Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-04-13

The queen is getting as moody as poor
Ludwig of Bavaria.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE left an estats
worth 100000. This is not strictly
new paragraph, the statement having
been put i'll circulation some days ago.
But the old paragraph that he died, leav-
ing his family nothing is still on its
travels, and the fact may as well be kept
following it.
Mr.. POwDERLY has discovered that
"strikes" are mistake nine times out of
ten, and he so informs the Knights of
Labor. If he can convince them of it
he will have proved their greatest bene-
factor. The railroad engineers, firemen
and switchmen need conservative Pow
derly just now to infuse practical wisdom
into their heads.
A coREEsPoNDENT describes Prince Bis
marck's wife rs a perfect specimen of
the German "Hausfrau." She bears her
hOnors as the most natural thing III the
world, holds fast by the friends of hum
in lifo-to make her husband ahd children
happy. The Prince said once of her:
"She it is who has made me what | am"
THE defeat of the French Ministry
does not by any means signify the
triumph of any one element OF the OPP
position. This is not the first time in
French parliamentary government when
it has been found possible to pass vote
of censure by a union of factions which
could not combine for any affirmative
course. The crisis is likely to be a pro-
tracted one, and to severely test the
patriotism and conservatism of the
French people.
TnE railroad strikes cause d. G. Croly
to urge that the government ought to as
sumo control over the engineers, conduc-
tors, brakemen, switchmen, etc, the COM
panies paying them, but they at the same
time forming merely an arm of the ma
tional military service. Were this done,
he thinks We should never hear of another
railroad strike; government employees,
appointed under proper system, and
sure of their positions during sood be
havior, were never known to revolt"
A PROPOSITION tnat Queen Victoria
should assume the title OF Queen of
Canada" finds favor with the Toronto
Globo. This proposal carries with it
direct government by the Canadian min
istry without the intervention of the
British privy council. The Globe thinks
that there would be no need of governor
general, as there would be - Canadian
ministerial representative at court, charg
ed with the duty of transmitting to her
majesty the advice of the Canadian coun-
Gil"
DEATH seems reluctant to become the
ally of Bismarck. The system built on
brood and wrong Is for the first time
brought to n halt by a single life. Fred
orick the King not only does not die, but
the iuscrutable Provideuce that has final
ly interviewed IN German destiny seems
moving on behalf of the only kingly life
in the world whose preservation Is worth
the peoples hope. Nature is slowly sap
plementing science, and the hideous dis.
ease which thr .atened the now born hopes
of Liberal Germany is taking form
less serious than oven the patients most
solicitous friends dared hope. But the
kindly prince is fastening his enlightened
poso-nobly resolved to set the op-
Perations of government upon broader
basis to open the door to constitutional
ism, a system which, once begun, will be
irreversible.
A liberalization of the Prussian Consti
tuition Is going on cay aud night, and
within month the new instrument will
be ready. What this means slight
kuowledge of the present institution will
show. The Prussian Parliament. as now
organized, is simply body of lords and
municipal magistrates selected BY the
King of Prussia. They pass upon laws
drawn up by the monarch and his advis-
ers-they are, in fact, mere registry of
the Kings will.
The mischief making HitrCvo, the Russ