. Edwards threw up his work, sold out, and started for the glorious West with his family, Jennie accompanying them in spite of Walter Reeves's pleadings. She could not be dependent on her husband. Five years slip by and at length Reeves determines to go West and fetch his fiancée nolens volens. While he travels, we look in upon the Edwards family in their prairie home, and see Edwards "pathetic, almost to the point of being tragic." Speaking of Jennie he says: Poor girl! She ought o' stayed in Boston, but it 'ud 'a' killed mother and me, I don't see how we could have pulled through without her. Reeves arrived on the scene and was shocked at the change in Jennie and strove to make her his, with a high hand; but she was resolutely resistant. The walls of the beautiful home he offered her could not, she told him, shut out the memory of the sorrow and loneliness of her father's house, nor could she accept charity for her family. They quarrel, and Reeves drives away without a farewell word, but on the road he repents his harshness, and would return, when a terrific hailstorm drives him to seek shelter in a neighboring house. This storm destroys the crops, and Reeves returns to find Jason stricken down and senseless. The latter is promptly removed to the depot for medical care, but he will never work again, and somewhat ungraciously he accepts Walter Reeves proposal to provide for them all, asking only that he might be sent back to Derry, his native place, to die there. [There is doubtless a moral or morals in the story, but it is by no means certain that the intelligent reader will seek it along the groove suggested by the author.] THEODOR CHRISTlieb, d.d., OF BONN. Memoir by His Widow and Sermons Translated Chiefly by T. L. Kingsbury, M.A., Canon Non-residentiary of Salisbury, Vicar of Coombe-Bisset with Homington and Samuel Garratt, M.A., Hon. Canon of Norwich Cathedral, Vicar of St. Margaret's, Ipswich. Small 8vo, pp. 452. New York: A. C. Armstrong & Son. 1892. [The nineteen sermons by Doctor Christlieb, here collected and printed for the first time, were preached by him in the chapel of the University of Bonn, on various occasions during the twenty-one years he was University preacher. The discourses, most of which, connected by their subjects with the days and seasons of the Christian Year, are marked by deep spirituality, by a profound conviction of the truth, and the importance of the message he wished to deliver, and by an earnest desire that the doctrines of Christianity might produce good fruit in the lives of his hearers. Their effect must have been enhanced by his delivery, which, we arc assured, was excellent, and by the rich, musical voice, we are told, he possessed. A photogroph of the author, which is the frontispiece, declares him to have been a man of noble presence. We give some particulars of his life.] WH WHEN the city of Belgrade, on the right bank of the Danube, at its confluence with the Save, surrendered in 1717, after a siege, to Prince Eugene, a German officer, among the victorious troops who were pillaging the town, found an infant, concealed with his Circassian nurse, in a baker's oven. Although the child bore marks, in clothing and jewels, of belonging to people of means, there was no trace of his family. As the German officer had no children, he took home to his wife the young Turk. He was baptized, and given the name of Christlieb. When he reached manhood, he held an important post at the court of the Grand Duke of Baden. His son and grandson were men of mark in Church and State, and one of his greatgrandsons was Theodor Christlieb, the author of the sermons here collected. As Theodor's father was a clergyman, the son naturally followed the same profession, and pursued a course of theological study at the University of Tübingen. Before being ordained, he was for a time tutor in the family of a titled Frenchman at Montpellier, in the South of France. On his ordination, in 1856, the young clergyman became curate to his father, whose parishioners did not hesitate to tell him, what is never displeasing to an affectionate parent, that his son was a much better preacher than he. This curacy was soon exchanged for a little country parish near Stuttgart, where Christlieb became acquainted with a body of religious people called Pietists, whose views and example seem to have strongly influenced all his future life; although, by contact with the world, he got rid of most of the eccentricities and narrow views which characterized these well-meaning persons. From this parish, near Stuttgart, Christlieb removed to England to take charge of a German congregation in process of formation at Islington, near London. There he lived for seven years and married, his wife being the daughter of a German who had long been a missionary in India. During Christlieb's residence in England, his reputation as an eloquent preacher and a devoted pastor spread in his native land, and so in 1865 he was appointed by the King of Württemberg to the parish of Friedrichshafen, the summer residence of the King, where he and his family attended church. This brought him into personal relations with the King so that he often dined at the royal table, and was engaged to give lessons to the adopted daughter of the childless sovereign, a niece of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia. The girl, then about twelve years old, was a spoiled and unmanageable cub, the terror of her family. She began by letting her new tutor know that she meant to take lessons only when the whim seized her. He subdued her, however, in a short time, and she became a diligent and obedient pupil. In 1868, the Prussian Minister of Public Worship was looking out for some capable person to fill a vacant theological professorship in the University of Bonn, which that year was celebrating its jubilee, having been founded fifty years before. The University consists of five faculties, those of Protestant theology, Roman Catholic theology, medicine, law, and philosophy. The vacant chair was offered to, and accepted by Christlieb, who thereby became also the University preacher. At Bonn, the remainder of his life was passed. The Evangelical Alliance met at New York in 1873, and Professor Christlieb came hither to attend it, afterwards making a little tour in the United States. His visit to this country was for him one of the great events of his life, and he never tired of telling what he had seen and heard here. In his last years, he aroused much opposition by founding an institute for training persons to act as lay-preachers and teachers in the overgrown parishes of all large German cities. Such a thing was contrary to German ideas and habits, and the clergy throughout Germany were, with few exceptions, against the new work. Christlieb, however, persevered, in spite of sneers and contemptuous smiles. The institute survived, and is now in successful operation. In 1890, he manifested signs of disease, and a diagnosis showed that he had internal cancer. After some months of suffering, his useful and blameless career ended in August of that year. MORAL TEACHINGS OF SCIENCE. By Arabella B. Buckley (Mrs. Fisher). Cloth, 12mo, 122 pp., with Index. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1892. [Five of the six essays which compose this work have already been published in the Chautauquan. The object of the writer in giving them a wider publicity is, she tells us, to reach those persons who, feeling puzzled and adrift in the present chaos of opinion, may welcome even a partial solution, from a scientific point of view, of the difficulties which oppress their minds, It is, in fact, an attempt to trace morals to its origin in man's experience of the consequences of conduct. From the sixth, and previously unpublished article, we digest the argument for immortality, in so far as it rests upon a scientific basis.] THE strongest arguments for immortality lie in the conclusions of our intellect and moral nature. Yet science, too, lends her aid, if only we will keep our minds fixed upon the truth, that, throughout all phenomena, it is the underlying, invisible energy which is eternal, the form which is temporary. All phenomena of matter are the resultants of physical energy, whether in the organic or inorganic kingdoms; yet this does not prove that living beings are mere manifestations of physical energy. On the contrary, the greatest physicists recognize that life is not energy, and admit that the relation of life to energy is not understood. If, then, life is something apart from and inconvertible into physical energy, it matters very little whether, in the past ages of evolution, two factors branched off from a common source, or whether life has always been a separate and higher emanation from the First Cause. In either case, this last has been the guiding power in all living beings, the cause, and not the consequence, of organization; and organic growth, reproduction, sensation, perception, self-consciousness, and volition, although always accompanied by molecular changes, can be conceived only as manifestations of life, just as heat, electricity, and chemical affinity are manifestations of energy. The mere dissolution of the bodily frame can no more destroy one than it does the other, while, however, there is this great difference between them, that, whereas we know that the energy passes back in various forms to the sum total which remains constant in the universe, the guiding control which we call "life," with all those wondrous powers which belong to it, as the result of long ages of evolution, cannot, as far as our experience goes, be transformed, but passes out of the visible universe, we know not whither. Our contention, then, is that life, being the cause and not the consequence of organization does not depend upon it for a continued existence, and since all those qualities and idiosyncrasies which constitute our inner self, are manifestations of life, they cannot be affected in any way beyond mere outward expression by the dissolution of the bodily frame. The Press. POLITICAL. THE INDUS...IAL CONFERENCE ITS PLATFORM. [Since greater interest attaches to Western and Southern newspaper comments on the St. Louis Conference than to Eastern views, we give special prominence to opinions from the West and South.] Cleveland Leader (Rep.), Feb. 26.-The national sense of the comic and grotesque is too strong and keen, and the rant of men who pose as the coming saviours of the land, while they are scarcely able to agree upon anything except their desire for office, is sure to excite more derision than sympathy. The public has too often seen evidence of the ephemeral nature of such organizations as the one partly formed at St. Louis. June. Powderly, Polk, Weaver, Donnelly, Streeter, | receiving it back empty, gave thanks that he Cavanaugh, and the Vincent brothers, pub- was still permitted to retain the hat. They lishers of the Nonconformist, expressions com- made her Vice-President and put her on the mitting them to the support of a radical Pro- Platform Committee. At the end, however, hibition plank. In the discussion before the they adopted every idea of every theorist presConference not one speaker dared go so far ent excepting the ideas of Miss Willard and AND as to attempt an argument against Prohibi- Lady Somerset. They defeated Prohibition tion itself. In one aspect this made the action and ignored Woman Suffrage. There is sometaken appear to still less advantage, since the thing glorious, though, in the way in which only reason given for it was that of cow- Miss Willard is now imitating the genial Tapardly expediency; but at the same time ley. "I am far from discouraged," she says. it shows the wholesome respect, whether from "Whatever ventilates this question is like the fear or conviction, which this issue has awak- hay fork which throws the mown grass into ened in the ranks of the wage-earners and the air to get the sunlight." Topeka Capital (Rep.), Feb. 26.