Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-18

stable elect to come into court with
a view, no doubt, Of inquiring what he
gets or is to get for putting the consta.
bleship where it can do the most harm
to the taxpayers. The court will do
we'll to inquire whether there is no other
fit citizen of the township willing to &C
cept this Office before handing it over to
an attache of one of the city aldermanic
courts, which are just now in such dis
repute.
IT is most natural that an alderman
who draws about s., 500 a year from the
county treasury for costs In cases which
are only worthy to be dismissed, and
makes about 81 500 more for his con-
stables in the same way, should be indis
posed to have his methods inquired into.
1t is not astonishing that he should
claim the prerogatives of "judicial
Officer" inasmuch as the emoluments of
his place amount to about as much as
those of the president judge of the
county. But his lawyers advice is as
lacking of virtue as the clients
conduct is without conscience, if he in
structs him that the county auditors
cannot lawfully inquire to the full ex-
tent Of ascertaining whether or not the
commissioners have paid out any money
which the county was not liable for.
Nothing could be more clearly within
the scope of their powers than to dis
cover whether or not the aldermen and
constables, or some of them, have a
combination to manufacture all the
business they can and make their costs
out Of the county treasury, regardless of
the public interest. The inMense
preponderance of dismissed cases and
the fact that this business is of such
late development raise a presumption of
such conspiracy, and aldermen and
constables may swear themselves black
and blue, the people will believe them
guilty all the same. Even the forms of
law may be observed by the more
expert officials; they cannot escape
moral and even legal responsibility for
prostituting its plain intent for private
gain. No adequate curb can, however,
be put upon their practices while the law
remains as it is, and the work begun by
the auditors should be supplemented with
movement for the legislation necessary
to correct existing evils, so far as they
are inevitable under existing laws.
THE "encore - is getting unpopular.
Give it rest.
The Lackawanna Democrat is new,
bright-looking and well edited paper,
which starts in to do good work where
good Democratic papers are needed. It
promises that the natural Democratic ma
jority of that region shall be restored, and
thinks Eckly B. Coke for governor is one
of the ways to do it.
No class are so alert to catch the current
popular phrases for trade marks as the
cigar men. The famous "Julnbo" ele-
plant has been adopted by quite anumber
of them and there will be some law suits to
settle the prior right to it. Before they
are concluded Jumbo" will be SUPER
seeded in popularity by a dozen different
sensations.
A POPULAR magazine puts this in it's
funny department, but no doubt it is an
earnest matter with all whom it may con-
Germ:
A deaf man lately married was asked at
the club about his bride: "Is she
pretty?"
"No," replied the deaf gentleman.
No, she is not, but she will be when
her father dies.''
PEOPLE can no more easily lift them
selves by their bootstraps than they could
a hundred years ago. It is no protection
to the workingman to raise his wages from
81 to $1.50 and double his cost of living.
Recent investigations of the Massachusetts
bureau of labor statistics prove that while
wages in that highly "protected state,
since the beginning of an era of unprece.
dented industrial activity in 1873, have ad-
vanced on an average less than seven per
cent, the cost of living to the laborers
has advanced over 81 per cent.
THE sentiment in favor of Gen. Fitz
John Porter scarcely knows party limita-
tions. The Independent Philadelphia
Ledger says: "The more incumbent it is
upon Congress to act promptly to do justice
to man upon whom a most grievous
wrong has been inflicted. The restoration
of General Porter is not one mans cause
alone, but the broad cause of justice"
And the Republican Inquirer says seen.
Porter is deeply injured man, convicted
on partial evidence by military court,
acting hastily, in time of great excite
ment, and that he was most unjustly con-
demned on a false accusation.'
The Bellefonte Watchnaan, which is just
as good authority and as near to the place
as the Centre county Democrat, tells how
that jury did award an editor compensa
tion for ''printing tickets and "compli-
mentary editorials" which were never Or
dered or authorized by the candidate
against whom the suit was brought to re-.
cover for them. There is no other way to
account for the amount of the verdict ex
cept on the theory that the editor sought
and recovered pay for his voluntary edi
torials. He sells himself cheap and is
willing to advertise his shame for q slight