Chicago, as pastor of the Centenary Church, which has possibly the largest con- gregation of any Methodist church in the city. Here be has taught * advanced views,” showing some further departures from the old standards. . These views he has ex- pounded with snch simplicity of style and breadth of learning, such earnestness, grace, znd candor, that, whatever may be the result of the present conflict inside the Church, he will always have a large following outside of it. The Conference asked Dr. Tmois fora categorical statement of bis views. Ile gave one, and it was unsatisfactory to his brethren. But, inasmuch as he professed loyalty to the Chureh, and promised at lenst to make him- self clearly understood in the future, it was deemed best not to arraign himn for trial at once. The Conference was content, there- fore, to pass a series of resolutions distinetly setting forth the facts, and censuring him, The lasl resoiution, which was a warning that persistence in the errors complained of wonld provoke a trial, closed as follows : We deem it best, in the interest of charity and peace, to take 10 furtlier action in the premiscs, for the present. The issue is thus foirly’ made; and it may be interesting to inguire, in view of the prospect of further trouble, precisely what are the doctrines of Dr. TmoMmas to which bis brethren take such serious exception, In the paper submitied by him to the Confer- ence, he mado a tolerably * clear breast of it; and from this and his printed sermons it will be possible to state his opinions without any chance for misrepresentation, His first point was as follows On the subject of rellgion, I hold-sbstantially to what is known as the moral-influefce ‘,,’;;',‘;,3"' This is so heterodox that, for all the Con- ference desired to know, Dr. Tnoiras might have stopped withit. The *moral-inflience P theory ™ is. only a form, of modified Uni-.}- tarinnisni. It is a theory that Comist, did not come into the world to suffer the penalty of the sins incurred by man through Apay, bat'to regenerate society through the influ- ence of His example. - Dr. Taoaas makes the stofy of Apax’pdall “ a kind of poem,—a song sung to the childhood of our race” (““Origin and Destiny of Man,” p. 55.) Farther, he says (Ibid., p.'56): * In relation to the Adamic transgression I must contend sgainst the doctrine that we inherit guilt Dbecause there was sin in the first peir.” Be- lieving, as he does, that we do not inkent guilt from Apay,—that “in Apaxt's fall wo sinned [not] all,”—he has no need to provide for a vicarions atonement. There is no room in his system for the doctrine of “expintion.” To his mind Cmmist is only & Great Exemplar, as CoXFucius, ZonoasTen, Marcos AURELIUS, and MoHAMMED Were in o less degree. Secondly, Dr. THodAS says : In reference to the final condition of the wicked 1 have never doubted, nor do I doubt, the fact of fpture or after-dcath punishment. W hatever mav Be_the condition of the cost or the nature of their enflering, | canuot ceaceive of that condition under the government of a just Go ue being worse than non-existence. A to the duration and results of that punishment, whether 1t be eternal or cor- rective, resulting in reformation or ending in anni- hilation, T have not reached any settied conviction. The subject has cost me almost unutterable mental suffering, aud T find mysell a3 the sears go by growing into u larger hope for mankind, He believes (“ Origiu and Destiny of Man,” p. 168) that ¢ Heaven and Hell begin in this world”; that (Ibid., p. 169) *it is not essen- tial we should believe in endless punishment in order to be Christians”; that ‘‘a wrath- ful or vindictive punishment” of men by Gop is * absolutely unthinkable.” (Ibid., p. 171.) This, of course, is Universalism. The moment it becomes optional for a church- member {o believe in endless punishment or not, the doctrine is of no consequence in the creed of the Church. It is a mere bugaboo to frighten timid women and children, 2nd might ns well be dropped. X Dr. Troxas’ third statement is as follows: On the question of the inspiration of the Script- nres, 1 should find dificalty in_accepting the ver- bal theory, but 1 do fully b that the men who wroic the Scriptures were insvired, and thut criptures contain in substance the word of ana I think that those who have heard me i frequently, or u careful reading of my print- ourses, will bear me out in the truthifulness ot these statements. Confirmation of this is found in the vol- umo already quoted from, where it is said (page 199): *'There is not & man in tho world that .knows certainly who wrote the book of Genesis, the book of Exodus, of Leviticns, Numbers, and Deautcronomy.” On another page ‘we find this: * Nobody knows, or ever will know, whether we have 1n the New