THE NORTHWESTERN MILLERS AND ANTI- be a candidate for President, and that if he

OPTION.

Minneapolis Tribune (Rep.), Jan. 7.-In the Senate on Thursday Senator Vilas is said to have made a very bitter attack on the Washburn Anti-Option Bill. It is not to be expected that Mr. Vilas, who hails from Wisconsin, or anybody who represents Milwaukee and Chicago interests, will exert himself to secure the passage of this bill. On the other hand, it is to be expected that they will do everything possible to defeat it. But late developments have not had a tendency to make the views of such persons very effective in shaping public opinion in this part of the Northwest. In fact, it begins to be pretty evident that if Minneapolis and the Northwest want to protect themselves they must yet have to do it through some measure similar to the Washburn Bill.

St. Paul Globe (Dem.), Jan. 7. Senator Vilas stripped off the pretense of pure purpose with which Senator Washburn has draped his Anti-Option Bill, and exposed what has been charged to be the real purpose of it. Rather, Senator Vilas made Senator Washburn do the stripping. It shows that the object is what the Senator admitted it to be to the Chicago reporter, on which we commented yesterday, the absolute control of the price of wheat by the Northwestern millers. The Senator from Wisconsin was making an argument against the bill, when the junior Senator from this State interrupted him to ask whether contracts in which neither party intended the delivery of the grain would be sustained by any Court. Admitting that they would not, Senator Vilas asked Senator Washburn "whether he would accept an amendment to his bill which shall limit its effect to such contracts as both parties intend shall not be followed by delivery of the article." The report says that the Senator hesitated, but finally said that he would not because it would not be effective; it would be evaded. This makes it evident that the millers

Senator Vilas.

AMNESTY TO THE MORMONS. All the newspapers agree in the opinion that the President's proclamation of amnesty to the Mormons not only signifies that polygamy as an institution is practically at an end in Utah, but also greatly improves the prospects of the admission of Utah as a State.

granted the petition before election, it would
be charged that he did it to influence the elec-
tion in his own favor. No matter what his
reasons were. The petition is at last granted.
We congratulate the Latter Day Saints upon
it, and we believe that the confidence reposed
in them by the President in granting the peti-
tion will not be abused. We believe, also,
that the pardon carries with it full restoration
to citizenship.

Salt Lake Herald (Dem.), Jan. 6.-The am-
nesty and pardon granted do not apply to any
offense against the laws committed since Nov.
1, 1890. Nor are they to have effect, in the
cases of persons who break the laws of the
United States in reference to polygamy and
polygamous practices in the future. All per-
sons liable to prosecution for offenses of that
character committed previous to the date men-
tioned, who in the future observe the laws of
the United States in relation to those offenses,
are relieved from such prosecution. That is
the full extent of the amnesty granted. The
amnesty is of personal benefit then only to
such offenders as are yet liable to prosecution
for the offenses named committed prior to
Nov. 1, 1890. It is of general benefit simply
as an official recognition of the change of con-
ditions in Utah, which may be taken as a
notice to the world that the difficulties between
this Territory and the Government of the
United States are at an end. In this is its
chief value, for only a very few individuals will
be personally affected by it. Such as it is,
the Herald bids it welcome, and hopes it will
aid in the promotion of general harmony and
good will.

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.

NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN INSTANCES.

"We feel that there is considerable misapprehension of Mr. Croker's remark that the officers of the city are henceforth to be politicians' and not business men.' We imagine that what Mr. Croker had in his mind was to insist that public officials, from whatever ranks or occupations in life they come into office, should not be prevented from giving full attention to their duties by the intruding demands of private affairs. All public officers must do the work assigned to them thoroughly and efficiently. In short, the idea, as we apprehend it, is, by putting offices in the hands of men entirely devoted to public business, or pcliticians, to insure to New York a 'business administration.'

THE BROOKLYN SCANDAL.

