Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1880, Page 12

12 ‘ THE CHICAGO TRIBUN. BARBED WIRE. The Sweeping Decision by the | United States Court at Chicago. Vaatness of tho Tntorosts Affected by That Deoision—" Thore’s Millions in Iv" A Mistory of Barbed Wire—Statoment of the Case—What Will the Victors 102 ‘To the Naltor of The CAteago Tribune, Stentaxa, UL, Dee. 20.—The niost extraor- dinary and aweeplng decision of the United Blates Court in your elty fn the barbed-wire eases iffects immense manufacturing and farmity interests In this country, ‘The case being one of tnw, and possessing peeullar strroundings, your correspondent has been to conatierable pains to fenrn all the facts in this mast remarkable ease, in order to pre- sent thein to tho renders of ‘Tre ‘Tnmune. TARURD-WINE FENCES, To get at the essence nnd effects of this dectsion of the Court, It wil be necessary to go back to tho first fden of 0 barb-wire fence, so far us it appedts on revord In the Patent OMlee, ond trace it up to the commencement of these sults, Wire fence x3 such ts not new. Plain wnbarbed wire for fenee prurigses has been used with varying success for wlonir period oftime. But the expansion and contraction of a single wiresvon broke it, and itssmooth surface was no preventive to Its being broken down by stock. In the yenr 1807, William D. Ilunt, of Cort- Jand County, New York, obtained a’ patent on adevice for keeplig stock away from a wiro fence by stritiging on the strand a wheel made of sheet metal, with sptirs on Its outer edue, ‘Tha Iden was, that the wheel would remain in an upright position, and, if the stock came near it, the spurs on the outer edge of the wheel would keep them from rubbing against the wire and brenking it down, As this was the starting place of a patented wire with spurs on, It will be well for me to atte, and for the render not to for- get, that the Hunt patent and clan were for a “spur wheel placed on no fence wire for the purposes specified.” Practice proved “the wheel with spurs on” of no value, for the wheels would slide on the wires and gather in bunches or grottps. The next step in tho wire fence was a patent granted to one Smith, In June, 1863; and iteovered a kink) in the main wire evidently intended to utilize and inake ef- fective the wheel with sptrs on, covered by Tints patent, so as to prevent them from sliding on the wires, But this was found difficult to make, nnd of no practleal utility. Is must be borne tn inind that, up to this time, these patents were granted for these davices on one strand only. $ In the month of Febrnary, 1868, a patent wae Issucd to Michacl Kelly for nsheot-metal barb, cut with two sharp ends, with a hole through the centre for the strand, and the winding or twisting around the strand that held the barb a second wire. The object of this was two-fold; Lt held tho barb in place; and the twisting of two wires together ton great extent overeame tho breakage caused by the expanston and contraction from tho elfects of heat and cold, ‘This was the —first ~—spractienl = barbed- wire tence ever made. ‘The fact that the Hiunt patent covered one strand of wire only, and “ wheels with spurs,’ doubtless leu Mr, Kelly to think: “If Linake my spurs two In number, and on each end of a long, narrow piece of shect-metal, and don’t use the wheel, and use two wires In place of one, It will ens able mo to avoid the Munt patent?” Mr. Kelly's device, although expensive and difll- cult to make, yet was practicable, and went futo usent once, aba price varylng from 18 to 25 cents a pound, Up to thts time the idea of n barb being qnade of wire Instead of shect-metal, and winding it around tho strand, and doing it automatically by machinery, instead of muak- ing them of shect-metal, punching a hole in them, and thot stringing them on the wire before: (isting, had ngt been developed; but, inthe yéar 1874, Joseph I. Glidden, of. De Kalb, Ii, was granted a patent on a wire barb twisted on to one. strand, and the other strand twisted around it to hold the barb iu place. ‘his was a great Improvement aver the Kelly patent. ‘The fact that this barb cowl’ be put on with machinery so cheap ened barbed wire that It beenme at once an article of manufacture on an extensive Beale; and Its chenpness as a fence overcane nil the objections to a burbed-wire fence It will be remembered that the Gudden patent covered the making a barb out of wire and twisting tt around ane strand, f think. it was dicob Naish, of De Kalb, IM, who now conceived the felen of test a wire bark, and twisting It around both strands, Instead of one as in the Glidden patent, and) thas improving the elticlency of tha barb, and, ay he supposed doubtle: avoliding the Ulidden. patent, From this on patents were gruntel for every" convelvably way dad manor of twisting one whe nround another, anid of using sheel- inetal barbs, and upon the machinery to do the work, whttl one ts fost and bewlidered in tholr multiplicity and lntricacies, As this [s the ‘spot where trouble beglus, letine recapitults the points in tho several mitents, taking them ln the order in whleh they were granted: a ’First—The Iunt patent, -covering a wheel with pus on, strang on one wire, Seeond—The Sith patent, for a kink in the wire, to keep the “spur-wheels” In place, ‘This patent cuts no figure, howover, in the hartalswire sults,—It belag an hnpracticable device, ‘Third—Tho Kelly patent, covering a long sheet-lron bird, with a hoe fn it strung on i" wire, and a second wire twisted around it ta hold ft hy place, Yourth—Thy Giidden patent, tint ‘covered awire barb tnstend of a sheet-metal one; und, dn place of aihnging Tt, twisted It auto nationally wrounl ane wire,—twisling Ui see. ond wire around tt to hold. say ns Kelly did, Fifth—The Jlaish patent, which covers