PARTISAN ISSUES.

should be determined on by Russia or France, | lottery company's charter. If the pro-lottery | strict justice, Sage and his fellows should not or both combined, Bulgaria, or Servia, or campaigners can convince the opponents of be blamed too harshly, seeing that the masses Roumania, or Macedonia would undoubtedly negro suffrage that the blacks are to rule once of the people who suffer from the spoliation to have to furnish the materials. But that France more, as the fruit of an anti-lottery victory, the which they have been subjected are so blindly single-handed will attempt anything more canvass can only end in a triumph for the lot-tolerant of the system that they refuse to use serious against Bulgaria than an expression of tery. Herein is the chief danger to the oppo- their power to put an end to it. Russell Sage displeasure through the withdrawal of her nents of the lottery. Unless public sentiment and the other millionaires, harsh, unscrupulous, Consuls is very unlikely. In fact, she has no in the commonwealth is hopelessly debauched and despotic as their actions have been, convenient way of getting at Bulgaria. She a direct issue on the lottery ought to compass merely avail themselves of the opportunicould not reach the Danube without passing its defeat. To the extent that irrelevant con- ties which the people continue to afford through the Dardanelles, and permission for siderations are imported into the dispute the them. The system which makes millionaires her ships to do this Turkey dares not give. pro-lottery party will be strengthened. and paupers naturally leads to chaos and deThen, too, the Danube is only accessible to struction. It is altogether probable that the gunboats, and Bulgaria can on the land side attacks upon Sage and Hall are only the beonly be assailed by Turkey, Servia, or Rouginning of the end, and, in proportion as the mania. So the steam on both sides will prob- New York Tribune, Dec. 21.-The [Louis- masses feel the pressure of the unequal condiably be blown off in "notes." But the inci- iana] Republicans are advised to run no ticket, tions which they have sanctioned by their own dent will increase the uneasiness of the alarm-and to join the fraudulent Governor Nichols criminal apathy or unthinking consent, many ists. in overthrowing the other Democratic faction. of them will seek to wreak a blind and furious This they are asked to do because the lottery revenge upon their despoilers. Such a conis a great public evil, debasing to the State and summation will surprise no one who has to the National party which it constantly aids, studied the social problems of our time. It is Le Petit Journal (Paris), Nov. 25.-The and deserving only reprobation and defeat. inevitable that wrong, unjust, and oppressive But conditions should result in social convulsion figures of the recent Census, showing that last True, the lottery is an evil and a shame. year there were 39,000 more deaths than so is Governor Nichols. So is the Democratic and disorganization. The writers who attribirths in France, have caused a great deal of party which he has fraudulently made master bute such outbreaks to mere fiendishness or comment. Much of that comment, however, of Louisiana. What business have Republi- malignity, and take no account of the deeplyhas been made by those who suppose that this cans to save either from defeat, disgrace, or rooted social causes which make life a hell to excess of deaths over births is a new thing in destruction? It would seem to be a sensible millions and foster the spirit which finds vent our history, and affords a serious indication thing for Republicans to put up a regular in methods of violence, may lull the conscience of decadence. The rejoicings of France's ene-ticket, to pledge themselves and all their can- of capitalism to a deeper slumber and please mies and the sympathetic expressions of her didates for the Legislature against the lottery, those who willfully shut their eyes to the danger and to call on all honest citizens of the State which threatens civilization. But they show friends are premature. Four times in this century there has been a similar state of things; to support their party, which ought, with a themselves utterly ignorant of the natural laws and on three occasions matters have been fair vote, to have a majority. If the Governor of cause and effect which govern all social as worse. In 1854 the deaths exceeded the births will not give them a fair vote and a fair count well as physical phenomena. As certainly as under these circumstances, the Republicans the system of chattel slavery with all its crimes by 69,000; in 1855, by 35,000. The causes were the Crimean War, cholera, and a bad will at least have preserved their self-respect and horrors was responsible for the National and their party organization. convulsions of the Abolition agitation and the War of the Rebellion, will the system of commercial exploitatian of which Russell Sage is a prominent representative perish by violence unless the people show themselves wise and determined enough to bring about a peaceful reconstrnction of society.