In Brooklyn the Grand Jury last week presented indictments against many of the city officials (including the County Auditor, the Supervisors, and the Aldermen) for their part in contracting and paying bills for last fall's local Columbian celebration. The following

are some of the items of expenditure: Reviewing stands, $17,400; music, $17.414; invitations, $6,301; refreshments, $1,836; decoraMuch comment has been excited by the inter- tions, $2,000. The Grand Jury, in its presentview with Mr. Richard Croker, leader of Tam-ment, declares that "it appears from the evimany Hall, last week, upon the policy to be observed by the municipal authorities of New York City in making selections for the offices. The following are Mr. Croker's words:

dence that the city of Brooklyn has paid $11,400 for stands costing about $3,000, and Kings County has paid $6,000 for stands costing about $1,500."

are not after "wind wheat," but are after all dealers in wheat except where immediate delivery follows the contract. They intend to bar out from competition with them even the men who would buy for actual future delivery. A farmer could not hypothecate his crop, because this is an agreement to deliver a crop at some future day. The rank paternalism and offices should be held by politicians. You can say for me that I believe that the "The spectacle," says the Brooklyn Eagle The (Dem., Jan. 8), "was humiliating. The fact unconstitutionality of such a measure need no further demonstration than the Chicago inter-present administration of the Municipal Gov- is deplorable. The disgrace to the city and The procedure indiview and the Senator's reply to the question of ernment shows that the city is better and more county is monumental. economically governed when politicians fill the cates the low water mark of honesty and of offices than when so-called business men' ad- honor in Brooklyn affairs. Law does what minister them. I have received many letters law is for when it brings such offenses as are from business men in which I am informed averred to the bar of trial. A long apathetic, that they can spare an hour or two a day from too long patient, and sometimes careless their business to attend to the duties of a Com- citizenship are mightily stirred by the revalaThe missioner in some one or other of the depart-tion of petty larceny in high places. ments. That is not what the people of the revelation gathers momentum from many city want, nor is it what they are entitled to. former scandals of which the guilty have gone They should have the full time of every official unwhipt of justice. If the triers this time devoted to the duties of the place which he is trifle with the tried, the people will bunch named to fill. I don't object to business men them and blast them together. The accused as such. Men with business abilities are needed in little showed a fit sense of the mortification in the public service, but their abilities should they have caused the people or of the danger be wholly exercised in the public interest. which they ought to be in. Their arraignWhen a business man who accepts public placement was to them like unto a picnic. The devotes himself entirely to it, he is at once occasion became an exchange of ribald dubbed a politician. For myself I shall jocosity. They alternated bail with bets recommend no man to office who is not willing that their indictment would amount to to give up his own business to give his entire time and service to the business of the people." The day after this interview appeared, the new Mayor, Mr. Gilroy, made a number of important appointments. The men selected were of the politician class-leading Tammany workers.

UTAH'S COMMENT.

Salt Lake Tribune (Rep.), Jan. 6.-President Harrison delayed granting amnesty to the Mormons until more than half the joy that would have hailed the receipt of the amnesty a year ago was taken away. It was petitioned for by the chiefs of the Mormon Church, and in that petition they became surety for their people, that if amnesty should be granted they would henceforth live within the laws. The petition was endorsed by the Governor, the Chief Justice of the Territory, and other reliable citizens, and it ought to have received the immediate attention of the President. When first presented, it was telegraphed that the petition would be granted just as soon as the President was satisfied of his power to grant it, he having an idea at the time that it would require a law of Congress. He was very speedily satisfied on that score. Still, he has held the petition for over a year before acting upon it, probably with the idea that he was to

REFLECTIONS AND EXPLANATIONS.

The New York Evening Post (Ind. -Dem.), commenting on the policy thus announced and practiced, says (Jan. 6.):

"Who are the men in the city who have no business and who are able to devote all their time to politics? They are the men whose sole business is politics, who have for years

nothing. They predicted their acquittal or that they would never be tried. Confidence of the "pull" was visibly and volubly apparent in the case of every one of them. These indictments are evolutionary. The consequences of trifling with them may be revolutionary. They go back at least as far as that Government under a blanket which sought to rig the city with $1,250,000 in secret for a stolen franchise, by covert meetings, on which the Eagle turned the light. They go back farther school sites; with the truculent refusal to let the city have adequate water supply; with the robbery of the paupers and the lunatics; with all the flouted and unpunished crimes which have made Aldermanic and Supervisoral action here a hissing and a byword everywhere."

and mate with the swindles on fire sites and

RELIGIOUS.

CATHOLIC OPINION.

