Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 18, 1890, Page 4

THE "DAILY BEE ROSEW ATER, Fditor, s o PUBLISHED IRY MORNING. TEIMS 0F SUISCRIPTION, fund ay, Ono Yeur 1y BeoOne Year. ekly Heo, OneYear Commerce. v ibune Bullding Washing ton, 514 e t PONDESCE to news and ssed 1o the CORNK A1 comnmini editor ditorinl Iy <INESS LETTERS tlers and remittances should dto The Bee Publishing Compiny. Drafts, cheeks and postofice orders pavalle to the orer of the tw Allbus| be add Oma 10 be nind pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The liee W', Firnan and feventsenth fts - i . -y FWOIN STATENENT O CIROLATION tatoof Nebraska, | County of Douglas. | 13, Tzsehick. sceretary of The Bee "nhl\l\?n; compinv. (oes solennly swear that the metual dreulation of THe DATLY BEE for the weekending Oct. 11,1500, was as fol- Jows: Fundny. O dny. Ot Taesday. O Wednesday, Ot K, Thu ra Friane. Oct, 10, Faturday, Oct. RT3 17 K. subscrbed In AL T, Notary Publie. County of Doy H. Tzschuck. being duly svorn, de- Tue DAL 1580, ton of KO cople for De 1560, 20,815 os: for M 01 copi S for Al 150, 2 Ewon 1o efore me. presence, this 9th dayof Octo BostoN's delay inproviling a memo- rinl of Wendell Phillips is getting tobe fgnominions. Trik fact that chanpagne has gono up will have atendencyto keep the swells from putting itdown, Tue bullioniires having unlowied fheivsurpls silver, prices have dropped to their normail lovel, EVERY republican sump should exhibit dry goods ci ortor on the the democratic cular_topublic ridicule, gain in th state encour- and froe rum with Kan- s on his way to America. Te should comeand see how Omaha has grownsinw he was on familiar terms with her. — GOVERNOR CAMPBELL of Ohio pro- nounces Cineimati the most cormpt city inthe United States. It will bere- membored that Cinciinati gave Camp- boll a rousing mujori R. B Ay ESsdeni the report that Te wis horror-str «n by the McKinley bill and that he is about to marry a Virgiia vidow, The democrutic press Wil please resume its abuse, »’s mouth is a source of fll-concealed terror o the democrats, Likethe gavelwielded inthe house, its operation spreads dismay nmong the brigadiers, and sends them scampering for shelte THE adyvocates of equal suflrage are slorming the masculine ramparts in South Dakota. Witha quartetteof tick- ets inthe field and Miss Anthonyand Mrs. Bonesin the center of tho pasture the campaign is livelier than a four- ringed cirveus inactive operation, NEW YORK gains nearly two hundred thousand population by her new home- made census. “And this” one of her newspapers remarks, with head high in the air, “Yis exclusive of the homcless population” The less said about the “homeless population” the bettor for the creditof Now York. ACCORDING to late dispatches from Washington, Julge Greshun isnot con- sidercd an “‘awilable” man for promo- tion totho suprome bench, Whether or nothe receives the recognition his ability and eminent serviees desorvethe disti shed I hold a high placein the affections of the people. THEcnarge now put forth by the pro- libitionists, that the population of Omala hasbeen enormously padded for the purposeof securing thousands of il- legal voters aguinst the amendment, is not only false but wutterly foolish. The number of logal voters in the coming clection will notbe affected by the con- sus figures, Ounly voters legally rogis- terod under thelaws of Nebraska will countin the election, Andif the census roturns had been swelled by a million fulse entries it would not add avote for vor against the amendment, Tho charge against the Omaha census merely represents the desperate straits to which the prohibition leaders have been re- duced by the victorious campaign of reason against fanaticism, — Tk declsions rendered by the United States circuit conrt at Topoka and by the suporior court atC Upids, agreo- ing in efleet that original packize Douses eannot bo preventod from doing business in Kanss and Towa wnder tho prohibitory laws of these states, not- withstanding the act of congress kunown 05 the Wilion bill, will' revive an isue whichit hal ben yory generlly he- lioved and hopel was pernancatly dis- posed of. There is substantial con- currence inthe views of the two courts, the federal court holding that the act of congross did not restore the power of the Kansas prohibitory laww a8 aguinst the original packagesaloons, mnd the lowa court holding that the prohibitory liw of that state is null and vold so far as the sle of original packiges is cn- cerned, This question must asgain re- ceive the attention of the supreme court of the United States, anl meanwhile Kansas, and possibly lowa, are likely to again experionce an invasion of original 4mchuuu saloons, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE MSATURDAY ITE MERCHANT POLITIOAN, The present extroordinary mm]mhrn has developed something new in politics, It s the circiatedin the joint interest of trade and votes. Ttoriginted viththe demo- cratic congressional committeo at Wash- ington, isscattered broadeast by thrifty democratic tradesmen, has reached the interior of Nebraska, and should promptlysat down upon by cvery man whohas