4 THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 9, 1895. Zfy Reunion CriBune' puiumid daiit ih b01ukt0w pa.. it tbi tumt fubusium odhtait. I, P. K I N At III RV, Pan. an Oih'i Mea. C. M. IPPLC, In'i Tiu tlVV . RICHARD, Kmmn. W. W. DAVIS. ueiais Mun. W. W. YOUNGS, Aw. Mm' ktM TORX Omci : tmbuhi Btrrunro. runt orat. mamaoir. fcBTIMD AT TH1 r08TOr?I0l AT OCRANTOS, FA. At BKOMD-CLAU MAIL MATTER. "Printers' Ink," the rccognliod Journal for advertisers, rate THE sCKAXrON TKIDtTSK aa the best advertising medium In Northeaatera Pennsylvania. TPrintra' Ink" know. Ilie Tribune Is for Sule Daily at the 1., 1. TV. Station at Hoboken. SCRANTON, MAHCII 9, 1SU5. e THE SCR ANTON OF TODAY. I I Come and Inspect our city. I Elevation above the tide, 7-10 feet. ' Kxtremely healthy. Kitlmuted population. 1893, HO.WJO. Kegtatered voters. 20,W. Value of school property. 1900.00 Number of school children, 12.000. Average uinount of bank deposits, $10, (00.000. It's the metropolis of northeastern Penn sylvania. Can produce eleetrlo power cheaper than Rlagara. No better point In the United States at tvhlch to establish new Industrie. See how we grow: Population In llkiO 9.223 Population In 1S70 35.000 ; Population in 1SS0 PopuUtlon In 1SS0 75,215 Population In ISM (estimated) 11X1,000 ' And the end is not yet. The call for the annual meeting, next Monday nlht, of the Central Republi can club should elicit a general re sponse. There Is business to be acted upon at that meeting; which will inter est every member. With the presiden tial campaign only a year or so distant, now Is a good time to get Into lighting trim. Two Horns of a Dilemma. We frankly concede that while capi tal punishment remains the law of the land. It should be enforced. Until a better punitive system shall do away with the whole vengeance system, In favor of one which reforms the crimi nal Instead of executing him. it will aggravate the state of the public morals to hang one murderer and let the next one, of equal guilt, go free. To this extent we cordially coincide with the letter from our New York critic, which we printed In yesterday's Tribune. Nor do we question the right of the state to hang Its criminals, or to draw and quarter them If it shall think fit. There Is no law In a republic higher than the concensus of enlightened pub lic opinion. What It ordains, courts and juries are in fealty bound to sus tain, even though; It be at the sacrifice cf personal belief. If we were on a Jury called to pass on the fate of a deliberate murderer, while we believe capital punishment to be ineffective as a preventive of the crime of murder, as much so as lancing a wound Is Ineffective against the con traction of a second wound the diffi culty, In either case, being only chipped off a trifle at Its top, and not corrected at its root we should, with a clear con science, vote to give a new Job to the hangman; because this Is the remedy legally prescribed for the disease In question. This course we conceive to fce the duty of all jurors, under the pres ent system, which Intrusts them, not With the making or unmaking of Statutes, but simply with the deter mination of facts. Unfortunately for the public morals, Ihe foregoing view of the Juror's duty does not prevail among the majority tf jurors. That majority, as statistics rove, permits sentiment and personal preference to usurp the piace of duty. This Is wronK, utterly wrong, but It is the cold, hard fact of the matter, clear and conspicuous. It remains to ask our New York friend and others who think with him, "What are you going to do about it?" It Is Impossible, on the one hand, to muzzle discussion as to the death penalty's wisdom; and it Is equally Impossible, on the other hand, to compel Jurors to hang men gainst their wIlL "What course, then, Is open? I The only one we see Is to abolish capi tal punishment and substitute a re formative system. Mr. Cannon, of the house committee On appropriations, has been delving Into Pguiea. From hi researches It appears that the appropriations of the Fifty first congress, when Mr. Reed was speaker of the house, and the presi dent, house and senate were Kepubll-t-an, were, In round numbers, $988,000, D00, T'hlle the appropriations for the Fifty-second congress, when the house Was I)emocrstlo and Mr. Crisp was Speaker, were, In round numbers, 11,027, 000,000, and the appropriations for this roneross, with president, house and Senate all Democratlo are, In round numbers, $900,000,000. Moreover, the late sale of 30-year 4 per cent. United Btates bonds the payment of Interest Upon which is permanent swells the total of appropriations for this and the next fiscal year by $3,800,000, making the grand total actually appropriated by this congress, In round numbers, 1993,000,000. This exceeds the appropria tion made by the Fifty-first congress, railed by our Democratlo friends 'the lillllon-Dollar congress,' in round num bers, by $6,000,000." 