THE MCGLYNN CASE AND PAPAL INFALLIBILITY. Irish World (New York), Jan. 7.-The learned ministers and able editors who have had so much to say about the Pope's infallibility in connection with Dr. McGlynn's case may be surprised to learn the conditions that must be fulfilled before the Pope can be said to speak infallibly. The conditions as enumerated by Father Brandisi are: (1) The Pope must speak as Pope, that is, as head of the Church; he must state that he speaks in virtue of the Apostolic power given to him. (2) The Pope must speak for the whole Church; to whom he addresses his words is immaterial. (3) The Pope must define the doctrine, pass final judgment, not merely state an opinion or express a preference (4) The doctrine defined must belong within the sphere of the subject matter of infallibility. All this shows how silly is the twaddle ministers and

And yet

ties! How true it is that we are all prone to make fools of ourselves when we undertake to meddle with matters that we are wholly igno

rant of.

ROME'S DECISION IS FINAL.

response to the toast, "The Pope and Amer- | charges, and enter a decision from which there can be no appeal?

ica."

'Among all the nations of the earth," said Bishop Keane, "there is one for which the Holy Father has ever shown a very special affection. That nation is our own America. All nations are dear to him whose duty it is to cherish every portion of the vast flock of Christ. Some of them are very dear to his heart because of their heroic doing or their heroic suffering for the religion of Our Saviour. But he recognizes that America's vocation is, like his own, one of cosmopolitan unification, and, therefore, has she a place of special nearness to his heart. America is the haven of peace towards which all the nationalities of the earth flock as to a land of promise, in which all the national rivalries and hostilities of the earth die out, in which all the un

Here better than

United Presbyterian (Pittsburgh), Jan. 5.— The inevitable contest between tremendous intellectual activity and simple faith is upon us. It has long been foreseen. The spirit of philosophy searches for the beginnings of things and the origin of forces, and it is not strange that even Christian philosophy should, in some measure, lose its proper balance, and rely more upon itself than upon the Spirit of God. From important investigations in a legitimate field, illegitimate conclusions have been drawn, and crude theories and sweeping deductions affecting the foundations of our faith have been announced with a dogmatism that is offensive and divisive.

Christian at Work (Undenominational, New York), Jan. 5.-We shall not attempt to forecast the issue in the Assembly. It is probable both Professor Smith's case and Professor Briggs's case will be brought before this final decide that the issues joined are subsidiary and court of adjudication. If the Assembly shall affect neither the system of doctrine declared

men.

for

happy differences of the earth are blended into harmonious unity. anywhere else in the world, the universal brotherhood of men is exemplified and finds a field for its realization. Here better than anyeditors have been indulging in during the where else has the Providence of God brought last week. The Pope has not even expressed about the equalization and unification of men an opinion about the theory of land taxation in the natural order, and thereby laid the best by the Standards nor the integrity of the advocated by Dr. McGlynn, much less has he foundation for that equalization and unification Scriptures, they will acquit both these gentlecondemned it speaking ex cathedra. If, however, they shall declare them to of all men in the supernatural order, which is we are told that the doctrine of Papal Infalli- the wish and the plan of our Lord Jesus Christ..be essential parts of the Westminster Standards, Therefore does the Holy Father watch and they will convict the distinguished professors bility has received a blow by the course adopted by Archbishop Satolli in removing direct with special affection and solicitude the of heresy! But in this they convince no one; they will make more heretics, but they will from Dr. McGlynn all ecclesiastical disabili-action of the Church in America, that it may ennoble heresy. Whether in that event they ever accord with the providential plan of harmonizing and unifying all the action of human will increase the power and influence of the society. More than once has his voice been Presbyterian Church is a question which the uplifted, warning us against permitting the future must alone determine. spirit of nationalism to hinder or lessen the unifying tendencies of divine faith and charity, so admirably blending with the unifying genius New York Freeman's Journal, Jan. 7.of our country. And now we hear him urging The Pope's representative, notwithstanding us, in tones of paternal tenderness and earnestthe efforts to discredit him, pursues the even ness, to cultivate in every possible way hartenor of his way, and when we follow closely monious relations between the body and the his judgments and utterances soul of human society, between the civil and the wonder grows upon us that anybody could be found to the spiritual anthorities, in all matters in oppose the merciful ends or disregard the enwhich they can work together for human lightened views he gives forth. It is evident welfare, especially in that most essential rethat Rome knew its man when it selected Mon- quirement of Christian civilization, the signor Satolli. Neither it nor the Ablegate Christian education of the people. is to be frightened from the pacific policy tion of the World's Columbian Exposition, and "Not only to represent him at the inauguraproposed-every indiscreet utterance against it only making the determination to enforce thereby to show how heartily he sympathizes it firmer. They make a big mistake who with our national celebration of the discovery do not realize this. It is ever so with Rome, of this Western world-not only to manifest whose authority cannot be subverted or reject- to the Church in America the special tendered in either the person of the Pope or the dis- ness of his fatherly love for her, but also, and paragement of his mouthpiece without recoiling especially, to impress on us the importance of upon those who attempt it. The Dr. McGlynn this spirit of conciliation and unity and coöperaincident is now almost a thing of the past. The tion, has he sent to our shores his honored Supreme Court of Catholic Discipline rendered and trusted bosom friend, Archbishop Satolli. its verdict. No power within the Church or It is our privilege to have him as our guest in the without it can either revoke, revise, or pass Catholic University of America at our national upon the question of its justice. That being capital. And thence his voice is heard throughdiscussion or dissension were idle. So out the land, proclaiming to all Catholics, must it be all the way through. Individual yes, and to all the American people, that likes or dislikes cannot count where the Head blessed message which the angels brought to of Christendom undertakes to perform his earth on Christmas morn: Glory to God in duty. the highest, and on earth peace to men of good-will.'

