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Evening journal., 1891-03-07

spectabilIty. Of intelligence. of excellent
character. sterling honesty and absolute
innocence and ignorance of politics.
attempted to make reforms In the city
and county affairs.
They started in with q stock of good
Intentions and thorough equipment of
impracticability, sufficient, In their
minds eye, to run the government Of the
United States and flop over to Egypt and
Turkey. In fact. their ideas of reform
were pitched to 50 high a scale that there
was very little hope Of reaching tae ulti.
matum they aimed at before the millep-
mum. Their aspirations were so
exalted that they could not have been
realized with plain men filed with the
component parts Of faults and frailties
which mike up humanity. They we're
prepared TO deal with angels aud crea.
lures Of superhuman and quintescent
purity.
With such reformers as these in the
field and with their organ seeking the
sherifi's printing aud doing its reform
high sorersaulting with that financial
plum of to the windward as a guidh &
goal, It Is evident that practical men,
men who know the voters, how they
vote, why. when. where they vote and
how to get them to the polls, men who
were willing to conceds something TO
get them they, were not 'in it,"
Only those were in it who came In from
motives too high to be practical. too
| glittering to be Of use.
Where Is the reformer now2
A campaign is approaching and the
reformers have turned over the mayor
ality, the Levy Court, the sheriffalty,
the Board of Garbage and everything
thy could lay their hands upon TO the
Republicans.
Bach. Cotton, Pierce. Swiggett, Short
lldge. Mshaffy. few Of "our niggers,
a partisan police force. partisan United
States marshals at the polls, and all
other evils of the degsnerated Republi
can party are on top while the Every
Evening is doing all 1t can to help them
W Slhy tneFe.
This is the situation TO which the re-
former, the man whose thoughts are In
thu clouds and who Aops down TO earth
not TO make but 20 mar. has brought the
city and county government.
Having accomplished these glorious
reforms. what is the reformer going to
do about it7
Does he see the situation that con-
fronts usY Is he satisfied to have Hig-
ginsism interpreted by Bach, Mahaffy
and Cotton, and Republicanism Illus
trated and maintained by the Lancaster
avenue Piggery annex to the Board Of
Garbage run the city and county az
| fairs2
Is that what reform means?
Have the reformers folded their hands?
Have they determined to fiddle while
Rome burnsl
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

Indications for the Middle states to-
day. cloudy to partly cloudy, slightly
warmer weather viii prevail, with fresh
variable winds. mostly southerly and
essterly, proceeded by snow or rain and
followed by increasing storminess near
the coasts and by clearing In the western
portions of this section. though the
weather will be unsettled in and near the
lake region, and thence eastward to the
Jersey coasts
New York Herald forecast The de
preston moving yesterday froln the
southwest toward Pennsylvania has been
accompanied by few heavy (but gener-
ally by light rainfalls, aud the storm has
decreased in energy. It's area of rain and
saow viii probably be advanced over this
section aud New England 20 day, when
the disturbance may become more
energetic Temperature rose In the
United States yesterday; the chief mini
mum reported was 90 degrees below
zero. Fahrenheit, AZ Bismarck, n. ID. /:
the chief maximum rs degrees, at Rio
GRANGE City, Texas.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

Medium-priced Dress Goods
never offered more attraction.
Their name is legion, their ex-
cellence surprising, even here.
This Surah Melange is fair
lY and squarely a 81 grade No
matter 7Ohy we make it 75c.
You chink a quarter saved on
every yard of it you buy. Fine
wool, twill like Surah and the
graces of the stuff tell that it
came from France. 10 desirable
street shades.
Another surpriser at 75c is
this Striped Whipcord. Sergy
and herring.bony in effect. 20
styles and colorS.
At so cents, hundreds!
Shepherd Plaids, Checked
Plaids, Small Stripes, and a
multitude of like STYLES in un
usual qualities. There are also
CamelS Hair, Cheviots in
natural colors, grays, tans and
creamy effects.
Good weight Cheviots cut
into plaids by dashes of color
like chalk-marks Grounds of
tans, grays, blues, green's.
Southeast Of centre.
Take this $40 Bedroom Suit.
Look it over critically:
Large Bureau and large Wash Stand
with either Antique or XVI Cen
fury finish Large beveled glass
(30v24 inehes) Headboard and
glass frams ornamented with arts.
tic carvings. Trimmings of su-
perior quality.
All in all we count it the 6eSt
Bedroom Suit we ever offered
at Sac.
Dozens of grades between
$40 and 500, and every one as
far out Of the ordinary.
Third floor.
No one mistrusted the au-
thor of that clever Novel "A
DiDlOm Diarv" tO he q
woman. Yet"Julien Gordon"
is not only woman but a So
ciety leader. Are you curious
about her? Book News for
March tells her story and gives
a wonderfully life-like portrait.
All the other Book News
features are fully up to stand
ard. There is no other publ
cation that will keep you so
closely and truly in touch with
the book world.
Book News is sc a number,
SOC a year.
Book Store, Thirteenth street entrance
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

