The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-11-12

gret, is expressed over the SUBSTITUTION
of electricity for the horse in street-car
service. Itwas the basest use, he says,
to which this noble animal could be
put, and in effecting his release science
has done that of which sentiment has
long approved.
Finally, Mr.. Booth puts great faith
in our export trade. Although we are
now sending several million dollars
worth of horses to Europe annually,
he thinks this trade is yet in its in
fancy. The class of animals which
we send abroad is mostly of the draft
| type, for heavy traffic service in the
cities. This grade of horses, he says
whether for the home or foreign mar
ket, find no competitor In the electric
car or the bicycle. 1t will be observed
that in this connection Mr.. Booth does
not take into account the motor wagons
which inventors promise us in the neat
| future.
Horse e.raising in Ohio, in times past
has been an important factor in the
! farmers prosperity. Some of the besI
animals TO reach the Eastern markets
| either for domestic or export purposes
came from this State. 1t is to be hoped
that MIR. Booths hopeful view of re
|
| lied.
1t is gratifying to note that the pros.
| poets are for a better condition of affairs
| tn winter in the Ohio coal districts
tn an prevailed there year ago. Wages
ar demoralized, but they are the best
| tn at present conditions afford. The
miners, very sensibly, are accepting the
situation with good grace. A bare
| subsistence is better than hunger and
| idlencss. With steady work through
the winter, and with the looked for
revival of business in the spring, they
will be in a better condition to enforce
| a new scale.
The reduction in the Pittsburg dis.
trict and the telling competition of
| cheap.labor coal in West Virginia made
| total suspension in Ohio necessary, un.
| less the operatives accepted a lower
scale of wages. After some protests
| and refusals the miners have, within
| the past week or two, been going TO
| work, and now the coal trade can be
said TO be fairly active in this State
The principal coal roai penetrating the
Hooking Valley is now bringing to
Columbus 400 cars day. A good por-
ton of this output is dumped on the
Toledo docks for shipment to the north.
west. Other roads are also busy. AL
though navigation will soon close, it is
believed that the demand of consumers
reached by mail will be sufficient to
keep miners working through the
season.
Much qualification is felt throughout
the State over a decision last week, at
Columbus, by the Circuit Court, sustain.
ing the collateral Inheritance law. This
is the first test of the enactment that
has been made. The action was brought
in the matter of the estate of the late
Henry c. Noble, a lifelong citizen Of
the Capital city, and brother of Pres
ident ilarrison's secretary of the in.
terror. Taxation of Inheritance has
of late years come to be regarded aS q
lust and equitable proceeding. 1t seems
eminently proper that when death
releases q mans hold upon the riches of
which he has been possessed, a sma.,
per cent. of them should return to the
State. 1t has in a measure provided
him with opportunities for amassing
wealth. 1t has also protected him in
the peaceful enjoyment of the same
Allowing reasonable provision for his
posterity, the State, it would seem, has
a rational claim. If the collateral in
heritance tax is held TO be constitu.
tional by the Supreme Court when it
reaches that body, as it undoubtedly
will be, the revenues of Ohio will be
materially increased.
What is sometimes a very trivial af-
fair is often productive of farreaching
results. When, few years ago, the
railroad companies established stand.
ard time, they threw into sad confusion
those sections of the country where
wide discrepancy exists between the
Creators time and that set up by the
railway corporations, Here in Ohio
that difference amounts to nea ~ half
an hour, Accepting the clp IN of the
railroads, that the artificial standard of
time adopted by 'Nen is necessary for
the safety of IT, tr- Yelling public, leg
islators, both Etate and municipal, have
endeavored to pc 'suade the adherents of
sun chronology to come over to the new
idea, for the sake of detiniteness, SO that
we could get along with one mutually
understood kind of time. Taylor, of
Guernsey, won prominence in the leg
islature several years ago in advocacy
of this idea, and municipal lawmakers
without number have agitated the
matter. In spite of all, we still suffer
the exasperation of having to do with
two kinds of time A hundred times a
day we are confronted with this annoy
ance. When an Ohioan goes away from
home or is visited by a stranger he
makes himself ridiculous by the contin-
ued inquiry, What kind of time, sun
or Standard"
The only manner in which the public
seems inclined to conform to standard
time is one which it was never intended
should take place, that of actually delay
ing the opening of meetings, theaters,
etc, for half an hour. If, for instance,
under the old order of things, s o'clock,
was considered the proper hour for be-
ginning proceedings at places of public
resort, there is no sensible reason why
the actual time should not be maintain.
ed by the substituting of 1880 o'clock
according to the new standard. The
pleasure of the public has been largely
il t rfered with by the lateness of the
hour involved in reaching home when
attending places of amusement or even
fulfilling social engagements. A SEN
sible movement has been begun in Col
umbus, in the form of petition to the
leading theaters to begin the perform
ance earlier, The arguments advanced
in the request are: sit becomes un'
necessarily late before the perform
ance closes. AS consequence people
crowd and hostile earh other to pet out