THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY L0. 1893. 0e J&cranfott CnBune P0BU3H13 DAILY IS SCRANTON PA , IT TBI TBI10K1 PUBUSHWO O0MPAHT. . . KINQSBURV, P". nb Gcifi Man. C. M. RIPPLE, 8cc-t miTiui. LIVV 8. RICHARD, EaiTe. W. W. DAVIS, Business MNaca. W, W. YOUNGS, Asv. Mass's. tiiw Tore omo : tribdni buildino. Fius8 GRAY, MANAOIR, l.fTIRID AT THI POBTOFriOS AT SCRANTON, M.. AS BI00ND-0LA8S UA1L UATTBR. "Printers' Ink," tho recognized Joiirnnl for ndvcrtisers, rotes XII K SCKANTOM TKIHUNE us the best advertising medium In Northeastern Pennsylvania. " Printera Ink" knows. mm KCHANTON, FEBKUAKY 20. 1S1I5. THE SCRANTON' OF TODAY. Come ami Inspect our(olty. Klevatlon above tho tide, 740 feet. Kxtremely healthy. Kstlmated population, 1S94, 103,000. lieslstered voters, 20,599. Value of school property, $900,000. Number of school ehlldre n, lL'.WW. Ave ruga amount of bank deposits, $10, CMIW. It's the metropolis of northeastern Penn sylvania. Can produce electric power cheaper than Niagara. No better point In the United States at Which to establish new Industries. See how we Brow: l'opulatlon in ISiju 8,123 Population In ls7u 33.001) l'opulatlon in lsso 43.s"0 l'opulatlon In 1S90 "3,213 l'opulatlon In 1MU (estimated) 103,000 And the end is not yet. The election of Churles F. Warwick cs mayor of Philadelphia, by the de cisive plurality of 40.000 shows that tho Penrose Kcptiblicans, lu the terse luh K'lase of Senator Quay, "never knife the ticket." It also shows that Robert K. Pattison is too much of a llanity Democrat to make a further success of the "reform" dodife. Now let Mayor "Warwick show that he is no man's man. - - - Some After-Thoughts. Looking backward. In any relation in life, is useful mainly insomuch as It supplies Instruction for the determina tion of future conduct. A fact once established cannot be undone; but it may, upon occasions, serve to prevent the repetition of a past mistake. We have already noticed how the adoption by a thoughtless body of counciltnen in this city, once upon a time, of a petty policy of retaliation asainst a promi nent property owner who had merely exercised his civic privilege of object ing to a certain prescribed kind of street paving, has been the means of diverting from this community a vast sum of money accumulated chiefly within its borders. That fact is fixed, unalterably. The consequences of it are Inevitable, and it profits no one to complain. Yet there is a certain grim consola tion in reflecting how Judge Handley's millions might have been employed, had the city of Scranton been governed, during the now celebrated haymarket Incident, by councilmen of broad views and liberal character. Suppose, for in stance, the recent will, concerning which there is Still so much talk, had be queathed $1,000,000 or even a fraction of that sum, not for vague purposes to a remote Houthern city, but for the en dowment of a flnefreecollegeln thiscity, or for the establishment, In Scranton, of a Hundley Institute for Industrial training, or for the equipment of a se ries of first-class public parks wherein the little children of the local poor could, in midsummer, breathe pure, cool air and indulge, to their heart's content, In Innocent, healthful play would it not have been a very desirable consummation? and would it not have carried John Handley's memory down, with sincere gratitude, to future gener ntlons? In the particular case under consider ation, these questions, of course, are vain. But there are other wealthy men In this city who must some day, also, make their wills, und prepare- to take the Bame mysterious journey that the noul of John Hundley has Just taken. It becomes proper to ask, concerning these men, whether comiellmanli: liei titihness or any other cause of like triviality shall bo permitted to come between tfiem and the Welfare of their city. Is there not, Indeed, in tne pres ent experience, one of the soundest of possible arguments why the delibera tions of our public servants should be broad-gauged and generous; and why the type of official who finds In his of llce warrant for grotesque jesting should be effectually repressed? One other thought compels notice In this connection. Why should the wealthy Kcrantonlun under any circumstances deprive himself of the pleasure of see ing, with his own eyes, the good ef fects of a generous application of his abundance to the needs of his fellow Citizens? ' The Delect Ion of "W. R. Millar for al 'derman in the KIghth ward will insure for that position a capable and efficient official. His opponent, Alderman Fltx Blmmons, will retire carrying with him the good will of the community and polaced by the reflection that his de feat was merely one of the fortunes of war. A Habit to Be Abolished. : It la possible that, from this time ' Dnward, no less a personage than the weather clerk will rid the city of the ' nuisance of salted Bnow alongside the Btreet car tracks. With the coming of warm weather, there Will be no further use for