Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-10-09

features of value in the system, namely,
provision Of ballots BY the state aud
the preparing of them by the voter 10 q
place concealed from observation and
away from the party workers, are pre-
served in the Connecticut plan; and
worked very well at tho first election.
The practice is in keeping with the idea
of the secret ballot; and is demanded BY
the freedom which should attend the
approach 10 the ballot box. II IL not
agreeable to the decent voter to have to
reach the polls through a crowded side
walk and an avenue Of politicians nor
that his ballot should be cast under their
inspection. which ia essentially imperti-
nent.
II is hard on self respecting man
that he shopld be called upon, In the
discharge Of his party duty, to do the
work that falls upon him at the polls,
which is more or less dirty In Its
cleanest state; and this system Of
voting offers as much relief TO the decent
| political worker as II does to the decent
voter. With II fairly established and
maintained, there will be little work for
the worker at the polls for the respect
| able voters will all come out and vote
when their vote can I've agreeably cast |;
and there will he little inducement to
the politician to bother himself to bring
the other kind to the polls, when there
j. 80 good chance that he will not vote
as he is paid to vote, after he gets hun
dred feet away from his guardian and
behind the boards that protect him
from intrusive observation.
II will he a great day for the country
and a long stride towards pure elections,
when the usefulness Of the poll COM
mittee has passed away. When the
voter Is free TO cast what Is In fact Sc
cret ballot, and when the state provides
him with the means Of making up his
own ticket, without consulting the party
workers, the day of the glory Of that
creature at the polls, will be gone his
drainage of the party funds will cease !;
his demand for the reward Of Office will
die out and there will be a chance for
honest elections and honest government.
DIR. T.. O. SHAKESPEARE, the eminent
specialist appointed by President Cleve-
land 10 make thorough investigation, and
report on the causes and conditions under
which asiatic cholera thrives, has sent his
manuscript report to the state department,
| and an edition of seven thousand
copies will be printed by the gov
ernment. II will be volume Of
about nine hundred pages with one hun
| dred and forty illustrations, and will be an
| exhaustive presentation of this important
subject giving the results Of the studies of
many scientific men of all nations. II will
| be remembered that DR.. Shak espeare was
sent out when therc was some apprehen-
sion Of spread Of cholera to this country.
| aud he went directly TO the plague afflicted
part of Italy to make personal study Of
cholera. He was so broken down in health
sfler his return that he did not begin work
on his report for nearlya year
4. A MINER In from the Alaska gold coun-
try tells the San Francisco Telegraph of u
wonderful silent deserted city found by
him in remote valley. 1.-THE place was
laid out in streets, with blocks of strange
looking buildings, what appeared to be
mosques, towers, ports, etc. The whole
seemed TO he solid ice, but blows from
hatchet on the walls showed that beneath
this was some sort of building material.
1t looked to be wood, but Of a stono-like
hardness and apparently petrifed." This
wild tale may have foundation In tho dis
covery of some ancient town like those ex-
isting in Arizona and New Mexico.
So
The South American delegates must
have been strongly impressed with the
statements of Mr.. Saltontstall, of the vast
Pacific print mills, when he lamentsd that
.al.z al
because they could not compete with ma
! tion that gets its wool free. and they no
doubt thought this a strange country when
at MiddleseX another manufacturer OBJ
served: "Lot our government give us free
| wool and we cnn show you something
| greater aud better than this, and Il will be
| 10 your benefit as well as ours" These were
not campaign speeches Of politicians, but
| the meter OF fact statements of business
men eager to secure legislation in the best
| interests of their factories. II begins to
look Ms though the delegates would return
to Washington with low opinion of the
intelligence Of people who while suffer-
| ing so plainly from tariff abuses uphold an
administration that is opposed 10 tariff re-
form. delegate was surprised TO learn
that goods selling In his country for from
twenty seven to thirty cents a yard, were
sold here at six cents a yard but the mill
owner helped TO explain it: a great
many of our goods are sold to parties in
New York and elsew here, who get profit
| and then the goods go to other countries,
where another profit is made" II is
one Of the beauties of our trade system
| that four or more profits are often added TO
exports, we first send goods via England, if
| we wish to sell them In South America, be-
cause there is very little that we can buy
from our Southern neighbors in exchange
for what we would send them, and ships
must have cargoes both ways.
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ANOTHER man was killed in New York
on Tuesday by touching a live electric
light wire He was lneman and had
climbed up pole and was working among
tho wires when his woollen shirt became
disarranged and a live wire touched his
skin. There was a flash of blue light and
the man fell across some other wires below
him and hung as though dead. lie afler-
wards fell to the pavement, and of course
! the argument will be that IL was not tho
electricity but the fall that killsd him. This
accident is published along with letter
sent about the same time to the electric
light companies by Mayor Grant, urging
the speedy burial of these wires, (which"
he says, "are u standing menace to life
and limb within the city," Certainly if the
wires were buried there would be no doubt
as to the cause of death of the employees
touching them, and there would be far less
public danger,
Died at the Age OF lO2.
Zephaniah Webster Bunce died ON Tues