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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-25
The Democratic Ticket.

1t would be untrue to say that the
county ticket yesterday placed in NOM
ination by the LacSawanna Democracy
possesses no elements of strength.
Geographically, to be sure. it repre-
sents a massing of the candidates in
the city and leaves the Democratic
strongholds outside of Scranton and
Carbondale practically unrepresented.
on the other hand, the men chosen for
the principal places on the ticket are
men who personally command the re-
spect and esteem of the community, this
being, we believe, especially true of
Messrs Schadt, Horn and Kelly. Without
indorsng in any degree the principles
which these gentlemen will represent
in the ensuing campaign nor admit
ting the probability of their election
it is fair. even from n Republican
standpoint, to recognize their individu-
al merits and congratulate our polit-
ical opponents upon having nominated
good men.
AS the campaign progresses, and es-
pecially Gfter the Republicans have
had the opportunity to select their
standard d-bearers and formulate their
line Of policy IN the county canvass,
the subjects at issue will be thoroughly
discussed, hence it is unnecessary to
refer to them at any length now.
But the Endorsement yesterday, fully
and without reserve" of the Demo-
cratic national platform of last year
indicates that the issues of the presi-
dental battle are to be kept to the
front-a circumstance which Republi-
cans need not regret. How the makers
of yesterdays slate expect to recon-
pense their candidates for this direct
slap at the two thousand or more sound
money Democrats who last year, in
I.ackawanna county, repudiated the
Objectionable principles represented by
w. j. Bryan is not apparent. But of
this more anon.
To Republicans the work of the DEM
ocratic convention will suggest the
need of reasonable harmony and cir
cumspection. The outlook is full of
ragement, and Republican victory
will be comparatively easy of achieve
1nenL DTONlueu d ilSDOSlllOll SlIdii NC
manifested one week from next Tues
day to strengthen the party lines and
place before the voters of the county
a ticket which, while being better ap-
rortioned geographically than that
nominated yesterday, shall equal or ex-
eel it in the personnel of it's candidates
and literally swamp it by the superior
ity of its principles.
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traits of rhetoric which suffer most.
The report, newspaper article, essay,
treatise, or whatever the writing is,
lacks unity. continuity and progress.
The discussion is begun with points
that ought to come later Arguments,
If any, are not arrayed. but hopelessly
jumbled. The author says what he
does not mean; often contradlcts HIM
SELF and not seldom ends without CIV
ing the reader any clear idea Of the
view which he would like to present"
The president of Brown does not
attribute this inefficiency in writing
so much to defective training in rhet-
oric as to the fact that the general
trend of much college instruction Is to-
ward mental confusion-a stuffing Of
the mind with unarticulated facts and
ideas, and an arousing of mental power
without subsequently disciplining 1t.
His remedy in part is to throw out the
classics and substitute biology-the
science of life, under which broad head
ing are included political economy. po-
litical history and the science of gov
ernment. BY this means he avows that
mental training would be accomplish
| ed along lines afterward useful In
every day life. And, of course, in larg r
part his remedy Is also to strengthen
the living personal sympathy and in
terest between pupil and instructor,
so that the aim of the latter will be
rather to develop fine minds and we'll
rounded moral characters than to dis
play his own erudition from the plat
form or the lecturers chair.
While agreeing with this to the let
ter, it needs to be said that often col
lege graduates who, in spoken discus
sion, carry themselves logically and
well, go to pieces, as it were, when
confronted with pen, ink and paper.
Their ability to think far outstrips
their ability to give clear and fluent
expression to their thoughts through
the written word. Here it is not men,
tai confusion which is the seat of the
difficulty but very bad, almost GRIMM
ally bad, instruction in composition
somewhere along the line of the VIC
TINS educational progress. The doc
tor who, after treating a patient Ill
with a durable disease, should leave
that patient crippled for life in some
one of the five senses could be prose
cuted for malpractice and made, il
worth anything financially, to pay
damages. There are times when it /;
borne in upon editors that many So
called teachers of composition should
ba bolad into court for obtaining DaN
under false pretences.
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MOTHERS KISS.