placing a wire burb, around two. strands of wires, and twisting them together, the same. as Ciliddon and Kelly, MUYING UP THI YATENTS, Tho Washburne & Moen Manufacturing Company, of Worcester, Mass, are the large vat muntitacturers at wire of all kinds in tho United States, and ave a wealthy corporation, The demand for wire for fences was anew outlet for thelr product, and, belng Angacions Dusteneinan, Puy begin to investigate: the morits of a barbed-feuce wire, and the proba- ble futue of it hi the country. They very soon si that there must be something dls- covered very soon to take the place of the short-llyed und expensive wood fenees, Barbed wire was effectual for all purposes of afence, and was fully one-half cheaver tn rst cost than the cheapest wood fence that could be bufit, fh it were all tho elements of guccess, ‘Thoy then began to look around for the several patents on barbed fence-wire, aml came to the concluston that, if they sould get the Hunt patent, relssue It and teave out the * wheel with spurs,” and claim 2 Spurs oun fencewlre,? it would cover all patents of f subsequent Insue * with spurs on." ‘Phe Hunt patent had been transferred by wasicninent to one Charles Kennedy, from whom the Washburne& Moun Manufacturing Company: purchased it. Butthe Haunt patent covered auly one wire, while the Kelly pat. ent covered two hence, In order ‘to bo able fo usu bw res, they bought thé Kelly pit: Sat. But up to this time these two patents embraced only “spur? made of sheet metal. Nextin order was the Giidden pat: ent for s wire barb wound around the strani, ‘This patent was tithe hands of J. y wood, of De Katb, 11.5 and an: arrangement Was effected between hin and tha Wash- burne & Moen Mumitacturing Comvany, whoreby they became tn some manner joliit- ly Interested $n all these patents, ’ F THE GREAT RUFTS, While all these things were being constunie muted, barbed wire was coming Into general use, and, a8 Innuinerably new patents bid it In place, the a Uyen grunted, barb re fu BPE up all over the Cun Ae vally hh ong oaking its own pecullur devicu as patented, By the Hunt patent Washburne & Moen clued that any kind of a sharp point in the shape of a barb an fence wires was the ' eaulvalent' of “spurs on nh Wire,” ns claimed by Hist tn the ree Issue, and therefore was an infringement, Those who were making barbed wire under patents prranted subsequent to the Glidden contended that Hunts fest elalin was for a “wheel with spurs on, strung on a fenee- wire”; and that the relssio of It, leaving out tho ward “wheel,” and elaiming * spurs ona wire,” was at fraud, and the courts would never sustain it. ‘They claimed that. the Hunt patent. was good only for that partien- Jnr device, and that each patent grantedshice then was good only for the devlea patented} and on this question the issue fas made up and the stits commenced, TWH STATE OF THE AIT. When, Issie was joined on the legal gues: tlon of “the broad claim,’ as tho Hunt patent: xX called, the question arose, Whether tho placing of a spur on astrantl of wire cama Winer the head of “mechanteal skit” or ine vention.” As to where the first loaves off and the second begins, depends upon tho te at tho art, the proof of expert mechan- and the oplntons of the courts, ‘The stato of the art would suggest these rellections: uA single wire (or more) to be used aso fenee certainly ig not patentable; “a “wheel with spurs on” is not in and o} itselfn patentable duvivo; but, when the two are coinlined, and ereate a new article o! mantfactire, of great utility and value, then it comes under the head of * mechanical skill,” or a" patentable Invention.” Was it the latter? we party say it Is pal table, for the United States Patent Oflicu has so de- elaced it. ‘The others reply thot “sharp prongs or spurs to protect a fence” are as old ag the civilizationof man, Europe 1s full of stone walls with cement tops, into which are placed pricks, .prongs, broken glass, ete. Sharp iron prongs on the top of fart n fences, andl even In the centre and pro lecting from the sides, are conimon both In thts country and Europes hence Hunt dd not discover “spurs on a fence,” but a “spurs ‘heel on n wire? to bu used as n fence, His discovery was only a mechanical way of doing something that had been done for ages past. Henee the state of the art was such, claim the tlefendants, that the © broad-claim patent” should not ustained. For nearly or quite thres year has gone on, nnd money hina bi like water on both sie: came ton finaltrinl J: fay in the Ciretit Court of the United States, before Judges Dronmmond and Blodgett, ‘The Washburne & Moen Manufacturing Company and J, 1. Ele wood hind the ablest andl the lnrgest array of Jegal talent that probably ever fonght side by stile for the same citent Ina single suit in this eounttys and to that Is attributed thelr success in this suit. THE DECISION, the contest en poured out s, ‘The great case The decision was made hy Judge Blodeett, + —Jdudge Drummond coneurring,--fully sus- taining “the brond elatm’? under the dunt and other patents, that any kind of a sharp spur placed upon a fence is au infringement. The sweeptng nature of the decision hag taken the whole country by surprise, and it is doubtful if the plaintitts’ counsel would have dared to have themselves written 0 stronger one, or imnde It more sweep ing in’ lis terms and effects. ‘The pul le seem to be the more surprised, from the faet that Judge Drummond had re- peatedly, during the trinl and motions, ex- pressed himselfns decidedly adverse to “the ron lain’; aud that, if barbed-wire came within the rufe of an * invention, he could. not see hows patentee could claim more than his peeutinr or parttenlar way of doing It. What has hnppened te clinnge the opin- lon then expressed by tho learned Judge, Is