THE SCEANTON TRIBUNE-WEDNESDAY MORNINGS APRIL 10, .1895. Sally and Weekly. No Suudiiy Edition. FublUhed at Scranton, I'u , by TU Tribune llib- lUlilmrComimnf. tew York Office: Tribune Hulldlng, Frank & Grey, lluuagor, k. r. KINGSBURY P. 6'i Max. E. H. RIPPLE, Sie'v an. Tkm. LIVYS. RICHARD, Editor. W. W. DAVIS, Buiiniii Munaois. W. W. YOUNGS, Ao. ManoH, IKTIRKO AT P03T0TPIC1 AT ScnANTOIf, FA., A9 BIC0ND-CLAB3 MAIL I1AT1IK. Printer' Ink." the rrcoiilM1 Jonrniil for ndvr-r-liners, rules TllK sk hastuk Tiiihunk the bent mlvtnlnlnn uinlluni In Nortlicmleru l'cumj Wa nts. "1'rlntenV luk" know, Tkk Weekly TainuNK, lwued Kvery Haturday, rontalna Twelve lhmiNonie I'uinv. with n Alum dunce of New, Union, mid Well Kcllted Mlm-el-Unv. For Tluwn Who Chiihoi lake Tum Daily Thibi'Se, the Weekly I. Iteceniuieuiled hs tho Heal Bargain Uulng. Only f 1 it Yuitr, 111 Advance. Tn Tbibunic 1 for Side Pully lit the D., L. and W. butiou ut Uuboken. fCKAXTON, AP1UL 10, ISC t ! THE SCRANTON Of TODAY. Come and Inspect our city. Ulevation nuuve the tide, HO feet. Extremely healthy. Estimated population, 1S95, 103,000. lti'Rlstered voters, LV,i9!. Value of school property, J'.ro.OK). Number of school children, U'.WV Average amount of bank deposits, $10, WO.00O. It's the metropolis of northeastern Penn sylvania. Cnn produce electric power cheaper than Niagara. No better point In the United States at which to establish new Industries. See how we urow: Topulatlon In 9.-'! Population In 1S70 Population In 1SS0 45.W0 Population In 1S!W "5,211 Population In 11 (estimated) . 103,000 And tlio end Is not yet. What Scranton needs most, Just now, Is an ordinance ltmitlrtg- the speed of trolley cars and compi lllnjr them to une safety fenders. Will councils Ignore this need? An Important Local Issue. The car fender In use by the Central Hallway company, of Ualtlmore, which gives such excellent results in the pre vention of serious accidents, is known p.s the Hlaklston fender. If the cars of the Scranton Traction company had been, equipped with this or an equally efficient type of fender, as promised by that company's officials, little Merritt Lawrence would in all probability bo alive today. The coroner's jury which acquitted the motorman and conductor of blame for his killinsr did right. Those two men were simply fulfilling the in structions of their employers. A ques tion not so easily settled, however, is whether the Traction company, after it had solemnly and publicly promised to pat fenders on its cars, and. then failed to live up to that promise. Is not legally as well as morally respon Plble for accidents which fenders would prevent. , The point for present consideration by the people of Scranton Is whether, after securing at small expense vir tually a monopoly of franchines author izing it to use the streets of this city upon condition of rendering to thf public a safe and efficient transit ser vice, the Scranton Traction company Is to be permitted, by the excessive speed of its fenderiess cars, to kill or maim people with Impunity and then Ignore the mischief thus -wilfully cre ated. If this company may crawl out of Its obligations In the matter of safety fenders; it It may practically repudiate the deliberate pledge of a former general manager that fenders would be adopted within less than a year, what Is to restrain It from vio lating other agreements of equal im portance to the public? If the one lapse be overlooked, how many more will follow In its wake? If there Is any virtue In printer's ink, we propose to make the Scranton Trac tion company redeem its promise of safety fenders made by Its then gen eral manager at a, session of councils held one year ago. And If there, is sufficient spunk In the present councils to resist the deductive arguments, of traction lobbyists, they will come to the public's rescue In 4hl9 matter by passing an ordinance compelling the Traction company to live up to that agreement. This is the issue; and we intend to fight it through to the end. It is a bad week for certain news papers nowadays when they cannot turn out at least seven different stories of factional dissension .among Penn sylvania Republicans, or one complete tale for every publication day. Of course, all are related "upon the high est authority," and are "undoubtedly