Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-07-30
WE think Judge Hagenmann will have
hard road to travel.

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Az editorial writer III the Philadelphia
Inquirer, discussing a subject that has al
ready received some attention in these
columns, insists that to limit the acuuisi-
ton of wealth would be to discourage
genius in art and invention in science.
'lt" says the R9Hifcr, MIR Edison, for
instance, had been limited to million
dollars he would probably have quit work
amer he had made that sum and not given
ms the electric light, the phonograph and
other late inventions. Men as a rule do
not work for nothing" That is just what
we deny. AS II rule men do not do their
best work for pay and the greatest works
of genius have been wrought virtually for
nothing. Ilomer's "Iliad," Shakespeare's
immortal dramas. Milton's paradise Lost
were written for less per line than the rot
that fills most of our monthly magazines
THOMAS 5. BUTLER, appointed Judge of
Chester county, has sustained himself
politically at least, and will be his own
successor. Give the young mau chance.
TUT courts of Allegheny county will he
called upon to try an interesting suit.
Mrs. Little, the widow of "A commercial
traveller, who had lost his life in the Johns
town Hood, has sued the members of the
South Fork club for $4,000. There is con
siderable doubt whether the members of
this club can he held responsible in dam
ages 10 the victims of that dreadful di~as-
ter. If they can, individually,i 1T means the
ruin of all the members. The question
will finally reach the supreme court when
without sentiment or feeling the legal uucs-
ton will he tested.
However the matter he finally dcridcd
these suits viii have an effect. If the
plaintih recover il will have a wholesome
effect on other fishing clubs who are build
lug toncmaugh dams. If the suit be lost
To tho plaintii such carclcssncss and dis
regard to life and property will he un-
checked
HoN. WM. \. WALLACE saws finally and
positively to the New York Ntp, Dem,
that lac i out ufpolitics The Phiadclphia
i"q"'rcr, Rep, insists on naming him for
governor. Mr.. Wallace should beware of
the Greeks bearing gilts.
The exposure the other day in New
York of the Christian Science fraud ought
to he lesson To all good people who have
been the innocent dGpcS of such pcrniciouS
humbugs. OF all the theories that have
gained a headway in our social life tha,
of Christian Science contains the most
iiagrant evils. Its principles are radically
wrong and its practices are injurious to
the morality of our social fabric. When a
iiend in human form deliberately walks
into home and carries oil wife and
mother makes her his wife and lives with
her as such in am enlightened city, it is a
| vile crime. When, however, Il system of
| social ethics sustains such free love as not
! wrong and gives II moral support by its
! organization, then it is high time thai so
! ciety be branded as vicious aud be crushed
out of existence. The long haired men
and the shor-haired women who COM
/ pose its membership are dcluded irdi-
| yiduals who nCel PHYSICIANS attention
| Let the exposure of the New Nork World
continue and It viii merit the gratitude of
| all good people.