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be the overthrow Of the tory govern
ment or armed insurrection In ire
land.
The situation Ia critical and alarm
inp. 1t is strange that Engiish
statesmen are unable to perceive INC
peril. The island Is menaced ny .
terrible famine. There certainly VIII
be destitution and hunger In 'hou-
sands of Irish homes, and aosolu'e
starvation is not improbable. inc
admi inistration of the government
Is kept in the cruel hands OF man
whose very name is hated an q
cursed all over the land, lrlsn
leaders are prosecuted If they dare
to whisper the divine law OF Sell
preservation, implanted by the WIS.
dom Of God in the breast OF every
living being, are dubbed by II prutal
constabulary and made to ieel IN
every possible manner the heavy
hand Of tyrant, who looks upon
them and their people as ehenn'es'
and not as countrymen. A..
1t is coercion run mad ut u Time
when the peoples hearts are nutter,
ing with the fear of national
calamity. Wait until hunger has
sharpened the anger of the irish
peasantry, until they have been
made desperate by the cries OF thelr
children for food, and II reign OF
desperation will follow that England
can suppress, of course, but AT n
terrible cost.
When the st. James Gazette says
that the relief movement In tht
United States Is only Il cheap trick
to catch the Irish vote 1t utters al
infamous libel upon the American
people, and at the same time sneer'
at the humane efforts ofexiled irish
men to relieve the distress of por
tion of their own people. 1t Is as
though a brother sneered at tho gen
erous intentions of stranger whc
might offer to relieve the distress o
his own flesh and blood, distress
that he himself was either unwill
ing or unable to remove.
There are dark days ahead for Ire
land. Nature aud the tyranny oil
man have Joined forces against her
and when she turns her wisttul gazt
across the western sea, to the lane
that has given homes and prosperity
to so many of her eXiled sons, she Ii
taunted by this journalistic creature
of Balfour with the declaration that
the cheering response Is only a trici
to catch the Irish vote.
, 1890-10-09
THE VII Y IIPPOO TIB.

Tippoo lib, who has just gone on
u pilgrimage to Mecca, Ia the most
widely known and influential man
in equatorial Africa. In fact, he Is
sometimes styled the Bismarck of
Cen tral Africa. He is devout
Mahommedan, fanatic who will
murder and pillage all day, but
never forgets his devotions, even In
the midst of slave raid. or while
burning the huts of the natives who
may refuse to deliver their ivory
into his hands.
After the burning and capture Of
the Stanley Falls station by Tippoos q
men, the Arabs swarmed through
the region and burned and pillaged
all the native Villages on the Upper
Congo and its tributaries. { ice
then they have carried things with
a high hand, and when Stanley be-
gan his famous march to the relief
of Emin Pasha he found IL neces-
sary to court the influence of Tippoo
lib, who was made governor of the
Stanley Falls district of the Congo
state, given a salary Of $3.50 per
month, and secretary in the per-
son of n European officer. In re-
turn for these honors he promised
Stanley to supply 900 native car
ricrs to convey relief supplies to
Emln's headquarters in the distant
interior. Acting upon this pledge.
Stanley started toward the interior
leaving Major Bartellot to bring up
the rear guard and supplies.
Then began practice of treachery
upon the part of rippoo lib that
would justify civilization in send
ing an armed force to the Convo
to sweep the Arabs out of existence.
Tho willy old Mohammedan planned
everything into his own hands. He
wanted ammunition, and dc.
manded his pay therein. To
strengthen this demand he brought
only 400 men instead of 900 To
Major Bartellot, and promised them
that they should only have to carry
half loads. This left large stores Of
supplies in the hands of Tippoo lib,
as Bartellot had to push on after
Stanley. The day the major left his
camp Oh the Aruhwimi 1t was re.
liably reported by u number of ma
tives that Tippoo Tib had author
lied the caravan to murder him I'm
case he failed to treat them to their
own satisfaction. This was as good
Us an order to that effect, because
, 1890-10-09
SPOKANE FALLS REVIEW. THURSDAY OCTOBER

