Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1880, Page 4

a j THE CHICAGO ‘TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1880— chargus, Involving even tho misrepresenta- tion of a Committed of the House for private ends, If tho Democrats shall be forced, In tho Interesta of publio decency and In order to assert the self-respect of Congress, to take any action In Acklen’s case, It will probably be decided to consure, but not expel, hin. The Democratic mojority does not want to lose any of Ita. acting mombers, no matter how disreputable thoy may appenr to be, agalust thom which ts donbling the prlea of print, ‘The J,-0. resists the reduetion of tho prohibitory duties on paper because that would compel the combtnallon to re- duco thelr charges. It evon goes to the length of opposing a repeal of the tax on soda-nsh and pulp in the manufacture of papor, because, were that done,.the combi- hation would have no longer any pre- text whatever for tho cnormous advance they have mado in the price of papor within a few months, It has completely gono back on the country press, who have built i up and kept the breath of life In the concern, for without thelr support and help it would havo starved long ago, When they ask Con: gress to remove the artificint restrictions thas placed on paper-naking and the fin- portation of papor, tho J.-0. howls out, “f object.” "Lhe press, itsays, must stand tho high prices, growing constantly higher, wuttl enough now paper-mills shall be started to bo beyond the influence and controt of the paper-comblnation, And, pray, when will that be? If a hundred new mills are started within the next five years they will be bought ‘up or sucked Into the combination as fast as thoy aro erected, The “pooling” business has been reduced to a fine sclence of Inte, If there get to be too many paper-mills for the domestic demand thoy will export thelr sur- plus abroad at cheaper prices than they sclt athome, as other “protected” branches of manufactire are in tho habit of doing, and also close the extra mills, paying them a subsidy ont of the “ protected” profits for keeping idle, just as the steel-ratl mill com- bination has been doing for years past. The 1-0. is now giving Hs country newspaper friends some. practical lessons In the beauties of prohibition and protected monopaly, and Ina way they can appreciate. ‘They now be- The Tribrne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. NY MAIN ADVANOR—POsTAGE PREPAID. Wty edition, ono yonr... haria of & year, per mon Tueaday, Thuratay, and Aaivitday, per yeni fonday, Wednesday, and Friday, per year. stuniay or Sunday, £-pazeadiiion, per vost Any other day, par yen a WEEKLY EDITION—POSTPAID, ono cope. pi s Cin of fou Clon of ton, Rpecimon copies sont treo. Give Post-Oftice address In full, Inetnding State and County. Reinittanens may be mado either by drath oxpross, Post-Office ordor, or in regiateredt lotter, at our risk, To city, sunscnmtEns, Patty, delivorod, Sunday oxcoptod, 25 conta per week. Daily, dollvored, Bundny Included, 30 conts per wook. Address THE TRIDUNR COMPANY, Corner Madtson and Daarborn-sts. Chtengo, Lt. A TAX levied by Congress to prevent and defent rovento from Imports is at best grossly in violation of the spirit and fnten- tion of tho Constitution, if not of its lotter. ‘Tho tax on printing-paper is exactly of that character, No paper can be lnported, the duty being practically probibitlve, In 1878 and 1870 more than a million dollars’ worth per year of printing-papor was exported abroad, whilo less thon 9 thousand dollara’ worth was fmported, The reventio derived from imported print Inst yoar was the enormous sum of €173.401 : Enteral of the Port-(iflee at Chicago, I, a8 Second- ——————= Class Matter. Tre report of tho unusually carly riso of a the Ohio River, and the othor streams that help to swell the flood In.the Mississippi In the spring, will afford nn opportunity for feasting the wistom of closing the Bonnet Carré crovasso above Now Orleans. During the several years that have succeeded tho breaking of the embankment at that point, thus furnishing a natural outlet for the sire plus water of tho Misstasipp! Into Lake, Pontehartraln, thera has been no overflow upon the plantations, As this outlet las again been closed artificially, it will be inter- esting to note the effects of tho ood tls yenr. If there shall be a serious overflow the people In favor of tha eves séhemo will elaim it to bo s reason for urging thelr pot For the bonent of ont patrons who dostre to sond Aingle copies of THe THINTNE through tho mall, we sive herow!th the transtentt mto of postngo: Domes! Hight and Trelre Pago Poy Bidtean Pago Laporte sees Eight and Twelve Page 1 Bixtaon I'nge Paper « TRIBUNE BRAN Tre Cricado TrinuNr haa csiadlished branch offices for tho recolpt of subscriptions and advertise- ments aa follows: NEW YORK-Jtoom 29 Tribune Bultding., F.T. Mc- Fapnex, Monager. ; GLASGOW, Bootland—Alinn's American Nows Agency, 31 Ronfoldt-st. LONDON, Eng.—Amorican Rxchnnge, 49 Strand. Brsarx ¥, Guo, Agont. OFFICES. WASILNGTON, D. C.—110 F street, Job;_ on tho contrary, It will bo a demonstra: | yin to reallzo what a blessing proibitory AMUSEMIEN'S. tion that the banking-up of natural outlets Is | duttes really aro to the country, as exempli- tho surest means for producing an overflow, ——— ficd and brought home to them in thelr own BMeVicker’s Thentre. - business, Madison treat. bettreen Dearborn and State, En- sagoment of Mr and Mre, McKeo Rankin. “Tho Dauiten” Afternoon and evening. A CostsrrtRk of the Massachusetts Legis- lature Is engaged fn in investigation relative to the question of passing a law depriving quacks and persons holding bogus diplomas from the privilege of practicing medicine in that State. It is found that mine’ so-called medical colleges, Jegally chartered ns such fn dfiteront parts of tho United States, nro regularly in the habit of selling diplonins to whomsoever will “pay tho price asked, without any ovitence of tho anallfications of the persons to whom the parchments aro retalled, and it is. proposed to ennet in Massachusetts a law for the suppression of quackery sitrllar to that al- ready In successful operation in Illlnols, where {t Is found perfectly practicable to weed out the specialists and medical im- postorgand forco them to auit the business or elso quit tho State, ee ene SOMETHING bas got to be dono to stop tho riso in paper or tho nsylums for the poor throughout the country will soon bo Olled with newspaper publishors.