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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11
Oscar Wilde.

1t is not very humane sentiment TO
wish anybody ill-luck but sometimes a
man so demeans himself that he very large
ly dries up the springs of sympathy that
would otherwise be great source of solace
to him. Oscar Wilde now in such "a peck Of
trouble in London, through his suit with
the Marquis of Queensbury, has done this
very thing.
The public history Of this young man is
very curious He came into notice in this
country some eight years ago when he
bloomed upon the New York public as
London apostle of estheticism. His stock
of ideas consisted mainly OF pronuncia-
mento on art as applied to dress. He
believed in Knickerbockers, silk hosiery,
certain effects of color as applied to waist
coats and neckties, long hair, flowing
lines, sunhowers as decorative flower
and what not. He broke into the daily
papers by the columns Harper's Weekly
printed his picture, he was taken up by
swell society at Newport and elsewhere
and for while established aIsort of cult
which was taken up by the pleasure
chasers, fadists and dudes. Going back
to London he dropped out Of sight for few
years and then bloomed once more as q
novelist of the cratic type and, later, as a
playwright of considerable merit. This
last field he worked so successfully that
he had as many as three plays running
simultaneously at the London theatres
and at the same time two-or three IN
this country, These plays were all OF /
kind; clever but intensely cynical. IN
them he sneered at every virtue, dealt II
untruthful epigrams whore he SHOULD
have embraced his great opportunity tC
preach sermons, and exercised his wit t.
pull down where he should have built up
A successful playwright has a rare ohanc'
TO influence large constituencies for-goc 4
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11
The Beginning of a Great National
Enterprise.

The president, after more than q
months reflection, has appointed the com
mission authorized by the last congress
to report on the feasibility of the proposed
government canal across the Isthmus of
Panama. This Nicaragua canal PROPOSE.
tion has been before the people for long
time. President Hayes endorsed 1t in a
message to congress and Mr.. Blaine
pushed the scheme with all the ability he
commanded Mr. Cleveland approved IL
in 1899 but is now said to be of the opin.
ion that we need more facts Hence the
commission. Had Mr.. Cleveland not
taken this position bill authorizing the
construction of a national canal would
now be ON the statute books. 1t passed
the senate and 200 members of the house
| petitioned the speaker that the bill be al.
lowed to come up for consideration.
After consultation with the president this
petition was denied.
Such a canal is case of manifest des.
tiny. 1t shortens the water route between
New York and San Francisco over ten
thousand miles, would have great ten
dency to develop the Pacific states and
would be of immense advantage to the
government in case of war, enabling the
administration to rapidly transfer war
vessels from one coast to the other
whereas now the long, tedious, expensive
and disagreeable trip around the horn is
one of the greatest bugbears with which
the secretary Of the navy has to contend.
Mr.. Beecher once said it was II great
privilege to be young man in the closing
hours of the nineteenth century. When
the reader contemplates such mastery
strokes on the part Of the government as
this and reflects on the tremendous effect
1t will have on commerce and the changes
it will bring about along the Pacific coast,
developing there part of the country
that is much larger than the entire Ger.
man empire he will understand the sig.
niflcance of Mr.. Beecher's remark. This
century will yet undoubtedly see the
canal well under way as we have now
seen it's beginning.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