Testau@nt the exact words that Curist uttered.” This view is correctly and wildly described by ome of Dr. Tioxas' clerical brethren as *‘ unorthodox.” There is much more of the same sort in Lis printed disconrses, as when he subseribes to the theory that Apaar was not the first mnn, but only the first white man, thus con- victing Genesis of a paltry quibble, and that the Darwinian theory, though not yet proved, is inn way of being proved. But enough 1as been told nlready to show how greatly Dr. TooMas is at variance with the views oficially promulgated by his Church. Itis not the purpose of ihis article io judge whether he or the Church is right, or to cxpress an opinion as to the action'of either in the future, but merely to provide material for the reader to draw his own conclusions from, and to follow the further progress of the controversy in an intelligent way. THE COUNTY RING'S SCHEME. The latest expedient of the Couuty Ring to gain some popular support for the pro: posed issue of 750,000 bonds may be found in the following resolutions offcred by ** Re- former” WrEELER, and passed by the Board : WuEREAs, 1tis represented by the press of the City of Chicago that the County Board of Cook Ce y can, by a judicious manugement of the af- f the county, defray the current expenses of onnty for the various institutions, und at the t money from the tax- 'k on the Conrt-louse; i the ¢ same time retain sutl) Tevy to prosecute the al A "Wienzas, Tt is cetimated by the County Board that it wilt require the full amount of the fax-levy to defray the curreht expenses:of the:county: uri- der the most judicions . und economical manage- ment of county uffairs,” withont appropriating s doliar to the Building Fund: and WneREAs, Itis desirable to continue work on the Court-House, vrovided funds cun be rised for the purposes therefore. Resolved, That the Citizens® Association of the City of Chicaro be, and they are hereby, earncstly requested to appoint a committee of their own number to meeta'committee of the County Loard. for the purpose of. dovising tho best. means for rajsing funda to continue the work on the Court- House building. ‘Whether these' resolutions were offered and adepted in the assurance that somebody counected with the Citizens' Association. could be found to indorse the bond issue, or whether they were merely designed to se- cure the consent of the Association to a con- ference with the hope that even such recog- nition would give the Ring countenance, we hope the Citizens’ Asgociation will not be caught with avy such chaff. The case in hand is not one that requires any consulta- tion, and the Citizens’ Association - should not encourage the Ring, even to that extent. There is just one Citizens’ Association to pass upon this proposition, and that is the taxpayers, who are asked to mortgage their property §750,000 more than it is now mortgeged for the benefit of a scheming, un- serupulous, and voracious Ring. Tt is simply insolent on the part of the County Ring to ask any associntion of citi- zews to cousult with them as to whether the appropriations for next yearcanbe reduced 50 as to save money enough to go on with the Court-House work. The facts are so clear that e who runs my vead. 'The | County Ring have exhausted the entire tax- levy in appropriations for the general ex- penses,—all the money they are permitted Dby the Constitution to levy agrinst the prop- erty. After providing for the payment of the interest on the indebtedness, there re- mained £1,1 0, and this vast smn was divided wup among the different departments and institutions. The - approprintions .for the very same departments and institutions ldst year were §700,000, and the year before SG67,450. That is to sny, the Ring propose to ran up the general expenses tho coming year & 550 more thau they were this last year, and $1476,070 more than the year before, when the indicted Commissioners ran the affairs of the county. Such a proposition is too pre- posterous o ndmit of any consultation. It needs no conference to determine that over 383 per cent more moncy is mot required to poy the expenses for the coming year than was required two years ago, when it is a matter of common notoriety that the de- mands of tho paupers and the cost of every- thing purchased by the county have decreased 33 per cent. The simple fact is, that the County Ring has exhausted the tox-levy in appropriations for general expenses in order to create tho impression , that work' on the’ Court-House will be stopped unless the-bonds b voted ; but the device Jis tod franeparent to deccive auybody. Why should $115,000 be voted for the County Clerk’s office; when only 80,000 were v6ted for the last year of Lizr's extravagant administration? “Why should §42,000 be voted for -keeping: the County year befora? Why should £32,000 be ap- propriated for outdoor relief, when $20,000 was regarded us enongh’ last year? Why should there be an itemof 47,000 for ** mis- ecllancous expenses ” that did not sppear at all in last yemr's appropriations? Tha same answer applies to all these questions, viz.: It was designed Lo swell every item till the tax-levy should be exinusted, and leave noth- ing for the Court-House, and then say to the public, * You must vote the bonds or the work must stop.” i The proposition to vote $750,000 bonds is plainly a steal. The sum originally fixed upon was $500,000, but £250,000 were added as a fund to help carry through the job. The popular approval of this proposition would enable the Ring to steal between £600,600 and $700,000 during the next twelve months, Euough money can be saved out of the gen- eral tax-levy to pursue the work, and this will be done if the Ring be forced to it. They will be forced to it if the people re- fuso to vote the bonds. No committes of the Citizens’ Association is necessary to con- vince the people that this is the proper course, nor could any such committes con- vince tho people of the contrary. The Ring should not be countenanced to the extent of a couferénce on tho subject, but all good citizons should turn' their efforts‘in the di- rection of electing five good men, whom there is every reason {o believe the Repub- lican ticket bas presented this year, as the first slep toward dislodging the present cor- rupt gang. Pending this achievement, no bonds should be voted on any pretext. THE LOCAL CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGHN. The Congressional nowinations in the three Chicngo districts are now full. In the Tirst, the Republicans have nominated Wirr- 1ar Arpricn; the Democrats, J. R. Doo- LITTLE, Jr. ; and the Greenbackers, WiLLias V. Barn. In the Second, the Republicans have mnominated Georee R. Davis; the Democrats, Mizks Kemox; and tho Green- Lackers, Jayes Fercw. In the Third, the Republicans have nominated Iirax Barper, Jr.; the Dewocrats, Laymert TRk (invol- untary); and the Graeenbackers, A. B. Con- ~enn. The riffraff nominated by the Inde- pondent Greenbackers and Socialists is nob of suflicient importance to specify, as it will not make a ripple i the election, nor for purposes of comparison is it necessary to consider the regular Greenback nominations, asthey will make searcely any impression upon the vote of the three districts. T'ho real fight in every district is between a Repub- lican and a Democrat; the real issue is be- tween honest money ‘ahd dishonest monoy ; and we have every .reason to believe that Chicago, and the towns and counties embraced in the threc, districts, will send three honest-mouey - Republicans io Con- gress, leave three soft-money Democrats at bome, aud utterly squelch the nine Fintists and Socinlists who have the temerity to cum- berup the ticket, for ‘o apparent purpose except to delay the counting of the final re- sult. B It does mot need,{ much argument and but very littlo cumparfk‘&'zn to show that the Republican nomination$ aro immeasurably stronger than the Damocratic, aud that the Republicans have placed men in theficld who deserve to win and will win if the taxpay- ing, intelligent, andi respectable class of citizens do their dutg;, ; Every Democratic cancidate represents inaucial repudiation and dishonesty, and ‘huninst them the re- serves of the Church;(.the schoolhouse, the workshop, -and-the contting-room should be brought up. In the First District, the Domocratic nomines is the sou of“his father, and par- takes of tho mania faf"office which bas al- ways been characteristipof the family, and hos become & chronic complaint. As to ability, there is no regson why he should have been chosen in preference to & thou- sand and one other lg\rycm of Lis ealibre. So far as any service jto tho city is con- cerned, that has yet to be performed, and will not be of any more'importanca than the usual style of service rendered by profession- al politicians. So far as principleis con- cerned, he is all things to all men. e se- cured the Democratic nomination, and then got an independent Greenback nomination. by cutting under the teénhr Fint candidate and offering to go still deeper iuto the ab- surdities of the Fiat lunacy. He is now pandering to tho Communists in order to get their vote in the Fifth and Sixth Wards, ond will leave no stone unturned to muster the votes of the most corrupt and dangerous clements in the district aud array them ngainst the Republicans. As against this man, without ability; without political princi- ple, without experience; without any fixed standing, known only to the public as an inveterate office-secker, - the Republicans Lave nominated Mr. Arpricm, who