-The su- farmers. The scheme of nationalizing the preme evil of the day is the saloon. It is a liquor traffic was hardly heard from. Mr. financial evil worse than the reputed scarcity of Washburne proposed it in the Committee on 'per capiter." It is a political evil, a political Resolutions, but did not urge it, and it dropped boss, more depraved, more desperate, and more merciless than the alleged plutocracy." supporting the Prohibition plank. at once out of consideration, he himself strongly It is a social evil. The People's party says we have less than a billion dollars in circula- Anyone who looks to this new party, as at present constituted, for, the remedy of the tion. Well, we spend a billion dollars a year wrongs of our present social and political syson the saloon. This evil exceeds in the enormities that it commits, the lives it slays, thetem, will look in vain. It has a mission, but that mission is all summed up in the one word, homes it ruins, the wages it devours, the politiprotest. It is a protest party; it will never be Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem.), Feb. 25.cians it controls by purchase or intimidation, anything more. The protest it utters is one There are some good planks in the third party any other evil that afflicts human society. The against living iniquities that are terribly in-platform, but that is due to their being made party born at St. Louis yesterday professes to trenched, and must be immediately, vehement- of sound and substantial Democratic timber. be a reform party. It scoffs at the rotten old par-ly, persistently, and intelligently battled with. A firmer and better platform made wholly of ties as too deeply steeped in the spoils of office to Looking at the programme which this new that good timber will be built at Chicago in have any affection left for purity or principle in party sets forth for the cure of governmental politics. It itself pretends to be wedded to rewrongs, one is very prone to dismiss it form for reform's sake, to be anchored fast to with a few slighting words. This is probdeep and everlasting principles, and to scorn the ably the treatment it will receive in most of methods" of the old parties. It claims to the circles of thought and culture. But look live in the serene atmosphere of lofty patriot-ing at the conditions against which this new ism and to pin its faith to political righteous-party is a protest, and realizing the enormities ness, let come what may. When the leaders which have called it into existence, one forgets of this party in its local form in Kansas refused all that is crude in its programme in considerto give forth any expression on the saloon ing the tremendous problems to which it question, the excuse was that the saloon was directs attention. But alas! it is more than a not an issue in Kansas, and a good many hon- protest that this Nation now needs. est Alliance men accepted the excuse as rea- time demands is not another protest party, but What the sonable enough. But when the Conference a party that has in it the powers and possibilifrom all the States was called the call included ties of doing as well as protesting, of righting representatives of the various great National as well as denouncing the wrongs, without temperance organizations, and the Alliance men creating new and equally grievous ones in the in this State who as Republicans long ago banTo this mission we call upon the ished the saloon and its attendant political Prohibition party to address itself now, at evils from Kansas had a right to expect that the great reform which had so well been inaugurated and in the face of unceasing ridicule and slander had been so heroically championed even by "the rotten old Republican party' in Kansas, would have a hearing and a grand indorsemeut from the party of principle and reform at St. Louis. But it was not only defeated, it was insulted and sat down upon without a vote in its favor, and this treatment it received in response to the suggestion of a representative of Kansas, a spurious reformer who went from poverty-stricken Prohibition Kansas" and hobnobbed with the Democratic leaders of Ohio in a champagne banquet. At St. Louis he threw his influence against Prohibition as a bid for Democratic fusion in his approaching campaign for reëlection. Assuming that Simpson represented this State, 64 " that the farmers of Kansas had retreated on process. Chicago Tribune (Rep.), Feb. 27.-If it were possible to carry out this mad scheme of the howlers and cranks the Nation would soon be in a terrible plight. It would make so much party patronage as to convert the Administration into a National Tammany Hall and establish in power a centralized corrupt robber despotism that could not be deposed at the ballotbox, but only got rid of by a bloody civil war. In short, the entire scheme of these fellows could only be matched by the inmates of a lunatic asylum for vagary and folly, and by those of a penitentiary for dishonesty and rascality of purpose. Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep.), Feb. 25.-It is well that the St. Louis Convention is debating these issues, it is better that a convention so largely composed of Southern people is admitting the negro to representation and particProhibition, the St. Louis Conference ignored ipation in its councils. Good will come from this great reform, substantially inferring by the convention, but not in the shape of a third its action that Prohibition is a failnre, and declaring to the country at large that the farmers party. For that would be doomed to defeat of the United States do not care to have any-more so when the delegations of seven Southwere it supported by the full convention, much thing to do with it. This will give good cheer to the saloons. It is a slap in the face to the people of Eastern States who have kept this reform moving and have maintained the principle against defeat and ridicule. Coming distinctly from Kansas, the hot-bed of the new party, it will be pledged and toasted in every barroom in the country. New York Voice (Proh.), March 3.-The relation of the Prohibitionists attending the Conference has been quite widely misunderstood. It was not the convention of another party they attended. It was an industrial conference which, as such, was unable to bind a single member's political action. The agitation over Prohibition accomplished this much: it secured from such leaders as ern States give notice beforehand that they and no ticket that is not Democratic. Chicago Times (Dem.), Feb. 25.