on ocse. The plan was so popuisr that
5000 Families applied, about 2, 100 more
than could be accommodated.
Detroit's main drawback was the late
start, about the middle Of June, yet the
result was unexpectedly favorable. II was
found that good attention was given the
crops by nine-tenths of the successful
applicants There was very little pilfer-
ing Two mounted policemen were de
tailed to watch the ground under cultiva-
tion and an instructor was provided The
total cost of the experiment was SO, 600, or
S3.45 per plot. Notwithstanding the
drouth, that greatly discouraged many Of
the cultivators, the total value of the crop
reached an estimated value of from sig, 600
to s14, 900, the average yield to each fam
lily being 1873 bushels.
Some Of the fine results of the expert
ment are not to be measured i'm dollars
and cents. One is the directing of the at
tentiOn of the poor to the fruitfulness of
old mother earth and the large food pro-
ducing capacity of very small tract Of
a"AiN W ihNs lEOlll bINl iIttNl
mill associations, from which they are un-
able to break away, and set down before
a bran new idea with the result that over
one hundred of these Detroit families have
been surprised into such enthusiasm that
they have sought permanent homes in the
country. If no other result is accom-
plished, as this idea travels over the
world, than the establishment of good
sized stream of emigration from city to
country thus relieving the congestion of
the urban population and bringing people
back to the common sense notion that the
agricultural existence means independ-
ence Of hundreds of thousands now eking
n starvation life in oyercrowded cities,
enough good will be accomplished to
make Mayor Pingree the author of the
plan, famous. He certainly should feel
an immense satisfaction in the thought
that he has been the instrument of so
much good to his fellows.
If Canton should try this plan the effort
should be fully organized by May TO- II
tried 1t will be of more good to those who
give than to those who receive. In one
case it will be subjective, in the other OBJ
jective
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

A new idea in the school world is the pen
sion fund which 1t is proposed to cstab.
lish In Brooklyn, on the Washington plan,
whereby teachers incapacitated for work
may receive u pension. The fund is estab.
ished by the teachers themselves. While
there arc grave objections to a civil pen
sion payable out of the public treasury, II
is the plan that is pursued in Germany
most satisfactorily. There man who
dcvotcs his life to the public schools re-
ceivcs i'm old age a pension much as
policemen and firemen do in some cities
in this country This pension gives the
teacher that content Of mind which en-
surcs good work and, many think, is no
more than justice from the state to the
teacher. From the Brooklyn and Wash
ington idea the other may eventually
develop
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

The constitutionality of the curious
Iowa law known as the mulot law has
been affirmed by the supreme court OF
that state Iowa has strict prohibition
law but this mulct statute is a provision
whereby all the prohibitory laws can be
nulifled provided the party convicted Is
willing to pay certain sum of money.
1t is a manifest case of beating the devil
around the bush. The prohibitionists OBJ
jecting to an out and out licensing of
saloons this measure was adopted as a
means of obtaining the same results that
are achieved under license without Of
fense, it was hoped, to the prohibitionists
Under it II man illegally opens saloon
he is mulct in ccrtan amount. This
sum paid he is free from prosecutor for
one year, when he is liable to another fine,
which ordinary, plain-spoken and honest
minded people would call saloon license
and be done with It. OF the many ways
that have been devised for dealing with
the liquor question this method has the
distinction of having fewer good qualities
to commend it than any. It's weakness
is that it makes the authorities appar-
entity connive at law breaking after al
legged attempts at executing the law.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11
An Experiment in Temperance Legis-
latiOn.

This country has tried local option
prohibition and taxation as applied to the
regulation Of the liquor traffic. Now
there is another plan afoot for worrying
the saloon men. 1t is the Gothenberg
systematic same one that Mr.. Gladstone
recently approved in preference to local
option and thereby brought about his
head IA large section of the English tenn
perance party which approves of local
option. The first state that will prob
ably adopt it is Massachusetts, and those
behind the move in that commonwealth
are citizens of towns which cannot secure
local option through lack of votes
Those who object to Canton owning
her own gas works, the profits thereof to
go into the city treasury, may be sur
priscd to learn that under the Gothen-
berg system the municipality in effect
goes into the business of selling liquor.
A city which adopts this system will have
the power to give the exclusive right to
sell liquor to II corporation, to be especially
organized for that purpose. All profits
above five per cent are to go, under GER
tain specified terms and in certain direc-
tions, to the community. This same
principle underlies the dispensary law Of
South Carolina. The object sought under
the Gothenberg system is to first regu-
late the traffic and then strip 1t of its large
profits by turning the surplus into the
municipal treasury. 1t is only proposed
in Massachusetts, to enact a permissive
law, that is to give permission to certain
towns and cities to try the plan.
1t will be an interesting experiment and
we trust Massachusetts, will lead the way
in giving it the trial so earnestly desired
by its advocates.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

