THE SCHAHTON TRIBUNE TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 8, 1895. tit cxm(on Zx6mt HJBU3H1D DAILY IN ScRAITrOlt. PA.. BT TBI TatBBM PUBLiaillKO OOKTART. t. P. KINGSBURY, hit, OWI . C. H. RIPPCC, e'V Thus. LIVY . RICHARD, CeiTOii. W. W. DAVIS, SlIKIIIHTIIIKHT. W. W. V00NQ8, Aoy. Hui't BlW TORE Omol : TRIBOMI BUILDIHO. FRAM a QRAY, MANA01B. INTIR1D At THI F03T0ri0l AT 8CRANT0M, Al SI00SD-0H6S MAlt MATTiR. "Printers' Ink," the recognlied Journal for advertisoro, rates TllK SCRANTON TRIBUNE as tlio best advertising medium In Northcnstoru Pennsylvania. " Printera' Ink" know. SCRANTON, JANUARY 8, 1895. THE SCRANTON OF TODAY. Come and Inspect our city. Elevation above the tide, 740 feet -, Extremely healthy. Estimated population, 1891, 103,000. Registered voters, 20.IB9. Value of school property, J750.000. Number of school children, 12,000. Average amount of bank deposits, $10, (100,000. It'sthe metropolis of northeastern Penn sylvania. Can produce electric power cheaper than Niagara. No better point in the United States at which to establish now Industries. See how we grow: Population In 18B0 9,w Population In 1870 ""J Population In 18S0 Population In 1890 I21'' Population In 1894 (estimated) 103.W0 And the end is not yet. No, Anxious Subscriber, It Is not known what dimensions a violation of the liquor law In Lackawanna county would have to assume in order to be visible to. the naked eye of the average constable. The matter Is purely con jectural, hence estimates vary. The Liquor License Problem. In the last legislature it will be re called that Senator Hackenberg. of Northumberland, following out a sug gestion of Hon. R. V. Archbald, of this city, Introduced a bill creating a per manent, bi-partisan, appointive liquor license commission of ten persons learned In the law, the duties of which were elaborately denned. These judges, five from each party, were to serve ten years, each at an annual salary of $5,000 a year and traveling expenses. One from each party was to retire each year and no Judge who had served a full term of ten years was to be eligible to re-appointment. The state was di vided Into twenty-four license districts, with the dates of the licenses so ar ranged that two of the ten judges could reach every district annually. It was provided that one Judge, when assigned to a certain district by the presldiit of the commission, should summon to his assistance a Judge of different faith, but no judge could sit In the district ' 'Wherein he resided, nor be assigned two years successively to the same dis trict, mor be succeeded in any district by a judge of the same political party. The duty of these license Judges was to l)e similar, In the main, to the duty of the Judges of our 'present license courts, except that eacli Judge was to be re quired to personally examine the sev eral premises for which licenses were asked, to ascertain their fitness for the accommodation of the public; to Inves tigate the necessity for the license, and to make inquiry as to the character of th,e several applicants. For some reason, this proposition failed of enact ment, and word has been passed down from those high In influence that the present legislature will be equally un favorable toward not only the Hacken toerg bill but also toward any other measure contemplating the material amendment Of the Hrooks high license Jaw which, In Its present form, upon the authority of Senator Penrose, "has practically eliminated the saloon In fluence from politics." We lo not know that Senator Hack enberg's bill will be re-Introduced; but It la significant, lit this general direc tion, that the State Liquor league has recently sent out word from its Phila delphia headquarters urging Its mem (ben to fcraee themselves for another legislative battle. Enclosed In, the let ter of the league is the draft qf a pro posed memorial of the league to the legislature. It sets forth thiV The petitioners have been Informed that certain bills will be. Introduced Into the legislature for the purpose of changing the present method of granting licenses by transferring it from the courts to nn excise commission; that such a change would work great harm In the adminis tration of the law and regulation of the sale of liquor; that the people have Im plicit confidence in the judges and In the administration of the liquor law by them; that an excise commission would likely become a vehicle of political power, and the petitioners ask that the bills about to be presented be rejected; that the license act be so amended that residents of the cities of the first and second clusset shall be divided into three classes: those do ing a business of $40,000 a year or mora to pay $1,000 ylicense, business of $25,000 shall pay SWoYaiid others 1300. In third-class v xltlos thre are to bo three classes, graded accordlg to their business anl to pay fi'omKiOO to (150 license. The license monef, as now, Is to be apportioned amonA the state, cities, boroughs and townsnips. A feature of the proposed bill Is to allow the selling