So,

THE CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION.

THE BRIGGS CASE.
VIEWS OF RELIGIOUS ORGANS.

New York Catholic News, Jan. 7. — Let writers of the present day cease to slander the Catholic Church by pointing to her as the enemy of education. Learned men of every The Presbyterian (Philadelphia), Jan. 4. shade of opinion are beginning to realize that It is reported that Dr. Briggs is not satisfied the Church has been maligned in the past and with the termination of the case, especially are ready to pay homage to truth. The mis- with the final vote. We think that he is right sion of the Catholic Church is to teach. Where-in regarding it as unsatisfactory. The majority ever she builds the church, whether of marble in a populous city, or of logs in a newly-opened country, the school has risen beside it. The Catholic Church is the true friend of education, and has always been so.

is too small for his future in the Presbyterian Church. If, in the midst of his friends, with his associates in the Seminary Faculty surrounding him, and throwing over him their shield, with the sympathy of the public running strongly in his behalf, and with the amplest opportunity to expound and defend his views, Dr. Briggs could only command six The Boston Pilot (Cath., Jan. 7), publishes of a majority acquitting him in one case of the address delivered by Right Rev. Bishop what can he hope for when he reaches the distinct, erroneous, and heretical teaching, Keane, Rector of the Catholic University of Court where the whole Church, by its repreAmerica, at a recent banquet in Scranton, in Isentatives, will render judgment upon all these

THE POPE AND AMERICA.

The Independent (Undenominational, New York), Jan. 5.-So far as the Presbytery of New York is concerned, he [Professor Briggs] is not to be called to account anything said in his Inaugural Address, which, when it first appeared, few approved, but many condemned as unguarded in statement, wrong in many of its conclusions, dangerous in tendency, and showing more friendliness to the foes than to the defenders of an inspired Bible and a supernatural Christianity. The vote is a vote for a toleration wide enough to cover the views of an erratic mind that prefers geon type; that honors the Unitarian, who rethe Martineau type of Christian to the Spurjects the supernatural in the Scriptures and depends upon his own reason for divine authority; that lauds Cardinal Newman, who prefers the Church to the Bible.

The Advance (Cong., Chicago), Jan. 5.That the trial will settle the serious questions which now divide the Presbyterian Church no one believes. It is simply a skirmish in the great struggle going on in the religious world over the fundamental elements of Christian

faith.

Christian Register (Unitarian, Boston), Jan. 5.-So far as the real interest of the truth is concerned, it matters little what the General Assembly may finally do. The ascertained results of knowledge will stand, and no vote of ecclesiastics can roll back or ultimately resist the conclusions of modern scholarship. If the Presbyterians or any others close their eyes to the light, so much the worse for them.

THE DRINK QUESTION.

THE SOUTH CAROLINA LAW. The liquor law recently enacted in South Carolina is a novel piece of legislation. It abolishes the private traffic in liquors, and creates a so-called " dispensary" system to take its place. The traffic is henceforth to be conducted wholly by the public authorities, and all the profits are to go to the counties and municipalities. The act is to take effect on the 1st of July next.

