The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-20

biahkS denote mat no Journeymen are
"fquai 10 5CLa54 cents American money
1t will be easy for the American "
whether free coinage, such as they have
majority of us will be justified, when
taken Ill. In sending at once for the
doctor and ia calling to our rescue the
known skill Of modern pathological sci
ence. If in addition to the doctors
minstratiOns, we have faith also, so
much the better, for two chances are
obviously better than one.
All this. however, is aside from the
main question. That question is. Can a
believer in the faith method of curing
be permitted with impunity to violate
the law concerning infectious diseases
and put in peril the health of the COM
munity? To this question we return a
decided negative. No matter If cures
are sometimes effected by faith; no
matter if person may believe that
faith is surer cure than physic. he or
she has no right by any code Of ethics
to permit that belief to trespass on the
where opinion Is free. but it is also q
country of equal rights before the law.
Whenever one person demands q right
which wrongs another. that person is
going too far, and the law should inter-
fere.
If it is true, as reported (Which We
do not beleve) that the Republican
managers in Illinois do not expect q
plurality for Mckinley in the state at
large, outside of Cook county, but rely
upon the sound money majority of Chi
cago to swing victory to the Republi-
can ticket, than we should have the
balance of political power transferred
bodily from New York city to the chief
city of the west. We do not believe
this report, because outside of Egypt"
and certain other dark spots on the
map of the Sucker state, the rural vot-
ers of Illinois are in the main too in
telligent to be caught by the sophistries
of Bryan: and too patriotic to follow
the Popocrats in their assault on law,
order and national honor. We look for
big Republican pluralities in both coun-
try and cities.
1T is highly typical and character
istic of the whole class Of makebelieve
social refOrmers, who want to Overturn
our existing civilization so as to bene-
fit the poor man, that the very first
practical step which they propose to
take is one which would entail more
misery and suffering on the poor man
than all the oppression Of the most evil
minded capitalist could infict on him
in a century. 1t is a grim and strik-
ing example of what we have to expect
from the men who believe they can
benefit one class by harmng another
and who affect to think that by a gen.
eral overthrow of the existing order of
things they may be able to help some
deserving people rise upward through
which they will cause. Theodore
Roosevelt.
In the Twentieth Cor Altoona) con-
gress district the inability of the con-
ferrees to agree upon one Republican
candidate and the unwillingness of the
other candidates themselves to clear
the field for Congressman Hicks, who
has the strongest claims to re-elec-
tion, have resulted in three Republic
can nominations on the official ballot
to one free silver Democratic nomina-
tion. The district last time gave near
ly 1900 Republican plurality and 1t
ought not to be lost in this important
year because of personal clashes within
the party; but it probably will be lost
unless Messrs. Thropp and Kooser, the
kickers, soon withdraw.
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The thanks of The Tribune are due
to Charles w. Johnson, 259 First Ave-
nue., South. Minneapolis, Minn., for a
neatly printed copy of the official pro-
ceedings of the recent national Repub-
lican convention at st. Louis. The pub
lication is an official one, and copies
may be had for 81 each.
,
Governor Altge!d says there Is not
the slightest shadow of a doubt as to
how Illinois will go. In this estimate
he agrees with Mark Hanna. The only
uncertainty seems to be as to whether
McKinley's plurality will be 100000 or
10000.
Bryan's record to date IL over 400
speeches delivered and over $1,000 miles
travelled since his nomination. He Is
altogether too anxious to be president.
PERFECTION. u
Because you cannot be
An overhanging bow,
Whose promise all the world can sec,
Why are you grieving SO?
A dew-drop holds the seven colors too:
Can you not be u perfect drop of dew?
Because you cannot be
Resplendent Sirius,
Whose shining all the world can see,
Why are you grieving thus? n
One tiny ray will reach out very far;
Can you not be perfect little star?
That dots the Milky Way
The smallest, faintest star
And sends one glmmer wherc you are.
Gives forth a faultless ray.