of liquor ufter 7 p. m. on election days, and after 1 p. m. on Sundays, as In Germany. For violation of tha liquor laws fines are provided, but no Imprisonment, while the present law requires fines and Imprisonment. The proposed bill Imposes a fine of (20 to $100 and Imprisonment of ten to sixty days upon minors who misrepresent their age for the purpose of procuring Intoxicating liquor. ' This letter and this memorial would seem to give ground for the conclusion that the advocates of the Hackenberg bill, far from being discouraged at their rebuff two years ago, will soon renew the flgtit for the Incorporation of (ts essential principle Into our statutory law. This, regardless of the discovery by Senator Penrose that the liquor business in Pennsylvania Is no longer possessed of the desire or the power to exert an Influence upon politics, 1 The Tribune has no disposition now to subtract a syllabi from .the Indorse ment whloh It extended, two years ago, to the proposition that the law Judges of our county courts have enough to T do without taking upon themselves the delicate burden of apportioning out li censes for the sale of intoxicating drink. We appreciate fully the abuses which might develop under an ap pointive system, should the guberna torial head of that system prove to be unworthy of his high responsibility. But such abuses would not bo likely to last more than four years at one time, while under the present adjustment of the license problem, abuses of the spirit and Intent of the Brooks law, In some sections of the commonwealth, are al most perpetual. The state, In licensing the liquor traffic, assumes a responsi bility for the evils growing out of that traffic which Is poorly discharged when the staite requires the same Judge who issues licenses to sit In the trial of cases growing out of such licensing of a busi ness that constantly breeds disturbance In the community. If the state liquor league were shrewd, It would not op pose the establishment of an excise commission; for such opposition puts in the hands of the udvocates of the Hack enberg plun a Btrong presumptive argu ment that the proposed commission would work distinct improvement In the condition of t'hc public morals. Not only that; It also tends to shake the conflQence of tho people In Senator Penrose's assertion that politics and the saloon influence have been llnully divorced. We defy any man to be pious on an icy sidewalk. The city should give no valuable franchises away. When It loans them, In behalf of the people, It should some how get a fair equivalent. - ftiind men fur councils would save the taxpayers of this city many anxious hours. That New Valley Ordinance. We learn from the Elmlra Telegram Shalt "there is a g'IganiUc scheme before councils Just now." That "scheme," ac cording to our contemporary, conalats of "giving itihe rigilut of way of nearly every sbrecit in the olty to the Valley Passenger Company." The Telegram suggests that somebody protest, The Tribune preferred. Before doing tStia suppose we flrsf ascertain the facts. When the Val ley Passenger company leased Its chumter and franL'hists to t'he Scranton Traction company for a good, round sum, tine latter com pany Ihougiht iit was getting some Ithiing itha.t would hold winter. It after ward discovered t:ha,t the charter Was defective, and In order to correct tihose defects it finds 'tlhiat a new ordinance is neoeastaxy. This new ordinance 'Is a dupHcaite of .tlhe old one, with the excep tion tih'.nt 4t Includes a route to Peters burg from tho Nay Aug line along Prea ccift avenue; a route to Con.ne-11 park and tlhe rlghlt ito cross tihe South Side bridge. Tlhe mew ordinance, we under stand, carries wiHh tt no release from the city's fundamental prerogative of 'taxa tion. Councils may at any itlme levy such taxe3 upun itihe cars and equipment of itihe operating company as will com pensate the c!lty for the new privileges accorded to that company. It Is because we bulieve thait councils phould exact sudh compensatory payment, and be cause we have I'lttile fuiith that the pres ent councils will do this, that we tire striving to aid in the election of upright bualmas men to councils. Precedent tva s fully fortified the right of the people to lhave uncap street rail way transportation. If councils do not safeguard that light by the Imposition of adequate taxes and restrictions, the fault Is clearly with the people who elect sue h councils. It is related of a local expounder of the faith cure doctrine that In the midst of an eloquent sermon declaring that all disease was but the creature of a perverted will, he suddenly paused to wipe his spectacles so as to be ablo to continue the readlng of his manuscript. A skeptic In the audience wondered If weak eyesight was a subject of faith cure, but he doubtless overlooked tho Inevitable disparity between precept and practice. The mote In one's own eye Is often the unsusppcted cause of the mountain that appears to Joom up In the distance. Establish a Permanent Census. It Is announced upon