Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-14

away in the city, and the insolent, sturdy
 beggars who strolled through the village every | day were source of constant terror and anx- | iety. The people of the village adopted the | following plan to relieve themselves of the
 nuisance: They opened 8 very plain dining
 room close to the police station, and distribu
 ted sheets of meal tickets through the place.
 If a tramp applies anywhere for food he is given one of these tickets and directed to this
 public lunch room. There he is filled up
 with good wholesome mush, coffee and dry
 bread to his utmost capacity, and if he comes
 in the evening lodging is given him in the
 station house. He is then shown the two
 straight roads out of the village and told that
 he can take either of them, but if he turns
 out to enter any house he will be arrested and
 sent to the house of correction. How effectu-
 al this course of treatment is in disposing of
 tramps may be judged from the fact that the
 whole cost of the dining room from the first
 of August last year to February was less than
 twenty dollars.
 The members of the Oneida Community
 seem to have faithfully adhered to the new so
 cial programme adopted by them last August.
 This programme allows marriage, while pre-
 ferring celibeoy, and there are now between forty and fifty married couples in the Commu-
 nity. Occasionally 8 marriage takes place
 there as in common society, and it cannot be long before the Community will have it's pro
 portion of monoganic marriages. Yet, as their number includes many aged people and others
 who will continue to prefer celibacy to mar
 riage, it cannot be reasonably expected that
 they will all marry. That is not done any
 where, and if the Communists should fall a lit
 tie short of the usual average, no suspicion of insincerity should attach to them. The mar riages are generally solemnized by the Episco- pal service Gone of their number being an Epis copal clergyman), but few couples have pre-
 ferred marriage by contract, which is equally legal and binding. Their general pros perity is apparently unabated, ali their factories being in full operation ex- cepting their canning establishment, which puts up it's goods mostly in tho summer months. The Community numbers about 300 souls besides some 70 children. During the past year there have been over 100 applica tions for admission, but these have all been The Community has room for no more. Some persons who have not yet been | received presented their applications ten years ago. The members are about equally divided | as to sex.
 The question of repayment to China and 1 Japan of the unexpended indemnities so long l held by us is up again, and this time it should be settled. There is no justice in our keep ing this money. The Chinese indemnity was an overpayment made more than twenty years ago. Every President from Bu- chanan to Hayes, and every Secretary of State from Cass to Evarts has held that to use this money for our sole advantage would be dArog- atory to the honor and dignity of our country. Our Ministers to China, including Burling ime, Ward Low and others to the present time, have all expressed the same sentiments. The Japanese indemnity extortion. The Daimio of Chosiu, who warned of foreign vessels from the Straits of Shimonoseki-for this was the offepse-was then Ca rebel" for whose acts the Japanese Government was hardly more responsible than ours was for hose of Jefferson Davis during our rebellion. The Japanese Government promptly expressed extreme regrets for those 'outrages on foreign an apology which would have osen accepted from any European Govern nent. Japan greatly needs the money And, ss Hon. B. G. Northrop said in recent letter % the Tribune 'As an act of justice and an expression of national sympathy, and what is till rarer, an illustration of national con cience, the return Of this indemnity would ,xsrt moral influence of greater value than he money refunded. removing existing preju- lioa opd incraasino Amaricau infiuapca and for England France and Holland re involved in the same wrong, in which Eng and was indeed the prime mover"