The morning call., 1892-08-18
its members tried to remedy such wrongs as
the above Depicts but it seems they did not

1t must be n0peu tDat there Is only Wlld
mendaeity in the teIegraphed account of
tragedy in Washington. A man travelling
somewhere in that thinly peopled State is
said to have been attacked aud robbed by
three highwaymen, who further exercised
their bloodthirsty ingenuity by cutting off
his head. This useless decapitation over
they journeyed onward. But their murder
Gus decd bad been observed by one man in
cOncealment, and he trailed up party to
pursue the wretehes, and being oyertaken
they were all promptly lynched. This is
pretty story for the novelist, even IL it Is
not fact. One man is killed; one man sees
the killing. Three men are lynched on the
word of one witness. Is 1t impossible TO
conceive of the witness doing the killing
himself and laying the blame on the lynched
three? The story needs confirmation, but
there are so many crimes occurring that
there is hardly time TO glance back at the sad
event, at least in San Francisco.
No wonder the sun is regarded as the
parent of life. Five chickens are reported
to have been hatched by solar heat in IN
diana. ANY roosters in the brood will with
flial duty learn to crow at sunrise to the
annoyance of people who do not care to be
reminded so soon OF the measure of grati-
tude due to the parent Of all terrestrial ami
nation. The sun, it must be conceded, is
equally responsible for all the artificial
Matching that goes on. The incubator is
only deriyaiive of solar activity.
AT the Christian work convention at CAL
vary Church yesterday an odd statement
was made by a Chinese reverend. He hit
hard at the vicious opium traffic fosterei by
the English in India for the sake of COM
mercial gain. but he went On to make this
statement: Chinese seldom get drunk,
but opium is as bad as whisky. only it acts
differently. The white man gets drunk and
goes home and beats his wife. When the
Chinese opium-user goes home his wife
beats him. If this is all the fault to find
with opium, it is not scandalously bad
The naivete Of the description suggests the
predcameDt of the ScOtchmRn who wanted
to be separated from his wife week after
union, on his statement that she was worse
than the devil. He proved ii in this way:
That the Bible says II you resist the devil
he lees from you; whereas II you resist her
she nees at yeP
The train robber is now in evidence in
Colorado, but with a very different result
as compared with exploits near Fresno.
Two men wearing masks tried to rob the
passengers of q train, and were Jogging
ahead jocosely in the collection of watches
and the easing of pockets. when some cour-
ageous passenger occupying hold up berth
opened fire on the sc0undres and quite
proyldentially hit one of them. The twain
then took to their heels and disappeared
conquered freebooters. The lesson of cuur-
age might be taken to heart by the railroad
companies. A few hold-up berths on every
train might be occupied by men paid for
proficiency in shotgun and revolver pro-
fcleney. 1t is seldom, however, that the
modern tran-robber bothers passengers
He stakes his all upon the express COM
panleS safes, and makes a target of the
hapless messenger
Smalley of the New York Tribune COM
ments on the English hatred of the Ameri-
can tariff Much of the twaddle written in
England On the subject is unreal. A few
Industries in Sheffield, South Wales and
birmingham have suffered by recent legis-
lation in the United States, but the English
have good deal more to fear from the
spectlve expansion OF United States COM
petition and industry into the foreign
market. Nobody can doubt that John
Bright was az earnest free-trader Yet he
once declared in the House of Commons
that while the United States within its own
broad area has practical free trade, time
might come when it would enter foreign
trade successfully against all rivals. He
did not appear 10 relish the prospect for
his own branch of manufactures. Were he
alive to-day lie would be sstonished at the
progress American foreign trade is making
with the Mckinley tariff as a deterrent in
his eyes.
The only new name Of any consequence
In the Gladstone Cabinet is that OF Mr.
Asquith. He is a barrister OF second or
third rate rank, who made a name as coun-
sci for Parnell under Sir Charles Russell as
leader before the PGrnell Commission: He
has never held any kind Of Office before
and, although a prudent man, il is a bold
experiment to make him Home Secretary.
In that Office ne has the review of all the
judicial business Of the whole United King
dom. He is also in the Cabinet. He is not
rich man, yet by taking this office he
stullifeS himself at the bar He cannot
practice at the bar while Home Secretary,
and it is one of the unwritten obligations If
the post that he should not return to the
bar upon a change of Government. He may
have hopes Of being Lord Chancellor, but
there are many other aspirants, and the
man who sgas death warrants is never
very popular.