the authority of the acting superintendent that the of ficial census of 18S0 will be completed by March 4, lb5. This, to be sure, Is a gain of two or three years upon Its predecessor. But the Interval cjapslng between the enumeration of popula tion und the ending of the census work Is yet much too long. In this day peo ple do not care to wait five years for information as to the condition of things half a decade earlier. In the Ave years that it now takes to compile a census, there Is such rapid growth that when the compilation Is at last complete, It refers not, to the living present, but to the ancient past. The census in many details Is like a newspaper; It should be a bird's eye review of the activities of the day pre ceding its publication. Its news must be news, not history; it must benefit the present by holding a mirror up to it. There Is only a languid interest in these days In statistics which are five years behind the time's. In our own locality, for instance, we kno that five years have witnessed a material change; that instead of having the 75,000 population credited to us In the last cenBus Scranton toduy has 103,000 and Is rapidly growing; andthat Lack awanna county, Instead of falling underneath the 150,000 population mark, as would appear from the census fig ures, Is at this moment nearer 175,000 than 150,000 In population. If a like dis parity exists throughout the country between facts as the census pictures them and facts as they really are, the exaot value of the census of 1890 would readily fall far 'below the popular esti mate of that value. The obvious solution of this problem, it seems to us, is to put the census upon a permanent, non-partisan basis, and make its labors continuous. Ten-year enumerations are too wide apart; the publlo is accustomed to greater speed In the details of its service. A perma nent census department could without difficulty find suinclenf work to do to keep it busy every secular day in the year and every year in the calendar. Suoh a department, properly organized and manned, would be an Invaluable auxiliary to the educational processes of the United States, whereas , the present hop-sklp-and-Jump system of decennial census-takings Is at best lit tle more than a desperate attempt nt the scientific enumeration of facts. It will not bring a blush of honest pride to Lackawanna county's modest brow to learn, upon the authority of our able constables, that our percent age of good behavior with reference to the liquor law Is an even 100. But what beautiful, and consistent understudies for Ananias some of those constables would have made! The inherent weakness of our boasted civilization discloses Itself every time rain falls in winter and freezes on the sidewalks. The constables of this county who cannot see any violations of the Brooks law hereabouts should consult an ocu list. Man is the creature of the food ho eats. A pure food exposition is one sU'p toward a greater and better Scran ton. LEGISLATIVE TOPICS. Need of Compulsory Kducntlon. Pittsburg Commerclnl-Oasette: "The very moclerateand Just measure which was pussed by the lust legislature, huvlng for its object the education of u class of chil dren growing up In Ignorance and neglect, was vetoed by Governor Puttison for reasons deemed sufficient by him, und In his recent message he takes occasion to declare against the principle of compul sory education. He probably foresaw thut If the present legislature re-enacted the measure which he defeated by his veto, his successor In the executive chulr would muke it a law by his signature, lie cun hardly hope to 'prevent Its puss age simply by reasserting his disapproval of the principle upon which It was bused. The bill which Governor Puttison vetoed wns not harsh or unreasonable in its pro visions. H recognized the rights of pa rents to the services of their children, but at the sume time It Bought to secure to those children and to society the rights which can only be obtained through their education. To require that children of a certain uge should be sent to school ii sufficient number of weeks each year to enable them to gain a knowledge of tho elements of a common school training was the least the state could do for a cluss that Is being greatly neglected. It Is not only a great disadvantage to a child of the state to grow to munlfood' without knowing how to read and write, but the ignorance and incapacity which such a condition imposes are menaces against Intelligent citizenship and good government. Popular education Is bused upon the common welfare. It is to pro mote the best Interest of the whole peo ple that millions of dollum are spent an nually In the maintenance of our free schools. If It Is worth while to make edu cation possible for ull, even to the humble and the obscure, it Is certulnly unwise to stop short of the requirement that those children most In need of schooling shall have at least enough of It to keep them out of tho cluss of Illiterates. We havo founded a republic on the basis of free representative