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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1887. cast or honestly counted he couldn't be elected at all. It would be dangerous to his prospect; if the South should forego its habit of not count ing and declare the result as Is done in States. To have been categorically cora-n iu Picayune should have said: "Grover Cleveland TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. is as sure of the votes or tne soutn us they were cast and counted in the usual Southern manner." Op course Winter had little time left in wards of the working-people of the city.

They are almost invariably represented by boodlers, elected by workingmen. Workingmen have shouted for these boodlers election-day, have made speeches for them before election-day, have peddled tickets and canvassed for them. It is because they did so that the price of every municipal advantage is about double what it ought to be, and that corporate monopolies have flourished at the excuse of the taxpayers. These are facts which no intelligent man will gainsay. The "United Labor party may be in a majority in some of these wards now and may elect their Aldermanic candidates to the Council, and thus assist the representatives which to settle himself in the lap of Spring, but it was, to say the least, ungallunt of him to come down with such a bump.

the New York stock market The stocks are mainly held by the professionals, and if there is no disaster they will probably be able to keep prices somewhere near the present range. They have demonstrated their power tinder very trying circumstances in the last six months, and no trivial influence is going to force them to let po. The huge scheme for reorganizing Reading is the centre of interest. The leading factors in the market are still the cliques which last fall undertook the reorganization of several properties. They have been more successful thus far than was generally expected, but none of the schemes are yet beyond the danger point.

The money-market just now favors holders of stocks, and the attitude of foreigners toward American securities has recently improved somewhat. Exports of our commodities are now quite large, and shipments of gold will not be heavy for the present. day?" I I really and truly loved men. Mr." Ah That's w.1""0 Hud all vour friend-; down below fan." Omuka World. c' in Countryman (in the gallery of the S0 '-Exchange i How much does it c.wt, mister business down there? Mister The -e its i'p i are worth about W.

fount rvnv, ('v, his breath i Gosh, 1 don't wonder stand 1 of tin You say you have met with hard she queried of the tramp who siood the step. -Yes. Indeed very hard." Wn.lt "Why. ma'am. I invested mv in-t in ticket, and never drew ivz, you rich people only knew tue i Ih'roit ne l'r-xx.

01 lbe "These strikers are ail alike." said Blundp bore: "my (laughter was reading Ir.t at one of them. Mark Bozzaris way. his" evidently of Irish extraction. W't-'l. th fe'i made a speech to his district assembly, anil upon his knightly companions to tnkt' o.1 death, and wound up bv telling them to st4l'e for their native land, they merely wur.t'u earth, you know; they didn't 'care a c.

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Sunday included. SO cents per week Address THE TRIBUNE COM PAN Corner Madison and Chicago. Hi. for the same, or to pay for them after condemnation proceedings? And if they could be obtained would the people be less burdened tnan they are now Philadelphia has tried the experiment of managing its own gas, and the taxpayers have paid dearly for the illumination of the city. If Morgan's party had control of the horse railways it is unlikely that they would carry people four or five miles for less than a nickel in any direction.

The companies can doit and make money on their investment, but the United Labor party walking delegates would not pay running expenses, to say nothing of the interest on the purchase money. The operation of the corporations named would make half the working population of the city public pensioners, and would breed nepotism, corruption, rascality, and official tyranny by walking delegates, and general demoralization. The demand is, of course, preposterous. The same objection lies against the proposition to do all city work by the day. The city has too much of that system now as in the case of the scavenger work for the good of the taxpayers.

The adoption of the proposals of Morgan's Labor Convention would lead to bankruptcy and chaos. It would mean the ruin of Chicago. The tendency of nearly every proposition is bad and in the direction of corruption and boodleism. The whole platform may be described as paternalism and officialism run mad. of "wealth" in reducing the price oi gas be Riven.

Last season what was known as he Old Gold Threefer was the great campaign brand, but it is now thought that a recherche article called The Teamster's Delight -will be the mode. and compelling the street-car companies to ay for franchises hereafter to be granted. Tiie telegraph yesterday told how Gen. FAILURE OF THE EXTRADITION TREATY. Butler and Carl Scfcurz had each been hurt by a fall.

It is unnecessary to say that they didn't slip on the same sidewalk. They never do. It may now be taken for granted that the extradition treaty with Great Britain wiu The Rev. Dr. Baxter of London fixes the advent of the millennium absolutely for the year BflANCn ADVERTISING OFFICE.

Gi and Tribune Building, New York City. Ko. not be ratified thi3 session of the Senate, and, as an extra session of that body will not be called, the whole matter will go over to the next Congress. This impotent result will not only be a disappointment to the whole coun prices. A score of rumors are afloat in regard to it, but there is one which seems to be widely accepted as near the truth.

It is that the leading "shorts are the men who control the bucket-shops of this and other cities. To this is attached another, to the effect that the men who are running the corner are actuated by the patriotic desire to squeeze the aforesaid bucket-shop operators out of the business. The most singular thing in connection with the whole business is the fact that mess porK as an article of consumption is les3 and less wanted with each succeeding year. It now goes to the mining and lumbering camps, and that is about all. Scarcely any of our "mess" fi.nds its way on board ship.

