The Press., 1893-04-20

A Crofut, in the North American Review for April: It is the fashion of .laborn orators to affirm that tramps are rapidly increasing in number under prevailing in dustrial conditions, and even such n writer as Henry George has estimated them at millions" in this country alone, UT course, no proof of the tremendous multiplication is offered, for there is none to be had. l doubt if there are so many tramps in proportion to our population as there were fifty years ago, and my doubt IS founded on the notorious facts that the workingman's wages have more than doubled in that time, and the cost of al- most everything that the workingman has to buy has been reduced nearly one-half. In other words, an hours labor will buy and actually does buy three times as much as it would buy fifty years ago. In regard to "tramps" only one thing is new-that is, the name The very same genus was known to my mother, but she called them ''codgers;" the very same genus was known to my grandmother, but she called them ushacks. What my exyo ss, d h1,-. .,.sr -s.-.- know, but l doubt not that the profess sional rounders were as common then as now. There were no "tramps" then, be- cause the name was not invented till our armies were disbanded. There were no "dudes" then, but there have been dan- dies, swells, fops, beaux and exquisites scattered plentifully down the centuries. Names change the thing persists. -------->---
 Connecticut has reason to feel proud of the position taken upon the interstate commerce issue by Senator Platt in the senate, when senators talked intemper- ately and like demagogues about the in terstate commerce law, the courts and the judges. He said: ''It is not wise to l attack the judiciary of the United States; 1 it is not wise to charge it with usurping power; it is not wise to intimate that judges are czars; it is not wise to talk about the disposition of the judiciary to | reduce laborers to the condition of slaves and chain them to their oars.
 | VO do 1OSlSldbOIS nave 10 pdS- sion about matters of this sort. Above all we should not seek for political advan- | tage to be derived from occasions like this. The laboring man of this country will learn who his friends are. The laboring man of this country does not de- sire to do injury either to persons or prop erty. He will, in my judgment, if he knows it, engage in no illegal combina- tion, and if he does engage in illegal con-
 binations he should be as much open to the decisions of the court as capital when it engages in illegal combinations. There is 10 distinction between capital and la
 bor in this matter. Combinations in re- straint of trade, whether by capital or
 whether by laborers, are illegal, and com-
 binations in restraint of trade, which the United States government has a right to
 protect, whether by capital or by labor
 CTS, should be dealt with with the same
 justice and the same vigor.n The Chicago News tells. story of a young woman who entered railway train
 with poodle clasped tenderly in her arms.
 I Madam" said the conductor, as he
 punched her ticket, "I am very sorry, but
 you can't have your dog in this car. It's
 against the rules" "I shall hold him in my lap all the
 way" sle replied, "and he will not dis
 turb any one."
 "That makes no difference" said the conductor. 'I couldn't allow my owr
 dog here. Dogs must ride in the baggage
 car. I'll fasten him all right for you" "Don't you touch my dog, sir '" said
 the young woman, excitedly. "I will , trust him to no one!" And, with indig
 nant tread, she marched to the baggage car, tied her dog, and returned Abou
 fifty miles further on, when the conductor : came along again, she asked him, "Wil you tell me if my dog is all right ?" 2 "I am very sorry," said the conductor :, politely; ''but you tied him to trunk - and he was thrown off with it at the las l. station"
 A correspondent of the NewY ork Time
 is aggrieved because most of the animals ' in the ZOO that have names at all hay r Irish names. He asserts, and the Time r says it is true, that the monkeys are usu