the faculty of pointing out the holesin aladder. The new dodge of the merchant poli- ticion is headed in black type with this legond of undoubted historical correct- ness: ““The McKinley Bill Has Passed. ” It proceeds to suy that 08 @ result all sortsof dry goods will soon go upand that now is thotime for the consumer to “save ten to thirty per cent™ beforo the direful effectsof the republican tariff moeasire have been felt in all their enormity, This dodge iscertainlya thrifty stroke of business on the part of men who want to fill their stores with customers and thelrtills with the currency of the coun- . Nolody oughtto complain on that score, but what o degree of patrioticself- sacrifice, as beautiful as it is rre, it re- flects upon the democratic tradesmen! rom thatstandpoint it appears like s riotof generosity, undertaken at the e penso of their own prosperity. Look atit for a moment. In about thirty days, according to the dodger, all salesof dry goods will go up “from ten 1o thirty per cent.*” Before this calamity ppens the consumer is begged to come in and buyat the old rates and thereby effecta groat saving, This is nice for the consumer, but what a sicrifico of profits it must represent to the demo- cratic morchants of Nebraska. By mewly closing their stores for thirty sthey would add fromten to thirty centsto the selling value of every dol- lar’s worth of goods on their shelves. The merchant who caries o twenty thousand dollar stock would make from two to six thousand dollars in the next thitty days by the operation. And yet he declines this gilded opportunity of a lifetine nthe interest of the purchas. ing publie. That is what he woeuld have the people believe, and incidentally ho would havo them volo againstthe party thatis responsible for the MeKinley bill, I'stherea man or woman in Nebraska, of whatever political pridelictions, who believes that the merchant poli an - is acting ingood faith? If there is, he or she has asimplo, trustful confidence in human nature not common to these times, The factis that tho MeKinley bill will not incrense the price of American made dry goods appreciably, if at all, Thedutyon foreign fabrics, which are mainly the luxuries of the rich, will not afect the selling price of ordinary dry goods, On the contrary, free ad- misson of many of the raw matorials used in their manufacture warrantslow- or prices than have formorly prevailed. The antiMcKinley dodger is wholly a stroke of business onterprise. If what it says wore the truth, the same thrifty merchants would not encourage sales by extrordinary effortsat this time. They woull wait and unload goods, bought at theold prices, on the new basis of “ten to thirty per cont” larger profits. The phin truth about the matter is thatthe democratic congressional com- mittee and the democratic business men of the countryhave joined forces in an effort to malke votes on one hand and monoy onthe other out of popularmis- appichension of the eflects of the Me- Kinley bill. But the people will decline to be fooled. AN TNSUBSTANTIAL 0BJECTION. The objection made in congress tothe planof reciprocity contemplated in the newtarifl law,and which is still being urged in portions of the country, isthat in order to carry out the proposed policy thiscountry would be compelled to vio- late the most favored nation clause of its commercial tretie T'his objection has no substantial foundation, and it is worthy of note that in all the foreign comments upon the latest tarift legisla- tionof this country it hus notbeenonce suggested as an obstacle to the United States entoring into an areangement of reciprocal trade with any other country. It isteported that tho Spanish govern- ment tales the view thatit cannot nego- tinto a reciprocity treaty with the United States for the Caban trade with- out violating the favored nation clause in her treaty with other nations, but if suchis the panish statesmen have changed their opinion since 1884, when a reciprocity treaty was negotiated with Spain by the American minister on the same basis that is now proposel. If sucha chingo of opinon has taken placo it has been brought about by a pressure in behulf of the com- mercial interests of Great Dritain and thisis vendered probable by the fact thatthe information comes from Lon- don, Referring to this subjectin the United States sente, Senator Evartssaid that the most favored nation clause had noth- ing to dowith the reciprocity proposi- tion. Nothing is better settled, he said, than that treaties may mude upon special exchange of equivalents, and theydo not affect obligations already subsisting under the favored nation clause, Noperson, he further remarked, familiae with the subject of tr at all disposed to question that. was the view of the ablest law, both houses of congress, and it appears be Lies, is This to have been held by the departmeat of | the foundation of the | state almost since govemment that clause applies only ileges are granted without aconsideration, but wherever a special consideration is made the con- ditionof a favor granted or received, the favored jon clause does not apply, un interprotation which has beem