The advocate., 1897-09-08

compelled to pay them over $500 per ton
under penalty OF not being able to COM
plete it's fighting ships2
New York Sun: Gold was worth vastly
more than dollar pound for ages be-
fore any laws were made regulating its
use as money, and II every law now on
the statute book in every country in the
world respecting its coinage were re-
pealed, it would be just as valuable as
It Is now. It's commercial value Is what
fixes it's money value, and no making or
unmaking Of laws can affect It,
Chicago Journal: The convict should
be made to wish to escape. He should
be SO treated that he will want to get
away and never come back, so treated
that other men will have horror Of his
fate. 1t may be a very pleasing thing
for the sentinlentallst to see a peniten-
tiary run like young ladies' boarding
school, but crime is too serious a thing
for treatment on sentimental basis.
Mobile Register: The Texas Railroad
Commission has undertaken to do some
thing no other railroad commission,
State or national, has attempted, namely,
to fix the rates Of freight for the rail-
roads. Heretofore the commissions have
found 1t their duty to adjust rates, 80 as
to prevent discrimination. The Texas
commission has lowered rates bodily, en-
failing loss upon the railroads esti-
mated at million of dollars.
COurier-JOurnal The judiciOus reader
will note with pain instead Of pleasure
the extraordinary manifestations Of zeal
for foreign missions displayed at the
close OF the Christian Alliance cOnven-
tion, when $11 900 were contributed in
few minutes. If this were all of the
report 1t might be regarded as simply
an extraordinary example of intelligent
beneyolence. But when we read that
several women threw their diamond
rings into the contribution boxes and
that many men did the same with their
gold watches we at once recognize the
earmarks Of those examples of hysteri-
cal benevOlence that are worked up by
sensational evangelists.
Judge Clark, Of North Carolina Su-
preme court: or the three great depart
ments OF government--the executive, the
judicial and the legislative--the consti-
tuition gave the people only voice in
selecting One-half Of the legislative. And
that remains, SO far as constitutional
forms go, to this day the share Of the
people in this Federal government-One-
half OF One-third. In all the rest the
people were given no voice whatever.
The executive was made elective by
electors, and 1t was contemplated that
those electors should be as free to select
the President as members Of the State
Legislatures in the selection of a Fed
eral Senator. The Senate is still not
elective by the people.
DIR. Taylor, in Medical World: We
have had many doodle Congresses,
doodle" Legislatures and doodle" city
councils that should have been dissolved.
But no; we elect man for certain
term, and all the legal powers in the
country can't get him out until his term
expires. Here Is where the imperative
mandate comes init gives the people the
power to recall any public Office at any
time in the following way: Any constit-
uent may, at any time, draw up dOcu-
ment demanding the removal Of said Of
ficer. When this document is signed by
a majority Of the voters in the territory
which elected such OfFiced his Office shall
be declared vacant. 1t can be filled again
by appointment or by new election.
Chicago Chronicle; Taking issue with
Ex-Governor Flower, of New York, as to
the latter's defense Of trusts and monop-
Olies, Edward Bellamy, the socialistic
writer, pr0pOunds the theory that So
cialists should be we'll pleased with this
outspoken advocacy of monopOlistic cor
porations, Mr.. Bellamy says that Gov