Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.


 The Knights of Labor may change their name, but they will have to make other changes In order to do good work.
 At Aix-Ls-Chapelle there is a newspaper museum, founded by Oscan Won Foroken- beck, which contains files of specimens of more than 17,0o0 different newspapers in the world, and it is daily receiving copies of the remainder from all quarters of the globe. The great curiosity of the collection is No. 46 of the Texas Democrat, published at Houston on March II, 1864, when the exi gencies of war time made it necessary to print it on wall paper.
 Some of the Philadelphia girls are com plaining, and with good reason. Two hum dred of them who have fitted themselves for admission to the public normal school have been rejected because there Is no room for them in the normal school building, and the board of education says it has no means to provide any, although there is an unfinished story in the building and the board has $26, ,000 on hand There is evil | dently something wrong in Philadelphia. Some of the women of Minneapolis have formed club whose object is "a more thor l ough understanding of the great political questions of the day regarding the tariff, protection and good government, with the best ways and means to be employed of continuing the latter" Essays tending to | this purpose will be read at the meetings of ! the club, and prominent men will be asked | to deliver addresses from time to time. When the women get so that they under~ stand the tariff they will surely be entitled to claim what they want.
 l In letter to this weeks Independent Gen. eral Hsrrisons pastor makes two interesting statements. The first is that the general, though urged by some of his friends to do certain things with view to obtaining the Chicago nomination, steadily refused to do SO. The second is that, when the nomina- ton came to him, it found him absolutely unpledged." For this last statement, the clergyman tells us, he has "unquestionable authority" The only promise the general made was that, if elected, he ''would con- duct the administration on Republican prin- ciples."
 The Prison Labor bill approved by the caucus of Republican members of the
 New York legislature, and which seems likely to be passed, makes no provisions for carrying out contracts already entered
 into for furnishing to purchasers the pro-
 ducts of the prison industries, or for dis posing of machinery that has cost the State nearly half million dollars. It will throw
 upon the taxpayers 8 large part of the ex- pense of maintaining the prisons, and there
 is no assurance that the kind of work pro-
 posed will keep the prisoners employed half
 the time. It will hardly pay the Republi-
 cans, or anybody else. to pass such a
 measure.
 Ballot reform has been found to be needed
 even in the Sandwich Islands, and bill in
 stituting changes somewhat similar to those
 proposed in many States in this country has
 been submitted to the Hawaiian legislature.
 It was prepared by special commission.
 The radical changes in the Hawaiian measure
 ares dl doing away with the present tax re-
 ceiptTRstem, which requires the exhibition
 of a tax receipt ar the polls as the condition
 of voting, and the substitution of uniform
 registration in its place; (s) providing for 2 luniform ballot, printed and distributed at ths