The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-07-19
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
\ WONDERFUL MOTOR.

\ WONDERFUL MOTOR.
The Baltimore American says: Electro
clans in all parts of the country are
watching with interest the reports of the
tests now being made in the Belt Line
tunnel with the giant motor. This is the
most powerful machine of its kind that
has ever been constructed 1t has already
proven its enormous strength, and, we are
confident, will soon be so adjusted that it
will be capable of hauling through the
tunnel the heaviest trains. That there
should have been few bitches and delays
at the start was to be expected, as, in adj
dition to the enormous motive power re-
quired, the engineers have to battle with
the dampncSS of the tunnel and with 9TH
er difficulties which would not be cXpe
rienced in the open air. The success al
ready achieved is such as to warrant the
belief that the electric motor will soon de
monstrete the fact that its builders did not
overestimate its strength, and that it will
lead the way in the great battles that
must soon be fought out between electri
CITY and steam. 1t is truly wonderful
motor, we'll typical of the wonderful prog
ress that has been made in the field of
elcctricrl engineering by American inven
tors
TIE NEW HIGiIWAiMAN.
Boston Post The bicycle has at last
reached that point in its development at
which it is found available for criminal
purposes. This was inevitable. 1t hap
pens sooner or later with many really
great practical Inventions. The produc-
ton of dynamite gave safe breakcrs a new
arm: anaesthetics find use in robbery;
hvpnotiSm, at least in Kansas, is applied
to the commission of murder by proxy;
before long some ingenious criminal will
find out how to add electricity to his APP
planes.
The bicycle has now ibecome the
steed of the highwayman of these latter
days, and good substitute for Turpin's
Black BeSs it proves. In Connecticut and
in New jersey more or less successful
stand and deliver acts have been per-
formed within the past week by highway
man mounted on bicycles, the superior
speed of the wheels giving them both the
advantage of pursuit and in escape.
There have been already tentative eXper
iments in the equipment of police with
bicycles. Now that the value of the wheel
has been demonstrated on the criminal
side, its adoption by the guardians of the
peace may come more speedily.
TIE GOLD SHIPMENT.
New York World The shipment of
$3.50, $50 gold is not in any degree alarm
ing Nevertheless, it is significant of the
artifciality of our financial situation
1t was part of the bond syndicate's I'M
dertaking to prevent the export of gold
until October. In order to do so the syn
dictate bankers have arbitrarily controlled
the price of foreign exchange, at times
selling it at some small sacrifice to prevent
gold shipments. But to facilitate their
other operations and to cheaper them as
much as possible they have kept the price
of exchange as high as it could be with
out creating profit on gold shipments.
Apparently they have miscalculated "a
little. At present prices there is profit
very small, to be sure, but still profit
on gold shipments. One firm, finding out
the fact has made a shipment and will
make more unless the price of exchange
is reduced. Doubtless other firms will
follow the example if the margin of pro-
fit is not quickly destroyed bya lowering
of the exchange rate.
But when a shipment of quarter of a
million pays a profit of only $50 as in
this case, there is no danger of any great
activity in this form of gold speculation.
There is at all evexts. nothing to be
alarmed about.
| BRITISH ELECTIONS AND HOME RULE.
New York Sun: Permanently shelved
the home rule question can scarcely be. so
long as Ireland returns at least 80 Nation
alist members to the House of Commons
1t is, of course understood that the Con-
servaties contemplate the early introduce
ton of bill making Ireland's representa-
tion in Parliament proportionate to her
population. The reduction would be al
most wholly at the cost of Nationalist con-
stituences, the expected result being their
curtailment to about 80, while the Union
lists would have from 20 to % seats. Some
of the best lawyers in England hold that
such a dininution in the number of mem
beers allotted to Ireland by the act of Uns
ion would be a violation of that constitus.
tional compact, which the Unionists de-
clare it to be sacred duty to uphold. But
if the Conservatives have the power, as
they seem likely to have in the next Parlia
ment, they will probably carry out their
plan of minimizing Ireland's capacity for
Instructions and they will try to make the
act acceptable to English electors by coup-
ling it with zone man, one vote proyis-
ion. Poor Ireland. First, millions of her
children are driven by starvation into eX
lie. and then she is to be mado to suffer
because her population is depleted.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
UPPER MARLBORO, July II.
Mr.. EDIToR:-The question that will
soon absorb and engage the attention of
our people will be the one of the success
or defeat of the Democratic party. in the
rnmin,r nlprtinn This will he the GREAT