It is true a few barrels are taken down South, but the great mass of people in the Northern States no longer consume barreled pork. They prefer the meat salted or smoked, and their preference for it in that form is now so strongly marked that the smoking of porK has become a regular feature of the trade. The pork that is packed each winter is bandied round among the speculators till they get tired of it, and then a part of it is sold to the miners and the lumbermen. The rest is taken out of the barrels, dried, and smoked, and then sold as dry bacon under the name of "strips." The operation costs something like half a cent per pound, an expense which might be avoided if it were not that the speculators want something to trade with, and find it in the pork barrel. They have centered their affections upon it this winter almost to the exclusion ot the lard and meats which people want to eat.

The price of the latter is kept up by the artificial excitement above alluded to but lard, which used to command a big premium over the flesh of the animal, is now going begging at a large discount from the price of the side cut. There can bo uo question that mess pork is now selling far above its merits as an article of food, but the bears, have one consolation left. They have not yet been asked to pay anything like the $27 per barrel which tho shorts were called upon to settle at one August a very few years ago. Fotuuately for the men who have had hogs to sell during this excitement, they have obtained much l'JXl. If the Iiev.

Baxter is correct the amount of "hustling the world has got to do in the next POSTAGE. thirteen years if it gets half-way prepared is something the mere contemplation of hich' in EntmtH at Chicago Ptxst-omxt a second-class rmtic. Per copy. duces dizziness. 1 cent Eight, ten.

twelve, and ourteen page paper Saturday or Sunday paper 2 cents try but it will imperil the eventual success of the treaty for the reclamation of absconding rogues. The English Government has always been reluctant to supplement the existing treaty. It was induced to move in tnis FareUjn. Fltrht. ten.

twelve, and fourteen patre paper. cpnts Hxteen. eiahteen. and twenty patfe paoer cp" 1 wenti-two and twentv-four pane paper cents Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs.

August Brlmon have discovered that they are distantly rei'aud through Commodore Perry of historic fame Tho Calhoun monument will be formal1 unveiled April at Charleston. S. and it proposed that the occasion be made a ewn event. lsla'e Herr Sailmaker is one of the German canJi dates for the Reichstag who will have to through a second election. He ought to good canvass.

Mr. J. P. Chew, editor of the Noma Gare'tr announces himself as a candidate for the oh'' Senate, but his opponents are confident that he has bitten off more than he can chew. Mine.

Kuki. the wife of the Japanese Minister at Washington, speaks the prettiest sort o' crazy-quilt English, and is very proud of the accomplishment. She has a right to crow kuk'-doodle-uo. Minister Pendleton is in Washington Thk European war-cloud flirts with the zenith steadily. It dips down to the horizon and almost disappears and then creeps up again, each time apparently more in earnest.

It will get squarely overhead in time, and then how wheat will try to get to it. matter with extreme difficulty, and now that 1SS7. MONDAY, FEBRUARY its overtures have been slighted and put off to an indefinit time, when that time comes it THE LABOR KNIGHTS' CITY TICKET. Perhaps no men in Chicago were more surprised at the outcome of the convention of the so-called United Labor party which "unites" only such laborers as join or are admitted to the oath-bound secret lodges and abdicate their political independence of action) than a majority of the delegates who attended that gathering. The nominees, with the exception of a few persons like Stauber, Altpeter, Dvorak, and Schilling, noted for their connection with the Socialistic groups, are comparatively unknown, and their character can only be judged from that of their sponsors.

The result as far as both nominees and platform are concerned is a distinct and complete triumph for the Socialistic element. Tommy Morgan, a resident of Hyde Park, and the most active Socialist in America, bossea the convention from first to last. lie had the rules of the Executive Committee repealed, and he dictated the nominations all through. He was the sponsor for Nelson, the nominee for Mayor, and the rest of the ticket was patched up to suit him. The conservatives were given a few Aldermanic and town nominations, and had to be content with them.

may not be ready to confirm what it has done and may recall its action. Gov. CnrRCH or Dakota and the Republican members of the Council are at war, and it is likely to result in the "hanging up" of the nominations made by the Governor. There is no excuse for the manner in which It appears from the assertion of a learned man, published yesterday, that "Chicago" is a Pottawatomie word and means wild onion," a sort of leek that was once abundant about the mouth of the river. It's a good name for the city.

Under the present administration there are just as many leaks as ever. the Senate has delayed action upon this treaty. It was negotiated last July. If it is defective or one-sided in any manner there has been ample time to amend it or make a new draft and submit it to the English Government. The treaty as it stands, however, contains no provision which should have Out of twenty-five cities reported by telegraph to MradstreeVs, Chicago and Kansas City alone announce special gains in the volume of staples distributed during the week.

Congress will adjourn next Friday, and a desperate effort will be made by both Houses to dispose of the pending appropriation bills, which are to take precedence. An extra session, however, is still talked of. the rumor that he will go into the Cabinet is revived. He refuses to talk to reporters, but sail to a friend that it was by no means settled that he would return to Berlin. Roswell P.

Flower is brought out by ths Washington Sentinel, organ of the brewers as a Democratic candidate for the Presidency. This Flower is perennially up for something but h's budding booms are always nipped bv auuntiaieiV frost, and result in nothing but leaves. been opposed. So far as it applies to the extradition of embezzlers, defaulters, and other criminals there can be but one sentiment among honest men. The whole country The Socialistic platform adopted was Mor better prices than would have been possible in the absence of a corner, and it is by no gan's also.

