THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING-, FEBRUARY 9, 1895. ()e l&cranfon Zx&mt PBBI.UH13 DAILY ra 9CRANT0N PA . BT TH1 TROTS FUOUSUlKa OOMPAHY. t. . KIN3SBURY, Puis. imOu'iMm C. H. RIPPLE, Sco'v and Tkia. LIVY8. RICHARD, toiT.S. W. W. DAVIS, Bu ! MKac. W. W. YOUN08, Adv. Mah' trxw Tors omci : triboni buildiho. Fraxx 8 GRAY, MANAOiB. ST1RIO AT TH1 FOaTOTFIOl AT SCR ANTON, FA.. GIU0KD-QLAS9 KAIL MATTIR. "Printers' Ink." the recognized journal for advertisers, rates TUB SCRASTON TRIBUNE as the best advertising medium Ink" knows. BCRANTOX, FEBRUARY 0, 1895. THE SCUASTON OF TODAY. Come and Inspect our city. Elevation above the tide, 740 feet. Extremely healthy. Estimated population. 1894, 103,000. Registered voters, 20,699. Value of school property, $750,000. Number of school children, 12,000. Average amount of bank deposits, $10, 000,000. It's the metropolis of northeastern Penn sylvania. Can produce electric power cheaper than Niagara. No better point in the United States a Which to establish new Industries. Bee how we crow: Population in I860 tt.ES Population In 1870 m Population in 1S80 Population in 1890 , TO.315 Population In 1894 (estimated) 103,000 And the end is not yet. Under the law In this state a law which, by the way, the Truth helped to pass children, under 13 years of age are already forbidden to "help earn a living for the family." Why, then, this superfluous bluster about compulsory education? Playing to the (lallerles. The bill "guaranteelnir workmen the right to join labor unions" has been reported favorably from committee and will probably become a law: not, in deed, because It amounts to anything as a help to labor, but because It would not be politic for vote-seekers publicly to oppose It. We have already printed the provisions of the measure. In brief, It makes a misdemeanor out of the dis charge, by any employer, of workmen for 'the reason that such workmen be long to certain labor organizations; and prettily assumes that by a platitude or two It can forever govern the right of private contract. The only objection to the enactment of such a law is that it contributes, by bo much, to 'the category of legislation passed with no serious purpose In view and dead as soon as signed. There are men yet foolish enough to be caught by this kind of chaff, and to regard with a temporary reverence the tricksters who thus play on their credulity for political ends. No one knows this bet ter than do labor's true friends, who from an honest purpose of advising labor wisely, are often forced into nn attitude of demagogism by the sheer momentum of the unthinking half. But signs are not wanting In support of the belief that this excitable element In labor's constituency Is beginning to lose its hold upon the general public. The collapse, last November, of dema- goglsm's political bids for labor's sup port, notably Instanced in the downfall of William H. Ulnes, the unctuous chief exponent of this particular kind of chaff legislation for the fooling of working men, gives us courage to suggost that the present legislative session at Har risburg will not make much partisan liay by harvesting dead-letter statutes modeled after the Hlnes' perforated pattern. The Harrisburg correspondents who Intimate that Governor Hastings, In his treatment of bills passed by the legisla ture, will be Influenced by the actions of his Democratic, predecessor are no doubt mistaken. Governor Hastings curries his brains in his own hat. The Common Sense of It. Senator Chandler of New Hampshire Is another public man who does not hesitate to announce his opposition to the prevalent fad of dressing up the public schools of the common people with all sorts of fancy frills. During a recent discussion In the senate of a alause In the District of Columbia ap propriation bill voting 1100,000 for the addition of a lluslness High school to the publlo schools of Washington he said: "Although my Inclination Is to vote for every proposition that looks to a better education of the children of this country, and although I feel unwilling at this mo Jivont to vole to strikedown a business col lege, a business high school, or un indus trial school, or a high school of any kind, yet I am inclined to think that It is an open question worthy of consideration by congress and the American people whether thure Is not danger that wo are carrying the common-school system and education thereunder too high and too far; whether It mny not come to be ad vlsable to restrict the common-school sys tem of the country to such schools as are required by the great muss of children, and not to extend that system by high schools, by Industrial schools, and by business schools to a small cluss of the children of the country In order to give hem a higher and better education than Is given to the great body of the, children of the country." In these words the senator compresses a forceful quantity of rare "common" sense. There can be no division of sen timent as to 'the desirability of honestly ' conducted business schools, art schools, Industrial schools, schools of chemistry, engineering, law, dancing, French, Oer man, Latin, Sanscrit and Volapuk for that matter, for each, in Its nropcr place, performs an admirable service to a. fraction of the publlo. It is only when well-meaning persons