A number of New York and Boston
men hurriedly left for Europe a few days
ago, The cause of their sudden departure
is now known. They were the judges in
the prize beauty baby show which has
been in progress in New York for some
days for the benefit of charity. The man
whose unpleasant duty it was to an
nounce the decision Of the judges was
almost mobbed by the angry mothers of
babies who failed to receive prize As
an illustration of the commotion one
mother, with threatening gesture
shricked:
DO you mean to say my baby is not
prettier than the little wretch you have
given the prize to-"
"I'd like to know who made you a
judge Of beauty; shawl came with a
sarcastic, spiteful hiss from another
mother who was convinced she should
have had first prize on every point of
superiority and beauty.
Madam, replied the disgusted official,
ladies, some Of the judges are in Boston
and some on their way to Europe. They
sent their decisions in by mail and then
started. Perhaps il you come around
next yeara few may have ventured back. 4"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11
The Diphshersn cur..

Antitoxin was administered to N
young woman in New York who WINS
suffering from dfphtheria and the patient
suddenly collapsed, whereat New York
correspondent gives q summary of the
case and adds: Now, II II be established
that Miss Valentine died, and with
greater swiftness than would have been
caused by the injection of the poisonrof
the most deadly serpent, and died because
Of that antitoxln injection, Of course
hope is gone, and antitoxln will be like
ly to be esteemed as great o failure.as was
the Koch remedy for tuberculosis. All
of which is very rank article of nom
sense. More experience may show that
antitoxin is contraindicated in certain
states of the human organism. Phenaci-
tine and its related coal tar products are
with great care especially where there
is any tendency to weak heart,
and this is so of many valuable remedies.
If antitoxin kills one and saves hum
dred Is II to be condemned on account of
the one death, especially when its action
is so little understoodY The reference to
Koch's remedy for tuberculosis is another
jumping at oonclusions-th very evil
that gave tuberculin bad name when it
came out. Everybody knew more about
it than Koch himself did and claimed
hundred fold more for 1t than did its
discoverer. In our opinion that remedy
will yet be heard from. A recent state
ment from Koch is to the effect that his
results with 1t are very satisfactory and
that 1t is doing all and more than he ever
claimed for it,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11
Christian Science vs. Me.

Christian science VS. Medical Science.
daughter of n deceased congressman
from this state died the other day because
she was treated by Christian Science in
stead of by competent physicians. A
prominent young lady died in Philadel-
phia the first OF this week of pneumonia;
her only treatment was Christian Science
These cases have aroused great deal of
criticism. In the first instance the coro-
ner took up the matter but outside of con-
demning such practices did nothing.
1t seems to us that there should be some
way to reach persons who allow their
friends to die through neglect of proper
medical attention. The idea that If Chris
tian science cannot heal the patient medi-
cine cannot is too absurd for serious con-
sideration. The idea that what God will
not do, man cannot do. This is as absurd
as 1t is wicked. We believe that God is
almighty in very sense of the word, but
there are things connected with this life
that God does not always interere with.
For instance--a man can be ever so good
and devout n christian, can pray day and
night for wealth and money and power
and honor, but unless he has industry,
unless he has thrift unless he practices
economy, unless he has the power to at
tract men, he will have neither riches nor
honor. The fact that he was good will
not bring any or all of them Just so
with sickness 1t is in most every instance
traceable to exposure of some sort A
trifling ailment at first, it will readily
yield to local remedies; allowed to treat
itself 1t developes into something moro
serious and finally death ends ALL
A broken leg or arm will heal of its own
accord, but what sort of member is it
afterward9 Out of shape not fit for use I;
real detriment to the body. A physic-
ian however can set the broken leg or
arm and it will be as good as before
broken.
We think man serves God best when he
uses the best efforts of man to build him
self up. The physician is one of God S
noblemen His work and his efforts are
not half appreciated. Christian Science
may be all right for freside discussion
or diversion but when it comes to stalking
human life on it then it ought to change
its name
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11
Can't One HiasI