salt on these tracks, and the nuisance will be remembered only as a rlal of the past. Nevertheless, the board of trade Is to be commended for calling conspicuous attention to this disagreeable practice of the Traction company, nnd for taking steps to have It discontinued. There does not seem to be any suf flclent renson why, In the much-trav eled portions of the city, this method of conquering', snow drifts should not give way. to the shovel and the cart. The city Itself pays for the cleaning of the street crossings; but these are seldom more than cleaned before tho Traction company's salt cur unit snow sweeper are fixing mutters so that a second cleaning becomes necessary. If the snow .at busy street Intersections were shoveled Into box cars or carts and hauled outside the business limits, tho whole problem would bo solved at comparatively little extra expense. llegard for dumb beasts, who, where salt Is used on snow, have to endure a temperature of, zero uround their feet while the temperature of the atmos phere above may be twenty or even thirty degrees wanner calls for the abolition of the salting habit. So, also, does regard for human pedestrians; nnd particularly tho women, the skirts of whose garments drag through this ar tificial slush with disastrous conse quences. We trust that we have seen the lust use of suit on the car tracks of the business district of Scranton. The news In our HarriHburg letter this morning that an elaborate testi monial valued, so far as Its cost typifies such vuluo, at $1,000 is to lie presented, by legislative friends, out of their per sonal funds, to our popular townsman, ex-Lieutenant tlovernor Wutres, in recognition of his efficient services while president of the Pennsylvania senate, will be most agreeable reading to his thousands of friends in this por tion of the state. There Is no question ing his popularity, both at home and throughout the commonwealth; and we shall be much surprised if this con templated remembrance shall be the last or the greatest token of this fact on the record-book of his political future. Protect the BallcC. Announcement Is made that the Re publican leaders have decided to under take, in the next congress, an exhaus tive investigation of southern elections, with a view to framing effective legis lation safeguarding the ballot, it Is explained that with the south rent asunder by the Populists, who ure as eager for such an Inquiry us ure the souhern Kepublieans themselves, It will be only a question of time until Ihe purification of southern elections will have the consent and support of the south itself, quite as much as of the north. It is elaborately explained that the Republican national committee is al ready forwarding the movement for this general investigation. Local Re publican leaders throughout the south are collecting data bearing upon the question for use in making out the Re publican case. This is to be carefully sifted und arranged by experienced men and put into the hands of congres sional leaders. There Is also much cor respondence in progress on the subject of a remedy. Copies of the more suc cessful election laws in operation in the eastern states, with full explanations, are being distributed throughout the south, and requests are made for opin ions as to what changes, if any, would be necessary to the effective applica tion of such laws down there. This news would be highly gratifying if true. We sincerely hope it is true. The Republican party once permitted Itself to be scared away from this duty; but now the people will expect it to stiffen up its moral back bone and get to work. While Republicans have no trace of ill will for the south, they be lieve that citizens In the south are just as fully entitled to cast their votes, one to each man, and to have those votes counted as cast as are citizens of the north, east or west. A strong law en forcing this right would harm no hon est cause, however It might cause knavery to outcry and to bluster. Are you reading our fascinating serial story, "The Hollow Ruby," by Julian Hawthorne, on page 6? If not, you are missing a most Interestingly told story, by one of the best of American writers of fiction. No other Scranton paper prints serials of this high character In its daily Issues. You don't get the beat If you don't take The Tribune. The Lecture as a Schooling. The distinguished Englishman, Pro fessor Shaw, who will, next Monday evening, begin In this city a series of six lectures devoted to the fascinating theme, "Venice," enjoys the reputation of being one of the very best lecturers connected with the present movement for university extension. The welcome accorded to him in other places has been cordial In the extreme. It should not be less so In Scranton, where in struction by means of the lecture hns not yet attained the, popularity enjoyed by It In older communities. The lecturer who Is proficient In his form of discourse, when aided, as Dr Shaw will be aided, by the vivid in strumentality