sus- tained United States. It is entirely clear, then, that th is no diffcully in the way of weciprocity s0 far @s this countey is concerncd, growing out of the most fivored nation clause. Whenever any country shall be prepared o offer us any consideration o concession which our government shall deem to besuflicient to wareant a recip- rocal trade areangement with such nation priv- fuvored vhera the country we shall simply conform to a long-maintained principle, sustained by antl- McKinley bill dmlp{v\r“ be by tho supreme court of the | | Inwsh the highest judicial tribunal, in enter- inginto suchan arrangomont, and no | other country would have a fair right to complain of treaty violation, But while this is the situation ns to ourselves, itis not improbable that we shall find some dificully in accomplishing any- thing with the propossd policy owing to the hostility of the commercial nations of Burope. The ap- parent fact that English influence is re- sponsible for the reported attitude of the Spanish government regarding recip- rocity suggests that the samo influenc combined with that of France and G many, may be used to dofeat, if possible, theenlargement of our trade through reciprocty with the countries of South America having commercial treaties with the European nations. And when it is considered how strong are the financial and commercial relations sub- sisting between those nations and the countries of South America with which we are most anxious to enlarge our trade, itis tosee that the European in- fluence may be very formidable. Mean- while the subject of reciprocity is re- celving very serious attention in the southern countries most interestod in it, a moeting of Cuban pluntersa few days ago having decided to send to the min- ister of colonies a petition in favor of re- ciprocity with the United States, 4 BOOME RANG. A drunken vagabond mamed Mecln- tosh, who was in a state of intoxication half of his time while helived in Omaha, and whonow claims tobe a resident of Chicago, 18 hired out to the prohibitionists. He has made what is said to be a great disclosure, the intent of whichis o injire Omaha. He has gotten up a cock-and-bull story abouta great number of business blocks in Omaha which he pretends don’t contain the population that has been returned forthem by the census poople. Meln- tosh sets up the cry of fraud, not only in the work of other enumerators, but ad- mits fraud in his own figures as asworn | enumerator of oneof the districts of this The fellow ought to be arrested for perjury and placed where ho can be cept sober for the ba The absuvdity of hisalleged expc may be shown by the following spec mens: The Second ward he claim re- tumed at seventeen thousand four hun- dred and fifty-eight, vhereas his est mated populatton was but a fraction over nine thousand. Now, we venture to suy that that ward has more than seventeen thousand population, and has had for the last two years, The Se ond ward has polled between two thousand ~ five hundred and three thousand votes, and estimating the averageto bo fivo anda half people to the voter, there woull be more than seventeen thousand people in the ward. The fact that there are lum- ber and coal yards in the ward does not show that there are no residents there. Bohemian town alone, whichis the center of the Second ward, embraces seven or eight thousand people. Tha pretended disco of Traud in various blocks are on apar with the talk of fraud in the Second ward, This irre- sponsible wretch, it- will be observed, has tramped over this town for a fow days, and then hus theeffrontery to set uphis figures of populution as ngainst the work of nearlysixty paid census enu- merators whoso returns have been sent under onth to the department at Wash- ington. In this work more than thirty days were consumed by the official enu- merators, With this fact in mind the outrageous misrepresentations of Meln- tosh will have absolutely no weight. Butit is amusing to quote him in some of his statements, Tor instance, he speaks of the block upon which stand the Derby hotel, eighteen one-story buildings, one two-story huilding and five business houses; and under his ap- proved enumeration he gives this block one hundred and sixty population. Well, what of it? There is not the slightest doubt that this block contains one hun- drved and sixty people, and possibly more. MeIntosh cites the Metropolitan hotel, with one twostory building and several store buildings with roomers in the upper stories, upon which the enumer- ators returned ninety population, The Metropolitan hotel is also a boarding house of residents, and it is not atall im- probable that ninety people have their homes there, There are also a large numberof people in the upper rooms of adjoining buildings inthat block, that part of the city being crowded with such tenants. The block on which stand the Rees nting company’s building, four one- buildings and the Windsor hotel is givenby this self-appointed enumer- ator a population of one hundred and seventy-five. Will any fair-minded man with a knowledge of that block pretend to say that thereare not ono hundred and seventy-five people