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The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-06-28

Ford Farrell & Co.


The maddening policy of the majority in
City Council will so disgust the respectable
Democratic voter shat Col. Thomas Ford
will be compelled to call to his assistance a
powerful magnifyng lens in order to dis
cover any following whatever by the Novem-
Der election. 1t is the proud boast of Martin
Farrell that he holds the balance of power in
City Council, and that all appointments and
all legislation must be shaped to suit his
pleasure.
In the previous Council, which was
Republican, Martin Farrell for twelve
months voted at each successive meeting to
cripple the Water Committee and to render
its operations nugatory, under the specious
declaration that the water Committee
was an illegitimate Institution, yet when the
| Council passed into the hands of the Demo-
Gratis Martin Farrell stultifed his record Of
the previous year by his efforts to organize a
"Water Committee and investing it with
life.
II the Water Committee ofprevious Coun.
Gil was illegal, the Water Commission Of
present Council is ditto and the dominant
party in Council want to inject more consis-
tency and less foolishness into their entire
party management.
Democratic blunders are Republican
opportunities and Councilman Farrell ant
his followers are sharpiey emphasizing The
issues on which would-be-Sheriff-F Ford'wil
be most ingloriously stranded in November
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-06-28

there is in it, 1t means in fact the placing
of a premium on official dishonesty, on pee
ulation, on the taking of 9tibes.
Daniel Webster's scathiug denunciation
of the Spoils System should be placed imper
shably on record, for his giant intellect, even
SO far back as 1882, foresaw the evils to
which it would give rise. In his great speach
at Worcester he said:-
Mr.. President, as far as ! know, there is
no civilized country on earth in which, on
change of rulers, there is such an Snqutsiti0n
for spoil, as we have witnessed in this free
republic. \ v y The same purity of sell
fishness which drives good men out of office,
will push bad men in. Political prescription
leads necessarily to the filling of Offices with
incompetent persons, and to q consequent
mal-execution of official duties. And in my
opinion, sir, this principle of clainatag q
monopoly Of office By the right Of conquest, unless
the public shall effectually rebuke and
restrain twill entirely change the character
of our government. 1t elevates arty above
country; it forgets the coniS1on veal in the
pursuit of personal emolument it tends to
form, it does form, we see that it does form,
political combination, united by no COM
mon principles or opinions among its mem
bers, either upon the powers of the govern
ment Or the true policy Of the country, but
held together simply as an association, under
the charm of popular head, seeking to
maintain possession of the government by a
rigorous exercise Of lie Pah Onage; and for this
purpose agitating and alarming and Distress
ing social life by the exercise of tyrannical
party prescription. Sir, if this course of
things cannot be checked, good men will
grow tired of the exercise of political priv-
leges. They will have nothing to do with
popular elections They will see that such
elections are but mere selfish contest for
to the scramble of the bold, the daring, and
the desperate"
If there has not been evidence enough in
the records of our own city government to
satisfy the most sceptical as to the evils
begotten of the Spoils System, then we have
indeed case in which facts plead in vain.
1t is becoming melancholy truth that it is
practically impossible to find really able,
honest man, willing to come forward to con
test an election for responsible public
position. The moment he does SO. warripg
factions unite as against common enemy,
and he finds himself hopelessly outyoted by
men of inferior calibre, hardened by years OF
office-seeking, backed by scores of mercenary
underlings, and with the pre-assurance o.
the suffrages of illiterate buns, loafers and
repeaters, by the hundred or the thousand
as occasion may require.
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-06-28
VOL. III.-NO. 11G.

lousy fulfilled his pledges to the people, and
thereby offended the rotten Tammany tai
by approving reform bills that cut off much
of Kelly's corrupt power and plunder. For
the single ofTense of maintaining his public
integrity, the rotten Tammany tail is now
fiercely wagged against Cleveland for Pres
dent, as it was against Tilden, and notice is
given that unless the rotten tail shall blister
| the whole Democratic dog with its rotten
ness and wag the dog at pleasure, the party
must be beaten. In short, the Tammany
rotten tail wags against Cleveland just as it
wagged against Tilden, and the question for
, Democracy to decide is, whether it will sink
itself into the Shiny embrace Of Tammany
rottenness.
The highest tribute paid to Cleveland as a
Presidential candidate is in the hostility Of
Tammany rottenntss and the opportunity is
now presented for Democracy to lift itself
| above the power of j ,hn Kelly. Grover
Cleveland can carry New York as easily
without John Kelly's support as with it; and
the fact that Kelly cannot defeat Cleveland
| in that State, will make him support him
heartily and ostentatiously as he supported
| Tilden. The scores of thousands of indie.
pendent voters in all parties, who must elect
a Democratic President if one is to be
| elected, would vastly prefer to support any
| man who called out the bitter est hostility of
| Tammany rottenne IS, and the sooner the
national Democracy decide that the dog
shall wag the tail and that the Tammany
rotten appendage can't wag anything but
itself, and not much Of that, the sooner will
the party be in u condition to elect a Demo-
| cratic President. .-..
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-06-28

