The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-28

tive. Inc SOOtllEeuG gains SIOtii-Na 'AicAo
the south had better be left to work out
it's own salvation, and that any temper
airy tranquility secured by the inter-
ference of u. S. troops is much more
than counterbalanced by loss OF respon-
sibility and Of capacity to manage their
own affairs, in the parties most interest
ed.
State legislatures have naturally given
the transportation question much atten-
ton. Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin
have regulated railroad tariffs. The
s'Potter' act in this state has had the
honor to furnish test case, which has
attracted wide attention and has settled
definitely the right Of states to control
the corporations which they create.
New YORK and New Jersey have pass
ed compulsory education bills, making
it obligatory upon parents to give chill
dren between the ages of s and 10 four
teen weeks of schooling each year. A
new constitution for Ohio, which pro
viding among other things for elections
to the legislature by cumulative voting,
was defeated August Is by large mai
GRITTY.
FOREIGN POLITICS,
which the increaing facilities for IN
formation are rendering every year easier
to follow, have been full of interest.
The French Assembly has been en-
gagged in continuous effort to arrange
permanent form of Government, but
has not yet succeeded. A general feel
ing of confidence in the ability of Mar
shall McMahon to secure tranquility at
least during his seven years lease Of
power, prevails. The Monarchists are
believed to have lost their chances en-
tirely by reason Of the impracticability
OF the Count Chambord, their leader.
Republicans are numerically the
strongest but remain in stdtW quo. The
Bonapartists make slow but steady adj
vances. The experience which the coun-
Try is getting in self-government in the
meantime is certainly worth the trouble.
The country is in high state of pros
perity, and the scars of the late war are
scarcely visible to-day.
On August 8, Marshal Bazaine roman
tically escaped from his prison to which
he had been condemned for 20 years.
In Spain it was found necessary at the
first of the year, after fair trial Of the
weak and wordy constitutional president,
CASTELAR,, to inaugurate a dictator IN the
person of Serrano, an old soldier and a
favorite with the army. He started
with two separate rebellons on his
hands. The smaller, that of the red re-
Grated against the Carlists with as much
vigor as the disorganized state of all the
sinews of war would permit. But the
Carlists have has successes quite as Of
ten as the government forces, and it
would now be difficult to determine
which is the stronger party. The pro-
minent European powers except Russia,
have recognized Serrano's government;
but this was done at the instance of
Germany by way of retaliation upon the
Carlists for the shooting of a German Of
feer. There seems to be no prospect of
the termination of the war, unless both
sides should stop from sheer exhaus-
ton.
Germany has been and is still engag-
ed in making things unpleasant for
Catholic ecclesiastics. Under pretext
of resisting ultra naortdnasna, it is hurt
ing the feelings of some millions of 10y
al subjects, a course which in an empire
so new and madeup of diverse interests
and seems to want outsiders highly i'm
polite. Evidences of a purpose to
obtain possession of Denmark and thus
become maritime power, have been
made public and have occasioned fears
of a European war. On July Is Bis
marck was shot at and wounded by a
man named Kullman, fanatic, who was
shown or his trial to be insane.
The event of the year in English
politics has been the accession to power
of the conservatives, with Disraei as
Premier. The change seems to be one
of the cautious oscillations to which the
English mind is subject. The liberals
under Gladstone had carried number
of reforms, such as the disestablishment
of the Irish church and the abolition of
the right of purchasing commissions in
the army which, although the country
generally approved, them, were SO start
ling that a pause was needed for refec-
ton before daring to 60 further.
In Italy where political privileges are
rather forced upon the people than