Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Register thinks we are too silent. A ittle silence now and then wouldn't hurt the Register any.
 The largest pout ever found in Worcester county fMassachusetts) was recently caught in Lake Chaugegagog ogmanchaugogogchau- bunagungamog. He is we'll out of such a lake.
 A writer in medical journal gives the fol- lowing needed caution. Beware of too much quinine. It will produce a congestion of the ear and irritation of the auditory nerve. The common habit of taking quinine for neural- eia and other ailments without consulting 6 doctor is altogether reprehensible, and may lead to very serious results. Many cases of deafness are produced by overdoses and long, continued use of the drug.
 Chicago lawyers and business men, with out distinction of party, are singing letter to Judge Magruder asking him to be again g candidate for the Supreme bench. It was Judge Magruder who wrote the famous opin- ion in the anarchists case, and it is feared that the spite of their sympathizers may de- feat him unless he is solidly backed by Dem- ocrats and Republicans alike. He ought to be and probably will be triumphantly sup ported.
 The enthusiasm for cooperation in Eng land isn't growing. Of fourteen undertak- l ings supported by London cooperative as- sociation one has been wound up, one is Gin abeyance," one "at standstill," one has in- sufficient capital, five have only got as far as the discussion or registration of their rules, one is seeking government contract, but wants an advance of money, one is doing a good deal of business, but making very little profit, about two the report is vague and only one, the Cigarette Makers society, can be said to be fairly successful.
 The decision of the Supreme court of Michigan that the local option law which went into effect on the first of May is uncon stitutional will be quite a setback to the regulation of the liquor traffic in that State. l The constitution of Michigan declares tha. no law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title. It is l evident that a law which is intended to per-
 init the people of any county in State tc suspend in that county by their vote the | operation os general law for the taxation and regulation of the liquor traffic is not it. self "an act to regulate the manufacture and sale" of liquors in the several counties of the State, which is the subject expressed in the | title of this law.
 The tariff agitation makes itself felt ir | many disagreeable ways. For instance, the ! treasurer of the Knowles loom works ir ! Worcester, Mass, says: We had decided tc
 expend from $15O, 900 to $20O, GOO in the cree 1 ton of new buildings, etc., for our works l this spring, and had it not been for the fearf | of sadverse tariff legislation" we should have
 broken ground in April and pushed the worh | forward as fast as possible, but in view oi l the critical situation in Washington, the house of representatives and the administra I ton in favor of free trade, and doing theil utmost to break up the protective system, with the Senate in favor of protection by only a small working majority, we have found it necessary, in order to pursue con- | servative course, such as we have always I tried to adhere to in the past, to suspend ac- I tion upon the erection of additions to oul works for the present, and until such time ai the policy of protection seems to be assured l to the country for 8 reasonable length o. time. We have no knowledge of what other may deem it for their interest to do, but a
 conservative business men we cannot put ad
 ditional capital into any enterprise whicl
 may be entirely jeopardized by hostile legis
 lation in the interest of free trade.
 Mr. Gladstone is often charged with having
 been Tory in his early years. He give
 safe in adopting the following propositions Ii. It is true that down to the year 1889
 when was twenty-nine years old, migh
 fairly be called Tory of the Tories in ques
 tfons relating to the church. ?. It is un
 truethat even at that time could justly be 8
 described in other questions. 8. I am no
 aware that after 1889, or at all events afte
 church questions as Tory of the Tories, o
 perhaps as Tory at all would qualif this statement, if any one could show tha
 since these dates had said one word in ia
 vor of maintaining the Irish church. 4. |
 t843 I was denounced in the House of Lord
 as being disloyal to the principles of protec tion. 5. In 1s49-5o assisted to the bes
 of my power the government of Naples 6.
 1851, in company with the Peelites, the Irisl
 Roman Catholics and the group led by MI
 Golden, IAetively resisted both Wings an
 Tories, but the last especially, in defence c
 religions liberty on the Ecclesiastical Title
 bill. 7. Unquestionably differed strongl
 from the government of Lord Palmerston i 1855 5S, on the question of peace, of foreig