THE POPULATION OF FRANCE.

harvest.

In 1870, in consequence of the Franco-German War, there were 103,000 more deaths than births. In 1871, the excess was frightful, rising to 414,000. Notwithstanding these results, so alarming at the times, and despite exhausting wars and other depopulating influences, the population of France has never ceased to advance. At the beginning of the Revolution, just a hundred years ago, France had 26,000,000 inhabitants. To-day, after losing an important part of her territory, she has 38,000,000. Of course it must not be forgotten that in this period we have acquired Nice and Savoy. We do not increase as rapidly as our neighbors; still there is an increase. The part we have to perform is not to indulge exaggerated fears, but to make the rate of growth larger by improving in every practical way the moral and material condition of the French people.

SOCIAL TOPICS.

THE LOTTERY FIGHT.

New Orleans Times-Democrat (Lottery Organ), Dec. 18.-It is a notorious fact that Anti leaders all over Louisiana have openly avowed their preference that the State should be turned over to the Republican party rather than that the Revenue Amendment should be adopted. Democrats of Louisiana, and of the country, how do you like the proposition? Are the white people of this State prepared to be plunged into all the horrors of the Reconstruction era and into the chaos of negro rule? Is the insatiate greed for office of a few men to be permitted to overthrow the time-honored party which redeemed us from the thraldom of Radical rule, and which has lifted Louisiana from the dust and despair into which she was cast by alien rule and negro domination? No! ten thousand times no! The white Democrats of Louisiana have never flinched in the past from any and every test of their manhood and their patriotism. They have endured more for their opinions' sake and achieved greater victories than any other men on the face of the earth, and they will not now cringe at the bidding of a few disappointed politicians and Brooklyn Eagle, Dec. 19.—The final struggle with a secret organization-the Farmers' Allioffice-seekers who have aligned themselves in Louisiana between the supporters and oppo-ance-and who, it is charged, are conspiring nents of the great lottery monopoly, which with the Republicans in this State and at has for more than twenty years disgraced that Washington to deliver to them the eight ElecCommonwealth, is formally in vigorous prog- toral votes of Louisiana. ress. There is every prospect that the contest will add a new and instructive chapter to the history of the "solid South." Apart from the moral aspects of the chief question at issue the campaign is destined to reflect many interesting sidelights on the condition, temper, and tendencies of both races in the contested Commonwealth. Until April next, when the election takes place, every parish will resound with the echoes of a conflict more determined than any since a political revolution was effected by the uprising against carpetbag rule at the close of the Reconstruction period. The hostile factions of organized Democracy, who are the principal parties to the contest, are resolute in their purposes to the verge of desperation. All possibility of compromise vanishes with the adjournment of the conventions. Thousands of Louisiana citizens are conscientiously opposed to the lottery. But apprehensions of restored negro domination would be far more alarming to the white voters than prolongation or renewal of the

A

LABOR ORGAN'S

DEDUCTIONS

THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR. Northwestern Chronicle (Rom. Cath., Minneapolis), Dec. 18.-It is astonishing to find a man whose school days ended at the age of thirteen so full of accurate information on the great social problems of to-day as is Terence Workman may be expected to present the best V. Powderly. Of course the General Master side of the case for his Knights, but even after similar considerations, it is equally clear that having made every allowance for this and the Knights of Labor have greatly improved the position of the workingman. Mr. Powderly points out that as late as fifteen years ago the poor were not only friendless but were deWhilst it is not true to say that the change of nounced by statesman, press, and pulpit. heart was brought about in these three great sources of public expression solely by the Knights themselves, still they contributed largely towards it. The evolution of ideas made thinking