what staggers tho public, : EFFECT OF ‘TIE DECISION. : ‘The full effect of the decision is very dim. cult tosce at present, and will inn great measure depend upon what the victorious side propose doing with it, and how thoy use it. Good management ean win law-sults; but ittakes imore brains than rf majority of men possess to know how to use a victory wisely and well. The decisions of Courts jn this ‘country ean, have, and wilt Inconven- fence and rin many an interest and peoples; but the final nrbiter Is an enlightened public sentient; and, to. this, Courts, Judes, cor- porntions, and gigantic monopolies must dinally subniit. i ‘There nro scores of manufacturers engaged ie mmking of barbed wire, and, Hieeapltal vested In it ls limense., Not nll of these, however, haye been sued, and many were and have been allalong in favor of sustaining all the patents, pooiing them, with aview of put- ting the business ‘on a tate basis, potting n rensonnble profit, and preventliug the manu facture of Inferior fonelng, | Many holding these views have held aloof from the con- test, and have taken no part In it, df Washburne & Moen aro willing to settle up for the past and license for the future all who desire to go on, and on such, tering 18 they cin Bay, then the general yerdiet fs, that the result of the sult will bo beneficial in the end, On tho contrary, if thoy are arbitrary, and use their great victory—for certalnly such it is—to crush out those who ave in the business, and create.n personnal or small ring jnonopoly: of It, tt will crente nn intense fecl- jng all over the country; and, as wire-feneo touches the great farming Interest, {t will do mite to fan into n fane a growing feoling that the patent business isa too) In the hands of monopolies, and demand will be made that it shall be abolished, ' But, from allyour correspondent can learn of tho gentlemen who have won this suit, thoy are not the kind of men to oppress any- body, LC luurn that they have been ready, willing, and even anxlous,te settle the mutter and stop Hiention, and faye been very Iberal in thelr terms; and, hind it not been for the obstinacy of one or two of those who were fighting the patents, the whole inatter would have been settled Jong ago. Until the pur- poses of tha winning side sre known, the business will be demoralized, ‘Tho factories here, In Chleago, and in Jolfet, se far as Lean lerrn, Will respect the decision, and stop lnaking wire untitit can be learned whut 1s to be done about past infringements mula license for the future, All concudey that barbed wiro Is to be the | fence of the future, both in this SOUT and Europe; and, when we tale into considera: ton the fact that the fences of Amertea alone vost the vast sim of $2,000,000,000, and that it costs 10 per cent nonuully, of $200,000,000, to keep thein in reply, te sty, nothing of the new fances built and the export trae to for- elgn countries, wo cnn see what a yast Inter est is affected by this remarknble decision, Ig esthuated that, hind there been io tn ruption in the barbed-wire trade by this tho product and side for 1SSt would en vot far from 100 cur-lowls daily. yon Ibto be onwhulf a have b Supposing the royal: venta pound, the vast sum aeeruing to tha holders of. these patents would be $10,000 1 ts orsnay three mltiion doara annualty, ntl a RoteMent can be niado, rnd those Inthe Insiness Heonsed to go ahead, there must of necessity by great. joss, ineon- venlence, & stort supply of barbed wire, and. distress by throwing © vast amber of Inbor- ers ot of work In the middle of winter; but Most manufacturers aro unwillinz to con- test the matter any further, proferriny to close up and walt dovelopments, Most o! them bellove that Messrs, Wastiburne, Moen & Con ad a da Elwood, the successful Tithgants, will uso the great power placed fn thelr hands by the courts ina lenlent man- her, ond ans not to nrotse the Hnelenatlol, of the dealers in and eonsumers of barbed wire. ‘They ean well atlord to, for in any event '?'Phere’s millions In it” . ————— A Water Telescope, dtattway Journal Ta anglors and persons who nro fond of subas queuus inv lyations the water telescupe, mitch usorl fy somd parts of Europe, id a very useful instruinont, Tt da designed to obylate the diiiivutty which ripples on the aire fuco of tho water uke for eye which would plereo ita depths, There ure three forms of water glass.—nanely, un ordinary bucket or barrel with tho bottom: knocked ont; secondly, a plece of tin of a Tunnel shupo, about three feot long and nine Snches in diumeter nt tho brow or bottom und large t te . ne mineral age Ls ae a PCUMINOLATO: MG observer's. oyen; Tho tie browd end should bo ine vertod n plate of strony glass and some welght to welgh downs thirdly, the simplest way ts to get a Unor ane ibe Hike a, map cise, his whould be ahout three and ow halt feet fong and three ine! in diametor, ‘The bottom of this atso should have glass and be weighte en the ig clone this tisteument will, onnbla the Observer to vcu from three to twenty fathoms on calm, bright days, Ofcourse when the water Isthick tho ylusy is useless, ‘The Norwegian fishermen are constantly fn the habit of usity the fnytrument, and often diacover by its add shoala of ish wh would othorwlsa esenpa them. In \suarel for wrecks, bodies of drowned persons, of fost object of any kintl, tho water telescope fa invuluatle, Dy it tate tieallaiy are onabled to ubaerve the habits uf tst fund the growth of the subaquuous vegetation. ‘Po water purtles. who: pet rivers ur lakes, water it would alfer a new enjoyment in revealing the wulqueous ecnory, Every reader used to tho water Will imagine used ta which wateretelee aeopes cin be put, and as thoy ure cheap of con struction thoy will probavly coiny inte use on rivers and lakes. = ea - The European