Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-30

munity that unity of purpose which en-
genders public tranquility. And yet there
are people who will take this encyclical q.
another evidence why foreigners should
be disfrauchised and Catholics exterminat.
ed.
You've persons addicted to that time
honored osculatory practice termed ''hug
ging," will view with alarm the demand
of fashion for hoopskirts of constantly in
creasing dimensions. We have no data
upon which to formulate specific charge,
but hazard the opinion that somo disap-
pointed maiden in the sere and yellow leal
is ''getting back at the world for the
miscarriage of her affections by hedging
in sweet women with a barricado of steel,
under tho specious plea that Fashions
ukase allows no alternative. As yet the
incroachments upon the liberties of man
are incipient. but Fashion is q tyrant
whose usurpatiOns increase in geOmetrical
ratio and unless our young men organize
Nihilistic movements at once, their most
cherished prerogative will lie wrested
from them. $50 near and yet so far.''
COMPLICATIONS in European politics are
so much matter of course that current
disturbances arc considered, on this side
of the water, in their relation to the mani
fest destiny of nations in the abstract,
and not as significant contemporary events.
This chronic. state of unrest is primarily
attributable to two causes. The presence
of the Ottoman in Europe is a foreign OLE
ment in the body polite, irritating and
fostering, and no healthy reaction is possi-
bio until it shall have been removed, it
may be with the knife tho contiguity of
states engenders jealous rivalry. The re-
putcd Franco. German aud Austrian alli-
ance against England is irrational, though
the tacit acquiescencc Of the powers in the
French prOtectOrate would seem to give
color to the idea. French domination in
North Africa is 4 standing menace to
English supremacy i'll Egypt and her con-
troll of Suez communications, but nothing
is further from the German purpose than
French agrandiscment. Alsace and Lor-
raine are not yet forgotten, and Germany,
realizing that sooner or later tho titanic
struggle must como. will not furnish her
adversary with clubs. Tho French occu-
patton points very clearly to the ultimate
dismemberment of Turkey in Europe, but
it will not bo permitted at the expense of
the great powers. France may take the
initiatory and sound tho "view halloa,"
but others will bc in at the death.
UP in Bradford they are much exercised
in mind as to tho probable hereafter of
sinners. Coming with peculiar force to
the inhabitants Of that oleaginous. region
it is, perhaps, not remarkable that some
inquiry should be instituted with refer
encc to the subject. 1t is obviously the
purpose of those people, however. to make
but Il partial investigation, for ignoring the
large class of lesser sinners, tho ultimate
destination of tho murlerer's soul is only
considered. The clergy first agitated the
matter and assumed to point out the
specific scheme of salvation for the mur-
dercr's immortal system, but the news
papers have taken the problem in hand
and its speedy solution is assured.
1t is we'll that the murderer should
be advised in these matters, but
the omniscient delivers in tho field of
metaphysics should not bc content to rest
from their labors when lie is disposed of.
Those Of us who are not murdcrers have
sOmo little interest in futurity and would
like to have settled some knotty points
over which divincs have quarrelcd and
speculative philosophy run mad for centu-
ries. Polemical controversy has waged viru-
lently until theologians and scientists stalk
around with the metaphorical chip critic. |
ally poised on their shoulders, to the great |
disquietudo of tho body social and COM
plete mystitication of the lay understand |
ing. With such a mission before them,
our brethren of tho Bradford press should
not weary of we'll doing.