Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1880, Page 4

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Engagomont of Miss Kato Putnam, “Lena, the Madcap.” Afternoon and evening, SATURDAY, MARCIL 27, 1860, Turns were two hangings In Texas yes- terduy,—one at Corsican, the othor at Falrfuld. | ‘Tirenk wero several severe shocks of carth- quake nt Tokio on the 22d of February, during which many houses were Injured or destroyed. No Ilves wore lost. ———- Wi.rras Barron, 4 colorad boy of 17, was hanged yesterday at St. Chnrles, Mo., for tho murder of © white companton named Clatter- buck, near that town, In Fobruary, 1870. Art St, Louls yest8@rday an old man aged 69 ‘cut his wife's throat and thon tricd to kill _him- self, Both aro still alive, but it js thought that thoy cannot survive tho offects of their wounds, Tue Amorican ship St. Charles, loaded vith korosene, was burned off Hiogo, Japnrn, About tho 10th of this month. Ono of the craw murdered tha second officor of tho vessel tho following day. Sznaror Dox Casenon Is reported tohavo enterod into negotiations with the Virginia Re- Adjustors with a view of soclring part at least bf the Virginia Republican dologution for Grant wt the Chicago Convention. wy Crirrenpven County, Arkansas, Js neatly : all covered by wator to a bight varying from ono to ten feat, and largo numbors of cattle aro per- ishing there for lack of food and from thelr Umbs being swollen with standing In tho water. ————— ‘Tne lntest announced Democratic candi- fate is tho Hon, W. 8, Grocabock, of Cincinnati. The Enquirer of that olty suys that ot a meoting df prominent Democrats hold recently In Now York {twas doterminod to take him up as tho most available candidate. ee Tne emigration from Canada has assumed ‘vory largo proportions, and {t {s ealeninted that not less than 10,000 Canadians will seok homes in the pratrlo regions of the West during tho next two months, Notwithstanding tho glowing pootic eulogy of Quoan Victorlu's son-lo-law, Canuda scomsto be a good placo to omigrate trom. _Ciixa docs not intend to relinquish Its Control in Central Asia, and is snid to bo willing torisk a war with Hussia not only to maintain It, but even to regain somb of its lost posscs- sions, The Governmont of the, Flowery King- dom {6 not satiated, sithor, about ita relations with the United States and other uations, and is about to demand a wholesale revision of treaties du fuyor of itself, Tue Tammany State Committee of Now York met yesterday and resolved to call a Con- Yention, to which throe delegates from overy Assembly District Jn tho State should bo invited. ‘Thore was no ubatemont In the genornt feeling uf austility to Tilden, whom I waa determined to oppose t tho bitter end. The Executive Conmiittoe of Tammany will fix tho timo and pluce for holding tho Convention, ‘Tur refusal af a British General named Donovan to fire a salute on Washington's birth- duy hua caused no little indigaution among the Amorican realdenta of Hong Kong. The prac thee by American commanders of firing salutes inhonor of British anniversaries ontitted tho Americans to expect u ike favor at the hands of Mritish commanders; but Donovan, whose _ Ramo sinacks of Cork, was tow boorish to extend the courtesy. Count pH. Leesevs wus yesterday very handsomely reecived and elexantly outertained ‘by tha commercial mon of Chicago,» The ban quet at the Grand Pucific in the ovening, ton- derod by tho Clvil Engtncors’ Club of the North? west, was In all respects a fitting testimonial ta the grentest ongincor of the age, and the scntl- ments of admiration and regund exprossod by the different speakers will ud o cordial echo Srom the people of Chicago, We'present to the renders of Tne Triv- ‘UNE this morning a Presidontial portralt-saltery in which, 80 fur n# present probabilities point and human forcalght can judge, appears tho ploture of the mast who will accupy the White Houso for tho four years beginning with tho 4th of March, 1851, It 1g an interesting collection of Stalwart notables, and one which will grow io ; ‘dnterost aa tho time appronchea when the Chie cago Convention {sto determing which among ‘them {8 to bo tho noxt President, A voncy of 10,000 Chilians wero landed about Fob. 25 ata place. culled Ho, eixty miles worth of Arica, anda force of 3,000 somo dis tance south of that point. It was tho intention of tho Chiilan force to attack Arica, which {s wurrisoned by 10,000 Peruvians, In a prelim: Mnury nuyal skirmish the Chillan tleot got the worst of it, as two of the blockading vessels, tho Hupacar and the Mugullaues, wero badly ine dured by a few shots from an Auorican-built monitor manned Peruvinns. ‘Tue investigation of Mr, Davenport, the ' Rew York Commisstonor of Eloutions, fa Nkoly to prove nother boomerang tothe Democrats, Senator Hoar sald at the muoting of the Come mittee of Juvestigution yesterday that he pro- yesed t0 show by eooipetent witnesses that there was an organized system of Issuing traudulvnt voturalizution pupere in Now York City, aod i thit at least One Judgo was a party to tho fraud, p Not ives thug 60,000 binnk certificates bad buch fsued to oun party, ho sald, with the inltialsof the Judge forged thereon. Ho “ gdaa andertaok tu prove that the revords of the Courts had been tumupered with to cover up tho frauds, Tho Denocratie membore of the Commnittoe did not want te go tuto this fuso of thy question, though ( was ta prevent such, frauds that Comrisstoner Davenport performed, 4 oF diructed to be performed, the acts waich bayo Secured for bun tho weuth of the Democrats. Should the Democrats refuse to allow Senator Hone to offer teatimony in proof of his charges, tho public will take thotr refusal asa ples of guilty, anda Justification of Mr, Davenport. See ‘Tig Superintendent of tho Kansas Retlet Association was oxamined before tho Exodus Committe yesterday, and stated that tho emi- gration from tho South was owing to tho want of security for tha life, berty, or property of tho colored poopie. In some alstricts they nra only allowed to vote tho Democratic ticket; in othors they aro not nilowed to vote at alls white in many places thoy are permitted to vote, but are ebentod In the count, The laziest, mennest, | ‘and moat ruffianly white man of the South may insult negro men and women with impunity. ‘Under those circumstances bo thought cmigra- tlon was tho colored man's only romedy. Tre Blaine Club of thla city, desirous of knowing the fooling of Republicans {n reference to tho varfous Presitentitl candidates, somo thne ngo issued a olrculer, calllug on promincnut mombers of tho purty throughout the State to freely and frankly tndieate thelr choice for Presitont, Thonames of tho partis to whom the circulars wero sent were takon from the books of the Itepublican Stnte Central