try to mix these .various specialty schools into one vast tness mislabeled the common school system that there arise room for dls cuBBlon. Senator Chandler, in his stand for a common "common" school, voices our opinion precisely. Bo does the Washington Post when it Aptly says: "Without questioning the value of the accomplishments to be obtained in the higher schools by those who can afford (the time to become their beneficiaries, there Is reason to doubt the wisdom of any policy that tends to broaden at the top while narrowing at the foundation, It is the rudlmental .instruction im parted at the public schools through which the greatest good accrues to the greatest number. It 4s the fundamental training here received for the better dis charge of the duties and responsibilities of life, that most lndissolubly knits tho common school system to the confi dence, respect, and lasting gratitude of our American youth, and year by year enrolls them by thousands and tens of thousands among its etanchest and most uncompromising defenders. Too much care cannot be taken not to weaken the base of this magnificent Bystem by anything In the nature of a faulty superstructure." That parent is, Indeed, an enemy of his child who will, if he can possibly prevent, deprive it of an equal chance In life, by refusing to permit to be edu cated. The Scranton, Truth wastes Its sympathy on this type of father. The Consular Service. Senator Lodge has introduced a bill In congress to place the American con sular service on a permanent basis, with opportunities fur advancement and dncentives to the enlistment, In this 'important branch of the public service, of men willing to give to their duties as consuls the same preparation and intelligence that govern success In private careers. Such men are not now enlisted in that service for the sufficient reason that the uncertainty of a tenure of office resting wholly on political fav oritism does not warrant them in wast ing their time and energy when better rewards beckon to other fields of labor. Mr. Lodge's bill, as he himself ex plains It, "takes the consular service out of politics. It secures the appoint ment of men of good character and of ascertained fitness, so far as examina tion can show fitness. It also gives, what Is far more Important, a proper permanency of tenure dependent on good behavior and competency, and would secure the continuance of ex perienced men in the service. It offers an honorable career by holding out tho hope of certain promotion to men who have earned it. Instead of having our consular service changed every four years, and filled with inexperienced men, ignorant, as a rule, of the lan guage, habits and business methods of the countries to which they are ac credited, this re-organlzatipn would give us the steady service of trained and competent men. The great busi ness interests of the United States re quire In the consular service experi enced and trustworthy mtn capable of promoting our trade and commerce, and of reporting Intelligently upon those subjects which ore of interest to our people. This we do get very im perfectly and partially under the pres ent system; but we can get it as a rule,- instead of an exception, under the system proposed by this bill. You will notice that this plan of reorganization utterly disregards politics. It does not seek to retain the present incumbents nor to restore the appointees of the last administration. It throws the whole service open to all who are fit for it, giving an opportunity under favorable conditions to men of past experience to re-enter the service, no matter under what administration they were ap pointed." The consular service Is like the agen cies which private business men employ in extending tholr trade. We Judge of the distant firm largely by the kind of traveling salesmen it sends to us. In similar manner, foreign nations Judge of America by the consular agents Bent to them by It. The national board of trade, recognizing the practical value of a reorganized and Improved consu lar service, has cordially indorsed the Lodge bill, and many local boards are also earnestly in favor of It. Objection cannot well bo urged by the Republican majority at Harrisburg to the principle of local option as de cided under the Pennewell proposition by a show of hands. To deny it would be to deny home rule. Time to Call a Halt. Not saying anything about the ordi nary $11,000,000, annual appropriation for school purposes, the amounts asked for in the appropriation bills under con sideration by the appropriation com mittee at Harrisburg aggregate more than $19,000,000, or only $500,000 less than the state treasurer's estimate of the state's probable revenue for the next two years. Hefore this session gets through with Its requests for money it Is likely that the committee will find Itself confronted by demands footing tip $33,000,000 for the payment of which there is only $19,500,000 available, not counting the $3,000,000 idle surplus in tho state treasury. A reduction of at least one-third in the appropriations asked is therefore seemingly inevitable. The state, in this matter, will be only on a level with Its citizens, who have themselves had to curtail expenditures during the past two years. The rush of new members to get on the calendar early with bills