"Disorderly conduct" This was the
charge on the slate in a police station in
Cincinnati against a man who dared to
out and in turn was hustled right out by
a big policeman and lodged behind the
bars, charged with disorderly conduct "
1t seems to us as il this was high
handed outrage but then one can expect
most anything in that gang ridden city.
1t is a mighty queer state Of affairs If a
person has to swallow some of the shows
that today presume to charge an admis.
sion in abjcct silence or play the hypocrite
and indulge in mechanical applause.
We do not know whether this arrested
man was justified in kissing or not, most
likely he was, and If so had he not the
right to hiss If he considered the play
stupid or vulgar? The Times Star of that
city evidently has no sympathy with a
policy that arrests n man for kissing.
The day after his arrest that paper re-
ferred to the fact that in all other com
munities Kissing in theatres is "a common
thing. In France "artists" are frequent,
ly driven from the stage by storm OF
disappearing noises The patrons pay for
this privilege when they buy their tickets.
They do not pay five francs more or less
to become victims of an imposition
against which they are forbidden to pro-
test
As matter of facG there is too little
Kissing in the theatres in this country.
American audiences are the most consid-
crate in the world. 1t would be well II
they showed different spirit. Kissing
is a right which goes with every fifty cent
or dollar contributor TO the box x-office.
Certainly If this form of protest to be re-
garded in any case as misdemeanor and
the offender arrested the actor or actress
should also be liable to arrest for pro,
voking disorderly conduct.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

Our state is in luck. While the supreme
court of the United States was punching
the income Tax full of holes Judge Taft,
of the United States circuit court suf-
tianed the Nichols law which requires
all the express, telegraph and telephone
companies doing business in Ohio to pay
their righteous share of taxes For many
years these companies, holding valuable
franchises and receiving the full protec-
tion Of the state, paid nothing TO help sus-
tain the expenses Of government AS
an illustration Of the money our state
treasury will receive 1t is but necessary
TO refer TO the case Of the Adams Express
company this company, when the law was
passed. returned Its taxable property at a
valuation Of $35, 900 and then sought the
aid Of the courts to eyade the payment
on this. The United States circuit court
not only says the.company must pay, but
the state board Of appraisers increased
the taxable value of the Adams properties
30 s7OO, 600. The returns Of the other com
paDies were increased In proportion. 1t
does not take much figuring to see that
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

"Why, asks correspondent, edo you
keep probing Governor Mckinley on the
silver question, while taking no particular
interest in Foraker's viewsY Are not
both men candidates for republican leader
ship in Ohio?" Frankly Judge Foraker
probably has no views on silver. He is
not expected to be perspicacious on live
public questions. He is melodramatic-
statesman, who rants and roars about ex-
traneous matters. Whatever promotion
he receives must be by the fireworks
route. The only political opinion the
world has heard from him in many
months was expressed at the Bundy cele-
bration at jackson. He said that McKin.
ley ought to be nominated, with his tariff
law as platform. Such action would
slaughter the governor, and Jeoy Benson
knows it. Foraker may not be much of u
man for views of his own, but he has the
knack of making trouble with the views
of others-Enquirer
If ever the Enquirer published par
agraph oyerhowing with truth the above
is one 1t is all as true as gospel.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

week or two ago when a locomotive on
the Pennsylvania railroad while drawing
an express train near Harrisburg blew up
and partially wrecked the train. 1t would
hardly be thought possible that an ex-
perienced engineer, such as was the man
in charge of this locomotive, would COM
nit such n reckless blunder as has been
described The fact illustrates anew the
old adage that it is the unexpected that
happens and also shows to what extent we
commit our lives when we travel to the
hands of q thousand men, any one Of
whom, If derelict in the performance Of
duty, may emperil the lives of train
full Of passengers.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

a study of the vote, both in Alliance
and Canton clearly shows that the popu.
list strength consists of a section Of the
democratic party. In other words the
democratic party in this city, and Canton
is split into two sections the smaller
one making nine-tenths or more Of the
strength of the populist party. Had all
those who up to the last year or two, were
loyal democrats, stood with and supported
the democratic party it would have swept
everything in Canton. Alliance Critic,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