-In the contest now on there is use for just such gatherings as these. Injustice has closed many avenues of industry, and the country is appalled at the army of unemployed. No political platform may be expected to touch the root of If cranks can be made teachers of the learned professors there may be progress where only stagnation now appears. the evil. Cincinnati Times-Star (Rep.), Feb. 24.These politicians are quite willing, no doubt, to see a "National" party set on foot that is restricted to the North and West. How long will any considerable number of Northern farmers consent to be the instruments of Democrats wearing the Alliance cloak? Even if the men platform is, if possible, rather worse than any As a Indianapolis Sentinel (Dem), Feb. 26.There is one remarkable oversight in the plat form. To be consistent with the expressed paternalism there ought to have been a strong plank in favor of a tariff for the protection of American labor and the building up of our infant industries. This matter, however, is entirely ignored, with the exception of an allusion in the introductory part to "a sham battle over the tariff." From this it may be inferred that the convention desired to have the tariff left as it is. in the name of labor, organized and unorganSt. Paul Dispatch (Rep.), Feb. 25.-And it is ized, that such a monstrous travesty on deliberation is accomplished! Is there a laboring man Chicago Herald (Dem.), Feb. 27.-Miss Wil- in the entire country who is endeavoring to lard has returned from St. Louis in the condi- raise a family of children and train them so to tion of the old minister who sent out his hat constitute them reputable members of a civilamong the congregation for contributions and, lized state who does not blush to think that such an impudent and half-crazed fraud should definite and consistent public sentiment; it was | these people are more violently prejudiced be perpetrated ostensibly in his behalf? We only an aggregation of individuals having sep- against the name of our party than they are believe there cannot be. Why, the very lan-arate vagaries to swap and personal ends to against its principles, their action in organizing guage used is sufficient to invite those who lis- promote. The names of the leaders are alone an independent party, instead of training under ten to it toward the acts of disgraceful violence enough to condemn the thing in the eyes of all the Democratic banner, will be readily underwhich have already marked their performances. rational and patriotic citizens. Powderly, stood. Their platform is full of genuine DeWho can be expected to heed what they say or Donnelly, Weaver, and Jerry Simpson are not mocracy, with the exception of a few matters what they demand? Their philosophy leads the kind of statesmen to whom the people are of detail which have no business in a platform. But it will be said that some of these indepeninevitably to the quarrying and breaking of in the habit of turning when they want a new stones under State supervison. The responsi-party organized. When such men are put at dent Alliance men and representatives of other ble political party which would ratify their de- the head of a movement it is foredoomed to industrial orders have heretofore acted with mands would not survive a year. The State or utter failure. The country cannot be persuaded the Democrats. How is their new departure Nation which was governed as they would to take stock in an enterprise that offers no to be explained? The explanation is on the govern would soon set examples in armed better guarantee of good intentions and honest surface. The Democrats who propose thus revolution and anarchy, which, in point of fre- purposes than is implied by the selection of prematurely to go into the third party are under demagogues and quency and destructiveness, would, by com- notorious irresponsible the impression that the Eastern money power parison, make the most unsettled nation of will control the National Democracy, dictate South America appear an Acadia. To avoid its platform, and name its leaders. such a calamity, there are a few apprehensive Democrats who are getting ready to fight it in schemers to control its operations. Omaha Bee (Rep.), Jan. 24.-It is the finanSt. Paul Pioneer Press (Rep.), Feb. 25.—But cial principles of the new party that will subthe People's party and its pronunciamentos ject it to the severest criticism. are not to be taken seriously. The elements the wildest and most indefensible character, tion, and we repeat that it is encouraging. of which it is composed are too heterogeneous, and their aims and interests are too conflicting to hold together through the stress of a National campaign. It will "strut its hour upon the stage and then be heard no more." It is a tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury-signifying nothing. Minneapolis Journal (Rep.), Feb. 24.-The whole tendency of these "reform" ideas is to automatonize the individual, to mortise him, as it were, into his place in society so that free action is stifled, and each man, woman, and child will become but screws and bolts and wheels in a big piece of Government machinery. This is the kind of banquet to which the St. Louis reformers invite us. Americans de sire liberty, not slavery; individual right to devise, to contrive, to act, not monopolistic repression. Paternalism is the blight of individual freedom and achieving independence. Reform which promotes it is inimical to the spirit of our institutions. Detroit Tribune (Rep.), Feb. 25.—What the cranks need very badly is a little instruction in the elementary principles of organization. At a great waste of money and time, these 667 delegates gathered from the four points of the compass to do nothing, because they lacked the knowledge to do something. This is why the elements congregated at St. Louis are not an effective force. The mass is unorganized, incohesive, dissoluble. There is unity of purpose, but no machinery of execution. Whence we are forced to conclude that purposes which cannot execute themselves are too feeble to be of value. St. Louis Republic (Dem.), Feb. 26. The "Industrial Convention," held in St. Louis in the interest of "the Third Party "-that is, in the interests of the Republican party in this campaign of 1892-demands Government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, and telephones! Whenever that comes, if it ever does come, the only hope for liberty in America will be through a complete overthrow of the central Government and such a radical change as took place after the revolt of the colonies from England. It is hardly necessary to dwell on the effects of making office-holders of 1,000,000 men, required to operate the railroads, telegraphs, and telephones of the country. It is self-evident that the clique of office-holders holding the District of Columbia at any given time could never be dislodged, except at bayonets' point, if it had this addition to its army of servile and despotic bureaucrats. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem.), Feb. 26. The People's party will nominate a Presidential candidate who will poll some votes in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa-just enough, perhaps, to deprive the Republicans of these States and throw the election into the House. The Lord sometimes selects queer instruments to carry out His designs. These are of It is most advance. This is a fair statement of the situa which, could they be put into practice, would in With the facts before them, the Democracy is It will doubt Kansas City Times (Dem.), Feb. 26.-The Prohibitionists were not fairly treated at St. Louis. Theirs and the Suffragists' were the only organizations that asked for legislation of a general character. All the others had some plan by which the National Treasury is to be bled for their benefit. Had the Prohibitionists united with the Nationalists and asked the Government to buy up the saloons, issuing bottle certificates in payment, their plank would have gone through with a whoop. Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.), Feb. 26. ing politics, the one put forward in this plat-Of all the schemes ever devised for purifyform is the most fantastic and impracticable. If our politics is less pure than formerly, the change for the worst must be attributed to the increasing power and patronage of the Government, and the attendant increase of public places. This dangerous tendency it is proposed to increase beyond all computation. The Government is to become an enormous banker, with its own paper as capital, and with all the employés necessary to carry this scheme into execution. All the working forces of railroad, telegraph, and telephone companies are to become officers of the United States. A vast system of Government warehouses is to call into public employment a new host of hungry aspirants. With all this immense patronage in the hands of the Administration, under the direction of Congress, the control of the affairs of the Republic by the "plain people" is expected to be made easy and effectual. If this is not midsummer madness, what is it? It is, of course, impossible that any party should administer the Government in accordance with this farrago of crude political ideas. In the South, especially, where the desire to retain control of local affairs dominates every other feeling, it is impossible that such a scheme of Federal aggrandizement should meet with intelligent approval. That section will perceive that its only safety lies in supporting the Democratic party, as the only bulwark against the invasion of the forces of centralization. The whole scheme is as revolutionary as it would prove impracticable and ruinous. St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.), Feb. 26.There is no probability that the action of such a convention will have any perceptible effect Atlanta Constitution (Dem.), Feb. 26.-Unupon the political situation. It was not a rep-doubtedly, the movement tends towards Deresentative body in the sense of standing for a mocracy, and when the fact is considered that Richmond Times (Dem.), Feb. 25.—Of all the bodies that have ever assembled in the United States we think the St. Louis body is the most entirely representative body of "cranks" that has ever got together in this country. The witches' caldron was a plaything to it. Το suppose that any policy of government worth following can emanate from such a source would be to look for a plan of campaign from the king's jester, but it's worth a moment's pause to inquire what will our Farmers' Alliance friends of the Southern States do with their negro assistant-secretary. South does not need and cannot afford a third Augusta Chronicle (Dem.), Feb. 27.-The party. The pursuit of the third party chimera only means the triumph of the Republican party. This result would be as disastrous to the third partyites in the South as to the Democrats, while the consciousness that they were responsible for it would fill them with remorse which, however, would come too late to be availing. Having placed the Democratic party again in charge of the Government, let the Alliance men then proceed to secure within the party the relief they now tempted to seek under a strange standard. are Houston Post (Dem.), Feb. 25.-It would probably be a good thing for the country if all the cranks could be bunched together in a party of their own, because then there would be no occasion to fear that they would be able to do any particular harm. Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph (Rep.), Feb. 25.-Such declarations as those put forth by the Industrial Conference, because of their manifest absurdity, do not receive the consideration that they should. It is true that the platform of principles is a compound of buncombe and folly, but such utterances have a symtomatic value that is not properly appreciated. distress because an oyster has slipped into the If a man tells you that he is in great valves of his heart and the stupid physicians won't get it out for him, the absurdity of his diagnosis makes it no less the fact that he may be really suffering and in need of relief. Such a demonstration as that at St. Louis implies the operation of causes which demand attention and study. The remedies for public ills proposed by the Conference are, with some exceptions, such as would intensify every evil which they are meant to cure. There is a rude plausibility about the worst of such proposals which explains the facility with which they are accepted by large bodies of people. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still, and hence the insufficiency of all argument against such delusions. The fact that every generation witnesses a fresh crop of old economic follies proves the existence of conditions favorable to their growth. Nothing short of a removal of those will prove a radical cure. Shay's Rebellion, Rhode Island fiat laws, Continental paper financiering, now belong to ancient history, but the same demands supported by the same arguments confront us to-day. Their vitality is a fact whose significance should not be neglected. Bradstreet's (New York), Feb. 27. It is declared that "the supply of currency is purposely abridged to fatten usurers," etc. It is worth while interjecting the fact here that the existing circulation is larger, not only absolutely but relatively to the population, than it has been at any time within three decades or more, and that the per capita circulation is growing larger every year, and is now greater than in any other country except France. This would seem to show that the intervention of the new party to secure an increased circulation is less needed now than it has ever been in the past. New York Times (Ind.), Feb. 25.-It is not likely that there has ever been a Presidential election in these United States in which a third party did not more or less figure. It is equally unlikely that the oldest American remembers a Presidential election in which a third party has figured less than it is likely to figure in the election of 1892. Syracuse Evening News (Dem.), Feb. 25.Some of the planks of the platform, of course, cannot be secured from either of the two great political parties, but they are minor ones compared with the great objects so much desired -the abolition of trusts, the overthrow of monopolies, a tariff which will benefit the poor and not the rich, legislation for the masses not the classes all of which tend toward the betterment of the wage-earner. There is one party pledged to do all of these things. The Democratic party is a party of the people. It should be assisted into power by the men who would be benefited should they gain control of the Government. Lewiston Journal (Rep.), Feb. 25.-If a serious disposition were summoned to consider the transactions of the recent People's party Convention in St. Louis, it could hardly be maintained in the presence of the abnormal developments of Pickwickianism that characterized it. Confusion of tongues is bad enough, but confusion of ideas is the ultimate Babel. A convention made up of persons who agree on but one thing-namely, to kick at everything -in the nature of things is incapable of constructive work. LAST MONDAY'S SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. New York Herald (Ind.-Dem.), March 1.An unusual number of important and interesting opinions were rendered by the United States Supreme Court yesterday. a quorum when a quorum was present, but not ❘ not have been disapproved by the Court. The New These decisions are of especial interest to the York Tribune (Rep.), March 1.Republicans of the country, and cannot but be gratifying to them in the highest degree. In the entire constitutionality of the McKinley their minds there has never been any doubt of they have welcomed proceedings to test them Law, and of the former Speaker's action, and both before the highest tribunal. Of the decision on the Tariff Act it may be said that its effect is to declare the full constitutionality of the measure as a whole. In the Chicago Anarchist case a decision was rendered which leaves Schwab and Fielden to serve out their sentences in State prison. Their counsel contended that they had been denied a constitutional right because they were not present when the Supreme Court of Illinois affirmed their conviction and resentenced them. The Court at Washington says that it CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER'S ADVICE is the right of a person to be present in the trial court when he is sentenced and to say why sentence should not be pronounced, but this right does not extend to the appellate court when the conviction is affirmed and the prisoner resentenced. We are glad to see that the Supreme Court gress. Among the opinions handed down yesterday none is of more far reaching consequence than that upholding the grain elevator statute of New York. This statute regulates the charges of elevating and storing grain. Its constitutionality was attacked on the ground that it was an unwarranted interference with private business. The United States Supreme Court, reaffirming the much debated doctrine it advanced some years ago in the famous Chicago warehouse cases, holds that any business" affected with a public interest" is subject to the regulation or control of the State, and that elevating grain is a business of this kind. The serious question presented by this exposition of the law is, What private business may not be regarded as affected with a public interest" and thus be at the mercy of any partisan or demagogic Legislature? -THE PALMER BOOM. From an interview with Congressman William M. Springer, Feb. 24. If Mr. Cleveland's name is to be presented to the National Democratic Convention, it must be presented by his own State. He must come in at the front door, if at all. Mr. Cleveland owes it now to the party that has been so true to him, having conferred upon him greater honors than upon any living statesman, to abide by the action of his party in his State, and declare himself a Democrat as loyal to Democratic principles. In view of the dissensions in the usages and organization as to Democratic State of New York between the friends of Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Hill, it may be deemed necessary for the Democracy of other States to select our Presidential candidate elsewhere. In this connection the Democracy of Illinois will undoubtedly present a candidate in every way fitted for the position, one whose record and abilities commend him to the support and confidence of all true Democrats. Under the leadership of Gen. John M. Palmer the Democracy in the State of Illinois have already redeemed the State from Republican rule. The Democracy of the country is indebted to Senator Hill for calling an early Convention in the State of New York, in order that between this time and the meeting of the National Convention next June there may be ample time to consider the availability of Presidential candidates without reference to the possibility of Mr. Cleveland's candidacy. It would have been unfortunate indeed if the New York Convention had been put off until after many States in the Union had instructed their delegates to vote for Mr. Cleveland, and then at that late day the party had been suddenly apprized of the fact that it must make another selection. Boston Herald (Ind.), Feb. 26.-General Palmer, who is attracting attention as the possible alternative candidate for the Presidency New York Times (Ind.), March 1.