—1¥iimar (Minu,) Republican (Hep... ‘Thore is n scriots sido to this facotious re- mark, The average country weekly news- paper has, for the past two years, consumed trom $1,000 to $1,500 worth of printing-paper per year for its edition, This paper in 1880 is costing the publisher $1,500 whtre It was Inst year $1,000, and $2,260 against $1,500 in 1879 or 1873. ‘This inerenso of expense of $500 to $750 a yeur seems like n small item to fn big city daily newspaper ‘cstablishment, Maverty'x Thentres Donrborn street, corner of Monro, Engngomentot Louls Aldrich and Charles‘. Parsiog, “My Partner.” Aflornoon and eraning. . Mooley's Thentre. Randolph atrect, botweon Cinrk and Lasalle, Bn gagoment of Bmith, Alten, Morton, and Martin's Mine Btrels, Afternoon and ovening. Olympto Theatre, Clark street, botweon ftandolpiiand Laks, Engnao- mont of tha Now York Jurlorqua Combination. “Ix~ ‘ont or, The Man at tha Wheel.” Afternoon and fovening. Hamilin's Thentro. Clark strect, between Washington and tandolph. RKngngemont of tho Leonard Grover Comedy Compa- ny, “Our Boarding-Houso.” Afternoon nnd evoning. weokly journal, of which thero are some 5,000 published In the United States, Itis a large enough sum to covor the question of profit’ and Joss in some thousands of eases, Add to tho expense of the average country weekly $750 for white paper and the publisher not only will not make a dollar for his year’s Invor, but will drift behind and become involved in debt in carrying on iis business. So that an advance of 60 per centin print fs really no laughable matter with the country editor. It places him in this dlloma: if he raises his subserlption price 75 cents or $1.00 0 year to mectand cover tho advance of the papercomblnation in print, he will lose & third or half of bis sub- scrivers, The ‘Stop my paper” will pour in onhim as thick and fast, comparatively, as they did on q cortain publisher not 9 thou- sand miles from here whe ratsed{his price but one cont s copy; if he tries the other horn of the dilema, and reduces the size of his sheet to correspond with tho enhancement of paper, he will crippla hts advertising space, and deprive his renders of a material portion of the local and othor nows' of the day, and soon ruin. himself. This is the “straight between two" iu which tho papermakers’ combination has placed tho country newspaper publishers, Thuy aro betng ground to powdor between the upper and nether millstones of fixed subscription peices and “protected” monapoly comblua- tion on papor. As Congress has made a law which enables the pnpermakers to fleece the country publishers, the jatter are appealing to Congress to repeal it. They wantto do no injustice to the papermnkers, and to this end ask Congress to remove the taxes on chemicals and pulp, whereby the manufacturers can make cheaper paper. What objection can the high-tariMtes have to this proposition ? Why should thoy oppose removing the duties on soda-ash and wood and straw pulp? And, after those taxes are removed and tho cost of paper-inaking essentially cheapened, why should not. the tax on im- ported paper also be repealed? This is what tho country preasnsk at the hands of Con- gress, and {t is reasonable and right, and should bo granted. Sd JOHN SHERMAN’S BORROWED PLUMAGE, Ex-Senator Dorsey, of Arkansas, has dono the country a service In exposing the falso protense by Secretary Sherman that to him the country is indobted for the Spccle-Re- sumption act of 1875, under which specie payments wore resumed in January, 1870, Apart from the resumption of specle-pay- ments during the present Adininistration, there Is nothing in the record of Mr. Sher- man, pursonally or politically, to: commend hiurto the country aga statesman of ability Mershoy Muste-Mtalt. Madison street, botweon Stato nnd Dearborn, En tertalnmont by Prof. John Itoynulds. No Action has -yet been taken by tho House Committes on Eleetions rolative to tho Teport of the Sub-Commitice on the Wash- burn-Dounelly case, but there is little doubt that the report will be adopted by the Demo- crats of the Committee, who haves major- lty of .four over the Itcpublicans. Among these nino Democrats all but three are from Southern States, where the work of rever- sing the results of popular elections has been reduced to a science, while the three North- ern Demoertts, including Springer of Ill- nols, who is the Clalrman. of the Commit- tee, are aufictently light-waisted, morally and intellectually, to insure a cordlal coUperation on thelr part in whatever schemes of grand larceny the accomplished gentry from the South may agree upon. ‘So there is little chance for conscience in tho Minnesota cnse, tho only Democratio mem- ber of the Committeo whose views and Inten- tlons In the matter ore at all in doubt being Mr. Speer, of Georgia, who has on various occastons shown a disposition to act inde- pendently of party dictation; although it Is expected thathe will be whipped into line in this Instance, and that Weaver, tho Iowa Greenbacker, will nlso act with his natural alties, the Democrats, In reporting tho achema disfranchising the entire Republican vote of Minnesota, a8 would be tho case by tho seating of Donnelly mM tue - event of tho next Preasldential election being thrown into tho House.’ The only point upon which this shamotcss outrage Is defended is thatin the City of Minneapolis the election judges numbered tho ballots cast for Washburnj—a system devised for the ox- press purpose of defeating froud, and never by nny posslbillty employed where fraud is intended, In many States the numbering of ballots is required by law, but this docs not’ Jinppen to be tho case in Minnesota, and upon a technicality so weakas tho crror through oxtraoMelousness of tho olection judges itis proposed to rob 8 State of its rightful representation in Congress. It re- mains to be secon whether the Democrats of the House will have the hardihood to perpo- trate this political atroclty on tho eyo of a Presidential cleetion. . jy WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1890. ——————————O Gr ont loen! columns this morning Is noted the presence in Chieago of two arrivals from the antipodes of the Repiblic—the Governor of Alaska and a consignment of ripe straw- berries from New Orleans. Tr ts oxpected that the quarters in the now Custom-Housa bullding set apart for tho United States Courts will ba ready for their occupancy by the 1st of May, and that tho entire building will be ready by Sept. 1. . a Four‘of the five bables have died which Mrs. Adam Murray, 8 Canadian womnn, brought into the world at one birth inst Mon- day. The usual formula in such cases 1s ‘very properly yariod In the report from tho yeone of the trouble, which Is that “tho mother is doing a great deal better than could be expected,” ate, Alayor Hannisox does not approve tho plan of the Controller regarding tha’ refunc- ing of water and sawerage bonds falling duo in July by the Issue of now bonds bearing in- terest not exceeding 7 per cent. The Mayor thinks tho limit of Interest should bo placod atS por cont at most, bolleving that auch na bond would command a premtum {n the mar- ket. Four of the Utes connected with the White Hiyor Agency massacre—Chief Douginss, Thin Johnson, Thomas, and Sowerwlek—were brought into the Los Pinos Agency yesterday by Jack, who had sticceeded in ninting then out and inducing them, to aurrender. They will start Immediately under 6, strong mil- itary escort for Washington. Jack protests that the women connected with the Agoucy were mistaken In thelr tdentity of certain Indians whom they testified were present at the time of the outb ‘Trenk Is trouble again at Senator Conk- Jing’s home, where the antl-machine element of Oneida County haye chosen 6 contesting dolegation to the Btate Ropublican Conven- tion, while the Conkling crowd held their Convention the sama day and elected dele~ gated. Tho former adopted a resolution re- eating the antl-third-torm decisration of the Now York Republican State Convention of 1875, and will clntin to be the rightful repre- sentatives of Onelda County in the coming Slate Couvention, Soom of tho German economists have mnie theoretlenl attacks upon the Iaw of supply and demand which has had on established pincoin politient economy for centuries. If these new thinkers want a practical example of thelr negation thoy may find It in the com- bination of the coal-niining companics to suspend operations at thelr mines for o time, and meanwhile advance the price of coal 25 contgaton, ‘Thelr only justification is that of power, which thoy derive from combina- tlon, ‘Tho old Jaw required that, when the supply was Sn excess of the domand, tho prices should go down, and vice versa; but the new thoory of combination revorses this order, and an oxcosefve supply is held to bd a renson for advancing the prices, Hy combin- ing and thus constituting a monopoly a few mon are able to throw thousands out of om- ployment, and make abundance tho: pretext “for exorbitant charges. Whatever the con- ditions, they are determined to use combina- fion to oppress the public, The retail conl- dealers naturally follow the example of the producers, and combine to add 50 cents tothe price charged to the consumer becauss 25 conts has boon added at tha mines, There fs agrim sortof hinusor tu this contradiction, which nobody butthe coal companies will enjoy. The publle who buy the coal and the miners who are thrown out of employment will not appreolate the joke, It is this sort of combination, under the euphemism of “ fedoration,” which Mr. Charles Francis Adains bolloves to afford the true solution of the ralirond problem. 1t1s combination that” enables the papormakerain ke manner to fveve the consumers and impose 8 tax upon intelligence, “The farmers, following the game principle, might decree that bread ts too cheap, and combine to produce less, or destroy » part of the abundant crops which Nature yields, and charge double for their corn and wheat, Undertheold common law of England men could be indicted and pun- shod for.conapiring to “corner” sny mare ket and oppress the peopla; but the spirit of “eoimbination” would revolutionize the ethics of trade, and make {t proper and moral to swindle the many for the benoit of the few, : ng 4 fitting person to be made Presidont, Mr, Sherman has had abundant opportun!- tea in which to learn, and in which to prolit, by the wonderful experience of the Inst twenty-five years of the country, but ho ling nover shown any cnpacity to grasp these op- portunities. He has blundored through the years of his long service, always wrong, and when defeated changing his position, and olalming tho credit of the defent of his own meagures, Mr, Sherman was for yeara a conspicuous adyocate of tha payment of the bonded and other debt of the United States in greon- backs. He was thouuthor of the remarkable measure’ reported from his own Committee for the reduction of thequantity of pure gold in the National coln, holding that as the Gov- ernment had to pay the interest on the dobt in gold, the creditors ought to be willing, and if unwilling ought to be compelled, to accept smaller dollars In payment, and he ar- gued that a saying of 8 per cent on every dol- Jar of gold coln pofd out would In the courso of time pay off the whole public debt, At the same thine, he ptoposed to abolish the silyer dollar, which ,was too valuable a coln to be patd out to’ ereditors whose bonds lind not coat thom more than ¢0 cents on the dollar, : 4 Mr. Sherman was tho special champion of tho bill of 1874,—the Inflation bill,—vatoed by President Grant, which yeto was the first step taken fn the way of providing for 9 ro- turn to specle-payments, ‘Tho defent of that bill forced upon the Republican party tho necossity of some action in favor of speclo- payments, Mr, Dorsey expluing what that action was, The Republicans of the Senate held a caucus, and committed the duty of preparing a proper bill to a select committes, of which Mr. Sherman was not a member, This bill was. reported to a