New York Voice (Proh.), Jan. 5.-Whatever may be said for or against the new law

of South Carolina relative to the liquor traffic, it is already evident that the opposition of the liquor element is assured. The Charleston News and Courier, as subservient to the liquor interests as any journal in the country, is out in leading editorials denouncing the bill as unconstitutional and in various ways objectionable, and the opposition of the whiskey contingent in the Legislature was bitter and prolonged. The News and Courier says the effect of the bill in Charleston will be that of prohibition, and is already lamenting the disaster it will inflict upon the "vested interests" (in drunkard factories) in that city. "The title of the bill is: An Act to Prohibit the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors as a Beverage within this State, except as herein permitted." One section of the bill (827) provides that "No law now in effect prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in any counties or towns of this State is repealed by this Act." Each county dispenser must declare in his petition that he is not addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage," and the members of the County Board of Control and the State Commissioner must also be free from the habit of drinking. As we said last week, it is the best bill, short of downright Prohibition, that has yet been passed by any State Legislature, though it bears numerous marks of haste, and will probably reveal numerous unsuspected defects when put into operation. A number of legislators opposed the bill violently and called on their fellows to save the State from the shame of going into the liquor business. But in reply to this it might be observed that such shame as there is in this has already been incurred by the State in the license system. The objection has no force whatever coming from a license advocate. The issuing of licenses makes the State just as surely a partner in the business as this bill does. We would much rather see the State go into the business in an open way and shoulder the responsibility for it than to have it sneak in a silent partner and delude the voters into placing all responsibility on the

saloon Jeepers.

or for any purpose is intolerable. It is even |ulate itself. We have pointed out before
worse than going over to the Democracy. that a mystery is much more mischievous in
Well does Dr. Herrick Johnson say of this such matters than certainty, however injurious
party craze: "It proceeds on the sheer as the certainty may be. When it has been in-
sumption that the right of intelligent suffrage timated that there were revelations to be made
forevermore must be limited to a choice be- touching much more important persons than
tween two men; that the conscience of this any who have been publicly accused it has
nation never can voice itself at the ballot-box been a natural inference that the President of
save through the two great political parties; that the Republic was meant. Several more or less.
a vote has only a numerical value and that a prin- specific charges have been brought against
ciple cannot by any possibility be made an issue M. Carnot, but they have all been dis-
in politics, so long as both parties ignore it or posed of promptly and satisfactorily. There
trample on it and a majority of independent is no reason whatever to believe that
voters cannot be commanded for it. This is he has done anything to be ashamed of. But so
simply practical politics' drunk with the wine long as people in general were uncertain who
of godless partisanship and worshiping itself." it was that the better informed thought to be
In 1888 and now in 1892 the same treason to obstructing the investigation, it was inevitable
the Republican party is repeated. Enough that the President should be suspected.
Prohibition votes were thrown away on Bid-
well in several States to have given those States
to Harrison. The vote, as it will appear, will
stand as a protest and a nucleus. What changes
may take place within the next four years can-
not be foreseen, but the duty of the Prohibi-
tionists to stand firmly by their guns is too
plain for argument, whether they be many or
few.

FOREIGN MATTERS.

THE FRENCH SITUATION.

MM.

New York Times, Jan. 11.-The resignation of the Ministry, which is now reported, is the natural outcome of the Panama scandal. There has already been one crisis and one reconstruction of the Cabinet over this business, but it was a reconstruction that did not deserve to be called a reconstruction. It consisted in changing the important members of the Ministry about, and in letting go two unimportant members of the Ministry. Roche and Ricard were thrown as tubs to the whale of public indignation, but they scarcely delayed and did not divert the whale. It would have been. strange if they had done so, both because they were not important and because the men who were important and about whom there was a great deal of injurious talk remained in the Ministry and showed every intention of remaining in it indefinitely. Why the French newspapers should have been so very mealy-mouthed about them, while every day allowing intimations to transpire that they were guilty, is a question that can be answered only by a reference to the strict protection Boston Transcript (Rep.), Jan. 6.-The law afforded to character both by French laws and is in line with the ideals of many social and by French manners. MM. Loubet and de temperance reformers, and yet it is a Till-Freycinet are not found in the Cabinet as it is manite measure throughout, which is to say reconstructed. That, if we may be allowed the that the granger element is behind it. The urban and anti-Tillmanite Democrats already State whiskey" and lots of it will be used at election times to keep the present agricultural political régime in the ascendant.