Wino-Crop, A Vicnua dispatch to tho London Standard of Deo. Tsaya: The wine harvest, bas proved a complete faflype in most parte of Germany, not Wore than ouuetwelltl of au ayerage crop buys the febankhag ing been gathored this years crop this yeur wns very sinall, ‘This dearth haa led to a sarge Crate ti grapes and wines overs nnd by rallway from ftaly and Uungary. Up awitd af 30 wagonslowds of grapes have heon recetved I South Germany, from Maly alone within the paat few weeks. “Fromm Tfungary also lnrge quantities of the freit bave been diss patched ta tha West. Desetiug tho past two or hree weoks Juygare-traing, fonded with Hun- gation red wing, have every day beon crossing tho Havarinn frontier at Passau, proceeding petty torneo destinations tn South Germany, Ut principally destined for France." ——_—_—— THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Sonators Edmunds and Wallace on tho Past and Futuro of tho Democratic Varty—StntesSoveroignty Ita Lending. Dogmny and Spolls of Oilico Its Chiot Aimy The January number of the North simerl- can Review contains articles by two mei: hers of tho United States Sennte, Messrs, Ed- innds, of Vermont, and Wailace, of Penn- sylvanin. Both are representative men in their respeetive parties, Mr. Edmunds? paper fs entitled “Controlling Forces in american Polltics,” while Mr. Wallace ae tempts to enlighten the yublic respecting the “ Misston of the Democratic Party.” Mr, Edmunds! article ts devoted quite largely to the record nnd purposes of tho Democratic -party. That party, under its nt nine. first made Mtself effective In election of Gen, Jackson in 1820, when it In France, too, tho the necomplished “ the theoretic good of break-_ ing down the conlition (hich elected Mr. aldams in 1825.7 In this counection Mr. Ed- muds observes that “few things are moro degrading and injurions to the public welfare than coalitions, beenuse they are not founded upon any colneidence” of principles, but are merely combinations to defeat a common enemy with no‘higher purpose usually than a division of the spol “The utter and almost Mdlcrous hallo ” of contitions “Is well iustrated,” si “hy the recent clrenmstanee of a gallant and esthnable hard-money candidate tor Drest- dent feeling competled to congratulate n gal- lant and esthuabls Greenback-Republican eandidate for Governor of a State tpon the triumph of great principles in his election by the ald of Demuveratic votes? Brom 1829 to the Rebelllon of 1861, Mr. Edinimids says that the preponderatiig inilucnees in the Demo cratic party were devoted “ first and chiefly” to tho protection of the institution of negro slyvery and {ts expansion Into the: ‘Terri- torles and new States, with all its nrista- eratle consequences of creating a small body: of great land-holders and of continuing edt cation and political and soctet poicer to the hands of a few; to the propagation ofthe dogmn of so-called free trade; to the confine- ment of National jurisdiction and, the ree pradon of the jurisdiction of the National Courts, and to the propagation of the doctr-ne of the right of each State to secede from the nion, Having thus outlined the tendency of the Democratic party to the date of ‘the Re- bellion, Mr. Edmunds notes the controliia; {ntiuences In that party singe the War and under: the new conditions. ‘The overthrow of the Rebellion removed slavery from the arena of polities, but Mr. Edamnds is not certain that the right of secession has ceased to be'n Demoeratle dogina, sinee no party convention has distinctly prononnecd agalust stant. Democrats are wont to allude to it a3 “the war between the States.” Ho might have added that several of his nagsucintes in the Senate, notably Mr. Lamar of Mississ ppl, have withhy two sears reiterated thelr bellet in the soundness ofthe theary of secession. In respect to the Jurisdiction of the Federal Governmont, the Democratte party, hastnuin- tained the suing ground that it did Just_be- fore thy War. Lt has attempted to cut off or eramp “the Jurisdiction of the Natlonal Courts In eases that concern tho adininistra- tlon of National laws and the rights of per- sons In their character ns citizens of tho United States,’ and has attempted to repeat Jnws for the protection of Federal oflicers which were recommended and signed by Jackson when Uresident, - Tho adoption of the constitutional aniend- monts as the result of the War has put tho old question between State and National Jurisdiction into an attitude of new promi- nence. Un this question the Democratic tenders assume ‘the sine ground that they occupied before the War, ‘Thos hold that the duties which the amendments involye are the duties of States In their character as such, wnd that no legistation by Congress ape | orating, like other laws, pon the persons of eltizens, {8 “appropriate.” In Congress they have opposed every feature of legislation de-‘ signed to enrry the nmendinents Into effect. ‘They hive also opposed all laws providing for securing fairand free clectlous of Repre- sentatives to Congress on the same plea that such affalrs concern the State alone, In only one polut have thoy falled to matn- {ain Stute supremacy, and that fs the ono which the founders of the Union deemed vital to the Stutes—the election of President, The Mepublican party, has maintained that ench Stato should decide all questions rela- to the choice of its Electors, while the Deme- erats would elve Congress uniiinited and une defined Juriadietion over the subject. On gconoite matters. the Democratle party. has. been true in theory to its original free-trade doctrine, but ow the eurrency question It has drifted without polley, voting and acting solely with references to party expedicney, and consequently generally opposing the best antl Si por ting the worst measures, Such is the