of the stereoptlcon, en Joys many advantages over the writer of books. The book which alms to im part Instruction may be said to resem ble the patent medicine or the ready made suit of clothing. It Is often ex cellent in Itself; and frequently fits the need of the one wlo purchases it; but not always. There is sufficient dif ferentiation among the minds of a given number of persons, as well as among their ailments or statures, to wurrunt the employment of an expert Instructor who can adapt his process to each person's individual require ment. The merit of lecture courses similar to that under present consideration lies principally In the superior pertinency of the knowledge Imparted In them by lecturers who are skilled In their voca tion, A word Is seldom lost or mis placed. The speaker, by simply keep ing In touch with his audience. Is enabled to present for Its entertain ment and Instruction such facts as he may perceive are of Interest to It; and ull Irrelevant material may be safely discarded by him, to Um eoonomy f both time and energy. Lectures of this kind are not soon forgotten. Vpon the contrary, they are assimilated by the mind of each auditor and Incorpor ated as a permanent part of the entire community's culture, The people elected O rover Cleveland president deliberately, taking occasion at the time to retire another servant whose four years' term of executlveshlp had been signally clean, patriotic and creditable, The people, therefore, are to blame If Grover Cleveland, acting through the agency of his clerical secre tary of the treasury, has, by secretly concluding a contract for the sale, to a foreign syndicate, at 104V6, of govern ment bonds worth 120 in the open mar ket virtually robbed them of $10,000,- 0CN). They have chosen that kind of a president; now let them dunce to his fiddling. The Democratic papers profess to be very sympathetic these days because Thomas H. Reed has "lost all his chances of ever becoming president." Their mock sorrow may turn Into genuine grief about March 4, 1897. Bloodshed Not Probable. It Is easy to understand why the pio neer residents of Scranton. who came here when what Is now the third largest community In the state was merely a bunch of straggling villages, should find It convenient, even after the consolida tion of most of these vlllnges Into a single city, to continue the early differ entiation by culling the West Side "Hyde Park;" the North Knd "Provi dence" and "Given Ridge," und by al luding to the chief industrial district as the "South Side," The habit of a life time; Is not easily changed, even where there Is a desire to change them, which Is lu many cases apparently absent funu the present problem. Vut are the sons and daughters of these pioneers, who have been reared to ages of intelligence since the legal combination of these villages Into the single city of Scranton, to lie encour aged In perpetuating the old-time dlH dinctioiis of division'.' Are they to be silently permitted to conceive of Seran ton as still a nest of rival sections, cull ing for Inter-sectlonal jealousies In poll- tics, in social life und in the general con duct of municipal nffulrs? In other words, is the tendency to be, from this time onward, toward or awuy from the primitive idea, with its necessary waste of prestige, Its sucrillce of har mony und Its deteriorating Influences upon local government? It took a gigantic war to teach cer tain American stales what was meant by the word "I'nlon." We, however, anticipate no bloodshed in the discus sion of the need of a greater Scriinton; for we credit the Inhabitants of this community with sufficient penetration to perceive that their own best interests point to a speedy discarding of the sec tional idea, ami the adoption of an In telligent spirit of communism with ref erence to the welfare and destiny of an undivided Scranton, People who applauded the action of the councils some time ago in cieating a lmyniaiket lu front of the Wyoming house, are now bewailing the loss of the mystical millions thut Scranton, perhaps, might have had, und are ready to heap abuse upon the purtles who were responsible for the Wyoming haymarket. Such, alas! is the ingrati tude that councllmanlc statesmen ever encounter in the Klectrlc City. - John McBride complains that ills Co lumbus vindication was considerably less than twenty-four carats line. Rut, then, it is probably in keeping with its subject. It is thought that a combine of di vorce lawyers may be back of the movement to revive the roller-skating craze. From all accounts more wind than cash was expended ut the polls In some of the central wards yesterday. LEGISLATIVE TOPICS. Send the Children to School AllentoAvn Leader: It will be a great pity if the present legislature shall ad journ without the enactment of a compul sory education law. The Fair measure, now before the house, Is by no means free from objection, but us between this und nothing, the Parr bill Is surely the lesser of two evils. Its main