full caucus, where {¢ was long debated, Ita most active opponent was John Sherman, Ile opposed the Dill in every way, Heopposed the date It Axed for resuinption, Jan, 1, 1870, and tn- bisted on having tho date postponed to 1883 or 1884. ‘Thochucusrojected all amendments, and the bIIl was directed to be reported to thoSenate, Itwasthen referred to Sherman's Fluanco Committex, the Republican members of which, under the direction of the caucus, ‘Tr Senato yestorday paysed 9 bill au-, thorlzing the Seeretarics of the Interlor and the Treasury to employ additional clerks to facilitate the transaction of pension nnd other business. It hay beon -the polloy of the Democratia majority hitherto to cut down the clerical force In the differont Depart- ments to o polit where tho transactign of “mblic businesy has been seriously finpeded. ‘This has been notably the ense in the Consus Bureau, where thousands of applleations re- mained untouched for luck of tho vlorical as. sistance necessary to secure for thom exain!- nation and uctloi . ANOTHER unsuccessful attempt waa nade “esterday upon the lives of the Russlan lin- sertal family, This last plot was one of the boldest yet undortakon, and falled in Its ob- ject only through a providential delay in the ordinary household routing A nine had Deon laid directly under the dining-room of the Winter Palace, and the explosion was so tlmed as to Involvo the destruction of the en- ire family had they entered the room at the usual hour, ‘Tho brief delay sayed the lives of the Imperial eccupanta, although five sol- diers were killed and thirty-five were more or less injured. ey Acconprna to the view taken by the Rev, Arthur Mitehell, who parlivlpated in tho tonference of Motiday Inst on the subject of Sunday-observanoce, the friends‘of the move- ment have no intentlon of bringing the law to their aid, nor do they expect to be able for the present todo more than secure a mitigu- ton in some degree of the evils of Sabbath- dosecration. ‘Shey hops to must the so-called. “Yberal-minded’’ people on some reasonable middle ground, and by their ald bring about a marked improvement, if not an outright yoformation, in the character of the Chicago Bunday. Ig Acklon, of Loulsiana, were a Repub-, Nean member of Congress, Instead of a Dem- ocratlc member, it Js ollogether probable that Springer, as hend of the Election Com- mittee, would long ago have devised some micans for expelling hin, Ag a Democratic member, however, he scems to be protected in his seat syalust the most scandalous Tum Intor-Ocean chiefly owes whatever elrculution it has, dally and weekly, outside of this city, to the active influence In Its be- half of the country newspapers, which hayo “elubbed” with it, puffed if, and pushed its circulation among thelr readers In every way they could, ‘I'he J-0, ls now repaying them with interest for thelr labors and. kindness by taking the slde of the paper-combination but itis very serious amount to a village |" orsagncity, and much Jess to commend him. VELVE PAG reported the bill, It was parsed by a Repub- Mean vote, ns acaucns measure, over Sher- inan's opposition,—his voto for it belng given fit obedience gg the caucts, and not becauae of his own approval of the mersure. In 1877 he beeamo a member of the Cabt- net. ‘The law for funding the public debt find been passed in 1870; tho Resumption law hn been passct, ns we have stated, over Shernan’s fierce opposition, Anything he has dowe under thos Jaws la precisely what any othor Sceretary of the Treasury would linve done, and was in exact record- ance with what Seerctary Bristow had al- ready dong under the Funding law. It will be scen that ary cliin by Secretary Sherman to especial credit or honor for hay. ing brought the country to 0 resumption of specle-payments ls utterly unfounded, Ilo Was too much of a demagog 60 approve the Resumption act when it passed, oven If he had any’ falth tn it, and the evidence of Dorsey ts that he had none Tho whole scheme of resumption was forced upon him by the vole of the Republican caucus, which entcus even rojected his clforts to postpone resumption from 1879 to 1884, or even to 1834, On the capital of having brought the coun- try to specie-payments hie has been playing tho part.of n gandidate for President, Ho has advertised himself, and has permitted others to hall him as the apostia of spectc- paymenta, ag the inan who had planned nenr- Jy dive yenrs nhead the selene, and'then suc- cessfully carried tuto execution his own grand plan, All this now turns out to be: false; {tf now is proved that the law of 1873; called tho. Resumption act, was not his in any sense, but was forced upon him by a caucus agalnst his long, loud, and vehement protests. Ho had nothing to dowith preparing the bill or in advocating its passage. In fact, Mr. Dorsey's ovidence strips Mr. Sherman of all the plumage which he has borrowed and appropriated, and in which he has been presenting himself to the American people ns nenndidate for President. The exposure ig complete; tt docs not leave Mr, Shermanarag to hide his false pre- tenavs; itshows him to the country ns an original Greenbacker, In favor of clipping the coln, in favor of paper Inflation, as opposed. to specle-resumption; and, at the best, the mera ‘Tteasury clerk, executing the laws passed by others in defiance of his protests, Such js the Treasury candidate for the noin- ination at the Olilenago Conyentlon. CARLYLE ON ENGLAND AND AMERICA. The venerable proplet, historian, and phi- losopher, Thomas Carlyle, is credited by the cable dispatches with haying expressed his opinions with regard to the futuro of En- gland and America, Itwould not be charac- teristic of Carlyle {f they were not expressed tersely and sharply, Most English writers are diffuse, and oftentimes bombastic, but Carlyle has a happy way of “boiling down” his Ideas until they appear In short, rugged, Aphoristic sentences, ns when he sald that the population of Great Britain was thirty-six iillions, more or less, mostly fools. Hla present utterances are hardly less Natterlng. ‘The dispatch does not give us the processes of reasoning by which he arrives at his con- clusions, but tho conclusions themselves aro stated in a mannor that leaves no doubt as to thelr meaning. The dispatch says: “Ile do- elares that England fs rapldly retrograding, considered from a political, governmental, social, and educational point; that England to-day has no statesmen of commanding In- tellect or power, but Is ruled by demagogs and political quacks. He predicts that Amer- fea will be the futura great Powor if she keopg herself free from catang!ing alilances and from the humbuggery of agitating for- elgn inowntobanks.”