while sacrificing the support Of the
reformers, he appears to have been
unable to retain the support of the
politicians, no II any determined
fight should be made upon him he
would probably be beaten before the
convention.
III the democrats should change
their favorite tactics Of waiting for
the republicans to make their nomi-
nations, and should lead off by
nominating Cleveland, little
shrewd manipulation by Mr.. Blaine
would start loud call for hisl re-
nomination to fight against the
man who beat him in 's4. Human
nature Is inexplicable. 1t will al
ways follow beaten leader who
has made q gallant fight with more
enthusiasm than 1t exhibits In raj
lying to the support of general
who has won past victories. Many
republicans, as rule, have an i'm
preston that they led Mr.. Harrison
t. victory. Now they want some
one to lead them, even II 1t should
be to defeat. The American people
prefer man for president who can
rule with an iron hand, man
OF positive convictions. Mr.. Har-
rison's administration has been safe
and business-liko, just the admin
istration that ought to be COM
mended and approved. Neverthe.
less the general public would prefer
to have IL more aggressive and ex-
perimental. They prefer n presi-
dent who will assert himself in a
cheap and snowy way, even If he
should make frequent mistakes,
above man like Mr.. Harrison,
who has really dominated not only
the administrative branch of the
government, but has also held IA
strong rein over congress, hut who
has done so In quiet, unostenta-
tious manner.
, 1890-10-09

order to protect themselves against
tin-horn gamblers who ply their
thicving calling in the face Of the
laws guardians.
The public might not have been
surprised to hear such sentiments
from one or two conscien cless
criminal attorneys, who spend their
time In arguing that there Is no
such crime as murder, but coming
from an officer Of the law, who
ought to know just what constitutes
justifiable and unjustitiable homi-
eide, they are an insult to the intel
ligence of the entire police force, and
reflection upon the law-ablding
character of this community.
Since officer Volk has seen fit TO
sit In Judgment over the slain gam
bier, the REVIEW will assert its
privilege, nay its duty, and inform
him that Hocfer, by his own state
ment, was not justified in firing the
fatal shot. His life was not In dan
ger; he loaned the victim money
with which to gamble, because he
lacked the moral courage to say no.
Ellis frankly told him that the last
time he had played at the game he
had lost. Yet Hoefer deliberately
and voluntarily loaned Ellis his
money, in the face of the fact that
he was as deliberately losing 1t.
Even IL he had possessed the right
to shoot Ellis, which certainly was
not the case, how was anything to
be gained by so doing? Another
man had the money, and II the
homicide felt that he had been bum
coed out of it, he should have di-
rected his attention to the confeder-
ate who held the spolls.
1t is high time that certain officers
of the law, If not the general public
should dlsabuse their minds of the
dangerous fallacy that private citi-
zens should carry arms to protect
themselves against lmportuna,e bor-
rowers, and with IL should vanish
the belief entertained in too many
quarters that it is no offense to kill
a sure-thing gambler. Perhaps the
general public, the people who
gather nightly around the hearth.
stones of happy homes, may he
unable to draw so strained u dis
tinction between the two classes Of
gamblers. Men familiar with the
subject of gambling in all ages and
IN all countries have agreed that all
gambling is a sure thing.
Taking the homicide's own story
of the killing, he stands self.con-
victed of murder. He loaned man
money with the full knowledge of
the fact that 1t was being gambled
away, and when the borrower
started to run he killed him not
with the hope Of regaining his
money, for it had been lost, little
by little, with his knowledge
and consent, but apparently in II
wanton spirit of revenge. Even if
Ellis had been in possession Of the
squandered money, Hoefer should
have looked to the law for his re-
dress.
A lofty spectacle this, Of an officer
of the law encouraging the commits
sion of crime, and basing his
declaration upon the ground that
the law can not hold In check the
sure-thing gamblers, nor protect the
public against their trlckery.
, 1890-10-09
1T WILL NOT DO.