'Mr. Cannon asserts that, In addition to the actual Increase Df appropriations the Fifty-third con gress has authorized .public works to be done under contract, leaving the next congress to make appropriations therefor, which would make the total of appropriations and authorizations of this congress $1,015,000,000, or over a bil lion dollars. We do not believe the Congress of Dishonor was worth one billlonth of Us cost There Iff at least something admiration-Inspiring in the undaunted man ner in which the editor of the esteemed Truth comes up, albeit frowning, for the next round. Woman Suffrage. Upon another page, this morning, will be found the text of a puper cm woman suffrage, recently reud by Mrs. Franc T. Vail, of this city, at West Plttston. It is somewhat gloomy In its tone, but may be said .to fulrly present the alllr mative side of the question, "Shull wo men vote?" We cannot bring ourselves up to the belief that affairs are at so low an ebb in public government as Mrs. Vail would seem to Imply. We are not ready to ugree with her that patriotism Is dying or that debauchery, corruption and miscellaneous evils have got the whip hand of things In the ad ministration of law and order In the United States. It Is easy to say that this Is so; but It Is not easy to procure for that assertion the assent of persons who are healthy uml ordinarily prosper ous. From the standpoint of fact, the introductory generalities In Mrs. Vail's address are probably exaggerated. They rest, it seems U us. on emotion rather than on logic. Neither ure they needed to establish woman's claim t.j the ballot, if she lias one. What are the arguments on this latter point ? Let us look, for a moment, at the negative side. The ablest recent sum mary of that side Is to be found in the report of Chairman Goodelle, of the committee on suffrage made to the New York constitutional convention which lately declined to extend the franchise of suffrage to women. Starting out with the premise that suffrage Is not a natural and Inherent light, but an obli gation laid upon the citizen for the benetlt of the state, he asserts that the sole question should be, "Would the state be benefitted by conferring suf frage on women?" He answers that it would not; first, because the Introduc tion of politics into the family would breed domestic strife; secondly, because by changing the sphere of woman's In fluence from the peace and purity of the home to the vitiated and vitiating atmosphere of the ward caucus, the political club, the polls and the lobbies and committee rooms of halls of legisla tion in time of peace, or to the grim arena of battle during war-time, wo man would be degraded rather than up lifted and social development would be arrested; and lastly, because the num ber of women who want suffrage bears but a small proportion to those who take no pains to present a request for It, and Is even smaller than the number of those who are aggressively opposed to the proposition that It be conferred upon them. The spirit of the report Is well crystallized in the chairman's as sertion that "woman is not oppressed; she Is not neglected; she is first con sidered in times of common peril, and as to her influence in courts of justice it has been truly said that in Jury cases, at least, the difficulty is not for women to get Justice against men, but for men to get Justice against women." In rebuttal of these arguments it H claimed by those who argue for woman suffrage that Its enactment would "purify polities," apparently upon the principle that the rotten apple in the basket will be made clean as soon as sound apples are placed near it. Un fortunately, the teaching of science is that the rot will spread; and there Is, It seems to us, infinitely more danger of the voting woman getting worse be cause of the suffrage than there Is rea sonable probability that the voting man will be made better by It. It has al ways been a belief with us that the qualification for voting should be one of intelligence and sound character rather than one of sex. The ignorant or vicious woman and man ought both to be debarred from the polls, while the intelligent and upright man and wo man might with approximate safety be admitted to the polls on equal terms, provided the woman should wish for that privilege. liut until It Is perfectly clear that the good women of America do desire the ballot, and until the guardians of that fountain spring of government are prepared to make a general purification Irrespective of atx, the agitation for woman suffrage will, In our