The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-10

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The sole reason why Congress had to take
charge of our elections, is that we could not
get the State laws enforced, and the reason
why we could not get the State laws enforced
was that Judges elected by universal suffrage,
and dependent on the Tammany ring for re-
nomination, could not be got to give de-
cisions adverse to the interests of the domi-
nant party. What gives the Federal Judci-
ary its value in the matter is not that it is
Federal, but that it holds Office for life. Ii
our State Judges held Office for life, or were
only removable by g change in the C0nstitu-
ton, most assurcdly we should not have to go
into the Federal Courts to have our repeaters
brought to justice. There are on the New
York bench plenty of men rs good as any on
the United States bench, and the United
States judges are chosen from among Just
such men as, we are glad to say, evil as the
times are, still compose the bulk of the New
York bar; but we have a judicial system
which really, except in tho case Of the Court
Of Appeals, seems framed to stimulate what
ever is bad in the judges nature, or paralyze
what is good. The result is that we have to
60 TO the United States Courts to protect the
purity of our elections, and we are only saying
what every lawyer knows to be true, when we
say that we would all go there, too for the
protection Of our property, if we could. As it
is, every case involving large interests, in
this city at least which can by any twisting
or turning of constitutional provisions be got
into the Federal Courts, is got into them. In
other words, not only has the expert
ment made in various States, of an elective
judiciary, with short terms of Office, been
proved failure, bnt the system of appoint
ment or life tenure is an acknowledged sue
cess. Wherever people have the choice be-
tween the State Courts and the Federal Courts
they choose the latter; and this not because
the Federal judges are always more learned
lawyers or more upright men than the State
judges, but because they sit under system
which insures their independence.
Democratic orators are constantly pcating
about Capitalization of late years. Centrali-
zation is indeed almost the only theme they
do not find too delicate TO handle. But if
there be any tendency to Capitalization, it is
Democratic politicians who are creating and
fostering it. The danger of Capitalization
does not lie in what men in Congress say or
enact, but in what people through the coun-
try feel. The great ends of government,
after all, are security for life aud property,
and for the free play Of the faculties. As
long as State laws and State Judges provide
this, within the limits prescribed by the Con-
stitution, we may rely upon it local self
government will have too many attrac-
tiops for the popular mind to make it
possible for Congress to encroach on it. But
only let rascaly politicians succeed in doing
what they are doing in New Yorz-diffusing
through the community q deep sense Of in
security, with regard not only to their pos
sessions and their persons, but with regard
to the enjoyment of their political rights
and the seeds of Capitalization will indeed be
sown. If anybody wants to see the four
men who bave done most to promote GEN.
traization in this State, he must take look
at Hoffman and Tweed and Barnard aud Car
dozo. There is worse injury done to State
rights in Room No. - in one day than Con-
gress could do in ten years.
ARE THE INHABITANTS OF OTHER
WORLDS MEN?
From the NJ Y. Sun.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, answering
! in the Christian Union a correspondent who
! interrogates him concerning the spiritual con-
dition of the inhabitants of the other planets
of the solar system, first questions whether
there are any such inhabitants at all, and
then goes on to remark as follows
But admitting that the other orbs are populated
! with rational and intelligent creatures, it by ne
means follows that they have had history like our
! own race or that they psychoogically resemble us
1t is not prosable that the human species eXhausts
| the possibilities Of variation"
In the first place, Mr.. Beecher ought TO be
able to do more than barely admit the posi-
bility of there being other inhabited worlds
than our own. man of his large and liberal
views ought to see, without argument, the
ahsurdity Of supposing that the countless
stars, which astronomy teaches US are SO
many suns, shine only for the sake of the
feeble light which, on moonless nights they
afford this little earth, or even that the many
planets which surround us are mere barren
masses Of matter. If the Creator be at all a
being of such power and goodness combined
| as every religion represents him to be, his
creation of intelligent beings cannot be
limited to the narrow area with which we are
acquainted. And, if there are such beings,
it is equally illogical to suppose that they
differ from us in any essential particular,
either as to the body or as to the soul.
The tendency of science is, without excep-
ton, towards the demonstration of the unity
of creation, and of the substantial harmony
of all its parts. From the most elevated man
down to the lowest reptile, comparative
zoology traces a chain of gradual descent,
each step of which retains a resemblance to
one common human form. The vegetable
kingdom has its analogies to the animal, and
the mineral, again, to the vegetable. The
botanist shows that in the tree there is sys-
tenn Of bloodvessels and lungs and physiologi.
cal functions, which are perfect counter.
part of the corresponding system in the
human body; and in the process of crystalli
Zation and chemical combination, there are
many features of resemblance to vegetable
growth. AS to the races of men, they differ
among themselves only in superficial details
and not in essentials. No exploration has
yet revealed men without human bodies,
heads, legs, and arms, or without hearts and
lungs and other vital organs, or wanting il
any of the fundamental constituents of the
human mind. To crown all, we are told in
the Bible that man was created in the image
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