t TITE SCTJANTON TI?IBUNE-1VK)S OAT MOANING. MARCH U 18i I. SCRANTON TRIBUNE F. E. WOOD, Manager. General frjiufnrn paii v am weekly ix Sriun ton. Pa., uy Tin: Timit'XE PlHiUMm C'OMrANY. Xrw Tonic Office: Tiiiepse Prn.DiNO, Frank B. BMT, Mavaoeil Uutmit at thr rnttoflte at .Smin'mt. ftt Bteand-Ckm UtU Hatter. THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE. BCBANTON, ItAROB w, IBM. liv MtDOCitra the tnriti Dtmooraoy puts a tax on Industry . anil by adopt ing iin income t.'.x it wants to levy blackmail on br.in. enterprise nw thrift. Add to this its various scheiuos lor polluting tlio ballot ami vitiating th currency, rad you hntt n nun of political villainy aaatonad to Utiuverr's own Us to. SECUET MARRIAGES. From its ntj nature, tt ceremonial of marriage is intend I m a testimonial of publicity. Tht whole tenor ami purport of the legal raatflotioM t" which this ceremonial is surrounded j:o to preserve it from the aocial MB' Kers of secrecy, it requires :ie ex tended argument to prove that lb p so cial purity of tho home, the houor ami self-respect of the family and the pros ervation, unsullied, Of all those intlu eneaa which grow out of reputable ilo meatioity, are inseparably allied to the widest frHiiknes In the announcement of the marriage contract, The lus inent that subterfnga is accepted as optional, the moment that laws rtqulr ius the registration uf vital statistics permit tho concealment at will of otii olal laws, tiii moment ministers or magistrates lend themselves without reluctance to this couspiri.-y of unri tal silence, that mom nt grav danger begins to threaten the American home. Secret marriages uuy oocaaionally end happily, and there may, in individual instances, be sotn.) plausibility in the excuses eOred for the veiling of u ceremony of which ::ono should bj ashamed. But, aa a general rale, ap plying to an overwhelming majority of cases, concealment is wrong an i should te bitterly opposed. We do not envy the feelings of tho .Jfew York clergyman who pertnltte I tho wily tongue of Colonel Breckiu ridge to beguile lim into pronouncing, in secrecy, the service which, on April 29 of last year, made that deceptive Kentnckian for the second time a boa band at the very period when, as shown by sworn testimony, he was sustaining relations of unutterable dishonor with a woman whom the law did not r?coj r.!z'; a woman whom Breckinridge bad betrayed by false protestations of pa ternal interest and had subjected to treatment which no polite adjective Sufficiently characterises. While in its legal aspects tt'.is concealed union, solemnised in the p triors of Rev. Dr. Paxaoo's, New York home and sur rounded by all the accessories of mys tery and ill-foreboding, plays no part in the trial of Miss Pollard for dam nges, it must wt igh heavily upon the conscience of its clerical factor; and it Fervss a useful purpose in renewing at tention to a fruitful source of social scandal, sorrow and wrong. We hear mtie'i nowadays about the need of uniform legislation relating to marriage and divorce. But here is an evil which tha law wholly overlooks ; an evil which has caused more suffer ing, more disappointment and more provocation to divorce and crime than any othar single feature in this whole category. The plain teaching of common sene, that bo who is uwilling to let tho world know of his choico of a wife, should have no right to the le e;i designation of a husband, ought to bl Hullident to abolish the secret mar riage. But it appir.ntly is not. This form of romance is so far from dimin ishing that it is steadily oa the in crease; and complacent legislatures give it tho benefit of a quasi endow ment by passing laws governing the registration of marriages which have all the elasticity of India rubber in A 11311st. If reform ever overtakes so cial custom in this important matter, it ought not to pain ) this side a com plete revision of the statutes governing vital statistics. Lillian RCSSETX'I refujal to rido in the same car with that mn Britor., Henry Irvihe, must be intensely crush ing to llr, Irving Can Lillian be in training for another Goddess of Liber ty campaign? One of thoae practical beneficences that deserve grateful publicity has just been instituted