genuine." Tinkering; the Brooks Law. The commission appointed by the last legislature to investigate the workings of the Brooks high license law, and to report suggested Improvements upon that law, has embodied the results of Its inquiry In two bills yesterday laid before the state senate by Senator Mitchell, of Jefferson. One of these bills governs the retail trade in intoxi cants and the other affects only the wholesale trade. The retail, bill fixes the license fee at $.100 for first and second-class cities; $100 for thlrd-claHS cities; $300 In all other cities; $150 for boroughs, ami $73 for townships. Places where grog sold in violation of the law shall be declared a nuisance and treated as disorderly houses and shall be abated by suit at law or equity In stituted by the commonwealth or a cltl sen. All persons found drinking in uch places will be considered disor derly. All bnrs must be closed between midnight and C in the morning. It is unlawful to furnish music or free lunch In any licensed pluee. It is provided in the second bill that wholesalers, rectifiers, etc., shall pay for each separate store and agency an an nual license ns follows: $1,000 in first and second-class cities; $500 In thlrd cluss cities; $300 in nil other cities; $200 In boroughs; $100 In townsihlps. No bottlers' license shall hereafter bo issued, but any whulesalo dealer or brewer may sell the liquors in bottles by wholesale. Distillers and brewers nre permitted to deliver ithelr product In wagons in the county where the license Is granted. Money loaned by wholesalers to establish retailers can not be recovered, and tiny such judg ment served will be stricken from the record. Unquestionably these bills, taken to got her, materially strengthen tho It rooks law, If ithe fundamental license principle of both measures be conceded as tenable. The amending bill's re duction of the license churge in third class cities from $300 to $400 would not necessarily mean, In Scranton nt least, a decrease In license revenues, but It would require, its an alternative, greater vigilance in the suppressnl of speak vasles. Uy declaring the latter places disorderly, the state would put Into the hands oT the municipal au thorities power, now absent, to hinder their Illicit operations. Thus the spec tacle, In our own city, of a member of one branch of councils deliberately ig noring the P.rooks law couhf be prompt ly ended by his aurest and punishment; and what Is true in this notorious case would be true, with less prominence, In many other Instances. It remains to be seen what action tho present legislature will take on the Mitchell amendments. If it is really sslncvre In Its purpose of strengthening the Jilfjh license system, it will have to go several steps farther, even, than Is required of It In the foregoing bills. It will have, for one thing, to provide stringent penalties for the brewer, dis tiller or wholesaler who recognizes or encourages the multiplication of speuk easies; and it will also have to provide for a system of county police adequate to the task of ferreting out the license evaders. A good many people believe that while It is doing all this, it could Just as easily enforce outright prohibition. Perhaps Mr. Cleveland was merely intoxicated with power. Some of his official actions bear out that suspicion. Senator Palmer as a Prophet. Senator Palmer, of Illinois, who Is quite as likely as any other Democrat to be his party's standard bearer in the next national campaign, says the next national Democratic; convention "will not declare in favor of the free and un limited coinage of silver, because if it did so It would not represent the Dem ocratic party. The Democratic party is committed to the coinage of dollars of equal acceptability and value In tho markets and In payment of debts, and no Democrat believes that the free and unlimited coinage of silver upon the present or any other suggested ratio would produce silver dollars of equal acceptability and value with the gold dollar of 23 8-10 grains. There are par ties which favor the free and unlimited coinage of sliver dollars of 412& grains of standard silver, without any expec tation that the dollar they propose will be of equal acceptability and value with the gold dollar. They look to a silver standard of value