EB Taxpayers await an explanation of
Martin Farell's fifty-dollar bill against City
Council for the pleasant jaunt of the Select
Bulldozing Committee to Dover during the
sitting of the Court of Errors and Appeals
on the Water Commission business. Mr..
Farrell and his friends were entitled to their
actual expenses and no more. We would
like to know how the forty-dollar surplus
is itemized.
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-06-28
Election of Officers.

At tine weekly meeting of Industry Lodge
No. 2, A. 0. U. W. held on Tuesday evening
last, J. HGibson was elected Master Work
man, and Edgar H. Cook and W. A. Rey-
nolds were reelected to the offices OF
Recorder and Financier respectively, after a
spirited contest. Tie remainder of the
offices were filled by unanimous vote. The
new officers will be installed next Tuesday
| evening.
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-06-28

Cards of invitation have been issued for the nup-
tias OF Edgar NJ. Hopes, business manager of the
MORNING NEWS, and Miss L.OsbOrne of West Ches-
ter. The marriage ceremony will be performed at
the Central Presbyterian Church of this city on
July 9th and the reception will be held the same
evening at the residence of DIR. ]. L. Frantz.
Miss Bertha Brown celebrated her tenth birthday
with holiday party on the shepot last Saturday,
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-06-28
Walking Typhoid.

In most cases Of typhoid fever, or malaral
affections ola typhoid type, there is a dis
tinct liability to teliridrh, and persons SO
afflicted cannot be watched too vigilantly.
The restlessness and activity they display,
so far from being signs Of returning strength
are indicative of extreme weakness and want
of tone in the nervous and muscular sys-
tens. Narcotic medicines in such cases are
not to be thought of. Opium, the most com
mon narcotic, has stimulating action before
producing its narcotic effect, and in ty-
phoid delirium it is very apt to exercise the
stimulant effect alone, aggravating the mis-
chief which it is sought to remedy. 1t seems
very probable that the late Mr.. Rodney
case was ofthis character, and persons in
charge of such patients should be very eau
tious in the administration ofrarcotic drugs,
| particularly opium or morphia. Every effort
| should be used to soothe the patients irrita
or trifling causes. Another danger which
should not be lost sight OF is the risk of per
foration of the bowels when typhoid patients
are allowed to get out of bed while th'
febrile symptoms remain.
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-06-28

Assuming that the Water Commission is
declared valid, will Mr.. McTntire become
Chief Engineer? As we un: erstand it, he
was appointed for year and the term has
already expired.
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-06-28

rs Judging from the mannerin which the
streets were obstructed by fallen timber on
Thursday, it would seem that our shade
trees have their perils as well as their beau-
ties.
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-06-28
Hot Weather Wisdom.

Take it easy. .".. ..
Battle daily.
Eat light meals. .-" ..-....
Keep your temper.
Let your collar fit easy.
Avoid spirituous liquors. ...
Filter your drinking water.
Do not stay in the water too long.
Do not sit in draught If perspiring.
Drink sparingly; especially of iced water.
Live as much as possible in the open air.
Keep your hair short, and wear a light
straw hat.
Change your socks every day and wear
loose fit ing shoes.
1t is extremely dangerous to drink large
quantities of water when heated.
Do not sit in darkened rooms. The flies
do no harm and sunlight is the essence Of
health and cheerfulness in household.
A few drops of sulphuric acid in quar-
of water, favored with tincture Of orange
peel, makes anagreeable and wholesome sum
mer drink.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-05
Appreciates the Quotation.

Editor Labor Enquirer.
NEWPORT, KY, March 26.-Your quota
ton of the dynamite market is forcibly
suggestive. History, itself, has taught
the lesson that no oppressed people ever
obtained their freedom by either praying
to heaven or petitioning the tyrant.
The severance of the Gordian knot, per
AleXander's plan, has been potent in the
past and should ever be applied to cut
the grip of remorseless tyrants,, and in
Ireland l trust the vox populi will con-
tinue in their praiseworthy and noble
efforts until Gladstone sends an envoy,
as he did to the False Prophet, to tell
them to take Erin to themselves. To
prate of furnishing nations honor by
resorting to the only means left her to
secure peace and happiness smacks of
hypocrisy, and is cruel waste of refine
ment, unsuited to the iron grip of power
and resolution of men to breathe air
that is free and pure.
For your bravery in the continued
quotation of that very indispensable ad-
junct to prosperity thank you, and for
this, if naught else, sincerely trust that
your present embarrassment may be
bridged and that THE LABOR ENQUIRER
may twinkle all the more radiant for
the cloud that has passed. Yours fra
ternally and truly. T. F. G..
The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-05

