The morning call., 1892-08-24


In the Squires case yesterday the jury
found a verdict of guilty as charged"
SQuires is charged with having offered 10
sell his vote as a juror and 10 do his best to
corrupt other jurors. The conviction is
therefore important as bearing upon
prevalent form Of crime. The curses of the
good wife who adores Mr.. Squires-eurses
shOwered upon the Judge, the jury and the
counsel-are OF no more consequence than
the west wind. The good woman was in
ellned TO square SQuiTeS upon any terms,
and she may succeed when Bew trial is
granted. Ii takes long time TO settle any
thing with the aid of iuries.
Another record breaking performance is
recorded. 1t is on the Atlantic, where a
minute now means as much as a day-at
least in betting estimation. The City of
New York, of the Inman American line,
has arrived at Queenstown from New YORK
In days 70 hours and 81 minutes. Ii is the
fastest passage on record eastward. The
other lines must get up steam to beat these
minutes OF advantage out of week. A good
deal lies with the public in the matter of
prestige. The Inman Company at least is
not losing time in telling the American
public what 1t can do.
The Indians are reported to be dancing
in Oklahoma-a sure sign that they have
plenty of food for the present and are hope
fui of still greater abundance in the period
when cold weather rules and economy
should be inculcated by experience This
Messiah dance is as good as a revival among
the redskins. Various tribes are jumping,
and the general desire is to get rid of the
white man and restore buffalo and SUI
premacy to the Indian. Unfortunately the
march of civilization has gone too far for
this nonsense. The Indian may fall into
line with the white if he can, but he must
on IN n1p.lya de e tf,aA aa he
cannot. There is a new order of savage on
the North American continent.
1t may be there is nothing worth pinch
of snuff in this story of frauds in the SUBJ
stitntion of armor for protected vessels IN
the American navy. The navy authorities
| deny that anything is wrong. But the ALE
cations may as we'll be refuted in the usual
way OF statement pitted against statement.
| III the Carnegies are faulty in their plant
| and are anxious not 10 run risks with con-
tracts in hand, and so have procured modi-
| hcatlons of contracts. the sooner the truth
| is known the better. 1t is not an unknown
| incident that contractors should pay an
| honOraTium TO shortsighted and easily
convinced Government official The ques-
ton is which is to blame?
Sportsmen Of the murderous and lawless
| type are reported to be at work 10 Sonoma
and Marin counties Staying deer. These
are the sportsmen who take shot at any,
| thing alive that offers. and they are regard
| less or the consequences, aud of course
| supremacy indifferent to the honor of sport.
| They are gentlemen who go about on the
| meuDtansde or valley in search of a tar.
| get They can make no use Of deer killed
| out of season except for their own suppers
| ia the evening" but it matters little to them
| whether In the choice of stew or grilled
| steak, they kill dozen or score of animals
| When the duck season comes round these
| spoTtsmeR are, of course, on hand. They
| live TO kill. and they kill. The wild ducks
| and geese have come to know them and
| fly high.
Poor McNulty is nearing his doom. He
| has had four years of it In JAIL and must be
! heartily sick of confinement. Naturally he
| is still more sick at the prospect OF being
| hanged on Friday, and would prefer COM
mutation If that were possible in the name
| OF conscience. Hope Is not positively ex-
| cluded, but IL is running very fast. 1t does
seem hard thing to hang a man after four
| years OF waiting. The man has had chance
| to live his life over again in Jail, and is a
| very much changed mortal when led forth
| on the scaffold. His jailers are probably
! little acquainted with the manner of hang
| ing man, and can have no taste for their
| Office in this sense. There are q number of
| murderers awaiting trial or death, and it
| must sadden their lives that one Of their
Will HO lODkcT scan Tie newspapers
| in the morning while awaiting justice.
The Amer or Afghanistan has asked the
English to give him assistance in the
| Pamir region against the Russians who are
making that country a military training
ground. This vii. give the English an op-
portunity to patrol the frontier, and give
tie Russians il they are that way minded.
an opportunity to prod the English some
where into quarrel. The Russians are
no doubt very hopeful of benefits from
quarreis at the present moment.
Labouchere is quite stepping outside
ordinary precedent in attacking Queen Vic
toria as the cause of his seclusion from the
British Ministry under Gladstone. The
constitutional understanding Is that the
Queen Is nobody and the Ministry every
thing. The Queen is a fgurehead, who as
serts or advises. but has no power to order.
Hence the real censure should fall upon
Gladstone. who had the power to insist. and
altered his mind upon the Queens advice
Labouchere has often advocated republi
canism In England, and it Is quite constitu
tional to do so. He has been hard on the
personal errors of the royal family and on
that subject also he is constitutionally free.
The Queens snub Will not do the royal
family any good. for the whole sacred cir
Gle is vulnerable, and Labouchere is q mas
ter OF the art of shifting. Had Gladstone
stood firm there would have been none of
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