history of and the present atti- tude of the Democratic purty as seen by one of the ablest Republicans In Congress, No well-informed inn will question ity gonernl correctness, Now letus turn to Senator Wallace to Jearn the “mission”? of the Democratic party. “Phe mission of the Democratic purty is to decentrallze,” says the Democratic enitor, vey thing has been corrupt and viclousin its tendency for twenty years, ‘She Republican party malntalns the theories of Hiunilton, the Democratic those of Jef- terson. “The former guve the Republic alien ond sedition laws, direct taxation, Fed- eral Marshals, eentralized rule; the latter swept them out of existence, carried us suce vessfully through two foreizu wars, nc- ulred ain empire of territary, and governed the country for sixty yenrs.”” Agila; 46 must strike with mailed hand the tendancy to strong government, It must be trie to the peonte. Dominated Jaber must be taught tte rights”? ‘There must be wn fonest performance of every Government contract In existence, but the publie debt must horeafter ba manned in the Interests of the people, and not of the ereditor. The Tevenves must Be ralsed upon a basis {uit to overy Interest; “no monopolies; forfeiture of the franchises of corporations, and puulal~ wmentol aggregated wealth or Individuals fur corrcion of enployés, or tho use of money Mn elvetions; our own carrying trade to ba our awn preserve; and a divorce between tho Government and the banks?” . Senator Wallace has dealt In generalities largely, but itdoes not require 8 vast wmount of penetration to understand thatit he sto shape the future polley of the Democratle party it will be very much the same as Senttor Edaunds hassununarized its history and dts present attitude, 1t will firat ant chlelly devote itself to upholding Hn heresy of State supremucy, to denyly " yh tothe Federal Government. they to supervise Federal electlons und to protect its servants in the discharge of their duty and its citizens In. thelr rights, It will continue ita policy of, seeking present expedleney upon all’ eco- estions; 1p will menuce tho credit of ernment by quash repudiation and will continue its war npon the system, Hloldlyg steadfast to tho heresies of which secession wits the logical veanlt, Ib will in everything ase bo ready to form. ‘coalitions wlth repudintors, Come numists, ar whoover or whatoyer else can ford Its leaders 1 hopo of temporary suc- ce scheme The fact that Mr. Wallace's nafie Is Insop- orably connected as a momber and Charman ‘ot the Democratic Committes of Pennsyl- yania with the perpetration of the grossost frauds upon tha ballot-box, stamps his deelaration of 1 purpose on the part ofthe Demoerntio party to secure In tho future pure elections with that hypocrisy which his party always assumes when It refers to the subject, We seareely need add that the past policy of, the Demoeratic party, as given by a Stepubliean, will be continued In order to “full its mission as outiined by a Democrat, ‘Thoroe will be no new departure. = a Secret of Lurgo Crops in Ragland, One of the strong polnts in English farinin: wits revently cinptinsized us follows by Prot, Kovorts, of Cornell Ualvergity: ferein," saya he, “2 am sutisied, Hea tho of Bugland’s success jn ralaing larger crops. It would take away the breath of a prorle farmer te hear oven an Englishman's enumeration of the tapuadings, the grubbings,! the *twitchings.” tho burruwlugs, tho cross-bare rowlygs, the rollings und erusty ity that u huayy velny Geld ty subjucted to before It ts consldered rouily for wheat, “What la this all for? Sluply to unlock the WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1880—TWELVE PAGES. full store-house of Nature, That it ts full hs hoon provon time and again, By nemnat analy- nis itis found that an average of sull contatis, in tho first aix inches, plant-food enough for from fifty to 150 full erops of grain. Udo not fesirs to discourage tho prrehitse and vs0 of fertilizers, but what. [do protest ayatnat fs, pure chasing on timo commercial mantires at $10 por ton, Whleb aro really worth only €25, to enrich cloddy fields atrandy fairly rich tn plant-food, locked up, It Is true, but thora none tho less, onty_walting & little judicious application of Drain and muselo to aot it free. “If theso Hostity Jotted frets and impressions aro the means of Inducing iny follow-fnrmers to romove some of the uneless treva and fences, or toxive tho olde an nddittional eross-harrowlnge ox two before casting In the seed and asking the Jord to bless tho inbor of thotr hands, my object will hayo been ntiained.”” THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, Chicnzo's Menatly Sidewalks, + Tp the Editor of The Cateaga Tribune, CHICAGO, Dee, 21.—Tho sidewalks of our great clty have beon in such a Mlthy conditton for sovernl days that 1am sure nll who take any, pride in the wondorfil growth and progress of Chicago will fain me fu saying tnt nother city of Importance In the world would tolerate such antisince as I have mentioned, Yesterday tho domage to lndivs’ dresses along would many times pay tho entire expense of cleaning tho Ridewalks aud crossinus, to say nothing of tho comfort of thoso compalled to wade through the disgraceful tith. In any othor city but Chicas thore would bo auficleAt enterprise among the business hotses to keep the walks clean in front of their own places of business, but, with a few noted excoptlons, mud and nastiness wero 18 general astho anathomns: that were hurled at those, who to save 10 cents that would gladly have been enrned by the boys, wowed the salt Olth to, drabble aud destroy tresses thint cost us many hundreds of dollars, Thero fs an ordinance to compel partite to keep the walks clean, Why cannot tho samo be enforced? ‘Yours truly, . aD. Countorfelt Butter. To the Editor of The Unicago Tribune, Cmcaao, Dee, 2L.