Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

1 EDITORIAL NOTES. The Gresham boom seems to be doing we'll enough.
 In ten years nearly four hundred persons have been killed on grade crossings in Phila-
 delphia. Quite enough.
 Henry Labouchere is frank. He says: GAS am au Englishmsn, am free trader. Were I an American, I would be protec-
 tionist.'
 San Francisco is to have crematory. A company has been formed which owns a lot, and next month work will be begun upon the furnace and chapel
 Public office is public trust. The stage driver who carries the mail from Hopkinton to Concord, New Hampshire, has been fined $1 40 for being late with his delivery, on March 15, during the great blizzard. He started on foot with the mail bag on his back, and had to crawl and wade some miles before he found beaten track.
 volapuk, the new universal language, has excited the suspicion of Russian authorities. Formerly it was allowed to pass into Russia unchallenged, but the increase of subscrib- CTS to Volapuk journals caused the suspi- cion that they might be vehicle for inn porting nfhilism, and censor was appointed
 to learn the language and examine its books. When newspaper man" does get rich he gets very rich. Major E. A. Burke of New Orleans, one of the best known newspaper men in the South, expects, it is said, to realize something like $10,Oo0, 900 from his land speculatioCs in Bessemer, Ala. If he does he will represent an enormous profit on an investment he made there hardly two years ago, when a small frame hut was the chief building in the town.
 The Hartford Courant announces that the Hon. John R. Buck, of Hartford, will not be candidate for Congress this year. He has been four times a candidate and has served two full terms. In the past two his business has grown so rapidly as to de- mand all his attention, and he prefers to at tend to it and to leave honor and the labor of a seat in Congress to some other good Re- publican.
 There is such a thing as being too smart. The employees of the New England Ship building company took advantage of a num- Der of closely figured contracts on hand to strike for higher wages. It was cheaper for the company to pay the advance than to for felt tho contracts, and they did it. But now the directors have decided that they will do no more business while things exist as at present, and as soon as the yard is rid of the vessels now building the employees must find employment somewhere else. The directors will take account of the stock remaining, and then if contracts cannot be obtained on better terms or decrease in wages secured the company will come to an end.
 Nothing can be allowed to stand in the way of progress nowadays. The New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals has decided that the historic "Old burying ground" at Newark Is the property of the city, to be used for public purposes. Chancellor Run- yon had declared that burying ground should always be burying ground, unless the term of the original grant were to be set aside or invade d. The final court holds that the parties to the gran could not reasonably have expected that the ground would be used for interment after generation or two The land is well situated, and there are many plans for using it-the most elaborate look ing toward the erection of costly city build ings and the establishment of fine park.
 The press in the United States of Colom- bia will have to walk pretty straight here- after. A decree for it's regulation has been issued, and among matters prohibited are attacks upon the constituted authorities, upon the Catholic religion, upon the military or upon the inviolability of judgments of magistrates and public functionaries, refusal to recognize the dignity and prerogatives of whatever authority, civil or ecclesiastic, com batting the legitimate organizations of proper ty, anticipating b, publication without com- potent authority official acts or impugning the legal money of the republic Various penalties are prescribed for offenses against these and other prohibitions, and sundry requirements are made of all published peri- odioals. If any person, functionary, corper- ation or society is tcensured or charged falsely'' in any periodical, it must insert an explanation or correction from the aggrieved party of double the length of the offending article, and any controversy arising over the