The "United Labor party" as such really passed out of existence and the Socialistic Labor party took its place. The wants to close up the Canadian asylum for thieves and prevent financial crises by up our own peuiteutiaries to criminals of that class. So far as it refers to dynamite offenses there is no danger of doing injustice to political refugees from England. A CONGRESSIONAL BREACH OF TRUST. The game of shuttlecock between the House and Senate over the Pacific railroads promises to end in the creation of a few fat offices at T50 per month, the appropriation of $100,000 from the Treasury, and an indefinit postponement of all attempts to secure the millions of dues owing to the Government.

Whether' the House or the Senate bill is passed, or a compromise scheme is patched up in a committee of conference, can make but little difference, for it is clear that in any event the present Congress will do nothing more than throw a tub to the whale and seek to appease public sentiment by a mere pretense of action. Five or six weeks ago the House passed a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to appoint three Commissioners at salaries of a year to make an exhaustive investigation of the Pacific roads, and inquire particularly into any breaches of law, diversion of funds, etc. The Senate committee proposed to amend by tacking on provisions increasing the 25 per cent of net earnings required under the Thurman act to 40 per cent, and authorizing the President to clear off paramount liens, mortgages, and other incumbrances, and in his discretion take steps to foreclose the liens of the United States on the railroad property. The Senate rejected the proposed increase in the share of net earnings due the Government, but accepted the amendment empowering the President to redeem prior liens and foreclose. The Senate also increased the salaries of the Commissioners to $750 per month and made it their duty to devise and report some scheme to extend the time for the payment of the debt of the Pacific roads.

With these changes the measure on which the Senate means certain that the price of the product will not be much less than now before it Muds its way into consumption. "groups" triumphed over the "lodges." It will be absurd in the future to refer to the body which is supporting Nelson, Stauber, Ai.i). Lyke of the Thirteenth Ward is the first of the outgoing Aldermen to begin his canvass for reelection. His friends have already passed resolutions commending his patriotism, "self-sacrifice, honesty, capacity, efficiency, faithfulness, and vigilance." Big dictionary words ran short or the author -pf the resolution would have added a few more. Lyke accepted the eulogy, and assured his friends that he would obey tho unanimous wish of the Thirteenth Ward Republicans in becoming a candidate for reelection.

It appears, however, that the Thirteenth Ward Republicans do not want Lyke under any circumstances. His Democratic friends stormad a Republican meeting in the ward Friday night', because they were afraid that their man would be repudiated. The truth is, that Lyke has always voted with the gang in the Council for some reason best known to himself. He voted last year to keep up the price of gas. He voted to give the Washington street tunnel to the Weeks company for nothing.

He did his utmost to bestow the La Salle tunnel on Yerkes. He is the strongest champion of the present scavenger system. He voted against the Jackson street bridge ordinance. There has not been a bad scheme before the Council for the last year that he has not favored. The Thirteenth-Warders would not serve their interests by his reelection.

His vote with the honest Aldermen Friday night was probably for election effect. His record is not what it should be. Schilling, Altpeter, Dvorak, et as the THE LABOR KNIGHTS' CITY PLATFORM. The platform of the Socialistic Labor par United Labor party. They are distinctively The triumph of Mr.

ParneU's wise policy has removed any danger of dynamito attacks uin the royal family or its property. It is the people ot the United States who will stand most in need of protection from dynamite if Socialism and Anarchism are allowed to flourish unchecked by law and unpunished by its penalties. The United States ty is in effect a declaration of war by the members of the secret labor organizations on Socialists and as such they ought to be known by the public. As such they ought to avow themselves. It is weak in them to Martin Y.

Montgomery, Commissioner of Patents, whose resignation i to take effect April 1, it is thought will nominated by the Democratic State Convention next Tuesday for Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan. Prices on the London Stock Exchange during the last week were firm, and rose throughout the week, but the advance was slow and hesitating, the public being still doubtful as to the maintenance of peace. Business in honm funds, foreign securities, and English railway securities was exceedingly limited. In American railroad securities activity was resumed. Saturday's prices closed strong, excepting Pacific railroads, which were dull under the Senate's resolution to examine their accounts with the Government.

There was a decline on the Paris and Berlin bourses. their employers. It is doubtless the production of the English Socialist Morgan and other foreign Socialists, who have very little respect, it may be presumed, for American masquerade under an assumed name merely because tne term Socialist is unpopular with the mass of working men. The Morganites claim to ha'e the courage of their convictions, and they should drop the name United law, National, State, or municipal. The platform advocates the subversion of all three, stands far more in need of the extradition treaty than England, and when at last that country was induced to negotiate a treaty by which our criminals could have been prevented from securing immunity on En Mrs.

Noah, once a famous actress, is still living at Rochester, in her With year. She says she has not looked into a glass for three vears, and will never do so again, because she does hot wish to die of fright from beholding the evidence of her great age. She has promised to Play Ladv Macbeth for a benefit to be given in June. Concerning the rumor of the approaching nuptials of Secretary Bayard and Miss Marked a clerk in the State Department, the Washington Post says: "There is neither truth nor reason ia the report, which has caused a great deal of mortification to the lady and ner friends. to doubt an equal degree of annoyance to Secretary Bayard and his family." President Roberts of the Pennsylvania Railway system receives a salary of year; President Harris of the Northern Pacific, President Adams of the Union Pacific 10.000; President Strong of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe.

fcJo.ooo; the Presidents of the Chicago Northwestern. Chicago. Burlington Quia-cy, and Chicago, Milwaukee St. PuuL fcajj each. The Rev.

