Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-21

this kind of labor. IL u not strange
that they resort 70 low and msarly
tricks to evade the alien contract law.
II is strange that the public sense Of
decency becomes 10 bluntsd ~ 70 per-
INIT half-clothed women. carrying At
their breasts naked babies, 10 dig in the
pit and carry the molds In . brick yard
while thousand iusty men loiter idly
upon the streets Of Detroit.
CONvlCTS' rood.
Some attention has been attracted
by tho statement made that the
management Of the Jackson prison has
reduced the cost of feeding convicts to
nine cents . day each. Under the
wardenship Of Mr.. Hatch tho expense
of feeding convicts was between ten
and eleven cents day and 10 main
tain that low rate il was necessary to
purchase substitutes for butter and
economic IN the purchases OF meat
aud vegetables. The last legis-
lature prohibited the use of oleo.
margarine and other Substitutes
for natural food products in state
institutions. The purpose Of the
law was to compel tho officers of
state institutions TO purchase Michigan
dairy products. Any sensible person
knows that II this law were obeyed
the cost Of dairy products would be in
creased and the expense OF feeding
convicts would be greater. The result
of the law presumably 10 that the
prison management at jackson has
provided good butter for the convicts.
But the presumption 10 unloading. In
stead of feeding the convicts butter, the
Jackson prison management. like the
Soldiers home management, has either
ignored the law, or else it has supplied
the convicts with molasses for their
bread. The cost could b reduced on
no other hypothesis, for the democratic
can buy meat aud vegetables in the
markets no moro cheaply than repub-
leans. II il not peculiar triumph Of
democratic economy anyway, for years
ago when the necessities of life were
cheaper because Of friendly republican
legislat,on and abundant crops Warden
Bingham reduced the cost to seven
cents per day. The opportunity to
boast of it, present great a. saving Is
not lost, however, BY the democratic
press.
KILsoRE, the Texan, who has stood
with . knotty club in his hand ct the
door Of the pensions committee for
years, distinguished himself yesterday
by objecting to IN item carrying an
appropriation for monument TO Gen.
ersi Sherman. He il one Of the unre-
constructed. Had it not been for the
patriotric speech OF Mr.. Breckenridge,
he would have stood in the eyes Of the
country ~ he deserves to stand, . CON-
temptible migrate and poltroon.
ELEVEN ticket scslpers were arrested
in Chicago yesterday. They included
all the prominent brokers in the city,
and the railroad men will push the
case 10 the utmost. II will be virtual
test OF statute passed in 1873, prohib-
ting the selling OF railroad tickets BY
any person without . certificate of
authority from the road over which
the ticket 10 sold.
LOCAL hank clearances were 400 per
cent above what they were last week.
The total amount &C wired to Brad
streets 10 81 .049 .o56. Out of sixty-seven
cities reporting, the report of increase
in only two others WAS equal TO or
greater than ours. This u . good
showing for the magnitude of our busi-
ness transactions.
DR- PAnKHURsr says with thousaud
young men sworn to the cause be could
throttle Tammany. That u very easy
statement TO make, but the learned
doctor must produce his men and
throttle his tiger before the public will
believe that he 10 anything more than
. scnsationalist.
DISPATCHES from Minneapolis report
icicies nine inches long and snow. The
weather map. and advices from 81.
Vincent. reported the thermometer .,
% degrees, while from ell over the
west cold, rain, snow and sleet were
shown to be the prevailing features OF
the weather.
Mn. sruxr's bill to regulate immi.
grafton 10 not 20 very clear in verbiage,
but iss spirit 10 eminentiy proper and
patriotic. II it shall be passed and put
into operation IL IL 10 be prayed tina,
its tepms may be enforced.
-
IT NAY be accepted ~ > fact thst Mr..
Blalne's name will be presented 70 shs
Minneapolis convention, and that the
delegates will stampede 70 him uultpe
be comes out decidedly adverse 10 such
. movement.
Nh PuLrTzxs's World says the nation
viii not return . billion dollar
congress OCCASIONALLY the World blum
ders into profound and automatic
| truth.
TRx Ere and poles commissioner
he'd an executive" ssssion yesterday