.:... < Wille wo have no statement of the causes which lead Mr. Carlyla to his declaration of English retrogression, it isvery evident what they are, Tho principal one les on the sur- face. Thé foundation principle of the En- glish system is ® fallacy. Nothing can be more preposterous than the attempt to make democratic progress while hampered with the relles of the old feudal system, ‘Tho re- sult is Inevitably retrogressive. A system of land monopoly which concentrates the entire agricultural interests of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the hands of a fovw fomiltes is neumMicient clog of Itself to bar all progress, Asystem which squeozes four or five hun- dred millions por annum out of Engllsh ten- ants in the way of land-rents, sixty millions out of Ireland, snd os many out of Scotland, liangsa millstone round the necks of the people, Agriculture, which Is the backbone of overy nation’s prospority, has been station- ary In England and Scotland for years, In Ireland it has never. commenced to move. ‘Under tho operation of these infamous land Inws Ireland would hive starved to death long ago had it not been for Amorican help, which has taken the shape of money sent to help the tenants pay thelr rent, and of food to ward off famine, Manufocturers havo prospered because thoy have been un- fottersd by this Influenco,. but agricult- ure has Inanguished, Under its crush- ing burden the tenant has had no Interest in his work, no hope of return fromm It, no spur tomnake improvements. Ho has had no voico in its management, and every pound of produce has been stripped from him, leaving lin nothing for actual subsistence, His life tins been a constant struggle to get some- thing to ent and to keep famine away from ils door, and when his farm has not ylelded enongh to pay the rent he has boon turned out upon the highway, Such a systom tends to make tho land-owner greedy and avaricious, and plunges the tenantry Into ignorance, aquatoy, disorder, and sctunl erlme, It breaks down every incentive to labor except that of actual hungor, It oxtingufshes por- sonal pride, ambition, and independence, IG not only stops progress but every desire for progress, and reduces the individual to o condition hardly above that of the animal, No nation has ever progressed undor such circumstances, and England will never pro- gress until its agricultural population Is al- Jowed the ownership of the lands it cult! vates, The old myth of Antaus, who de- rived fresh atrength very time ho touched the earth in his strugalo with Iferoules, 1s & significant ono Inthiscase, Itis the gtlp upon the earth which gives strength to those’ who cultivate it, glvea them the desire to fmprove {t and Increnso its capacity with all new methods, andenriches them with the frults of thelr lnbor, Itis this which infuses the Joborer with independent manliness and ambition, ralses him above tho distress of poverty, edu- cates him, and makes his Inbor dignified, Undoubtedly political quackery, national Jontousies and concelta, unjust and expensive forelgn wars, which eat up the substance of the poople and Increase taxation, and the Oriental follles of such statesinen as Disraeli and Lord Lytton, who substitute romance for reality and glitter for statesmanship, have had much to do with the decline of En- gland, but the course of land monopoly has had more. It does not need s detatled com- parison with the adyance of the United States, where oyery man may own the acres he cultivates, and where the farmer js the most Independent and often the most influcn- tial man in the community, to establish the truth of the statement that progress {s tm- possible where land {s not froe and tenantaare only serfs doing the bidding of feudal mas- ture. It is the free ownorsh!p of lund and the freedom and dignity of labor which: have given this country its wonderful growth, Under thelr Influences tho vast aren west of tho Misstsstppi fs raplilly Alling up, lia great plains are covered with atock, its tmitless mines are yielding thelr wealth in abun- dance, thousnnits of emigrants are pouring: over here from Europe, and the United States ls feeding the world, ‘Tho caution to Ameriea to keep herself free from’ entang- ling alliances and foreign mountebanks was An tinnecessfry one, It tsa polles which ts moro firinly implanted In the Amerfcan mint than any other, and has been since the days of Washington, if America is to bo the future great Power of tho world, it will be owing to the freedom of [ts Inbor and Its Inborers, and the unfettered condition of Its lands, - KILL THE 00GS, Tho dog {s doubtless a noble antinal in. his place, ‘Tho shepherd's dog possesses rare {n- telligence, which Is devoted to his innster’s service, In ‘tho Alps of Switzerland the St. Bernard dog ia trained to save human Hfe. In Norway and Sweden, and othor northern countries, the dog ts n benst of .burden, utilized as an aid to commerce. ‘The ploneor who traverses the prairly insearch of a home in the wilds of the West sl{tinbers In anfety while his fnlth{ul dog guards the tent or temporary camp. The hunting-dog of En- Bland furnishes amusement to its gentry as they follow the chase. Wherever the ac- cursed system of human boniage exists the bloudhound fs trained to pursuo the fleeing slave, Str Walter Scott desertbes this ats- tinguished representative of the canlue spe- cles: His tawny muzzlo tracked the ground, and his red eye shot fro. In New England the farmer's dog frightens squirrels and crows from the corn-flelid, kills the destructive woud-chuck, trees the “coon * in the forest, and drives the rats from tho garret and the celinr, In the country the dog haga