G. T. Dowling of Cleveland was among the clergymen of that city who were invited to witness a performance of the Black Crook." In refusing the invitation he said: "I would as soon accept an invitation from the devil to watch the fires of hell burn. The invitation is an insult. The Kiralfy Brothers must look upon the clergy of this country as a gang of long-eared asses." Princess Miriam Likelike died at Honolulu Feb.

2, aged 30 years. A bister of his Majesty King Kaiakaua, she was the daughter of the high Chief and Chiefess Kapaakea and Keohokalole. Princess Likelike was married Sept. 22. 1870, la Labor party and sail under their true colors.

and strikes at the Constitution and the prin And now that the nominations have been ciples on which they are based. It strikes at made, what is the issue presented to the peo the very foundation of society itself. ple of Chicago? For the first time in the his The platform may be divided under two glish soil it was simply criminal neglect to delay its ratification. The failure now secures further immunity for hordes of rascals, and during the coming spring and summer we may expect to see the Canadian colony still further increased by American embez tory of the city a ticket Is presented to the voters representing one class alone of its The Ohio legislature was polled on the Presidential and Gubernational preferences heads "Charges" and "Demands." The chartres, generally speaking, embody the complaint that employers are responsible for population. This was not distinctively so of the members of both parties.

The Republicans stood: Sherman, t2; Blaine. 10; non When Chris Kelling, the county contractor, ran up extras amounting to $1,3.6 on a contract of $1753 it was very evident that the boodle County Board would not neglect him. Chris is a man after their own heart. They next gave him a contract for and the extras have already reached $12,003 and are still mounting up. Kelling is almost as big a man as Harlev or Brainerd.

has now asked a committee ot conrerence is substantially the same as that which passed last fall, as there were some Republicans and some Democrats on the Laoor ticket then. Now, with the solitary exception of Mr. zlers and defaulters. From a local point of all the ills that secret-lodge workingmen think they suffer. They specifically set forth (1) that the press, the pulpit, the ros committal, 2.

Democrats: Cleveland, 4'J; view the failure is also significant, as it of Thurman. 1: non-committal, anybody to the House. At first sight it might appear that the measure is greatly strengthened by the section authorizing the President to in fers cheerful opportunities of an asylum for Cox, the nominee for City-Attorney, who beat Cleveland, 5. Gov. Foraker is the al several parties in this county, where they on account of his profession is excluded, every nominee of the thirty-four is a stitute foreclosure proceedings, but in fact may find relief from the danger which now most unanimous choice of the Republicans for a renomination, while the Democrats are divided between Congressmen Campbell and threatens them in the direction of Joliet.

Foran and Gen. T. C. Powell. A few favor member of a secret, oath-bound organization, whose members recognize each other by grips and signals whether members of the groups or of the lodges." such a power cannot be exercised under the bill before 1S0T, and the whole scheme is to gain time for the Pacific roads, postpone the payment of their dues to the Government, Thurman, Gcddes, MeMahon, and Wilkins.

The more we contemplate that Indiana Legislature the more do we become convinced that the whole force of American missionaries in foreign lands ought to be called in and set to work at full time on home soil. There is a great harvest awaiting them in Indiana. The present force of laborers is entirely too few. County Clerk Wclff has acted very prop The 582 delegates who met in convention to and in the meantime fasten a high paid in One of the demands of the Socialistic Labor party of Chicago as formulated by Tommy Morgan of Hyde Park, is that the steam railroads which cross our streets in every direction, obstructing traffic and exacting a daily sacrifice of human life, be concentrated i the Hon. Archibald Scott Cleghorn, member the House of Nobles and of the Privy Council of State, and is the only member of the' roval family having issue.

Hence her only child, the Princess Kaiulani, who was 11 years old the 16th ot October last, is heiress presumptive to the throne. make the nominations are also sworn mem erly in placing the selection of petit jurors un vestigating commission on the Treasury. der his own immediate supervision. In view of Paid at the rate of 750 per month, the Com bers of those secret organizations. They were selected at the night secret meetings, into one great entrance and exit, owned and future possible contingencies- it would be an missioners will find much to investigate, and how nobody but members of the respective outrage against -public decency to leave the The question of rapid transit, which is now occupying so much attention in the large cities, is not difficult to solve if grappled with in real earnest.

Our own Nic Schneider would be able to shed a great deal of light on the subject, if he could be found. lodges can tell; why and. wherefore it is left for the public to conjecture. The nominees selection of the jurors entirely to a relative of a member of the County Board. The party may be too immature for such an important duty, and would be liable to be imposed on expect to be voted for by every member of those secret organizations.

Any member who by sinister persons interested in the make- fails, except through circumstances which he The New Misfit l'arty. Des Moines ilrrjistrr: The new party which assumes to speak for the laboringman. though ill principal advocates do most of their work with their mouths and not their hands, may suifice for a time to gather in the floating driftwood from the old parties some organization has to fill that mission most of the time but it will hardly rise to any higher dignity or usefulness as long as it is in the hands of the irresponsible old hacks who have assumed to direct it, and who hope to proiit most by it. A suspicion is gaining ground that Mayor Hewitt of New York has deliberately and with malice aforethought gone into the "keynote" business on his own hook. tip of the next panel.

