Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-13
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
HE intense patriotism of DR.. Ben Franklin
Is attested in the following note addressed to
member of the British parliament. before
the Declaration of Independence was issued.
Ine letter having been lately unearthed, ap-
peared In the last number of the Maga<ine of
American History, ard is as follows:
~ PHILADA, July S, IT'S.
MR. sTRAHAN: You are Member of Par.
lament and one OF the Majority which
ooomed my Country to destruction.-You have
oegun 10 Durn our towns and murder our
people:-Look upon your Hsnds.-They are
stained with the blood of your Relations!-
enemy,-and l am yours. B. FRANKLIN.
oN points of aesthetic etiquette Harper's
magazine may be supposed to be an author
lily ana TO speak er-cGhedrG. That able and
renned magazine decides who is, and who is
mot gentleman under certain circum-
stances. Who will take such violent excep-
tons to the following decision, as to appeal
to higher tribunal, to full bench: "The
woman who does not require Of man the
form of respect, invites him to discard its sub
stance; and there is one violation of the form
which is recent and gross and might well be
cited as striking illustration in the decay of
manners. 1t is the practice Of smoking in the
presence OF ladies in public, and in private
places, whether driving, walking, sailing, or
sitting There are Pcur ckeraIiers, who
would be honestly amused if they were told
they did not behave like gentlemen, who sit
with lady on hotel piazza, or strolling in
public park, take out cigar, light it, and
puff as TRANQUILITY as if they were alone in their
rooms. Or young man comes upon the deck
OF steamer and blows clouds of tobacco
smoke in their faces without even remarkirg
tobacco is disagreeable to some people. A
man when he unconcernedly sings false, De-
trays that he has no ear for music; and a man
who smokes in this way shows that he is not
gentlemen"
The prevalence of outrageous and bloody
crime, in cities and villages and in the coun-
try, is most startling. Indeed, there seems
to be an epidemic of crimes and vic.
lence. The shocking abuse and murder OF
wives by husbands has become most pain
fully prevalent, supplemented by the occa-
sional muir der of a husband by wife. The
accounts of marital infidelity on the part both
OF husbands and wives, show a painful lax
ness in morals and virtue, while the immense
number of applications for divorce in every
portion Of the country, is marked evidence
that the marriage institution is largely falling
into disrepute, and is no longer environed
with the element of sanctity and
sacred conviction due to its d.
vine origin. In regard to the alarm
ing prevalence of crime in our cities, a late
Chicago journal presents most ominous
chapter of sudden and frightful outbreak of
crimes and violence in that city, which occur
red within the period of a few days be-
fore the narrative was given. And
though Chicago may be set down as "a wicked
city," it is not pre-eminent in vice and crime
beyond all other cities. Crime, disorder, dis
honesty, violence and blood of
every conceivable measure and de-
gree SEEM to be prevalent types
of the present time. The Chicago journal
alluded to, one of the foremost and leading
dailies of that city, details the criminal trans
actions OF 1.-THE past few days" in that city as
follows: 1.-TWO men were killed on Saturday
The murder of DR.. Joel Prescott for his money
was a peculiarly fendish deed. The killing of
a thief by special policeman would not at
tract much attention except for the occur
rences about the same time. On the very
| same day with these two events, two men, one
husband and the other his wife's paramour,
shot each other in a quarrel growing out OF
the woman's infidelity; and in another section
of the city bartender was caught in the act
of sashing his mistress with a knife. A day
or two before a man who lived in Ottawa
named Lorenz was murdered in the street by
Chicago thugs. On Sunday, the day follow
ing, there were several stabbing and shooting
ARRAYS, and one man lies at the point of death
from blow dealt him while attending picnic
in Ogden's grove. The Stiles murder yester-
day was sensational climax to this melo.
drama of crime. Stiles, prominent broker,
unmarried, was shot down by his mistress.
The sentence of death which has just been
passed upon James Tracy for the murder of
officer Huebner might be expected to have
deterrentinfuence upon crimes Of this charac-
ter If it were not for the fact that Johnny
Lamb, who was also sentenced to be hanged
for the murder of Officer Race, is now at
large, and was arrested and fined SIS only
day or two ago for common drunk and dis
orderly" Facts like these cannot fail to give
the moralist most uneasy, foreboding refec-
tions.
SHALL women be educated equally with
men? Shall they have equal academic aud
college and university intellectual training?
This is a problem that is yearly
attracting increased attention. Shall there be
containing OF the sexes, or separate educa-
tional facilities offered to each, is stubborn
question with which moralists and educators
are struggling. Certainly, intellectual cul-
ture and refinement add beautv In the cbarac