Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-07-06

1HE Tectnt rG1 upon tie BANK o.
France, which created wild alarm in
financial circles, was caused by the dis
covery that large number of 500 frank
notes of the bank were cDunterfsited. 1t
shows how superior our American money
is. There might be millions of counter
felt in existence, and in circulation, and
yet every holder of a United States
National Bank bill would feel that it was
as safe and valuable as gold in his pocket.
Even the breaking of the bank would not
reduce its value.
The last New York Legislature author
lied the state dairy commission to spend
not more than $1,000 in instructing the
farmers in making superior grades of
butter and cheese. The idea of giving
such instruction was adopted in Canada
some five years ago, and the result is that
! Canadian dairy products, which formerly
ranked considerably below those of New
York, now bring higher prices. This
years appropriation will be used for ex-
perimepts and larger appropriation will
! be asked for next year.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL of telephone
fame has been telling the English royal
commission for the education of deaf
mutes how important it is that the deaf
and dumb should be trained in articula
tion and should associate with hearing
| persons. Inter marriages are common
| between deaf -mutes and the misfortune
of the parents Is often visited on the
children. ArticuIatlng methods have
been carried to high stage CT develop
ment in this country, and Great Britain
can we'll take lessons of US.
OREGoN's Fourth of July celebration is
going to 'stand tiptOe on the misty
mountain tops" and Washington terri
tory and northern California have been
pressed into the service. Last years
illumination of Mt. Hood proved so sue
cessful that this year the peaks of st.
Helen's Adams, Three Sisters, Shasta,
Pitt, Rainier and Baker Will glow with
red fire. The light will CLEAN forth in
the dead of night, and will be seen more
than 100 miles away, if the conditions
are favorable. 1t speaks volumes for the
grandeur of our friends on tke Pacific
slope that they can use mountains for
Roman candle sockets.
IT has been generally supposed that
the brotherhood of locomotive engineers
had given up the Burlington and Quincy
fight, but a big mass meeting of over
1000 engineers and firemen was held at
New York, and addresses were made by
Chiefs Arthur and Sergeant and Chairman
Hoge of the Grievance committee in sup
port Of their position and in favor of
keeping up the struggle. All the speakers
were enthusiastically cheered, and reports
of the bad condition of the BurIington's
rolling stock, earnings, and outlook gen
orally were received with renewed deter
mination never to yield an inch. And to
this end great convention of all railroad
EN- ployes is planned to be held i'll October
for a more effective and comprehensive
union. Until that time the Burlington
strikers will be assisted by voluntary con
tributions. The brotherhood is evidently
deeply impressed with the justness of its
cause and this display of unity ana de-
termination on the part of unusually in
telligent men means much. But what is
to be gained by prolonging a struggle
long ago lost? There was a square fight,
a fair field, and the Darlington won.
Acquiesence in the result should follow
but of course the brotherhood will go on
strengthening its organization.
DR.. MACKENZIE's reported admission
that he concealed the cancerous nature of
Emperor Frederick throat trouble so as
to avoid regency, has served 10 accen-
tuate the hatred OF English influences by
the German press ard public. The North
German Gazette, whose opinions com
monty carry weight and dignity, declares
that "an unimportant English physician,
holding radical views in politics, has the
presumption to act the part OF priyy
councillor and exercise p decisive in
tuence upon the German nation It is
quite possible that DR.. Mackenzie has
been Over-reported. He may have said
simply that he did not disclose his sus-
picions of the real nature of the malady.
But even if he was fully aware that the
trouble was cancerOu5, he is not to BE
singled cut for attack. The German
ph5 sicians in attendance are in the same
boat, and it will be remembered that Vir-
chow, the emiuent man of science, would
not give mis- opinion as to whether there
was a generous growth or not. How
ever this may be, it may safely be said
that DR.. Mackenzie acted for the right.
He knew thas the emperor was not inca
pacitated from railing as constitutional
monarch, though he could no5 be an ex-
ponent of the medieval "war lord" idea
as set tortE by the new emperor in his
speeches. DR.. Mackenzie's views were
modern, just and sensible; bu1 the present
imperial temper of Germany is that of
the middle ages.