government, and as one of tho states of the nation Pennsylvania should leave nothing undone which is necessary to qualify every citizen for an intelligent use of the suffrage." The New Tax Hill. Pittsburg Dispatch: "Tho Impression produced by a reading of the published summury Is that It Increases the taxation on corporations. This is to a certain ex tent the result of sections In which tho diverse and Incongruous methods of as sessing corporate tuxes are revised Into a clear and uniform assessment on a single valuation. A case of this sort is taxation of corporations for transporta tion. I'nder the present luw these cor porations were taxed In three ways, viz., on capital stock, gross earnings and bonds held within the state. V'ndor tho pro posed law they will be assessed at the market vulue of their stocks and bonds, from which deductions are mude for the purpose of uvoidlng double taxation or the taxation of exempt property, and as tho result a tux of four mills Is levied on the proportion of tho mileage of tho corpora tion within the stute. There are features In the bill which are likely to arouse corporate opposition. But as a fulr and uniform measure for deriving revenue from the creutures of state legislation whose operation extend beyond county limits. It is probubly the most carefully drawn and consistent measure ever pre sented for enactment In this stute." Our Kouds and Our 1 orcsts. Reading Herald: "Tho continued pros perity and the absolute safety of the whole country depends upon these ques tions. It enn be demonstrated, beyond the possibility of a doubt, that a continu ance of our present neglect of tree plant ing and forestry will, in time, cause tha greater part of the United States to be come practically a desert, while neglect of the road question, ami a consequent conttnuunce ot the present expensive methods of rural transit, will prevent any considerable revival of prosperity among the rural population. In the mat ter of forestry In this stale, the legisla ture is fortunate In huvlng already em ployed the very best expert engineer and botanist of tho forestry commission. They huve presented such data upon the subject as should enable the legislature, should It feel disposed, to make a good beginning In forestry legislation. In the matter of roads, also, the legislature will huve a considerable range of choice among the numerous bills that have been prepured by those who have given the subject attention, und If thut body Is not too much engrossed In Jobs to give suffi cient of Its time to tho bills that are pre pared by Its working members we may look for at least a start, both in the for estry and road question." The Iluildlng Association Tax. Norrlstown Heruld: "It Is stated thnt tho revenue commission, which Is en gaged in the preparation of a report to be submitted at tho present session of the legislature, proposes to revive the odious tax on building associations. The prin ciple of exempting them from taxation wus udopted in the past in order to en courage the hublt of saving among work Ingmen and women, and thus enabling them to acquire homes. This policy hus done much to establish huhlts of thrift among the people of the stato and It ought to be continued for all time to come. The members of building associa tions are taxed In a hundred ways, di rectly or Indirectly, and the Rtate, with an overflowing treasury, chould be able to get along without this tux. To Impose It Is to strike a tremendous blow at habits of thrift and economy among working people." Tho Proper Argument. Philadelphia Record: "The coming elec trical question In Pennsylvania Is: 'Si'.ull the electrical railways bo permitted to curry freight?" Of course, the owners of railways operated by steam will Insist upon their monopoly. Hut the argument that pushed aside the horse to muke way for the, locomotive muy be used In turn to substitute electricity for steam. It Is the publlo advuntuge which must be consid ered." . . An r.X'Cnndldnto Speaks. Philadelphia Record: "Tho people of Pennsylvania have observed that In re cent years the senate has become a har bor of legislative jobbery and corruption, and they have doubtless Imagined that by providing liberally for Its physical lus tration they might also secure In some degree Its legislative purity. Should such expectation be realized the expenditure for the epicurean baths of the senate, which Hellogabalus might have envied would not have been In vain," Judging Others by Its Own Standard. From the Scranton News. - It Is not. the acme of recklessness to say that "the good ' councllmon" desired by The Tribune will answer that definition to tho satisfaction ot The TrlbuiK only when they work Incessantly for the In terests ot the The Tribune advertising columns,,, ,,1,, , , Then There Are Many Incapable. From the Louisville Commercial. The fact Is that no policy was ever more thoroughly vindicated by a popular ver dict than "McKlnleylsm" was by the elec tions of 1894, and the politicians and Jour nalists who are Incapable of recognizing