bas slready served ono term, is thoroughly ac- quainted with the wants.of his district, and will bo all the better qualified to represent his constituency by reason of his experience in Congress. He is a successful and honor- able merchant, who has refleeted eredit upon the commercial reputationof Chicagoat iome and abroad, an advocate of honest money,—a man whose porsonal character is above re- proach, and whose record for honesty and manliness is without stain, —and a legislator who did all that could bo done for Chiengo in n Democratic Congress.. In the Second District, the chronic Demo- cratic office-seeker, Mices Kenog, heads the ticket. Like his nssociato on the South Side, bie, too, i therepresentative of dishonest monoy, and has that remarkablo de- greo of ability nnd qualification for the positioz: of Congressman which ean only be acquired by long and intimate con- neclion with the petty details of ward poli- tics and the manipulation of saloon bummers. Te is nominated to succeed n man immens- urably superior {o him in ability, whatever may be thought of Lis aquiline eccentricities. His nomination is clearly to bo traced to the sentimental indignation of the Irish against Mr. Harrisox for voting agninst = Gen. Surerps in Lis eandidacy for Doorkeeper of the Touse; but the American and Germnn Democrats, and the better and moro seusible portion of the Irish, take very little stock in this indignation, and aro not so well satisfied with the slaughter of Mr. Hanrisox as to lend very enthusiastic aid in the clection of so small &’ man as Mres Kenok to £l his place. Against him the Republicans have -placed Grorce R. Davs, a young and rising man of honorable record, and full of energy and industry. " In Congress he . will.be a live worker, and he Duilding clean*and in* repair, éilgen $510,000° |: will go there with as high and honorable a sufliced for thaf purposo last year? Why should the cost of running the In- sane Asylum' bo increased this year to $110,000, or mearly double . what it was last year? Why should ‘the County Agent be suthorized to expend $150,000 this - year, when $100,000 was more than enough for him last year? Why should §85,000 be spent on the Hospital this Yyear, as against $60,000 last year and: §50,000 the reputation as any ‘man on the floor. He has 10 axes to grind, no ward bummers to recom- pense. His hodorable carcer as a citizen, his success in his profession, and his sterling qualities as a man; commend himto the voters of his district, and’ will undoubtedly secure votes for him from the opposition. Inthe Third District, the energetic and enthusiastic manner in which the Republic- an candidate, Mr. Baznze, has already con- ducted the campaign, und his great popularity among voters of - all parties, have so com- pletely demornlized the Democracy that it looks as if his canvass and election would bo o walkover. Ile was nominated with surprising nnanimity, and he will be elected in the same manner. Against his involun- tary competitor, Judge T'zeE, there is nothing to be said. Heisa gentleman of unblem- ished reputation and high professional posi- tion, and, if it were possible to defeat Jr. BaRBeR, the regret would ba tempered with the reflection that he was boaten by such an eminent citizen. As the Democratic Con- gressional Committee, however, has gone begging with the nomination, and as 1t has finally, after repcated declinations, forcod it upon Judge ‘I'ReE, who does not waat the office, and will spend neither monoy nor time in the race, and as it is going to drag him over the course a dead, inert weight, it is evident enough that, if the Re- publicans of the Third District do their duty on the 5th of November, Mr. Bannes will be elected by an overwhelming majority. | ‘Pho prospects in. all threo districts are good for a Republican victory. To insure that vietory it is only neceusary for every Republican to vote and work for his candi- date, to be active in rallying the whole strength of tho party, and to watch the ballot-boxes with vigilance. Chicago has a large majority for honest money. I it does not cnsh that majority, it can only be either because of the supinencss’of Republicans, or because their majority has been obliterated by corrupt and dishonest means. PAYING DEBTS IN FIAT MONEY. There ave a great number of persons in all parts of the country who are indebt and whose Iand is in mortgnge, and who, because of the depreciation in the value of property, as- swume that if Congress would authorize the issue of *absolute paper moncy” in’ suffi- cient quantity it would sink in value so much and be s0 abundant that, being legal- tender, existing debts could bo paid off and mortgages discharged at a reduction of one- holf or one-quarter of their amount in pres- ent money. F ‘We