Postmaster General Wanamaker
adopts a strain that smacks slightly
of cant in urging the adoption by
the government Of postal telegraph
system. He speaks in goody-goody
way, as though he were the only
patriotic and honest man who has
had the courage to defend the peo-
pies interests. He falls into the er.
ror of abusing every person who
questions the wisdom or feasibility
Of his theory of n postal telegraph,
as recommended in his official utter
ances.
The REVIEW believes that the
postmaster generals plan would
prove humiliating failure. In the
first place, he urges as one of his
strongest reasons that the system
would cost comparatively nothing
1t needs no argument to convince q
business man that any thing that
costs nothing In the field of buslnes
is Of little or no worth. Mr.. Wana-
maker claims that the present en-
ployes Of the postal service can be
depended upon to do the work.
1t Is strange that man of busi-
ness capacity, who has evidently
had occasion to employ the wire,
should advance so untenablc IL prop
osition. The postoffice employees are
already overworked, and have no
more time nor inclination to study
and practice amateur telegrnphy
than 10 dabble In amateur journal.
ism or amateur shoemaking. The
, 1890-10-09
THE IDAHO LESSON.

Unfortunately for the democratic
party, Its leaders show II lamentable
incapacity to fathom the wishes OF
the people and to show a disposition
to protect their interests.
That Is the reason Idaho has
wheeled into the republican ranks
so firmly and promptly.
Consider for one minute the pollti-
cal stupidity of the democratic plat
form in that state, stupidity that
the REVIEW pointed out immedi-
ately after Its adoption. Idaho is a
young state, and her industries are
struggling for development. Here,
If anywhere In the entire Union,
one should naturally look for IA
strong protection sentiment. Yet
the Idaho convention transcen ded
all free trade leanings of the
national party and adopted a plat
form that was an overwhelming
burden about the party's neck.
Instead of reaflirming the tariff
plank of the last national conven-
ton, which could he construed in
half dozen different shadings to
suit the sentiment of different Sec
tions, the Idaho democrats clubbed
themselves to death with one of the
most radical free trade utterances
that ever emanated from any con-
1t was infinitely worse than the
pure, theoretical free trade teachings
of Golden; 1t was free trade in all
that the people of Idaho produce,
and protection for all they consume.
And to cap the climax the platform
added insincerity to folly by sol
emnly declaring that while the
principle of protection was all wrong,
1t ought to be applied to lead.
The great difficulty with the dem
ccratlc party il found in the fact
that it can not rise to the inn
preston that the public is able to
distinguish reason from deception.
1t is etc rnally casting about for some
means of hoodwinking the voters,
whereas the republican party at
taches itself to the public welfare
and commands support by reason
of its frlnkness and sincerity.
OF course, Idaho went republican
bv an overwhelming majority.
Wi h the issues SO plainly set forth,
TO other result was possible. The
We nder is that democrats who pro-
fess To be leaders of thought should
have been so blind to the inevitable
result, and should have chosen
grounds for the fight that doomed
them to unerring defeat.
Idaho will go on voting the re
publican ticket just SO long as tho
republican party of the state anJ
nation pledges itself to the protec
ton of her infant industries, not al
n concession to powerful interests,
because they are weak and withou
power or influence, but because it il
u part of the republican doctrine t
protect the infant Industries of tn,
West, and not betray them into the
hands of the strong and selfish
manufacturing interests of the Eas
and New England.
, 1890-10-09
THE IRISH CRISIS.

After reading the outrageous ex-
pressions of the tory st. James Ga
zet,e upon tho relief movement in
the United States, one almost de-
spairs Of peaceful and constitu-
tional settlement of rhe Irish ques-
tion. The Gazette clearly looks up
on the Irish nation as enemies of
Great Britain, and Ia not decent
enough to suppress its annoyance at
the inspiring spectacle presented by
u nation across the seas responding
to the cries of famishing people.
Balfour hates the Irish, and the
newspapers upholding his admins
tration echo that hatred. II the
English people persist in supporting
him In his malice and brutality
there will he trouble In England
and woe in Ireland. 1t will either
, 1890-10-09

there would necessarily come ,imo
when the natives would grow dIs
contented and angry. The world
knows how terribly this license wos
carried into execution.
Tlppoo Tlb is almost az black as
native. He has twlnkllng blacL
eyes, and can read and write onlu
in Arabic. He is a close sticklc,
after the forms of his religion, and
1t Is related that In order to carry
out certain ceremonials during the
month of fasting he has been known
to drive inoiltnding natives out Of
their villages with sword and rifle
, 1890-10-09