men

in Church and State give thought to the labor question. Leo XIII. had been known to be studying it for years before his encyclical appeared. This knowledge gave inspiration FROM THE SAGE AFFAIR., and courage to other churchmen who sadly Journal of the Knights of Labor (Philadel-needed it. Study made men in Church and phia), Dec. 17.-Mr. Russell Sage and the State see that some of the demands which in man who, crazed by misfortune, attempted his the past were denounced as unjust were in life, are both of them the natural and inevitable reality honest if not holy. The Knights of products of the system of commercial exploita- Labor have based their methods of reform on tion. So far as there is any personal criminal- the intellectual plan. The discussion of politiity involved in the matter, Russell Sage is by cal questions is made compulsory in their far the greater criminal. Using his cunning assemblies. This educates the members on and shrewdness to enrich himself at the cost of the leading questions at issue and thus far others, careless as to how many are ruined by frees them from the influence of the ward his exactions, banded together with those of heeler and the corporation boss. The introlike position and interests to perpetuate and duction of the Australian system of voting into extend the infamous system under which it is sixteen States, a system needed to protect the possible for a few men to control the means of workingman, is largely due to the political, edproduction and exchange, it is he and his class ucation and influence of the Knights of Labor. who more than all others are morally respon- In the more direct methods of personal sible for any excesses or outrages to which and social reform the Knights have exercised their victims may be driven to resort. Yet, in a most beneficient influence. Mr. Powderly

says:

"In the field of temperance no factor has been more potent than the Knights of Labor. In labor organizations of early days it was no uncommon thing to find a member who had been disabled engaged in the selling of liquor. Several such gained admittance to the Knights of Labor, but they were required to withdraw from the Order. No liquor-seller can legally gain admittance, and if such a person does by any chance become a member, he is debarred from further connection with the association when his occupation becomes known." There seems to be a close similarity between this practice and the recommendation of the Baltimore Council on the liquor traffic. The Knights of Labor may yet work wonders for the workingman, not through revolution but through evolution.

THE LIQUOR ISSUE.

IOWA.

CHAIRMAN CLARKSON DECLARES FOR REPEAL.
Dispatch from Des Moines, New York Voice
(Proh.), Dec. 24.-J. S. Clarkson, Chairman

THE GREAT NO-LICENSE GAINS IN of the National Republican Committee, and
MASSACHUSETTS.

Boston Correspondence, New York Evening Post, Dec. 17.-With the voting yesterday [Dec. 15] in Boston, Worcester, Lvnn, and Newburyport, all of the Massachusetts cities ' have held their annual elections. The issue of liquor licenses is voted upon every year, and the total is quite different from that of last year. Then twenty of the twenty-eight cities in the State voted for license, but this year they are divided, sixteen for license to twelve for no-license. Every city which was for nolicense last year stands on the same side this year, and the no-license people have also carried Worcester, New Bedford, Haverhill, and Fitchburg. The aggregate vote in all the twenty-eight cities leaves the no-license side 8,274 ahead. This is a remarkable change. But the vote in Boston is as surprising as it is Last year it was 29,159 This year it was 25.637 yes to 21,310 no. The yes majority of 15,249 was reduced to 4,327. The remarkable fact about this is that the temperance people did not work as much as usual, except in two or three wards in the south part of the city. It was the advice of the older heads that the money be saved to carry as many of the towns as possible for no-license at their spring elections. So experienced an observer as Henry H. Faxon attributes a material part of the change to the jealousy of unsuccessful applicants for liquor licenses.

for the State outside. yes to 13,910 no.

