The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-02-08

whether it is more likely that they will
hang themselves by testifying, or by not
testifying. Altogether it is one of the
most remarkable trials of modern days.
Some of the New York papers are pro-
jecting themselves upon Senator McPerson
with astonishing yigor because of his recent
proposition to sell out defaulting railroads
or place them under Government control.
But we notice that they all confine them
selves to showing up" what they are
pleased to call the fallacy of the latter
branch Of the business-not one of them
pays any attention to the first part of the
proposal. The Sun of Thursday paid its
respects to the Senator by directing his at
tention to the fact-at least the Sun as
sumes it to be fact that the Funding
bill now under consideration fully meets
the difficulty. The Sun says the bill scales
the debt making one hundred and twenty
installments payable at intervals of six
months. s'Thus," says the Sun in SO many
words, sseach company will know exactly
what it has to pay and when to begin pay
ing" But there is no honest debtor in the
land who does not know what he owes, or
who does not know that he should pay it
at once, provided he is able. "But, says
the S,a, again, sswhen default is made upon
one of these payments the whole debt i'm
mediately becomes due" And what is to
be done, then, we should like the Sun to
explain. In all common sense we should
say the Government will have to fall back
upon Senator McPherson's alternative,
forclose the mortgage and sell the COM
pany out. If the Sun knows any other way
out of the difficulty it should map out the
road for its readers forthwith. With all
Difference, we should say the SIM had been
guilty of making special plea in favor of
the railroads. At present it looks to us as
if Senator Mcpherson were little ahead.
So far as regards the assaults upon Phe-
Ian and ODonoyan, except for the infract-
ions Of the laws they carry in their train,
no one can much regret them.
But there is one thing the Irish people may
depend upon, and that is that these assina-
tons are just depriying the Irish cause of
the sympathy it once received from the
outside world. There was time when
even the mass of the English people felt
that Ireland was deeply wronged country
but dynamite has driven that sentiment
out only to put in its place feeling of
dread and an apprehension of what is to
come next, the evil effects of which can not
be done away with for years. Already
Englishmen are discharging their Irish en-
ployes all over England and it can not be
denied that this will result in untold mis-.
cry to the Irish working people now in
England. This is about the only result
dynamite has yet produced and it is about
the only result it is likely to produce. Am
erican sympathy is also being rapidly des-
troyed by that prince of blatherskites,
O'Donovan. though he probably has about
as much to do with the explosions as the
man in the moon-except to gather in and
feast upon the dimes, quarters and half
dollars of credulous though patriotic
Irish men and women in this country.
Ex-senator Walls libel suit against Judge
Gibby, Robert d. Gibby and Henry Ritter,
which was expected to furnish amusement
to the people of Elizabeth last week has
gone over to the next term of court. Judge
Gibby was anxious to have the case 90 on.
but his counsel insisted on delay. The
Judge said he felt confident that he could
prove every allegation he had made. But
an ex-judge ought to know enough of law
to know that ssthe greater the truth the
greater the libel" He must not only prove
the truth of the statements but he must
also prove that he had justification for the
publication of the facts. In recent trial
in Dublin, where a man had made gross
charges against his father-in-law the court
would not allow the son-in-law to prove the
truth of the charges. The court held that
the unwarranted publication must be pun
ished and the defendant was sent to jail
for two years. The court further held that
if the charges were true the defendant
should have caused the arrest of his father
in-law on criminal charge, in which case
he should have been given opportunity to
disprove the charges if they were not true.
When the son-in-law comes out he says he
will take that course, but it is q long time