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against popular demand. The Government Oh
England must, from the nature or tne sys'eni'
represent the dominant party, and the rrei'iiei
can always in a critical junction have recourse
70 the roval prerogative and by creation
of now peers obtain the ascendancy III the
Uo,se of Lords. This has been done on seVefai
occosions. though it Is of course position to be
deprecated. even in exceptional circumstances.
The Liberals. however, are fully committed
IN land reform, and now they are somewhat
embarrassed by the publication OF MI. Georges
eccentric programme, inasmuch as their OPP
moments are certain TO try to connect them WIN
If. and thus alarm the bourgeois class, when ne
sires nothing so much rs to be let alone to make
money and TO spend it after Its own tashioDs'
Mr.. Bright and his friends are consequently
driven TO take a very decided stand IN Oppose
ton to Mr.. George; much more decided stano
than Mr.. Bright took when he expressed Ills
opinion about " Progress and Poverty" couple
of years ago. But this is unavoidable, for 10 a
party pledged TO rational and equitable land
reform there couldarrive no greater misfortune
than popular beliefthatit was in favor OF iahu-
confscation. The spread of such bellef WOuId
in fact defeat the Liberal programme, and quite
possibly return the Conservatives to power
Mr.. George has therefore chosen peculiarly
unreasonable time for opening his crusade
against the landowners, for neither in England
nor in Ireland is there to-day any party which
does so much as to listen to his proposals. Inc
Irish hate just begun to hope for the establish
ment of indigenous land-tenure. The English
are just about to be asked to accept land re-
forms which, though they fall very far short oil
Mr.. Georges scheme, are still distinctly rad
ical measures. Even as it is, the mere ex-
ploitation of land confscation may defeat the
extension of the suffrage, and render the LIB
eral land-reform measures much more difficult
to enact.
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4 DEMoCRATTC cArECHISN.

o.-Is it wrong-in the abstract-tO interfere with
the freedom of electionsi
Ayes, ii is wrong.
Q.-Is it not wrong-in the abstract-to intimi-
date or seek to intmidate the members Of any po-
litical party, white men or black men, whose only
crime is that they purpose TO vote as they choosef
Ayes, it is wrong.
Q.-Is the shot-gun-in the ABSTRACT legitimate
argument to employ against your opponents in a
political campalgn'
A.-Certainly not.
Q.-And does the same remark apply to the blud-
geon, the sef-cocking pistol and the torchi
Alt obviously does.
Q.-Why, then, are you opposed TO the resolutions
calling for an investigation Of the alleged Danyille
and Copiah County Outragesl
A.-Because il pains us to see the bloody shirt
waved.
Q.-Wherein consists the waving of the bloody
Shirt
Amy criticism upon the methods Of Democracy
in any of the Southern States Is a waving of the
bloody shirt.
Q.-Is this so even if the criticism Is founded
upon perfectly Trustworthy evidence in regard to
the nature OF those methods in Danville and CO.
piah County
A.-Of course.
Q.-What, then, is the whole duty Of Republicans,
especially colored Republicans in Danville Copiah
County aud in other portions of tho South possess
ing similar political advantages
Alt is their duty aspatriotlc citizens TO abstain
from voting the Republican ticket.
Q-Explain this point more fully.
A.-Not to abstain from voting the Republican
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cg1iDRFy IN FlCTOPIFS.

New-Jersey has won an honorable reputation
for the uncompromising enforcement of its laws
against criminals There is no other State III
the Union where murdercrs are dealt with more
sternly or where the letter of the law is more
closely followed in civil administration. There
are. however, some exceptions to the ordinary
practice. One of these Emergencies from the
direct line of efficient government is revealed in
a short article on child labor published on an
other page. ThiTty-three years ago the New
Jersey Legislature passed an act pro-
hitting the employment of children under ten
years OF age in factories and workshops, ana or
minors for a longer period than ten hours day
This act has remained imperative. AccOrdngto
the census of 1850, there were over 10000 chill
dren and youths employed in7000 manufactures
and workshops in that State. The actual mum"
Der of children condemned to mammal labor was
much larger than this estimate, and good pro-
portion OF them were below the age OF ten
The law having been a dead letter for a genera
ton, the Legislature of 1888 in dealing with
this question made no attempt to revive the old
statute, but passed a new act prohibiting the
emplOyment of children in factories, and pro-
vidcd for the appointment of an Inspector of
Workshops. Inspector Fell, after devOting
himself with great energy to the duties of his
Office for six months, frankly admits that even
the new act is practically imperative on account
of the inadequate provisions for its enforce
mcnt.
