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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07
COTTON MANKETS-HY TELEGRAPH.

LIVERPOOL; Ang o..l23o p. mCotton Business Is fair
at unchanged prices. Mddng Uplands I'D. do Mid,lg
Orleans. D I'D saes-lOOoO bales, including loo bales
for speculation and export Receipts bales All Ahei
Futures qnict Upands Low Mhlling clause, August Do
livery. llJ4d do August and September delivery IL
04d also llGid do september aud October delivery
b-Uid. do October and November delivery ihA,i DO
November and December delivery, 46idJ also 6bii;
do December and January delivery Sod do January
and February delivery b64d also 4Gid, do February
and March delivery. 6G64di do september delivery ~
.Oid. also Load.
Tenders for deliveries ut toays clearngs 800 bales now
doc kct and 500 bales old
Weoklysalos week bales American 81 00Oi
slrculators took 1905 exporters took, goo forMarcd
from ships side direct spners 6OO actual export 1900
receipts al LOO; 81 900 total STOCK, OIL OOO;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07
CLOSING PRICES OF BOSTON STOCKS.
Roaroy kuv a. ioaG
FRIDAY, Aug. 6-P. NJ.

FRIDAY, Aug G-p. NJ.
The stock market today was so active that the re-
corded transactions amounted to 265 shares against
20l4S shares yesterday. But the fluctuations and the
final changes Of to-day generally are measured By
smaller fractions OF per than were those yeser
day. vi to-dsys total moro than one-half Q33,S 800
shares) was done In tho first hour. and it during
that hour that prices generally ruled the highest
:he day. the second hour recorded 700 shares and
the last hour 81 800 shares The London market came
buoyant before our opening and that was an aid to
the stimulation under which market seemed
to open. so with great noise
opening figures generally were from u to 70 per cent
higher than last evenings closing prices. Omaha com
stock was special feature in the days specna-
ton; IL opened mp II at 4s7s and before 1890 o'clock
sold al 49A which the highest price OF the day
closed at 49l4 ST. Paul luctuated only per cent all
day and closcd 4 per cent higher than last evening
sales, $4,000 shares. Northwcstern-slles. 1850
shares-ucuated o per and closed b higher than
yesterday Delaware. LscKswanna and Western nuctu-
ased L per and closed its best price coal
companies arc adheriug 10 their prices with more
than usual enacity but ;he result is they doing
hand o-mouth business; the trnncss OF prices and
tho prediction of an unusually small output
for September however, arguments at
the Stock Exchange for higher prices
for the stocks Lake shore Erie and Central and Iud-
dun but they record final advances OF from i
for Central and Hudson 4 for Erie. All OF tho
ports OF the meeting OF officials At Chicago were of
rTe ha mony, bur nothing WAS done and Commissioner
Blanchard Is reported as saying after the meeting adj
ourned "The twenty-five cent Will not think, he
reduced" Union Pacific active part OF The day
and from - - and closed at JS4 but Pacific
Mail after an early advance . 81 closed unchanged at
- =. Texas and Pacific moderately active and
showed final gain OF . The ovid eats" generally
attracted usual attention AMI 10 them partly
is due the general appearance OF hIoyaucy wAcA the
market had. 1t the close business dul AID prices
steady.
Government ponds were quiet ard steluy nj IN
changed quotations d follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07
FEATURES OF NETWORK DEALINGS.

There was scarcely n notable feature IN the ITO
Exchange markets yesterday Duness ruled IN the
secutons and export line the only movement worth
mention was the engagement OF 10000 bushels Cash
markets all around and the options after
carly about tho be-t figures Wheat
August sill september - -
October So November $3.50, December SOi ana January
81 cents ended and mp "a cent - oloMs
August september 81 y. october o. y NoNtmu,I % :
cents nrt.uI closed cent higher ~
AUGUST and september and 3D. cents Tor October lheI
interest To the lard speculation but options adyahsu
c2 points follows; N"ptcUhr, - VJ D'oO'i' - %
November g. 80; DcceWb,r - u. -,
tn" receipts Of gram yesterday ar New loiA ln,-t-
and Boston follows: Wheat, d3f ~
bushels. 1892 bushels; oats. stt-e bushels t"tdi
grain .tH.g4 2C-2l barrels. Vt 'hl,aso,
Nlaukce Loui- the arrivals wcr": Wheat l9i ~?
bushels. 2ilfl9 hu-hci, oats 2t'9J ousesi 'otai
glalu, lJji bushels; Hour, IoO'' ptrIr7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07
THE MARKETS.
TOTAL RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE
Per Worth Riper. Vessels and RIIr0g1S.
GENERAL. MARKET REPORT.