RELIGIOUS.

men who have carefully gauged the public of the rights of the individual and a keen
mind that if Governor Russell had been de-apprehension of the dangers that would ensue
feated at the election last November, the vote from insidious encroachments upon individual
in Boston in favor of no-license would have liberty, and it is not necessary to remind the
been an overwhelming one; that is, rightly or readers of the Criterion that we refer to Jus-
wrongly, Governor Russell's defeat would have tice Brewer, of the Supreme Court of the
been attributed to the influence of the Police United States. While it is not to be expected
Commission, stirring into activity in behalf of that the Supreme Court of the United States
the Republican ticket_the liquor-selling inter- will reverse its ruling in this [compensation]
ests of Boston. The Democratic voters would case, the utterances of Judge Brewer may be
have seen no way better calculated to bring taken as an indication that in the future the
the liquor-dealers to a realizing sense of their Court will not sustain legislative acts impairing
impotence than to vote at the municipal elec- the value of property by forbidding its use or
tion in favor of no-license. Under such condi- otherwise, without at the same time requiring
tions, instead of standing in a minority of 4,000, the owners to be remunerated. Judge Brewer,
the no-license vote might have stood in a ma- of course, acknowledges to the full the right of
jority of 5,000 or 6,000.
the State under its police powers to regulate
or destroy any use of property in the name of
the public morality, health, or welfare, but as
a corollary and complement to this destruc-
tive power he plants himself firmly on the rock
of eternal justice by demanding "the full,
absolute, and unqualified recognition and en-
forcement of the right of compensation.
lately editor of the Iowa State Register, has-Mida's Criterion (Liquor, Chicago), Dec. 16.
formally advised Iowa Republicans to sacrifice
Prohibition if they hope to win in the next
National campaign. In an interview before he
left for Chicago, Friday, Mr. Clarkson said:
"The first condition to Republican success in
1892 in this State is to unify, harmonize, and
thoroughly reorganize the party.
One great
eiement contributing to Republican defeat in
Iowa heretofore has been that of intolerance.
The truest and most loyal Republicans in Iowa,
those most to be thanked and praised for
loyalty, despite their own personal opinions
and feelings, are those who, not believing in
Prohibition, nor in extreme railroad legisla-
tion, have nevertheless voted steadily and
worked steadily for the ticket. Loyal and
devoted to the party on all or nearly all of its
National issues, yet dissenting from its main
issues and positions in Iowa, they have, for five
or six years, given to the party its majority in
this State. Following these loyal Republicans
in their course ever since in sustaining the
party despite of Prohibition and in being will-
ing to see the new policies or moral theory
fairly tried, we are left with nothing but admi-
ration for their loyal party spirit, for their
broad-minded action and for their liberality of
thought. The straight-edge against Republicans
who are not Prohibitionists may well be laid
aside. The will of the people is the political
decalogue of Iowa. To the end of saving the
State, the highest maximum possible of total
Prohibition, and next the highest maximum
of partial Prohibition, the law will be modified."

THE REPUBLICAN PLEDGE.

Boston Herald, Dec. 18.-It seems to us that even a slight, but reasonable, consideration of facts will convince anyone that the large nolicense and relatively small license vote cast in Northwestern Christian Advocate (Chicago), Boston on Tuesday was in the main due neither to the more favorable manner in which the Dec. 16.-The last Iowa State Republican temperance agitation is considered, nor to party platform contains the statement that jealousy and dissatisfaction at the manner in "the control of the next Legislature by the which the licenses have been given out. The Republicans means continued opposition to real reason for this change is to be found in the behests of the saloon power, through the events that have been brought to light within maintenance and enforcement of the law." the last year or two. It has been made evi- Have not Republicans "control"? If so, sober dent at both of the two last State elections that Iowans are entitled to look confidently for the maintenance and enforcement of the law" a disposition has existed to have the Board of Police Commissioners the license-granting as it now stands upon the records of that State. power-use its authority to secure the election If the Republican party in Iowa proves recof Republican candidates. Under a Republican reant in any iota it will go hard with it in the system of granting licenses it has been possible future. Hundreds have argued that a third to bring the liquor-dealers to realize the advant-party is, and should be, unnecessary in that ages to them of not only voting the Republican State, and for the simple reason that the Reticket themselves, but of using their influence publican party will meet the preferences of in favor of Republican candidates. If temperance voters in that commonwealth. it had not been for the most vigilant That old claim places the party under peculiar and active efforts made to check the move-obligations. Its leading opponents have made ment, there is reason for thinking that much the issue clearly in favor of High License. the larger part of the liquor vote of Boston License and Local Option in any degree should would, last November, have been thrown in be far from the dreams of any Republican favor of the Republican candidate for Gov-legislator. Prohibition is the issue reduced to ernor, and there is not much doubt that quite its lowest or highest terms. That is the issue a part of it, with such votes as it could influ- to stand by-and die for, shall we say? In fact, ence, were thrown for Mr. Allen. This it is the only condition of life. action, seeming to indicate a betrayal of confidence, has produced a decided feeling of resentment in the minds of thousands of Democratic voters in this city. It is the opinion of