as the logical and necessary result of the free and unlimited coinage of silver on the pres ent ratio. liut the Democratic party will stand on the Chicago platforni, which demands the equality in value and usefu'noss of the dollars' of gold and silver. Every effort should be made to bring silver coinage up to tho present standard of values, but the present standard of values should not be lowered to meet the reduced value and acceptability of the silver coinage, which would be the necessary effect of the free coinage of silver upon the present or any other ratio which has been suggested. "Before thecampalgn of 1806 the ooun try will again become prosperous as the result of Its own resourees and the energy of our people, so that neither tho monetary nor tariff question will be of controlling importance. The folly of the free silver craze will be manifest when prosperity returns. Before that time the tariff of 18!i4, which Is at once the most just and reasonable of all legislation of Its class which has marked our history, will have demon strated its value. The Republicans of the Fifty-fourth congress rely upon the certainty that Mr, Cleveland will re fuse to approve any measure which seems to look to a return to the princi ples of protection and will demonstrate that the controlling issues in 189G will be based upon the policy of annexation. The Republican party will attempt to annex the Sandwich Islands and Cuba, and I predict that in 18!)G the country will be prosperous, tho monetary and tariff questions will be treated as of small consequence, and the political Is sues forced upon the country will be a great -navy and an expensive jingoism supported by turgid appeals to Ameri can patriotism." , , Prophecy Is always Interesting, and doubly so when the prophet Is a man of eminence.' We, therefore, reproduce Senator Palmer's prediction In full, for what It Is worth We do mot agree with him that the silver Issue will be re moved from politics within the next two years'; nor ill a t the prosperity w-htch.' ls. Inevitable . In. this country sooner or later will be attributed by the people to the tariff legislation which wrought so grievous a ruin of things as prosperity's antecedent. But we will be more generous touching the last count In his indictment, .We will frank ly concede' the probability that the Re publican press and speakers will, In tho matter of an aggressive foreign policy, make repeated appeals during the next campaign to American patriotism. These appeals will be dubbed "Jingo ism" by Democrats who hope thus to cover up their administration's stupid conduct of tho state department-; but to the majority of virile American citi zens they will convey no worse mean ing than an honest and candid desire to bring to American diplomacy fixity of purpose and rigidity of wholesome backbonu. The "jingo" shibboleth may have "worked" In past campaigns; but It will not preserve our Democratic frlejids from the wrath to come. Tomorrow evening, Hon. Charles Emory Smith will, at Harrlsburg, en deavor to maintain the nrgument that this government, out of deference to thu foreign enpitallnts who own $1,500,000, 000 worth of American securities, ought to go to a gold basis. Mr. Smith, while pleading the ense of tho foreign bond holders, might also explain what he proposes to do for the owners of the $10,000,000,000 worth of values which are held nt homo. Are these millions of peo ple of smaller concern than the baker's down of Investors resident abroad? If It be possible to operate un efficient telephone system at a net cost, to each subscriber, of $25 a year, tho public will assuredly welcome the company performing this feat. The present prices very manifestly ore ridiculously high. . When learned jurists standing at the head of their profession In this country set the example of disagreeing over a vital point I'll law, how can It be ex pected that mere laymen Will agree? The supreme court split is a poor ob ject lesson to set before a Jury. "Art for art's sake" ought to be decent enough not to shamo art. Noth ing permanently good is ever achieved In any branch of human endeavor with out the sustaining animus of a moral purpose. Society Is not yet ready to surrender the canons of conscience. A question which Senator Penrose ought to answer is