Commit- tes. Thereplics received thus far show that Blaino is first choice, Grant second, and Wash- burne third. A noticondle feature rovenicd by tho onnvnas in that the Grant feeling ia strongest among tho Ktepublicans of strongly Democritio countics. A full synopsis of tho replios Is pul lished in another pagy, and fy well worthy tho perusal of the polltt nalined. Tue city primaries for the nomination of eaudidates for Aldermen and olection of dele- gates to the threo Lown Conventions were hold yesterday, nnd tho result was the nomination of an unusual number of oxcollent mon for acats In the Common Council. This is especially truce of the Republican candidates, who, with a vory fow exceptions, are respectablo bustness-inen and taxpayers whose election will greatly im- prove the charactor of tho Common Council. This is truco of the Republican numinces In tho Second, ‘Ubird, Fourth, Ninth, Tenth, Lleventh, Twoifth, Thirteonth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth, and if the Repub- leans tu those wards shall do as woll at tho potla ag they have dono at the primarics thoy will bave conferred # benefit alike upon tho ‘party and the city. _—_——— 4 Tue unpleasantness between Mr, Coffroth, A Union Demoerat from Ponnsylvanin, aud Mr, Maokburn, an ox-Confederate Urigndler from Kentucky, has revived somo disngrecable recol- lections regarding traltors and treason which it was supposed the brothren of the Bourbon com- munfon had banished forevor. Me. Coffroth, be- ing atigmatized by Mr. Blackburn ns a traitor to his party, rotorted that Br, Blackburn was not jong ago n traitor to his country, and otught to have been hanged. That the Pennsylvaniin bad the best of the argument Is shown by the fact. that the Kentuckian called bim_ a Nar and threatened to hit him tn the nose, This ls a very distressing eplaodo to occur juat at a timo whon it is partloularly desirable that the country should forgot all about secession and treason, rebels and traftors. Br. Cofroth must bo re- monstrated with for shaking the bloody shirt fn thig bighly alarming mannor. ‘Tre Democratic State Cantral Committee of New York mot yesterday and agreed on a form of call for 1 State Convention, delegating to a sub-committee the Nxing of time und placo whon and where It should bo hold, Mr, Grunnis, in ndvocating Utica as the pinco, took occnaion to guy that ox-Goy. Seymour would not under any circumstances bo a candidate before tho Na- tional Convention, all reports to tho contrary notwithstanding, Tho Sub-Committee was re- quested to fix the date of tho Convention bome time botweon the th of April and tho Jat of Stay. At the mooting of tho Bub-Cominittee, held subseqiontly, three memn= bers declared themselves in favor of Syracuse, and two in favor of Utica, but no definit are Tangement was mundo, tha Committee fearing that the Tammany Domoerncy would engage all the accommodations atolther plavo for the dole- gutes to tholr own Convention, which they scom determined to hold at the sume tine and pluce aa tha regutur Domaceatla Convention. Only one momber of the State Committee fa reported as being outspokon in favor of Tildon, while threo ure stongly opposed to him, and the othor mombers duclared thomaclyos in favor of tho “best interesta of tho party.” Warp work has told on Mr. Gindstone, and ho has been ordered by hla physicians to re- frain from specchmaking for some days, Tho work In tho meantiino is bolng ctrried on with unabated, If not Increased, vigor by the Liboral Jenders; who expresa thonselves quite confldent of suvcess, Tho Marquis of nrtington is nbout again, and sevorely critlolsed tho forolyn policy of the Government lust Thursday ovening. Mr. Parnell is working with indomitable persover- anco in Iroland, and is particularly severe on the landlords nnd tho placo-huntors, In a speozh at Hoscommon, tn tho wost of Iroland, ‘he took occasion to ndmintator n sovore onstigi- tion to the O'Connor Don, & milld-mannored fossil who, because of bis descent from tin Irish King, imagines that ho ought not bo expeoted to indulge in any species of Radicalism in order to retain. his scat. Tho Irish tonants, howover, nro fust losing st revoronco for Kings and ull respect for lind- fords, and [6 fa within tho bonds of posslbility that tho O'Connor Don, who, by.tho way, 160 reluttvo of Charies O'Conor, the well-known liw- yor, WIN) bo retired to private life by tho olect- orsof Hoscommon, and witl bo succocded tn Parllamont by an adhoront of Mr, Purnell. ——— W alatey Buuren, Ste sidgeseer RoatTon, Miss, Murch 28—The «Advertiser hn the following: “A dispatch’ was recelved in thls city last ovening from Washington stathig that poattive (ufarmation hag been received that Grant wil withdraw as 4 cundldute befure the Chicago Convention.” ‘Tho Boston Advertiser ls n cautlous, non- sensutioun! paper, an advocate of Gen. Grant's nomination, and the leading Repub- licnn paper of New Engiand. It {s not given. to venturesome statements, and In making this announcement cyldently does so bellov- Ang In the truth of the atatement., In considering the probabilities of such an announcement being nuthoritatively mado atsome time before the meeting of the Chil- cago Convention, it must be remembered that Gen, Grant has at no thie direetly or in- directly stated or admitted that he was or would bo a candidate fora third Presidential nomination, In his published conversutions, helt with Russell Young, diring his tour around tho earth, he carefully but candidly reviewed his public life, and he repeated tho sentinent and declaration contained fn his letter after the Pennsylvania Convention in 1876, that he had Med the meusure of his, political ambition, and that nothing could tempt him to be again na candidate for the Presidency, unless requested by the general and spontancous desire of the American people. : Gen, Grant, though a careful and coutlous speaker, has always been s clgse and sharp observer of events; ha Is never led into hasty judgments or conclusions by the advice of zealous partisans, Since his return he has been able to see that the so-called “boom ” for his third nom{nation rests on the personal efforts of three or four Senators, and of per- sons now holding office who were appointed by htm, and of ex-ofliccholders under his Ad- ministration who haye since been displaced aud aro unxtous to be restored, and of a few machine newspapers who were pal organs of the old Whisky Ring or pardoned particl- pants in its robberies of the revenues. Ifo canuot have fulled to sce that outside of these Mmited classes of persons and papers there has not been, and ts not now, any degree of entiusinsm for his nomination for a third term, and no longing ‘desire anywhere to have him violate the two-term Hmltation adopted by Washington, and indorsed and sanctioned by Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, and llmsel In 1876; that there 1s no spontaneous demand for hls can idacy, and nue genernl effort to induce his nombhiation. On the contrary, that there Iso widespread aml deep-seated objection to his violating what fs known as tho unwritten law of the land prohibiting a third term of the Presidency, ‘ : Gen. Grqutinust have geen that lu his be- half thero fa. nn almost total abscneo of that spontancons expression of popular senti. ment which cases who or.In- the casa of Binine, who in every part of the Union fs advocated and supported by hosts of adiniring and enthustastic friends, ‘These men are supported, not by the ofllce- holding or the office-secking classes; thoy have no friends In office, nnd the enthustasin fn thelr behalf is voluntary, unbesought, heartfelt, and genuine. has been witnessed in tho of Washburno and Edmunds, hava nover sought such support, The vdjection to Gen. Grant is not personal, for ho stands high with the American peuple. It rests upon a deep-rooted hastility to estab- Ushing the third-term precedent, and toa dread of a restoration to office of the men whose official misconduct caused all the hostile criticisms of his previous Administra- tlong, and who are consplouously and offen- sively advocating and forcing his candidacy on the ground of thelr restoration to power and place under. bliin, Gen. Grant cannot fall to discover that tho support of his candidacy ts forced, and Is the result of machine pressure and of the importunity of selfish persons clinging to him to elevate themselves, and that this is In remarka>le contrast to the general enthusl- asm cyerywhere shown for Binine, ant even Edmunds and Washburne, who hava not sought to ba candidates, Looking at all the circumstances {n the Neht of these facts, the dispatch published In the Boston Advertiser may possibly be Te- warded aa the Indiention of what iy to bo rathor than what has been already deter- mined, Two months have yet to Intervene before tho Convention, and {t is probable that tong before that time comes Gen. Grant will disembarrass his party by authoritatively prohibiting the further uso of his name a8 a ennidate, thus enabling. public sentiment to unite upon some ather person, TWO ¥FASES OF THE CHINESE QUES- TION, Among tho various fases of the Chinese question treated of by Gen. John F, Miller in his remarkable article in the Caltforntan, to which alluston ling already been: made In these columns, there are two which deserve Bpecial attention ag bearing upon the rela- tlong of that people to our own. They are, first, the ability of the Chinese to subsist where our own people woul starye; and, second, the capacity ot China to supply us with untold millions of. emigrants without fecling thelr loss oven In the most remote degree, ‘The Hon. A. A. Sargent, in his speech de livered In the United States Senate in 1873, sald; “'fho Chinesa work for wages that will not support 8 white laborer’s family, bo- Ing themselves well fed on a handful of rice, a little refuse pork, and desiccated fish, cost- ing but a few cents aday; and, lodged in a plg-aty, they become afluent according to their standard on wages that would beggar an American,” A writer in'the Nort mer dean Revlew has also summed up their gen- eral charnctertstics In tha following graphic way: “ Ais miserable little figure, his pinched and wretched way of Ilving, his slavish and tireless Industry, his Suditference to high and costly pleasures which our civilization almost makes necessttles, his citpacity to live {n swarms in wretched dens whore,the white man would rot if he did not suifocate.” Gen. Miller also says of him: He Isa man of Iron, whom neither heat nor cold seems to alfect; of obtuse nerve, and of that ufachine- lke quality which novor tires. Hs range of food Is the widest of all known antmils,— ‘embracing os jt does tho whole vegetable Kingdom, and tneluding every beast of the earth and creeping thing, and all creatures of the sen, from the tiny shrimp to the great leviathan of the deop. Ife ean subsist on anything, and almost upon nothing.” ‘The secret of this wonderful physieal endurance, Joined to such capacity for labor, Is to be found in his long strugyle for existence. It ling been a struggle that has Insted for ages and has been made necessary by the overcrowded condition of tho Chinese Empire, A popula- tion well-nigh ten tlnes ng great as that of the United States hag been crowded Into an ares about one-third as largo as-oura, ‘To sustain human Hfe In that density of popula. tion has been 2 problem that iy now reduced to nsclonco by the long study of ayes, ‘They have of necessity tralned thelr boiles to subsist upon tho smallest possible nutrition, and that training practiced from age to age has at Inst become n habit of-lifo so fixed that it cannot bo changed, Ile follows It in, this comstry, where there Is no necessity for It, with tha same determination that ho would in China, whera he must. do it or perish by the very pressure of the mass, Hence his muryeloug capacity for Inbor, Joined to his equally marvelous powers of endurance, ‘That training hus cost hin unspeakable mis+ ery, hunger, and censeless debasing toll through ages, until at Inst, from a physteal standard, ho fs tho gimallest, lennest, and most pinched of the human raco, and Hyves by preference more after the. manner of. tha‘‘beast than of clvilized man, There {8 no hope that he will over change these hubits, Ingralued into his very temperament and disposition, Tt would be as diflculé for-the leopard to change hig stots, and $f that race, which represents tho debasement and misery of centuries, should swarm here in suflicient numbers, It 1s easy to sco that in competition with sich o race the American people could notsurvive. ‘Choy could never descend to the Chinese standard, even it they would; while tho Chinesa would never ascend to the Amer+ {ean standard, even if thoy could, The latter would stpplant white men in this country, when they had come here In suficient num- bers, with nhnost aa much ease ns they now supplant them In thelr own country. The cnpucity of Ching to send emigrants hero without fooling any diminutlon fn hor own numbers is Wlmitable, She is now “the great slaye-pon,” as Gen, Miller states it, “trom whonco laborers for this country are belng drawn, and thero are myrlads now ready and only stand waiting for the beck and sign of Chinese chlefs to come and toll like gulley-slaves for wages upon which an American Inborer would starve.” The Chinesa ure a race who have in- ereasod and kept up to the Nmit of subsistence without ony — intelli- gent restraint, ke anhnals, At times famine ,sweeps them off by thousands, but thelr places are soon filled again, When want drives them to emigration the measure of {crease fs agnin’ Allgd. “No one in China ts benefited by it, ‘Those who come here find rellef, but that rellef is at the cost of our own people, It is taken out of the pockets of our own laborers, because thay usurp the places of our laborers, who cannot compete with them without starying. As Gen, Miller says: “ If twenty million Chinese. were to emigrate to America as fast as ships could ba found to carry them, ‘thelr places would be again filled in Ching by natural incrense within a stort period,’ and these twenty millions tn time would supplant twenty millions of our own people. They could work; and do work, on long contracts of ten and fifteen years, for three dollare a month, @ sui upon which aun Amerlvan would starve, while they would grow rich according to their own stangards of atluence, In adopting a policy to meet this question, Therefore’ tess facts should gion eldered: Firat, that thoreis no limit to Chingse Nng with thelr miserable surroundings have enabled them to anbslst where othor people must starve. It fs not necessary.to take Into account tholr filthhiess, diseases, imuner= allties, or inability to asalinilate with our clvillzation, although these are fmportant factors {1 the problem. The two fases Upon which we have dwelt are alone suMcient arguments why Immediate barriers should be erected against this tide ofomigra- tion and the peopling of this country wits the worst stock on carth should be stopped, CHEAPER PASSENGER RATES. ‘The voluntary reduction recently made in passenger rates by tho Ilinols Central and the Chicago & Alton Rallroads to three cents per mile on local travel Is a change In policy thatought to be quickly imitated by ratlroads elsewhere. 1t 13 trie that tho Stato law es- tablishics threo cents as the maximun rate, but the rallrond companies have heretofore paid no attention to this particular proviston, and tho Railroad Commissioners, for some unrevealed reason, have failed to enforce it. Tho rallronds sought for s time to resiat tha tender of the legal fare, but Intterly have con- tented themselves with charging their achedule rates when selling tickets, and have necepted the three conts # mile when the ex- act chango has been offered the conductor on the cars, Thexrecognition of the legal rate In the schedules of these two roats will probably lead tog alinilar reduction in local rates upon tho other State rallronds, or in- duce the Railrond Commissioners to take ineasures for the enforcement of the Inw in eases where it Is not voluntarily observed. The caso in point, however, affords another opportunity for urging wvon the railroads generally tho oxpedicncy and profit of univer- sally low rates on travel. If railroad com- binatlons were to establish x uniform rate of three conts a mile on purely local traffte, two anda half cents a mile on tickets sold between the two terminl of etch railroad, and two cents a mile on what may be called Inter-State travel, the corporations would bo tho gainers as well as the public. The loye of travel ls Inborn In the American character, and {3 limited only by the cost thereof snd the resources of the people, “The railroads have It within thelr power to. incrense the amount of travel Immeasurably by a suit- ablereuctionin rates. Tho people willalways respond to the Inducements to travel as sen- sitivoly as the mercury In a’ thermometer re- sponds to the temperature; ns rates go down, travel will go up, and vice versa. It will not bo denied that in almost all cases the railronds can carry a much larger pro- Portion of passengers than they now carry without matertally increasing their expenses, Acar filldd with passengers enn be hauled and officered at virtually tho same outlay as when but one-half or one-quarter of the car {soccupled. Thecost of hauling a train of half a dozen passenger conches fs very little more than that of hauling two or three pas- senger couches, By filling ‘half a dozen cars ata rateof twocents ainile arailrond can earn considerably more money than it ean by run- ning a train of two or three cars only half Aled atfourcentan mile. Notwithstanding the Just complaints whitch the public make from thne to time about extortion and discriminn- tlon In freight charges, the tariff on freight Js vory low a3 coinpared with the. passen- ger schedule, and the railroads have demonstrated by“ setunl experience that the low frelght ;.tolls Inve enabled them to earn vastly more money from in- ereased business than if they had adhered obstinately to high;rates. The wonder is that their own interest hag never induced then to adopt the same pdlicy with reference to the passenger tratlle. ¢-y as a mattet of conrsd, occasional or spas- moile reductions it pessoa rates, such 18 occur ina war er nm rival companies, do not bring In the’retjyys that may be expected from & permancubspolley of low rates. If, for instance, the Illtols Central and Chicago & Alton Railronds Were to reduce thelr local’ pussonger rates to;threa cents for a few weeks only they would not carn so much money during that perlod as If they were to chargé four cents, per miler But they will earn more after it.ahall become generally understood that the lower rato 18 permanent. ‘Tho farmers and the merchants of the smaller eitics aul towns will do more traveling on business; thelr wives and daughters will do. more traveling for pleasureand visits, Inafew months from now, itis entirely safe to pre- dict, the recelpts of ‘ne week from the local travel on the Iinols.'Central and Chiengo & Alton Railronds will be very much greater, and tho profit correspondingly larger, at three cents 2 mile than-tho same business fora alinilar perlod In the' present month at four cents a mile, ‘The most astonishing Inerenso In travel could be secured in long distances by a nota- blo reduction In rates, The travel from the North to the South in winter and spring, from tho South to tho North in the summer months, and from the interior to the Atlantle and Pacific consts at all seasons, could be al- most doubled within’ a short thie by a unl: form charge not exceeding two cents a mile. The Chicago merchant who now trusts to tho mall or telegraph for a possibly unsatls- factory settlement of & busiiess transaction in New York would not hesitate te go in person at a cost of $18 or $t8, “fhe man who goes Enst alone would gladly take/his wife or his family if tho coat of travel were lower, ‘Tho visits of relatives and family excursions from the country to the larga cities, or from one eity to another, would be so much more frequent as to compensate for tha reduction in rates, and leave thé other accretions for profit. ‘The rallronds would save n large amount of In- come by a decrease in the number of passes now issued, and which, in many cases, would notbe asked for nt a cheap rate of travel. Wherever