Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-01-18

proud Of hls state ~ Chicago II be
snail there Learn by comparison that
TIE legislature WAS too alggsrdIy 90 dis
play the states resources, What pollti-
Ca capital can atone for the shame and
disggacs each enc will safter by reason
Of = saAbby and ineongruoas exhibit
Sons at all
The democrats IN the lSst legislature
refused TO appropriate an amount snf-
ficlent TO make = ereditable display.
1ney must forever bear the odium Of
their own niggsrdiiness. Proceeding
under Us own estimates. the demo-
erat board CT worlds fair managers nss
discovered that IL mas not enough
money to complete its pians. A deficit
exists; first, because not enough was
Appropriated second, because there Is
BOW no money 10 proceed For this
state of affairs the democrats and dem
oersts only are responsible. No blame
Of any kind can attach 10 republicans.
No poliucal capital of any kind can be
made except to the injury Of DEM
ocrat..
II the democrats had begun to build
a state building. . necessary one, and
the funds were exhausted before its
completion. . refusal to finish it would
be regarded ss understandable. No
question Of political capital would be
allowed 10 defeat such an end. The
same case is presented in this worlds
fair emergency. The duty OF the legis-
lature Is first TO ignore politics; second.
personal enmsties, and third. to appro-
pirate money enough 10 exhibit Michi-
CANS resources at the fair.
SENATOR BARSARp's bill providing for
the appointment of chaplain for the
Soldiers home, at salary OF 81 900
per annum, 10 q self-commendatory
measure. At present the chaplain is
compelled to render almost as much
spiritual aid and comfort to the inmates
as regularly installed pastor to his
flock and his remuneration is not IN
any respect commensurate with his
labors.
HEBREWS need no longer be married
by Jewish rites. The supreme lodge of
B'nal Birth has suspended the law so
far As its members are concerned.
While the change in itself is not one of
special Importance, yet 1t illustrates q
tendency, now displayed by all great
religious. to pay less attention to forms
and ceremonies aud mora to the in
heren. meaning of their fundamental
truths.
SENATOR SToCKBRIDGE was formally
and duly elected to be his own sue
cessor by the legislature yesterday.
The wild and improbable rumor that
another result would be reached, said
to have emsnated from Washington,
sounds at this date like the PUNK of q
disappointed statesman's fall from
grace.
MATTHEW STANLEY Quay has been
renominsted for the United States sem
ATE by the republicans of the Pennsylva-
MIA legislature. There is no shrewder,
more far-sighted man In the sem
ate than Mr. Quay. and his reelection
is tribute to one of the greatest poll
,lcian this country has ever produced.
ACCORDING to the Chicago Journals
coal market statistician the poor people
of that city, residing on the west side.
are taxed one cent per pound for coal
during the cold snaps. The unhOly
extortion Is practlced by bucket
dealers, whose coal is said to be white
n comparison with their souls.
THAT breezy democratic sheet, the
Lansing Journal, has come out with a
new dress. make up. and eight pages.
May Its shadow never grow less! and in
the future may its editor see the error
of his ways and reform. Here's sue.
| cess anyhow.
AFTER lying in the back room of an
| uudertaker's establishment for six
years, the body of Pennsylvania man
has Just been burned. This would have
been rather hasty tor Philadelphia
funeral, but 1t occurred IN Northeast.
FIFTY young women escaped from
the burning kenwood institute in their
night clothes the other night, and then
two of them rushed back into the burn
ing building to rescue two matinee
jackets.
DAS LAMONT, il is said, will again be
Mr. Cleveland's private secretary.
Then we may look for another series OF
those mss;srfully written messages that
. made Mr.. Cleveland famous.
CHATTANOOGA 10 without drop oil
water, owing TO the freezing OF the
! river. IL Chattanooga were located