STILL HOPING FOR COMPENSATION-It is a satisfaction to know that there is on the Supreme Bench a Judge with a clear appreciation

THE WEEK OF PRAYER.

If in

The Observer (New York), Dec. 17.-Concerning the suggestion that the early part of January is an ill-chosen time for the observance of the Week of Prayer, the Evangelical Alliance in this country makes the following statement: "The United States Branch of the Alliance has long appreciated the full force of the objections which are urged against the beginning of the year. Once and again have we brought the question of a change of time to the attention of the European branches. We laid it before the late World's Conference at Florence, where for half a day it was thoroughly discussed in the General Committee. It was shown that what is the most convenient time for one country is the least convenient for another, and it was agreed that, taking all interests into account, the week following the first Sabbath in January is best adapted to a concert of prayer of the whole world. the United States we should select any other time, it would become a National instead of a world's observance. If it is desirable that the Christians of all lands unite in common confessions, thanksgivings, and supplications, we must continue, at least for the present, to observe the week which for so many Under years has been thus set apart." these circumstances it behooves Christians in ences this country to ignore their preferand to enter heartily into the observance of the prayer week. The fact that the time is not as convenient as some other, may add an element of sacrifice in its observance, and this in turn will but serve to enrich the blessing that awaits a praying church. The Alliance calls attention to the fact that many churches, forgetting that this is a week of prayer for the whole world, fix their attention on themselves or their own community, adopt other subjects, and give to the week's observance a purely evangelistic character, and asks: "If churches desire to devote a week or

more to such services, would it not be better, for obvious reasons, not to wait until midwinter?" We can certainly afford to be some. what forgetful of our own needs and to bring our petition into harmony with those of other Christians. The subjects selected are such as all God's people ought to long for and pray for very earnestly. Those who do so in the inspiration that the thought of the universality of the supplication must afford, cannot fail to receive much personal blessing. The church which joins most heartily in the general supplications will also receive blessing. It is ever thus in the spiritual world. Watering others we ourselves receive a baptism from on high. The reflex influence of prayer for others is always very real and large. We add a hearty indorsement, therefore, to the suggestions of

the Alliance. The churches should everywhere present at the throne of grace the subjects laid down on the well-considered and comprehensive programme.

VANADIUM.

