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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-20

Advices from Honolulu give an account
IA disastrous conflagration which oc
Cured there April 49, The fire started in
IL cookhouse in the Chinese quarters and
soon got hey ond control OF the inadequa tie
fire department., and efforts were then di-
rected toward staying the progress OF the
flames by blowing up buildings. 1t was
not until eight entire squares, comprising
sixty acres of the most thickly populated
portions OF the Chinese quarters, were de-
stroyed, that the fires advance was stayed.
About 5000 people, mostly Chinese, are
left homeless. The loss il estimated at
$1,5OO,OOO; insurance, $23O,OOO. Only
two lives lost.
Miss Catharine Wolfe put a check for
$45, 200 in the Easter day collection at
Grace church, n Y. The entire collection
amounted to $4,000. Miss Wolfe's con-
tribution will be devoted to the purchase
OF St. Philips church in Mulberry street,
which is to be used as an Italian mission
in connection with Grace church
d. H. Scott, brought back to Winnipeg
from Mexico on q charge OF forgery, has
been arraigmed for preliminary trial. lie
has been found guilty on twenty counts OF
the indictment preferred by the Merchants
Bank OF Canada. He discounted notes OF
the Woodlands municipality to the extent
OF 100000.
Bank exchanges show gains during the
week, the increase aggregating 1929, $685.
955.
The American Medical association adj
iourns at st. Louis to meet in Chicago
next year.
DIR. o. w. Holmes is resting at Chester,
Eng.
Ample evidence is obtained against the
Chicago socialist leaders.
All. Winslow, OF Auerbach Finch & Van
SlyGk, st. Paul, dies in st. Louis.
Gov. Hill OF New York has signed the bill
Tor an undergroond railway under Broad.
way from the Battery to the Harlem river,
and work will begin this summer. The
protector and president OF the broadway
Arcade Railway company, Melville G.
Smith, many years ago. was member OF
the Minnesota state senate from Mime
! apolis.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-05-20
A. o. U. w.
Annual Session at st. Paul-Full Repre-
sentatiop-Condition of the Order.


sentatior-Condition of the Order.
The grand lodge Ancient Order OF United
Workmen opened it's tenth annual session
in st. Paul, oyer one hundred and twenty
five delegates being in attendance G. NJ.
w. E. H. Stevens presiding.
The report OF the grand master workman
gave u general review OF the work OF the
year, showing an increase oftwenty- six new
lodges, twenty-three of which were in Dako-
ia and three in Minnesota.
The report OF the grand receiver showed
the following items:
DEBTS,
Beneficiary fund. ..........-........$44.1 1876 90
General fund ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $500 OF
Balance on hand. 1877 SIS
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ,533 62
CREDITS.
Beneficiary rrants...............S4G,O 900 90
General arrants..................... 4,4S0 %
Balance on OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1858 40
New-York tribune., 1886-05-16
IUPRISONuENT FOR DEBT.