living upon it? There is certainly nothing extravagant in this case. Block one hundred and sixty-three, on which stand four one-story, threo, two- story buildings and the Nebraska hotel, is returned by Mclutosh at o population of seventy-five, This hotel is also a bourding house, and we venture to that it very often alone contains seventy- five people, men, women and childven, to say nothing of the other houses on the block. Block H, upon which stand thirtecn onestory and five twostory buildings, ording to MeIntosh has a population one hundred and fovty-five. Now, is aterrible mare’s nest, isn'tit? MeIntosh maganithously concedes that census peo) might have been asleop in the nth ward because they urned butthreee thousand six hun- dred and fifty-seven poople, while Me- estimates that there are five thousand five hundred ]‘-n!rlu in the Seventh ward, ove evidently was not 80 much fraud in that ward. Allinall, this great expose of fraud in the Omaha census can be simmered down toa lame attompt tomalign and pull down the city of Omuha, and create a sentiment throughout thestate that there is a systematic eflort, connived at by government officials, to perpetrate the grossest frauds upon the ballot box in the Nowvember election, And this | sereed is tobe palmed off upon unsus- pecting rural poople. It is identically thesame stuff that has been furnished Ling cer in this campai hibition for m pound of aud outrageous mi 1 the Intorests of pro- s past, Itis o com- us exaggerition and esentation, DEPEW'SSPEECH 10 LAROR, That versatile citizen of New York and the rest of Yhe world, Chauncey M, Depew, droppsd the role of railroad presidenton Thursday long enough to appear inthe tole of the labor orator. Not many men, except the trained pro- fessionalsof the stage, would dare to venture on thisfeatof lightning trans formation, but. My, Dopew appears 1o have managed it withh his customary grace and skill, Ho was received by the convention of locomotive engincers at Pittshurg with ‘“the wildest applause,” whichis said to have become ‘“deafening” during tho course of his address, This is not strange, s his remarks wero exceed- ingly complimentary to the brotherhood, but it is the broader aspects of his speech that chiefly interested tho gen- eral public. For instance, Mr, stunning blow at trusts, “absorb the individual, tition and will inevitably end in disaster, Tor similar reasons he deprecated the several “ambitious attempts to bulld up labor trusts.” The people will agree with Mr. Depew's de- nunciation of trusts, They arveinjurious, and they must go, but why did tho graceful orator noglect to also denounco that well-developed railroad trust, which emk s the continent and is known as the Vanderbilt system? FProbably in the confusion of the mornent this phase of the matter escaped his usually com- prehensive mind. Mr. Depew touched also on the que tion of government ownership of rail- roads, On this subject his renarks were very chilly. He spoke with greataver- sion of the evil of a large number of gov- ernment employes and said that 1n Ger- many, wh this system prevails, engi- neers receive but forty-five dollars per month, This question is not immedi- ately pressing, but the arguments with which Mr Depew treated it are pre- cisely lilko those used by theopponents of the postal telegraph. They can bo fairly interpreted as ex pressing the op- position of New York capitalists to gov- ernment control of anything now profit- ably worked by corporations. Toboil it down into asentenc Tr, Depew’s speech wasan eloquent setting forthof beautiful generalities with which nobody Qisagrec sion of dis ory live and po- tent scheme of reform caleulated to make labor less subservient to corporate power. And such is the magic of this delightful orator, the assembled repre- sentatives of lubor cheered him to the Dopew struck o He sald they destroy compo- ILMANIC REFORMERS. Talk about nerve. The quality of the article displayed bythe council has no cqualin the west. At an extraordinary meeting held Thursday night the mem- bers determined to regulate the board of education and ovdered the city attor- ney to spare no pains 1o prevent the erection of a temporary school building on capitol square. “Thorights of the people must be protected,” the council oxclaims in a chorus, What rot. Pro: tecting the rights of the people like the wolf protected the lumb. by getting on the outside of it. Where were the rights of the people when the council voted away valuable privilegesto corpomtions, tumed twen- ty-nine thousand dollars over to the street railvay companics, and main- tained a horde of high salaried sine- cures on the city wpayroll? Why don’t the council attend to its own business? Why don’t the members expedite work on the city hall and relieve the treasury from the drain of high rents? W hy did they pester and amoy the board of health, and refuse financial assistance until the combine secured the ap- pointment of friendly inspectors? Why don’t they compel the street milway compny to pay a share of the cost of repairing the viaduct? Why don't they inaugurate needed reforms within their jurisdiction it they