"sweating-shops," of the employment of has ever been started so well equipped to purstarving working girls by millionaire employ-sue its high ideal. The magnificent building, ers, and the renting of horrible human bur- with its well-stocked library and museum, its rows to starving tenants at palatial prices laboratories, machine-shops, studios, lectureby millionaire landlords. These are simply rooms, and music-hall, and its infinite applivarious methods of enabling the big fish to eat THE SCHOOL QUESTION.-One of the most ances for the study of science and of industry The system often dignified under the constant influence of art, and above striking illustrations of the liberality of the up the little ones. Catholic Church in contrast with the natural by the name of "political economy," teaching all with the munificent provision Mr. Drexel bigotry and exclusiveness of Protestantism, is that every employer must pay his workmen has made for its maintenance, is one of the furnished by the different treatment of Catho- the very least on which they can live, is simply noblest gifts that any man has made in our lics and Protestants, in the matter of educa- the cutthroat principle reduced to a science. time to his fellow-men, a gift that Philadelphia tional privileges, in the two Canadian provinces Slavery was but the logical carrying out of the must cherish with gratitude and pride. of Ontario and Quebec. In Ontario, where the master took care that his workmen should same principle to its legitimate conclusion: Protestants are in the majority, primary subsist; he also took care that they should do Catholic schools are recognized by the Governnò more than subsist; and the solid surplus of Engineering__and Mining Journal (New ment and supported under the separate sys- the profit he pocketed by "divine right"-York).-The Bureau of the American Retem, but there are no such things as publicly only that it was derived from the wrong divin- publics announces the discovery of vanadisustained Catholic high schools, or Catholic normal schools, or a Catholic Council of Publicity. The vast monopoly of the drink traffic um minerals in considerable quantity in the has the same basis; let the millions toil and province of Mendoza, Argentina. Vanadium Instruction. In Catholic Quebec, on the con- and earn; let the lily-handed saloon-keeper is one of the rare elements for which there is a trary, where the population is overwhelmingly and the millionaire brever divide the spoil, limited demand, and commands an exceedingCatholic, the most liberal provision is made for and government come in for a share of the ly high price, being quoted at $22 per gramme the Protestant minority. Under the denomiplunder. In short, "to be ministered unto at present. It is used chiefly in the form of national system which works so splendidly in has been for ages the one great object of ammonium vanadate, as a dye-stuff, producing, Quebec there are State-supported Protestant human ambition, and is sadly so to-day. in conjunction with aniline, the most absolute elementary schools, Protestant high schools, a Protestant normal school, and a Protestant Against all this, Christmas is an annual black known to the dyers and calico printers. In its chimes we hear the echo of It is similarly used in the manufacture of cerCouncil of Public Instruction.-Catholic Re- His words for whom it is named, "not to be tain kinds of black ink. protest. The amount required view (New York), Dec. 20. ministered unto, but to minister-even as the for these purposes is, however, extremely Son of man" ; "do good hoping for small. The vanadium minerals are widely nothing again, that ye may be the children of distributed, although seldom found in large your Father, who is in Heaven"; "when thou quantities. The ores in certain districts makest a feast, call not thy friends, nor thy of Arizona contain a considerable amount brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich of vanadate of lead, and there has neighbors, lest they also bid thee again, and a been some talk of saving the mineral recompense be made thee. But when thou as a by-product, but the present demand for makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the the vanadium salts being so limited, it is doubtlame, the blind, and thou shalt be blessed; for ful if such an undertaking would be worth they cannot recompense thee, for thou shalt be while. The manufacture of vanadates is in the recompensed at the resurrection of the just. hands of two or three houses in Great Britain The blessing of not being recompensed is and on the Continent. The price is kept high coming to be the joy of Christmas-this because the consumption is so small, and bedelight of all the newsboys' dinners, poor cause any serious competition, increasing the children's dinners, mission festivals with supply, would destroy all the profit of the Christmas trees, dolls, and jack-knives, and business. Under these circumstances, present other gifts dear to the hearts of boys and girls. uses will have to be greatly extended or new Even the prisons share in the sunshine, with ones developed before vanadium ores will acone day on which society has a kind thought quire much value. even for those who have warred against its peace. All these things are streaks of light upon the sky premonitory of that day when fill the world with light, not for one Christmas the " peace on earth, good will to men" shall Day but through all the Christian Age.

NIGGARDLINESS.-Students, probationers, and all workers in the gospel field know how hard it often is to get honestly-earned money out of too many congregations and mission stations. The sum promised is small, and getting it is like drawing teeth. Can the Church complain without playing the part of a hypocrite? Is there a professor or an official of any kind in the service of the Presbyterian Church to-day drawing anything like a generous salary? Can congregations and mission stations be expected to rise above the liberality of the Church to which they belong? To their honor be it said some of them do. Were the inconsistency not so painful, there would be grim humor in the act of a man who complains sadly about his own income and then votes regularly to keep everybody as poor as himself.-Canada Presbyterian (Toronto).