—When aman manufactures bogus or Hght coin and selts It aa auch to othors, with the knowledge that “icy oxpect to piss It, tho inw Is most severoon tho counterfolter, for tho simple renson thht nithough he sells his product for what {t really 1s, yet the purpose in the end ts to defraud and deceive. Vf the above established principle in ‘Inw ts correct, what is the difference botween the munufacturer of bogus coin and the mine fucturer of bugus butter, except that while both commit a commerctal féAud, the Intter, in_ndddl+ tion, tarnpers with the lives nnd heath of the public? Hog's grense, worth 6 to 0 cents per pound, colored, salted, and fixed up to Intute putter, is base fraud, and ts made with tho intention of deculving. ‘Cho branding of tho nanie on the pneknge 18 not the alightest pro- tection fo the great Innes of the publiv, as nearly nil parannas, Inamatl qunntities, weighed out,” and nevor gee tho packume. Is it not time for the enay-uolng and steopy: pubtte to nwnke to tho fuct thar the counterfelting of toods 1s 0 wreatcrime, and all tho promer beenuse the public cannot protect {tself, ng itean in eno of n bogus cheok or bogus coin? ‘With the digeation of our children deatroyad by “terre alin’ confectionery nnd our own atomuncns tho recoptacles of the odds aud onds of “all creation,” what will become of the Aimerl~ eau raco? . dustice. Tho New City Lonne To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Citcano, Deo. 20.—Whnt's tho mutter with a morniog paper that {tis nding go much fault with ControllerGurney ? Did some of tho family slvop too Inte, and wake to flid their opportunity gono-to subscribe for some of tho new loan, or fait somo of its disappointed friends who are punching tt up to And faust? I for ono think the lonn was a grand success, and I will tell you why. It a corporation Is obliged to Issue its -papgr it would in all proba- bility by guided by whut Its paper already out was worth in tho market before fixter term, tte, Now, when this new lonn waa advertised for tho olty 4:6 wero selling nt 104. On tho same busis the 48 would be worth about 03 cents, What ender heavons they are growling about 1 can't sev. You could not expeet it good financier: to undertake to tloat a loan (ot equal security) bearing 4 por cent interest at the samo price 13 the one that was Deniriig 444 per cent was selling for, Now, Mr. Gurney did not know whuthor tho people of this city would take a4 per cont city bond ut par or not until tt was tried, ! sit not Just as well that some 200 of tho oltl- zens of this eity should have tha profit of Lor 2 per cont that they may posalbly tnuke ng to con Noe it ta somo fotrr or five bankers and brokers who happened tii time to let it slip between tholr fingera? dsd not voto for Mr. Gurney, nor is ho my political faith, but right is right. of Protection Agninst Bogus Butters . ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cireaco, Dee, 21.—1 have notlead in soveral tastes of your paper different articles in role on to butter, buttorine, and olcomargarino, advlaing legislation to compol mantufneturers of these several grades of “ines"™ to place on euch and avery packnye Just whut Ind of grcugo tho package contains, ta enablo the denier to dis- tuguish between reul butter and the other substitutes. a synopsis of a law to be submitted to the Leglalature for enactment was framed and pub-. Nshed at length in your puper, As I Interpreted ft, the framing of such n.Inw was sololy In the Interost‘of the manufacturer of genulno butter aud cheese, who seoks to place 8 check upon tho gute of olomnrgnrine, buttoring, tallowine, lard. ine, and all of the other “ines.” The passage of such a iuw would most certainly be a protcetion: to the makers of real butter and cheese, but £ eannot sea how tho consumer is to derive any benoilts from the act. ¢ fhe dealer in groceries and provisions can plirchnse elthor of tho substitutes ut alow figure and disposo of thom to consumers 4 tho one aes and at regular butter prices, Now what f desire to know {8 this: * Does protection pro. tect?” Will the onnctmont of said law provent the ana to customers of this doluctuble mass of buir-oil and pomnde? Willit ostracike the now kind of stuff from the markot?+ Will St vanish from the table of tho husb-house? WIL it forwot Ite necustomed place in tho restaurant, or will it romuin on the fanlly board, on tho restaurant table, ou the Voarding-house “oxtanaion,” a ving monu- = Pie cment of tho lneentousnoss of the ncoursed Yate Kee, and an imsult to the bovine family? What is tho question, and tho only roimody is to passa Jw (and tet it be enforced) which will drive.tho duinnuble Btu from tho markot—1 liw 80 atringunt that buttorino, ete. will be knows only #4 an axle-greneo whose Ingredinnts ure tar inferior to Frazer's, which {have not tho slight> est doubt fg Just ad wholesome und palatable, Yours truly, 8.11, Brann, Sldowalk Obstructions, ‘To the Editor of Tha Chicago Tribune, Circauo, Deo, 21.