Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-04-22

HERALD AND TRIBUNE.
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lit 81 a Year, IN Adoance.
Fl. W. DUSINBERRE, EDITOR.
JONESBORO, TENN, APRIL %. 1885.
THE New York aldermen appear TO
have pursued a give and take policy. The
score shows large odds in favor of take.
EDUCATION, moderation and arbitration
are what this country needs. Make the
first compulsory and the others will be-
come voluntary.
CHAPLArx M1LBrRN is delivering
strong total abstinence prayers in the
Democratic House of Representatives.
He evidently knows where they are most
needed.
THE undertakers of New York have
formed a trades union. 1t is suspected
that the members will boycott all their
friends who persist in remaining disgust
ingIy healthy.
IT is reported that a Sunday school in
South Jersey has struck because one OF
the teachers wears giddy worldly bangs
The story is hard to believe; it is too
near the picnic season for anything to in
terfcre with Sunday-school
Gov. BATE has appointed Hon. W. Z.
Whitthorne of Lebanon, Tenn, to take
the place OF Hon. Howell E.. Jackson, in
the United States Senate, who resigned to
take the {. s.. circuit judgeship made
vacant by the death of Judge Baxter
THE public debt Of Canada is about SOS
per capita, or more than twice the pei
capita amount of the debt of the United
States. The Canadian debt is a whole
lecture on governmental bungllng, bad
management and false systems elaborate
w illustrated with expensive diagrams.
ONE of Two things is becoming more
next presidential election will have to be
postponed six or eight years, OF the Dem
ocratic party will be thrashed out of its
boots. This alternative is written down
in red ink in the herd book of political
destiny.
THE Chicago Socialists have formally
resolved that they will neither destroy
the Government nor annihilate the Re
public-for all of which they are entitled
TO the grateful thanks of a frightened
people. The Goddess of Liberty may now
come out of her hiding-place in the china
closet and breathe again.
The weapons with which labor estab-
fishes its just demands must be weapons
in harmony with the American doctrine
of personal freedom, common justice and
equal rights. Capital must concede the
right of labor to- OrganiZe and to act
through organization. Labor must con-
cede the right of capital to employ whom
it p~leases.
THE. Republican Governor of Kansas
and the Democratic Governor of Texas
each on April 9, had the same trouble to
deal with. In the Republican State there
was protection and peace; in the Demo
cratic State of Texas there was riot,
bloodshed and murder, and no visible
State government at the State capital
when assistance was solicited.
THE Pan-E Electric witnesses all seem to
appreciate the fact that they are on trial
They do not answer embarrassing ques-
tons as honest men would, by showing
the imputations conveyed to be unbound
ed, but they fly into a passion and abuse
that sagacious and imperturable member
of the committee, Mr.. Ranney. AS for
Mr.. Ranney, he sticks at it till he gets the
truth or exposes the lie.
THE society women of Columbus, o.,
are boycotting Mrs. Foraker because her
husband, the Governor, sent a special
message to the Legislature calling atten-
ton to the way in which rich citizens
evade taxation by refusing to make prop
er returns of their property to the asses
sor. Mrs. Foraker should be very proud
of a boycott projected from u g basis.
That is the sort of boycott that develops
into a boom.
THE highly moral people of Montreal
are up in arms against the nude in art,
and one of the most prominent citizens OF
the place is to be prosecuted for keeping
in his house copies of such works as
ssVenus di Medici,' Greek Slave and
he" LAGOON" The excessively virtu-
Gus Indignation which prompts the Mon
treal folks to such a crusade is danger
Gus. If it is allowed to go on Montreal
will become so truly good that her colony
of American absconders will have to
move.
BARNUM-that is, the circus Barnum-
after a full investigation, declares that
the boomerang is a myth, and that the
mysterious weapon which some of the is
land tribes hurl from them with a twist
which brings it back to them exists only
in Imagination. There is one man who
will not believe this, however, and 1t is
Pension Commissioner Black. When he
went into office he threw his boomerang
out to destroy his immediate predecessor
D.--I1.oo- oo-tu hat Tho