Tonight, as sit with the smoke curling
up
From my pipe meath the old apple tree,
Afar from the town with its echoes of
strife,
What gladdening dreams come to me.
Sweet dreams of the past when youths
happy day
Was haloed with rainbows OF bliss,
And each little care fled swiftly away
When mother stopped down with kiss.
Though the head has grown gray since
that happy day,
There's a balm in the silence that falls
Like a blessing tonight on care-bur-
dened heart,
There is peace in the joys it recalls.
For live once again as lived long ago,
No vision so happy as this,
And 1 sigh for the charm that lightened
the heart
When mother stopped down with kiss.
And so as 1 sit meath the apple tree
boughs,
Near the homestead's Towering aisles,
Afar from the town with it's tumult and
strife,
The heavens seem lit up with smiles;
And down from the sky like an angel Of
Comes one whose beautiful features I
know
And mother stoops down with a kiss.
And the faith that she taught and the
love that she sought,
In my bosom find Joyous abode,
For all that Is good in my tempest-torn
life,
Is due to the seed that she sowed.
For faith held promise which love en-
phasized,
And the Joy OF that promise is this,
That comfort will come when life's work
Is done
And mother stoops down with a kiss.
e. A. Niven, in Wilkes-Barre Record.
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Some Railway Comparisons.

Exceedingly interesting figures upon
a subject Of present Importance are
presented by Robert p. Porter in let
ter from England to the Boston Tran
script. Mr.. Porter went to the mother
isle with the intention of gaining data
for a comparison of the business Of
transportation as conducted in Eng
land with that business as conducted
in the United States. 1t required but
little time for him to discover that the
comparison would be decidedly instruc-
tive. Here, for instance, is a table
showing the rates of freight for a hun
dredmile haul on seven articles in gen.
eral use, in Iowa and in England
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-25
FRUlTLHSS DISPUTATION.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
"Behold how great a matter little fire
kindleth." The flame of lamp comes
in contact with a wisp OF straw and a
city is destroyed. A spark from O rail-
way engine falls into dry grass and de-
vastation sweeps over hundreds of square
miles. Small causes often produce great
effects In all the affairs and relations of
life. So much may depend on a SEEM
ingly unimportant act of utterance that
II consequences could be more clearly
foreseen, wise men might be afraid to
act or talk When, few months ago.
the Rev, DIR. Lyman Abbott incidentally
referred to Jonah and the whale, express
ing the opinion that the narrative was
not Intended for literal acceptancy, It is
scarcely supposable that he meant to
start storm of controversy. He doubt
less believed that the liberalizng tenden-
cies of the century had gone SO far that
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a doubt of the whales having actually
swallowed Jonah, retained MN IN MS
stomach three days and three nights, ana
then deposited him safely on dry land,
would excite little, II any, comment. But
the Doctor reckoned without his host, Tor
his deliverance awoke the sleeping lion OF
controversy and It shows no sign OF a
desire to sleep again. Scarcely had the
words of doubt fallen from DR.. Abbotts
lips when scores OF valiant defenders OF
literal Interpretation sprang into the
arena. Pulpits at right OF him, pulpits
at left of him, pulpits In front OF him
volleyed and thundered, while the heavy
artillery of the press, manned by expert
gunners opened on his works. or course
there was a response from those Chris
tian preachers and teachers who shared
the Doctors views, but they were not
permitted to speak on every platform
erected to promote religion. The great
evangelist, Dwight L. Moody, announced
that there was no room on his Northheld
platform for any man who doubted that
the whale swallowed Jonah.
O.
The battle begun in Brooklyn has ex-
tended to the uttermost parts of the
United States; echoes of II are heard IN
Europe. and even in far-off heather
| lands the missionaries are lining up for
their share in the campaign. Among the
| localities most disturbed by the commo-
| tion in Sioux City, Iowa. The Bible In
| stitute OF that progressive town has de-
| cided to hold a great convention for the
purpose Of Bible discussion, not on gem
| eral lines but on the miracles of the Old
| Testament. The programme gives these
| questions as the topics to be debated.
Were Adam end Eve really evicted
| from the Garden of Eden? Did Balaam' $
| ass speak? Did the whale swallow Jo-
nah Did the sun pause In Its course at
| Joshuas command? Or were these stor-
| les intended merely as parallels, like
| those OF Lazarus and Dives, the prodi-
| gal son and the good samaritan? Has
| the religious world erred in accepting
them literally, or are those who doubt
| them questioning the truth of the Bible
| itself?" Several thousand men and wo-
men, including clergymen of various de-
| nominations, ARE billed to spend five days
| in the largest auditorium in Sioux City
discussing these questions. There are,
| probably. a good many honest and INTEL
| ligent citizens who will believe that
| three days in a whales belly were pre-
| ferable to five days of uproarious con-
tention over problems that cannot be
| solved. 1t seems to us that this Is tith-
ing mint anise and cummin and me-
| glecting weightier matters. There is
better work for Christians than such dis
putations The clergyman who is doing
the most good in the world in these days
is not he who is always trying to ''prove
his doctrine orthodox by apostolic blows
and knocks"
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The Queens English.