suppose—nnd all the facts and circum- stances justify the supposition—that, were'it not for the expectation and hope that the is- sua of this scrip would in some way enable a man to pay his existing debts at & compara- tively small cost to himselt, the advocates of fiat shiuplasters would be few and far be- tween. The argument runs thus: Aijsa farmer owing a mortgage on his land for §3,000, bearing 9 per cent interest. B is n mechanic owing a” mortgags on his home of $1,500, bearing 8 per cent interest. Wheat is sell- ing at $1 per bushel, and wages are 32 a day. If fint money be issued, it will depreciate to 25 or 30 cents on the dollar; wheat will sell for £3 or 24 per bushel, and wages will rse to $6 or $8 per day in this cheap stuff. The money, being legal-tender, can be forced on creditors and employed to pay off mortgages, after which these persons will have no for- ther intereat in or desire for*fiat money. It is only because these fempting induce- ments are held out by officc-seeking dema- gogues that pérsons, embarrassed finan- cially, favor a scheme which their good sense, common honesty, and past experience must convince them is fallacious and ruin- ous. This they all admit, but they expect it to hold out long enough to disembarrass them, and then they will not care how soon the irnsh is abolished. They regard it as a kink of new-fangled binkrupt law, which will " enable the desperately-embarrassed debtor to retain his property and sponge out his obligations at the same time. Does it never occur to these persons that it is possible they are.following a delusion ; that they are cheating themselves, and that it is o8¢ in the power of Congress, short of a total revolution, to make any such fiat money as is proposed a legal-tender to pay any debt now existing? Wil they consider the facts and . circamstances, and then say what chance they can lLavo to pay off existing debts in fiat paper ? The Congress, in 1562, under the irresisti- ble . necessities of war, issned Treasury notes which promised on their face to pay ¢ dollars ” to the bearor.. These uotes wera made legal-tender. A * dollar ” as then de- fined by the laws of the United States rep- resented - a given weight of gold or a given weight of silver of certain proportionsas to fineness. The legal-tender notes thus issued, while not dollars and not professing to be dollars of themselves, were promises to pay coin dollars. There is, therefore, a very wide and natural distinction be- tween the issue of paper notes to circulate as money, which are the promises of the Government to pay the Dearer in gold or silver * dollars,” aud paper of no value in itself, and containing no promise to pay in anything, but purporting to be *“dollars” in fact as well asin law. The Supreme Court of the United States sustained the validity of the greenbncks because of the necessity which demanded the loan in that form, and because they were issned in anticipation of the public revenue, they being made pnyuble out of the public revenue, and becauso they were paynble in coin dollars., The Court said: 3 It i3 clear these notes are oblisations of the United States. Their name imports oblization, and cvery one of them bears on its face a promine 10 pay a certain pum. The dollar-note is @ promise to pay a dollar ; awd the dolks nded is the coin dollar of the Unned St certan weight and fincnesa of gold or silve It is clear that 1f the United States, under- the power to Lorrow money, must issue to the lender an abligation to pay him dol- Iars, menning the constitutional coin dollars of the Uniled Slates, the issue of paper dollars not in the nature of an obligation or a promise to pay, in_coin or any other form of dollars of value, is something wholly dif- ferent, is not a loan, is not borrowing money, and is not the kind,.quality, or character of paper intended for circulation which the Court decided could lawfully be made a legal-tender. The greenbacks being notes redeemable in coin, and the fiat paper dollar being some- | thing entirely diffvrent, nothing in the word, spirit, intent, or. meaning of .the Court in declaring the greenback Inwful can have any authority or application to the issue of fint money. At ¢ All the existing private debts in the United States are payable in gold, or in coin, or in “Iawful money,” which ircludes greenbacks and coin.” - Thore aro coin debls existing un- der specinl written contracts, which con- tracts the Snpreme Court has upheld. In some Stales taxes are, by State laws, mede payable in coin, and the Court has affirmed that even greenbacks are -not legal-tender in payment of such taxes. In the absence of special contracts, all private debts fire.pnyn: Dble by law in coin, or in ‘greenbacks, which in turn are to be redeemed in coin. We bave shown