Judgment, deserve to fall. "The attack" of the Smith bill "on the garb of the teacher covers," says the Philadelphia Record, "a furtive at tack on the teacher's creed." Not necessarily. It may cover merely an effort to keep sectarianism out of the public schools. Would the Itecord ob ject to that? Another Arbitration Plan. Among the reform bills proposed for enactment by the Civic Federation of Chicago, two of which we have previ ously noticed, Is a noteworthy one for the settlement of Industrial disputes by arbitration. It Involves nothing new, but Is considerable by reason of the fact that It embodies probably the best thought which modern civilization has yet succeeded in devoting to tlie strike problem. The measure provides for the ap pointment, by the governor, of an arbi tration board of three members, one an employer, another a member of some labor organization In good standing and the third to be chosen, If possible, by these two, or If not by them, then by the governor himself, from among men likely to be Impartial. Whenever a labor difficulty Involving over twenty five men arises In any part of the state, and which Involves matters not subject to the ordinary Jurisdiction of the courts of law, 'an appeal' may be made to the board to arbitrate the mat ter. In that case both parties must agree to continue at work pending the arbitration, which must be decided within three weeks, and the parties must agree further to abide by the de cision for at least six months, or until they have given sixty days' notice to the contrary. If the parties do not appeal to the board the board Is author ized, at its discretion, to communicate with the parties, visit the scene of the difficulty, and endeavor to get both sides to settle their dldleutles, either by some conciliatory methods of their own or through the arbitration of the board or through other arbitrators. As a tlnul resort, the board Is empowered to prepare and make public an accurate statement of the facts In any dispute which refuses to submit to arbitration, pluclng the blume where. In the bourd's Judgment. It properly belongs. Public sentiment. In such u contingency, Is re lied Uion to do the rest. Thut there are dltllcutles In the way of such a solution of the labor prob lem Is at once evident, nor are these few nor slight. The main thing to be said of It Is that It provides a tolera bly Just method of ascertaining the real merit of a given dispute, with u certain moral suasion toward peace and order. This Is as fur as It seems possi ble to go at this time; und It Is further thun lias been gone by the majority of slates In which the strike question has assumed threatening proportions. One branch of the Maine leglslature has passed a woman suffrage bill und another branch of the Massachusetts legislature has rejected tt similar bill. And there you ure. Senator Quuy didn't talk politics with (.inventor Hastings, of course not; neither does the Susquehanna river ut Hariishui'g How down hill. The Dunmore Kx press Is the name of a sprightly und energetic newcomer In the local journalistic Held. It looks bright enough to be a go. Kvldently moral suasion hasn't been sultleient as yet to get Illiterates to school, for statistics show that one seventh of them are "on the outside." COMPULSORY EDUCATION. Other Opinions Concerning the Uill Now Pending lu the Senate. The Pittsburg ComiiK-rclul - Gazette thinks "the fact that the Karr compulsory education bill passed the house on third reading by si vote of VX to U Is a fair Indi cation that, whatever may be said of the prai tleal utility of the measure, a decided majority of tho people of the state would like to see the experiment Hied. There Is a very considerable class of citizens throughout the state who would be very materially benefited by such legislation as mleht compel them to give their chil dren the benefit of the public schools dur ing the only time that un education is pos sible for them. To the great mass of chil dren, ull hope of obtaining an education ceases when they are compelled to go to work. During the debate It was asserted that even In Pennsylvania illiteracy, was on the Increase; that one-seventh of the children of school age were not attending school, ami that In the capital of the state, a city of 39.000 population, there Were 1,000 children of school age absent from the schools. That ratio held good for the whole state, and no better argument could have been submitted In support of the bill. Surely some effort should be made to com pel the parents of these absentees to save them from Illiteracy and Its consequences. The law will not prove a dead letter. Sim ilar laws have worked well In other states, ami there Is no reason why the same means should not be equally