are so anxious “to protect the rights of the people?”” The conflict with the school board is childish, spite- ful and beneath contempt. The council has its hands full to properly attend to its own business, and leave the board of education to provide school accommoda- tions for the youth of the city, THE necessity for rigid regulation fo the practice of medivine in Nebraska is .x])p.n'n-nt toall. We have laws pescrib- inqualifications for pharmacists, equiring candidates to stand examina- tion, and providing penilties for the practice of the profession without a license from the state board. It iscer- tainly of equal imporance to the people of the stato that the muker of apre- seription should know his business as thoroughiy as the compounder. Under the present lax law there is pactimlly 10 pro- tection against quackery. Bogus or purchased diplomas enable charlatans to prey upon aflicted., humanity, and many without diplomaser eventhe primary clements of a mefical education hood- wink the people and populate the grav rds. Public heéRlth and safety de- mund that thesdmedical frauds be hunt- ol out of the stateSand laws enactedthat will effectually @%elnde them, The ef- forts of the Ox g doctors should re- coive the acti speration of the pro- fession throug the state, and the onest legislators, I'v is almost scibl@d thatthe democratic ticket will pro8A to the grave in its present stape, “The discovery of an Orangemanamong the number lends the needed tone and flavor to that collection of political junk, MR TIMME’S talent whove reproach, but his record as a political artist will not warrant the votersin depriving lovers of art of the inspiring worls of his bruash, THE hived nulum-n.mnl the homeless detenders of **the home™ are onthe run— after their salavies, No money, no jaw, as a painter is THE New York ZIlrald announces as adead certainty that the democrats will control the next houseof r senta: OCTOBER 1 tives. A lot of ridiculous fictions are published 1o fortify the cliim, the cha acter of which may bo gloaned from the assertion that the democrats will gain elght members from the states of Mon: tuna, the Dakotas, Washington, Wyom- ing and [daho, Thetruth is that the democrats have not ashadow of a chance inthe states named. The marked gain in republican strength in Idaho and Wyoming reflects the growing party strength inadjoining statos and forotells arousing republican victory next month, ffconditions in the east compare with those of the wesl, the Ferald's political Wiggins can beset down in udvance as acommodions 1ia Dispatehes from Nebraska to various outside papers announce a political re- wvolt inthe stateand throw ina few fig- togive the color of truth to tho claiims, Ttisasserted that apoll of the allinnce lodges insures one hundred thou- sund votes for the independent ticket, and a clean swoep of tho congressional districts, According to the same author ity the democrats are not in the race The party is merely browsing in the suburbs of the campilgn, grasping such fodder as the independents dole out, This is nows as is news, and proves that one must go awayfromhome to get “‘real news,” NMeanwhile, let the credu- lous enjoy their delusions. The repub- Licans will enjoy the majority and the oflices as heretofore. I ispainful to observe that political methods and madness are spreading de- moralization in the feminine annex of the prohibition party. The procecdings of tho Foster-Willard convention in Towa illustrates the ability of the oppo- site sex to imbibe and practice tho worst practicos of partisans. The majority were with J. Ellen, and they fell upon the followers of Frances, disarranged their bangsand then eruelly but mota- phorically kicked them out of the con- vention, Could men do worse, while shouting for “harmony?*? THElleged boodle aldermen Moines areevidently novices in the bus ness. Instead of standing in with con- tractors on the side, like their brethren iothe west, they boldly attacked the treasury and appropriated the money direct for “extra services.” Tf the Iow capital wasnot such o notorious “dry’ town, the boodlers might successfully plead aleoholism. Under the cireum- stances the imsanity dodge must be worked, of Des GOVERNOR .& of Oklahoma oc- cupies an wnenvinble position. The furious triangular fight for the capi site involves him in asquabble that can hardly fail to provoke a few premature funerals. Where every mun is a walking arsenal and ominous threats are hurled at the executive, the exercise of theveto isas dungerous as dynamite on a hot stove. SEVERATL of Denver's *‘lly cops™ stand a first class chance of sojourning in the penitentiary. Indictments have been returned agninst six city detectives for levying blackmail and asswulting pris oners for refusing to coafess crimo. The reform movement in Denver might be profitable copied in other cities. How 1s furnishing the boodle for Van Scamp's campaign? Are the hosp jobbers backing the useless ex-council- man, preliminary to another raid on the county treasury THINGS have como to o melanchol y pass these worldly times whena man is sent over the hill for twenty days for garnering spiritual food