low rates have been adopted usa polley, na ly the cnse of suburban trains, or on the Hudson Wtver Raitroad, where the tte js fixed at two cents a mile by Jaw, the amount of travel Is enormaualy greater than on roads where four or three couts a mile is the charge. The raflrond managers should Investlgate this polley as a mutter of selfish Intorest, if not Invenglderation of the publics certainly they cannot object to the good-will of tho public If they can make It proiitable to themeclves, Tu swindiers who try to obtain money by the false pretunse of trading in wheat, pork, ete., for people outside the clty are now une usually active. Their high-sounding adver Usements and pretentious: clreulara are thrown out broadest, being circulated most freely In places most remote from Chicago, Clalmingto do business In the Board of Trade, oft which they are not members, and wherothey are unknown, they offer to buy ond sell for customers on margins of security which a member of the Board would not accept, and so entrap hundreds of unwary ones, who aro foolish enough to belleve that an utter strangor will serve then far better than men of well-known stapding would do, ‘The con- fidence gamo must pay them well, or they woul not be able to advertise so freely and continuously us they do. Scarcely a week passes that some Iustance of their rascality does not crop out at the surface, but thelr path fs 60 well hedged that thoy manage to keep out of the meshes of ‘the law, and set traps for fresh yietlns with part of the protlts of past ruscallty, It ahould scarcely be necessary to say that no man ought to risk his money with o ewlgratlon; aud, second, that ages of Wrest- ry utranger, unless the stranger bas the in- ° n dorsement of some ono In whom the would- be investor has full confidence. There are, however, many thousands who do prot bear Innind that tha man who clalins to bo ti dorsed by another fs not necessarily telling the ‘truth. The bait that takes Is “refer ences," which In truth are no references at all. Tho Granger who tends 6 hundred dol- lars to n stranger inthostrect goncrally does It because the stranger clalins to be a relative of Same prominent man In his nelghborhood, The vietim docs not think that the man who will cheat ts also willing to, Ho till he has lost his money, 80 tho man In the country who reads that a cortnin advertiser fs indorsed by the Prealdent of this bank or the editor of that Newspaper scarcely over takes tho precau- tion to ascertain beforchand whether or not thondvertiser has really recetved sich In- dorsement. He sends his money; aud after walting for returns Ull ho Is tired he then writes to the “reference,” and finds, tov Inte, that tho advertiser had no, authority to use tho name of tha party referred to, Some times the program fs varied by giving refor- ences to a firm in Jeaguo with the advortiser, It may ve nows to many of our renders, but, novertheless, true, that the buying and selling of grain or provistons in this elty enn only be done through some member of tho * Board of Trade,” and it Is not dificult to find out whother or no a man is a member of that organization. A full Nst of mem- bers, with thelr business addresses, is published in each annual report to the Board of Trado, nud a reference to that ro- port should be mado by any one who wishes to trade, nnd does not otherwise know that the person proposing to buy or sell for him ts TM rght’’ Thore are people, not mem- bers of the Board of ‘Trade, who offer to buy and sell small lots on commission for future delivery, Some of these are honorable men; but the numbor of rascals {s great enough to warrant the advice not to intruat money to any one outside the Board of Trade, untess the party is recommended by something be- sides his own warrantce, peer ent THE CANADIAN BOMBASTES. Apropos of the proposed! application of tho Monroo doctrine, a correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer has contributed to that paper a statement of the war-powor of Can- ada, Itisso formidable in oxpression that the Enquirer goes into a shiver, and. prints {tin double-leaded columns, From the man- ner in which it is written, it must be tho pro- duction of & Canadian, intended in tho way of menace, and reminding one of the horrl- ble threats contalned in the famillarcouplet: Ho whto would these boots dispinco, Must mout Bombastes faco to facs, Let us oxamine the penalty witich {s to fol low the displacement of the Canadinn boots. There are in Canada, snys this writer, 600,000 enrolled milltia, of whom, Jn 1878, 43,805 were armed, organized, and dritted. Thera are 70,000 breech-loading rites, either In the hands of the militia or {1 Jocnl arsenals. In the why of artillery, the Canadians have seventeen ficld-bntteries, 400 smooth-bores in thelr permanent works, and twenty-four rifled gins at varions points, besides an un- known number in the arsennls at Hnlifax, Unfortunately for the war-power of Canada, she has no navy, but our writer easily gots over this difficulty, He says: Tho English have In tholr navy gunboats of 400 tons-burden that carry eight-inch riled guns; aitch guns, ad before remurked, ure fur nore formidable thay anything we hove, Tn less than three years It ja conildently anticipated thit thale locks will bo enlarged sy that tt steamer 250 feet long and Sraying Bftcen Teot of water can pass through. A third-rate man-of-war will thon be able to steam into Luke Erio, armed with olghteon-tou guna, ‘That, however, 18 pros- pective, Yet how docs tho case stand to-day? ¢ somoof theso Ironeind and ritled-nrmed gun- boats happened to be lying at Montreal upon a dcclirntion of war, how long would it tuke them to got into Lake Erio? Five days! On tho morning of tho sixth day thoy pleat bo shelling Cloveland. 1f thore were no gunbonts In tho St, Lawrotco, and they had -to come from Rngland, they eoutd yet mike tholr nppuarance In the ‘Northorn lakes In less than a inonth, and possl+ bly in threo weeks, oxcopt, of course, in winter, ‘The entire English fleet, having been intro- duced Into the St. Lawrence, iy to pass up to the Inkes, demollshing our cities one after thn other, until thoy arrive at Chiengo, much to tho astonishment of the man at the Crib. Of course, by the thue all this happens, our own canal will have been enlarged and the fleet of her Majesty will steam np tho South Branch, shelling the rendorlug-houses and lumber-yards as it goes nlong, and will then take a trip down Into the country, and event- ually shell both sides of the Misslssippt River until ft ands in the Gulf of Moxico, Meanwhile tho Canadian Army will’ not have been idle. The War Department “ pro- poses with all hnste to gets powerful army from Great Britain, which, backed by 10,000 Canadian volunteers, Is to asstime tho of fensivo bofore wo