It is only when the cannot control, is liable to fine or expulsion. controlled by the city, so as to abolish the obstruction and danger that exist and are constantly increasing. The demand is based in the first place on a falsehood. There is no such thing as "daily sacrifice of life at railroad crossings" in this city. The number of live3 lost is at worst but a small fraction of that stated, and under the plan proposed by Morgan this sacrifice would be increased five-fold perhaps.

The loss that happens now could be easily prevented by tne adoption of the admirable plan of placing a guard gate at every crossing, and at the expense of the railroad companies, as was proposed some weeks ago by boodlers obtained complete control of the will put a good many years before they are ready to make a final report. The one thing Congress ought to do, and which it persistently evades, is to enforce payment from the Pacific roads of their just dues to the Government. Instead of 25 or even 40 per cent of the net earnings, Congress should demand at least 75 per cent. Tens of millions owing to the Government have been diverted and divided by the Pacific railroad rings, the Union Pacific alone paying in dividends on fraudulent stock that did not represent a dime of honest investment. Says Poor, the highest railroad authority in the country: "The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific together divided or carried to board that the work of selection has been The persons who will peddle tickets for them the day of election will be told off at the nightly secret meetmes, and will be subject to semi-military discipline during the progress of the poll.

carried on in the County Board room. Before that time it was carried on in the Clerk's office, as it ought to have been. The TnE Buffalo Express can be poetical on occasion. Elia Wheeler-Wilcox and husband have sailed for Cuba and the Express cries: Ladybird. Lady-bird; soft be the winds that bear thee away to the South! Rose-leaf.

Rose-leaf; float on o'er the summer seas! Red-headed Singer of Passion; sail in and have a good time!" change was suspicious to say the least of it. The line, it must be observed, is drawn at It was unsafe, for some names might get into the box. accidentally, of course, out of Mr. Marvin Hughitt, Superintendent of the the hands or the pockets of unwieldy and the members of the lodges and groups. It doe3 not refer to the workingmen who arc outside those organizations.

None of the latter could be nominees; hence the discipline does not refer to them. They will be. labored with, however, by the agents of the lodges Northwestern Railway Company. This plan would cost the city nothing, as it would be the credit of profit and loss over 100 awkward Commissioners or, in moments of absentmindeduess, from the hands of those millions over and above the capital invested operated by the railroad companies them in them." let Congress connives with who were deeply absorbed in weighty- selves. The Common Council under its po A St.

Louis woman whose husband was killed through the criminal negligence of the company by whom he was employed has just been awarded $5.10 as damages by the courts. It was all she asked, and was doubtless his full value. Quotations on St. Louis husbands are the lowest of any in the market. to vote for the nominees of Morgan," schemes for the better management ot county affairs.

Mr. Wulffs head is level lice powers can compel it. The passage of a simple ordinance governing the matter is all that is necessary to accomplish what by the This is a new phase of American politics. these corporations and permits them to go on defaulting at the rate of $2,500,000 per annum in the repayment of the advances made by the Government to construct their liues and pocketing the money. Too many Con Socialistic plan would cost fifty millions to do.

Morgan's absurd plan would involve gressmen have had their hats chalked over The Indiana Wickedness. New York World (Dein.i The Democrats of the Indiana Legislature do not justify the recently expressed opinion that their party has abandoned its habit of blundering. It seems gratuitous folly for the Democrats to resist by violent methods the seating of the Lieutenant-Governor. It is not Democratic to attempt to defeat the will of the people. Taxes Are Not Spontaneous.

Host on lla nld: Money does not come into the treasury of a people spontaneously and without sacrifice. very dollar raised in this way is the result of taxation. It is gained by the self-dtnivl of those from whom it is taken. When tuxes are raised some men pay them, and thea men are so much the poorer from the amount drawn from what would otherwise be theirs for other purposes. Coppering the Knaves.

Brooklyn Ewjle The Democrats in the Indiana Legislature have got themselves ic bad shape. Their own Supreme Court has de. t-ided against them on the Lieutenant-Governorship question, and they should rectify their political frontier as soon as possible. The same is the case with the Democrats in the New Jersey Legislature. The nominees of the Know-Nothing party were not always members of the Know-Nothing lodges.

The Know-Nothings sometimes indorsed Whigs, or Democrats, or Free-Soilers, according as they understood the bias of the candidates. The great political the condemnation of at least four blocks of property from north to south to accommodate trum, and the public educators and the employer are the causes of city and county corruption; (2) that the filthy condition of the streets in the spring as the frost leaves the ground, the high charges for municipal advantages, the alleged unequal distribution of public benefits and public burdens between the poor and the rich are due to the influence of wealth. This is a fair summary of the charges. Are they true? The specific charges make pointed reference to the County Board corruption. Is it not a notorious fact that two or three of the most prominent corruptionists of the County Board are members of the secret labor organizations and that a committee representing some of those bodies was recently appointed to whitewash those individuals? The press, and the pulpit, and the public educators have in the meantime sought to expose the abuses that the corruptionists might be punished and that means might be devised to prevent such rascalities in the future.