-It would to Cleveland, it may be well to remember, is a be a good thing for the country if such legisla- decided Cleveland man himself; nay, more, he tion as that of the reciprocity clause could have been condemned by the Supreme Court was not, like Cleveland, always a Democrat, but came into the party after having acted and made impossible in the future. It is not with the Republicans during the war, and for only dangerous in its character, but it was some time following. Our impression is, howtricky in its motive. It is dangerous because the power to levy very heavy taxes on impor-ever, that he was originally a member of the Democratic party. Chief among them is that sustaining the con- tant branches of business is given to the Presi- ideas, of native independence of character, and He is a man of positive stitutionality of the McKinley Tariff Law. dent, to be exercised, not on the occurrence of of unquestioned honesty of purpose. His rank This was assailed on three grounds-first, that defined events as to which there can be no the tariff tobacco rebate clause, which was in doubt, but according to his personal opinion Stanton rather than in that of Morton and among war Democrats was in the school of the bill as passed by Congress, did not appear as to the action of foreign Governments. This some men who were disposed to be time-serving in the law approved by the President; second, "when and so often as certain Governments that the reciprocity provision was unconstitu- do certain things which he may deem to be politicians. His ability is of a high order, his tional as being an unwarranted delegation of reciprocally unjust and unreasonable" that he age being the chief objection to him in connection with the Presidency. The suggestion of legislative power to the President; third, that is to "have the power and it shall be his duty" the sugar bounty clause was invalid for the this respect is not a bad one by any means. our young Governor Russell to supplement in reason that Congress had no power to vote Senator Palmer is sound upon the currency, such a bounty. The Court overrules each and and the fact that he was a General during the all of these objections. It seems to admit that war may tell in his favor as a candidate. Congress may not delegate any legislative function to the Executive, but holds that there was no delegation in this case. On this point Chief-Justice Fuller and Justice Lamar dissent. In another case the Court sustains the authority exercised by Speaker Reed to count to levy certain duties-if that is not legislative Detroit Free Press (Dem.), Feb, 26.-The idea that the other States must humbly wait before expressing their Presidential preferences until New York has told them whom they may consider as possible candidates, and money. New York Sun, Feb. 26.-The vote of five must also be thankful for receiving New York's | offered for it. It is proposed further to make | as a Nation to the most that may be made of dictum in good season, is too humiliating to a free gift to McLaughlin, Murphy and Com- this great international event. be entertained for a moment. The Democracy pany of franchises for two bridges over the New York Herald, Feb. 26.-The Nation can of the country might as well relegate the whole East River, without any return to the city, the afford to contribute liberally to insure the business of nominating its candidates to the bridges when built to be practically free from State of New York, or the temporary control- taxation, or from municipal control, for ali complete success of the Exposition, and Conler of Tammany, as to accept the humiliating time. It is proposed, further, to give Tam-gress should not hesitate to do so, especially view which Mr. Springer has of its duties many absolute power to confiscate private have pledged the greater part of the needed in view of the fact that Illinois and Chicago toward the organization in the Empire State. property, to close the streets and avenues of Chicago Herald (Dem.), Feb. 25.—The nom- the Central Park for a race-course, virtually the city, and to seize upon a large portion of ination seems most likely to go to the Democratic Senator from Illinois or to the Demo-closing the whole west side of that pleasure cratic Governor of Iowa. Both are good men, de- ground to the public by making it the resort serving the honor, and each capable of leading with pool-rooms and liquor-saloons. for gamblers and sporting men, and lining it his party to victory. The great Northwest, which holds these two distinguished leaders, may be called upon to choose between them. The choice may be difficult, but the delegates of the Northwestern Democracy must be prepared to make it. They should be ready to go unanimously and enthusiastically to the support of that one who appears to be the more generally acceptable to the whole country. SENATOR COLQUITT'S REASON FOR OPPOSING CLEVELAND. Charleston News and Courier (Dem.), Feb. 27. In his speech to the Atlanta Adullamites the other day, Senator Colquitt said: "It is very well to talk about virtue,' honesty,' purity,' etc., but when a funeral sermon is to follow it takes out all the unction." Here we have the senior Senator from Georgia, himself a minister of the Gospel and a teacher of inorals, protesting that virtue, honesty, and purity have no place in political affairs, and that the Democratic party can only hope to elect a President by dishonest, vicious, and corrupt methods. In his desperate desire to help Hill, Senator Colquitt has not only exposed his own hypocrisy, but he has given his favorite a very black eye. There is no escape from the position in which he has placed Senator Hill, whom he will support not because he is a staunch Democrat, a great statesman, or an honest politician, but because honesty, virtue, and purity in a Democratic candidate for President render him unavailable. The senior Senator from Georgia has evidently made a mess of it. million dollars or of one dollar for this purpose would be as unconstitutional as a vote to make the Government of the United States a partner or stockholder in any circus or show now upon the road. It would afford a precedent for a New York World (Dem.), Feb. 28.