The Republican journal., 1897-09-16


Kelley, the murderer of Cashier Stick
ney, states that the reason for his crime
is that he is possessed by the devil Very
likely. But when Kelley expiates his
crime We shall have gotten rid of that
particular devil.
Alaska cost the United States 81, POO
900. At compound interest for twenty
years, this means Alaska has cost 81, 417,-
800 1t is time We were getting little
gold back. Atchison Globe
What do you want of "a little gold
back2H
1.-The business boom is growing. Every
thing looks better and better. From
New York, the great distributing centre
of American trade, the reports are en-
cOuraging in the extreme" Thus opens
an editorial in the Boston Herald. erst-
while the champion of Cleveland's free
trade policy.
Pr, f. l.. c. Bateman writes from Dead
River that the farmers are up in arms
against the law protecting deer and are
bound to be heard. ''If they cannot have
a hearing through the legislature and the
press, they will be quite likely to have it
at the polls.
Oh dear. Perhaps we shall now see
the Professor running for Governor of
Maine ona platform of death to deer!
yellow fever has made its appearance
IN the South AS usual it was at first
called ''malarial fever" but it is now
the genuine Bronze John, sometime,
called yellow Jack. Experience las
shown that the spread of this dread dis
ease can be prevented by strict quaran-
tine; bat if it once gains foothold moth
ing can prevent its run of twelve weeks
four weeks of increase, four weeks when
the number of cases remains about the
same, and four weeks of decrease.
Mis- Helen n. Packard attended the
National Encampment G. A. r., in Butfa-
10, and in a letter to the Springfield.
Mass, Republican gives most interest
ing and spirited account of the great pa
Jade. mo other body of men on earth
could have the electrial effect on the null
titude that that procession did," writes
this patriotic woman. Elsewhere she
says;
Like the battle in the clouds, or Sher-
man S march to the sea, the parade of yes
felday is history to- day. Another decade
will SO decimate the ranks of the Grand
Army that a parade will be impossible
Few of the thousands who witnessed the
pageant of yesterday will see another, but
this one will live long in the memories of
those who looked upon it, and the chill
dlen Of the living shield will receive an
impression they can never forget.
The Rockland Opinion of last week de-
voted about three columns of space to
the affairs of the Red Seal Remedy Com
pany; and while, fortunately, there are
no stockholders here the ventilation of
affairs of this concern may furnish food
for I, Election, if nothing more For ex-
ample, the Opinion says:
The assignment Of large blocks of
stock to the Rockland men on the pay
ment of insignificant percentages of cash
may be criticised; but it is not an uncom-
mon thing in the promotion of corporate
business enterprises.
Very true, and it might be added that
quite as often the ''insignifcant percent
Of naS ~ ba ipia
naturally endeavors to make as good a
showing as possible for the local stock
holders; but evidently thinks their man
agement was not what it should have been,
and that the later management, after
the removal of the concern to Lowell,
Mass, was open to even more severe
which is to be the subject of court pro-
ceedings, is whether the Rockland stock
holders shall be compelled to pay the full
par value for their stock. These men en-
dorsed notes for the company last spring
10 the amount of SIS, 900, and subsequent
iy allowed the company's plant to be
III E1O,Ooo, anu ouly Cdlleu d
halt when two months of business under
the management of Mr.. Carlow involved
she company yet deeper and left a large
sum of money unaccounted for" This
moves the Opinion to say further:
Whatever may be the legal liability of
the Rockland stockholders, they certainly
cannot be justly criticised for refusing to
furnish more money on this showing. The
Rockland men have enough to answer for
in connection with the management of the
company when it was in their hands; and
if all the allegations in regard TO the way
the stock was placed on the market are
true, some of them are seriously compro-
mi I'd. But it must be remembered that
at present these charges rest upon mere al
Legations, and 70 proof whatever was ad
duced at the meeting on Friday.
In this connection the Opinion we'll says:
Granting, if you please, that it was
proper to capitalize the company for
$3.50, 600, and to take third of the stock,
paying a few cents on the dollar them
selves, and selling the remainder at par,
they should have realized that they were
assuming some moral, as we'll as legal
and financial, responsibility as well.
The 10th Elaine Reunion.