Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-22

EDITORIAL NOTES,

Woman is not as eager to vote as some say
she is. Nearly 400 women were assessed
for poll taxes in Cambridge (Massachusetts)
last year. This year the assessors, who are
now required by law to make the inquiry,
found only sixty-four women who wished to
be assessed.
Within the last few weeks more than fifty
thousand acres have been bought in the Ba-
hamas by British and American capitalists,
to be devoted to raising sisal hemp. The
Bahamas had for some time lost all their
commercial life, but the discovery that hemp
would flourish there has wholly changed
their prospects.
The Pennsylvania Weather Service bureau
has collected some facts that show the ex-
traordinary character of the rainfall in that
State during the last two months. 1t has
been calculated that enough water fell In that
time to form lake 1000 miles square and
about thirty-6vs feet deep. During the
three days when the Johnsto Wn food was at
its height, the downpour on the mountain
plateaus of northern Pennsylvania amounted
| to nearly 1000, 100000 tons.
Cooperation among workingmen has -four
ished in England, and an exhibition of co.
| operative products has just been opened at
| the Crystal Palace in London, which, it is
said, will prove a surprise to the English
J themselves No less than 1900 separate
I establishments organized on the cooperative
Il I'LL ta5 of tha,r
are very extensive, employing large amounts
OF capital They include nearly 200 distinc
trades or occupations, in which only the bes
and most intelligent artisans are engaged
1t is expected that the exhibition will opel
the eyes of workingmen to the benefits o
the cooperative principle and give grea
impetus to the movement.
The experiment which the Pennsylvani
railroad company is about to make in tn
direction of pensions will be watched wit
interest. The company already has a relie
association organized to include the workin
force of the road, from the funds of whic
are paid death, accident and siok benefits
but 1t makes no provision for old or pei
| mauenCly ulnhDleo onlPAOyoo, VIM oAe"A
long service, find themselves incapacitate
for further work. 1t is now proposed
include the latter within the scope of th
relief association, If the members favor th
plan, and the company offers contribute
Of $4,000 additional to place the schem
upon an ample financial basis. In th'
case every faithful employe would be al
| sured of immunity from want to the end {
his days.
' It seems that even high license can be ca
ried too far. The Brooks law In Pennsy
vania, as is we'll known, leaves very wit
discretion to the licensing authorities as
, the number of saloons they will authorize
do business. 1t happens that in Alleghei
county, in which Pittsburg is situated, Il
power to withhold licenses has been avail
of to an extreme degree with the result
NJ reducing the number of licensed saloons in
city of 230, 900 Inhabitants from about 1,5
of to less than 100. One saloon to every 2,3
q. inhabitants comes pretty near to prohibitic
3. and there need be no surprise that there is
:, be found in Pittsburg at the present til
8. precisely the same state of affairs that
3 usually developed under prohibitory lay