voting state funds to objects of local consequence has nearly subsided, and It Is hoped that from this time onward the legislature will be governed by more prudent and con servative considerations. It has, in its first month, traveled a rapid pace far too rapid for the achievement of the best results. If it wishes to escape the charge of extravagance and desires to put the party behind It in a favorable aspect before the people, It will pro ceed without delay to tighten the purse strings and repress the easy exuber ance of the ilog-rolling member with a buncombe bill. The state normul schools, that were to be self-sustaining this year, want more than a million from the state. But in this case wanting and getting will probably be two different things. By No fleans a Perfect Law. We are pleased to learn upon the authority of the esteemed Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette that the present laws In this state regulating tho traffic in intoxicating liquor are "so generally satisfactory that it would not be wise to disturb them.". We assume, of course, that our contemporary has reference merely to PlttBburg and per haps a few strong; temperance coun ties h the northeastern corner of the state. In those localities the Brooks high (license law may be "generally satisfactory" for the reason that the trouble which that Jaw was framed to regulate had little existence even prior to the measure's enactment. But the Commercial-Gazette will, we suspect, hardly wish its remark to be construed as applying, let us say, to the anthracite coal regions, where the Brooks law, as customarily observed, Is little more than a howling farce; and where for every' license granted certainly one and perhaps two other liquor dealers Boll without license, not "on the sly," but openly and apparently In the fullest security. A law which puts its enforcement in the hands of shady constables who may, for periodi cal considerations, be Influenced to re main blind, deaf and dumb to the most obvious violations of it may be "quite satisfactory" in Allegheny, but it is not viewed in the same eulogistic spirit here In Lackawanna by persons who believe In fairness and in honest law enforcement. The Brooks law is far ffom sacred. If any man can Improve it. Jet him have a fair and Impartial hearing. It Is an interesting fact, gleaned from the report of Secretary of War Lament, that If a war were to break out between this government and some foreign power, of sufficient magnitude to call out the entire available military strength of the republic, Uncle Sam oould lay his hand on exactly 9,582,800 able-bodied soldiers, of whom Pennsyl vanla would contribute 806,230, which is by 50,230 larger than the next largest quota in the entire list of states that of New York. Thus our commonwealth, In war as well as peace, would remain the Keystone of the union arch. The bill to provide a new national cabinet portfolio of trade and com merce, with a salary of $6,000 a year, will probably expire of inanition. The trouble today is not in the number of cabinet officers, but in the quality of tho men who occupy them. Democratio tariff tinkering snuffed out the nation's Income; and now Demo cratio obstinacy refuses to authorize a method of temporary relief. The net outcome of Democratic restoration Is debt, debt, debt. Mexico's army numbers 160,000 men, while Guatemala can muster about 6,000, which suggests that Guatemala's anxiety for war may be to a certain extent simulated. The New Jersey plumber who com mitted suicide by freezing himself to death the other day could not be ac cused of a lack of sense of the fitness of things. Robert Emory Pattlson in the role of a non-partisan reformer is quite the drollest object in present sight. The Philadelphia Press dubs it "Mooney county." Mooney or Moon shine; It's all the same. All things come to him who waits and keeps his advertisement In the pa pers meanwhile. "Keep off tho grass" Bigns on court house square have a discouraged look these days. Mrs. Dominis at present might ap propriately sign herself Mrs. Dennis. Yes, is it "cold enough for us." VERY MUCH ALIVE. From the Pittsburg Times. The great mooting held in Cooper Union, New York, on Monday evening, the spirit evinced and the resolutions adopted show very clearly that Itev. l)r. Parkhurst has by no means lost his hold upon the people of that city. Some time ago Senator Lexow stated very oracularly thut he was tired of I)r. Parkhurst, but this opin ion is evidently not shared by tho lat ter's fellow citizens. The doctor had pro tested against an attempt to reform the olty pollen department tion part Inn n po litical linos and demanded Hint the pledges made in the recent successful campalitn should be kept. It was this that in duced Senator Lexow's remark, accom panied with an Intimation In Shakes pearean language that the reverend gen tleman had grown too big for his boots. The New York Tribune and other Repub lican papers promptly called Senator Lexow down and Intimated very plainly that lie owed all his notoriety nnd Im portance to Dr. Parkhurst nnd that the latter still voiced the sentiment of the people of New York city. The Republi cans of tho New York legislature will do well to give attentive ear to the popular voice In New York city Itself nnd not al low partisan considerations