and solace from a borrowed bible. A Warning to Campaign Orators. Philadetphia Record. Stump speakers should ve careful. It 1s the season of bad falls from chestnut trees, The Valley of Death, New York World. Alarge quanity of now coffins has been ordered—work has reopened on _the Nicara- guacaml. Don't Affect the Market. New York Tribrene, The report comes from Orlndo, Fla., that one peach treo has already borne two crops of peaches this season. This phenomenal and eminently commendable effort on the part of the free in question wasnotable, however, to prevent & marked strngency in the peach market. AL N In a High-License Tow Philadelphia Press, The esteemed Tribuno is fnquiring as to the correct form of the quotation from “The Aunient Mariuer" aboit “Water, water where.” In Philidelphia, under the eticent operations of the high-liconse law, the quotation on Sunday is made thus: Water, water everywhere, But not a drop of driuk. Counting Without Their Hosts, ~.St. Lowis Globe-Dermocrat. The independent party in Nobraska has figured up @ prospective wajority: but in view of the fuct that its caleulations incude a large number of intelligent citiens who have always voted the republian ticket, it is probably doomod to disappoint- ment. There s certallly no good reason why any Nebraska ropublican should desert his ty this year. P el HYDROPHORIA'S HORRORS. Death of a Soldier fr Disease ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. to Tue Bee.|—{riv Pourth artilic stationed at McPherson, died fr ¥ phobia today, was Dbitten by a dog some time ago, but did not expericnce much trouble from the wound. Later on, howeve it beganto troublo hirn he was compelled togo to the hospit began to show signs of madness, frovhed at the mouth and developed wonderful strength, Heoywas put ina padded room in the bospital, Hethrew himself violently agiinst th but tke padding kept him from killy . self, Ho positively refused to eat or drink, but it required sov ht strong men Lo hold him down Ho broke | from them onco irned @ stove, set- ting ficoto the hospital. ‘This was extin- guished sud finally by forcing him down, pulting & mattress ow hin eight, men piling themse on this, the seded in holding him. In this position an opiate was injected into his arm and he was quieted. - - Cook County's Ja Cutcago, Oct. 17.—[Spi Taip Bek|—Conrad Folz, who has boen jai of Cook couuty for thirty years, die night of pneunioni. Folz” was one of the landmarks of Cook county. Ho leaves @ comfortable fortune, having invested his money in real estato i early days. the Terrible [Special Telegram Ak () Neil, bat- OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, A short time ago the insubordination of o portion of England's crack military organiza- tion, the Grenadier Guards, was promptly punished by enforced exilo in Bermuda, There has just occured another mutinous uprising involving a dotachment of the east Surrey regiment, which revolted against an onfer 10 go w Indin. ‘This second manifesta- tion of revolt against the authority of the crown will affect thoughtful Englishmen sost painfully, Tnsubordinetion is some- thing now in the servico. elish soldiors i1 the past have lacked perhaps the dash and impetuosity of French troops or the pe tion of German organization and aiscipline, but thoy have always boen remarkable for steadiness, determination and moralo, Tn guarding the instinets of a world-wide empire they have beon Laboriously employed during vecont year, and froquently have been requirel to perform dangerous service; but they have cheerfully complied with orders, and have gloried in their achiovements and sacrifices as soldiors of the crown. To lave the guards aud tho east Strroy battallions in o state of mutiny Is an experience alike new and hu- milinting to Englisnmen, Insubordination and distaste for forelznsorvice are symtoms which are of ominous import for the future of tho British empive. During recent yoars the eficiency of the French army has been greatly promoted by various expalionts for muking the daily life and routine of the pri- vato soldier more comfortable and less some. General Boulauger introduced this wolicy, and it has beon contimied by his sue- cessors in tho waroffice, The barrack drill- ing was mado loss tedious, the Sunday holi- day was longthened, the beds and rations were improved, and the soldiers relieved from many useless and oncrous restric- tions of discipline. Itis possiblo that the growing feeling of discontont in the British army has been caused by minor grievances and hardships which have been alleviated in the Frencn service, Tt seems more probuble, however, that $o mutinous an outbreak ns has oceurred in - Guernsey betokens a revolt aginst the inc ng burdent and dangers of gurrison duty under the empire. Knglish soldiers, appreciating the deadly cf the climates o which they are ne exposed in Tudia, Egypt and other portions of the empire guarded by them, ary becoming weary of military son lifels tranquil and pleasant at home; but the separations from friends and fami volved by foreign service aud the high mor- tality caused by exposure to inclement and eufeebling