Inspector Fell's experience demonstrates the
necessity for the systematic application OF these
benefcent measures. Wherever he has found
children employed in labor beyond their years
and strength, he has been shocked by unelring
indications of physical and mental ruin and
moral degradation. Not only arc they dwaried
and stunted in body and prematurely old, but
abnOrmally ignorant and precOciousy immoral.
The direct tendency of the employment OF chill
dren in factories is to deprecate the value of
adult labor and to reduce the earnings OF
parents who are able and willing to work. In
spector Fels first report contains conclusive
evidence that the Legislature acted wisely in
introducing this reform. What is required is
a thorough enforcement of the act coupled with
compulsory education. To this end the services
of larger corps of inspectors are needed, in
order that there may be no ground for com
plant on the part of larger manufacturers that
the law is applied against them, while smaller
factors and employers are left to their own
Il,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-01
Nswalork Dailu Gribm,re
FOUNDED By HORACE GREELEY.
NETWORK, FRIDAY, FEB. l.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRrIGN.-Mr Gladstone was visited by four
Populations yesterday, and made addresses to Them
= The Prince of Wales started on his return
nom Bristol to London. - p. W. Thomas, Sons
& Co. were declared defaulters, with liabilities OF
fsO0.OOO. - Sir Samuel Baker says that ben
eral Gordons position in the SOudan is dangerous
e. Socialist plot 10 rescue prisoner has been
discoveredin Berlin. 60 NJ Gaulthier dc Runllly'
the senior French Senator, is dead.
CoNGREss.-In the Senate yesterday bus were
introduced to relieve commercial travellers from
license taxes TO authorize the retirement OF naval
officers and TO regulate promotions in the Navy.
The Senate instructed o committee to investigate
Che subject of the cost of Geographic correspond
ence The Senate rejected the conference report on
the Greedy Relief bill and voted TO ask a new con-
ference Senator Blair reported favOrablya revised
Educational bill. 49, The House passed several
bills declaring iorfetedland grants made to certain
railroads
DoMEsTfc-A train fell through bridge in Indi-
ana and burned yesterday, killing six persons and
sounding eight. - Dr.. Elisha Harris OF Albany,
died -- Rowel was acquitted of murder. -
The Supreme Court decides a man over seventy
years of age ineligible as Justice of the Peace.
& Governor Pattison visited the Harrisburg
insane asylum without warning, and found the
ventilation defective. - The Fall River spin
pers voted 20 strike
CRY AND SUBURBAN.-Mr Bangs concluded his
argument in behalf of Mr.. Feuardent yesterday.
- The alumni of the medical department of the
University of the City ate theirannual dinner 80
The Board of Aldermen held long session; the
commit tees were announced. &C. George Alfred
Townsend testified in the suit brought against him
by JOSEPH Hart. 60 There was a stormy meeting
of Dr. Newmans congregation. == Commander
Taylor was transferred from the United States ship
Saratoga to a position under Mayor Edson.===
Gold value of the legal tender silver dollar (412l2
prains) $3.50 cents. - Stocks were feyerish and
fuctuating, and generally closed dull with some
declines.
THE WEATBER-TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate cloudy weather. with chances of rain fol-
lowed by clear OF fair and colder weather. Tenn
perature yesterday: Highest, 43'; lowest, 81 ;
average 4O@S
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saHa H=Haaass
PERSONdL.

Miss Voorhees,, 3 daughter of Senator VOORHEES, of
Indiana. is hard at work in Italy studying music
The Rev. Mr. Sturgeon, whose poor health obliged
him to 90 to Mentone recently, is rapidly recover
ing.
Mr. Frederick S. Mead. who was so badly injured
at the Harvard at-house accident in October ex.
poets 10 return to college in few days.
Mr.. Charles Shepard. of the firm Of Lee &
Shepard, of Boston, is making an extended tour Of
the South, in company with Mr.. ID. r. Locke. The
visit is partly for pleasure and partly TO obtain an
tion prohibit Z"
Colonel Perry Carson, of Washington, D. c., one
of the prominent men of the cOlored race in that
city, obtained the title he now wears in 1868. A
wealthy contractor named Grant mot relative Of
the ex-Presidentl organized in Washing on several
regiments for parade only. Carson was appointed
q Colonel. He is q cOal-black negro. tail and Of
commanding appearance, but he Is illiterate. Dur
ing Mayor Bowers administration Perry Carson
was his messenger.