To the Editor Of the EVENING JOURNAL
SIR; The merchants of this city are
about TO make a stand against the license
law and are gettin, up petitions 10 send
to the Legislature | think Il is about
time. The license laws in this state are
barbarous. To think merchant must
go up and pay double the license they
pay IN any other state, aud no matter
what his conscientious scruples are he Is
told he must swear to the best Of his
knowledge what he buys to put
80 cents in another mans pocket. Who
can tell what he buys in a Year, No
matter you must perjure yourself; II
you don't. You can't do business here. I,
Is time this relic Of barbarism was abol-
ished. The license Is far too high. Ia
Philadelphia the wholesaler who sells
SO QUO 600 worth Of goods ID a year, only
pays &26 and SIS The smallest retailer
here pays more than that; and large re
tailers in Philadelphia pay only 81 That
the merchant must have lower license
and this old relic Of barbarism, the oath.
alb lished, is the earnest wish OF
A WumNGTON GROCER.
Wilmington. March z.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

LRT all lovers Of their country, all
honest and true men, Republicans who
advoeate extravaganza or condone ex
tortion, aud Democrats who advise and
practice economy, study these statements
made by the New York Herald
The appropriations for two years reach
the astounding aggregate Of one billion
dollars. They exceed the appropriations
Of the preceding democratic Congress by
two hundred million dollars
Two years ago there was a surplus In
the Treasury OF hundred million dollars.
Tit revenues OF the government exceeded
the expenditures
To DAY the surplus has vanished, ex-
pencitures exceed revenue and q deficit
Of more than sixty eight millions Is esti
mated for abe coming year
That rs the result Of two years OF re.
publican appropriations.
Where has this money gomez For the
regular expenditures OF the government
No For the welfare OF the country or
the benefit Of the paopeg No.
IL has gone to pension grsbbers, subsi.
dies. hounties monopolies political job
bers and so on
Where has IL come from-where is IL
70 come 'FRONT.' The people. Whose
money Is it, The peoples.
Il is thepeople who must pay, who
must suffer. for this criminal extravs-
gsuce and raiding Of the Treasury.
Too many are apt 90 lo.k with indiner-
ence on reckless public expenditures. Il
is public money they reason. It's disposi
tion. concerns only taxpayers and only
property owners are taxpayers.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07
narvard Nm Get a1oo.ooo.

WORCESTER, Mass, March Edwin
Conant, Of this city, left an estate valued
at $4,000. Harvard college is made residu-
airy legatee, and it is estimated win re
eeive about 100000 which is TO be put
into new building, TO bear the testator's
name. Other requests are as follows
Home for Aged Females, Old Mems Home
and City hospital, Worcester, 81, 900 each
American Unitarian association and Di-
vinity school Of Harvard, 5000 each; g, 0OC
for relieving the burden of taxation in the
town Of Sterling; $4,000 for the First Con
gregational church at Sterling; 81 1000 for
a clock for the church, testator's home, at
the corner of State and Harvard streets,
valued at about 10000, and $4,000 to the
Worcester Natural History society; an
other parcel OF real estate, valued at about
$4,000, to Harvard college.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07
LIVELY TlMEs al ALRANY.
The Lieutenant Governor and Senator
Fassett Have Tilt.

