The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-26
EDITORIAL COMMENTS
~ TOPICS THAT ARE INTEREST.
ING: THE PEOPLE.

,ention W. H. Kitchen Esq, editor of
tbr scotland Neck Democrat introduced
resolutions denouncing Civil Service Re
form They were tabled. And yet Mr..
Kitchen continues to assert that the peO-
,Ie are opposed to the President!
The Ashcville Citizen commenting on a
statement Of Col Chas. r. Jones that the
peopl> re tired Of the old politicians and
want something better" says "Charles
r takes comfort in the fact Of these
changes the people want something bet
ter, and Charlie offers himself in his dis
trict al that something better"
The practice of the law, observes the
Philadelphia Record, broadens the minds
Of some men and narrows the minds of
others. Those who study and appreciate
the principles upon which laws are based
belong to the first category. Those who
rely upon precedent belong to the second.
one tries to make the case fit the law,
and the other tries to make the law fit his
case.
The New Orleans Picayune, comment
ing on the threatened war with Mexico,
SAYS that the people of the South under
stand the situation perfectly, and do not
have any empty ambition to assail Mexico
for idle glory or for vulgar plunder; but
they believe, almost without exception,
that it is time for IN end to be made of
the insecurity of life and property on the
RIO Grande frontier.
T*
A convention of all the female editors
in the South is called to meet at Greens
boro Wednesday, Nov. 3rd. Female writ
ers, as well AZ editors, are invited to be
present Miss Hatchett, of the Henderson
Southern Woman, says the number of
women pursuing journalism in the South
as a profession is very large and that the
attendance at the Press Association will
p2 large enough ia make it a SUCCESS from
the first.
An Interesting case was tried in Boston
last week A barber named Frank Dixon
was tried for keeping open his barber shop
on Sunday. He admitted the charge but
set up as his defence that it was a work
of necessity. The jury found him guilty
and an appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court Is shaving and hair cutting on
sunday work of necessity? If so can
barber shops be kept open on that day
These are questions that will be considered
until this ease is finally detarmined,
80
Not only in North Carolina have the
LAWYERS discussed the large number Of the
Supreme Court Reports and protested
against such voluminous opinions upon
questions long settled AT the meeting
of the New York Bar Association there
was a discussion and proposition was
made to prohibit hy law the publication of
certain reports. The Association, however,
while expressing itself that the large vol
ume of judiciary law was great evil took
no present action looking to Legislative
limitation.
4lts. Kate Chase, whose lively sayings
are again quoted in Washington, replied
to some one who spoke about woman suff-
rage: Take my word for it, the great
body of women will always do what they
want to do; whenever they want to vote
they will vote, and no power on earth will
stop them.r She is about right The
trouble is that we are afraid Blair and
other such cranks will invest them with
the power without asking the opinion OF
desire of any of the sex except the breech
es-wearng ones like DR.. Mary Walker
The pantaloon portion of our population
would not dare vote against woman suff
rage if their wives and sweethearts de
manded they'd as soon put their hands
in red hot fire.
ar Rarnells great mastery over the
Irish has been often source of wonder
and surprise. He is not a Catholic, neither
is he an excitable or impetuous man az
are most OF the Irish. And yet he WELD:
power as leader not surpassed in th'
last hundred years. 1t is possible tha
this difference gives him strength. Ill
.an apd does demand for his people IL
@, nest, most dispassionate manner wha
he conceives is their rights, when th'
great body of the Irish can make no de
mand or no public statement without grea
demonstrations. He is great man and
born leader. The Irish Times Qoyalist)
however, asserts that Mr.. Parnell vii
shortly ioin the Catholic church.
*.*
Monument building isn't a favorite a
musement with Americans. Rip Val
Wnkle said, GLOW soon are we forgo
when we are dead" The Garfield
monument which was to have been 90
feet high has been reduced to $50 feet
the Grant monument WHICH was to hav
cast million dollars is tar away iron
commencement. Only $126,6s6.4O ha
been collected and the receipts are rapid.
dwlndling to pennies. The management
according to the New York Star, has beel
guilty of gross negligence and has mad
no business like or determined effort t.
secure the million dollars The result will
be says the Star, that the monument t
Vrant will be erected at Washington, tn
proper place for it, at the public expense
Everybody knows how difficult it is t
enforce Prohibition in cities and towns
hE IL.