An industrious English writer computes, accord
ing 10 The 81. Ja1aess Gazette that Mr. Barry Sui
Ivan on the stage has committed 1900 MURDERS
and has himself been killed 5000 times. Mr.
Henry Irvings record is not quite 50 full of blood;
but even he has taken $1,000 lives, and on 1000
occasions has been violently done to death In the
full glare Of the footlghts. Mrs. Bancroft has
been foully betrayed or abducted 300 times Dir.
Henry Neville has 300 times been ruined in
sequence of the treachery of his friends: Miss Ada
Cavendish has been betrayed, deserted or abducted
$500 times, and is still suffering similar mIsfor-
tunes; Mrs. Kendall has been 1000 times deserted
or betrayed and has likewise been otherwise badly
treated LOO times; Mr. Kendall has 900 times
fallen dead suddenly; and Alr. John Clayton has
molly befriended 1,S00 miserable and deserted
women, and has been married TO about half of
them. As for Mr. Charles Wyndham, he has been
divorced from $500 wives, aud is now continuing
his dIsgracefu and heartless conduct.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-Assstant Adiutant-Gen-
eral McKeeyer has returned from Philadelphia,
but is confined to his home by severe cold.
EAsToN, Penn. Jan. Silt is stated to-day that
President Packer, of the Lohigh Valley Railroad,
IL still seriously i'll and that he is not yet out of
danger
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-Secretary FOlger returned
TO Washington this morning from Geneva, ~ u,
and resumed his duties at the Treasury Department
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Nryv YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY L. 1894

ticket in the places named ofends the Democratic
voters; to offend the Democratic voters is to pro-
yoke them to murder Republican voters; to mar
der Republican voters is-possibly--to prompt sur
viving Republicans South and North, who love fair
play and hate injustice to protest. and to protest is
to wave the bloody shirt
Q.-Does numbering men for their political opin-
ions constitute waving of the bloody Shirt
A-Oh no.
tute such wayings
A--0h yes.
Q-When will the bloody shirt be permanently
retired from circulation
Aust as soon as all Republicans in sens itiye
sections of the South renounce allegiance TO
their party and consent TO take their politics
straight from the local Bourbons
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knowing whether it would be possible 70 get the
property back again at the demand OF the right
ful owner. 1t makes no difference where the
wrong is held to lie. To the poorest mind II Is
evident that there is wrong somewhere,
for there are now two people VINO are llgh'-
full owners of the same property. The one
whose broker has loaned the certificate Is clearly
arightfui owner. The one wboh bought 1t and
paid his money for it is not less clearly a T1ght-
full owner. Somewhere between the two there
is q wrong.
Nothing would need to be said of this matter,
however, had not the evil of fictitious sales
gone so far that the very sources OF business
prosperity arc tainted. The markets have
lost their proper character. They no longer
serve to FIX an honest price by the balancing Oh
actnal BUYERS against actual sellers. On the
contrary. they generally set up false and nc
titious price. because, in addition TO the people
who are able TO own property and have really
got it to sell, there are also in the market as
sellers great many other people who own none
Prices no longer reflect facts, therefore, but
gambling expectations. A few bold desperadoes'
who own no property except money III bank,
can sell the property of any other man, ana
"iump on it when there happen to be no
buyers, and then lie about it until real holders
are frightened. and so can plumber the people
who put their earnings into public enterprises.
That there are fictitious or speculative buyers
also, who sometimes in their turn control a
market without desire to possess share OF a
bushcl of the property they buy, does notmlugate
the evil; it only makes that evil greater Out
of these false markets, and the conflicting Ell
forts to control them by people who do not own
what they sell nor want TO possess what they
buy, come Matchmaking Legislative schemes by
the score, prostitution of courts, mismanage-
ment or wrecking of great enterprises, and base
attacks upon the creditOf individuals and 1nStl-
tutions.