THE KILLING OF ELLIS

Officer Volli of the police force
has blunted conception of the
enormity of murder. Is 1t strange
that the public should be startled by
the sharp report of the pistol when
men wearing the uniform Of the law
publicly express themselves in the
following remarkable words?
~ think Hoefcr was justified in
shooting, as Ellis Is one of those
mean, despicable, sure-thing men,"
A lofty sentiment this to come
from guardian Of the peace, u
laundering confession of neglected
duty to issue from the lips of man
whose duty II is to employ the
power and majesty of the law TO
SUPPRESS ''thosc mean, despIcable,
sure-thlpg Dicn." According TO the
logic of this admission, men coming
hither from the surrounding coun-
try should come well "heeled" in
, 1890-10-09

Waterloos, there is danger that after
while all the nominees will feel so
grieved at the thought of beating
their opponents that they VIII
utterly neglect to take to the stump.
Then the campaign sack Will be as
lean as one of Sara ernhardts cast
off gowrs, q state of innocuous
desuetudo will prevail, and perhaps
there may be nobody left to fill the
offices. This danger, while start
ling, can hardly be said to he immi-
nent. We have at least enough
politicians on hand to keep the old
machine running for another gen
Grafton.
Mr.. Mayhem Is beginning quite
early to weep over the prospective
defeat of Clagett and Dubois. 1t
would be too bad If he should have
to do this sympathy act all over
again, and weep for the other pair
of senatorial aspirants.
, 1890-10-09
YASSAR'S VINDICATION.

1t Is gratifying to report that
Vassar has been vindlcated. The
world was startled few days ago
by false and blackening report
that Vassar girl had turned out to
be n low, vile adventures, that all
the labor and painstaking efforts of
the faculty of that educational mill
had gone for naught, and that long
schooling In refinement had been
powerless TO restrain the reckless in
clinations of one of its fair but
f,ighty graduates.
Now the San Francisco police
come nobly to the rescue of the
blighted institution, and the cloud
that lowered over Vassar and its
inmates has been swept away by
the bright sunshine of official In
vestigation. The woman who has
done so much to blacken the name
of the school proves to be fraud,
who can speak very little English.
or course that ends the matter.
Whatever q Vassar girl may not be
able to do, she certainly can talk
English with fiuency and volubility.
But what If the story had been
well founded, and q real Vassar
graduate had forgotten her training
and fallen to the low level of an
adventurous strumpet? DO you sup
pose that the school would soon have
heard the end of the scandal? Assur-
edly not. All over the land 1t would
have been held up as a terrible
warning against the higher educa-
tlon Of girls. IL would have fur
nished ma erlal for hundred thou
sand sneers. In short, it would
have given the college a blow whose
effect would have been felt for many
q month.
Are Harvard, or Yale, or Cam
bridge, or West Point injured by
reason of an occasional member
going to the dogs or resorting to
dishonorable methods? Not In the
least but no girls college need ex-
pect the public to regard it as gem
erously as schools for young men
are regarded. If affairs at Vassar
should be run for single month as
they are run at the average college
for young men, the entire country
would be In an uprOar, and the
school would very soon be forced to
close its doors.
The world has different courts for
the trial of men and women who
transgress the moral laws. Strong
minded women are inclined to rail-
at this injustice, and with a good
show of reason. But is 1t not better
for their sex that they should be
held to lofty ideal? And would
1t not be better for young men If the
canons of society were stricter and
more exacting? Because my neigh
Dor steals a horse and escapes the
lashes of the law am 1 to be bettered
by demanding the same privilege?
We think not.
Manifestly 1t Is unjust to expect
so high standard from the Vassar
graduates and TO overlook so many
transgressions committed by the
alumni of colleges for young men,
but after all Vassar is not going to
suffer because Of public exaction,
and its students will be none the
worse by reason of the lofty ideal re.
quired by public sentiment.
, 1890-10-09

THE Id WS ON MURDER.