Speaker Husted's bill to abolish long terms Of
Imprisonment for debt has passed the Senate by
the significant vote of X6 to l. This bill limits
ilr prisonment for Indebtedness of less than
$500 to three months, and for sums above $500
to six months. 1t is, in fact, sort OF compro-
mise, and while it does away with some of the
most scandaous wrongs of the existing law it
is still far behind the times in breadth of prin-
ciple. The objection that lies against all i'm
prisonment for debt when fraud is not charged
against the debtor necessarily holds good in
the present case. The presumption is that most
arrests tor debt occur when the sum involved is
less than $500. The debtors in nearly all such
cases are poor men, dependent for the support
of themselves and their families upon some
wage earning occupation. Now to take the
head of family from his work and clap him in
Jail for three months, must result, in majority
of Instances, in ruin to that man and his family
together. Three months is quite long enough
to insure the loss of the prisoners position,
whatever it may be and long enough also to
insure the exhaustion of whatever small fund
the family may hold in reserve against an
emergency.
Py the expiration of such period tie
wretched debtor would have lost his means of
livelihood, while in all probability his family
would have not only spent ell their money but
been compelled to pawn or sell all their belong
ings TO procure he means of subsistence. And
for what rational end is such fearful punish
ment inflicted upon men who may be entirely
guiltless of any wrong lntent9 1t should be
perfectly clear to the least intelligent that if
man owes debt the surest method to prevent
him from paying it, if he has no attachabe
property, is to imprisOn him. Free, he may
earn enough to discharge at least a part of his
liability. Locked up, he is rendered powerless
to earn dollar. The utter unreason, the per-
verse fatuiiy, of the underlying principle in all
such legislation is SO patent that the reluctance
OF the State Legislature to clear the prcposter-
Gus and monstIOusly inequitabe law from the
statute book altogether is nothing less than
amazing. There is not Il single considerable iOn
deserving respect that can be advanced in iusti-
tcaIion of any such legislation. In the ma
jcrity of the States of the Union imprisonment
for debt has been abolished years ago. In all
such States it was rightly regarded as legacy
from time OF comparative baIbarism an ugly
survival from the period when the citizens of a
sO-caled free country upheld the crime of
slavery.
The prctence that it is necessary to retain the
principle, however modified, cannot seriously
be maintained. In the States " hich have done
away with it no i'll effects have ever followed.
The universal experience has been that when
the burden Of precaution is put wholly Oh the
New-York tribune., 1886-05-16

its presentation in many pnlpts 1t is strlh-
ing fact thet until recent events d'scioseu 'nc
close relation and sympathy between sociai
theories and Anarchc crimes, the educhteu
classes were rapidly advancing toWhiu
measure of sympathy with Socialism. ii frihcc
Krapotkine il SO marvell0usy ignorant oi the
limited States as this statement indicates he ls
NOT fit to sneak of American affairs mt all, anu
strong suspicion is justified that nc IL cqu'''!
blinded to facts in other countries.
aIn America force is proclaimed the supreme
means.r That is true, and by the Anarchists ;
not. as the writer falsely asserts, by society.
Public discussion has not been interrupted 10
this day in the slightest degree. But the Ahaf-
chists. Instead of relying on human reason anu
the Justice of their principles, have Appealed TO
murderous bombs The editor of Socialist
noper has been arrested, not because OF his
oniuions but because he melted to n riot. The
bovcott. Prince Krapotkine says, is certainly
a legal instrument whereas the truth Is thai
it certainly is no., in some OF the States ana
the question is being fairly tested i'll the courts,
which have thus far acted with remarkable
impartiaity, whether it is legal instrument In
any.
But whether it is legal or not, that and other
means to which the Anarchists have resorted
are clearly hostile to free institutions. Bomb
throwing and bOycottlng are attempts OF
minority to coerce majority. In their nature,
they can be nothing else: there could be no
occasion or pretext for throwing bombs or for
irving to destroy the business of any man If
the majority who make the laws desired the
things demanded by strikers or Anarchists.
Therefore, these acts are hostile to American
freedom, which protects the liberties of citizens
while the discussion of principles upon which
laws shall be framed goes on. Civilized society,
the world over, is being compelled TO suppress
Socialists and Anarchists, not because they
discuss, but because they will not discuss; not
because they want freedom but because they
try TO rob the majority of their freedom.
New-York tribune., 1886-05-16