A criticism offered in the September
upon college education may be open to
reply in some Of its points of attack,
but not in this one: 1.-THE bad quality
of the written work done by fresh col
lege graduates is notorious. Not to
mention commencement orations and
theses, usually the most arid and awk-
ward compositions imaginable, young
doctors of philosophy, brilliant special
lists in their chosen line, not seldom
compose wretchedly. Wry grammar
and a shocking choice Of words are
not their worst faults. II is the higher
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-25
Now watch Duggan whet his snicker-
An Ineffective Defense.

Stung by the criticism which has been
passed upon two of the judges of Allie
gheny county for the amazing injunc-
tions recently issued by them in reia-
tion to the bituminous strike, the Pitts
burg Times, in the first defense yet
offered by the press of that city, says:
1.-THE courts have enjoined the strik-
ing miners from unlawful interference
with the rights of the operators and of
the miners who are still working. Upon
a showing of the same state of facts
they would with even more celerity en-
join the most powerful corporation in
Pennsylvania. In granting these in
functions they have conserved and pro-
tected one of the most precious and
vital rights of the workingman, name
ly, the right to pursue a peaceful and
lawful occupation without molestation.
They have decided that every one of
the millions of the workingmen of
America owns himself, and that tyranny
in no shape can coerce him."
An article which we reprint elsewhere
from the Springfield Republican meets
this contention of the Times very fully
Intelligent objection to government
by Injunction" does not rest wholly on
the fact that particular injunctions
bear heavily on the unemployed. The
principle at issue would offer just as
strong inducement for academic dis
sent If the injunctions to which our
Pittsburg contemporary refers had
been directed, not against the strikers,
but against the operators. Without
considering now the ulterior effect of
such injunctions upon an inflamed
state Of public opinion the question
arises, Is it advisable to permit judges
in equity to assume the powers of the
legislative and executive as well as of
the judicial departments of the gov
ernment; in other words, to act through
injunction proceedings, temporary and
permanent, not simply to bridge an
emergency until the cause at issue can
be tried regularly in open court, but
finally, as makers and enforcers of law
Is public opinion in the United States
ready to clothe any man in any de-
partment of our government with such
wholesale and far-reaching authority?
On this broad basis of examination
We do not think that the injunctions
recently issued in Allegheny county
can pass muster. They are repugnant
in the very theory of their being. II
is not necessary to assume that the
judges who made them were capable
of being influenced dishonesty; whether
the injunctions were the fruits of q
conscientious exercise of the judicia
prerogative or Of corrupt bargain and
manipulation is immaterial to the point
that they represent dangerous use OF
the judicial power. and one which need:
no sooner to be understood in it's full
significance by the American peopl,
than it will rest under their hearty
condemnation. But these particular
injunctions were also ineXpedent, mas
much as they afforded unintelligent
opinion the occasion for feeling, in 6
crude way, that long-enjoyed rights
had suddenly been cancelled withou
explanation, by a court acting TO al
appearances arbitrarily. This was es
pecially unfortunate.
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NO ROOM FOR DIsTURBERS.
From the PHILADELPHIA Bulletin.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
The legality of keeping banished anar-
chists out of this country under our inn
migration laws is questioned by some.
Well, legal or Illegal. we will just take
the chances. America has all the anar-
chists within her borders now that are
safe to have there, and none others
known to be such should be permitted to
come in.
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VERY TRUE.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pttsburg Dispatch.
Political mountebanks who have no
clear remedies to propose for the strife
between capital and labor beyond vot-
ing the other fellow out of office and
putting themselves in should not be mis-
taken for statesmen, but should be re-
garded as brawlers willing to provoke a
disturbance for what they may get in
the melee.
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SMALL THANKS.
from the Springfield Republican.

