The morning call., 1894-04-05

sentiments Of the respectable people OF the
State when he said he was opposed to any
dissertation of the American Sabbath. He
made a gallant and successful fight against the
bill permitting the sale OF liquor through sa-
loon side doors on Sunday afternoons.-New
York Mail and Express.
There is one thing funnier than the comments
of English newspapers on American affairs.
and that is the London Times having Its
American correspondent at Philadelphia. That
is much as If an American newspaper should
have its English correspondent at Manchester
or Glasgow instead OF Lond4n.-Indlanapol
News.
Colonel Fitzhugh OF Texas is 10 Washington,
and he wants place as chief Of division in the
Treasury Department. The colonel will be
remembered as the person who once pro-
claimed himself "a bigger man than old Grant,"
We should say that he was altogethr TOO big
for the place he now seeks.-Boston Herald.
The country bought over S6,0OO,OO0 worth
of foreign unplaned lumber alone, mostly from
Canada, last year. even with the Mckinley
duties as a barrier. How much will it buy
next year with lumber on the free list? Small
wonder that Canada regards Wilson as a great
statesman New York Recorder.
City Comptroller Fitch In following the ex-
ample of State Comptroller Roberts in opposing
the proposed Federal Inheritance tax Is doing
right. To subject inheriances to Federal as
well as State taxation would be double In
justice.-New York Mall and Express.
According to the views of ex-Judge Jameson
on the status OF the Prendergast case given in
the Herald. this is the first time In the history
Of Jurisprudence in the State OF Illinois that
an appeal has been prosecuted from the Su-
preme Court to a nisi-prius Judge.
A new French rifle which fires 100 continu-
Gus shots without ieloadlDg has been invented.
The Improvement In arms OF precision since we
used TO load and file in nine minutes Will make
the next war anything but diversion.-Pitts-
burg Press.
1t may be set down az rule with no excep-
tions that the boss Is everywhere thief; that
his existence is due to organized robbery, and
that he and his hencbmen will steal all they
dare and as rapidly as they dare.-New York
World.
1t Is blot on the civilization of the closing
years of the nineteenth century that women do
not receive equal wages with men when they
do equal work. The woman's suffrage organ
iZation Is right in denounciDg the Injustice
New York Recorder.
The advent of spring should admonish our
Legislators at Washington that there should be
no unnecessary delay In perfecIing and passing
bill for the establishment Of national blu.
reau of heath.-New York Herald.
II must be that all of the farmers organiZa-
lions in the country have passed resolutions
against Secretary Morton, as a new one has not
been reported for at least week.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
A sea serpent has been seen at Atlantic City
with eyes the "size OF a silver dollar" Every
thing is measured by the dollar standard at this
famous resort.-PittsbuIg Dispatch.
No; the world cannot be said to be making
progress while it contains man who will snap
a revolver at another person to prove that 1t is
unoaded.-Buffalo Express.
At diplomacy as well as poker it appears that
"for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain
the heather Chinee is peculiar" ST. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Farmers needn't use arms on that Western
tramp army Let them just stand on the road
with sticks Of cordwood and axes.-Philadel-
phia Times.
Coxey ought to travel by rail-borne on the
shoulders of two meu.-Indianapois News.