The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-09


they want, and have no more bother about it?
Go ahead, Mr.. Roosevelt, we will remember
you the next time you want votes"
The Evangelist declares that sit is not Of
the number of those who welcome the oppor.
tunity to stigmatize men who must be
assumed innocent until they are proved
guilty, and whose good name is part of our
national reputation" The safest practice
nowadays is, according to a certain Maine
philosopher, to hold everybody guilty until he
is proven innocent
The Christian Union utters warning cry
when it proclaims that the great battle OF our
day is to be the battle of money. 'The COM
binations of capitalists, it ads. ''the consol-
idation of railroads, the enormous concentra-
ton of money in comparatively few hands, is
raising up Plutocracy which threatens to
overmatch Legislatures, courts and all private
interests that may stand in the way of these
gigantic corporations. If the very ablest men
in Congress are 30 easily beguiled and per-
yerted by this first onset, what Will the future
be, when millions of dollars can be brought 10
bear upon. Congress- to secure minionnaires'
mon people p Who're is the remedy for this
eyils The Union suggests that it is twofold,
There must be formed ahome sentiment OF hons
rSs E. he ssss sy a any o
honor, truth and public trust AS long as men, by
ran go their
popularity and enjoy their i-gotten possessions.
OF what use will it be once in ten years to sacrhce
n lnNkl In o. arniA
The honesty must dwell among the common
people. There must be honesty at the sources OF
sentatives viii not be virtuous. The moral educa
ton OF the whole community must alter ALL be the
grand remedy.
The Freeman Journal (Catholic) is engaged
in getting up one Of the biggest excursions of
the season. 1t is pilgrimage. on the part OF
the faithful from the United States and Can
ada to Rome. A distinguished chevalier ''who
for ten years served in the army of the Holy
Father has shed his blood in defence of the
Vicar of Christ and has been decorated by the
hand of the Sovereign Pontiff himself" is pro-
posed as leader or captain Of the company in
this grand pilgrimage.
The Christian Inteligencer cordially seconds
Governor Dix's recommendation to the Legis-
lature to refuse the appropriation of public
funds to sectarian religious purposes, and well
comes the Jesuits TO the rank of the defenders
of the Sabbath. On the latter point the Intel
lgencer says:-
Il cannot be denied that the opinions OF the Ro-
nanists have had q very decided influence on the
manner of sabbath observance In this city but we
Commend very often MT the way in which this inn.
ence has been exerted. Now they appear as the
champions Of the sabbath against one Of the gar
have protested. most emphaticaly" against
Sun lay evening theatrical performance.
The Boston Pilot (Catholic) refers to pro-
posed parade of Orangemen in that city on
Washingtons birthday, and the declaration
that they will sally forth with "No surrender"
On their lips. and all prepared to meet the foe
s'like heroes" The Pilot wants to know who
is the foe, and says
opposition, If they expect 1t from Catholics They
NAV parade in Boston till they are tired, and the
only emotion they cause their Catholic fellow
countrymen will be Of sorrow more than anger.
The Catholic Reuiew, retorting upon state
ment in the Independent about the preponder-
ance of murderers being Irishmen and Catho-
Lies, says:-
would nave to turn TO its American and Protestant
criminals; to LYDIA Sherman, 'whO always thought
She was q ChrlStian," ana VINO went SUNDAY aIter
Sunday to some Methodist meeting house or other,
even while she was poisoning husbands and chill
dren In quick succession; to Stokes, vino shot his
man and tnsulted his jurymen with almost equal
GOODNESS; to King, who practfsed shooting nrst on
his father in-law ana afterwards on his friend to
RullOn, who murdered only as an incidental step
toward his scientific studies; to Magruder, to Sim
MONS to Foster or to Fair.
The Je,oish Times shouts aloud, "Long live
the aristocracy of brains !" and dishes up q re-
port of the remarkable gathering of learned
men at the late Tyndan banquet.
Because some half dozen Hebrews were nc
Cused of fibbing in a petty case before police
magistrate, in which one Of their race was the
defendant the Jeaeish Messenger, in q spirit Of
retaliation, exclaims -
Tresbyterians. Senators and Representatives,
leaders in church, fashion and politics, who have
gravely persisted In untruhul statements until
Confronted with circumstantial evidence unau'
swerable and not to be explained aways
What of them? Why, they should be
treated just as the Chatham street clothes
man was-be made to expiate their offence.
The revival record is more than usually
promising this week. The seeds of grace
have been freely sown and the fruit is ripen-
ing all over the land.
The Death or Ex-Governor Geary.
Apparently in the full enjoyment of vigor-
Gus health Ex-Governor Geary, of Pennsylva-
mia, yesterday morning, while at breakfast