can orgnuize our volunteer arinies, march rapldly upon one of our sea- const cltles, such as New York or oston, take ft, and with tho old of thir fleet use it 4g a secondary base, sovering thelr conneo- tlon with the Dominion,’—n soverance, wa may add, which would ba a permanent one. Another nstonishing fenture of this grand- “Hoquent program Js contained In the follow- ing scheniv: About twenty thousand mon fro annually dis- chiurged from the Beltist, Lisperint, and Indian neinles, Exeopting our dwn, thoy ire the best, and the best-trained, soldiers in tho world,—tmon who, ike the Greake In tholr prime, ar the Span jards in tholr ‘glory, novor caunt odds, and who, when ably led, have never known defent. ‘Tho Downinion Propunes to got these inen to form milltary colontes In Canada by offering thom Hiberal land-grants, ‘Thefr othor project is the completion of thoir railroad to the Pacific. It avons that same youra ago £10 per anuuint was sot uaide for fortifications; but now, with the full apyroval of tho Silitury Counctl of the Dominion, thia money has beon diverted to the Cannda & Pacitle Ratlrond. Even asa inilitary measure thoy consider {t more important than fortitieations, and yery conalatently, too, if thoy hove fully made up thelr minds to fight us by tho defonsiva- offensive method. And how are wo to meot this formidable force? Upon tho hypothesis of this writer weenn’t meet thom at all, Hoe thinks that ina month’s thie wo might by the greatest possible exertion get four regiments of artil- Jory, five of cavatry, and sixteen of Infantry of the regular army, and thirty volunteer regiments ready, “and by that time wo would, in all probability, havo to mest 10,000 British regulars and 40,000 militia in fort! fled positions and provided with greatly su- perlor artillery.” Even assuming this writ- er’s hypothosls to be founded upon fact, there Is nothing very alarming in the odds, and no vory good reason why there should be much of anything Jeft of the Anglo- Canadian army after tho encounter, Thore ari sume things, however, he does not as- sume,—for instance, the dificulty that the English fleet would have In getting up the St. Lawrence with safety, and the militla-produclng power of this scountry, At the first announcemont of war with England the two sections of thls country would come together with a rush and enthusiasm that has not been known for twenty-tive years past. In one day, New-York slone would turn outa iilitia as strong as the whole Canadian force, The Irish population would fally by thousands upon thousands, and what effect this element would have upon Cynadian militia was shown a few years ago when 9 handful of ragged Fenians crossed over the borders and drove the Quocn’s Own from Dan to Beersheba. If it were necessary, Volunteers would swarin by inilliona, de lighted and eager to join the grand picnic over Into Canada. ‘In less than s!x montha’ . thne they would not only disperse the entire forces of the Dominion, but would sit do and occupy the country, filling it fult Yankee enterprise and luvention, furufyhing crowds of enndidates for the now offices, set- tling the problem of thé fisheries ques- tlon, developing Sta resotirces ns they havo never beon doveloped before, and making tha whole country from Bt John to Windsor blossom ke the rose, Cannan covers n great deal of wnate ground, but when it comes down to the war- making power she has just about the capac- {ty of Illinois; but to entertain the Idea of whipping the United States fa Just about as preposterous as it would be for Illinois to underlake that job, or for Switzerland to Attack Germany. Canadas is 9 nice country ‘and fins learned a great den! from us, and soine day, {€ sho behaves herself, in the nat- ural qrder of things, willbe one of us, If she {8 engor to precipitate that event, there is no way In which she can accomplish St more speedily than by trying to march her volun- teers to Now York City or Boston. ‘The celertty with which ‘she would tind herself under the necessity of paying taxes to the United States Government would astonish her. Canadian papers plense copy. “ THE FRENCH EDUCATIONAL BILL. The excitement In Franco, and even In Europe, has not yet avated over the recent passige of M, Jules Ferry’s Educational bill with tho exceptton of the seventh blause, {1 revenge for the defeat ot which the expulsion of tho Jesuits from France is belng consid- ered by the Goverument. As it 1s tho moat Important meagure that has been Introduced inthe Assembly since the Government be- came Republican, and as its influence upon the Repubile can hardly yet even Ue cstl- mated, n sketch of its moro salient points will be of Interest to our renders, ‘The matn object of the blll Is to placa the control of public instruction In complete pos- session of tha State by atving Itthe monopoly of conferring degrees, and requiring that the Boards whose province It is to examine candidates shall ba composed of members of tho State Faculties alone. Tho bill was aimed at alaw, which was passed In 1875, allowing free inatitutions to exercise the. functions of universities and mixed Boards to conduct tho examinations, In 187° M. Dufaure proposed the reviston' of the law, but could not carry out his proposition; but, as alnco that time tho Left has grown stronger aud the necessity for. some revision became apparent, M, Jules Forry, instead of making f# compromise, introduced, In March, 1879, two sweeplng bills, Tho first, which was passed some thne ago, eliminated from the Superlor Council of Public Instruction and of the Academie Councils the entire religious element, and substituted a council of fifty members, all engaged In public teaching,;and presided over by the Minister of Publle In- struction. ‘The second bill, as we havé sald, refers to the conferring of degrees and to the conduct of examinations, and strikes at all tho institutions which the Church has or- ganized under the name of universities, not only by depriving them of State funds, but by elving the Stato Institutions such advan- taxes ng would materially affect thelr own funds. Thoy aro forbidden to call theni- selves universities or oven Faculties, and their students must be smatriculated at the State University and examined by its Professors, The necessity for these mensures was strongly felt, and, al- though they were stoutly opposed by the Clericals, the six clauses of tho bill contaln- ing them were passed by large majorities. The seventh eause, however, met not only with opposition from the Clericals, but from many Republicans. It provided that no one should be allowed to take part In elther frea ‘or public Instruction, or to conduct any edu- cational establishment of any kind whatever, if he belonged too rellglous society not au- thorized by the State, The other six