Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-09-13
Notes ON Current Events.

Ihe M0rmanS nave Issued Inelr man
ifesto. They will stand by polygamy
to the death, and defy Congress to put
them down. "In spite of Congress, in
spite of any statute leveled against US,
in spite of fanatical and hostile pulpit,
in spite of all the hostile forces that
can be brought against us, we must
and will continue to fight for our priv
ileges without fiinching or waveriDg,
but with answering faithfulness.
The last stringer on the bridge, the
highest on earth, oyer the Kinzua
chasm, Mexican county, on the New
York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad,
was swung into place on the 29th ult. !,
amid the widest cheers of the work
men and spectators. This completes
the greatest engineering bridge feat of
the world, the structure being 2050
long and 3l5 feet and ii J inches high
to the base of the, rail- The Rochester
& Pittsburg railroad have leased the
privilege of running over it until such
time as the latter can construct their
own bridge. 4-.ss4.t
In recent speech at indianapolis
Senator Harrison gave this leaf from
experience in favor of civil service re-
form, Of which he declared himself an
advocate, saying: "My brief experience
at Washington has led me often to
utter the wish, with an emphasis that
| do not often use, that l might be
forever relieved of any connection with
the distribution of patronage. | covet
for myself the free aud unpurchased
support of my fellow-citizens, and long
to be able to give my time and energy
solely to those public affairs that legit-
imately relate to the honorable trust
that you have committed to me-"
The strikes of the, past summer have
cost labor from $S, 000, 700, to $40, 900
600, and have saved capital the ruin
Gus expense of running mills when
iron and steel and cotton cloth was
not wanted. This shows that the
strikes were ablunder.. 1t does not
show more; for the workmen had the
same right to spend $l0,000,O0O in
trying to have their own way as any
other American citizen. The right Of
workingmen to bargain over their
wages is not affected job by their
failure to get the price they asked in
this bargaining; but the reputation of
American workingmen for intelligence
and good sense will be affected, if after
this costly failure to bargain by strik-
ing, they do not adopt some way to
bargain by arbitration.
The possibility of the occurrence of
a religious war as the outgrowth of
Arab Pacha's rebellion, gives special
interest at this time to the religion of
which he is in sense a representative.
| This interest is increased by the mill
tary movement of the False Prophet
of the Soudan, to whom reference
was made some weeks since. The
spirit of Islam, it is well known, is
that of aggression and extension, by
the sword, if need be- Mohammed
literally fought for the faith; and every
true follower of his must hold that
Islam is the one religion, that it will
ultimately be universal, and that it is
his duty at any cost to widen its sway
The fact has to be recognized, too, thai
Islam is a power that it not only
claims consideration as the religion o
i75, 900, 600 of people, but that it is ar
international religion, having ''its grip
on two continents, and foothold in 4
third.u