DEACONESSES.-The overworked city pastor may well hail with delight the order of deaconesses, which seems to be rapidly growing in favor in the Methodist denomination, and, we believe, in some others. Woman's work in visiting the sick, the homeless, and the needy was never more essential than to-day. Times have changed considerably since Stephen and his associates were appointed to their new office in the apostolic church, and to-day it looks very much as though consecrated women would have to be organized for these tasks if they are to be performed at all. In this way or in some other our large churches must certainly systematize activity that now is too often simply spontaneous and without sufficient direction.-Golden Rule (Boston).

MISCELLANEOUS.

CHRISTMAS.

New York Voice, Dec. 24.-"How do fish live in the water?" asks the old French comedy, and the answer is," The same as men do on land. The big fish eat up the little ones. This has been the way of the world for ages. In the Homeric times, one of the regular ways of getting rich was by the " spoil of slaughtered enemies. The same idea appears often in the Old Testament writings. Ever since, the whole conception which the majority have of "business is to let somebody work hard and earn something, and then get it away from him. This is the theory and practice of the so-called "Napoleons of finance"; to draw in the small investors, the weak and unwary, and then drive them awreck and sweep all their treasure into the pocket of one who has neither toiled nor spun, except as the spider spins snares. This is the principle of the

OBITUARY.

PRESTON B. PLUMB. Springfield Republican, Dec. 21.-) -Preston B. Plumb, United States Senator from Kansas, THE DREXEL INSTITUTE. who was removed by a stroke of apoplexy Philadelphia Times.-The Drexel Inst.tute yesterday, at the early age of 54, was one of was dedicated yesterday [Dec. 17] with a fitting the leaders of the Senate, peculiarly a type of service of prayer and praise and oratory, and the West, and the strongest representative of with the presence of a most distinguished com- the State in whose politics he had been promipany, that included the representatives of high-nent since he went there from his native Ohio, est authority in every department of the social in his nineteenth year. Senator Plumb Has organization. As every building should, it embodies and sets forth the purpose to which it is dedicated, which is not simply to furnish general information on the one hand or to teach specific trades upon the other, but to educate in the knowledge of the useful arts in constant association with the arts of beauty. This inseparable association of art and science and industry, that is incorporated in the title and embodied in the noble building where usefulness goes always hand in hand with beauty and dignity, is the fundamental note of the Drexel Institute. It aims to reunite the artist with the artificer, not by a visionary return to obsolete conditions, but by bringing up young men and women in the knowledge of modern science, with all its practical applications to industry and trade and business of every kind, amid such surroundings and with such opportunities as must awaken in them a love and inculcate a knowledge of what is true and beautiful in art, and thus bring back to our everyday life under its new conditions something of that enlightening spirit of the ideal that gives to life and work their joy. In all the educational experiments of recent years there has been none undertaken on so broad a foundation and with so clear and enlightened a purpose, and none

exercised perhaps more practical influence
upon National legislation and politics than any
other person whom his State has sent to Wash-
ington. He was pronounced in his opinions,
aggressive in his methods, and a natural leader;
no statesman, he was a forceful politician, and
not a subservient one. He was one of the
foremost free coinage Republicans, and one of
the Senators who have given the body to which
they belong the reputation of a club of million-
aires. For Mr. Plumb, out of stock-raising,
mining, railroad and other schemes has made
a large fortune. He was actively concerned in
many industrial enterprises, and in the finan
cial slang of the day he was a promoter.'
He served in the Senate on the Committee on
Appropriations, was Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Public Lands, and a member of the
Committees on Agriculture, Executive Depart-
ments, Meat Products, and Administrative
Service: As a committee worker he was noted
for his thorough command of facts in detail,
and he was industrious and effective in his
labors; in debate he was ready and plain-
spoken, and there and on the stump possessed
a good deal of fire and force. It is interesting
to note that the original of William H. Crane's
stage figure," The Senator," was Preston B.
Plumb.