COFFEE-Rraz grades quiet and prices UNCHANGED from
the Of gl for far Rio invoices sales 25o bags
Finance 25j bags Fly iprarchur MIA grades frrt nc
opened steady At unchanged quotet ons ana
closed firm the opening figures, follows; January
1904 1856 February 1901 800: March. 100 $500 An
gust 7G5d7.7O; September, 775G1.sO; October. 800
7sj November, 7.sO47SJ; December. 1.sj 100 Sales
22,7jO bags.
COTTON-For spot cotton tho market Is steady ut IN
changed Sales 1900 bales 800 last evening", OF
which 200 tales FOR cIpo and 220o for
receipts today 9iJ bales. comparing with 1923 bales
day last We,k and 1856 bales this day last year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07

sts 254 81 n, at 6c 1872 Indiana DO SO b. at 6i2c
1872 do, 60 10. ut 6tc 2O3 State do SO n, at Clio,
Pacoss 22s ohio sheep n at g sa e e Penn IN;
Kentucky DO l0 ~ at - 80; sl6 West Virginia LAMPS ~
~ at "a 2l9 do 81 b at So 90 sc Pennsylvania DO 0o
n a &c 30 Kentucky do, Ga b at sac ll3 do vi ID al
So 70 l4l Canada do VI ID. at So 20.
HOGsReoeips % OF 3l49 hcad-7 cars at Jer
city and is 4Othst Total for six DAYS 26OSo
head against 29lS head for the same time last week. mo
market Il reported about steady OF o 05fc.
sales O. Smith 81 State Hogs 3l9 u, at S. 90 ESTATE
n
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07
ruRO pEAN FINANCIAL MARKETe.

Iospos Aug. G.l230 p m-Atiant!c and Great Western
First Mortgage Trustees Certificates 49hs 90 Second Mort
esee lJ; Canadian Pacific So Eric, 81 do Second
Toiso lOl = Illinois Central, li22 Mexican Ordinary
Az, IT Paul Common 37l4 New YOrk Central ia a.
perusylvania. 80 r.; Reading, 1872
Paris quote Three Per Cent onos at 80 francs
81, ccutimes for The account.
LoXDOS, Aug. ca p mCOnsols, l0l SIG for money and
lOl the account; Atlantic aud Great Western First
Mortgage Trustees Certificates 49, Canadian Pacific 90 =
re 34s do Second COnsO 1929 Ne xcan Ordinary 80 q
New York Central. lli2; Pennsy ivanla, 5S -
Hudson Bay Company, 23'l.
The amount Of bullion Withdrawn from tie Bank OF Eng
land on balance u day ~ 4 lO.OOO.
quote Three Per cntcs at ~ francs 30
ceutlnes the account and exchange London at 20
francs % "a c.ntDIes for checks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07
onoanons based on the Amercan st1ndar Of classification
STAINED.

Good Oriinary....... 90 - Low Mlfdlng...--.- -
Strict Good Ordinary. ! I-lb hhHlIhg...-
Speculation moderately active During carly portion
Of the day break points. but TIE market reacted Lcr
and closed rm advance Of 2d4 points sales 9lluO
itl,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07

ST. LOUIE Ang, enFlour steady XXX, 81 25as225
CASH 7Go70.c; August 7oa.c; sept. 77sc. Corn dun
M Mixed Cash 4Od iOi-c; August, 400 Sept 4o7c.
Oats frni No Mred, Cash % aa269c August 2G%o;
Creancry ia Zoe; DAIRY l0GlGc Eggs-sc. Flax heed
81 o0I Timothy 81 oo Prairie 90 bran at
min corn Meal 81 20. Whisky. el OF. Pork, slO 20
Hull Meais-Lcng Clear 25 Short Ribs. o. 30 Short
Clear - So Lard s6 80. Kecepta-Four 1000 bills;
wheat Oush Corn ~ 900 bush Oats 603oo pns'
30 LbI., Wheat 1877 900 BUSH Corn. 10000 bus Oats.
10000 bush; Rye. none Barley. mono.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07

