Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-18

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 sentiment would be an all-powerfuI factor in | putting down any premature uprising.
 Our courteous contemporary the Palladi- um charged us the other day with ignorance as to the object of the resolution appropria- ting money to entertain some gentlemen from South Carolina, and now it charges us with wilful misrepresentation. As the courteous organ was never known to use scurrilous language before or to misrepresent anybody, we were utterly at loss to understand the meaning of its unusual wrath. But fur ther perusing it's choice and charming col umns we find it insinuated that we have abused the Board of Aldermen. Here & sad truth breaks upon us. The editor of the Palladium IS himself member of the Board of Aldermen and he voted to give the peoples money to a self-eonstituted committee to en- certain some gentlemen from South Carolina, whose number and official importance did not seem to be very definitely known. And he not only voted to make this use of the peo' ple's money, but did all he could to influence his fellow members to vote the same way. It is no wonder, considering the lack of ap' preciation of his disinterested and self-sacri- ficing efforts exhibited by 'the dear people. that he should now endeavor to kick up dust" to hide himself in.
 Nearly ton of stamped bank ch scks and drafts are now accumulated at the treasury department awaiting cancellation and return before July l, the date upon which the repeal of the stamp tax goes into effect. Congress, while directing the return of these stamped checks and drafts after cancellation, made no provision in the bill for the expense necssss- ry in defacing the stamps. This was not discovered until last Tuesday, when the force specially employed for this work had assembled. The hitch was a serious one. The banks were depending on the depart ment for the return of their check-boo oks and drafts by the 1st of July, and there was no money to do the work. To meet the emer- gency a council was called, consisting of the first comptroller, the fifth auditor and the commissioner of internal revenue. These gentlemen, after examining the phraseology of the appropriation bills for tobacco stamps, the manufacture of dies, paper and stamps and the macerating fund, finally determined that the latter appropria- ton could be used. Judge Lawrence, the first comptroller, held that as the macerating fund was intended to cover the expense of destroying bills and stamps, the process of defacing bank stamps by printing would come within the meaning of the act, and the money was available for that purpose. Un- der this decision the work was begun Satur- day, and will be speedily completed.
 The New West Education Commission 3D. peals for help to fight Mormonism in Utah, which it declares can be checked and over thrown only by moral influences and educa- ! tion It is declared that while the Mormon 1 religion outlaws it's votaries and debases the people, sit yet breaks public law in but one point-polygamy is it's only offence" ! To abolish and prevent this sin it declares is a task of difficulty. The crime is well pro- tected. Through it's various and active in l strumentalities, the central organization shields it at every exposed point. Not only that, but the country itself, by it's peculiar physical features, defends \ it. Utah is a mountain ous and arid country. All the seland must be irri- gated; hence the people must live alongside the streams as they run thraneh -caRoss or across depressed plains. The Mormon | ch4rch owns all the irrigating ditches, and I hence can admit or exclude whom it will. | The commission has four academies and ff- teen other schools, with over sixteen hun I dred pupils, of whom seven hundred are | children of parents who are or have been 1 Mormons. But no loyal Mormon will for | moment think of allowing his children to go | to school established for the avowed pur- pose of overthrowing his religion. Brigham [ Young, jr., emphasized his hatred of these proselyters by saying in the Tabernacle that he t'would rather throw 8 child of his into hell than send him to one of these Gentle schools"
 It seems strange that those who manage military affairs in England do not attend bet ter to the medical and commissary depart ments. During the Crimean war great faults in these departments were exposed, and it now appears that they were not efficient during the trouble in Egypt. A committee of which \ Lord Morley is chairman has made report, and it is shown on the testimony of Lord | WoIseley and others that the arrangements ! for the care of the sick and wounded were I entirely inadequate. At Ismailia and at Cairo not only were the hospitals insufi- eiently supplied with attendants; but the suf- fering soldiers were compelled to lie on the ground for want of cots There were no nettings to protect them from that plague of Egypt, myriads of flies, and the commanding general asserted that he had seen sick men asleep with their faces andistinguishable by reason of the quantities of flies on them. Beside this, the food given to the sick and wounded was of an exceedingly poor quality, the flour being absolutely unfit to eat. In one instance | when 8 number Of sick and wounded men ! were sent away in transport, 1t was found that the medicine and supplies intended for them had been shipped on board of another vessel In fact the medical and commissary departments seem to have been miserably or ganized and administered, those in power working under 8 system of fred tape" which was fatal to effective duty, and a conse- 1 quence, the death rate among those who were obliged to go into the hospitals was un- necessarily and seandalously large.
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