climates, promotea fedling of dis- contentand mutiny in the ranks, Lt this fedling becomo general and the dofences of anunmanageable ompire of vast extent will beseriously impaited, The general sentiment of the soclalistic congress at Hailoin favor of lawful and parliamentary agitation rather than of lent and illogal attempts to attain the objects of the socialists, appears to lave provailed in the several labor congresses recently held in different countrios of Furopo, The congress atHalle was convened forthe purpose of marking out the lino of policy to be followed infuture bythe socialists, the laws of ex- ception under which they have labored for tholast twelve years having expived Oc- tober 1, Florr Liebknecht was applauded recently when he said that, whenever three ultra-revolutionists are assembled they con- stantly fear that one of thoirnumber may be aspy or aninformer. The truth of his vemarks was proved by the incidents of the Wolgemuth socialistic conspiracy, con- cocted by German exiles in Switzerland. T'he leaders of the party openly declared that they had no faith in tho state socialism f vored by Emperor William 11 sinco his fa- mous wseripts of last February, But, at the same time, they rominded their followers that progress could be attained by legal and parliamentary means, as shown by the fact that, even under the operation of the former anti-socialistic law of exception the German workmen had been able to incrcase from five to thirty-one the number of their representa- tives in the reichstag. The planof action of the leaders of the socialist party, which is approved by the foreimn delegates to the Halle congress, is to enlighten public opinion, especially in tho rural districts, by the publi- cation of newspapers, pamphlets, ote Anothororgan, *“The New fra," will be added tothe many soclalist papers alveady . The treasury of the party, which received about $30,000 last year and dis- bursed about 0,000, still possesses from former accumulations a reserve fund of §25- 000. That newspaperand pamphlet cam paign will not be one-sided, however, for Emporor William bas lately given bis approval to a series of pamphlets, preaching state soclal- sm, which will be distributed at a nominal price by special agents at the doors of facto- ries, mills, workshops, the railroad stations, and at the homes of the German peusants, ey 5 Seldom has a reign been inaugurated under more ominous auspices than that of King Carlos of Portugal. A little over a year has clapsed since b nsion to the throne, but during that time troubles both at home and abroad have crowded so thick and fast upon him thathis abdication is vegarded not only as probable but even as imminent. [ndeed it has become the current topic of discussion both among the classes and the masses at Lisbon and has, morcover, added fresh stim- ulus to the differeucos that notoriously exist between the queen cousort and tho queen dowager. For while both are ecoually wady to cousent to theking's abiication, the youngor of the two ladies demands thav it should be in favor of her little boy, the three-year-old crown price, with herself us regent during his minority, whereas the queen mother insists that in view of the critical position of the monarchy the crown should devolve upon ber fave son, Dom Alplonse, the younger brother of the reiguing king. Taking advantage of the present difficulties, the pretender, Dom Mignel, who holds somewhat the same posi- tion towards the Porf e throne that Don Carlos does toward that of Spain, has recom- mended an active campaign throughout the kingdom in favor of his rights to the crown. Republican demonstrations are reported from Porw, Coimbra, Portalogre, Suntarem, Faro, aud, in fact, from neasly und town ; while in Lisbon, whéro the students of th and public schools daily par: shouting for the abdication of the king for the establisiment of a vepublic, the mili- tary are in open conflict with the palice, whose action the soldiers catively paralyze It will bo seen, therefore, that the state of affairs in Portugal is of an exceedingly criti- cal nature, and that King Carlos, whose Liealth 15 in @ precarious con dition, s, to say the least, on the horns of & dilomini, After st ten or of the ingin vain during the last rsto prevent the enactment tly passed rendering theo- stined for to compulsory military service, the h bishops have suddenly o the usion that the measure which they have until now so bitterly opposed is caleulated to prove of imestimable benefit to the churen, Discipline is of just as vital importance to thechurch as it is to the army, and the les sons of passive obedience, of respect to su periors, and of good-nature and good fellowship taught to all young soidiers cannot fail to leave a lasting impression upon them when they are transforred fr of the state to that of the caurch, a famous aud eminent divine, voth in precent and remote times, has worn the sash students ¢ come ) the of a military ofcor bofore assuming in its stoad the stolo of a priost. Among the best known [nstances aro Pope Plus IX,, Canli- nals Howard, Schoonborn and Place, and Archbishop Kotteler of Muyence. It is pos