The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-05

will prove to be blessing to the people OF
Cairo in various ways; aside from a better
gas at perhaps reduced price, the earn
iogs of the company will all remain
in the city instead Of going to the
far east in large shares. Another
meeting will soon be held when these
important steps will be considered and
intiatory measures agreed upon.
-Amasa Stone has given 100000 to the
Western Reserve college, Ohio, and has
thereby covered his name with impersha-
bic honor. Let unstinted praise be lavished
upon the man of wealth, who justly com
prehends that his possessions are not his,
but are given to him in sacred trust to be
used in blessing mankind. The war be-
tween capital and labor arises from disre-
gard of this fact Nobody objects to CAPT
tai making what it fairly may out of labor;
the war begins when capital, having
ground labor down TO the lowest
point, uses the profits in selfish indulgence
or ostentatious display, or buries it
stcalthily away in misery Golfers, in
stead of allowing it to flow back upon
the community in thousand beneficent
streams.
There is a growing feeling in every
healthy community against the journals
who make it their special object to minister
to perverted taste by seeking out and serv'
ing up in seductive form disgusting scan
das and liccntious revelations. There is
good reason to believe that the clean news
paper is more highly priced to day than it
was four or five years ago 1t is also safe
to predict that, as people in all ranks of
life, who wish to protect their own at least
from contamination, become more conscious
of the pernicous influence of certain
class of journals, called "enterprising" be-
cause they arc ambitious to serve up dirty
scandals, they will be careful to see that
the journals they will permit to be read in
the family circle are of the class that never
forget the proprieties Of life.
The eloquent and energetic temperance
worker, Miss Francis Z. Willard, Of this
state, is in Memphis, Tenn, engaged in n
battle OF words for the cause she has es
poused The Memphis Daily Appeal,
speaks thus of her and the organization TO
which she belongs; She is
president of the Woman's National Tenn
perance Union which with its twenty-four
auxiliary State Unions is the largest socie-
ty ever composed exclusively of women and
conducted entirely by them. So far as re-
ported, there were at the close of the last
year 1572 local auXiIiarics, with member
ship of 81 $3.50, and 484 juvenile organiza.
tions with a membership of 44,4l2. 1t is
the lineal descendant of the great temper
ance crusade of 1874, and is union Of
christian women of all churches for the
purpose Of educating the young; forming a
better public sentiment; reforming the
drinking classes, transforming those who
are enslaved by liquor, and removing the
dram shops from our streets by law"
Speaking of her editorial experience
with the Anti-Slavery Standard, the late
Mrs. Maria Child sand: Editorial writing
is the least task, and the least merit of o
newspaper. What is not inserted is bet
ter criterion OF pure taste and correct judg-
ment than what is inserted. | find much
peace in reviewing what | have not done,
am not aware that any of these whirling
eddies have at any time made me swervc
one hairs breadth from the course had
marked out for myself know by exper.
fence that he who turns from the light of
his own Judgment and the conviction Of his
own conscience has neither rudder nor pilot
ia the storm | dared not venture to sub
stitute even a more enlightened conscience
for my own Moreover, in most of the work
pointed out to me by others, thought ]
saw the narrow and prescribing spirit OF
sect and party-that spirit which, as Car
lyle says, would bring the sun down out Of
heaven and convert it into their street
torch.
The city council meets tonight, it
being the first Tuesday in this month.
There is no very important business
to be transacted, unless the
final disposition Of the report of the com,
mittee on police, Jail and fire department
as to the extension of the fire limits is to be
considered AS such. The recommendation
of the committee is that the fire limits be
so extended rs to include blocks one, two
three, four five, six, eleven, twelve, thir.
teen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen
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