stare bonds were duli Louisiana con-ol 4 mp p
l2ll. or city bank stocks broadway sold 49, at.-1
Tie feature OF The railway bond market vas the ,as
dealings ~ the issues 81 TIE Southwestern hnktuYf
companies TrXis and Pacific incomes rose = 20 ~
ana close ~ -. nud irsfs RIO Grsnio lIfeon WIKI
sales OF over 100000 rom Gcs 10 71 ant ended
cn-y ~ g.. NeW.Cr!rar~ Pacific ur-'s wrr. active,
Tith An advance from -. - 1~ie 80 Ailan'ic
2i9. Wabash - rosc ~ TO = 3. aud general =. were
up e at GA Eric second "'re rc.lY'.nt r'sf
from 9- 90 100 blt closed easy az @'I2 Rome, 'trr
town am Osdcr-our- cousol - were easier AZ iol '
Chesapeake and ONO series art Incomes eetri tao
general opinion 81 th@ new scheme % ed lfiuci in i
prices r. were NJ TO ~ ana he incomes rosc pef cont
to 81. The Investment Absorption ~ tie W. -.'r"
were taken al loss 20 iO4ls New.Yors. chicago ant
st. Louis hist Us receipts were OF = At - onto
southern incomes rose per cont 10 3D. last Ienne--ee
Nrtna AMI Georgia consols wero np per cent at o.
and large business wa done 10 q" incomes AZ ~
p Indiana, bloomington ana western Incomes wcrr
Money continues TO gain In nrnncs, ana to-iay'-
range for call loans was IL per cent with closing a
per cent.
TONIGHT Includes fecepts OF >722'o7s AM payments
OF = 1850, leaving he general balance OF.
S2l4liG.3J2. against >4lI 800 80 July 80 showing l
apparent loss Of >2Ill7- Int dcducng from the pay
meats l'"op and iron the roripis >-"lO'' for
Tea-ury's account with the Gelea Treasury IT, trur
gain as ahecilns TAO bank. l. ,f1t.-22. ITO days
opcration- covered; Receipts. S157.lJt: ptymenf-
rllOa223; currency balance, s1-,'-751-, coin.
The C.elrnr House statement lay was as follows:
Exchanges, c~',o"}li3; balance. ~i,457,@l1.
SI 81 G, i[' nors a. M@,nGn received
The customs receipts were sj2s,V7i, ana tie Internal
revenue receipts 1891 1876.
inc foreign exchanges wcre dun AMI rates were re-
duced. Now they are within about /. cent OF the
possible specie lnportiuc point. We quotations
for business as FOL owe: Bauker-' bills - 4 ans II
for long amt short sterling respectively; 3-lt- hu4
5.l- tor francs 9jie and % for relchmaIas. IOir
ana sO3. FOR gudcrs.
ia London BIl'i,h cOnsos were nrncr with recover
les OF ll6 and l. per cent respectively to lOl 3l6 or
money ami lOl 5-iG FOR account The increased dicr
marks tho hrmcr tone OF tho money market.
United states bonds were tcaiy. American railways
opened quiet ana aea IS, but later, u-lvo To New
York made GOOD advances ad closed At about the
best figures Central and liudsOn T. up from lat
Ing Lake shore D. Erie seconds - Union Pacific
st. Paul b. Ant Missouri. Kansas and Texas 81 per cent
The Bank OF ENGLAND lost GOpO bul ION haltrc".
At Paris. French per cents after advance 500
declined 10 500 and sight exchange ON London was
lrmcr OF p. % e francs TO the 4.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07

SPIRITS or TURPENTTNE
CHkgLF.r1v. Aug G-Turp.niiuc steady 81 70.
SAVANNAH. AUs .. Iuri"utin' firm Al DC
WLNlNDIoN. Aug G.-Iurptntlne arm al 80 &C.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07

lake GEORGE.-Mohican House, at Bolton,
y Most attractive situation on Lake; mo- bar 'N,'l
and ponAbo table e"nioi tati, "''
limited tO quests. 9 " I>'i'-Nl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07

AXE HOUSE, lslip. l.. l.-Nedr Great
~outI Bay and Desirable rooms toI Lil-r' AZ
reduced rates. Transient daily rate - 90
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07
Hoods SarsapaYi.la
Sold Dog aI 'rass .'s 81 iot -. Prepared only by
G.. l. HOOD AZ CO.,. Aio,Accarles. Lowell. Ma.-
100 Doses One Dollar
Ne!iQlons Notices.