thousand uses, But of what utility js the brute in the city? From the petled poodle, adorned with a sil- yer collar and blue ribbon, in the lndy’s boudolr, to the bull-pup of savage aspect, in the butcher’s shop, the whole tribe, big, Nt tle, well-bred and ill-bred, long-haired and short-halred, curly-hatred and stralght- haired, clean and dirty, red-eyed and fierce, and white-eyed and sheepish, constitute one grand hydra-hended, lolling, barking nul- snnee, Women unblessed by children adopt dogs asa substitute, fondle them, treat them for dyspepsia and colic, weep over thom when they die, and bury thei in rosewood cons under rose-bushes In tho garden. Mothers supply their ttle children with dog- playmates, notwithstanding the linbility, every day, of every one of thesa “pots” belng seized with hydrophobia, Involving a train of horrors patntul beyond description. Every few wecks there Is. case of rubics, 0 person Js bitten, there Isa perlod of terrible suspense, the disenso shows itself, and the victim dics the most pitiful, the most awful of all deaths. But tho pets continue to be fondled, the wateh- dogs continno to snarl and howl, and the mangy curs of low degree continue their yelping coursé through tho city’s streots, Last Saturday a grand mad-dor matinée occurred in this city. A huge Nowfoundland pup, made unusually flerce by a ment dict, broke his chain and made the elreult of the neighborhood, attacking men, women, boys, girls, and horses, Nothing within its rango escaped’ the bloodthirsty brute. No less than s dozen persons are now suffering from wounds inflicted: by Mr. Charles Emmericl’s watch-dog; and theonly ground of hopo that tho persons bitten will not perlsh in the agonies of hydrophobia, sooner or later, fs the theory that the dog was not aMicted with rabies, but was merely indulglng an honest canine passion for trying its teoth In eyery pleco of huinan flesh that happened to come in is way, Tho keeping of dogs In a city 1s utterly ab- surd on the simple ground of their. inutility; thoy return Itorally nothing for the largo quantity of food thoy consume, But, in view of the fact that every dog which runs in the street or plays with tho children In the house is a constant menace of the inost hor riblo of all deaths to some momber of the community, the custom of keeping dogs be- cones aerime, an assault upon the public well-belng, Literature abounds in storics of canine affection’and fidelity, but in the pres- ence of an escapade like that of Mr. Em-" mertoh’s dog such stories are an offense to the common senso of mankind, and the hor- rors involved 1n a single case of hydrophobin Are sufictont to shatter the ontire fabric of poetry and sentiment woven about the canine species. Outupon dog sentiment} Lot all, the dogs dio before any more of them go mad. Ings of tho Gonvention will be reported ver- bath, and with » dispateh and ylyidness that could not be secured in any other chy, The only Demovratle paver In Chiengo, whtel 1s merely Independent between elections, sup- ported Mr, Tilden during the Inst campaign, and will probably doson second time. Final- ly, Cliengo Js cosmopolitan and has a faculty for adapting {lsolf to ail conditions demanded by {ts patrona and guests; If Afr. Tilden comes to Chieago with moro strength than any of his rivals he will find a marvelous tact among all classes, without regard to party.attachments, to assimilate with his In- terests for the tine being, and will hayo no enuse to complain of the local pressure, These ave somo of tho polnta which tha Chicago Democrats may fairly urge tn thelr effurt to secure the selection of this etty for the holding of the Democratic Natfonal Con- vention, In thus concliiating Mr. Fitten's friends thoy need linve no apprehension of exciting any dangerous opposition to Chicago among those who are combating Mr. THl- don’s nomination. No Democrat of sense, however antagonistic he mny ba to Til den personally, depreeintes the Importance ofthat gentleman's Influence in Democratia counclts, Mr. ‘Tilden may not recelye the Demoeratie nomination, but in any case he WHI have a good deal to say in determining tha cholco of the Convention. It !3 utterly tdle for the Demoerats to cherish a hope for earrying Now York ‘State without Mr, ‘Tilden's assistance. Jolin Kelly himself will admit that, Inthe meantime the same con- slderation which is destined to make him a power in the Convention requires that he bo consulted ns to where tha Convention shall bo held; it ts essential, thorefore, that the Democrats of this city shall convinces him, as they may honestly, that thore is no antago- nisin to him in Chicago in favor of any other Democratle candidate, MEXICAN FILIBUSTEBING PROJECTS. There was printed in the Inst issue of Tuk Suspay Trmuse a communteation revealing certain plans for embroiling this country In a war with Mexico, with tho view of subsc- quent annexation, Tho writer brings for- ward cireumstintial testimony that at lenst looks tn that direction, Io states thot after the War of the Rebellion thero were several conferences between army officers and some ambitious civilians, at which plang wore dis- cussed for the systematic cultivation of un- friendly feelings with Mexico upontho Toxns border ns tho first step towards war. ‘This was followed by actual outbreaks between the Texan and Mexican. herdsmen, wiilch led, a3 our renders will remember, to tho dispatch of United States troops to the fronticr, who at one ilmo actu- ally crossed into Mexico, and to al- most daily rencontres between the two nations, and to a very general expectation thativar was not impossible. ‘The tide of po- Mltteal events, however, brought tho existing confusion to very abrupt cessation, and it soon pasged out of public attention, Tho consplracy, however, did not stop, It ts ag- serted that army officers, politicians, ad- yenturers, capitalists, rallroad-men, and oth- ers who would be benefited by the snnexa- Uon of Mexico, are even now busily at work preparing the way for war with that country, ‘and that money hins been advanced to pay for the preliminary work of the filibusters, ‘Tho suspicions of the writer aro more ‘or less strengthened by past ~ filibustering projects agalnst Moxico, and by the avidity with which any scheme hostile to that coun- American people. And this brings up the question, Aro’ wo / prepared, to Incorporate thesc Mexican Grensers, with all their ignorance and hostility to us, into tho Amorican Rephbllc? Thore ts but. one answer .to such o question, We are not only not ready for them, but we do not want thom. We have no uso for them. Thoy area mixed race of Mexicans, Spaniards, Indians, and the remains of tho old Aztec races, steeped in the densest igno- ranceand superstition, and unfitted to become citizens of the American Ropublic. ‘Their only {dea of government !s revolution. ‘hoy are In a constant state of political anarchy and chaos, ‘They have nosympathy with our respect for law, with our religion,-education, arts, or Industry. Thero is nothing in whieh the two ‘nations can affilinte, not a single mutual bond of - Interest between them. Once incorporated with this country, tho ten millions of Mexican: mongrols would become an immediate element of dangor to its very. existence. Governments can only prosper whore tlio people sre homogeneous, orcan be made so In time, and where they are insympathy with oxtsting Institutions and respect them. Dut hero is a country where assiiniintion fs an Impossibility. Its people have no afililations oven with each other. 'There are no two States In Mexico in symipa- -thy with each other. Revolutions andschemos for secession and separate Republics break out with each new moon, The central au- thority 1s ‘trampled underfoot. Laws are openly disregarded, and tho wholo country is in constant confusion, With such a people we haye nothing in common, and to Incorpu- rate this conflicting, discordant, Ignorant, heterogencous mass of mongrels and half- breeds Into the Amertean Republic would not only be the hight of absurdity,;but would specdlly ond this Republic, ‘The caso of our own Southern States is n fitting IMnstration of the dangers to which wo have alluded, “Our Southern States aro in aMillation with the Northarn In raco, Inn- gunge, literature, religion, education, and all formaof industry, ‘hore is buta single point of divergence, and that fs political, and yot It led to a terrible war, tnvolving hun- dreds of thousands of ‘Itves and billions of moncy, and to almost hopoless pollt- Ical confuston ever since. We are sitll working at the problem to make North and Bouth completely homogeneous, and to bring the two sections Into harmoni- ous working relations, and have mode some progress, but even now this result will re- quire many yenra of effort boforo it is fully accomplished. If such disnatrous ovents have occurred from want of syinpathy in a single direction, how much moro disastrous would be the results onsuing from the absorption of ten milllons of peoplo who have not an intor- eat Jn common with us or a feeling that is not bitterly ond deadly hostllo to us, and are no more fitted for the duties of American cit!- zons than go many Bloux Indians? There is but one country on our frontiers whose an- nexation could be looked upon with. favor, and that is the country on our north- orn froutler, between whose people and our own there are many polnta In common, and that will come when tho time ts ripe for It, without any effort on the part of this coun: try. There {a only one contingency that will ever warrant the additlon of any part of Mexico to this country, There may come 4 time, twenty, thirty, or fifty years hence, when the tide of emigration will press heav- ily upon our southwestern fronticr, and, as agricultural and mining interests incroase in that direction arid more room must be had for thelr development, it may bocome noces- sary to purchase a strip of Northern Mexico, as we have done before, which is thinly pop- ulated and well adapted to mining and agrl- cultural fudustries, and would be quickly filled up by Americans, Butbeyond this there is no other way In which any part of Moxica can be added to this country with safety or with profit, and any offort of adventurers or Allbusters to secure such @ result, by war or THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. The Chicago Democrats have appointed 8 local committee to attend tho meetirig of tho Democratic Nations! Camiitteo in Washing- ton for the purpose of Influencing the latter to locate the Natlonal Convention In this city, "The local committee is as good, and will probably ba os efficient, as any tho Dem- ocrata conld have selected; It will leave for Washington on Thursday evenlng. Theso gentlemen are undoubtedly prepared to pre- sent all the stock arguments In favor of Chi- cago in thelr strongest shape; and, if tho location of the Domocratle Convention were to be dotermined by therolative accessibility, accommodations, comforts, and attractions of the rival cities that want the Conventlon, Chicago would certainly be selected on its own moerita, But political considerations wilt enter largely inte’ the cholce, and the Chicago Committea should be prepared to meot and offset the objections that will be urged to Chicago because thore Is no hope for the Democratic party In IllInols, and be- cause the press of thls city {s almost unani- mously Ropublican, Wo think we can sitg- gest to the local committce how a victory may be falrly won for Chicago, It will not be a difficult: matter to impress the National Committes with a proper sense of Chicago's pretininent advantages os convention city; time and effort may bo spared in this direction In-order to convince Mr, Tilden and his friends that they shall havea falr show in Chicago if the Demo- cratic Convention be located here, There is not a reasonable doubt but Mr. Tilden has a controlling influence in the National Com- mittee, Whether or not he shall develop aufilciont strength In the Convention to secure the nomination, no one as yot can dispute with hiin the power of naming the city whore the Convention shall be held. The Com- mittee of local Democrats who represent Chicago In this matter must proceed upon that basis, and their first duty to the cause they represent is to make frieuds among the Tilden faction, and convince that gentleman and his prominent