4 THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE THUIt S DAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 21, 1895. tit cwtfon Ztiium POSLUHJO DART IK SCRAHTOH PA. BTTH1 TBUIUM PUBLISHING OOlAPAflT. fc. P. KINOSBURV, Pais. utOm'tMu. E. H. RIPPLE, 8ic ansTru. LIVVS. RICHARD, Editor. W. W. DAVIS, Iuiiiuu Manaoih. W. W. VOUN08, A.v. HUna'lb kiw tors omoi : thibdni BtmDiNO, nui B ORaY. MANAQIR. tXTIRIO AT Till POSTOmOB AT BCRANTOH. FA, At BXC0M0-CLA83 MAIL UATTIR. " Printers' Ink," the recoKniiod Journol for advertisers, rntos THE SCKANTO.N TKIBL'NK as tbe best advertising medium In Northeastern Pennsylvania. " Printers' Ink" knows. BCKANTON, FEBRUARY 21, 131)5. THE SCRANTOX OF TODAY. Come and Inspect our city. Elevation above the tide, 740 feet. Extremely healthy. Estimated population, 1SW, 103,000. Iteglstered voters, S),ZDS. Value of Hi-hool property, J'JUO.Ot'O. Number of school children, U'.UOO. Average amount of bank deposits, $10,- eou.ooo. It's themetropolls of northeastern l'eun sylvunlu. Can produce electric power cheaper than Niagara. No better point in the United States at Which to establish new industries. See how we grow: 1'opulatlon In ISiiO 9"-! Population in 1S70 Population in 1SS0 45.S50 Population In lsw 7S.-1:. Population in ISiH (estimated) ltW.WO And the end is not yet. The returns from the Seventh ami Nineteenth wards would seem to in dicate that Scranton's common council is appropriately named. The Councilmanic Elections. The defeat of Walter E. Davis, Re publican candidate for common council man In the Sixteenth ward, by Lorenz Zeidler, a Democrat, was caused by the failure of many Republicans to go to the bolls. To a similar cause may be ascribed the election In the First ward of John J. Loftus, an Independent with Democratic leanings. Last fall First ward Republicans for governor polled 622 votes against 22." Democratic votes, or a total of 844 votes. On Tuesday, the Republican candidate for common council, D. H. Reese, polled only 373 votes out of a total of 7S1, being defeated by 33 plurality. It is safe to assume that two-thirds of the 63 per sons who voted for governor last fell, but who, on Tuesday, did not vote at all, are Republicans, who, had they been apprised of the importance of support ing their party ticket, would have voted for Mr. Reese, thus Insuring his elec tion. Why did they not come out to the polls? Tn the Sixteenth ward, on Tuesday, . Mr. Zeidler received a vote of 266 to 215 cast last autumn for Candidate Singer ly. This would seem to Indicate that 51 Republicans voted for the Democratic candidate. But on the other hand, Mr. Davis received only 200 votes to 3S3 re ceived last fall by Candidate Hastings, a falling off of 134 votes. Even sub tracting from this number the 51 votes of Republicans who supported Mr. Zeld " ler, what became of the 134 Republicans who apparently stayed at home? Why were they not brought out? Two-thirds cf them could have defeated Mr. Zeidler and thus secured councils to the Re publican party on joint ballot. The Eighth ward aldermanic contest shows that it is possible, at a spring rfectlon, to bring out the entire vote. The total vote polled last fall In this Ward was 541; on Tuesday It was 561 General Hastings received only 310 votes to 323 polled at an oft election for Candidate W. S. Millar; and Editor Blngerly only 231 to 245 polled Tuesday by Candidate Fltzslmmons. Here Is a gain In the total poll of 27 out of 568, or 4.7 per cent., as against a falling-off, in the First ward, of 63 out of 781, or a trifle more than 8 per cent, and in the Sixteenth ward, of 134 votes out of 466, ur 28.7 per cent. . . . It Is apparent, we think, from those Jig urea that Republicans should not rest too easily on their oars, If they expect to keep proper pace with the Dem ocratic procsfllon. The -stay-at-home Republican especially should read these figures over and paste them In his hat. David Martini will get 'the congratula tions; but we venture to predict that Warwick will be mayor. More About Compulsory Education. The esteemed Lebanon Report, which two jears ago was an ardent supporter of compulsory education, has evidently changed Its mind. It now says: Tho aim of a compulsory school law Is Universal education; this universal educa tion is deemed essential to good cltlz.'n ehlp. No one denies the latter proposition. The ballot must be In the hands of Intelll jftjnt men, to be of any value. The only question Is whether compulsory educa tion will have the desired effect. Will It raise the status of general Intelligence to so much higher a standard as It must If It would Justify Its existence? A compul sory school law would entail a greatly Increased number of public officers, it would entail an annoying system of es pionage Into that privacy which above