It is not true that the alleged filthy condition of the city under the influence of spring Hoods is due to the influence of wealth. The rich and well-to-do people of Chicago contribute by way of taxation, and privately, for the cleansing of the streets. The sewerage of the city is paid for out of the general taxes, so is the street cleaning. The largo and middle-class property-owners pay the lion's share of the whole cost. If streets are not improved in the portions ot the city where the workingmen mostly reside it is the fault of the property-owners, mostly artisans and members of Morgan's lodges.

The street-paving and new sidewalk improvements are made by special assessment on the real estate benefited. Only the paving of the crossings is paid for out of the general taxes. If, therefore, streets are in bad condition and unpaved, sidewalks bad, and sewerage defective, it is the fault of the working-men property-owners cr of the representatives of the workingmen in the Council, who do not properly attend to their duties, and who are unmindful of the interests of their constituents. If the streets where the employers reside are well paved and kept in cleanly condition the property -owners pay for the same. Besides paying taxes for the paving, sewering, and general cleaning all over the city, they pay private parties for special efforts in this direction as for street-sprinkling, for instance.

It is not true, either, that the poor are all "taxed to the full limit of the law," as Morgan falsely asserts and as the convention has affirmed. There was probably not a lot-owner or house-owner in the convention that would sell his property for four times the amount of his assessments. It is a generally known fact, too, however contrary to law the fact may be, that the personal-property tax of the working jeople is a mere trifle, and that most of them go scot free. But if there is inequality in the law the workingmen themselves are to blame. The Assessors are elected by a vote ot the people.

Every workingman who is a citizen has a vote which counts for just as much as that of the capitalist or the millionaire. The demands reveal the Socialistic character of the labor organizations which con An English paper plumes itseif upon the remarkable discovery that Senator Iaulis of Kansas, like the name he bears, is four-sevenths Our esteemed neighbor across tne Atlantic should take its medicine as cheerfully as possible. A country that consumes as much quinine as the United States of America does cannot be expected to sympathize fully With the English dislike of the "gall in question. THE BUSINESS SITUATION. Man has been making preparations for an early spring trade, but Nature seems to have Other plans.

Be our business-men as enterprising as they may, it is of no use for them to force their spring undertakings against blizzards and zero temperature. The impatience of the business community will therefore have to bo curbed until it shall please Nature to be a little easier with us. the Pacific lines, have obtained free transportation for their friends, or stuffed their pockets with bogu3 retainers and the boodle of the Pacific railroad lobby. As a trustee the hundred tracks through the city, or from the western limits to the river. It would parties include men of all occupations the moan the condemnation ot 200 to 400 acres at some central point in the city for passenger mechanic, the farmer, the banker, the mer Congress has permitted tho profits on the and freight depot purposes.

It would in chant, the clerk, the bookkeeper, the lawyer, the manufacturer, the doctor, the professor, the clergyman. It remained for the initiated volve the payment of many millions of dol Among the signs of this early movement is lars to the companies as compensation for Abe Hewitt docs not bring any charge of futile dalliance" against the Democracy. On the contrary, quite the reverse. And that is what seems to hurt Gov. Hill.

property intrusted to it to be stolen. It makes little difference which of the pending bills is adopted; both are made up of empty promises and are designed to postpone and finally avoid bringing the Pacific railroad ring to justice. An honest Congress would workingmen of Chicago to organize a party the large outflow of money from the banks. The loans of the New York associated banks disturbances. Supposing the city could pay all this, and for extending -iaducts over a are now over larger than last year quarter mile width of tracks for several strictly within the lines of one class of wage-workers, and within the circle of the oath-bound secret society.

What do the people of Chicago, outside of these secret lodges the at this time, while the legal-tender item has fallen off $10,000,000 and the sieeie 3,000,000. miles, what street could stand the jam of passengers issuing from the depots aud going first demand at least 75 per cent of the net earnings in repayment of the Government loans, and then if necessary proceed by investigation to learn what further steps could taxpayers, the dealers, the merchants, the towards them in different directions? How could thousands of teamsters get their freight, clerks, the non-union workingman who meets The surplus reserve is $11,000,000, against $25,000,000 last year. The shipments of currency to country points from this city have been large of late, for this time of year, and be taken to compel restitution. and in what direction should they go after on taining it? This demand of the Labor con his fellow-workman without a grip think of the issue presented Are they willing to establish oath-bound class rule in this city? It Would Ileally Seem no. St.

Louis It may be npninst temperance man's principles to recognize tfl right of a State to license a saloon at all. but it would seem to be much more inconsistent to combine with saloonkeepers against these who are willing to abolish something like two-tbirds of the houses to which such a multitude of evils are attributed. New York, which a few weeks ago was gain WHO IS TO BLAME FOR IT vention is only referred to for the purpose of ing in currency, has recently been drawn on The fifth resolution of the United tabor demonstrating the brainless character of the party's platform, adopted Saturday, is as And then again, what do those candidates propose to do if elected Their platform, as we have pointed out elsewhere, is undiluted piaiiorm oi trie convention and the crazi- The President scratched his puzzled head, And wearily to himself he said: If I make Smith and Jones Commissioners, Why, I snub the Brown petitioners. Let me think. By all that's lucky A ray of hope comes from Kentucky! I've heard of a race of beings there Who neither vote, nor drink, nor swear; Nor go on strikes, nor ever shirk.

