Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-17
4n11tma1 aud GumrtEr.
The Oldest Daily Paper PaD
 llshod in Connecticut,
NOT JESUITS.

NOT JESUITS.
 When a man lives in Boston he has tt think, and sometimes Boston man think so hard that he sees ''snsrks." Rev. ani Professor Luther T. Townsend lives ir Boston, and he has thought so hard and SC
 long about Roman Catholic domination ir
 this country that he sees Jesuits lurking
 everywhere, and especially in the news
 paper offices. He told the Methodist min.
 isters of Boston at their meeting the other
 day that "Jesuit inquisitor" sits at the
 elbow of every editor and reporter in Bos-
 ton; that when minister goes wrong the
 papers print the particulars, but when the
 culprit is priest "the reportorial dogs are
 kenneled;" that the army, navy, treasury, etc., are passing into the hands of Papists; and that, if Mir. Cleveland appoints a Romish postmaster general, no books or tracts showing up the errors and the ambi- tious designs of Popery will be suffered to pass through the maiIs.
 Brother Townsend is wrong, not to say "of his base," concerning Jesuits in the newspaper offices of Boston. We know something about those newspaper offices. There are inquisitors enough in them, but they are not Jesuits. They are the people who want to know why their stuff wasn't printed. They are the people who want to know why certain stuff about them was printed. They are the people who want to know why the papers don't print more and better poetry, which poetry they have for sale. They are the people who want to know why their names were left out of the report of the we'd ding of Miss Fitzjames and Mir. Fitzjsms. They are the people who come over from Harvard college and want to know if it is necessary to print their names in the police reports. They are the people who want to know why the papers don't report more fully tho meet ipgs of the Babies' Rights association and the Society for the Protection of Pleas on Yellow Dogs. They are the people who want to know why the editor doesn't know something about his own business, and why reporters don't know how to report And so forth and SO on.
 Brother Townsend is right about the in quisitors. They can be found in every newspaper office. But they are not Jes- uits. Oh, DO. Jesuits know something and have usually some tact and judgment. LIKE THE CHICAGO PLATFORH.
 People do not pay very much attention to the notices on the electric street CATS telling them not to ride on the platform, but that they may mean something has just been made plain by the Supreme court of Massachusetts. Albert E. Beal sued the the Lowell and Dracut Street Railway company to recover for being thrown from the front platform of 8 car which was pro- pelled by electricity and which left the track at 8 defective and worn out switch. Ordinarily that would have seemed good case for the plaintiff, but Judge Aldrich of the Superior court, before whom the case was tried, left it to the jury to decide whether the Iule in regard to negligence, ha tRs Of the Ha ssou ply in this case The jury decided that it should, and gave a verdict for the defend ant. In his charge Judge A'drich explained that the full bench of the Supreme court of Massachusetts has decid- ed that eff passenger voluntar- fly and unnecessarily rides on the platform of a steam car and gets hurt he cannot recover, because the very fao1 that he undertakes to ride on the platform when the car is in motion, instead of rid ing on seat within the car, when he might do 80, is held to be an act of care lessness on his part which will prevent him from recovering damages for an in- jury sustained by him while so riding on the platform" The Supreme court has also decided that it is not necessarily negli- gence to ride on the platform of a horse car, the distinction being that the steam car is propelled by tremendous force and may be run at great speed. But the jury
 thought it was negligence to ride on the
 front platform of car propelled by cleo
 tricity. And the Supreme court sustained
 the verdict.
 Therefore do not ride on the front plat
 form of an electric car, and if you do so ride do not fall off. This platform is like
 the Democratic plstform-not made fol
 the use of the public.