Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-17
EDITORIAL NUIFS.

Railroads in this country spend annually
for wood ties nearly $15, 900, 900.
Ex-senator Colquitt says the Southern del
eRates will be almost unanimous for
| Arthur.
Welcome, sweet day of rest. will be the
| heartfelt sentiment of great many disturbed
ssfnanciers' when they awake tomorrow
morning.
Two great shows will exhibit here June
| 5th-Barnum's great moral show, and that
/ very immoral circus known as the Demo
| cratic State convention. Plenty of fun for
all on that day.
| The command 'Lay not up for your
| selves treasures upon earth, Seems somewhat
| unnecessary just now 10 many. It seems like
4 telling man not to do what there is no pos
sibility of his doing.
| The course of affairs yesterday in Wall
| street was, on the whole, encouraging. At
the close of business those who were fighting
| against any further great disturbance seemed
to have good grip on prices.
It is we'll in these days to bear in mind
| that railroads are real things, that they will
| continue to do business and that some of
| them will make money. Judicious buying
| of railroad securities now will probably not
prove Improbable.
The New York Uhurchman publishes the
| statement of an army officer that quarter
master upon one of our large frontier reser-
| vation pests made an application for Cat
| ling gun, upon which application the COM
/ maudiRg officer placed the following endorse
ment: In my opinion, the Indians at this
| agency are starving to death, and 1 recon-
mend that a Gatling gun be sent to compel
them to starve peaceaby," and the gun was
sent.
What is wanted now is confidence. The
Boston Herald well says: It was the epiS
grammatic remark of Horace Greeley that
'the way to resume is to resume" and the
practical attempt made at specie payment
demonstrated the correctness of the assertion.
In like manner, one is justified in ssying at
the present time that the way to have conf
denoe is to confide. and if, now that the field
has been cleared of debris We could 60 on
with our accustomed work, the lives of mil
lions of people would be made much more
happy, the country would grow richer, and
no one would be sufferer.
rather remarkable discussion took place
in PhiIadelphia the other day, the disputants
being the members of the Medical Juris-
prudence society. One of them read a paper
in which he raised the question whether it
was not both permissible and right for socie-
ty to kill men who are either born useless
and hopslessly diseased in mind or body, Or
become so by the accident of life. Arguments
in favor of this view were freely advanced.
The aid 1t would give to Improvement of
species, the pain and sorrow it would save,
were instanced. To support these views it
was said that Napoleon killed his wounded on
leaving Moscow, and that the world applaud
cd an English war correspondent who wrote
home Of having killed a mangled Russian to
end his awful So fferings.
The liauor question in Siam is compi-
Gated one. The country produces an
abundance of pure native drinks on which
the Government places an excise tax. But
under treaties with other nations foreign Iiq-
uors come in at three per cent. duty, which
Is less than the excise tax on native liquors,
and the home product has thus been driven
out by aood Of cheap stuff, coming mostly
from China Representatives of all the lead
ing nations except the United States have
licensed their subjects to sell liquor in Siam,
and the Siamess have thus for years been
subjected to foreign trade in unwholesome
liquors. The government has been negotiat-
ing for restriction of this traffic, and the
onyoys who are now in Washington brought
. treaty which has jast been signed by this
governments, as is had previously bsen by
the leading nations of Europe. This treaty
provides that the sale of liquors in Siam
shall be limited TO subjects having the treaty
RIGHTS; that all imported liquors shall bs sub
ected to O duty equal to the domestic excise
tax. and that they must also stand she test
of examination by experts
An English statistician has gathered the
following interesting data on the matrimonis
situation in Great Britain: Taking fifteen
years as the minimum, there were, in 1882,
sixteen ana half million people in England