sibly owing to tho remombrance of the di tinction aoquired in the service of tho church by these soldier-priests that the French bishops have been induced to inclulo o somewhat tardy oxpression of ap proval of the new law in the fn- structions which they have just issued to the seminarists about to enter tho ranks of tho army. While silenco is recom- mended as being the best rejoinder in the caso of an insulting remark coming from a suporior the bishops in 10 wiso prohibit the young men from fighting for their nghts it the insult is from an equal. The instructio morcover, declare that a vigorous milita service loyally performed cannot fail to exer- cison salutary effoct upon the minds and bodies of theso postlants for admission to holy orders, and expross the eonviction thut it s among tho young memoers of the church militant that the pioncers of the church tri- umphant will be found, . W Southern France is sufforing torrinly from the overflow of rivers. Enormous damagy hias been done in the lower Rhone valloy, and the loss of life has boon considerable. Housos havo beon washod away, railroads have beon destroyed, and the splendid systom of coun- try roads is reported to have been practically obliterated. Vineyards and gardens havo been turned fnto deserts, the crops and tho live stock of hundreds of farmors have been destroyed, and wholo villages with flourish. ing factories have boon completel ished. Even the city fered toan extent unprecedented in its his- tory. Tho inundated districts have s popu- lation of atmost a million souls and co some of the most densely tural regions of France, v impover of Marscilles has suf- priso sottlea agri S The Dutch cabinet has decided that the king of Holland is unfit to reign, and o regeney will therefore be proclaimed. Thero would be little interest attached to the king's condition were it not that his death would end the rule of Holland over Lusembour the law of succession excludes fomalo he The deposed duke of Nassau is the ackne edged successor of King William, and ¢ the pricsthood | man influence will undoubtedly be powerfully erted to control the future government of Holland. THE POP g s D THE IRISH. Tory Influence at Rome Denounced by O'Conner's Paper, Loxnoy, Oct. 17.~[Speclal Cablegram to Tur Ber]—The Star, Thomas Power 0'Con- ner's paper, says it is alloged in clerical ¢ cles that the summoningto Romo of four archbishops in Ireland is a mere formality yto the fulfillment of their duty of presenting themselves to the pope once eve five years, lreland, howover, suys the Star, does not regard their going as an innocent and harmless affair. The archbishops aro commanded to take the senior suffragan bishops. This indicates the pope's desive to assemble at the vatican a representativo council of the Irish Catholic chureh and that an important move is pending. It becomes moro significant when it is known that Bishop O'Dwyer of Limerick will bo at the vatic some time before his The Star, contin Tho sum- moning of the archbishops is believed to ho tho final effort on_the partof the vatican to assist the tories at a orl i The elec- tions are near and prompt Measures are nec- essaty to propitiate Lord Salisbury. Tho Vatican is convineed that it is to its iitere: to_maintain the tories in power and fecls ¢ tain that a liberal government would not tinue the negotiations in relation to Maites martiag Besides, the advisors of tho Pope bitterly resent the refusal of the Irish party to take its policy from Rome. Tho Irish party does not. concern itself with any- thing the Pope may do. It has confidonco that the four archbishops will advocate ths party's cause independently s nationalists, and not closiastics, and they may pro- vent the | from making a last and ir- retsieve vror inits dealings with Irici Catholics, But the coterie of curdinals and at the call of the English Catholic toties, is now in the ascendant in pupal councils, und it will bo utterly impossi- blo to defeat their schemes, which will event- ually recoil on the tory heads wnd will not in- flict any injury upon the government for home rule for WIZARD EDISON'S LATEST. Another Wonderfal Discovery for Uso in Telegraphing. New Yorx, Oct. 17.—[Special Telegram to Tue Brg.|—Onoof Edison's assistants says the wizard has declared his intention tocquip an air ship, which will admlt of practical utility for wrial travel. Another idea which, if perfected, will revolutionize tho tele- graphic world, is undergoing experiments b Mr. Edison. The new discovery consists of a combination of metals know only to the in- ventor which will, by connection with terra firma, carry sounds @ great distance. In: much as the earth is the permanent connec- tion which obv »s the necessity of telegraph wire being run double botween two citics in order to make the circuit, the idea secms quite feasible. Mr. Edison has already con- aucted his experiments on this a tosuch an extent that by standine out of ordinary distinetly hear tho ard s quoted as ink that i1 oloctrlolty can bo anajvzd and unted for, thero will bo nodifeulty in ing it toits fullest capacity. 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