Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-06-06

arrest any officer found hereafter wearing
one. Whatever else he may be the emper
or is no dude.
WE were well aware that New YorI
was a very wicked city, given over to world
liness, sin and the worship of Mammon
but we were not prepared for this state
ment which is deliberately made by the
| Rev. Joseph Cook: In the city of New
York, with its more than million in
habitants, there are about $1,000 Protest
ant Christians What a field for mis-.
sionary effort!
WHAT | can't understand. - says La
bouchere, lis how any niece of Uncle Sam
can renounce on the hymeneal or any other
altar, her American birthright." If La
bouchere's acquaintance among Uncle
Sam Dieees were more extended he would
know that, while they are the most beauti-
full and charming creatures the world ever
saw, they are apt at times to do things
which neither he nor any other living man
can ever hope to comprehend
THE extent Of our lake commerce is
much greater than Is generally understood
During 1889 the number of vessels built
was 225, and some of them were larger
than the new vessels built for ocean ser
vice This branch of our marine inter
ests has been steadily growing year by
year, to the advantage Of the people, and
increased benefit is TO be expected from it
in the future
ARRESTS of Russian NihiIists near
Paris disclose a strange development of
revolutionary agitation in Europe. 1t ap-
pears that the conspirators were engaged
in manufacturing in France explosives de
signed for the destruction of tn : Russian
Imperial family The natural alliance be
tween Russia and France no doubt had
something to do with the proInptness of
the French authorities in the matter. The
abstract question of antagonism between
Republicanism and Imperialism has failed
" i'AtINt CONSIDERATION III view Ol Iue
community of interests between Paris and
st. Petersburg against possible movements
at Berlin, Vienna and Rome.
FETENDs of the Chicago Anarchists who
are in prison at Joliet still maintain their
intention to seek for the release of the CON
demned men. Their intention is to ask
the United States supreme court to de-
clare that the Imprisonment is illegal, be-
cause the men were not present in the
courtroom when the final sentence was
pronounced. The present decigion of the
United States court in the kemmler case
Ia not calculated to give these Anarchists
much encouragement. That court is evi-
IDENTITY inclined to the opinion that the
highest courts of state can he trusted to
sufficiently respect the constitutional rights
of criminals
THE stock gamblers have had a costly
in trust certificates, but they
don t seem to learn the lesson any more
than do those infatuated mortals who hope
lesslY buck the tiger of a faro bank A
year ago sugar trust stock was pushed up
to 1876 or thereabouts 10y the organizers of
Il trust, and then millions of the paper was
on the outside spectators. Then
the bottom dropped out of the price and
down it went to so, scattering ruin all
about Now, the same trick is being
played over again, aud i slump of 20
points within week comes as forcible
reminder to some of the fact. Lots of
money has lately been put into Chicago gas
trust stock, and prices went flying up from
the buying stimulus. Now the Illinois
courts have wrecked that concern again
and down goes this stock. to the cost of
many. The whole market was shaky from
the erratic movements OF the industrial
stocks, but the promised settlement of
western rate difficulties will probaly avert
a break for the time being.
TuE lates, offer of the Louisiana Lottery
Noult ltdiiN loi the ItItNll 'l itS NH'lIltl Is 10
pay to the state Sl,OOO,0CO yearly for a
period of twenty-five years the money to
he applied to the maintenance of the levees,
the public schools. and the charitable in
stitutions. thus practically saving the peo-
pie that much in the way of state taxes.
Never before in the history of this country
has such an amount been offered hy cor
poration for the privilege of doing bust
ness Manifestly, it would not propose to
pay this remarkable price if it were not
earning very large profits, or, in other
words, receiving a great deal more for
patrons would do well to study this phase
of The matter. and thus learn what their
chanes of gain really are when they in
vest in the enterprise. At the last draw
ing, for example, the prizes aggregated
81 ,054. 800; and the amount received for
tickets WIS s2,COO.OOO. Thus it will be
seen. the company had a clear profit of
s945. 200. or over A. per cent of the total
receipts, to start with; and to this is to be
added at least 30 per cent. of the prizes,
which proportion it always draws for itself
making in all 81 ,26l $40. A man with
very small knowledge of arithmetic can
readily see that a corporation which pro-
tects its own interests at the expense
of its customers in this fashion can well
afford to give Sl.00O,000 a year for a
charter. since in a year there are
twelve of these profitable drawings.
This showing discloseS the risk which
every purchaser of tickets is required to
take The largest prize is the one that re-
mains in the company's treaSury-the ex.
cess of receipts over the amount represent
ed in the drawing; and the company re-
serves to itself besides 80 per cent. of the
prizes that are usually drawn. Other
| gambling concerns are satisfied with {
margain of 5 to 10 per cent. in their favor
but this one demands so per cent. anc
leaves to its patrons chance of winning
! what is mere shadow and mockery
Prizes are drawn now and then, to be sure
but for every success of that sort there ar,
thousands of failures. The rlan of oper