to Inlluence to tho eventual Injury of the party. Targe ifts for Public I'scs. From tho Philadelphia Ledger. Within a week two wills have been pro bated In this city, containing large lega cies to our local benevolent and other pub lic Institutions. Kew realize how vast is the sum yearly bequeathed or given to charitable uses In this country in the course of a year. During the past year I ho enormous sum of $19,9ti7,llti was given by well-to-do people nnd others to rhurchec, colleges, museums, nrt galleries, libraries and other educational and help ful institutions. Tho Ohtcngo Tribune has diligently kept the record from year to years, which It felleitloiiHly calls its "white record." In 1WO these free gifts to the public reached still more collossal figures J3;i,:US,SiM. No sums less than $1,000 ap pear In the Tribune's list. There nre many publis bequests made In all purls of the country of less amounts than $1,0U0. A Cold Time In I'nrgo, From tho Cincinnati Knqulrer. "Talking about cold weather," said T. L. Moloney, at the fit. Nicholas, "reminds me of tho winter of 1873. Dakota was just opening up, and tho town of Fargo was lively, although possessing bat a few hun dred Inhabitants. It grew so cold there one night that the mercury froze In the thermometers, and no one will ever know how cold it ws. Among other damage done was the freezing of tho whisky In tho saloons. It was Impossible to secure onough heat to thaw It out, and the only course left was for tho saloon keepers to put It In scales and sell It by the pound, customers putting cukes of It In their overcoat pockets and biting It off. For several days It was common for friends to offer euch other a chew of whisky. Queer Things at Washington, From the Chicago Herald. "What can you expect of tho financial question," asked JnmeB S. Clarkson tho other day "with a gold president, a sliver senate and a greenback house?" This clover characterization callB to mind a remark whteh Tom Reed mado at a Rhode Island clambake a weok or two ago, and which Is now often quoted about the cnpltol. After March we Bhall have a queer situation at Washington," said Reed.. "We shall have a measureably Democratic president, and a Republican house and a miscellaneous senate." Let llhn Stand I'p. From the Wllkos-Barre Nows-Dealer. Who Is the Scranton Democrat thHt tukos up a column of space In the Har risburg Patriot to denounce HarrltyT Will ho be kind enough to stand up end let the public see what sort of a Demosrat he Ik? For our part wo would be willing to wager tho Nows-Deuler plant against a big turnip that lie Is a Democrat of the Cleveland pattern and unworthy of any consideration. And we would win the bet off-hand, for the fellow hasn't the man liness or courage to attach his name to what he wrote. The Right Doctrine. From the Minneapolis Tribune. The Minneapolis Commercial club yes terday adopted vigorous resolutions con demning the idea of the national govern ment making any entangling alliance with the Nicaragua Canal company, and espe cially against its guaranteeing $70,OuO.OOO of the company's bonds, as provided In the bill recently passed in tho senate. The Commercial club thinks the canal should be built, but that the government should build, own and operate it, without side partners. That is tho right dootrlne. One Genuine Manifestation. . From the WIlkes-Barro Record. Scrantonlans are now trying to find out whether the hypnotic Baldwins who gave manifestations up there last week are genuine mind-readers or simply fakirs, Meantlmo tho Baldwins have left town end with them have departed a good big roll of cash. That part of the "manifes tation" at least Is genuine and tho Bald wins do not seriously object to the free advertising which the Scranton papers are throwing In gratis. Lll's Delated Surrender. From the New York Advertiser. Liliuokalani Is willing to come down if Captain Seott will not lire. She Is not the first coon to ofQir these terms. 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He cures the worst cases of Ner vous lability, Scrofula, Old Sores, Ca tarrh, Piles, Female Weakness, Affec tions of the Pye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Asthma, KeafneFs, Tumors, Cancers and Cripples of every description. Consultations free and strictly sacred nnd conlldeiR.. Office hours dally frem t a.m. to p.m. Stindny, 9 to 2. Enclose five 2-cent stamps for symtpom blanks and my book cnlled "New Life " I will pay one thousand dollars In cold to anyone whom 1 cannot cure of EPI. LEPT1C CONVULSIONS or PITS DIl. E. QREVVfiR. Old Tost Office Building, corner Fana avenue and Spruce street. SCRANTON. PA. TO ENTER THE HEART. We nave entered the homes of a major ity of the people In Scranton with our u porlur House Furnishings, etc, You can not tlnd a better valentine for your wife than an Easter Range. You will Rot your money's worth back again a hundred time if you purchase such sterling: goods. Our prices have been put so low we fear they'll never stand upon their feot again. Perhaps you know a little about Hard ware. We can teach yotf more. Come to our school. We will greet you In our new store April L FOOTE S SHEAR CO, jfc IF YOUR OLD BOORS NEED FIX. J 1NO, BEND THEM TO j Tkt Scranton Tribune V "' Bookbinding Dept.
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