whether foot ball games would count under his anti-prize-tight bill as pugilistic contests, punishable by $100 fine or Imprison ment. If they would, we are for his bllL How can any sane man be expected to read the 4S or 50 pages of ajnodern Sunday newspaper? When will the American people learn to distinguish between quality and bulk? SUNDAY 'OBSERVAXCE. The city of Toronto, Canada, Is In tho throes of a Sunday observance movo muitt Involving principles which were much discussed In Scranton a short timo aso. The Cllobo utters the following opin ion upon the subject, which. It appears to us, Is dose to the common sense of tho question at issue: "We believe that It Is sound public policy to encourage the ob servance of one day In the week ns a day of rest, and to prevent employers from doing violence to tho conscience of their employes by using any means, direct or Indirect, to compel them to work on the Sabbath day. Tho stutacannot compel them to go to church or to perform any other religious (latins, except such as nro essential to good citizenship, nor would It be wise or Just to maku the attempt. JJut it can do much to protect those who are desirous of observing the duy as one of rest end religious worship, and to save them from beitig'Compelled to choose be tween violating their consciences and los ing tho means of earning their bread. And In -that direction It would be difficult for the state to go too far. We huve heard, for Instance, that the employes of railway companies are often employed on Sundays In work which Is by no means necessary, and serves the purpose only of convenience, and here, we think, there Is good ground for Interference. We do not agree, however, that If tho state stops ut that point It Is undertaking, as It Is sometimes contended, 'to repeal the fourth commandment.' That Is not putting the ease accurately. The truth Is that It Is Impossible for the state to enforce the fourth commandment. Tho most strin gent Sunday observance laws may be en acted and obeyed to the letter by people who are breaking the fourth command ment every minute of the day. Vor the observance of the day as a religious duty Is a matter not of refraining from doing this or that, but of spiritual condition which cannot be brought about by human onactments. Our legislative bodies gen erally refrain from Intruding on this do main, and people, without breaking tho law, may talk on secular matters, or read frivolous novels, or amuse themselves with practically the samo freedom on Sunday as on liny other dny. The remedy Is not law, but the una of numerous powers of persuasion which tho advocates of the due observance of the day possess. If the llm 1 1 tit ions of the power of the stato are rec ognized much good can be dono by work ing strictly within those linos and Insist ing upon tho preservation of tho privilege of u day of rest and quietness." Stuting a Celebrated ('use. From the Philadelphia Times. To admit the legal right of the plaintiff or prosecutor in a libel action to Institute criminal or civil proceedings In any Btate or territory of the union and compel the attendance of the defendnnt, would be to place every newspuper of the country at the mercy of any adventurer. If Mr. Noyes has tho right llo require Mr. Dana's attendance In Washington to answer tho crimlnul chargo of libel without a war rant served upon him within tho Juris diction of Its courts, he could at the lamo tlmo Institute a hundred, or even a thous and, criminal and civil Bulls against Mr. Dana in nny state, territory or county of tho Union where proof of the circulation of the Sun containing the libel could be lestabllshed. Oils) right to reqirtre Mr. I )ii nil to attend a trlnl In Alaska would be just as nhsoluto as his right to require him to attend the trial In Washington, nnd hn could select any jurisdiction from Now Mexico to Maine that would bo most vexatious and costly for the defendant to comply with. Such a law could not remain the law of this free government with Uh free press and free schools and universal progress on tho lines of the best civiliza tion of the' world. The law will always glvo any cltlzon who has been Injured by the public press tho fullest rights to trial and vindication, but our laws cannot por mlt ap ubilo Journalist to be at the mercy of