The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-14


against vice. ignorance and sin. But
not even the school teacher or the
preacher has reached that degree Of
faith in the efficiency Of his own peace
full weapons wherein he is content to go
home at night and leave his desk or his
study door unlocked, with valuables ex-
posed to the clutch of the first wicked
wayfarer. These truly good papers
sometimes in their goodness como
mighty near to being downright silly.
Henry Watterson says: II am out OF
the knock-down and drag-out politics
which factionalism and favoritism and
selfish. personal ambition have project
ed upon the country. have never had
any stomach for the concrete things Of
political life. ! regard Office as kind
of bribery. AS long as It seemed that
moral forces and organized ideas were
objective points. / was ready to do my
part. But great policies have yielded
to petty wrangles. After my lecture
season Is over / am going abroad with
my family for year. Perhaps, when
the inevitable result of the prevailing
overflow of rant and fustian has been
reached. the Democratic party may he
gin to put two and two together with
the aim of making four. AS It is, If one
Of the prophets should rise from the
dead he could not restore order to this
chaos. We have in fact no Democratic
party at all-merely an agglomeration
of ouiddities thrown together by the
upheaval of the times-a monster with
out head, running wild through a
wilderness of political incertitude."
Henry Is assured that In the possess
sion of this feeling there are others.
American flour costs just three times
as much in Havana as in New York,
although the transportation cost is less
than twenty-five per cent of the New
York selling price. This curious fact
is explained by the assertion that n
trust of millers in Barcelona has in
duced the Spanish government to levy
tariff on American flour of nearly
300 per cent. Cubans who eat wheat
bread pay three prices for 1t, just to
please a handful of millers in Spain
who have a "pull." It Is time the
United States took account OF it's own
interests, as we'll as the interests of
civilization in general, and put an end
to the nightmare of Spanish misrulc
in Cuba, the natural market for Amer
lean cereals and wares.
Russell Sage says it seems clear to
him that Mckinley is to be our next
chief magistrate. "The signs" he adds,
"all point that way. He Is a clean,
honest and able man. The moral temp
er of our people has been so stirred
of late that they will have no candi-
date suspected of alliance with polit-
ical manipulation. Here Is one of Nc
Kinley's strong points. He is free from
all combinations and secret cabals. He
stands for himself and his principles
alone The nominators will gather
about him irresistibly, for they will see
the sentiment of the people in his fa-
vor." This Is merely one mans pre-
diction, but it's fulflment would not
cause any loss of sleep.
James ]. Corbett's REIMBURSEMENT of
the pugilistic championship calls to
mind the fact that he won it by beating
a broken-down brute, retained 1t by
besting British buffer and abused it
by some Of the rankest manoeuvers to
avoid fighting known to the history of
the ring. Prize-fghting is disgraceful
and all that; but it is doubly so when
the alleged fighters do nothing but chat
ter about their own fancied greatness.
Because the citizens of, Vienna elect
ed to the position of burgomaster-
equivalent to our mayor--a man dis
tasteful to the emperor, the latter
promptly dissolved the municipal coun-
Gil and placed the capital of Austria
virtually under martial law. Critics
of American institutions might moder-
Ute lHclT CluHiOI Wy pdSoiHS al SApcil-
mental residence period under the sway
of His Imperial Majesty, Franz Joseph.
The assertion, before the Philadel-
phia "Lexow" committee, of Agent Ad-
dis, Of the Citizens Municipal associa-
tion, that in two years the city of
Brotherly Love paid out $240, 900 on paw
ing contracts for work and material
never furnished, brings the inquiry, at
its beginning, down to solid basis
Now let the probe he applied to the re-
sponsible authors of this steal, and may
the CALLED knave vince.
Governor Hastings, II earnestly pre-
sented as Pennsylvania's candidate for
the presidential nomination, would
stand better show than any other
candidate except Harrison. Reed, Nc
Kinley and Allison. With these four
leaders in the race sacrificing each
others chances, why should 1t not be
possible for Pennsylvania g man to win ?
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CULTURE AND PUBLIC LIFE.