The Lieutenant Governor and Senator
Fassett Have a Tilt.
ALBANY March Quite lively scene
occurred in the senate vest erday when the
proposed amending OF rule came up.
Lieutenant Governor Jones began an
nouncing the business on the desk. when
Mr. Fassett smilingly asked under what
rule he made that announcement.
Jones angrily replied that the presiding
officers duty was to report the preceding
business to the senate, and it was imperti
nent for any one to question that right.
But what rule are you acting under, n
persisted Fassett
"1'he rule of common courtesy" said
Jones, defantly
Then the making of motions by Demo
Gratis and the voting down of them by Re
publicans proceeded at weary length. Err
win paid his respects to the Democrats in
no very complimentary terms He said
Mr.. Jones was making a grave mistake.
Mr.. Jones, he said, need not not battle
for the governOrship All he had to dc
was to take the oath, for he was now the
governor, Hill having become a senator
after March 4.
Discussion as TO whether messages from
the governor and assembly were privileged
communications and must be received was
continued Mr. Jones said the constitu
ton provided that the governor, senate and
house should transmit messages, and this
implied that they should be received.
Mr. Fassett argued that rs soon as they
reached the lieutenant governor they were
received, but Mr. Jones held that reception
/ by him was not reception by the senate
until he had announced them Said he to
Mr.. Fassett:
You have tried for six years to separate
the president from the senate; you have
/ finally succeeded
Mr. Erwin said his convictions com
PEELED him to admit that the chair was
right.
A truce was patched up until Monday
night.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

SIR john MACDONALD will have a clear
sjority Of twenty-one members in the
Dominion. Parliament. but he csnnet ex-
tract much comfort from the loss OF
fully one half OF the majority he had in
the previous Parliament The TRAITORS
ir Canada, ike the 'dlsloyal" Democrats
in the United States, are gaining in mem
bers aud finally all Of the loyal shriekers
for oiofiag and an appropriation" will
be dislOdged from the plundered treasur-
les of both countries.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07


WHEN that saeredly kept ana religi-
ously unopened tin box came into notice
Is the emblem OF the holy devotion
70 ancestral state treasurers and
absolute cor fdence-not misplaced
in their integrity was discovered, it was
not violent hypothesis that the cash
would be found in an old stocking under
the ted But strsDge TO say the cash, or
at Iesst gill 600, was In bark. Berce
though the friends Of this little state
have been curionsly and neglectfnlly
cared for, in fny other but proper cleri-
cal msnner, they have been honestly and
faithfully kept ~ honorable men. who
did not soil their hands and damn their
souls simply because they had the oppor
tnniiy. This lie not Pennsy lvania; these
honorable men Giles. Houston, Reynolds
and Herbert were not Quays or Republi-
CABS who lived up to the theory an
nouncea with great approval at Repub
lican convention ten years ago and prsc-
t.ced universally before and since,
yfWhst are we here for3' The difference
IS radicsl, Democracy teaches and re-
quires honesty and fidelity Republican
ism lives and profits by public robbery.
Repubiicanism is rothing II It dues not
teach loose regard aud looser moral,
toward the sseredness Of public funds
That is manifested IN the ''infsmous'
MCKINLEY bill. the subsidy steals, the
pension grabs, the direct tax BILL tn,
vanished surplus. increased taxation, ant
500 COO, GOO more money appropriated b.
this Congress than the preceding Con
gress While the conduct OF our littl
states finances has been irregular so IA
as records and book keeping are con
eerned. there has been the brilliant an,
God-like quality Of honesty which NOR
tan redeems the lack Of technical de
t@1s The money Is al there and the in
Il Nest on the hide and seek securities
been regularly paid and accountel
az Better have honesty, fidelity am
hgSaor than a thousand scrupulously KEEP
b(spks BY such non-ae eountants as Quay
Sftggett. Pierce, Tanner, Raum ar
sk@w Ike.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07


