Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-22

The Church Congress got hold of a big subject when it grappled with "The Ethics of the Tariff Question:
 The New York World whined vigorously yesterday. Among other things is declared that President Clevelands policy seems to be to satisfy the Independent Republican ele- ment and that in New York city not a soli Democratic party has been made. Mir. Cleve- land will need all his obstinacy before long.
 Justice always falls on somebody in China. A barber in Hankow threatened his assistant with prosecution on the charge of stealing twenty-seven cents, whereupon the accused man took opium. An official in- vestigation was ordered, but the barber bought up the mandarin, who acquitted him, but, as it was necessary to make an example of somebody, ordered the policeman in whose beat the barber lived to be fined and severely whipped. ...=
 This country nee Is a navy, and @ great many people are willing to pay their share toward having one. But good navy costs ''heap of money" Even the expenditures for maintaining the English navy, which are gigantic and ever increasing, have not kept it in state of needed efficiency. In 1854 the expenditures amounted to about S32 ,000,- 900; but consequent upon the Russian war immediately following they increased to nearly $10O, 900, 900 in 1856. In 1875 they were little over S52 ,500, ,000 and in 1885 az gregated upward of S15O, 100000
 The address made to his constituents the other day by MT. Samuel Storey, the mem- Der of Parliament from Sunderland, was very significant Speaking of the House of Lords he said that it's abolition was the most i'm portant subject that could be taken up. He thought it an insult to himself that man should have other privileges than he had. There should be no state created privileges for any man to which every other citizen could not aspire. He would abolish all he reditary privileges. How could the people expect to get reform while such court ot solemn humbugs as the House of Lords sat above them? He regretted that they had lost the chance of abolishing it last year. This is plain talk, and indicates that the re- publican idea is making rapid progress in England.
 The recent election in Ohio was instruc- tive in several ways. For instance, il showed how the negro is regarded by the foreign element in the population. In Ham ilton county, of which Cincinnati composes the greater part, the Republicans put col ored man on their legislative ticket, while the Democrats nominated one of the race on their legislative ticket in Cuyahoga county of which Cleveland is the seat. The Cincin- nati negro was "scratehed" more or less ev- anywhere, but suffered most in the Irish and German wards. The Cleveland negro in like manner ran far behind in the foreign wards of that city, while in the score of country towns, which are chiefly inhabited by natives, he was within one hundred and forty-nine votes of the highest candidate, and in several places was not ''scratched" by a single man.
 The study made by Consul Lathrop of Bristol, England, of the pay of English and American policemen is interesting, and indi- cates that the policemen of this country are much better of than the British "bob- bies." The cost per capita of the police force in the larger English cities ranges from thirty-seven cents to S1.09 per day. In the United States the daily cost per capits | ranges from sixty-two cents to $2.70, more than twice as much as in England. Patrol
 men in England receive from $500 to $3St per annum. In this country patrolmen re
 ceive as much as $1 200 per annum in New
 York, Boston ald Washington, $1 ,60O in Sar
 Francisco and Brooklyn, and from $S5O te I s, ,000 in most of the other large cities. The
 salaries of the higher officers of the fore. l vary as much as those of the patrolmsn. Su