Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-24
EDITORIAL NOTES,

A Banana trust has been formed in New who will trust for watermelons.
 Provision has been made for the usual supply of free soup for the poor of Boston during the winter, and the Boston Herald has the news that it will be just plain, or dinary soup, without any Democrats in it.
 4 health writer makes the point that while the good cigar has only one poison, the cigarette has five; the oil in the paper, the oil of nicotine, saltpeter to preserve the to- bacco, opium to make it mild, and the oil in the fiavoring.
 The decision of the Supreme court of Mis- souri denying the power of municipal eor- poration to regulate telephone charges will probably put sudden stop to the agitation which has been going-on in several cities of the country, looking to the cutting down of what have been deemed excessive charges for telephone service. The only recourse ap- pears to be through the legislature which grants the charter.
 The commission appointed by the French Senate to study the consumption of alcohol 1 in France says in it's report that the recent diseases of the vine, such as phylloxera, have l produced complete revolution In the drink | ing customs of the French, spirits having | taken the place of wine. Consequently l there has been a great increase of insanity. suicide and criminality. In Normandis and other northern divisions there is s public I .;v kxwo SnL It has been reported that the Pennsylva- nia railroad management has issued the or der that in future all it's freight cars shall be | equipped with automatic couplers, and that I all box and stock cars shall be fitted witt | the air brake. An official in the transporta ! tion department says, however, that no sact radical change is likely to be made at pres ent, though some fast freight trains are al ready so equipped, and he thought, in time a much greater proportion of freight cars would bs similarly improved. It is high time something was done to save the waste l of human life in running freight trains. l The protection Democrats of Birmingham Alabama, who recently called on Genera Harrison are abused by some of the south ern papers. But the Richmond Whig says Although efforts are being made to dwarf thu significance of the movement, we believe i is destined to grow and develop into impos ing proportions in the near future. Ther are great many practical business men il the South deeply interested in it's industria development, who are tired of partisan poll tics, and like the gentleman from Birming ham, they care not by what name an admin istration is called provided it will give peae and quietude to the country and promote an, aid the development of our natural resources
 The Gentiles of Utah, Republicans an' Democrats alike, protest against the Nor
 mon scheme of having Utah admitted as
 State. They say: Polygamy is dead. Tn
 law is not supreme. Two hundred an
 thirty four indictments were found at tn
 present term of court at Provo for violation
 of the United States statutes designed to sur
 press polygamy and polygamous living. T
 give Utah Statehood would retard progress
 depreciste the values, perpetuste polygsm
 and hand the territory over to the Mormo
 priesthood. We call upon the patriotic citi
 zens everywhere to unite in strong protest
 to Congress against the proposed actior
 The admission of Utah to Statehood woul
 be crime against American institutions.