That markets are rendered false and fraudu-
lent by these dealings was never shown more
clearly, perhaps, than in recent transactions on
the Stock Exchange. Prices have varied within
short time from $40 TO $40 on each share OF
several important securities, without the slight
est change in their real value or in the puDhc
knowledge about them. Whom the fictitious
sellers held sway, prices were forced down be-
vOnd reason, and investors were forced or
frightened into selling at heavy losses. The in
slant a strong buying appeared, the people who
had sold what they did not own were pushed to
the wall and prices rose more violently than they
had fallen. If the Legislature could devise a
measure to restrict this evil, not only in the
market for securities, but in the markets for
products, which are even more mischievously
affected by fictitious dealings, it wOuld oagreat
public service No one suppOses that the evil
can be suppressed. Possibly it can be so
far restrained that it shall no longer make
markets false and courts frail and legislative
chambers foul.
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ctTTyF COuUJSSJONERS.

Mr. b. +. johnson, of Illinois, who has more than
ordinary talent for observation and correct infer
ence and who during many years has noted from
week to week the conditions and progress OF our
agriculture gives through The Prairie Farmer, ths
cautonary signal to whom it may concern IN refer
ence to one of the current efforts for "appropria-
tions in the alleged interest OF American hus-
bandry:
gIf nv word of warning could reach those en-
gagged IN taking measures at Washington 70 preven.
the spread of epidemic and INFECTIOUS diseases IN
our stock it would be- go slow; II the wishes OIL a
few veterinarians met and the demands - T.ii
OF pauper lawyers and politicians are CnlPiieu
with it will result in the creation OF q half dozen
commissions. Each one OF them, as previous ones
have done, will find sufficient reason 10F Ile,r con
tinnance and reports will be made that hall the ye
stock i'm the country, South and West, IS either III
danger from or suffering under some 0f the many
forms of epidemic or infectious diseases. /.
Beware Of commissions, and above all OF putting
men upon them whose bread and butter is OF more
consequence to them than the stock interest, vast
as it is"
The gentlemen referred to, who during year or
moro have invested much vital force IN working mp
excitement about hog-cholera and pleuro-pneumo-
MIA in particular to the detriment of our live stock
markets abroad, appeared of late before the House
Committee on Agriculture. In the course of much
other talk showing uncommon anxiety" they sald
according to The n. h. Farmer, that
Contiguous disease of cattle exists in Delaware
District OF Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania ' II
gna. Connecticut, NewYork, and possibly IN other
places"
1t will be observed that Massachusetts, is not in
cluded in the list. The recent official report from
that State (which properly attends to its own con-
tagous dseases) shows that Of 81, 800 appropriated
by the Legislature for this important business last
year there was occasion to use only S467. leaving
balance of 81 O33. These are pleasing Statistics
and not only suggest the propriety OF other States
attending to their own sick animals so far as may
be practicable but contrast most fayoraby with
the fact, pointed out by The RNrat Ne'c- Yorker
that
"The National Treasury has expended over
$50 900 cattle quarantine stations, ana 10 meet
the salaries and expenses of the Treasury Cattle
Commission etc.
And now $500. 900 more has been asked for lone
report said a round million aud the fact published
in Europe naturally tends further to undermine
foreign confidence in American meats. The signii-
cant specimen excerpts we have made from three
leading farm journals suggest the advantage, If not
the necessity, of much Congressional discretion In
voting public funds at the request Of deyotees OF
contagious disease. And by the way, has anybody
vet accepted Mr. SingletOn's handsome offer OF
q" 81 OOO reward for an animal infected with peuro-
no
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-01

OPINIONS OF BT-METALLISTS ABROAD.
Mr.. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, than whom no
man in the country can be considered a more
sincere or earnest advocate Of silver renonetlza-
ton. publishes letter received by him from DR..
Otto Arendt. secretary of the German BIZ
Metallic Association, in which it is stated that
Cernuschi, Gibbs, PiersOn, Vroliox, Lazzatl, ana
Laveleye, and all other leading bi-metallists OF
Europe, share the opinions OF Mr.. Kelley ana
"hope for the victory Of bi-metallism by the
suspension of the Bland BILL" In Europe, the
act under which silver coinage in this country
is now continued is universally called the
"Blapd bill" Notwithstanding the important
amendments made to that bill in the Senate be-
fore Il became law. DR.. Arendt puts the case
tersely thus: Germany will not go one step
further than England, and to win England the
suspension of coinage in this country is neces-
sary.
The tone of comments on thisimpOrtant letter
deserves the thoughtful notice of Congressional
advocates of silver coinage. Why is it that not
one of the representatives of that opinion, IN
Congress or in the press, attempts to give any
reason for dissenting from the views of Mr..