At TTTF CUTNCIi. Doth - ard lthayc.-
Church c.o..l darn. month 10 AUGUST
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07

HECK tnmu iII Methodist Episcopal Church. Both So.
,'f'''n III IrI - alc-. E,Y' joins JOHNS. Pdsfor
i.r,l,4iue ~ - Ill., and 40 Al arc cordially IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07

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To- e " con COW
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-07

AT THE Gnu isCII I-r'--f. and 9TH ave.
K.y WILTON 81 SMITH, n Cleveland, ONO VII pf'ach
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20

HE Warsaw Times well says that fThe era
OF reconciliation is merging into a cycle of OBJ
who were engaged on the Union side Of the
war had better put out of sight the old blue
coats and the sword and musket. The sight
of these things tends to keep up sectional
strife" It is only in Virginia and south Of
conduct campaigns with Lees saddle and with
a troop of ex-confederate cavalry and not VIC
late the proprieties ard sanctities of a re-
stored Union.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20

MISSISSIPPI is moving to pension disabled
confederates. Ex-President Jefferson Davis
has been invited to speak on tho subject.
Memphis Avalanche.
After we have a few more inscriptions
erased and tablets RACED in n~avy-yards, so as
not to perpetuate Sectional strife" the dis
~tinction between ex-Union and ex-confeder-
ate soldiers must be removed in the interests
of harmony. We have no more doubt Of the
point to which the country is moving under
the delusion Of a mock sentimentalism, and
in the almost total absence of enough man
hood to defend the cause of the government
in the war, than we have of the presence of
the sun in the heavens. This is one Of the
instances where coming events cast their
shadows before to any one who will be honest
enough with himself to look into the future,
and candid enough with the public to give
utterance to his opinion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20

'1T is the opinion of the Tribune that the
Secretary's communication of yesterday pro-
nounces the doom of telephone monopoly in
the United States"
Let the Minneapolis Tribune keep its
weather-eye open. The decision of Secretary
Lamar will much more likely result in an ex-
tension of the telephone mon opoly. The Bell
patents have been in use for a number of
years. When the Gray patents are issued
they will have fourteen years to run from
date of issue. Then there will be a joinder of
all telephone interests in some such COM
pany as the one that gave Attorney general
Garland one and a half million of it's stock.
By this means the life of the telephone pat
ents will be made to continue about twenty
one years, instead of fourteen, about half of
which has expired. We have little doubt but
that this is the game Of the telephone inter.
ests. The Bell and Gray interests are only
adverse on the surface and because the ad-
versity works to the common good az present.
The telephone men put their million and a
half dollars where they have lone and will do
the most good. Let the Tribune watch and
wait.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20
THE New York Graphic saws:

''In a world like ours, where the ideal best
canno be attained at a jump. no matter how
severe and iron clad the statutes we pass, men
should be willing to strive for the best that is
feasible. Half the saloons hereabouts in
which liquor is sold-and the worst half of
them-could be wiped out by a high license,
which would insure good behavior among the
survivors and would bring a welcome increase
of revenu to the city. Half the liquor sold
in New York to-day is adulterated stuff, with
plenty OF brain and stomach destroying in
gradients in it. 1t crazes those who partake
of it and incites them to crime. Why should
not all advocates of rational temperance unite
in advocacy of a law which can be enforced,
which will nail up the doors of dives, which
will diminish by one-half the existing rum
shops, which will punish the sale of adulter-
ated compounds, and which will enforce absti-
hence upon habitual drunkardsR"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20
IT is not advisable to speak ill Of the dead.

IT is not advisable to speak ill Of the dead,
but neither is the suppression of unpleasant
truth concerning the departed always the part
of wisdom. If the newspaper writer's, who
exhausted the vocabulary of praise in extoll
ing the personal merits of John Mccullough
at the time of his death, had reflected that the
facts concerning his profiigate life-of which
they were then well aware-were sure to be-
come known to the public sooner or later, they
would now be saved the necessity of palliating
his course in order to maintain their reputa-
ton for consistency and veracity. 'Explana-
tons of and se~mi-apoiogies for the leading
astray of an innocent young girl and for the
abandonment of a faithful wife do not read
well in reputable journals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20

In the case of Missouri, the State voted for
President and Vice-president before it was
formally admitted to the Union. The vote
was canvassed as SO many for Monroe if Mis-
souri, was counted, and so many if not, Mon
roe being elected in either case. And vet it
is Senator Vest, from the State of Missouri,
who is thrown into spasms because the people
of Dakota have dared to form "a State" and
to ele:t State officers and United States sena-
tors, whose functions are merely in posse,
withoutthe sanction of the sovereign Congress
of the United States. MIR. Vest should be
comforted in his perturbed soul.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20