by , the Lehigh and Wilkes-Burrs Coal company in the re mission of rent in behalf of those of its tenant miners upon whom the slack times have pressed most heavily. Ac tions like this are open to abuse, thanks to dtmsgOgOSS who trade in industrial discontent ; bnt to the msjsrity of sensi bl people such kindnesses appeal with telling force, nor is anything lost by them in the end. Tin, IXI8HHCS of byxiocritea is no argument against trns religion; bnt. the prevalence of many Ilreckinridgos in congress would force tho country to move for a complete new deal. SENATORIAL REFORM. In connection with the favorable re port by tho honso committee of the proposition to elect United HUtoi senn tors by direct popular vote it is perti nent to suigest that nomr hotter mrans than any now in vogue be employed to mnke the popular vote an honest vote. The congress which pusSM an act re pealing fedorsl supervision of federal elections, thus tacitly inviting the fradnlent elements to do their worst, is hardly tho congress to propose a pop ular olcclion of senators and then ex pect the reputable citizenship of the northern states to f ill heartily in with the scheme. Genuine electoral reform does not flow from such a source. There is nnother question of equity, in connection with this proposition to change the method of electing sena tors. It is one which even radical re formers do not urge with much seri ousness, and yet it is ono of growing importance. Occasionally some east ern newspaper or speaker calls fit ful attention to the fact that n pocket borough" like Wyoming or Nevada or Idaho has the same repre sentation in tho. United States senate that is accorded to Now York or Penn sylvania. At iutervsls the proposi tion to consolidate some of these alkali deeerts recurs, is briefly debated and indifferently dropped. But the inher ent injustice of continuing such unfair equality of representation must some lay lead to more aggressive action ; nd there is no better time to propose this than at a time when the vaulting greed of these western senatorial silver barons is "holding up" the legislation of tho entire natioa in an' uiicomcioii able effort to extort free ooiuugt blackmail. Tho net result of the present agita tion for a change in tho method of choosing senators will probably be nil. Tho principal faults with tho prosiMit lyitein are faults that would not bo remedied by constitutional amend ment. So long as the mediocre wealth can buy its way to senatorial sinecures, and dysp.'ptic deuiogogues command at will tho support of disaffected agricul turists, that long will there be Mends and snnoynnOS in the upper chamber of congress, let the system of election be what it Will What is need ) I is a revival of civic vigilance, and when this It secured, It will matter little what method is pursued, foi tin result will be fully able to take oare of itself. Anxious inquirer: Yes, the Uultsd States is a civilised country, with the pi saible exception of Stroudsbiirg. i n 4, No DOUBT the rope whereby Mur derer Puryosr was ly netted formed a very appropriate souvenir; but the ethics of tho case will not be complete until this heiapeu strand is tied to a second bOW knot, this time about the throats of the law's latsst dsfl irs. If 1-; curious how the lynching spirit manifests itself along Democratic lini j. THE LYNCHING INDUSTRY. We remember recently to havo seen a formidable compilation of statistics, tho purport of which went to prove that lyueiiinits la tcis country nre ab normally ou the Increase and that tho increase is not sectional but general. Unfortunately these figures iiro not nov at our command; Intone scarcely cee.ls them to bo convinced that vigi lante justice is nowadays nn uncom monly common resort. Tho merest glance at the news pages of our daily teens will almost any day reveal graph ic instances of tho substitution of mob law for the orderly processes of the courts, and a great majority of these Instances will apparently bo without visible provoc ition. There may of tea be aggravating circumstances calcula ted to Inflame tbo passions of the lynchers, but not in one case in ten has the regularly ordained procedure of the law been siven a chance to vindicate itseif. Without testimony and with out trial, the law baa been voted inad rquate, and in its place baa been rushed forward the hot an d raeking passion of an excited populace eager to shed hu man blood. This was done in Strondsburg the other day, and it is done in perhap? 