vendcr and the lender. the primary ehect Is 10
lower the average of bad debts. Bat as mat
ter of fact. imprisonment for DEBT seiao"
pnnishcs the dishonest. IL is scourge to the
unfortunate but clcan-handcd poor and IN their
case il legnlizcs an amount of outrage ana OPP
prcssion such as the whole community would
ptotest against il the victims we're common
criminals. Further than this, any law OF the
kind becomes the special auxiliary OF the
meanest and most rcvengeful class OF small
creditors-men who for debt of two or three
hundred dollars are prepared to drive whole
family to desiituton and to wreck the lives OF
half dozen innocent persons. 1t is shame 10
mt such an instrument OF base spite IN the
hands of these people. AS to fraudulent
debtors. they are the only ones who ever ought
to be put in jail. and there is no objection to
punishing them reasonably. Speaker llusteds
hill however, docs not meet the requirements
of the case. 1t ought to abolish imprisonment
for debt in all cases and for all terms, except
ing when fraud is alleged and even then the
complaining creditor should be compelled to
furnish bonds as guarantee against malicious
prosecution.
New-York tribune., 1886-05-16
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assurcdIy does not follow that, having wasted
It, he is entitled to claim as the effect of general
injustice the material injury he has deliberately
brought upon himself. American labor owes IL
to itself to help itself, and its first dnty is not
to disturb tho national industry and commerce
by unreasonable strikes, but to show that 1t has
the self-denial, thrift and temperance which
alone can lift it to higher plane While tho
enormous leak in the wage-fund represented by
the drink bill continues to drain away the
earnings of labor it is impossible to regard as
wholly serious the complaints advanced by
those who pay that bill. All can see that they
need not do it that if they kept the money IN
their pockets two-ttirds of their difficulties
would vanish at once that if they have not the
force Of character to refrain from self
indulgence, no legislation, no increase OF wages,
no shortening of hours, can help them per-
manently. They should begin with the con-
quest of themselves. and, that accomplished,
all things will be easy for them.
New-York tribune., 1886-05-16
FATE or TIE HONE RIFLE BILL

Mr.. Gladstone's Home Rule bill will be de-
feated on the second reading. This fact is ve?y
clearly set forth in our regular London CORE
spondent's dispatches. Lord Harrington and
Mr.. Chamberlain have secured between them
enough Liberal votes with the aid Of the Tories
to place the Government in minority when
the critical division occurs. They have also
pledged themselves to reject any concessions
| that may be offered and to insist upon having a
| decisive vote Upon the measure. The Govern
ment is still receiving assurances of support
from the Liberal associations and caucuses
but the certainty that the bill is doomed Will
undoubtedly check the ardor of these demon
strations As the Liberal leaders in opposition
are now unwilling to have the measure with
drawn, Mr.. Gladstone apparently will soon
have to decide whether he will resign or appeal
to the country. The former alternative is more
probable, as the Queen will undoubtedly prefer
to summon Lord harrington rather than to
sanction dissolution.
The fate of the Home Rule bill was sealed
when Mr. Gladstone declined last week to make
the concessions de enanded by Mr.. Chamberlain
If he had been the time serving politician and
demag Ogue his opponents have represented him
to be- the old Parliamentary hand ready to
stand before Mr.. Chamberlain cap in hard like
a mendicant asking for support on any terms
so long as he could be allowed to pass his
measure in some fOrm-he would have con-
sented to Irish representation at Westminster.
Having made this concession, he would have
been asked to give assurances that Ulster
should have a separate Parliament and before
! he could have settled the score with the Radical
leader he would have driven the NatiOnalists
into opposition. Mr.. Gladstone has preferred
| to fall like a statesman without attempting to
| beat parley with treacberous allies who under
| cover of flag of truce were bent upon
| humiliating as well as defeating him. He will
go out of office without forfeiting the sympathy
| of the great mass Of English Liberals and it'll
ont sacrificing the respect and gratitude of the
Irish people.
| While Mr. Cladstone's bill is doomed. Home
| Rule itself still holds the field, with the GER
| tainty that any stable Gov ernment that may be
| formed will have to cOnceCe it as an abstract
principle and to carry it into effect with such
notifications as the Irish members may be
willing or be forced to accept. In our cable
letter the explicit statement is made that what
| ever may be the fate OF the present measure,
Home Rule on terms which patriotic lrishmen
will be at liberty to accept is certain. The
! Liberal leaders in opposition are even reported
| to have agreed upon a substantive policy en-
| bodying autonomy in the federal, but not in the
colonial, sense. The victory over Mr.. Gladstone
| will be one of those Pyrrhic battles which pre-
sage ultimate defeat of the enemies of Home
Rule.
New-York tribune., 1886-05-16
SAYING BETTER THAN STRIKING.

