Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-22
such man as he whose body was borne
from Brockie to the grave, but whose
soul had gone to the home of the just
made perfect.


frosts of an executive veto," while a
large sum of money is wasted in the
extra session, was worse than "cant,"
as the Record calls it. Apportionment
is as much of a constitutional duty as
charity and the people will neither grudge
nor regret any money necessary to secure
the fulfillment of the law. Public char
tiles, too, which depend upon the state,
should respect the law of the state and,
failing to do this-as many of them have
done-deservedly feel the frosts of the
veto power. It might have been profit.
ably extended to few more of them,
conspicuous for neglect or defiance of
the law in times past.
Now that Judge Hoadly has effectual
ly silenced his traducers, the mud singing
of the Ohio campaign should cease and the
battle be fought on its merits.
LIKE the Chinese the three cent stamps
must go. The sales of this variety of
postage at the Philadelphia postoffice arc
falling off at the rate of 5000 day.
DURING the last twenty years, while
population in Europe advanced nineteen
per cent. the number of suicides showed
the alarming increase of sixty. three pei
cent. These figures show that the num-
ber of those who think life not worth
living is steadily increasing. This thought
should stimulate the lovers Of the race to
labor to make the world better, and thus
ameliOrato the conditions of life under
which SO many unhappy mortals feel
impelled to madly throw their lives
| away.
THE eternal fitness of things on this
mundane sphere unfortunately does not at
times receive its proper consideration, but
| out in Milwaukee an earnest effort is being
made in the right direction to bring about
this much desired result in the conduct O,
the modern newspaper. The Journal of1ice
in that city is next door to an under
takers establishment. The convenience
of this arrangement for the fighting editor
is too patent TO need comment. Irate sub
jects of newspaper criticism after having
been artistically pounded into the con
sistency of jelly by the Hercules Of th'
Office, can be easily carted to the extablish
ment next door, where their measures 10
wooden overcoats can be taken withou
any resultant inconvenience. Such jour
nalistic enterprise cannot be too hight!
commended.
HAsTY legislation brings many evils il
its train. No better illustration of thi
dictum can be found than in the complica
tion which has resulted from the ill con
sidered law having reference to the car
and treatment of the INDECENT insane
Last June the Legislature passed au &C
empowering the board of public charitie
to transfer with the approval Of the presi
dent judges of the courts OF common pleas
but otherwise at it's discretion, such indi
gent lunatics as it might see fit to select
from the county poorhouses TO the stat
hospitals. The same act directed that th
cost of maintaining INDECENT insane person
so removed should be equally divided be
tween the state and county or poor distric
legally chargeable with their support
Heretofore the state has contributed bu
one fourth of tho expenses of their main
tenance, while the balance, without mucl
justice, was raised by local taxation. Th
new law very properly remedies this defec
by sharing the burden equally bstweel
them, or rather by attempting SO to do
For, owing to an inexcusable omission
this very beneficial piece of legislation wa
botched just as it was nearing completion
In the appropriation bill, instead of set
ting aside an increased amount to NEE
the requirements of tho new law, the oil,
amount, or only fourth of the total expen
e' was appropriated. A very nice question
which will probably require the interven
,ion of the courts, will now arise betweel
counties aud the state as to whether tn
new law with its inadequate appropriate,
admits of the enforcement that was il
contemplation by the Legislature.
FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS.
The Philadelphia Eoening Nems believe
that the high priced newspapers must 60
The circulation of tho Philadelphi;
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