Nor grumble when they're told to work. Why should I choose political quacks, Played-out demagogs, partisan hacks. For posts of honor, profit, or trust? By all that's honest, and true, and just, I'll bounce this army of bilks and flunkeys And make my choice from the working monkeys. A holy cairn brooded over the country yesterday. From the countless churches whose spires point heavenward arose the voice of praise and thanksgiving and the Indiana Legislature wasn't in session.

to a considerable extent. These events, coming in February, are significant. The money market is not stringent by any means, ness of its authors. They would spend tens Socialism, and proposes confiscation and gen of millions of dollars of the people's money a. i niu out puoiic streets are given to a few great corporations, which by extortionate charges for street-ear service, pas, and electrical means eral subversion of society.

The antecedents for what could be done far better for nothing. a but it is firmer than it was a fortnight ago, and if the reserves of the banks continue to run off in the next four weeks as they have in of those of their nominees who are known or communication and light, tiieh from the peo and of the men behind them emphasize the pie an amount of money above the legitimate cost of the service, which, if turned from their greedy pockets into the public treasury, would be the last four a flurry such as we saw last dangerous character of the platform, which if Important If True. Atlanta Conntirution: Nothing seems to to more certain than that the curtain has been rung down forever on the prejudices and the offensive sectionalism that have heretofore operated to divide the American people. The partisan politician may flourish for a while on the memories of the War. but each ta ssing day carries ti further to the rear.

amply sufficient to pay the current expenses of We take pleasure in assuring Mr. Lowell that none of his remarks in which he seemed to speak disrespectfully of Richard III. gave any-personal offense to citizens of Chicago. King Richard has no adherents in this citv. it were enforced would speedily reduce Chi fall will be among the probabilities.

Admonished by the troubles of last spring, tne city and mane every street a boulevard, and the poorest districts of the city more clean and cago to the condition of a wilderness of un employers have been taking special pains to tenanted houses and blasted businesses. healthy than those portions now occupied by the rich. meet the demands of their men in advance of any actual outbreak, and the labor situa- It is implied in tms resolution that the THE SQUEEZE I PORK. wealthy and well-to-do people of the city are tiou is unusually clear of clouds. The labor Naomi was 5M) years old when she got married.

Possibly there is a suggestion of comfort in The price of pork in this market continues to go up. It advanced about J1.S5 last week, responsible for extortionate charges for Viewing the weather of the last two or three days with as calm and unprejudiced a frame of mind as possible, we would like to know if Mr. Greely thinks he is making a proper return for the confidence reposed in him by a trusting and credulous people. Ing classes are pretty weil employed. In It's this for the distinguished agitator Miss -absurd, though, to particularize.

this city they are investing their savings to and apparently the end is not yet. The arti street-car and gas service, and for the grant Chi-asr Lives in the l'resent. Roston Herald: It was a terrible let-down thai Mr. Lowell gave Chicago when he dropped from politics to Shakspeare. Notwithstanding Mr.

Lowell's eloquent plea, it is doubtful if the bard of Avon could carry a single ward in Chicago. of valuable franchises to corporate monop an unusual extent, in nouses ana lots, it is significant, too, that the renting season here olies; and on this implication is based an ef cle sold yesterday at 16.37,V per barrel for May delivery, which is nearly above the price of a month ago. The reason, or the apology, for this uprush in prices has been fort to set the poor against the rich. Now, has begun mucn earner tnan in previous what are the facts? As a general rule it has years. There is a large inflow of business been the representatives of the wealthy and men and others, and the demand for houses and tlats teems to be nearly up to the sup previously stated to lie in the fact that the hog crop of the West is very much less than In the name of the working masses of this great country, who have suffered enough already from the unjust and ruinous competition of Chinese and convict labor, is there no champion to arise and denounce in fittinir terms the scheme of a few Kentucky capitalists to flood this fair land with cheap South American monkey labor? Where is Rohrback? trolled the convention.

If they eould be car well-to-do people who have sought to reduce the price of gas and street-car service, and was thought earlier in the season. The pack ply. who have steadily endeavored to make the The week was without remarkable events in mercantile business. There was a satis ing of the whole West for the last four months is some 300,000 hogs less than for the wealthy corporations pay for the valuable ried out they would involve the confiscation of the property not only of every corporation, but the confiscation of half the private property of the city as well. The proposition to force the steam railroads to enter the city by a common route is grotesquely absurd.

factory demand for staple goods and very same time last year, and the record of this franchises wnich they seek. Take the Lttie speculation. It is an encouraging fact city alone has fallen behind 700.000 head. The stock of mess pork in Chicago at pres last meeting or the Council and it will be found that it was the rep that the increase in bank clearings is mainly It would involve an expenditure of fifty mill ent is estimated at 150,000 barrels, and the resentatives of districts in which the employers mostly reside who tried to CUHhENT XOTiSS. Beggar to doctor Please, kind sir, help me.

I've twelve small children." Doctor "Put out your tongue." Texas tiifiingt. First citizen" Well, I guess we shall have a pretty early spring this year." Second citizen As for me, I'm sure of it. My wife bgan her spring bonnet operations two weeks ago." Xcv llatei St iv. Two retired United States Admirals live in London Edward Simpson and R. M.