that fact relegate themselves to the ranks of the Incapable. One Point Overlooked. From the Commercial-Advertiser. The disciples of Mnlthus, who are wor ried about the possible overpopulation of the world, seem to forget thnt the trolley cars are getting In their work. YE liREAKINGE OF YE BOWE. She was of Robyn's Merrye Bande, a roy- sterere so gay, sirre; She bore a bowe of stoute olde yewe and weekly arcwe her paye, slrre; "Give me'youre bowe,"Wlllle Scarlcte sang. She drew the bowo strlngc tuut, slrre, Whenne snuppe yt went, scarce yt wus bente, and, breaking, blushes brought, slrre. A lad ye falre, who saw her plight, turned to her cnvaliero And said, "My deare, I pitye her. Yt makes mo shed a tear. O!" "Beare uppe my pctte," ye yonga man suy de ; "Your pitye kinder choken; Yt's dlamondes to glusse thatte bowe ys notte ye flrste that she's broken." It. J. Beamish, in the Anthracite. Useful and Orna mental Goods LADIES' DESKS. CABINETS. BOOKCASES. LADIES' DRESSING TABLES. TEA TABLES AND LIBRARY TABLES, BRASS AND ONYX TABLES AND CABINETS (OF A GUARANTEED QUALITY.) AN ELEGANT STOCK OF PIC. TURES AT MODERATE COST. FANCY BASKETS AND LAMPS. CALL EARLY AND MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS WHILE OUR AS. SORTMENT IS COMPLETE. HH1& Connell, 131 AND 133 WASHINGTON AVE. A HAPPY NEW YEAR We wish all our patrons health and prosperity In 1895. We start on anothor twelve months' run with the earth around the sun, moro than fully equipped to meet the hat demands of the publlo of Scran ton. Our display is magnificently com plete, presenting monumental values 1:, every style of headwear. ! CONRAD, HATTER AND FURNISHER. Hand Sleighs, Baby Sleighs, Clippers, Alligators, Self-Steering Sleighs, Steel Sleighs, Iron Sleighs, AND THE FAMOUS Paris Hill Oak Sleighs In Clippers und Bent Wood Knees und the Montrose Gas Tubing Sleiglis. We have over 100 dozen in stock and will sell very cheap at wholesale and retail. I D. WILLIAMS BR0. 314 LACKAWANNA AVENUE. The secret is out. Not only do they say we do washing Tor a living, but that we do it well. So keep It going. Tell everybody- you see, but tell them not to tell. EUREKA LAUNDRY, 322 Washington Ave. THAT WONDERFUL WRRRD v;rTv WEBER PIANO GUERNSEY GOLDSMITH'S This Is Stock-Taking Week When all Odds and Ends from every stock are brought to the surface, and a price put upon them that will give the sharp, shrewd bargain seeker an opportu nity to save considerable money, and at the same time you need not buy what you don't want, because it is cheap, but in our varied collection of useful articles, you are bound to find something THAT VOU DO WANT, and because it is cheap you will certainly buy it; therefore, we bring these important facts to the reader's attention. Many odd pieces in Ladies' and Children's Muslin Underwear, such as Night Gowns, Corset Covers, Chemise, Drawers and Skirts, some of them fresh and new, others slightly counter-soiled, all marked down to a price so they will be quickly sold CONTINUATION OF LADIES' JACKET: Of Chinchillas, Cheviots, Boucle, Diagonal and Plain Cloths, at $4.25, $5.50, $6.75, $8.00, $9.85. MUM IS THE MONTH M GREAT REDUCTIONSaaa IN ODD AND ENDS OF DINNER. TEA and TOILET SETS, LAMP GOODS and BRIC-A-BRAC 422 LACKA. AVE. FOR "95 AT Reduced Prices. Balance of our Calen dars at half price. A good selection of New Year Cards. REYNOLDS BROS. Stationers and Engravers, 317 UCKAW1NNI VL DR. HILL & SON ALBANY DENTISTS. Set teeth, $5.50; best set, 18; for gold caps and teeth without plates, called crown and bridge work, call for prices and refer ences. TONALGIA, for extracting teet without pain. No ether. No gas. OVER FIRST NATIONAL BANK. TONE IS NEITORY EXCELSIOR BROTHERS, WYOiyilING AVE, China Closoti reduced 15 to 40 per coat, Jan. 8, 1S95. Removal Sale of Furniture at HULL & CO.'S, 205 WYOMING AVENUE. Fine Dresiing Tables greatly reduced In price START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT And keep going right by buying and carry ing one of LLOYD'S WATCHES. LLOYDJEWELER, 423 LACKA. AVE. ' YENISON, PRAIRIE CHICKEN, Partridges, Quail, Rabbits, All Kinds of Poultry, Ripe Tomatoes, Mushrooms. Green Beans, Cncnmbers, Head Lettuce, Salsify Radisbes, Etc. Pierce's Market ! FOUND ONLY IN THE BAZAAR SALE MY Rimless Blfocnl Qlauei oomlilne dis tant and rending la one pair and gira ttitt groatust satisfaction. Haadacha and ner. vouauoss remediod by using glasxea accurately fitted. Satisfaction guaranteed in every case. DR. SHIMBEKli, 305 Spruce St., Eye Specialist EYES EXAMINED FREE. DR. E. GREWER, The Philadelphia Specialist, and hla asio elated atari of KngllBh and German , physicians, are now permanently located at Old Postoffice Building, Corner Penn Avenue and Spruce Street. The doctor is a graduao of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, formerly demon strator of physiology and surgery at the Medico-Chlrurgical college of Philadel phia. His ppecialtles are Chronic, Ner vous, Skin, Heart. Womb and Blood dis eases. 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