Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-03-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
Backward, March, and very good rid
dance TO you.
The Iowa legislature has enacted law
It is not at all probable that this will be a
change for the better.
The passage by the New York assembly of
the Crosby high-license bill was great sur
prise to many of those who knew the strength
and character of the opposition to it. The
six Republicans who voted against it will
probably not be allowed to forget it very
soon.
It pays some men to chew tobacco. A
Missouri wretch fred pistol at a passenger
train near Rich Hill, and the ball hit pas
senger. It would have made serious if not
fatal wound bat for the fact that he had a
plug of chewing tobacco in his vest pocket.
The bullet struck the plug and was thus
stopped in its course.
Israel Matthewson, poor and ragged, but
honest, picked up two-dollar note in a
Sacramento bank seven years ago and hand
ed it to the cashier, who was SO pleased with
his honesty that he gave him place to dc
chores around the building. Matthewson
gradually rose until he took the place of his
benefaetor, who died. To-day Israel Mat
thewson is the "lookout" in faro bank il
Montreal. No moral.
A number of the farmers and stockmen in
the upper part of the Mississippi valley have
decided to organize trust for the purpose o.
controlling the disposal of their produce
They have been compelled to submit to the
results of the combinations arrayed against
them, and the disadvantages under which
they have suffered have been intensified by o
depression In the market value of what they
have to sell. What will be the end of all
this trust businessi
Concerning the wo1d "blizzard" CORE.
spondent writes to London Notes and Que
ries: The word blizzard is well known
through the Midlands, and its cognates are
fairly numerous have known the word
and it's kin fully thirty years. Country folk
use the word to denote blazing, blasting,
binding, dazzling or sitting. One who has
had to face a severe storm of snow, ,irain, dust
or wind would say on reaching shelter that
he had "faced blizzard" A binding flash
of lightning would call forth the exclamation,
'fMy! that wor blizzomerl' or "That wor q
blizzerl" "Put towthry sticks Oh tn fire, an
let's have q blizzer'-a blaze. ga good
blizzon-a good blaze. "That tree is bliz-
zared"-blasted, withered.
The Workingwomen's society of New York
city thinks that some of the factory inspec
tors should be women, as two o-thirds of the
employees in the factories in New York Stats
are women and children, and 1t is urged that
women know the requirements of their sex
better than men. The society has prepared
an amendment to the factory inspection Law
providing for the appointment of six women
inspectors, and petition for its passage will
be presented to the legislature next Tuesday.
Among these who are taking an active inter
est in the petition are Mrs. Abram s. Hewitt,
Mrs. Courtlandt Palmer, Mrs. Josephine
Shaw Lowell and Miss Huntington daughter
of Bishop Huntington, of the Protestant
Episcopal ohurch). The idea is a good one.
The new Chinese treaty doesn't seem tc
''take" well on the Pacific coast, and will
not win many votes for Cleveland. The San
Francisco Bulletin says that the treaty, sc
far from stopping Chinese immigration,
ssems to open five more doors for it, with.
out in the least breaking the endless ribbon
of immigration which il now operated by
neans of the certificates issued to the de-
parting Coolies" The Bulletin adds
There is one apparent bar, namely, that the
departing Coolies shall return in year, OF
two years if he can prove sickness. That
practically means two years. Chinese NAL
ady is as easily established as the avun0ulal
or uxorial relation which porvades China
dom. But the only effect of the two yeal
Limitation will be to hurry up the new Cool
les who are to take the place of the returned
For these privileges our government is tc
pay 1886, 900 to the Chinese minister. The
rights of the people of California have got
into money dicker at Washington in the
strangest manner. It is quite apparent thai
the aew treaty somewhat resembles the bank
ing concession to Mitkiewicz. For the priv
ilege of dumping Ave millions of money ir
China, to be used and controlled by China
men, Americans were to pay $500, 900 to the
guileless Ii Hung Chang. In the case of the
treaty, to all appearances, we pay $256, ,00(
for increasing and widening the stream o.
Chinese immigration.