—There 1s a growing tend- ency among tho poople of theso United States, anidespogially among tho burried, busy throng of our own groat rushing olty, to luok to tho poworful dally newspaper to take tha Initintory steps for tho redresaing of all publio wrongs. No greater compliment could be patd the press af to-day thas) tho recognition of this fact, Nobly does tho dally press of Chicago fulfill its duty in thls respect, ‘ ‘The Justoriticlam of Tux Turnune upon tho Aemonctization of silyor, tho fat money idlooy, and the unauthorized, brazen-fuced attempt to fojat tho ureat allent soldier upon the Repubifo- an party as thelr nominue for thy Proaldonoy 1s still fresh in the.sinds of the people, as well ns tho Inte attack,on the smoto nulsunce and tho relentless war witged agalnet gut fat" and Ita unprincipled yendurs, who buve beun thrusting: grensy, tried from devayed ourousaus, UPON th uususpeeting publlo for “cholee creamery," “pure dairy,” eto, “A consideration af those rightcous attacks has ted ine to believe that Tne Viuusg would not bo falifferent to w mutter which, If not as nearly concerning the very oxtatonce of the pooplo us the adulteration of food, still very nearly concorns thelr rights and conyentonee. acting for tho large number of our population who find {€ nevessury tu cross Adumigestreet bridge overy day, J wish to cat the attention of ‘Hite TanuNe this morning to the invirinble cunplote blockade of whisky barrels with which ‘we bave to contend overs venting ty front of Henry Shufeldt & Co.'a, corner or Adame and Market streoté, ‘There are wv fargo number of Working-yirls who hye to pasa by (qenerully over} thle place overy night. Tho epevintors of their struggles aro notet tho most peepecuatiey Nor thelr rutiurke tho moat refined, Inn ade judicated case, reported in Us Wis., page 647, it Was sald * that a womun bad 0 right to assume that when shu travels, sho will ba force to do nothing, to sve nothing, heir nota. ing to wound her dulleacy or insult her womanhood," ‘respectfully submit that thla right la often violated in every respect, during this Journoy from her business to ber home, Althongh recognizing the fact that, wholesale as well we retall Liquor dealora have, trum the very nature of their buslnvss—one o} 80 much disinterested benvvolence and of suck werout and yencrul benatlt to seclety—delo- gated to thom by this Commonwealth, u largo number of privileges which it would be very unwlso to {ntrust to eltizens engiyed tn more common and less charitable and druportant Lines Of busiticas, yet fo huve not learned that the: havo been Ncensed to blockade the streets with anything but the bodies of tholr victins, and 1 would ruspucttuily suggest that the Street Comy misaloner, if he has recovered from his noble olturts during tho late cluction, and from, poss atbly, imulbing too freely of the uforesuid ob- Birticion, and if hu has thotime, should callupon the auld Shufoldt & Co, and request that they keep thelr whiaky barrels jnside tho cover which they have rected over tho particular breathing bole of hell whieh they buve appre printed to thelr own use, £0 cateh, boitly, bureel, gud otherwise conting the vniies for public sale. Atthe'said Shufeidt & Co, decline touccede to! tho pollte reqnost of our timid Commissioner, thosn people may nct upou the principle of the comtinon Inw—that apy oltizen or citizens may abate a public nuisance. In fact, may tise his Intereleafaves to pive tho streets Ovhiel need 1) andl (urn (ho flery Heald that fs sanping tho Ilfo and bralns from the Nation Into tha rower, with othor foul fermentations, where is bolon, A Hana W. B. Olvit-Service Meforny. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribunt. Cricaan, Dec, 21.—1f it were not for tho well known character of Mrs. Jane Oroy Swissholin, ono would bo disposed to eny that sho was fol- lowing tho example of a recont mngazine arti clo by welting nxgninst Civil-Servies reform. ineroly so that thore might bo soma chaneo for argument and debate on the question, and thus 1 more firm conviction of Its neccsalty and worth be tmpressed upon tho community, Although Mrs. Swisshelim is often lrontcal and angrily sare enstic, sho is niways outapoken and ecrtain in hor convletions, and never duludea tts ng to her standpuint, at lenst, Sa wo cannot suspect hor of such decp policy as that. Tt might be host to abandon Mrs. Swissholm to her error, nid teave hor unanswered (for in Bo Dor argument her smart and self-confident ns- sertiona could finve little welght with discerning people nnd public’ men), werd it not that sho undonbtedly dees express tha op!{nion of a con- sidorablo bouy of citizens, voters and politicinus, on this trily momentous subject, Betting uside tho rathor iil-cousitornd cry of certain of its ndyocutes that this is 1 question of moral right aud wrong, and should bo treated on that basis, 1 may be ndinitted that, Civile Servlee reform Is a question of policy,—of Strto’ volluy,—and should be debated from the samo standpulnt as any. othor question of poiltics, such ts Free Trade or the Southern question. ‘Mra. Swisghelin’s arguments lave i favor of pinusibility about them that muke them very pleasing to the (rnorant and tho willfully blind, und cedinely exashontttig to her opponants, oy renerully have, in short, tho atyle and tice compuntments, and often the spirit, of bun combe,-of Aweriein buncombe, the National vies and shame, We benr it on all sides—trom tho atutop, tho press, the pulplt, public men, ward politiclans, and foniude correspondents, 1b erops out in the ery of “elfete despotisms,” oF “hhutted bondholders,” and of "Boston oul- ehaw"'; and Mra, Swisshelin boils over with It ta shricking saninst American © nobility.” ‘Tho very thine of which thore [4 tho least duner inthe world in democratic America 13 nny eatubiishinent of nobility or caste, ‘Anil tho very thing against which the Amorienn Nation is perpetually b aulvor of fear and engerness to avert i that which Unreittons (t tho Jenat;*while tho very thing which threntens It the most—this huge ecnreass of unvelnelpled partyfsm and vile political Jobbery—it considers the inost venta! and pardounble of its vices. The Anglo-Saxon need never fear any denth of poilt Ub or equality for ftsclt, bat ft need very gravely fear for domnzoglem, impure polltics, and (-organized machinery of | povernment, This Increasing foar of adopting any finovn~ tlons from foreign sources (innovations that would by wise) fito our governmental system simply because thoy are foreign is the greatest drawback to self-improvement