Kelley and of all leading bi-metallists? Must
it not be that their reasonings are exceedingly
hard TO answer? On the other hand, can it be
considered strange that the opponents of re-
monetization say, authorities will be of no
weight with Congress, and all reasoning is
"thrown away, because the sole motive is to
"court the favor of silver miners and mine-own-
GERS" 1t ought not to be possible to entertain
such a suspicion in regard to the action OF a
large number of Congressman. But can it be
avoided, If they persist in requiring silver
coinage when all capable bi-metallists urge its
suspension and no public reason can be given
for its continuance?
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amnsemeuts Uo-Nisbt.

AMERICAN ISsIITUry--Skating Rink
ASSOCIATION Halls Lecture. ,s
Buou OPrRA HOUSES" Orpheus and Eurydice'
BRooKLYN AcApEaY-2--" Redemption"
CASINOS" The Begxar Student"
DAYS TKrATRE-9--" sey n-Twenty- EIGHT"
GRAND oPERA HOUSES" Edgewood Folks'"
MADISON CLUE ADMINISTRATIONS,
MADISON SQUARE TfEATRE-S--"A Alpine Roses
NEW PARK THEATRE-s-"ThatA Man. A.. ,,ras,o, u
NETWORK COMEDY THEATRs--S-"Funo on INC 1iAs's'
NIRLo's GARDgs--S-" Richard III
RTAR THFArRF-8-"Wanted q Partner. O coco.rt
HrYISwAY VAII-11 Acknowledgements
TuIIJa TIIEATRR-e-" Die Kindsfrau' ,.,y
TuFsTRR CoNIoUH--2 and g." Cordela's Aspirations
IfNIOs SQUARE "Separaioh.
WAIIAcK,s acknowledgements 80
On AVENUE THrATRE--S-" One OF the Finest"
SrH AVENUE THEArRE--S--" Confusion:
14Tn sTRRET THEATRE-S" Unser Fritz"
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Collector H0barisOn.--I glad to THE TRIBUNE
discuss the difficulties attending the disposition Ofcases
the calendar Of the Court Of Appeals. introduced tho
bin in the State Senate which amended the law, as now
stands limiting the right Of appeal OF 10 those that
amounted to $500 and more. also introduced the bill.
which was adopted, shat extended the Commission Of
Appeals years Later to relieve the court OF accumu-
lating cases. introduced bill limiting he right Ofappeal
81 900 cases; it carried through the Senate with
out dissenting vote, but killed in the lower House.
am very much interested in this matter, but the only
practical propositions 20 consider those submitted by
Judge Andrews, and supported by other judges. In
mediate rehef could be given by placing the limitation at
$1,000 but create commission, proposed by Judge
Andrews and the others requires amendment tO.the
Constitution, which could not be adopted until 1856 as
the earliest it would have to be acted apon by the
present Legislature and that OF 1856
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FALSE MARKETS.

We have small faith in the bills offered in the
State Legislature to prohibit fictitious or
"shOrt" sales of securities. Nevertheless
though probably impracticable, they aim
at great public benefit. The evil
which it is designed TO check has been found
peculiarly elusive and hard to reach, through
legislation in Illinois and elsewhere. But the
principle upon which the proposed bills rest is
the right one no man has any right whatever
to sell property that belongs to somebody
else. In the nature of things such trans
action either rests upon pretence that he
has and owns the property, OF it does not. If
that pretence exists, the transaction is fraud.
If il does not exist, the transaction is simply
gambling. The seller bets the buyer that,
within fixed time he will be able to buy or TO
borrow, and so to deliver property which does
not belong to him. If there is reason for sup
pressing the gambling houses where games of
chance seduce young and old to ruin, it is at
least equally contrary to public policy that sales
of property which are In their nature essenti-
ally gambling transactions should be tolerated.
1t is objected to this reasoning that the buyer
actually gets the property bought. Sometimes
he does, but the spectacle presented on Monday
in the Stock Exchange, when as much as 10per
cent was offered for the loan of stock a
single day, shows that the buyer cannot always
be sure that the property purchased will be
forthcoming Probably the lender usually takes
the greater risk. He has parted with property
which, in most cases, he held in a fducary
capacity, knowing that the borrower had
sold and wished to deliver it, but not