EvEN under the most favorable cir
cumstances neither Secretary Blaine nor
President Harrison can do more than
obtain little cheap glory from their
reciprocity mine. The third section in
the Mckinley law does not 60 into effect
till January Of next year Increased
rates "a Brazilian merchandise cannot be
levied until then, no matter what rates
Brazil may levy on our products. No
treaty has been concluded with Brazil,
and che President has merely declared that
be is satisfied with the present Brazilian
tariff. Brazil can modify that at any
time But provided anything favorable
to fair and equitable interchange Of
products does result from this political
reciprocity movement how can such an
Interchange be pre- reltei with GanadAg
Reciprocity is not in any way consistent
with the curious doctrines Of political
economy that Harrison aud Blaine have
been maintaining. H. is directly contrary
in fact and will require them 20
withdraw their pleas for the home
market" and for higher wages to the
American laborer" II fair trade is
yielded in favor OF Brazil we cannot com
prehend how they will dsny it to Canada
Canada is separated by an imaginary
boundary. She has the same people
speaking the same language, aud actuated
by the same motives as the United States
II an exchange Of trade on fair CONNER
eial basis between Philadelphia and
RIO dc Janero is benefit to both it is
difficult to see why the advantages would
not be greater between New York AID
Montreal or at least as great as between
Pittsburg and Wilmington II the Re
publican statesmen yield this point Of
exchange Of trade with Brazil it will be a
sacrifice Of the principle OF protectionism
without gaining as much material advan
tage as would be gained by free trade
with Canada or with Mexico Ia Brazil
we must compete with British
cheap labor" aud sell our goods
IN competition in distant market. In
Canada and Mexico there are markets as
accessible as the markets Of Kansas and
California. Hence the reciprocity is not
in the interest Of trade or Of the people OF
either Brazil or the United States, but
solely in the interest Of subsidies tc
ships and tonnage spectators.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07
Apron Bazaar.

The children of the First Methodist
Protestant Church held an apron bazaar
in the basement OF the church last night
Five hundred tickets we're sold and about
$40 reslized The bazaar was under the
managem snt Of Mrs. G Fl. Gilbert, Mrs
Sellie Dutton and Miss Clara DEMO.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07
LETTERS FROM The PEOPLE.



To the Editor Of the EvRNINo JOURNAL
SIR: My attention has been called ia
an editorial In tSe Morning News OF
March last, that one. Pat. OBrien. an
alleged Baltimore repeater, paid me a
business visit previous to the late cleo.
ton. desire to say that until friend
called my attention 20 said article I bad
never heard Of Pat O'Brien much less
seen him. never saw a repeater in my life
except two that we're pointed out to me
few days before the election at Eighth
and Market streets, as Republican re
peaters from Philadelphia have good
reason to believe that they were re-
peaters, ss saw the sane men
several times during the day in different
parts Of the city evidently scquaintine
themselves with the localities in which
they were hired 20 work on November
4 AS member of the Democratic
Committee vas in attendance st ell the
meetings. aud there was never even a
suggestion Of employing repesters. The
News has got things mixed, the repeaters
were employed by the other side as is
evidenced by twenty two celored voters
from one house In which the sole resi-
dents we're two women, besides numerous
other Instances. WILLIAM L. WiER
Christiana, Del, March 6 81.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

PATRICK NEARY madea direct contra
dietiSn of the Morning News's statements
ye 'terdav and now William l.. Wier
comes with an equally positive contra
diction. The number of misstatements
the Morning News can make after a visit
from local politician is limited only by
the editorial space II Is somewhat curl
Gus, however, that having been pumped
50 full Of 20 many errors heretofore, Mr..
Sperry has not learned to be a little wary
Of even his fresh and mare's-nest-hunt
ing reporters, not to mention the pollti-
cal emlssaries sent TO do the pumping act
by Bach.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

" streeter Of Illinois should be sent tc
the Senate he will do great deal to
destroy the IL huepce Of the Farmers
Alliance craze, The farmers are right in
abandoning ard opposing the Republican
party, which has betrayed their interests
and taxed to poverty, but they are
wrong in trying to form class party.
They should come into the Democratic
party Glass legislation is the evil from
which they ara suffering The country
mustnot apply the hair OF the dog to the
wound the Republican party has made.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

Registrar Of Wills J. X Bradford a.
granted the following letters admin is
tration on the estate Of Elzey r Shaw TO
Lsura A. Shaw, late OF vii ming on
testiment2ry on the estate OF Pa rick
Nova shan. late Of Whining on, TO Jtmes
and Matilda Monaghan.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07
George white.

contractor for hauling by the day or
hour; safes and pianos moved and set
with care; furniture cars at short notice
hoisting aud rigging done. Office, No.
1913 French street
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

various ways the Republicans are
extracting various degrees Of amusement
and drawing various lessons Of Pherisaic
F9sty from he ''tin box incident" But
suppose those four treasurers had been
Republicans who cherish and practice
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