that the Court lhas held that greonbacks are themselves a contract to pay the bearer coin dollars. If there were any doubt as to this, the act of Congress of 186Y ‘“solemnly pledged” the national faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period for ‘“the redemplion of the United States notes in coin.” That was apledge that tho promise of tho mnotes should be kept. Six years Iater Congress fived the date at which the notes should be so re- deemed in gold and silver dollers. All the debts in the United States existing at this time are, therefore, by contract, and by contract heving the force of law, payable in coin, or in national notes promising re: demption in coin, and which by contract on the part of the Government are payable on and after a certain date in gold and silver. Now, we submit to the good sense and in- telligent judgment of those in debt who ad- vocate ‘““ fint " money, whether, in case Con- gress should direct an issue of fint paper, they cau ever expect to discharge an existing contract legnlly payabla in coin, or paper promising to pay coin, with serip which is not o national obligation, which is not a promise to pay coin, which is not redeema- blein coin at a specified date, or atany time, in anything whatever, and which professes to be ““dollars” other than the coin dollars of the United States of certain weights in gold or silver. We have shown, wo think, that the issne of “fiat” paper dollars is something wholly distinct from the issue of paper promises to pay coin dollars, and, therefore, there is no enalogy whatever between the legel reason- ing which declare the latter issue to be legal under all the circumstances and the claim for the issue of fiat money. The issue of ** fiat” money would be an entirely new question, without precedent and without oune word of judicial suggestion. Do any of these men who favor the issue of tons of ‘‘ fiat” scrip in the hope of finding & relief in paying their present debts, believe that any Court, or any Judge of any Court, in tbe United States would sanction such a doctrine as that Congress could *borrow " money in time of peece and give no token or evidence of iis liability and of the national obligation to redeem the loan in the ‘“dollars™ of the country, which the Courts from 1789 to 1878 have held to menn the coin dollars of the United States? Not one creditor wonld nccept a dollar of such money in liquidetion of his claim ; no Court would recognize the tender of such ““ money ” gs having any legal value or price; and the fiat serip, branded with il- legality, would perish in the hands of the dupes who shonld seck it, intending to use it to discharge debts without the employ- ment of any money. CRIME AND EDUCATION. The criminal classes have become so large in-the United States, and are increasing so rapidly, that statesmen and patriots are filled with dismay when they contemplate the pos- sibilities of the near future. There is no doubt but that a large majority of the peopls in every civilized community are better than their forefathers; but it cannot be disputed that .wickedness has made 8 corresponding progress in the race with goodness. The raseals of to-day are smarter and more cun- ning than their ancestors. A higher degree of intelligence has been applied to the com- mission of crime. An ignoramus may steal ahorse or a pocketbook, or commit o burg- lary, but it requires business tact, cunping, shrewdness, and skill to get control of a corporation, hoodwink the Direct- ors and stockholders of a joint-stock company, gobble its assets, and ‘elope and live like a DPrince in some foreign Capital. . A successful -highwayman or murderer would Iack the capacity required in an accomplished forger or counterfeiter. The Evil One, who sowed tares amongst the whenat while the husbandman slept, has not always confined his labors to agriculture, but has invaded the higher domain of intelli- gence, and poisoned the fountains of educa- tion. Somehow that portion of the moral universe presided over by the Devil is more ‘prolific and easier of cultivation than that devoted to the best interests of the human race. Weeds, thistles, and brambles seem to flourish without the husbandman’s atten- tion, while wheat, corn, and cotton require unceasing industry and attention. On the other hand, tramps, burglars, defaulters, and ‘thieves of all sorts, big and little, seem to be indigenous to the soil, apd multiply accord- ing to the highest arthmetical serics. The crimiual classes in this conntry are not only very large already and constantly increasing, but they are maintained at a most extravagant and enormons expense. By our present complicated and expensive legal machinery, the business of arresting, indieting, trying, convicting, sentencing, and maintaining