Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-26
z MORNING. AUGUST 26. 1880.

the General Statutes which, he says, made drunkenness a crime, reads Whoever Is I guilty of drunkenness by the voluntary use of I Intoxicating liquor, shall be pun ished, :" etc That section is repealed, and in | its place is the following among the acts of | the present year: Whoever is convicted of
 the offense of drunkenness by the voluntary l use of Intoxicating liquor shall be punished" etc. The difference between the two provisions, upon which the argument for a difference of meaning is based, consists in I substituting convicted" in the latter for guilty" in the former, and inserting the words, -''the offense off," before the word drunkenness. 7" Judge Jillson remarks that 1t will be seen that this law provides for the punishment of persons convicted of the ofense of drunkenness but it does not ere ate, establish or revive any such offense." This decision may be highly satisfactory to the legal mind, but most persons will be in clined to think that the judge has overstepped the bounds of common sense. He should also have abolished drunkenness at the same time he declared it was not offense against the law 1 &S4 4 4l A reply to a question givens through the mediumship of Mrs. Cora L.sV. Richmond, and published in the Banner of Light, gives some interesting information respecting the fashions in spirit-land: tQ-By whom and
 in what manner is 8 spirit clothed upon his first entrance into the spirit world from
 earth ?" ''A.-The spirit has already raj
 ment the spirit is not clothed in external
 garments, fashioned as earthly garments are
 but affectionate friends, spirits who are in
 sympathy, gre seen by clairvoyants to gather
 around and array the spirit. This process
 of arraying the spirit is really a process of re-
 vealing what the spirit has already. Garments
 are woven of atmospheric conditions and
 spiritual substances surrounding the individ-
 ual and your spirits are arrayed in light or
 darkness, in draperies according to your state
 and condition. This arraying may be assisted
 by ministering spirits, who, bringing their
 love and charity, enfold you with them as
 with mantle, or bringing flowers, cause
 those flowers to adorn yout raiment, as a
 friend might bring you offering from an
 earthly garden. The substance of these flowers, however, will be found to be of your
 own creation, the result of your own earthly l
 lives and conditions; and if the garments are
 insufficient or shadowy, filled with holes or imperfections, it is because your earth-ives l have been such as to inweave In your spiritu- I al atmosphere robes insufficient to clothe you | with light" |
 We had something to say yesterday about 1 the cost of false ideas of government. The | Tribune in recent editorial called attention | to two of the false ideas of the Democratic ! party and pointed out how disastrous their l working would have been had they been car 1 ried out. Said the Tribune:
 At the end of 1878, out of 692 iron fur naces in the country, 427 were out of blast l and idle. More than half of the iron work | ers and, it may be inferred, of the far great CT number of workingmen who are now en- gagged in mining and transporting iron ore 1 cad coal used in the manufacture, and in the | various branches of the iron industry, were | then idle. Suppose that Democratic notions | of the tariff had been applied, just at that | time, when this great industry was about to revive SC grandly. Nearly all the Democrat ic members of Congress tried desperately to | overturn the tariff, even at that most critical | and unfavorable moment. Had it been done, | is it not evident that the vast increase | of demand for iron and it's products during 1 the past year would have brought prosperity | to British manufacturers and workmen, and ! not to our own ? The time was badly chosen, it may be said. But it was precisely at that time that the Democrats began more zeal ous effort than they had made before for eighteen years to overturn the tariff, to in fate the currency, and to stab the public credit.
 Suppose they had then succeeded in repeal ing-that is to say, repudiating- solemn pledge of resumption. and in causing vast additional issues of paper money, what would have been the result :? Is there sane business man who does not know that tremendous disasters would instantly have followed Think of the prostration of banks, savings banks and insurance compa- nies which would have followed such blow to the public credit, and of the losses of depositors and others concerned think of l the sudden withdrawal of loans all over the country in consequence of the threatened debasement of the currency Remember ing these things can anybody say that the prosperity which we now enjoy was not caused, directly and wholly, by Repubh- can President and Senate who made it i'm possible for the Democrats to meddle with the public credit, the currency or the tariff
 The voters will do well to ask themselves whether they can afford to give tho party of false ideas chance to add to their burdens