purpose Is excel lent and muny of Its provision ure be yond reproucli. The most eloquent oppo sition to the measure seems to come from the Scranton Truth, which, ordinarily u most conservative und reticent journal. Is ultra-courageous In its decrial of this edu cational measure. Hut Its arguments ure weak, it lights against the bill because of the paternalism It would Involve. It denounces It because It says Ihe state has nu business to pry Into the home. It chafes because of the inquisitorial character of the proposed law. Nobody want a sys tem of paternalism In Pennsylvania. That Is patent. The sanctity of the homo ami the undisputed sway of Ihe parent must be preserved above all things. Hut If a parent Is manifestly untitled to wield authority or If he abuses und multrcufs his offspring, injuring them physically or morally If ho beats them mercilessly or deliberately tenches them to steal or plll- nge the stale has a right to step In and prevent II. The stute mur.t take the pa rent's place. And this is puternullsm of the most admirable nnd benellccnt type. If a parent Is so grossly negligent of his child's mental culture us to have no thought for Its education, but to permit It to grow up In utter idleness ami Ignorance, It Is high time for the slate to Introduce u little of its paternalism Into that house hold. If father and mm her forsake their child Intellectually nnd leave It to grow up In rank Illiteracy, It Is high time for the state to take It up. Discerns llio Need of High Sellouts, Philadelphia Press: Secondary school are the weakest part of the weult system of public education provided In this stute uml the lack of IiIkIi schools lu many parts of the stute Is little short of scandalous. 1'cnnsylvunla In Its high schools Is be hind every other stute north of Mason and lilxon's line, wllh possibly one execu tion. No Increuso of appropriations for prlninry und grammar school will Improve our public schools unless the higher brunches ure taught, because In the ab sence of high schools ns the desire for improved schools grows parents will turn to private schools If Ihe public schools slop short with primary, studies. The practical result is thut. vnltliough our school appropriation has risen from $4tm, -(hmi k $r,,riio,iiiK), In muny rural districts the schools have retrograded beruuse Ihe absence of public high schools weeds out the children of Ihe more Intelligent und well-to-do, who turn to other schools giv ing the higher brunches. V Olco Hcpcnl Is Possible. llnrrlsbtirg correspondence of the Pitts burg Dispatch: The fight for relief from the oppressive oleo law 19 becom ing very Interest lug. Tho grangers ure no longer a unit for the present act, und of tho friends of oleo can suc ceed In widening tho breach some of the bills now before the legislature for u modification of (he law limy he passed. A ruconl poll of Ihe house shows fhut the bill permitting Ihe sale of oleo us such will have HT voles to t& In tho negative. The number needed lo puss liny measure Is 103, so thut IS more ure required. It Is believed these votes cun be obtained. Grangers like A. L. .Mnrtln, of Luwretiee, are willing to support such a bill. Mr. Martin, too, favors giving the flno to tho state or county, and thus prevent any possibility of unscrupulous persons levy ing tribute. A Plea for More Vetoes, Philadelphia Record: The bill to cre ate a stale department of agriculture has not reached second reading In the senate, yet Governor Huntings hus already been beselged by applicants tor positions there- in; und the scandal is intensified by the fuel that Chulinum Moore, of the ngrl culturul committee, who has charge of the bill In the house, Is himself an aspir ant for the position of dulry and food commissioner. There Is but one way in which Governor Hastings cun scatter and discomfit all such besieging purtles of pluce-huntlng Goths and Vanduls, and that Is turn his veto battery squarely upon their compuct ranks. In no other way He peace und safety. Muklng tho New Hovcnuo Bill. Mr. Illter, of Philadelphia, chairman of the committee on ways and means, In tends to'glvo the interests affected by tho proposed new revenue bill an ample op portunity to be hcuid. lie has addressed a circular to each member of the house requesting thut they communicate with their constituents or those who desire to appear before tho committee. The boards of trade of tho various cities will bousked to send representatives to go before the committee and stute their desires. Here tofore there have been loud complaints from Important Interests that they have been Ignored In the framing iff the revenue bills and that they have been Injured by not having hud the opportunity of being heard. Spoiling Siindav Picnics. Representative Keplmrt, of Fayette county, has Introduced a bill prohibiting brewers from holding u. bottleis' license und limiting tho size of pio kuges sold to a quarter. Instead of un eighth of a bar rel. 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