Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Governor BulkOley's ''backbone'' is beOom- ing prominent, and it's prominence makes the people of the State feel that they have gov- ernor worth having. He can be depended on to do the right thing when he can see what the right thing is, and his eyesight is pretty good.
 The British Bible society, of which the Earl of Narrowly Is president, reports an expendi- ture for 1888 of e226, ,164 and receipts of e21s, ,615, against e22s. 663 for 1887. The distribution of Bibles also fell 800, 900, from 100000 to 3,500,000. They were in 297 languages.
 The New York legislature seems to have been careless as we'll as wicked. One of the laws 1t passed provides that judge shall trial of certain indictments ''conform to the notes of the stsnogrspher. with out any alteration whatever" This might do if all stenographers were iafallible and incorruptible.
 Judge Ewing of Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, set a good example the other day when he refused naturalization papers to ten appli- cants because they were unable to prove themselves men of good character. To 8 man who had lived in this country twenty years and came at this late day to get his papers because somebody else was willing to pay the fees the judge emphatically and ap- propriately remarked that "a man who is too mean to pay for the rights of citizenship is l not entitled to them"
 An important decision ss to the right of J applicants under the civil service reform reg ! ulations has just been rendered by Judge Barnard at Poughkeepsis. A candidate for | the ofics of police constable claimed to have passed 8 perfect examination, but to have
 been wrongfulIy rated ineligible by the local \ civil service board. The board defended its I action on the plea of discretionary authority
 Judge Barnard overrules this plea on the ground the legal right to be entered upon the | eligible list exists by force of law and not by ! the discretion of the examiners.''
 1 The profit sharing plan proposed by the ! Bourne mill at Fall River, Massachusetts, if l interesting. It is to distribute among the l workers an amount not less than six per cent ! of the sum set aside as dividends to the | stockholders. The capital of the corpora tion is $400, ,OOO, and the dividends have av eraged sixteen per cent. for some years. Al that rate, the dividend to stockholders I would be $64, 900, and six per cent. of it fol the operators $3,840. The number of opera. 1 tives being about six hundred, the average payment to each would be little less thar six dollars and half, or at the rate of about
 two cents day. It is expressly stipulated that this profit sharing is not to be made { pretext for 8 reduction of wages or a refusa ! to increase wages as advances are made else l where, but that the Bourne mills will pay al
 good wages as any other.
 Much is expected from the provision whici
 has been made for such Mormon women a
 are left stranded by the fight against polyg
 amy, several years ago Congress passed al
 act for the erection of an industrial home fo
 these women and their children where the,
 could be housed and have light remunerativ
 employment on condition of their abandon
 ing polygsmy. For two years rented build
 ing has been provided, but the women hay
 not taken very kindly to the place. Some o
 the ex-wives have gone back to their parent
 and others have struck out for themselves il
 a humble way or have fallen into prostitu
 tion, but there are many who are old and in