oa our part that could he tmagined, and domonstrates & most narrow und provinelal spirit. if Mrs, Swisshelin incuns to imply, by stating that itis uaturid that a gentlonu and acholur ike G GC William Curtis should de t ntleinen and scholars inoillea, allother Americans are not Inspirit gon tlemen and sebolars, and that {t fs unnatural that thoy should desire to seo such persons In offices (and Inudably), then, indeed, she utters libel on the Amerlear people, ‘Tho American people have nt haart far more syinpathy with: the spirit, and nina of such men as George WIl- fam Curtis and President Hayes than thoy havo with Mrs. Swisahelm's “ bard-handes poll- teluns, Ike Hoss Kelly or Boss Login. Judeed, Prealtont Thies Examining Board must be ald to be altogether preposterous and linpracticable for freo America when we con- alder that the effete monarchy of Great Beituin hos employed such in auency for years with antlafuction and success. é A hint to show to what oxtent and In whut manner a fixity of tenure In elorical and dopart- montal ollices is noeded may be derived from Secretary Sherman's recent annual reports “Aga tule thoy (tho employes and aiicors of tho'Treasury Dopurtinent} hive, by expercnee and attention to duty, become almost tnidispene sable to the public service, ‘The Iurger portion of thomhave been in the Department more than ten years, and several buye risen by thelr eflefoncy from tho lowest-grade cterks to bigh positions. In some cases thotr duties are tech~ nicaland dificutt, requiring tho utinost wectt others thay. must be trusted with grout re che slightest ground for ausplefon Ivo tholrruing In othors they must net judicially pon teat quastions alteoting y private and public interests, as to whieh lovisions ure practically tinal. The Do- partinent is ‘well-organized and” wellecon- ducted business office, “During tho Inst twonty years tho business of the Department has been Brently Incrensed, and Its elllefoncy and stavility: rently finproved. Tho tinpruvement ts due to tho continuance during that perlod of tho Haima general policy, and thecunsequentabacnes ef aweep~ fag ehanuen tithe public scrvicc. « « « ‘tu protcat not only tho pubiie service but the people fro such n iisister, the Seeretury ronewws tho recom mondation mide ina formor report, that pro- vido he made fora tenure of offies for a fired period, for removal onty for edie, and for Bon Tneronsé of pay for tongand failutul service, {Annual Roport, 5480) ‘nut, Mes. Swisshelm, 18 tho principle of a truo publi service, Tut fa your statemont truo that, if, there ehoutd be a change of parties in powor, tho ine coming party would retain cnouxt of tho old employes to train tho others? We think not, Have tho Democrats ever exhibited traits that would warrant such an expectation of forboar anceon tholr part? Ah, Mrs, Swisshelt, your gulloless slinpliclty 14 refreshing | Why, indecd, do we wish Postuinsters, revenue ollicarg, ote. urpelicod for a more certain tonnre than Presidents and Congressmen? For W Very slinplo reason: that Congressmen aro representative oftleors, and Postniistors aro not; that 2 President ls clected (presumediy) to varry out some polley of Roveenione nt mo will of the people, assisted by his executive oltivors, but thi mistors, clerks, und revenue of- Neorg need have ollictally not the slightest con- cern in tho Prusident's pollgy or-its excaution as w polloy, any more than n conductor on a rable roud or a etork in wdry-sood3- house need have nay concern In the pulley of tho railroad directors or the dry-goods frm. ‘Thomas Carlyte did. good thing in denounce. ing cart, bit if 1s to bo doubted whether he did not set as much ngolng mnong his, “disciples " ay he correeted In the world by his invectlyes. Tho gastest way nowadays ta dispose of pro- ple who jire not hard-tmnded" 18 to necuso thom of cnnt—with grouter cant, i lteware of those who nro so “downright hon est.” so “practical nnd atealghtforward,” —thoy aro deopones,--if thoy only know ft, for does hot tho world thins thom 60? wr THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, The Groat KNopublican, Newspapor of ,, the Went. Mornington (1), Pantagraph. We havo isaued our prospectus for 1831, whioh Appears fn this numberof tho i’cekty Panta- qraph, Our friends wil notice wo buve taken palns to offer subsoribors inany inducements to continue thelr pntrouage.s We neod not avor our intention to sustain tho high stuudard of merit which wo claim for ourown paper, Wo conunend our readers to the Hat of books and other publentions which wo offer nt reducod rates to lt who wish to avail thomsclyes of tha opportunity, and we hope thoy will take speolit notice of one feature of opr program, which ts tho offer of tha Weekly Pantagraph and Lin Cricagod WeEKLY Thinune for &, when tho regular price of each journal [s 81.53, tho cost. of dresses furnished to his wife whom he hnd forbidden to incur bila. Wo have sove erat thes alluded to this enso durian iis prog- rors from; court to court up ty the Houre of Lords, whero it las Just beon tnally deaided by that august tribunal in Cavorof Mr. Mellon. Tho Lords oxpressly rato mikes his wife nn allowance, bide hor to run tp necounte f and oxpreesly for- in his name, be enn “by drawing npon his credit; and, hna been conferred by tho husbund on the wits engo ft was ndinitted that tho goons were of a idind sultable to Mra, conjugal hot apprised of the prohibition, mitted during the argument—itt Ty Benjamin apyenred Willis, who fs spoken of, 28 Ukely to be ono of the riew sdgot nt Weatininster, tor tho hue- mind—that shopkeepors, Tt wna inthe hofore giving n wifo that duo care and cnution could not be consid- done. fn paper without reading of Dr. Bull's Coug! ayrup, ST, JACOBS OM. 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