efficacious here." e The i rie Dispatch. "Some very Interesting facts were brought out In the discussion, nmong them that one-seventh of the number of children of the school age In Pennsyl vania were not attending school. Now over thirty states have compulsory educa tional laws. .Massachusetts had last year with such a law only one child out of school where Pennsylvania had eighteen. This compulsory educatlonul law will do for Pennsylvania what the same law has done In many other states; make It lead In an educational way, and make care less parents who refuse to allow their children an education send them to school. Tho enormous foreign population of Penn sylvania has neglected In a great mea uro tn education of Its children, and vo can never expect to make good patriotic citizens of tnese boys und girls, until they are educated In schools either public or private. The passage of this bill marks a new era In the educational history of the slate of Pennsylvania, and means a great deal for future advancement," . Tho Aitoona Tribune. "The Tribune Is not the owner nf a cony of tho Karr compulsory educational uct us It passed the house, but It believes the bill Is nil right and hopes It will become u law ut tho present session. Compulsory education mean nothing more drastic or paternal than that the state will under take to protect the helpless children who ure soon to be Its cltlxens In the light to so much of an education us will give them tin opportunity to mako their way In the world." - Was a Jimt Recognition. From the llawley Times. The magnificent present tendered ex I.leiitenant Governor Watrea by his asso ciates In the senate, In testimony of the hlKh regard In which he was held and Ihn able and Impartial manner In which he performed the exacting Mullen of presiding ofllcer of thut dlgnllled body, Is a Just recognition uml appreciation of a career that Is singularly free from corruption or taint of anything dishonorable. si'K i m;tim e K V. 1 1.KCTIONS. When the air more balmy seemes Ve foes of speckled trout Will seek ye limpid forest stream And yunk ye beauties out. Arbutus Is budding. The bicycle microbe Is In the air. Tho building boom Is In full blast. The wise man now sprinkles lime In his vegetable cellar. Thirsty citizens can tnks medicine for that tired feeling. The oratdr now begins the composition of his Memorial Day uddresa. Curbstone loafers may now more thor oughly enjoy tho passing show, iloltlnu snow banks are giving the suburban city lots another show, lyocul dealers claim that russets will monopolise the shoe trade this season. The coal merchant Is liable to linger In tho lap of the ice man for many day hence. The cackle of ithe great American hen Rounds the doom of high prluus In the egg market. Corporations, builders and others pre pare to tuke entire possession of the city streets, as usual. Tblnks It Will Be a Big Sueceaa. From the Olyphant Record. Active preparations are made by the Thirteenth regiment to hold an entertain ment In the Frothlngham next April. The object Is the erection of a new armory, which will be In line with the progress of the Electric City, and meet the demand of this patriotic band of citizens. One of the leading spirits of this project Is Col onel Hippie, who devotes much of his tlmo to the advancement of the affairs of the Thirteenth regiment. It goes without say ing, thut the affair will be a success, but wa have an Idea that it will he the great est success of Us kind In the history of the city of Scranton. The leaders In the movement are men of Influence, In whom tho people confide and their appeal to the public will meet with 'hearty response. TOLD BY THE STARS. Dally Horoscope Drawn by AJucchus.Tho . Tribune Astrologer. Astrolabe Cast: 1.24 a. m., for March 9, 1895. 5 rt A child born on this iluy will be of even temper and muy be trained to be come a good citizen by prop.-r applica tion of tho birch. Appearing under the sign of cancer Its heart will be In the right place. Lawsuits begun on this day will re sult in triumph for the one who properly looks to the selection of the Jury. Perseverance will bring success when cuttpled with a "pull." Ajucchus' AdWce. Always usk favors of politicians be fore election day. Do not be bashful unless you wish to sturve to death. PAINT cracks It often costs more to prepare a house for repainting that lias been painted in the first place with cheap ready-mixed paints, than it would to have painted it twice witli strict ly pure white lead, ground in pure linseed oil. Strictly Pure White Lead forms a permanent base for repaint ing and nev er has to be burned or scraped off on account of scaling or cracking. It is always smooth and clean. 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