A great many men drift through
life with an erroneous knowledge of
the laws OH murder. This it is that
is responsible for the lamentable fire.
quency of the pistols sharp crack,
and to this must be traced the re-
sponsibility for the popular impress
sion that every man should revenge
petty wrongs and trifling insults by
shedding the life blood of the of
fender.
The law is u jealous goddess. She
reserves the right to punish crimes
and redress all wrongs, and If her eff
forts are often characterized by fail
ure the fault is traceable to human
weakness or error.
In the first place, 1t ought to be
drilled into the mind of the youth
and impressed upon the understand
ing of mature men who have Oh
tanned erroneous impressions upon
the subject, that no man is justified
in killing another from desire to
"get even" or to punish him for
any fanced or real wrong, To the
law he should turn for redress, and
not to the deadly weapon by his
side. The law recognizes only the
higher law of self-protectiou. A
private citizen may take human
life when he has reasonable cause to
fear that his life is in danger, and
lie may also protect his family aud
his home when he has good cause to
believe that their lives are in danger.
Hoefer killed Ellis, not because
his life was In peril, but because he
realized when 1t was too late tina,
he had been fleeced out of his money.
| According to his own confession II
Is clear that he was piqued and
angry at his loss, and on the inn
pulse of the moment fired with
deadly intent for the purpose OF
furnishing the man who had
borrowed and lost his money. de
had no more right to do that than
II merchant would have to kill an
absconding debtor who might biliS
him by incurring debt that he
never intended to pay. The mer-
chant voluntarily sold the goods
Hoefer Of his own free will loaned
his money.
The REVIEW dwells upon this
point, not through any desire to sec
Hoefer punished, but in order tc
meet its duty to the public by cor
recting dangerous belief, openly
expressed by an officer of the law
that the shooting of Ellis was nc
offense, simply because he was tone
of those mean, despicsble, sure
thing men," and because 1t know,
that the proposition which encour
ages individuals to trust to their re
volvers for the protection of property
and the resentment of financia
losses Is both wrong and dangerous
1t Is folly to say that because the
officers Of the law permit sure
thing gamblers to ply their crimina
practices the buncoed victim
must pull his gun and kill the
bunco man, and when such q
declaration comes from an officer o.
the law II is an incredibly stupic
confession that he and his associate,
are powerless or unwilling to meet
their duty and that visitors to thi.
city must arm themselves for theil
own protection,
, 1890-10-09
TWO RACES,

One of the most appropriate feat.
ures OF Spokane's exposition is tho
collection made by Captain Chitten.
den of relics and implements NJ
the native tribes of North Americ,
1t is fitting that the same roof that
covers the handiworlS of triumphant
civilization should also find beneath
it an exhibit of the hanoliwork, rudo
though IT may be, of the children Of
the forest and the plain, who held
this broad domain as their undIs.
puted home less than half century
ago.
This collection is probably tbe
most complete and interesting of its
kind that has ever been made. To
one who delights to dwell upon
that greatest of all mysteries, the
origin and development of the
human race, 1t affords an unend.
ing field of thought and investiga.
ton. Ii carries him back to those
half-forgotten days when Europe
was peopled by race whose skill
and art fell short of these rude pro.
ductions Of the American savage.
Standing In meditation among this
interesting collection, for the
moment forgetful of the flight of
civilization, 1t requires no strong
exercise of the imagination to carry
the observer back to the prehistoric
days when the ancestors of the
highest types Of the present knew
nothing better than these rude i'm.
plements of domestic life, of the
chase and of war.
a strain Of music smites the air
or perhaps an air wave brings the
faintest odor of delicate perfume
and you find yourself whisked down
the ages aud again landed in the
midst of the nineteenth century civ.
ilization. The wonders OF electricity,
the power of steam are about you.
Instead of the rough skins of saw.
age race you see the fash of sllken
raiment; soldier In n natty uni
form drifts by, and your fancy turns
from the rude spears aud arrows to
the deadly engines of the present.
Instead of the ornaments of shell
and bone, the eye is caught by the
diamonds CLEAN and the glitter OF
golden jewels.
More interesting still to the stran.
ger from afar is the opportunity also
afforded of comparing the two races
as well as contrasting their handi.
work. Even as you stand amidst
this collection of the products and
manufactures of a dying race your
eye may fall upon moccaioned and
blanketed scion OF the rude people
that once called the Pacific North.
west their own.
To one long familiar with life in
the West this study is likely to be-
come commonplace and irksome.
But the stranger from the East,
particularly the student, will find
this Indian collection the most
striking and interesting feature Of
the entire exposition.