Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-26
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Is.

The collections reported Saturday
evening in behalf of the Labor Ex-
change" fell far shrot of the amount at
first thought absolutely necessary to
enable it to begin operations. Never
theless, 1t is understood that it will at
once be organized, headquarters hav-
ing.bcen rented and partially fitted up
for that purpose. A resolution was
adopted by the board of managers at
the Saturday meeting to the effect that
it is not the purpose to furnish employ
ment to others than actual residents.
Alien tramps will please take notice
and govern themselves accordingly.
Mr.. T. L. Tullock was unanimously
nominated as Superintendent. AS IL
Illustrating the liberalizing effects of re-
ligious professions it is noted with
many comments that the name of a
"church pillar" according to his own
views is down for the princely sum of
% cents ESTIMATED to be worth from
s30.0O0-50,000) in close juxtaposi-
ton to the poor worldling who SUBJ
scribes from four to twenty times as
much, whose two hands are his only
capital. No reflection is intended up
on any church; but the instance is on
ly mentioned to show how certain men
whose regulations are founded chiefly
on their success as "Dote shavers," !"
"curb.stone brakers" and other devices
for fattening on the necessities and
distress of their fellows, have made
their membership in the church to
contribute to their qualification of their
avarlcious propensities, giving, if at all.
grudgingly and in the meanest proper
ton, to any call of charity.
Advices from New York make it
more than probable that many of the
politicians of that city and state, even
wish that the old Boss were dead,
tongue-tied or deaf aud dumb and
couldn't master the art of communica-
ting his knowledge by any of the me-
thods known to that unfortunate class,
and we can almost hear the curses and
maledictions showered upon the ofici-
Gus intermeddler who nabbed him just
as Continental Europe opened its
sheltering arms to the fugitive; on the
ship that brought him home, and on
the untoward combination of circum-
stances that at last induced him to open
his mouth, like very Pandora's box,
to blast aud blacken regulations hereto
fore only under suspicion or wholly
spotless.
Members of our orthodox churches
particularly, and the public generally,
are somewhat interested in the reported
challenge of "Bob" Ingersoll to the
former to prove that either Thomas
Paine or Voltaire recanted the doc
trines they advocated in their life time,
or exhibited remorse for the same on
their death beds. The New York
Observer is said to have accepted the
wager of battle and Mr.. Ingersoll has,
according to the Graphic, deposited
$1,000 in bank to be forfeited in case
the Observer succeeds in convincing
the Tribunal-one member to be chos-
en- by Ingersoll, one by DR.. Prime and
the third by the two-of the correct
ness Of its position. Ninety days to be
allowed the Observer to collect it's evil
dence, ninety to Ingersoll after it is
submitted, then thirty more days to the
affirmative to procure rebutting evil
dence. Then the arguments before
the Tribunal whose decision is to be
final to both disputants.
Southern Democratic politicians
show SYMPTOMS of fear, lest the senti-
ment of their section in favor of repu
diation, may have been prematurely or
orazenly expressed: and SO prove to
have fatally wounded their cause in
1880. Northern Democrats, are likewise
alarmed for fear of the party effect of
such outspoken dishonesty and whole
sale cheating of creditors as is proposed,
and offended because many of them
stand in that relation to most of the
lately rebellious states. A halt has. it
is said, been called, but the disposition
Of our "erring brethern" is clearly ap-