90 per cent, of all the other lynch- ings of which there is contemporary record. No citizen of Monroe county cay fairly claim that the established courts of that county have shown them selves inadequ to to deal with crimi nals lfke Puryear. Ttiere was no evi dence to sustain the belief that if the murderer of Ehlers had not been strung up like a dog by ferocious and unreasonable men he would have es caped his deserved punishment through legal qnibblo or ovasivo technicality. To the bsnch of that judicial district the peoplo of Stroudsburg, among oth ers, had recently electel a fair an1, conscientious jurist who would have exercised every proper influence to the end that strict justice might prevail. Ortainly nothinir in the character of Allen Craig justified the insult which the citizens of Stroudsburg placid upon him when they contemned his court and substituted for it the impetuous tribunal presided over by Judge Lynch. Nor ii there such a lack of talent in tho prosecuting officers of Monroe county as to support the con tention that Pttryear'l punishment by a vengeful mob was thj only alterna tive from his ignominious acquittal. How, then, are w to account for the increasing prevalence of the mad wish to overthrow law and order whenever consplrnons crime has been commit ted? Am the people of this generation moie excitable, impetnons and un thinking than were their predecessors'.' Has the advance of civilisation carried with it a corresponding increase in the American idcapacity for sober self government? One does not like to be lieve any r.uch thing. To do so would bo to accept one of the fundamental tenets of pessimists and to affix a pre mium on general ignorance and stttl qaated custom. Yet it is a rollout fact that tiio "lynching bee" is a dis tinctively Americin industry, which, although other American industries may droop and suspend under adverse tariffs and sentimental scures, staadily continues to declare bloody dividends in glowing ghastliness and augmented number. Wo do not pretend to ex plain this hidous fact. We cannot explain it. We can simply point to it mid shnddor. ago, is really to bo 'congratulated that it got off so easily. In aitkr years it will doubtless prove interesting rending for sonrchers in old newspaper files to learn how, in the year IIM, 5.000,000 able bodied ImerioanS worn thrown ont of employ ment, forced to subsist on charity ami subjected, in many instances, to fright fill p-tuiry and despair, as a tribute to the Democratic party's all-ronnd inca pacity to legislate. The perusal of sUCb incidents its the arming of 75.000 die OalifornianS, ill tho hope of demanding work, mid of the coiiteiiiplsted inva sion of the Mtionaljaapilal by yet other "grand armlet of Ibe unemployed, ' piloted by picturesque cranks or de luded by economic freaks, ought to af ford soope for a largo variety of In structive reflections Wo are making some very Impressive history just now. ONLY A PRETTY DREAM. "Every on knows," writet our friend Dr. D. II. Strong, "Hint tho market valu of silver is less than its colli villus . Bnt the silver dollar lias a value ns a medium of sxchouge its cuirencv value, 111 line which is iqual to the currency value or any other dol lar, It will Luy j iiut ns much Hour and sugar as a gold dollar will buy. As long, then, us no disOOUHt exists on it in actual commercial relations, for which the dollar It made and Died, to maintain that as a olranUttng medium it is hrlow p ir Is to confust its intrin sic value with its currency value, or iis valu ' as n circulating medium, And to do this is simply to work in favor of tile prejudice of the gold power, to tho exclusion of silver us a money metal," This, by way of answer to TriBTniB t'NF.'s objections to the Bland bill lnfl tion. 0 suspect that our esteemed cor respondent here admits rathor morn than he Intended to admit. If there is any clear Inference from his carefully drawn distinction between "intrinsic value" and "currency