like ratio impoverished and pauperized.
Why should this be so? What is the
cause of this dreadful state of the civil
lied world?
There can be but one intelligent
answer to this question, VIZ: 1t is the
natural and legitimate outcome of the
competitive system of society 1t has
been appropriately called the cut throat
system etc.
The strangest thing about it all is, that
the social system which produces all the
dire and diabolical results alluded to, is
the system that the masses, with few
exceptions firmly believe in. They
spurn- the idea of Communism. They
want nothing to do with Socialism. They
deny any sympathy with Agrarianism.
They. repudiate Nihilism Aharchism ;
violence; revolution; or any radical
remedial movement calculated to over
throw the existing order of things-the
internal system of Satanic competition
for riches.
What right, or reasonable canse, then,
have the masses for complaining of their
estate? Have they not got just what
they want, and what they believe in :?
They prefer what they endure, rather
than have Socialism,, or Communism, or
equality, Well, them. let tkem hold
their peace; let them grin and bear it. >
If their backs are broad enough to bear
heavier burdens they will surely have
the burdens piled on to them.
At any rate, they have no logical and
consistent ground for murmuring.
F. T. BOYD.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-05

which you are only saving yourself, by
falling into the hands of the other fierce
enemy the money loaner, the usurer,
the bloodsucker, the vampire, the hyena;
who is living upon your hard earnings,
and has nopity upon you and yours.
Usury is one Of the greatest evils of
our times, aye, has been for all times.
Break off its hydra head, tear it out of
the body polite, make it a crime, as it is,
and make it dishonest to loan money
on usury rates. What right has man
to extract usurv rates from poor man,
whom he is underpaying SO badly, that
to feed himself and family he has to
borrow? If capital will only give labor
its just dues, nsury would be an unknown
moral and social crime. You do not
understand yourself The most hardy,
most patriotic, most sublime, most bal
ancing spiritIof time and humanity, yet
more heroic than the old Greek or
Romans to-day brooding in our aver
age American people. in the agricultural
regions, in the good strata of. workmen
in the city. 1T is a latent, easy slumber-
ing power, but it is awaking, it is almost
on the alert, and it will surely awake
when fit occasions come. .'
Itawoke in 1861 and took its stand
heroically, proudly and patriotically. 1t
put down secession in this republic. 1t
will put down whisky and usury, fraud
and lies, political and social corruption
and moral slavery. The politicians, with
their rings and frauds, falsehoods and
deceptions, ostensibly manage. our poll
tics, but the people back of everything
really hold the last tremendous verdict,
and will give it, and relentlessly execute
it, whenever they awaken to their tre-
mendous duty. .
Any day, any moment, the power l
speak of-and it is unerring, deathless,
willful-may burst into action, quick
and resistless as lightning. Then the
evil birds of prey and plunder, of cor
rupt practices and politics will scatter to
their dark holes like the swarms of cats
they are. Workmen, you in your igno-
rant power must educate yourself for
this terrible action. 1t is coming so
surely, so quietly, so certainly, that you
do not seem to know it yourself. The
century is too enlightened, too far ad-
vanced, too educated, not to see or know
what is coming. One man the owner of
forty, eighty, aye, one hundred millions
and millions of his fellow-creatures starry
ing? God never intended such inc
quality. Think! Work Strike!
VIZ
The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-05
INST the individual citizens thereof,

against the individual citizens thereof,
except so far as they may actually par
ticipate in the war, and SO become amen
able to its usages and liable to its risks.
The one state OF party ought not, there
fore, to visit with pains or penalties, on
the conclusion of the war. those individ-
ual citizens who have entered into finan-
cial relations with the only government
available for such purposes, and to whom
that government incurred debts. The
federal courts have regarded the acts OF
the government of the revolted states as
valid so far as those acts were IN connec-
ton with the rebellion"
"Texas versus White, Z, Wallace. 10
Thus they have recognized the validity
of sale of land by private citizen to
the confederate government. See United
States, Lyon ct. al Hunkabbe, Is, Wal
lace, Ala"
THE war, as events happened, was in
evitable and its results are irrevocable,
so that is out of the question to be COLI
sidered. But there were misfortunes and
iniustices before it and incident to it, out
of which arise important equities, that a
powerful and expanding nation, rich be-
yond the dreams of generation that sus-
tanned the burden of the war and capa-
BILE of being united as they never have
been before in their history, have the
deepest interest in examining and salts
flying. By so doing they will not only
perform a magnanimous act, not the
least conspicuous among the great deeds
recorded in the annals of the leading
commonwealth of the world, but they
will cement tog 9ther in the closest union
the two great divisions of north and
south and in such bonds Of strength
and amitv as, If achieved, would be be.
yond all price, while out of the mutual
CO. operation of the two formerly dis
cordant sections a gigantic interstate
commerce will arise which will be uni,
yersal blessing to the whole American
people The time might then be looked
forward to as not very remote when the
fourteenth amendment would be ex'
plunged from the constitution, as SYM
boil of a condition of strife and dissen,
sion which the entire people of the
United States were anxious to forget
and which they desired should no longer
disfgure the charter of their liberties
would call special attention to the
word, "expunged," as used in the forego,
ing, to show the more clearly where the
poison is enclosed in the taffy which we
are supposed to swallow, so that we may
pay those debts. More anon.
HEEMIT O. THE HILLS.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-05