all hould be snored that of tho home; It would entail a greatly augmented trial list, the great burden of the ruses being for the consideration of what, though a crime by law, will with great difficulty he recognized as such by the accused. Burn ere some of the odious features of an odious law. The solitary redeeming fea ture ils the possibly Improved grade of Intelligence.. To Justify the passage of such a law there must be an undoubted and practical benefit assured; this benefit must he great in proportion to the odium of the law, for it Is a universally recog nized dictum, that a harsh law is jiiU Jled only by tts undeniably superior ef fects. Recognizing this harshness and un pleasantness of such a law what grounds do we have for supposing It necessary? In other words, comparing Pennsylvania with her sister states which have such laws In operation does she suffer? Are her citizens Inferior In average Intelli gence? Is there greater corruption at the polls, and are her legislative and execu tive and judicial departments of govern ment of a lower order than those of the states which have tried compulsory edu cation? We must conclude that she does Hot suffer In this comparison. This would be a strong argument If Its premises were true. But are they truer, There are, In this state, ap proximately 150,000 boys and girls of school age who do not attend school. We venture to say that not one parent among the parents of these children Is Ignorant of the fact that the failure of these children to receive an educa tion involves a gross injustice an In justice, flrst to the children themselves, who are thus thrown upon their own re sources without adequate preparation for life's battles; and secondly, an In justice to socloty, which has a right to bo protected from the many-sided' cx pensiveness of an illiterate element. Upon whom would tho hand of a wisely drawn compulsory education law tall? Certainly not upon parents whose children are u I ready In school. These parents, constituting by far tho greater fraction, would entirely escape the operation of such a law; and the extra tax cost imposed upon them, In support of the law's enforcement, would, If felt at all, be more than compensated by the decrease which more general edu cation would occasion In the cost of our police courts and our Jails. The hand of the law would full, then, only on par ents whose children do not go to school a small minority. And. among these, It would escape all who can offer valid excuse for such non-attendance, and fall simply on greedy, indifferent or In corrigible parents In whose eyes child hood has no rights und purentago no sanctity. We Bay, let It fall on such parents; and, If necessary, fall hard! Although It is a habit we have, PltU tonlans will please make note of the fact that The Tribune printed 4 he full est election returns of all the morning papers. You don't get the best if you don't take The Tribune. - -- - The Decline and Fall of Piatt. To an outsider who Is privileged to ob serve things lu the Impurtlal capacity of a disinterested spectator, there Is lu progress, at this time in New York state, a most diverting political comedy-drama. The main Incidents that led up to It are generally familiar. They comprise tho election of Levi 1. Morton governor and of William L. Strong mayor, the former as a Republi can who would, It was promised, be In sympathy with the reform movement on Manhattan Island; and the latter as a non-partisan business man pledged to govern his conduct us mayor solely by his conception of the public's real needs The election of these two men, by pluralities in excess of even their own wildest expectations, caused consterna tion, first to Tammany, which found It self presumptively dispossessed of great spoils; and seoondly to one wily Indi vidual, ostensibly Republican but in reality only personal, who had, when it suited his purposes, been Tammany's efficient assistant; to wit, the honorable Thomas C. Piatt. Tammany recovered from the shock Just In time to hear Mr. Piatt chanting forth from the house tops that it was all his victory; and to see him plunge, all undaunted, into the task of trying to cozen favor with Mayor Strong, so as to bag a large pro portion of the mayor's appointments. As a safeguard, he hud first got Ills Al bany lieutenant, Senator Lexow, to pro pose legislation for New York city which, if passed, would have laid the foundations of a new Tammany, with the self same Thomas as absolute high chief. Great was his grief when the afore said Piatt found that the legislature, under the scrutiny of Dr. Parkhurst and the civic movement which he repre sents, would not pass the Lexow bills. But this shock was as nothing com pared with that which he experienced when, one fine morning, he read in his newspaper that