Where are the reformers and what
have they reformsdg These are tie
P rtinsnt questions which al good Demo
crass are asking themselves now.
Several seags sgo, few mea Of re
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

IT is not strange that the people OF
Kansas are disgustod with Republican
ism. The farmers are mortgage -riddeu,
Their crops have failed or have brought
low prices and the whole state Suffers
from the blightlng burden of the taxes
levied to support Eastern manufacturers
Laboripg under all sorts Of dlsadvan-
tages and tyrannized over by the rail way
corporations the farmers have attempted
TO organize and dlssipate the wrongs
which impoverish them and the people.
Gaining political control they have dis
placed Ingalls, by Pfeffer, Peters by simp-
son, Perkins by Clover without doing
any credit TO themselves by tbs selee-
tions or any benefit to the state II is
difficult TO comprehend how Pfeifer will
serve them any better in the United
States Senate than ingalls, served them.
or course 1t is gratifying that an ire
pressibly vetriolic and virulently partisan
spectacular phrase maker should be
retired from the political arena
which be never added any statesman
ship TO or gIaced with any wisdom. But
they did not object TO Ingalls, on those
groundS They objected to him simply
because ne did not adhere 70 their craze
and was not Of their set, as the sans
Oulottes OF the French revolution oh
jeeted to the nobility. The Farmers Al
lance, examined carefully, does not
promise TO do anything Of benefit except
in \ negative way. 1t Is a good thing to
displace Iugalls. but not with Pfeffer.
The promise Of the alliance that IL win
accomplish any Of the great things such
to give relief to the mortgage ridden
farms that It would aid MIN In his at
tenn pts to prevent the loss OF his farm bv
foreclosure; would secure for him money
at very low rate of interest would force the
railroads to carry his produce at greatly
reduced rates and, in fact, would quickly
lit him from the slough OF depression to
the pinnacle Of abundant prosperity,
seems positively precluded by the officers
they have elected. and the statesmen
they have chosen In fact they seem to
their own weakness and
inability 50 pertinently in Pfeffsr that
they themselves have lost hope.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

THE e is fighting in Chilli and war
,rumors in Europe but our plumed knigi t
who was anxious to 6ght somebody before
the election Us not Gin II !"
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

James W. Abbott & Sons of Milford,
have begun the construction OF ZOO
ton three masted schooner, for the lum-
her trade.
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PHILADELPHIA. Saturday Mar. :. 1891.
TIE wsatAer tO-aGy as lskek1
to be clear.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

Prom partly cloudy to fair, preceded by
cloudiness, with slight changes of temporal
ture.
Evening journal., 1891-03-07

the partys principles. We would have
In that case not even an empty tin box
left TO tell the tale OF where the securi-
ties bad been. We would have had an
empty treasury and an empty chair, and
every one OF the tressurers would have
been residing In London unable to appear
as witnesses TO swsre for the release Of
the statesman who remained here to
stand trial for the exercise Of 'judg
ment" at the polls. The Republican
papers are somewhat hilarious in making
comparisons Of their whted .sepulcher
technical accuracy Of book -keeping In
the United States Treasury and In
Pennsylvania, after they have stolen all
there was to keep. II is different In
Delaware; there was not such fairness
and Wilderness without. but there were
no dead mems bones within the state
treasurer's Office. No state treasurer Of
Delaware has ever made himself compe-
tent to become the chairman
of the Republican National Com
mittee by stealing everything
In sight. The book keeping is bad, but
there was no lack Of honesty end
fidelity. Democrats, Democratic papers
and Den ocrstic Legislature will do all
that is possible to correct the lack OF
system revealed in the treasurer's ofii-e.
Fortunately for the principles that
Democracy teaches, that is all to be done
Our Republican frien DIS may extract as
much amusement as possible from com
PARTON between Quay and Herbert; be-
tween $500 600 extracted from The
Treasury to speculate upon and $i46, Il
600 clsh balance; between defaulting
treasurer elevated to the highest party
position aud careless -but not dis
honest-trossurer brought TO task by
his own party and his own party papers
The people will be thinking while the
politicians will be pretending to laugh
Evening journal., 1891-03-07
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