HH
outbursts of the despoiled ; but organ
lied Socialism counsels restraining OF
passion and the desire for revenge. 1t
says that organization and education are
first necessary, and that after the people
are sufficiently educated, if Justice can
not be obtained through peace methods,
armed revolution will be justiiable-and
who, but the despoiler, his tool or a fool
will dare gainsay it?
The young fellow who has control of
the editorial columns of the Republican
displays peculiar smartness in handling
the Cincinnati riot which IS worthy OF
special mention After calling the
rioters Communists and Socialists, he
says, "there is nothing to show that the
mob which is at present (second day.
defying the law and the militia, is COM
posed of the same who attempted to
lynch Berner."
Admitting that our young friends hy-
pothesis was the truth, (which class
those who "defied the law" and tried to
hang prisoner, or those who "defed
the militia, a,"-were most entitled to
respect? There is no doubt in my mind.
Any (counterfet man who will lend
himself to the base uses to which a
militiaman is put should be shot down
like dangerous animal, If the respec-
table men who went to the Jail to hang
Berner were in the right land the Re-
publican admits that they were), then
the simple fact that the militia were
called cut to foil them does not alter
their position. According to the Re-
publican they had not the bravery to
back up their honest convictions. In
this regard the mob which succeeded
them was their superior.
Our young friend goes on at some
length talking about the seeds of So
cialism; wipe it out with the soldiery,"
etc. Now, 1 just want to say this
Whenever the internal scoundrels who
are robbing and starving the people get
good ready on to call out "the soldiery'
to wipe out the seeds Of Socialism," l
want to be close in to the front, for the
purpose, if for none other, of seeing how
many of the blatant towards on the
capitalistic press will be helping to
wipe ont the Socialists"
There will have to be stop called on
such bluffs and attempts at bulldozing
honest producers before long, or there
will be trouble, and when it comes, the
odds in risk will be greatly in favor Of
those who have nothing to lose but
their chains, and who have world
to win"
LATER-Since writing the above the
council has decided to re-advertise fol-
bids. A report of the council meeting
will be found in another column. Long
live the square men in Denver's council
The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-05
is spiced with feeling Of international

is spiced with a feeling Of international
brotherhood.
The workingmen of this country are
not opposed to the coming of laborers
from foreign lands, when thev come OF
their own free will, as their own mas
ters; but they are bitterly opposed to
the system of slavery which is being
spread amongst us by unscrupulous en-
ployers and their fendish agents.
The most radical labor reformer-t the
Socialist, that awful character-has as
great love and solicitude for the poor
of Europe as he has for "a man from
Kansas no more, no less. And he has
the bitterest hatred for all binds OF
knownothingism and race distinctions.
If the chuckle- heads on Sne Denver
daily press. would only read up little
on these subjects. they would soon learn
how deplorable is their present igno'
rance. s.. ..
The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-05

Is my walks around the city | fire.
quently meet a friend-Ls sually mer-
chant-whO wants to talk about Social
sm--or rather, it turns out that he wants
to listen. In nine out Of ten cases | find
that the gentleman doesn't know what
Socialism is but he has horror of it,
because his paper has brought him to
understand that the Socialist means to
destroy everything and everybO but
himself. ANY reasonable, honest man
can be convinced of the error Of this
idea in few words But the thought
has occurred to me that it would not be
bad idea for the readers of the daily
papers which are continually abusing
Socialism, to call upon them for an ex-
planation of what it is. Ill bet life
subscription to THE ENQUIRER that there
isn't an editor in the city of Denver,
outside of this Office, who can give a
true and comprehensive answer to the
question, What is Socialism," and
hereby challenge the press of this city
to answer the question. They dare not
publish a contribution containing the
definition