clauses .of the bill oimed to take alt control of, the higher grades of educational eatablishments away from the non-nuthorized religious bodies, but this clause was directed ngalnst the institutions for secondary instruction, most of which aro in charge of the Jesuits, who are the ablest and most prom{nent edu- eators in France, and who. have, at the present time not less than 60,000 students under thelr care, The educational statistles show that during the last thirty years no less than 600,000 stuttents have pnased through these Institutions, which Indicates tho wile and sweeping control of education exercised by tho Jesuits. The opposition to this clause on the Republican side was led by 3, Jules Simon, one of tho oldest’ and atancheat Republicans In France, upon tho broad ground that [t was antl-Republican In clinracter, since It dented: the right of the paront to choose 0 teacher for his ehtld,—a fundamental law with which the State hnd no right to Interfere. » Said Mf. Shuon: “The State may provide education for those who Ike to avail thomselyes of it. toafMix Its stamp to’ any educational result with which Jt ig not satisfied, It may do what It can to ralse the standard of educa- tion In achools whielrare not under its con- trol, But St hus no business to preseribe to a parent that he shall send his child to this school rather thin to that’? In closing his apcech, he strongly appented to the Assem- bly aguinst the dangerous character of the seventh clause, fluishing with these words: ‘You know, you bave sald so yourself from this tribuno, that tho doctrines “you nro warring against are taught not only in tho schools of the Jesuita, but wherovor there ia a Catholic clergy. All the doctrines you desire to drive out of the schools will atlll be thore when you havo suc. ecoded In driving out tho Jesuits, Have younot yoursclyoa gattl, through diferent spaakers, thut tho doctrine of the Jusuita was the doctrine nce peyted by entire Catholicism? If you think ac, ig be not olear that pou Clause %, “which drives out the men, will not drive out ono of thelr iden? You aro dotng what Governments that. have not tho sentiment of Itherty have always done, You fanoy by proscription to put an eid todoctrinus, No; doctrines ‘nre not put an end toby proseription, but by discusstona and demon: atrations. Thoy must be discussed tn-brovd diye lights recourse mnust not be had to force, T could not help giving tho refna, aa it were, ta the feollnga which hive nccumututed during this long demonstration, ao Ike all those L have heard under other systems of yovornment aginst freedum of education and against frvoe dom of the press. ‘Thero cin bo no question that tho Assembly was wise in rejecting thls clause.. It ‘would have suppressed nine-tenths of the schuols Jn France, and this too without making a sine gle proviston to supply thelr places, It would have angered parents by taking away from thom thelr clear right to choose tho teachars of thelr children, It would have aroused a bitter roligious partisan fceling nll ovor France, It would have introduced the prin- elplo that the State had thoright toabsolutely and arbitrarily suppress cducational Institu- tong, which is a dangerous experiment Ing Republic, It would have Introduced a limt- tation of the rights of conscience and Individ- ual freedoin, which {3 equally dangerous, It would have made the Republic hated by ali the Catholics {n France, and they embrace 08 per cent of tho total population, It would havo substituted for one arbitrary system of education another equally arbitrary, Tt {s guestlonable whether students stamped with the officldl stamp of State would be any moro Hberally educated than those who haye borne the stamp of the Jesult Instructors, Tho six other clauses of the bill give the Government vory thorough serutiny of the educational Institutions, and erect all necessary safeguards against uny possibility of tholr Interference with the Stato; but tho seventh clause waa not only ontl-Kepublican In charactor, but {¢ singled out a sect for perecoution, without providing 8 single remedy for the evils complasued against, The Conservative Republicans did wisely ond well in defeating the obnoxious Clause, the puswage of which might havo It may refuse | been a direct blow ot the existenco of the Republic itaclf. Diarnicr-Atronnky Reev, of Chicago, ts in the city. Ho snys that thore Is not a shidow of doubt “but that Gon, Grant will recoive tho Aolid Hlinols delogation at Chicago, and that those who disputo thia fact know nothlog of ni ‘atking about, | Why," “sald Reed, “there is Stove Hurlbut—ho 18 a warm friond of Senator Riaind, but he will not be able to bo oleoted 16 8 Bologate to tho Chicago Con. vention; and so far a8 Jim Root ts concerned, although bo jaa mombor of tho Nationni tte? publicin Committes, he has not intinence Gnough to be oleoted aso delegate from Hyde Park, a suburb of Chicago, to the Cook Cuinty Convention. Now, ticy call me a machine poli. tlelan, Well, I am,and I am proud of I told Joo Medill, of Tus Circago Trunuxe: ‘You calle mo'n machine politician. Well, keep on calling me one. Tam proud of the title, This country could not gob along with. out the machine. It grinds out tho wheat and makes flour, The maching pollticinn tg* Just as nocoranry, politically, ns the grindstong fag A DinchIng is necersury in soclnt economy,’ [ hin going nan dolegnte to the Chiongo Curiven. Hone 1 destiro you that 1ilinols will bo for Grunt Hrat, Inst, and all tho tine. I say, morcorer, that’ Grant witl be nominated, and thore will be no formal ballot taken in the Convention,"— Washington epectal to Cinctnnatl Engutrer ang Chicayo 1-0. Wo have no doubt that this is a fair report ot what Charloy Reed {s blowing about at Woshing- ton. Ho undoubtedly believes in the “ machine,” but unfortunately the people of this olty do not tlwng's share in his opinion of himself as a com. petent Judge. When publio sentimont In this elty becomes aroused as to the abuses and onormities of the machine,” even conventions tuke the liborty of putting " machinists” out of office, and the people hava a way of defeating *machino-mnade candidates at tho polla. Mr, eed can bear testimony as to thoso facts. It seems that Mr. Reed has gclected himself in advance ng ndolegate to the Presidontial Con- yoution from tho Firat District; bo represents Ulmself ay 4 miller, and tho other Iepublicans of that distriot as wheat which It f@ big business to grind for hig own profit. Ag a machine man he Jan profcasionn! placo-hunter, who pssumes that tho itepublicans of bis district have no furthor interest in polities than to glve bim and othors like himoifice, Mon Iiko Mr. Reed, labor. ing under that {mprosston, hays more than once. found themselves repudiated by those whom they assume to rule, In hia yapory obloviating specch at Washington he assumes that the Republicans of tho First District fro nll third-termers, and that thoy aro almply so much bago metal to Ye used by him for his *maghino” purposes. It does.not scom tobnve occurred to this machinist that there aro other third-tormers In that district who may aaplro to be delegates, and even aspire to Con- gress.