From the Springfield Republican.
So the only thanks our government gets
from Spain in declining to recognize the
belligerency of the Cuban insurgents and
for diligently patroling the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts to prevent the sailing of fill
busters, is the presentation of claims by
Spain overbalancing all the claims put
in by the United States.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-25
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune AstrOlOger.
Astrolabe cast: 313 a. m, for Wednes-
day Aug, 25 1897.

& &
A child born on this day will be of
the opinion that Mr.. Horn is hopeful at
least.
The statue of Columbus by all is oft ad-
mired
AS it stands in dignity upon the square;
His symmetrical proportions are such as
are desired,
Yet "Chris" is noted for his "stony
stare"
Mr.. Duggan now realizes how the
chicken felt as the axe touched his neck.
Yukon News.
From the Klondike Gold Bug:
Bill Mink has a new recipe for flap
jacks which is offered as a premium to
subscribers to the Bug" These cakes
are of regulation size, and can be eat
en- without the usual dressing of gravel
stones to aid digestion.
1t is stated that another woman will
arrive in town next week; a handsome
widow. aged 45 from Tacoma Upon the
day the news was received Hank Will
liams had his hair cut and purchased
a new wolf-skin overcoat. The gossps
are talking.
We have received a batch of verses
on "The Babbling Brook" from Willie
Wickwire, a tenderfoot grocery clerk
who claims to have graduated from the
Moss Run high school. We wish it dis
tnctly understood that we write oul
own poetry, and even II we did not
Willie's contribution would be excluded
from the columns of the Bug" We
are always ready to recognize genius In
its proper place, and are free to say
that Willie is better adapted to wrar
up Goldfish and bacon down at Old s.
Jones' grocery than to write verses fol-
print.
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having captured the Lackawanna dele
gates, will not lose sleep over the
Lackawanna resolutions.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-25

Boiled down, the platform means that
no sound money Democrat need apply.
And they won't.
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Relatively speaking" adds Mr. Por-
ter, "our passenger rates are lower
when compared with those of England
much lower when density of popula-
tion and the character of accommoda-
tion are considered. For example, the
English third-class trains carry pas
sengers for a penny a mile. or two
cents American money. The cost of
first-class travelling in England, with
a population of GAL to the square mile,
will average double this, while 80 per
cent. of the people in the United States,
population to the square mile only 21.3l,
travel first-class at an average cost,
including the unsettled areas of the
country, where population is less than
three to the square mile, of two cents
per mile"
The following comparison of the
wages paid American and English rail-
way labor will suffice, as the same ratio
extends substantially through other
branches of the railway service:
Per Day Per Month
Engineers. Firemen. Conductors,
4. S. ....... $500 500 SS2.4O
England.S 1.25 toS1S7 S.75 to SLIP 3O.4O
This comparison" Mr.. Porter ex-
plains, sis yet more favorable to
American railway labor when the
longer hours and more onerous condi-
tions which constitute days work in
England are considered. OF course,
wages on the continent are still lower
than those of England, so it will be
seen that the United States presents
the anomaly of paying the highest rate
of any country in the world to those
engaged in transportation, and receiv-
ing the lowest rate of any country in
the world for carrying freight and
passengers"
The railways of England, averaged,
earned last year S.SS per cent. on the
capital invested while in the same
year the average dividend rate on
American dividend-paying railway
stock was only 1.57 per cent, and 70
per cent. of all outstanding American
railway stock in 1895 paid no dividends
whatever. These figures indicate that
the antirailway prejudice in some
parts of the United States is largely
without foundation and wholly unfair
| The platform makers evidently for
got that Scranton has a Democratic
| mayOr
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Dunmore won't do a thing to Candi-
date Schadt
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The whereabouts of the Robinson
boom remains a mystery of the passing
hour.
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The chances are that Mr.. Harrity.
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Such transgression upon the duly con-
st!tuted prerogatives of government can
hardly be permitted 1t is better that So
strike disturbances and injuries until II Is
moved to apply a remedy in the proper
way to apply it, than that the judiciary
shall unchalenged take over initatory
powers In government which do not be-
long 10 n
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The Kansas City, Fort Scott.
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