, 1886-05-13
PickIngS-

issued II call for the meeting of the
republicans congressman to organize
congressional committee. They are
hopeful of winning the majority of
the house this fall.
New York World: Public opinion
is the very best ally labor can have
in its efforts to better its condition.
Just so long as the people believe
that labor is only contending for
justice, that it Is only seeking to i'm
prove It's condition within the bounds
of liberty, law and reason, they will
approve labor organizations and their
efforts.
The drink bill of Great Britain for
1885 was less than that for 1854. The
amount of this drink bill is equal TO
the nations expenditure for bread,
butter and cheese, is not much less
than the rents paid for farms and
houses, is three times the amount
spent for tea, sugar, coffee and cocoa,
and six times the amount spent on
linen and cotton goods.
With the determined opposition of
the Ohio wool men. the Louisiana
sugar men and the Michigan mem
bers, all led by Congressman Ran
dali, the defeat Of the Morrison tariff
bill is assured. The defeat of this
bill will prevent tho reduction of
tariff on foreign coal and lumber,
which would injure the industries of
Washington Territory.
Should President Cleveland marry
Miss Folsom, the result Will probably
be an expense to the people of the
United States OF 100000 10 S300,000
She is y years of age, ana Very pro,
bnbly will be : 'presidrut', widow"
from forty Ia seventy years, drawing
Il p,us;oa Of $1,000 per anuuE, as ihe
womau who married President l. lar
forty-three years ago is ssti:l doing.
The daily London Ne,rS says:
There is no need of fear that the
law breakers in Chicago will over
power the police. 1t becomes us,
however, on this side of the Atlantic,
to consider how far we are RESPONSE
bic for the savage emute in Chicago.
America will make very short work
of Anarchists plots when once it has
been aroused, as it is nov likely to
be, to action against them"
The opposition to Mr.. Gladstone
will have to muster about $50 votes
defeat the Irish bill. If Mr.. Glad
stone loses sixty or seventy liberal
votes, he can carry the measure with
the aid Of the eighty six Parnehties.
The tories can put up 220 votes, and
it does not appear that they can rein
force themselves from the liberal
ranks to the requisite extent. The
outlook is favorable for the passage
of the bill.
CASCADE TUNNEL-The heading at
the west end of the Cascade tunnel
is sixty-seven feet in, and the east
heading is III 279 feet-tunnel eighty
or more feet. The rock is blue
granite. A portable engine has been
brought into requisition and is now
being utilized in drilling and is do
ing some effective work. The town
has some fifteen houses in it. The
express make three trips each week.
There is world of machinery at
Eliensburg depot, designed fer use
at the tunnel.
The United Ireland says the mani
festo of MIR. Gladstone 10 his consti-
tuents portends the destruction either
of the liberal party or of the seced-
ers from that body. The document
shows that the premier Is possessed
of unrlvalied courage and confidence.
The result of Mr.. Gladstone's acts,
says the paper, will be to bring Irish
an English democrats face to face
against bigotry and selfishness. A
parliament on College Green will not
be the worst thing the golden butter
flies will have to rue before the foun-
tains that they have stirred up have
subsidized
Many Of the noi thern press are in
cllned to excuse the recent treasona-
bic speeches of JEFF. Davis on the
ground that they are the silly utter
anccs of an antiquated relic of seces-
SION. a man in his dotage who is
hardly responsible for what he saws.
1t must be remembered, however.
that nearly ali his public utterances
for the past twenty-five years have
been In the same strain. Then what
about the enthusiastic manner in
which these utterances are received
by the people who applaud to the
echo every allusion to the doctrine of
state sovereignty and the justice of
the lost cause7
Gloss 1t over, as the American peo-
pie in their boundlcss charity. NAV
ask 10 do, yet it is fact that the putre
scent remains Of the Shareholders re-
be!lion experienced a shock as from
galvanic battery by the recent dis
play IN Alabama, which caused some
fantastic agitation resembling life.
The speech Of jeff Davis ut the Ger
emonies OF laying the corner stone of
the monument 10 the confederate
dead IN Montgomery, his erewhile
capital, was short, but its sentiments
were such as might have inspired a
similar address of some Grecian or
Roman hero lamenting Tie over
throw of ancient liberty by the
power OF tyranny. Ex- Senator Cor
don, OF Georgia, made more clabor
ate address not 50 pronounced in its
rebel sentiments. but calculated TO
keep alive the spirit of treason in his
hearers.