a convict is oftentimes teu times more costly to the taxpayers, simply viewed from the money stendpoint, than it would be to bave graduated lum . with the highest honors of his class at either of tho best educationsl institutions in the land. And persons interested in the study of sociology begin to askif it is not everyway better to prevent crime than to punish it. The best educators have long advocated this doctrine, and have patieutly awaited the decision of the stupid public, that can ouly be reached somotimes through the pocket. The pocket-nerve is getling mora and more seusitive, as the bills for the support of criminals are paid. What can bedone? Some advanced thinkers and writers upon the subject say that the State must begin at the fountain-lead and educste all pauper and otherwise dependent children, and thus convert into good citizens the class that are suro to vex and torment us, if left to them- selves. That is on tho theory that educa- tion is the great and infailible pavacea for the prevention of erime; but is it? Can bad blood be purified by inteliectnal and moral cnleure so that the vicious tendency of heredity may be overcome? Educators often become specinlists, and specialists be- come extremists. Dut statistics scem to prove that education, moral and intellectnal, is tho best and ovly cure for crime. What one vicious family is eapable of doing in the line of evil is well told by 3Mr. DucpsLe in his remarkable bistory of the JoE family. In this family, running through six genera- tions, there were 206 panpers, 76 criminals, and 1928 prostitutes. Al these were reared in ignorance and neglect, and surrounded by bad influences from early . childlood. sor's fable about roiling the water up stresm holds good in the blood of the ku- man race as well. ;Pope's familinr couplet, *Tis edncation forms the common mind, Justas the twig Is bent the tree's inclined, is as trno to-day a+ ever. At a State Con- vention of the Directors of the Poor, held recently at Pittsburg, Mr. L. P. Acpe, Saperintendent of the State School for De- pendent Children, Coldwater, Mich., read a paper to show that the ranks of our paupers and criminals are chiefly recrnited from neg- 145, or 66 per cent, were orphang op half, orphans. OF 270 youthful critinals sey the Western House of Refuye, in Rachest, N. Y., last year, 15 were crphans, 73 wer' lalf-orphans, the parents of 59 hag se rated, 70 had intemperate parents, .—.,,.1}‘4; were the children of criminals. Tha jy . homes of 232 out of 270 had been destr’n g; by death, intemperance, liceminnsne:s’ ¥ crime. i e Of the 7,969 inmates of Reform ~ in the United States in 1863, 55 pifh:,:‘: were orphans or half-orpbans. Of L';sx youths committed to the Javenile Pagigy tiary at Mettray, France, 201 were ronmuin»;: 647 were illegitimates, 231 had parents livie, in illict unio, 591 hnd stepfathers or syers mothers, and 1,657 were orphans, - 5 Alr. Boxyevieee pe MamsaNey, o distin. guished jurist of France, and an asso ata momber of the Parlinmentary Commission on Prison and Reform, and whose obsarva. tion and experience entitle him to speak gq. authority, says: *It is this wretelied, jg. norant, neglected infancy which at o later period will constitute the eutira body of criminals. Stady the antecedent lifa of adull eriminals, und you will find that, wity the greater part of them, the moral perver. sity which has cansed their rmn dates from ; early chilabood.” Iaving established a fact that is now gene erally couceded,—namely, that ignomnce, vice, and neglect in youth are stepping.. stones to crime in after life,—Mr. Azpyg next tried to show that the majonty of thig elass of children could be saved to good citj. zenship with reasonable care and trainigs and that by the use of these preventive ugg;:‘ cies crime and pauperism could be sensibly: diminished. The history of 24,000 childven who went out from the various institationy of the United States shows that 75 per cent; were saved to society ; and of 4,000 yonths trained at ‘Mettray, Frouco, within lhirty. seven years, only 5 per cent relapsed into criminal courses. . " ¢ In Eogland, in 1834, pauperiern had so g, creased that it cost the people 232,000,000 annually. Crime had increased in like ratip, Especially was this trno of juvenile erime, Vagrant children, under the skillfal tecl,. ings of such rascals as Dicxexs describes ol Fagin to be in * Oliver T'wist,” gralnated at 18 and 20 adepts in all eriminal practiceg - "Thirty years ago the people and the Govern., ment turned attention to thoe establiskment of orphen asylums and industrial schools for those not tainted with crime, and other jnst;. tutions of a reformatory character for oldz:’ and criminal classes. Into these over 3,000 children were soon gathered, and so sue. cessful have they proved in saving chil dren thot the Government now cppro- priates $900,000 anpually for their main. tenance. And the money is not spent in vain, as the statistics show. . Thus, in 1856, before this system went into opera- tion, with a population of fifteen millions, 10,125 were sentenced to imprisonment, 3,611 to penal servitude, and 4,273 to transporta-, tion to Australin,—a total of 18,009 convic. tiors. Bub in 1873, with a population of; 23,500,000, only 9,282 were sentenced o im- prisonment and 1,639 to penal servitude,~a total of 10,921. 