New York Innkeepers' Journal (Liquor), Jan. 7.-No one ever thought that the States of the South would be the most proscriptive in their enactments against the liquor-dealing interests. But so it seems. If the law is enforced it will close every liquor saloon in the State. But the liquor men are up in arms against it and hope to have it declared unconstitutional.

foresee that "

THE "

Pittsburgh Leader, Jan. 8.-The rapid development of anarchy in France is not unnatural. There is a stratum of belligerent discontent underlying the general well-being of the French people in the enjoyment of republican institutions-discontent which is traditional and which is the normal condition of a lawless element which makes itself felt in all great crises in the history of the French nation. The rabble of the Revolution, which, after the objects of that upheaval had been attained, still continued to pillage and kill, are the Anarchists of to-day. They have changed their name, but their tendencies remain the same. The growth of the French body of Anarchists is, after all, merely the external evidence of the emboldening of the mob. The increase is not in numbers, but in the audacity which attracts faithful source of this cancerous growth, and public notice. Bad government is the most such happenings as the Panama Canal scandal are among its most efficient aids. France must purge itself of official scoundrels before it can hope to drive the scoundrels of a order, who march under the red flag of anarchy, back into the dark places from which public calamity calls them forth.

meaner

IRISH MEMBERS AT WESTMINSTER.

New York Sun, Jan. 8.-The editor of the Speaker, a weekly newspaper published in London, is known to have close relations with Mr. Gladstone himself as well as with other members of the present Cabinet. There is reason, therefore, to trust the statement made by this journal, that certain features, which it specifies, will be included in the forthcoming project of Home Rule. According to the Speaker the new bill will reserve to the Imperial Parliament, for a certain time, the sole right of idiom, is" something like." M. Loubet is rather legislating with regard to the land question. a recent man, and until he became a Prime In this matter Mr. Gladstone recognizes facts Minister on account of the unavailableness of for the existence of which he is uot responmore conspicuous statesmen was not very much sible. It was the Tories who passed the Land considered. But M. de Freycinet is in a differ- Purchase Act, by which the Imperial Treasury ent situation. He has been about the most con- is charged with a great sum of money to be THROWING AWAY OF VOTES." spicuous for the past decade of all the public lent to occupiers of land in Ireland who men in France, barring short-lived "sensa- desire to transform themselves into proprieChicago Union Signal (W. C. T. U. organ), tions" like Boulanger. He has been a mem- tors. Until all the loans provided for by Jan. 5.-That portion of the partisan press ber of almost every Ministry during that time that act have been made, and due precautions which adheres to the Republican party regard and has been more than once at the head of have been taken to secure the advances, it the Prohibition party as the cause of its defeat. the Ministry. He was at the head of the may be plausibly claimed that the Parlia Assuming that the Prohibition party is re- Ministry at the time M. Baihaut, his Minister ment at Westminster should continue to concruited entirely from its ranks, it counts every of Public Works, is charged with having taken trol agrarian legislation relating to Ireland. Prohibition vote as rightfully belonging to it, large amounts of money to betray the French It is obvious, however, that just so long and affirms with passionate earnestness the people to the Panama Canal ring. Whatever as the Imperial assembly has the power folly, if not something worse, of those who may become of this charge, it is scarcely credvote the Prohibition ticket. But for the trea- ible that it can turn out to be entirely baseless. sonable stupidity of 16,000, more or less, Re- Whatever services were rendered to the ring by publicans in Wisconsin who threw away their the Minister of Public Works were rendered votes on an impracticable issue, that State by the whole Ministry of which he was a would have been saved to the Republican member, and especially by the head of that party so Republicans reason. In 1884, Ministry. It was, in fact, during the PremierNew York went Democratic and elected Mr. Cleveland by the pitiful plurality of 1,047, while over 25,000 New York Republicans threw their votes away to the Prohibition fanaticism. To the thorough-paced Republican partisan all this is exasperating to the last degree. The party owns the voter, in its opinion. To break away for the sake of expressing a conviction, or organizing a reform,

of legislating with regard to Irish land, representatives of Ireland must remain at Westminster. It can only be, therefore, the expediency of their remaining after the control of agrarian legislation has been transferred to Dublin, that the Speaker has in mind when it states that the retention of Irish members in ship of M. de Freycinet that the material the British Parliament will not be passed upon was supplied for the scandal which has lately until the precise nature of the veto to be exerbroken out, and undoubtedly it is the general cised on Irish legislation shall have been debelief in France that M. de Freycinet did termined. That is to say, if the Crown is to not consent to the suppression of the scandal exercise the right of veto on the advice without having good private reasons for a of the British Prime Minister, then, course for which there were no good public of course, delegates from Ireland must reasons. If this sacrifice proves efficacious, take part in the Imperial assembly to which the new Ministry will have reason to congrat- that Prime Minister is accountable.

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