Stenebel. They evidently want to live in a country where they occasionally can refresh themselves bv the sight of a war vessel. Uoxttn l'ot. Clara John what lovely flowers They look as if they had just been gathered. Why, there's a little dew upon them! Jobjn (somewhat embarrassed) Due upon theci! Not a cent, Clara, I assuie you; not a cent! Life.

"Well," said the bookkeeper, "Benson's always good in an emergency." "I know it," said Old Hyson, but he is drunk all the ret of the time, and we can't hive an emergency on hand every day to keep him sober." Benson goes. Harden I see that some newspaper men have formed a club and called it the Homeless Club," remarked Robinson. Does that mean that they have no "No." replied Lightaead: keep down the price of gas at $1 per 1,000 We've Improved on That Style. San Francisco Alia: Chicago proposes to found a school for the education of Christian workers. The tirst Christian workers were educated at the carpenter's ben'h and in fishers' huts on ths shores of Oalilec.

1 It-coming Monotonous. New York a.jn: Really this importunate uv quirj, Will Cleveland run again? is getting to very castanean. Will a duck swimi It is supposed that it will if it can get the water. Will President run again He will, if lie can get tW chance. Cause for Congratulat ion.

Manchester (N. Union The 4th ol March ought to be a day of jubilee throughoat the country, for there has seldom been greater cause for thanksgiving than will be found in demise of the Forty-ninth Congress. Protection in the South. Savannah The protection idea is noi spreading in the South, and if there is a break ia the ranks of the Democratic party it will not caused by the spread of that idea in this portion of the Union. ions by the municipality in the form of damages and expenses, and would entail inconceivable inconvenience and mischief, as pointed out elsewhere.

The demand, more feet, while the fellows who are supposed to represent the workingmen's wards with Now that the smoke of battle has partially cleared away, and the atmosphere is again comparatively transparent, there may be dimly descried in the distance the imperturbable Ignatius Donnelly sitting on a barb-wire fence aim calmly ciphering out the conclusion that Shakspeare not only did not write Richard but that he didn't write Shakspeare. It is high time either to revise the rules of the prize-ring or compel the members of the Indiana Legislature to conform to those now In vogue. By their reckless disregard of even the commonest and most universally observed forms governing contests with bare knuckles or hard gloves they have already done much to render the time-honored institution of the prize-ring ridiculous and to disgust all its true and generous patrons. three honorable exceptions, Aid. Ryan and Aid.

Schack of the Fourteenth Ward and over, is based on the false assumption of daily sacrifice of life at street crossings Aid. Ernst of the Fifteenth commenced, as they did last year, the game to force up the through the present system but loss of life can be prevented by the simple method of requiring the railroad companies to place gates at all the crossings, as is done already outside of New York, which indicates that the gain is in legitimate trade. The iron market has shown so much strength that a small advance in bar is to be made. When the statistics of supply are considered, it is surprising that the reactions in the market have not been greater. The production of pig-iron in this country in lvyj was 5.jU0.0iJ0 tons, against in and the output of cut nails was kegs, or 1,404, ITS greater than in 1V55.

Consumers have taken this increase of supply very readily, and unless there is some unreasonable speculation it would that prices must for some time hold their own. The textile trade is between seasons, but advices from the country indicate that the demand will be good. As to collections, there is. to say the least, no more than the usual compliant. It is diftivult to find a uj-thing ntercstins in packing season closes with the end of February.

Hence no further additions can be made to the quantity out of which the men who have sold it short can fill their contracts. How much they have agreed to deliver cannot well be told, but the aggregate yet outstanding cannot be les3 than twice the stock, and may be nearer three times as much as is on hand. Of course it is known that a single lot of 250 barrels will sometimes go a long way round in the matter of deliveries, bjt when it is all owing to one man, or to one set of men working in harmony, it is another thing. Such is said to be the case now, but nobody knows anything about it, unless it be the ones who hold the market in the hollow of their hand, and they will not tell. It is equally difficult to find out who will be the principal losers by the ulvaucj in price for boodle sake.

The workingmen of the Second Ward will find that both Appleton and Mueller, whom they helped to elect, were with the gang on that so was Hillock, the at many. The Council can order this done under penalty at any meeting, and after that only representative of the Fifth Ward pres nooody win be nurt by trams in crossing streets. Had uot Morgan and his convention ent at the meeting so were the two Alder 1 "it sense enough to know that The second de men from the Sixth, the two from the Sev only tnttan, tnat tney will De Home less will than Yurk .5 an. ever low. enth, the two from the Eighth, the two from the Tenth, the two from the Sixteenth, and mand, that the city shall take possession of all the pas, electric, telegraphic, and streetcar companies' property, is equally absurd.

The New Orleans Picayune asserts that as a candidate for the next Presidency Grover Cleveland is as sure of the votes of the South as though they were actually cast and counted. The statement, however, is somewhat indefinit, if not misleading, for ii the Southern votes were really Joe May I5e Happy Yet. Peoria Tntimcript: The imliciUions now art thatJoeMackin will not apply for pardon, the chances are that ho will soon be surrounded by so many old chums thiit it will seeta Chicago. St. Peter Editor of the Daily i'MlWr, eh Applicant That's what I was.

"And bent your whole energies towards tickling the lowest classes of society in order to catch votas ou election- the two from the Seventeenth, Those wards and the Fourteenth are the residence Where caa the city obtain the money to pay 8.