any adventurer who might choose to Institute libel suits against him In any or every part of the country. Common Sonsy at Last. ' From the Chicago Times-Herald. No sane or putrlotla American need any longer conceal his sympathy with the cause of tho Cuban revolutionists. The oppressions of King Oeorge were no more grievous than those practiced for many years by the cruel and greedy government of Bpaln upon Its most Important colony. Indeed, what example does civilized his tory afford of equal barbarity? If Amer ican citizens may properly express their sympathy with this revolt, what Is the proper attitude of the American govern ment to the revolutionists? May we not with all propriety now recognize the rebels as belligerents? Who should be the first to give lawful encouragement to patriots struggling for freedom In this hemisphere if not the great republic whose example has been an Inspiration to patriotism from Its beginning? How to Kcducc Legal Expenses. From the Toronto Globe. Law reform is urgently required, but one excellent way to avoid the cost, delay and anxiety of a law-suit Is to keep out of it until all resources have fulled. TOLD BY THE STARS. Dully Horoscope Drawn by AJucohus, Tbe i ilhiiuo Astrologer. Astrolabo cast: 1.59 a. m. for Wednesday, April 10, HUG. 5f A child born on this day will in time he convinced that tho yell of "honest money" Is becoming something of a fraudulent chestnut, und no longer has much weight for campaign purposes. Ho will perceive with closed eyes that a flminclul policy arranged by the Roths childs nnd other foreign money lenders will not necessurlly make this country rich. In fact he will realize, at an early age that tho world moves. It Is hinted In bicycle circles that tho (lowers of spring will not be the only bloomers about Scranton this year. AJucohus' Advlco. Do not discard your overcoat today un less your undershirt Is of the thickness of an urmy blanket. Plant your enrly garden seeds In the full moon. If tho condition of tho moon Is not right, plant them In thu ground. Do not be surprised If John M. Harris hereafter refrains from whistling "When the Springtime Comes, Gentle Anna." THE best investment in real estate is to keep build ings well painted. Paint protects the house and saves repairs. You sometimes want to sell many a good house has remained unsold for want of paint. The rule should be, though, "the best paiut or none." That means Strictly Pure White Lead You cannot afford to use cheap faints. To be sure of getting Strict ly Pure White Lead, look at the brand ; any of these are safe: "Atlantic," "Beymer-Bauman," "Jewett," "Davis-Chambers," "Fahnestock," "Armstrong & McKelvy." For Colors. National Lead Co.'s Pure White Lead Tinting Colors. These colors are sold in one-pound cans, each can being sufficient to tint i; pounds of strictly Pure White Lead the desired shade ; they are in no sense ready-mixed paints, but a combination of perfectly pure colors in the handiest form to tint Strictly Pure White Lead. A good many thousand dollars have been saved property-owners by having our book on painting and color-card. Send us a postal card and get bolb free. NATIONAL LEAD CO.. New York. Useful and Orna mental Goods LADIES' DESKS. CABINETS, BOOKCASES. LADIES' DRESSING TABLES. TEA TABLES AND LIBRARY TABLES, BRASS AND ONYX TABLES AND CABINETS (OP A . GUARANTEED QUALITY.) AN ELEGANT STOCK OP PIC TURES AT MODERATE COST. FANCY BASKETS AND LAMPS. CALL EARLY AND MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS WHILE OUR AS. 60RTMENT IS COMPLETE. Hill & Connell, 131 IND 133 WASHINGTON AVE. AYLESWORTH'S MEAT MARKET Tbe Finest In the City. The latest improved furnish' lngs and apparatus for keeping meat, butter and eggs. 223 Wyoming Ave. MT. PLEASANT COAL AT RETAIL, Coal of the best quality fop domestic use, and of all sixes, delivered In any part of tho city at loweat price. Orders left at my Office NO. IIS WYOMING AVENUE,' Rear room, first floor. Third National Bank, or aent by mall or telephone to tha nine, will receive prompt attention. Special oontraota will be tnadn for the late sad delivery of Buckwheat Coal. WM. T. SMITH. THE. WEBER PIANO GUERNSEY BROS. 224 WYOMING AVE. Introducing many THURSDAY Special Kid Glove Sale. Two Dollars for One. We will sell 100 pairs of the celebrated