IT is found out that the printing Of the
official documents and reports is costing the
State too much, and the Printing Bureau is
in alarm. About five thousand dollars were
expended in the printing Of the annual report
Of our marvellous Superintendent of Public
instruction, including the cost of the ''cut" Of
himself, we presume. And the proceed
ings of the State Board of Agriculture are
printed, upon the plea that they are of value
to the farmers of the State. The humor of
this is thick enough to cut.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20

fTHE Woman's Christian Association of New
York have raised nearly $75, 900 for their new
building, which is in process of erection and
will cost $125, 600. A strong effort is making
to raise the remainder before the first day of
February"
indianapolis wants $50, 900 for a main GEN.
trail building. The money should be raised
without delay. There are men in this city
who can and should give five thousand or ten
thousand dollars apiece, and from that all the
way to one thousand dollars and below. There
are churches in the city which could give five
thousand dollars, and all the way down into
the hundreds. Let these amounts be named,
and then from the hundreds and thousands Of
sources the dollars, and five dollars, and ten
dollars would come promptly III response, and
before we know the whole amount would be
raised, and the building erected and dedi-
Gated to its important and noble work. Thirty.
five thousand dollars for indianapolis is a
mere bagatelle, if there was only the con-
science and spirit necessary in the people. To
raise the money and put up the building
would do more than $35, 900 of good to the
business interests of indianapolis. 1t would
prove that the city is not too dead to do some
fhino
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20

SENATOR HARRISON is said to have lost in
terest in a resolution of investigation into
Pension Commissioner Blacks administration.
when it was proposed to carry it back into
Commissioner Dudley's.-Springfeld Repub-
lican.
This is a specimen of independent" dis
honesty. 1t is the particular purpose of Sena-
tor Harrison's resolution to have the inquiry
go back into Commissioner Dudley's time to
see if the charges of COMMISSIONS Black can
be sustained. That purpose was expressed in
the body of the resolution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20

TT is said of the sudden and lamentable
death of Miss Bayard that she was the victim
of the exactions of society at the capital.
What with official and social receptions, balls,
dinners, ETC., she was worn out. What has
become of the boosted 'tJeffersonian simplic-
ity' Of our government that a young lady
feels impelled, after being warned, to keep on
until she falls to die in thu very sound of for
NAL receptions. that have absolutely nothing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20

LIZ the brewers of New York are ready to
raise 800, 900 to defeat the high taxation law,
which sensibly proposes a marked difference
between the tax upon saloons where distilled
and where malt liquors are sold, they are COM
hitting an error which they will regret but
once, and that will be always. The drink
traffic will be regulated by some means, and
the people will not be thwarted by any COM
bination. The brewers had better not pool
their issues with the keepers Of the low
whisky dives and doggeries, or they will all
fall in the pit together.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20

Mr.. REDMOND, a member of Parliament for
West Armagh, made a speech, yesterday,
upon the proposed renewal of c~oercive meas
ures against the people of Ireland. He said:
1'The first blow struck at Ireland would fire a
train perhaps leading to a successful Indian
mutiny, and lighting the Russians into Lon
don, where they would stable their horses
in the House of Commons." While of the de-
cided opinion that it would be a serious mis-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20
THE Council did wisely and we'll in squelch-

THE Council did wisely and we'll in squelch-
ing the rule for fning or expelling any mem
Der who appears in his seat intoxicated. It
would be disgraceful to the last degree to
have such a rule in the record. In the first
place it should be presumed that no member
of the city boards would be indecent enough
to come to a meeting drunk; and, in the Sec
ond place, it should be presumed that if one
did, there would be decency enough in the
other members of the body to kick him out
without a rule.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20

THEY are about to try another ''turn" in
the prohibitory legislation in Iowa. A bill
just introduced in the Legislature of that
State goes further, we believe, than any
statute inspired by a like motive in any other
State in the Union. It gives the Governor
power to remove arbitrarily the mayor of any
town or city in which the liquor law is vio-
lated, and to put in his place some one who
will enforce the statute. This bill is the
work of a friend of prohibition. The very
introduction of it is a perfect and complete
refutation of the repeated assertions Of the
success of prohibitory legislation. Gen. Neal
Dow, in a letter to the New York Evening
Post. confessed that, after thirty years trial,
it was necessary to have some severer laws
than had yet been enacted to enforce prohibi-
ton in Maine. This is the history Of ~coercive
prohibition the world over, and particularly
in Maine, Kansas and Iowa. Nowhere can it
be enforced under the ordinary rules of law
and evidence, but something new and extra
ordinary must be constantly resorted to to
make it work even after a fashion. In the
local-option States We see no such anomalies.
Public opinion is respected, educated and de-
veloped to the point where the public traffic
in intoxicants may be prohibited in a peacea-
BILE, orderly, democratic republican way, in
harmony with the genius of the government
and the spirit of the people; and where local
option is not up to the point of doing away
with the traffic entirely, it is put under such
surveillance that its evils can be largely re-
stricted,