§iHo bravely whistles all othora into the background, and announces that ho bas ap polnted himself tho delogate, bdcnuse, con- trolling the maching, bo can do what be thinks proper, Thore may be some persons who may not havo a vory cleur {den of whata “machine politician” Is. Mr. Itecd offers himsolf ag a spec imon, He claims to he proud of tho title, Hereafter, whenever any porson Is charyed with being o™ machine politician,” tho charge may bo considered offensive or complimontiry, Just na tha likeness to Reed may be consldercd 0, Tho specimon furnished fea falr ono, and ono with which everybody Is familar. Mr, Reed da awell-known Individual; in Chicngo thore aro never two opinions concerning him; of his per- sonal, professtonal, moral, political, and Intel- - Jectual qualities, there 1a’ general unanimity; his tong and repented appearances before the publio huyo given bim a reputation which Js nover questioned. He, by presenting him-@ self as the embodiment of tho “machine politician,” will convey to tho popular mind a. clearer impression of what ® machine politician . is than‘:more words can do. Tne Tninunz has repeatedly discussed tho aubject uf machine politics and machine pollticians; but, whilo we have had a poor opinion of both, we would have hesitated long boforo naming Mr. Reed aaa fair sample of tho one, or his politica as an example of tho other. ‘There is 4 limit even to polltical criticism. We bAvVO now tho official mnnouncomont that tho mnuchine in Chicago is in favor of tho third term, and that the machino hus, months in advance of the District Convention, named the delogates to tho National Convention. ‘fhore ia no need of 8 convention to appoint delegates alrendy solf- appointed, Tho saving of time, labor, exponyo, and controversy which a “machine” scoures proves the valio of such mon us Mr. Reed. All tuat is required of tye people 1a to ct him, “grind” thom, 3 et A Cararonnia exchange says “New York and Chicago journals are onthuginstio in praise and admiration of Jin Keeno for bls masterly management of wheat deals." We do not know that he has been especially praised in this city, and {t is by no mans certain that ho bas tmar- aged the present “whent deal” at all, or man- aged it well In any pyent, or ontitled to any , oradit for his action. Presont conditions here are generally understood to mean oltber that Mr. Keene has much loss tado with the market than has been generally supposed or alec that hehagnot bean successful in managing {t. The truth will probably bo found to be that Keend bought a lot of whont Inst August, when tho price was below $0 conts per bushel, and that the subsequent buying has moatly been dono by other purtics, who havo thought they were suro to got rich by working in hia uhadow, Thore ta no doubt that the thing bas been overdono by somebody, the result being a partini blockado hero, which muy prove to be a drag on tho whont bual- nesa of. this clty during m groat part of 1880, But f should not bo forgotten by thoro who are growling about the glut" that onc of tho Icgitimate objects of Chicuyo Ia to tnke care of large quantities of prodiice during tho winter, and that the people who pald big pricos for wheat havo lost money, part of which has gone Into tho pocket of the producer, The ‘bis crops of last year gave the American peoplo a Digger surplus than ever, It wasonly nhtural that there should bo differences of opinion in regard to tho prico at which the surplua would bo sold, and an ncoumulation of graln at recely- Ing polnts becnuse the consumer did not want to Duy always at the samo pace as that at which the farmer wished to soll, Tho avcumulation ine yited capital to speculate, and If speculation bas oyontid the work thomoncyed mon will suffer the penalty, a8 woll usendure tha praiso or blamo which othor people may think thelr conduct do- sorves, ee Ir has boon rumored about the atrects the last fow daya that certain Dearborn-strect property-owners failed to got an item in the up- proprlation vill for a bridge because they didn't © greuse sulliciontly the Itching palms of cortain yugrunt Aldermen, Tho story gacs that tho Pproperty-owners wore upproached by ono of the leadors of tho vagrante in the Common Council “ing (who haye no yislblo weans of support excopt tho unsuluricd offices thoy hold), and urged ta come down with $1,000 or go without tho bridge, Some of the proporty-owners, rus mor sys, promised to ralso the wind; # sube scription was started and about $300 was gath- erod In, Some sny thiv sum was putin $1 bills tomuke tha pile loox big wud imposing, and whon the Aldermunie striker came uround it wns hold out to himseductively. Meport saya bo Uked the size and the “heftt" of it and ordored it sent to hia noxt frend, which waa done; that be came back tho next day in a gront rage and anid ho had boen cheated’. and insulted, and was “no $1 man," and dido't want so many little units In his, but more tongs that ho turned about iu tho Council and ‘knifed the itom, which ho had previously supported, and that the three members ho named qa bla copare ceners wont with him, Goss!p adds that nogotis- Honshaye boon resumed; that theasame Alderman and his *frionds" bavo agreed to have the job roconaldored when the bill comes back from tho Mayor; that the troublo before was with tho unite, not with the principle, and that an effort {a oven now making to raiso the donominations of the bills from $1 bills to §10 bills, and have a8 many of thom as bofore. If this is done, soma persons think, the taxpayors will bo suddled with tho cust and land damages of a bridge ab Dearborn streot, no matter how mych injury It may inflict on navigation or tho at Clark and State street bridges, eed In his speech to the Washington roporter of tho Cinvinnatl Enquirer, Chicago 1.-0., and New York Graphic, Mr, Charics I, Rood, ox: Stato's Attorney and non-Judye, declared that bo wasa “third-term machinist,” and that“ bo was going asa dvlogate to tho Chicngo Convon- tion from tho Fint District to yoto aguinst Blaine or Washburne, and for 9 third term, aud hin only, . It way bo news to the Republicans of tho First District that they ure to have nothing to sny concournisig the candidate to be nominated by the Natlonal Convention, nor concerning the ‘porsons who are to represent them in that Con- vention. Mr. Reed, who has kindly usod the party for twonty years for his own profit, whe bys so long been “grinding” the publlg and