'That is, while population ' had incrensed 50 per cent, crime had dimiz- ished 40 per cent. Under the old system crime had increased in & much more rapid ratio than population, as it is doing in some sections of this country. g So much for that aspect of this interesting subject. ... Thero.is another important phasd*! of criminality that i$ already sttracting con- sidernble attention in this conntry, which is’ quito distinct from the juvenile-delinquent view of the matter. How is society to deal with the educated criminals that at present infest it.—the Srexcems, the ANGELLS, the Cmaces, the HataawAys, and others of that ilks, who rob by the thonsand, and who prey upon those classes in the community who are least gble to. defend themselves? Who will undertake the reformation of the ras- cals that wreck life-insurance compapies, rob savings banks, stenl joint-stock corpora- tions, and gobble railroads? The environ- ment-of nearly all these men was the home, the school, the college, and the Church of Carnist, and they are therefore estopped from entering the plea of being surrounded *by evil influances in their childhood, or thai, they carried the fatal taint of heredity = which eaused their downfall and ruined their good names. Christiany the philanthropist, and the moral: reformer to cultivate. . . THE SCOICH BANE-FAILURE. The report of the experts who lave beea . engnged in examining tha afairs of the City | of Glasgow Bauk makes a showing which .. must deprive SpEscer of the medal he has * been wearing around Euarope as the cham- pion bank.wreeker. The system of opers lected and dependent children. Some of Mr. Apex’s statistics are worthy of re- capitulation and serious attention. InMichi- gan, out of 252 cases of juveniles arrested for crime in 1876, 143, or 57 per cent, were orphans or balf-orphans. Out of 217 sent the same yeor to tho .Ohio Reform-School. tions was very much the same ns SPESCSE'S, but the seale was more gigentic. Wher - Seexcer speculated in dollurs, the Scoteh Directors specuiated in ponads; and where * Spevcer swindled by thousands, his Seoth- imitators swindled by millions. The bank " was completely gutted, the assets literally cxhzusted, the liabilities grossly underesti- mated, the accounts falsified, and the share-’ holders plandered. ~Nearly 50,000,000 havé been squandered. daring the last five years, while the Direciors reguliacly declazed annual . dividends of 12 per cent in order to keep ap the decoption and continus their opportuni- ties for plunder. 0 Some of the items of this monstrous confl- - dence gamo may be repented in order’to’ show that bank-wrecking is an art not cos- " fined to the United States. The books of the Glesgow concern failed to show nesdy . £5,000,000 of bills' that had been accepted and were paynble. were similarly oxaggerated by nearly $5,000,-° 000 more. L'he shareholders wero led to be-* lieve that the bank ‘had loaned od good se- curities sbout $5,700,000 ore than had nctunlly been invested in that way. Thb_!' likewise exnggerated the value of the securi- ties actually on hand by about £26,000,000. .- ‘The noto issue of the bank was limited bY‘ charter to £72,921, or about $360,000; tho law required that any issue in excess of this - amount should be covered by an actual’ the bank vaulis. reserve of coin ia The note circulation was yon TP to £004,196,7 or _abomt $3,200,000, while the actnal coinin the vauits, in the hiands of the tellers, and in all the ‘branches * amonnted to only £203,315, or considernbly less than $1,500,000, so that there was a8 defi- ) cit here to the amount of nbout $1,700,000- In order to circalato this nulawinl surplus of notes, the Bauk Directors had falsified their . weekly reports to the Goverament as.to the: . amonnt of bullion on hand. . The. raanagement of the City of Glasgo™ Bank was as criminal as that of any savings institntion 1n this country whick hasbeet Dbenkrupted by similar practices. Speculs- tion, favoritisin, loans on vworthless securi-, ties, the decliention of dividends that bsd . never been earncd, carrying utterly bfld notes - as assets, and false swearing 12 Hero is a new field for the - -3 "Tire crodits of the bank - ' blala e & ok e AT T o P L ool W S P