A time will come, it is to be hoped, when
labor societies will consider themselves under
obligations, not alone to maintain the rate OF
wages, but to see that when earned those
wages are nationally and usefully employed.
Hitherto there has been too much question OF
what men should receive for their labor, and
too little question of how they should eypend
their earnings. Workingmen insist that the
sympathy Of the public ought to be with them
in their struggles to improve their situation.
They do not reflect that to deserve this COM
plete sympathy it is incumbent on them to
show that they do not waste their earnings. III
nan earns a thousand dollars year. and
chooses to spend a fourth of his income in
supertluites. and moreover, in mlschlevous
superfuites such as drink, he cannot make
much of a showing in complaining OF his
poverty 1t is alleged that the drink-bill of
this country is $9oO,O0O,OOO. To apporton
half of that outlay to the working classes is
certainly not an unreasonable division. What
n fund for the improvement of the condition
of labor is here worse than flung away.
Even retrenchmcnt OF 80 per cent in this
one source of waste would produce c..pital
large enough to establish cooperative in
dustres all over the country, and to give to
organized labor the impetus which Its leaders
declare can only be supplied by money. But in
face of the fact tnat the wOrkingmen at present
prefer TO spend this great sum in drink. is 1t not
nonsense TO assert that they are handicapped in
the race for prosperity by any hands but their
own7 Nothing more cOnclusivcly demon
strates the familiar axiom that the capitaliza-
ton of wealth implies thrift The capitalists
are not as too many workingmen seem to i'm
aginc, a class of wicked men who by some
unholy means have got mold of masses OF
money. They are simply the men who have
Jractsed self-denial who have saved instead
of spending their surplus earnings who have
put it to interest prudently as opportunity
served; whD have always expended less than
they earned. Hundreds of them began poor {;
not seldom by day labor. But even when they
onlv earned III 30 a day they saved something,
and this rule of life has brought them COM
petence.
The man who cannot practise self-denial will
never be rich, though the hours OF labor should
be reduced half, and the current wages be
increased hundred per cent. The thrifty man
can save out of the mercsJ pittancc. The
unthlifty will fall behind on an income OF
S5O, 900 a year. When the labor OF a country
complains of its condition at the same time that
il is spending $500. 1000, 300 year upon beer
and whiskey, what can be thought of the gen =
uineness of it's grievances, of its intelligence "f
its fitness for progress Let 1t be admitted
that nnder existing conditions every man Is
entitled to waste his substance rs he plcascs IL
New-York tribune., 1886-05-16
THE CONVICTION OF Jaime.

Number one ! Good for beginning. There
is a long line to follow, and now that one OF the
bribe of 1884 has been found guilty,
the onviction of all the corrupt Aldermen may
fairly be expected. Then. too, the men who
supplied the money which MoOney pald lot
the votes the LAWYERS who aided the con-
spiracy, and the originators OF the whole ma
nous scheme will find themselves in perllous
position. With the encouragement afforded by
the victory in the Jachne case, the District
Attorney and his assistants can 60 forward
boldly and keep at the good work until all
the traickers IN public trusts are IN prison
Mr. MARITIME and his associates can now strike
| high and strike hard. They will have all the
| backing from the public that they can desire.
Jaehne's case was almost hopeless from the
! beginning, as the evidence against hl1. snppneu
! by his own confession, was overwhelming Oon-
viction NAV not be easy to secure III the other
cases. but the moral effect of this mornings YER
diet will be felt in them ALL and 1t Is probable
that some of the guilty Aldermen. warned by
| Jaehne's fate. Will nov be eager to tighten their
own punishment by teling all they know about
| the crimes of Their fellows.
District Attorney MARITIME. his assistant, Mr..
| Nlcoil ana inspector DyIhcS u''o ""n 'r ~
in the case which was so well concluded last
night Some of the New York newspapers,
While protesting the deepest anxiety that JUS
tce should be done ard the guilty punished,
have hampered and embarrassed the prosecu-
ton by repeated expressions of distrust of the
good faith of the authorities, and by frantic
cries to every one concerned to appreciate the
tremendous responsibility of the situation.
Perhaps these journals meant well. but they
showed little sense. Disntercsted and careful
observers have never discovered any reason for
doubting the good faith of the District Attor-
news Office in these matters. What has already
been accomplished Is the best evidence of that.
And in the work that remains to be done we
expect to see no falling off i'll vigOr, energy and
resolution.
New-York tribune., 1886-05-16
KRA APOTKINES IGNORANCE.

