Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-01-27

In Wyoming at the recent election only
40 per cent OF the women were per-
suaded to go to the polls, while SIS per
cent. of the men voted. But they say our
sisters have to be educated in voting
Iowa State Register
One of the most dangerous notions in
American minds is the idea that the city,
county, state or nation should pay more
for service or for supplies than the pri-
vate citizen has to pay for like service
or for similar supplies.-Dallas News,
Mug. 'H,'
In some parts of Louisiana, as in some
parts of this state, it is considered unnec-
essary to have any proof against the
accused person. On the other hand,
when one is regularly proved guilty Of
murder he is usually acquitted.-Louis1
Vile Courier-Journal, Cuckoo
The enterprising editors whose theory
of how to sell a paper is to smut her
up" have been beaten by the situation,
and have had to own up that when 1t
comes to describing a stag dinner the
hampering laws of the state, If not of
decency, demand suppression and forbid
ublicity.-Hartford Courant.
care we not about to pass a tariff law
making it a crime to trade with foreign
ers?" inquiries a free trade organ. No,
lnQeeQ. we are SOlHS 10 ndNe1d tlablil
law making it possible to trade with our
own people, by giving them employment
and wages to buy with. That's all wor-
ried contemporary. City Jour-
nal. f,is#t. r'-7i
All kinds of coal are now 81 a ton more
costly than a year ago at this time. The
anthracite combination has got things
into such shape that prices can be raised
almost without limit without danger to
the trust. This is one of the most in
iquitous of the half thousand conspira-
tors to raise prices.-Syracuse Herald.
Whatever agreement the government
may enter into in settlement of its claims,
it owes it to the patrons of the Pacific
roads to insist as a fundamental condi-
ton that the lines be operated on am
actual basis and additional stock and
bonds be issued only to represent addi-
tional capital actually nvested.-Omaha
Bee.
A notable but not pleasant feature of
latter-day discussion of governmental
policy, especially with reference to for
eign nations. is the frequency and the
urgency with which business" is pre-
scented as paramount and a determining
consideration. 1t is an evolution. We
have not always been in the habit of
taking trade into account in matters af-
fecting our national dignity and welfare.
1t is only of late years that the plea of
business has been raised against a propo-
sition of justice, humanity and moral obs
legation. But it has come to be the fas9h=l
ion nowadays, and it Is, as we have in
dictated, most abhorent and distasteful
one.-Washington Post,Sind.
The indications, says the New Orleans
| Times-Democrat. are that the popular
prejudice against an excess of lawyers
will spread over the country, as it is
prevalent in both the east and west. Ex-
perience has proved that the presence Of
a large number of lawyers does not pre-
vent the passage of many faulty and
unconstitutional acts; indeed. in no coun-
try is there so much faulty legislation as
in the United States, where the law
making is done mainly by the lawyers.
| In England, where they constitute a
| small minority of parliament the laws
| are generally well framed, and few are
| thrown out by the courts. 1t is to be
| hoped, however, that this counter revo-
| luton will not go as far as 1t has gone
| in New Hampshire, or in some of the
| populist states in the west, and leave the
| legislatures without enough lawyers to
attend the technical part of drawing up
statutes.