Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-02

Massachusetts,. whore, aftsf hard contest
for local prohibition and . defeat in
Haverhill, the defeated temperance people
are raising fund to take ont license
and to soil liquor themselves. They have
decided that saloon which sells pure
liquor at nearly cost will be 30 popular
with the drinkers and 20 formidable an
opposition to the sellers that 1t will do
more than anything else to break up the
traffc. -...s.
Ex-senator Edmunds practices before
the United States courts, chiefly the su-
preme court, utilizing in this way perhaps
six months In the year. For the benefit of
his daughters health he spends . large
part of each winter In Florida. When
summer comes he alternates between his
home in Vermont and the salmon fishing
grounds up in Canada. He has magnii-
cent homo In the ultra-fsshionable part of
Warrington, where he lives q few months
every year.
The demand for gold seems likely to be
answered in ways not thought of. From
California comes the report Of . substan-
tisl increase in the gold yield, the output
for last year In that state being $13, 600, 900,
. gain of about q, ,Q00. 900. From all in
dications gold mining will have big bsom
this year, as hundreds of mines that have
not been worked for ten years will be re-
opened and new properties developed. The
same tidines come from Colorado and all
the other states where gold is found.
Sir Archibald Alison believes that the
great continental war cannot be long de-
lsyed. The nations have taxed their re-
sources to the utmost. Potentates talk
of the prospects of peace while they never
relax their preparations for tho inevitable
war, but such preparations must soon be
discontinued, - the powers mainly inter-
ested have very nearly reached the limits
Of their resources. He assumes that Eng
land will be neutral, and If such is the
case his opinion evidently inolines to the
triumph of the Franco Russian Alliance,
whose naval strength cannot be rivaled
by the Central European powers.
The Chinese Six Companies represent
the ak districts near Canton, China, from
which almost all the immigrants come to
this country. The companies bring the
immigrants here, paying their passage,
supporting them until they get work,
burying them when they die and taking
their bones back to China. For all this
they exact enormous rates of interest, and
blsckmail their subjects from time to time
as occasion arises. The highbinders are
simply the agents of the companies In
blackmailing or in removing Cinnamon
who refuse to be blackmailed or are other
wise obnoxious to the companies.
Friends of the human race will watch
with interest the progress of the co-opers-
tive experiment in Michigan, known as the
Gibsonville Altruistic Community. The
society owns over 400 acres of ane farming
land and Is engaged In manufacturing,
agriculture and merchandising. Women
have equal authority with men In the
management of affairs. At tho end of the
year half the proceeds of the community
are divided among the members. according
to the amount each has produced, and the
residue is devoted to general purposes.
The scheme appears to be . modified form
of Bellamyism.- It il an attempt to hsr-
monize the socialistic principle of joint
ownership In the agencies of production,
with the individualistic principle of re-
warding labor according to Its efficiency.
The late Henry W. Paine, about whom q
host of anecdotes are being printed, de-
clined to accept a denomination for prose-
cutting attorney of Kennebsc county, Me-,
after five years. service, for peculiar rea-
son. "I found" he said, "that I had be-
gun to have feelings of disappointment
when I failed to secure convictions and
also that I was having this feeling IRE
spective of my own personal belief In the
guilt or innocence of the party accused.
A lawyer likes to win cases. was law
yer with professional pride. But was
also man, with an instructive love of jus
tics. I found on little self examination
that Paine the prosecuting attorney and
Paine the man vera at odds, and SO con-
cluded that the latter should have the
chance. did not want anything more to
do with the Office of prosecuting attorney.
1t was too risky, so of course got out"