The country will eagerly watch for the
next republican with presidential aspir-
ations invade the south. The arduous
duties as governor, the close confinement
90 his Office, compelled" Mr., Mckinley
TO seek southern cline. OF course there
was no politics in the trip. Tom Reed,
Ben Harrison and some of the other boys
attempted to attach political significance
40 the trip. Still it will be well enough
10 keep your eye on the next man who
goes south
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

Some old fogy methodist preacher who
came 30 the conclusion thai he was going
60 seed decided TO achieve some notoriety
by stating in open conference that Presi-
dent Cleveland was drunk on n certain
public occasion in New York City, lie
has succeeded in the uotoriety feature-and
has been branded a consumate liar by
people In position TO speak lof the above
time and situation The preacher (S) Is
devoid OF all patriotism or love Of country
and seems to be a scandal monger Of the
first ranks. President Cleveland has re-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

A good minister is responsible for the
assertion that no newspaper can tell the
truth and make pecuniary success. An
exchange returning the compliment
blandly remarks that the minister who
hurls solid chunks Of truth at the mem
bers of his congregation, dead or alive,
will not occupy the pulpit long The
press and pulpit go hand in hand in the
whitcwashing business here below, mag
nifying little virtues and making many
bad people believe they are good. The
pulpit the press and the gravestoncs are
the saint making triumvirate of this world
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11
Didn't Deaerve Defeat.

The democratic party was defeated in
Chicago by an astonishingly large major
ity, and there is no apparent good reason
for it. The democratic candidates were
men of unquestioned character and fit
ness while the republican candidates had
no claim whatever on the Intelligent
voter yet democracy was swept away.
Commenting on the result the Chicago
Times Herald says: "The wave of repub-
licanism raised without intelligiblo
reason in 1894, has clearly not spent its
force. 1t has swept down the democratic
ticket in Chicago as IL overthrow the
democratic ticket in Cook county last fall.
There is as little reason for repudiation
of democracy today as there was then.
In both elections the democratic ticket was
superior in personnel to that of its antag-
onists. In neither election did the char
acter of the candidates amount to a pod
of peas. The people voted the republican
ticket without noticing the names upon
It. As illustration of this fact it may be
noted that most of the boodling republi-
can candidates for the common council
were enthusiastically elected upon the
ticket of 'Swift and reform" Demo
Gratis accepted defeat with cheerful philos-
ophy. They know in their hearts that
1t is undeserved; that an unthinking popu-
lace has been mislcd by the casuistries
of shrewd republican politicians, who
have unloaded upon the democratic party
responsibility for all economic or indus
trial ills from railroad strikes to inclem-
ent weather -
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

Nominations for the presidency, though
so highly priced, are yet so reasonable
that anybody who chooses can get one.
Carl Browne has nominated Coxey, Soy,
ereign has nominated Debs and Senator
Stewart thinks Of nominating himself
Times-Star
Where does Sam X. Hughes, of Butler
county, Ohio, U. s A., come in? He has
some sort of a fandangle theory revolving
under his hat and the political itch to the
Send degree; with these favorable con
ditions he may be able to drum up some
notoriety.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-11

At last the crime Of allowing person
TO die without Offering any other treat
ment than " Christian science" is to be
punished A young girl, relative of
Congressman Houk, Of the Dayton dis
trict, died as result of Christian
science" treatment and now the fellow
who claimed to be healer has been
bound over to the grand jury on the charge
of manslaughter, We are glad to see such
prompt and vigorous action in this case.
Perhaps it will have "A tendency TO break