-The further vote of twenty millions, if Chicago events at Albany during the past week show should discover later that she wants twenty the existence of a dangerous power in the millions more in order " to make the Fair hands of four men. It is evident from these worthy of the Nation." Chicago's promise proceedings that as matters now stand any to ask no more money is not worth the paper legislation desired and agreed upon by Lieu- it is written upon, or the breath in which it is tenant-Governor Sheehan, Edward Murphy, uttered. Jr., Richard Croker, and Hugh McLaughlin will pass, and that any measures opposed by these men will fail. These men have in different ways rendered the Democratic party valuable services. They are splendid organizers and hard fighters, and without organization and fighting there can be no party victories. But they are essentially party bosses. Their rule at home is boss rule. They practice politics for a living and something more-to themselves and their followers. Although Un the Democratic caucus reached no conclusion THE FREE COINAGE OUTLOOK. that the free coinage men are in the majority on the free coinage question, the result showed and can force action on Bland's Silver Bill if they will. The rule in Democratic Congressional caucuses has been not to attempt to make the caucus declaration binding—a rule that was adhered to on this occasion—and no Mr. Sheehan has a higher ambition, but his adjourn offered by a free coinage member, test vote was taken except on the motion to methods of securing power and advancement which was carried by a vote of 80 to 55. are not very different from those of his associ- der ordinary circumstances the vote on a moates in the combination. Neither separately tion to adjourn could hardly be called a test nor together do these men represent the leadership of intellectual and moral forces, de- upon any question before the caucus, but as voted to the success of principles and the this caucus was called to consider a resolution to defer action on the silver question for the presfutherance of ideas which alone make politics ent session, adjournment without passing the noble and government beneficent. The trans-resolution meant that a majority of those presfer of boss rule to Albany is a menace to the State and a source of grave danger to the Democratic party. Members of the Legislature last week voted for the "Huckleberry" railway grab and the Brooklyn Bridge and Elevated Railroad Bill, against their convictions, because they feared that the bosses would turn them down" in their districts if they failed to do so. Other scandalous measures are marked to ent were doubtless hostile. So far, therefore, as the anti-free silver men are concerned, all they secured by the caucus was the deferring of positive action. This may be a gain, and it may not. ference The report that a bi-metallic conGreat Britain, has been arranged, is important, with European powers, including if true, and should induce even the most rabid silver men to go slow. An international agree New York Times (Ind.), Feb. 28.-Senator Pass, and meritorious bills to be killed, upon ment upon the use of silver as money would the word of this powerful combination. New York Sun (Dem.), Feb. 27.-We warn the Democratic members of the New York Legislature that the manner and the results of some of their recent proceedings in the passage of bridge bills and railroad bills may prove dangerous to their party, as well as discreditable to themselves individually. While we rely on Governor Flower to veto any bills inconsiderately passed, that are clearly contrary to the general interest, it would be much better that no such bills should be passed. Colquitt has snapped a detective camera on LEGISLATION AT ALBANY. This is New York Evening Post (Ind.), March 1.— Every day's developments at Albany reveal some new scheme for despoiling the taxpayers of the city in the interest of the semi-criminal gang who are in control of its government. It is proposed by Tammany to take possession, without a penny of recompense to the city, of the entire portion of the city above the Harlem River for street-railway purposes. a clear diversion of thousands of dollars from the city treasury. It is proposed further by Tammany, Murphy, and McLaughlin to take possession of three miles of city streets for an elevated railway, without a penny of return to the city either for the franchise or in taxes or in percentages of receipts; this is another diversion of at least half a million for the franchise alone, for that sum has been publicly be of more advantage even to the silver producers than a free coinage law in the United States alone, while the passage of the law would be a hindrance rather than a help to international bimetallism, for the simple reason that it would eventually give Europe our stock of gold upon which to maintain a gold standard.—Philadelphia Times (Ind.-Dem.), Feb. 27. ELECTION OF SENATORS BY THE PEOPLE.The following is the text of the proposed Amendment to the Federal Constitution upon the method of electing Senators, as framed by the sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections: NATIONAL AID FOR THE FAIR. Chicago Daily News, Feb. 25.-The very inThat the Senate of the United States shall be comdefiniteness of President Harrison's recommen-posed of two Senators from each State, who shall be States for six years; and the electors in each State chosen by a direct vote of the people of the several shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature, and each elector shall have one vote. If vacancies happen, by resignation or otherwise, the Executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the vacancies shall be filled by a direct vote of the people, next general election in such State for members of the House of Representatives in Congress, when such as aforesaid. " in favor of liberal treatment of the Fair man- Chicago Times, Feb. 25.—The President takes FOREIGN. KAISER'S SPEECH, AND THE In a speech at a banquet tendered to him by the Brandenburg Diet on Feb. 23, the Emperor of Germany said: Unfortunately it has now become the fashion to criticise and nag at every step taken by the Government. Public peace is disturbed on the most insignificant grounds. The enjoyment of life shared by the of this nagging persecution, many persons have been whole German Fatherland is envenomed. As a result imbued with the idea that our country is the most un |