Fosterina, 7-hook Gloves at $1.00 per pair, Positively for One Day Only. FRIDAY Special Bargain Day in our basement of goods from the receiver's sale of E. S. Jaffray & Co. at Half Price. SATURDAY A Manufacturer's Entire Sample Line of Capes and Jackets at half price. No Garments alike, and many of them the choicest and jauntiest effects ever displayed in this city. T&SDuring this opening we especially desire call your attention to our new lines of Laces. to Handkerchiefs. Children's asols, and other Ladies' and The extensive alterations and enlargement of our various depart merits arc now complete, and teeming full of all the various items of MEN'S AM) CHILDREN'S Spring Outfittings. on a Iurgerand broader scale than ever. Here are a few Easter Specinls : Men's high grade all wool Suits, worth $15, for $10. (Heavier than spring weights for year around wear.) Men's highest grade all worsted Suits, worth $18, for $12. (Suitable for the most scrupulous and economical.) Men's pure fur Derby and Alpine Hats, worth $1.50, for 87c. (In the fashionable shapes and shades.) Men's satin lined newest Neckwear, worth 50c, for 25c. (Elegant Scotoh plaids and other effects.) Child's fancy blue Jersey Suits, worth $3.00, for $1.50. (It will surprise you how good they are for the money.) Child's Braided Cassimere Reefer Suits, worth $3.00 for $1.75. (No child can have occasion -. look untidy.) CONFIRMATION SUITS. " THE QAMTCRQ " I IlL Of. Ill I LllOf OPENING DAYS NEW FIRM. We extend a cordial invitation to all to visit our store and exam iue our special displuy of Fancy Vases, liric-a-Rrac, China, Cut Glass, Silverware, etc., all the latest designs, on APRIL llth, 12th, AND 13th. Make memorandum of these dates. Don't forget to come. the: LIMITED. 422 LACKAWANNA AVENUE. ARE THE BEST COASTERS. Consequently they must run easier than any other wheel. Call and examine them. C. M. FLOREY, 222 WYOMING AVENUE, V. IB. C. A. BUILDING. The secret Is out Not only do they Bay we do wahslag for a living, but that we do it well. So keep it going. Tell everybody jou see, but tell them not to tell. EUREKA .-. LAUNDRY, 3a2 Washington Ave. GRAND EASTER OPENING, special features among lines adapted to the season. Cans. Gloves. Waists, Par Gents' Furnishings. SQUARE DEAL,NG clothiers, HATTERS AND FURNISHERS, THE COLD HOLDER You bohold in tba enter. It's the Celebra ted Alaska. It well derreg to be surround ed by nil that is good. Tlio time nnproftcliua for its use. Ia your in order or do you need n new ouoy Look well to your refrtuorator, for it Is nice to hold the i to keen your food in order. Perh.pn yours leaks. That i. all riht if water only cornea from the waste pipe lor dripping from teo. If it lets air leak in thon you'll be out of pocket. Your ice will disap pear with speed; your food will not keep so long or tahte so a week Hardwaro, of course, for everything and everybody. 119 ., Washington A?e DURING LENT. Fresh Fish and Oysters Received Every Morning. Pierce's Market WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DR. HILL & SON ALBANY DENTISTS. Set teeth, S.60: best set, W: for sold cap; and teeth without plates, called erown and bridge work, call for prices and refer, encea. TONALGIA, for extracting teetk Vlthout pain. Mo ether. No gaa. . OVER FIRST NATIONAL- BANK, READY MSIER CAR of fixings that are AND BOOKLETS. ALL THE Leading Publications. Fran Latest Easter Lilies and Yiolets. They Are Beantifnl. T 1 T V 1 episcopal riyiunais ana Pra-er Books hi Sets and separate; also, Ifyinnals with Music. New line of Catholic Prayer Books, single and in. sets. Stationers and Engravers, 3I7 LACKAWANNA AVE. April 10, 13D3. We 'Have Moved to No. 121 North Washington Avenue, Next First Presbyterian Church New Store, New Styles, New Prices, and We Want You for a New Customer. Jl FURNITURE DEALERS, tntlTCB FKOR CO., Ino'p. Capltiil, $M1 M58T l.JSO BHOB IN THE H "A dollar toped It a uonar ThltT.adin' Solid French Dongolai ton Boot delivered Inw anywnera in or l'uttol oti Kansl. evenr wl Kid ia all reul '.i9. We ma) oarwivM, Uwnfon ana u any one w r. win reinira or send another Toa or Comi width. V, It .site. 1 to n. Bent ' Fl Cora Shoe Co, FEDERAL BOSTON, 1 Sfdai ttrmt to ixu Mr REYNOLDS BROS,, ill i ei r 7 i 3 in niv-ui nun m i-sal Br m a. rrj m .-"m r na mr -est 143