| 1t appears that man may be eminent as a
Socialist, and talk much of a matter of which
| he knows nothing. The letter of Prince Kra-
potkine to THE TRIBUNE, which published
yesterday in a special cable dispatch, will 20
far to destroy any sympathy which might have
been felt for him and his associates in the old
world, on the notion that their methods were
| there excused by the tyranny to which they
have been subjected. But he now jusifes the
adoption Of the same principles and the same
modes of resisting authority in a free country
Ii is an undeLiable fact" he assumes, that
the industrial crisis which the country has en-
countered is not temporary one, but = the
necessary consequence Of false economical
relations" Yet this has been publicly denied,
and by great majority of economic writers
both in Europe and in the United States. By
them it is believed that the crisis is temporary
both here and abroad, and that il is due 10 the
operation of causes which must be expected to
recur more or less periodically in all coun res
1t is proper for Prince Krapotkine to submit
reasons for his belief, but to assert that it is
undemable argues either ignorance or un-
truthfulness.
Again, he asserts that in this country q the
educated classes arrogantly deny the existence
of such thing as the social question" Doubt.
less this is pure ignorance, but ignorance so
great as to disqual.fy u man for giving any
advice to the people of the United States 1t
is not only true that the social question has
been openly and generally discussed here for
some years, in the press, in public meetings,
and in assemblages of all sorts, but it is con-
spicuously true that the question has been dis
cussed with peculiar earnestness by the
educated classes. For example, IL ceilings of
clergymen have been few for months past at
which the question has not been discussed, and
scarcely Sabbath for years has not witnessed
New-York tribune., 1886-05-16
4 Plan 10 ISOLATE THE APACHE

Il
Senator Fair, of Nevada, has proposed to the
Secretary of the Interior a scheme for disposlng
of the Apaches which at least possesses the
merit of novelty. There is a small island OIL
the coast of Southern California called Santa
Catalina. 1t lies twenty-five miles from the
mainland, southwest from Los Angeles. lhe
climate is excellent, the fishing abundant, ana
there is enough good land to raise all the pro-
duce required. Senator Fair suggests that the
United States buy the island, which is at
present owned by private citizens, and deport
the Apaches thither. He does not believe
that il would be necessary to guard them, the
distance to the mainland being too great for
them to escape in any kind of craft they
could construct. He thinks all that would be
necessary would be a small steam tender and
crew to ply between the island and the port OF
Wilmington, for the purposes of communication
and supplies and he is of opinion that II this
plan is followed it will settle at least one In
dian problem for all time.
Unfortunately there are several ifs " in the
way. In the first place the Indians might be
put upon the island if they weIe caught; but at
present the essential preliminary 70 deportation
or any other scheme, the catching OF them,
namely, appears 10 eXceeu tne utmost capaDlH-
ties of our most experienced and renowned In
dian fighters. Perhaps until they have been
caught it is hardly worth while to consider
what shall be done with them. Even Mrs.
Glass. before nstructing her generation III the
mysteries of jugged hare, observes" lrst catch
your hare In the second place, it does not
appear by any means so certain as Senator Fair
represents it that the Apaches could not get
away from Santa Catalina Island if once placed
there They are intelligent and daring. They
are not unaccustOmed to canoeing. and there
seems no adequate ground for supposing them
incapable of devising some kind of boat or raft
on which they might cross the twenty-five miles
of sea that would intervene between them and
the magnificent scalping- ground of Los
Angeles. Perhaps good test of the popular
faith in the security of the island would be to
ask the people of Southern California how they
would like to have Geronimo and his lieuten
ants and followers transferred to Santa Cata-
lima and left there without guards. And finally
it might be worth while to ascertain who owns
the island, and what the United States Govern
ment would be expected to pay for it.