adherents that his candi- dacy will revive no local antagonism, but rather a considerable Lopulse from Chicago influences, . It Is not necessary for the Demoerntlo em- bassy from this elty to Washington to resort to any deception in ordor to persuade Mr, ‘Tilden that Chicago will: be favorable to his interests so far as the Conventlon gocs, Ha hag many strong friends in Chicago, as the vote of 1876 proved, when ho ran ahead of his ticket In this city. The business sympathies of Chicagé will be with Tilden as against any of the soft-money demagogs who are eecking tho Democratic nomination. Tho press of Chicago, belng mostly Republican, will be Independent and impartial tn regard to the Democratic nomination, The proceed. Pe try is selzed upon by turbulont classes of tho, " Inany othor mannor, should bo ai te nounced by the Government and ¢ aly doe ho people, PRESIDENTIAL BALLOTING Aj athe politcal wlao mya ant red 6 political wise mon and part; ore beginning to predict. tho ‘voto thee sare East nt tho Chicago Convention for tg rT f i candidstos fur roaldont. In order 1 eet scominon peopto who are. not versed In tote apection of tho ontralls of binte nnd tense” those diviners, to form some protintle eattne® of therunof tho polttioal cards, wo reproduce firat and seventh or Inst balloting in Cinchine’ four years ago for tho dlforent candidates: ral Fins nittor. ; BTATES. [aun | “mnowig| EB i Alubamn.... i Barci o: 5 Fa) 10} Kontt “3 Louisiana 2 Trine... pt) WW i Minnesat 10 tMlesissippl... s Missouri... VW 6 4 Bh) ae Curolina, new Mexico, Washington Terri! Wyoming Territory. District Columbia, Total, seers Whole vote cnat., Necussary to a chi “Connoeticut cast ten votes for Go Alnasuchusutia quve throo yotee fui A Re aa Panini in’ or -Olght vot unriranteor that diate for ave baliates es OOF Ot SEYENTIL AND LART BALLOT. mireisrarstsa 82 See! Eh) =s- ae? REZ asc? Washington Territor Wyoming Territory. TOtal...csreverresees Neoossary to n choice, 2 oe ‘The changing of votes to Hayes did not begin fn onrnost until the vote of Indiana was called. ‘When 25 of hor Morton votos went over to Hayos thostaimpedo bognn, and was aontinucd uatil Hayes was noiniusted. “Tr Decline of tho Senate,” fs the cap tion of s truthful editorial in the New York Timea. Tho object of the writer is to show that the United States Sonato bas been corrupted by its connection with tho spoils system, But be does not hulf cover the subject. Dorman I Eaton's lato book on “Ctvil-Borvice Reform" points unmistakably to the conciualon that the Sonata fs the bulwark of tho spoils ayatpin, The power of confirmation even imoro than the powor of appointmont perpotuates the present bad condition of things nt Washington. It [sa most demoralizing spectacte to ace the two Sens atora from each State clalming patronage ad thelr private perquisit, Nor {4 this all that cam bo truthfully alleged ngnlnst the Senate, Many of tho Bonators aro attornoys of railroad and othor corporations, aud advocate thotr Intercats both in the Supreme Court aud on tho tloor of the Senate, Senntors are constantly aggrandise ing thofr privilegos and dignitics at tho expense of the people, Tho sign “ Lxclusively for Ben- ators” stares-at citizens of the Republic ab nearly every corner of tho Honate wing. Sena tors have private stalronsos, n privato cloyator private barber-shops, private rostaurants, and privato lobbios, ‘Tho Marblo Room, formerly opon to the public, is now reserved for Sonators aud tholr special friorids, among whom arc auany railroad magnates and attorneys, Some of the worst inoasures of Icgisintlon over known to tho history of tho country orlylaated io the Senate, and the yory worst havo found ablo advocates and dofendora in that body, The salory-grav and tho franking-privilego derived thole chief strongth from tho Benuto, The misaion of that body as 9 ‘protection agains’ hasty or domagogioal tegiatution is confossedlly A failure. ‘The long term, instead of enabling Senators to disrogard gusta of popular passion hus encouraged thom to sot at naught oxproe talons of tho popular will in favorof much-nocded reforms, It may bo that patronngo hns lowe! the tono and charnoter of the Bonate by making it possible for wirepullors and demagogs 1 got seats in that body, But, whatavor tho cause 1s, it 1a undoubtedly truo that the framers of the Constitution, if thoy could compary tho Senate as it {swith the Sounto wa thoy hoped It would be, would-be compelled to confess that tholr Uopes bad been {n gront measure disappointed. . ——e Tux Poorla Transoript (Stalwart Trepub- Moan) is not in favor of a third torin, but ‘ very outspoken against It. 1t viows the fm ed in this ight: tnatton of U. ‘Tho nscrat opposes tho nomination is §, Grant tor Prealdent because. It boltevea— ta fact, knows—that, under tho clroumstncesso is not tho choice of a lurgo majority of the Ae ublican misses of “Tliliots, Of course, hey Republicans will support him tf ho is nom: nate but thoy think ho ought not to bo nominal This fuct is oxbtbiting Itaulf more and mure Fe by day, and prutty soon it will take slape suob shape 28 wil astonish thoso who tlstaket ly think thoy can mold und control tho Mane soutiment of tho State aud country, ‘Tho ols seript doprecatea any such strugyio in lin but it can sco no mode By which i oe oe avolded, exoopt by tho withdrawal of Gn) from tho field, We do not know as thoro Wil 4 anything lke what may be called an outbre at Agalnst bim in caso he docs not withdram, wo foul quite sure that when the timo coe ine tho Ropublicans of lluals to vot, and cir friends of Gon. Grant whistle, the people ir not follow, ‘This etatement Is not inade In spirit of dictution, nor ns & throat but prophecy, ——e Tue Turmune's telegraphic colunns a nquneed the doath by sululde of Mr, Cyrus”: Hawloy, of Miwaukeo, Monday morning bares olroumstances of Mr, Hawloy'a distresulny dea areas interosting ¢o tho morullat as they a5 puzzling to his intimate acquaintances. How! under 40 years of ago, marricd, well educated well connected soctally, possoas@s amplo weal which he inboritod, and having all tho Lesa rig to happiness lying within easy reach. wav a great student, and probubly tho best om