alue" it is thai "currency value," or iu oth.r words, the legal stamp of the government, is '.ho ruling value. But it ths govern ment stamp can make I I cents worth of silver perform all the trade functions that are performed, for instance, by 100 cents worth of gold, why use gold at all? Why wasto so much precious intrinsic vain when the mere stamp of government will create all the value needed in financial operations? Oar friend's rule ought to work both ways, If it bo urged as a measure of protec tion against the gold power, it ought also to deliver u-, in logic, if not in fact, from tho equally obnoxious mschirations of the silver power, and put us finally upon the ground floor of 11 fiat currency of unlimited paper and ink. It is ono of the recurring fallacies inherited from greenback days that currency value is a thing altogether independent of intrinsic value. We readily recall hearing an earnest green back frieud, gallant Colonel lieury Clay Bradsby, once assail our juvenile ears with the sophistry that a brick of sand and mortar, stamped by tho govern mntwith tho words "One dollar," would be every wbit as valuable for ali practical purpos na an equally large brick of pure cold, bearing the identi cal impress. 1 ho colonel wassincero in what ho said; and no doubt to prove it, would, bad opportunity offered, cheerfuliy have rejected the gold brick in favor of the cube of dirt. But, the colonel was an enthusiast. Knthusi nsts do not control the world of com merce. In the practical ranks of cold and calculating business endeavor no such cheerful martyrdom is encount ered these prosaic days. Monoy must have intrinsic as well as flat value or it will bo contemptuously rejected! and th" very fact that treasury notas based originally on silver bnllion hadtobi ri'deemsd by the secretary of tho treas ury in hard dollars of glittering gold proves that the fi it rrM.i mint ho velf gated to the limbe ot pretty dreamt among them a desire to do track work which always acts as a stimulus to cy cling in general. The club has not deolded whether they will bold the circuit meet later In the season or not. It will all depend upon the financial outoomeof the first one. This decision of the club to hold the first meet is received by the riders with enthusiasm, and already th" good natnred competition between rulers is apparent, winch means a largo number of entries, e Young Gregory. f the Qreen Ridge wliuslinati who did snob excellent Illicit work last season, is seen 0.1 the avenue daily practicing short spurts Gregory is a nsrvy little rider, mi l with his past victories before him 1 spur him to more triumphs lie ought to miike i name for hims ilf and tho city in which be lives. According to Win - lie, who holds a record of 1.50 and h fruclion, (iiugory is coiunoied of the ti.1T that makes spurdy men. The Veor '04 witnesses a decided drop in prices. One hundred ami twenty live dollars is the standard price, are- luction of from 1 1st vein's prices of course, there urn wheels ot a higher price, but they nru lor track raclnu priors, una the extreme li.:lttus which b nisnds extra hue an 1 ditlieult work m ci ssitates 11 higher nt wv, IV heels an also tie houtrhl at i,'i and $10,) that urt up to date in line of Improvements, .'ener.tl contour and k.iisisuteu.1 tor the hiiiiio length of lime iik aro the more costly mounts. 0 I, ! Olyphant's Bfanlfeat Dettiny iHyihiit Record TheEcRANTon Tribunk i.i L'iven to pub lishing the prophecies of u 1 Its lead lug citizens oa to the Electric City in 1000, ii. ir 11, 1 iIn race to (iivpliaiit Mm vnicu of ni uiihucy is that our t jvii wd be b ait the thirty-first ward ! .ScranUni 111 the twentieth century. WAR I on scrofula, and every form of im pure blood im bululy II--. 1 BarsaparUla, tho great conqueror of all blood iliM-unes. Ii WOMEN aro to be granted the snf frae, s they have been in several Western states, and ns It is proposed to do in Massachusetts, our municipal elections ought first to be made fit. places lor tneir prssenr,", few womn Of self respect would caro to vote in a city like Troy, under a boss domination that uies pistols and clubs. -4 Ir Tiir, authorities of Monroe county do not make some of those Stron lsbnrg lynchers dance to their own quickstep, thsy are not the mon for their respect ive positions. 