Mayor Strong had exer cised his authority as the representa tive of the people, by making non-partisan appointments to the chief city de partments, heading the list with the name of an honest man whom Piatt had once deliberately betrayed. When he re covered the power of speech, he sent post haste for a reporter and poured forth the vials of his wrath. Then he summoned his henchmen to a confer ence and divulged a desire fur r-r-r-evenge. Lastly, he rushed off to Albany, to see Governor Morton; but the consolation that he got from him was evidently riot re-assurlng, for Just before he had reached Albany, a ma jority of the Republican assemblymen from New York city had signed a state ment virtually repudiating Piatt, and his old-time protege, ex-Senator Fas sett, of Klmlra, was telling the Ciothnm reporters that "we cannot, as a party or as Republicans, place ourselves In the deplorable light of trylnir to out Tammanylze Tammany In the rush for spoils and plunder. Let Mayor Strong go ahead In his non-partisan work, and the people will uphold him." Meanwhile, Mayor Strong, merely smiles and says: "No, sir, I don't pro pose to allow any legislature in Albany to Interfere with my actions here. They can gj ahead and do as they see fit there and I will go ahead and do as I like here, considering only the best In terests of the people and the city from a non-partisan standpoint." From the report, on another page, of the finance committee of the recent Klrmess, It appears that nfter all debts had been met, there remained a total of $8,549.1,7, which has been placed nt the disposal of the Lackawanna hos pital. An additional $200 may be real ized from the sale of nertuln contributed articles. Considering the severity of the weather n gainst which the Klrmess had to contend, this Is certainly n mng nlflccnt showing, which reflects the ut most credit, not only upon the generous persons who planned and nmniiKcd It, but also to the public which sup ported It. If Chairman John E. Roche only hnd a party behind him, we suspect he would prove a big stumbling block to Republican aspirations. Luckily, he hasn't. Politically speaking, Hon. Thomas C. Piatt appears, at this writing, to pre sent the most remarkable example of sudden and rapid shrinkage on record. The cause of counctlmanlo purlfica tion in Scran ton apparently stands ad journed for one year. Pattlson, like Cleveland, went once too oCten to the mill. An Indiana man Is lying at the point of death suffering from a fractured skull. He objected to having his wife kiss a pug dog when she would not kiss him. A disturbance was raised over the question In which the woman's two sons took a hand and results were as above stated. The example cited will no doubt prove satisfactory to dog own ers. The man who expects to Btand on an equality with a pet pug In his wife's affections certainly needs some effect ive argument to convince him of tho error of his way. We could, without violating prece dent, cast ridicule upon the quality of the 7.898,125 cigars which Deputy Reve nue Collector Green of tho Ninth dis trict uHsures us were manufactured lust year In York county out of York und Lancaster Jeaf tobacco. But ni do that would be to strike a blow at a home product, as well as to UBperse tho nlcotlnlau comforts of thousands of esteemed fellow citizens who would prefer a York "toby" in all Ils uncouth ness to the llnest island growths In tho tropical' seas. And why should any sane journal do that? The people of Athens, Ga., are to be congratulated. They have just success fully Intimidated a troupe of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" barnstormers which had booked to play lu that city, und have, thus, us one paper put it, "rebuked that vile slander on the manhood and honor of our fathers." Sound the tocsin und get out the band! A revenue license of $2, per year on each bicycle Is proposed by a Chicago alderman. The Herald very correctly contends that If It Is necessary to tax vehicles at all, they should nil be treat ed alike. The antl-blcycle legislator these duys Is treading a dangerous path. There dors not appear to be any rea son to doubt that Hurry Hayward, the Minneapolis murderer, Is an ubiiormal crimliiul, devoid of moral qualities. Hut we see no particular reason for wishing such uneniotlonul monsters to remain ulive. General Lew "Wallace, In referring to Armenian troubles, Bays that It Is In credible that the sultan of Turkey would wink at anything. General Wal lace evidently wishes to convey the Im pression that the sublime Porte Is pos sessed of u glass eye. Talk of Lexowlng Philadelphia by way of Harrlsburg should from this time forth subside. The citizens of Philadelphia have demonstrated their entire ability 'to govern themselves. Another emphatic protest has been registered