Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-25

The "unterr1hed" are rapidly becoming the
terrified.
If the new President keeps on as he has
begun there will be a new. Democratic party
The President has hired a pew in a
church whose pastor is Republican and
was an abolitionist What can "the boys''
do with such a man?
The Hon. John L. Sullivan is going to
England and he says that while there he
shall go in good society. We congratulate
the good society in England on the pleasure
that awaits it.
Mr.. Powderly's remedy for the present un-
fortunate condition of the unemployed work
ing people is to shorten the hours of labor
He would reduce the average of about ten
hours of labor one-ffth, or to eight hours,
upon the theory that one-ffth more men
would then be employed in obtaining the
same amount of production. This would
probably compel the present workers to sur
render one fifth of their earnings to support
their fellow laborers.
The Philadelphia Times points out the way
to start business in the following question:
Would it not be wise for all to increase
stocks and supplies just enough to feel pro-
tectea against any unexpected or sudden
movement in the business world? Such a
course would strengthen confidence, increase
demand, take up disemployed labor and in
crease employment for capital That policy
would have been worth tens of millions six
years ago. Manufacturers will take business
to-day at ten per cent. less than they would
thirty days hence if such policy were acted
upon tomorrow.
The latest temperance idea in Maine is
a systematic attempt to close saloons under
the nuisance act" Portland is the scene of
the most active hostilities and in its C, unity
during the last two months six hundred war
rants have been issued. The cost to the
county has been 50, 500, while there has been
5000 only collected in fines, showing how eff
fective six hundred warrants are unbacked
by public opinion. The prosecutors are now
waiting in hopeful state of mind until GER
tain amendments to this nuisance act adopt
ed by the last legislature, go into effect. But
they will probably find that the traffic in Ii
quor will still go on.
The annual report of Mr.. Justin Winsor,
librarian of Harvard college, shows that
much greater use is made of the library by
the students than ever before Nine years
ago only fifty-seven per cent. of them used
the library; five years ago the percentage
had risen to seventy seven per cent, and
last year it was eighty-four per cent The
Sunday use of the library has steadily in
creased since the experiment of opening it
during part of the day was tried; and dur
ing the last year the average number of per-
sons using it on Sunday was sixty-eight, or
nearly fifty per cent. more than the number
availing themselves of its privileges in
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III. Tasima, the superintendent of those
Japanese officers who are pursuing their mil
itary studies in Europe, has supplied cor
respondent with some account of his coun-
try's position as a fighting power. The
standing army of the empire consists of 40,
600 men, the reserve of so, 900, and the Land
wehr, or territorial reserve, of 150,OO All
these troops are dressed and equipped in Eu-
ropean fashion and they are at present armed
partly with Remingtons and partly with Sni-
ders. A new rifle, however, the invention
of japanese colonel, viii shortly be ready
for issue, 1t combines the merits of the
Gras, the Chassepot and the Mauser systems,
and English officers who have tested it speak
highly both of it's principle and of its work
manship. In japan service is obligatory,
the conscript, after remaining for three
years with the colors, passing into the re-
serves. Every japanese has to learn the use
of arms as the price of his citizenship.
The ST. Paul Pioneer Press takes a cheer
full view of the new tariff policy instituted in
Germany and France 1t calls attention to
the fact that in the fiscal year 1884 our to-
tai export of wheat was 20, ,349, 900 bushels,
of which 1886, 900 bushels went to France
and Ss6, 900 bushels to Germany, and argues
that as neither of these countries proposes to
prohibit the Importation of American wheat,
but only to raise the duty on it, the trifing
check which may thereby be given to pur-
chases from America will not be enough to
make any appreciable impression on our
markets. France raises about 750, 900, 600
bushels of cereals and imports fully $685.
900, 0O0 It will probably be impossible to