4 AFTXB AU.,this Breckinridge scandal may servo a usetnl piirpnHe in prac tically illustrating what n blue blooded southern gentleman ought, not to be U.NTir, THR Republican party places on the fedsral statute books a firm law protecting tho oppressed citizen In his just right to vote, and to have that, ballot counted as osst, it will have failed in n solemn duty, and deserved the defeats that it has received. Bltbfl It -public 111 government is n fraud on its face, or fraud must be everywhere eliminated from that government's franchise. BUGS DISORDBBXY. scenes as thoss that have recently bewi enacted in Colorado are logical conseqiiances of tho Popu llslic uprising of which Wait ) was one of the accidental political Upheavals, From 1 1 10 day of Jack Cade, with his schemo to compel every baker in Lon don to Bell three-penny loaves of broad for a ha'penny and to msko evory ale pot have three rings, under penalty of tho bartender's deeapitotion, dowu to tho time of our modern Lnvellings and Waltes and Pefftirs, tho uniform harvest of ignorant revolution has been chaos and civic disorder. Tho country, instead of feeling sorry ovor tho bitter results it has realizod from tho Popti listic propaganda of two and four years and Wheelmen. The Bet an ton Blcyola club is making arrangements to boll a rare meet at the Driving park on July 4. Th Question of holding a meet ou the fourth has bien under deliberation for some time, mid on Friday night the comnultoe ni"t and derided on a loonl meet. In clas B, or m ikrs' amateur olasi. the entries will bo npou to wheelmen rnrinif for manufacturers from nil over the United Ktatoi, and it is expctii. fart assured, that under the class B ssveral of I he cracks will compete. Sourer and Tyler, who will race m the Union 'cycle team this year. will In all probability be present, and if Willis Wlndle, who formerly mated Tyler OB the Union team, dsoidtS to do any r ring this season, h will also b here. All three of thssn mon ate well pleased with thS treatment received by them at the hands of the Srruntou wheelmen mid will undoubtedly grasp the opportunity of vlsitiug Scranton again. The lntest innovations in tho bicvcle lino are the woo ln rims. Their chiof points of merit lie in lightness aud strength, while thoy givo 11 quite spurt effuct to the whole wheel. List vear they were in uss quite extensively by racing men in connection with Ih Palmer tire and provul speedy. This year the manufacturers furnish woo Wu or steel rims, whichever the buyer do- sires. e s e In the ptiro amateur or class A. the entries aro limited to wheelmen livlmr within a radius of ''00 miles. This will give local wheelmen an opportunity to enter the class A races without being out ciusieil by an army of riders wh follow the truck nil Season. The meet is principally held for the bent-tit of the h-cil wheelmen, nnd to awaken SEE WHAT $9 jo Will buy in the way of a a a a a a AT CONRAD'S A SPtCIAL EXCURSION TO WASHINGTON D, C. Via CENTRAL R.R. CF Ii. I., WILL UK BOB OB Thursday, March 22,' 94 Affording tho residents of Boranton and vicin ity an ox-ellunt opportunity to visit Washing' ton It the mi-xt delightful SOOSoD nt the year. Kr"rinl excursion tirk"ts from Perantnti will U' Hultl. genii to po only on train b'avlnir N.-rnnton at s.10 m Mnrrlil".', an.l for return (many train until Mar'li 21 laohwVQ, TICKETS FOR THE jh7 eA BOUND TKIP ' t 1 Throned narlormrs will he attached tntlii train, at which scats may be ha.l at S charfS o: f fill each JENKINS & MORRIS EASTER MILLINERY Q OPENING will occur wt.dni.nday.m aim ii st It will b the treeteel showing uf FASH IONABLE MILLINERY seen in this city, BtylCS that fon cannot see olsewhoro. 406 SPRUCE STREET NEXT TO DIME BANK, WATCHES DIAMONDS JEWELRY SILVERWARE SPECTACLES EDWIN G. LLOYD 423 Lackawanna Avenue. MARCH 19, 1894. TRIBUNE COUPON Your ohoice of three beautiful pictures, "Telephone Girl," "De llverins Christinas Presents" mid "Maidens Swinging." Scud by mail or messenger or bring coupons like litis of Unco dillcr ont. (Intra, with 10 t ints, stamps or coin, to TRIEUNE OFFICE, Cor. 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