against the theory that mar riage Is a failure. This time It is a resident of Kentucky, aged 93, who has just wedded his seventh wife. The fledgling city of Plttston proudly enjoys the distinction, If It be a dis tinction, of being 'the only city In Penn sylvania in which the Democrats have held their own. A message of thanks from Mayor elect Warwick to Brother-in-law Alex ander McClure would fittingly round out the amenities of the occasion. . . Pittsburg's celebrated "blind pool" operator has been legally pronounced not guilty, with the supplementary ad monition to "not do It again." Only a few more days, and Scranton's fragrant wooden block pavement will again be diffusing Its succulent sweet ness among the sons of men. Robert Emory Pattlson Is now pre pared to receive bids and specifications for a tombstone and a hearse. Ex-Governor Pattison lacked about 70,000 votes of being a "man of destiny" on Tuesday. LEGISLATIVE TOPICS. Distribution of School Appropriations. Norrlstown Herald: A proposition in the legislature to change the bnsls on which the state appropriation is distrib uted to the various districts of the com monwealth, Is Intended to give to sparsely settled districts nn undue proportion of tho money set apart by the legislature for the lienellt of education. The money Is distributed now In proportion to the num ber of taxaliles, an utterly arbitrary meth od, because It hus no possible connection with the number of pupils, which ought to be the rule in this cuse. The proposed law change the basis from the number of tnxuhles to the number of schools, an equally arbitrary and unfair plan. Th'i number of pupils to be educated Is the only fair basis of distribution. That should be ascertained by a census of children of school age In each district. The money for educational puipuses ought then to be divided according to Ils results uinonir the districts of the stale. While u change is being made It should be made according to the. principles of justice ami common sense, without reference to whether they urn sparsely or densely peopled, since all citizens lire expected to pay tuxes on the sumo basis. Another Silly Hill Punctured. Reading Times: A bill bus been Intro duced lu tbe legislature by Representative l.uilen. of this city, providing that 2.0H0 pounds shall constitute a ton of coal, as sold by retail dealers. The regular ton, of coal or anything else, calls for 2,Uu pounds. There would seem to b no se rious objection lo Mr. 1, mien's proposi tion, ns It makes no substantial differ ence how many pounds are counted to a ton, only so that the pun-hnscr Is not de ceived or mistaken as to how many pounds he Is buying and pay for. As the mutter stands now, as ll ruin he expects 2,'JHI pgunds, but probably often gets 2.IHHI, and In some eases perhaps oven less. Hut If Mr. I. uden's bill should become a law, what Is to prevent the dealer whose con science will permit from giving him, say, l,8im pounds? Condemnation Not Yet Deserved. Norrlstown Herald: As usual in every legislature, many foolish and extravagant measures have been Introduced, but they have taut been passed. lOven should any of them run the gauntlet nf the two houses. Governor Hustings stands ready to veto them, und there is no doubt what ever that Hie slate treasury will find In hlni a faithful protector. It will be time enough to bluuin the leglsntuin when It shall hnve committed the blunder of ex travagance. The members of the major ity are all aware that this Is no tlme'for recklessness In appropriations, and that the future nf the Itcnuhllcnn party, ns well as the public welfare, requires the ex ercise of the strictest prudence und the most careful scrutiny of every measure which takes money out of the state treas ury, und they will act accordingly. Soma Keapportlonmcnt Mans. Harrlsburg correspondence of the WII1 lamsport Times: The Sixteenth congres sional district composed of the counties of Lycoming, Potter, Tioga and Clinton, Is likely to lie torn usumlor by the congres sional apportionment committee, now nt work on the apportionment bill to be pre sented when the legislature reconvenes. Thero Iik trouble In this district every two years because of the conferree system and the Republican leaders are anxious that this difficulty be removed. Just what counties are likely to be taken from the district and the ones to be substituted has not definitely been dotermlnd upon, but It Is probable thut Potter und Tioga will be cut off und Union and Snyder added. It hud been suggested that Clearfield and Center be attached to Lycoming and Clin ton, but as this would make a formidable Democratic congressional district of the Sixteenth the Republican legislature is not likely to make such M move. So It Appears. 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