The advocate., 1897-09-08

| when they ought to have been using
their young energies in tilling the soil,
winning iron from the mines, or work.
| ing in the trades. In a land where the
men have an inVincible longing to rest
In the shade after 40, and are old at so,
the nation cannot do without it's youths
Spain, then, under It's present cOndi-
tiOns, is exactly the country in which
one would expect the gospel of anarchy
to flourish and abound.
AbbeVilIe Is. c. Press and Banner:
In>the negroes themselves, and in them
alone, lies the power of arresting the
work OF those who mete out justice to the
criminals who assault women If they
refrain from violence all lynchings
would cease. The Governor is powerless
to stop the lynching of negro men who
lay violent hands on white women. No
one has yet committed that crime and
lived, and we presume that no future
offender will be more lucky than his
predecessors If the negro leaders would
use proper effort, it Is not unlikely that
they could induce their young men to
refrain from violence. The resolutions
of the Columbia negroes may embolden
evil hearts. If so, the crime will surely
be punished
Detroit Free Press: When Rev R. S.
Macarthur told his hearers Sunday that
the world was out of tune, he reiterated
a sOmber truth that has had greater or
less recognition since we have had a
world. 1t has always been out of tune
and will never be in tune until all it's
peoples live in consOnance with the
teachings Of the Divine Master. This
view is not the prOmptings of pessimism
or the expression of hopeleSsness, but
truth against which all the forces Of
Christianity and true reform are d.
rected. That their triumphs have been
signal and lasting is too apparent to call
for discussion but that the work Ian
guishes and at times meets with lament
able reverses has been made just as evil
dent in the history of our general ad-
VanCement.
New York World: The price of bar
rel Of whitewheat flour was Qately) about
SIS, Most bakers use lower grade, but
we take this as a standard. Now, a bar
rel Of flour makes 22O pound loaves Of
bread, so that the material cost of each
loaf is only trife over "a cents. Add
fuel, rent and labor and the cost is
swelled to about 215 cents. The retail
price Is cents In other words, the
baker and grocer, with profit between
them of 100 per cent.,get AIS much for
merely making and delivering bread as
it cost to plOw the ground, SOW the
wheat, reap, thresh and winnOw it, haul
it to a railroad, transport it to a milling |
city, grind and barrel it, ship it half way
across a continent, sell it through a COM
mission merchant and again through a |
jObber, and haul 1t to the bakers own
door.
The American: 1t is the duty of the |
courts to interpret the laws; it Is their
duty, with the assistance Of lurymen |
chosen from among those in private life, |
to try those charged with infractions of |
the law and to mete out to those found !
guilty such punishments as may be pro-
vided by law. 1t is not their duty to |
either make the laws or to provide pen
alties for the infractiOns Of the laws. |
That duty belongs to the legislative |
branch Of the government, not to the ju-
dicial and the enforcement of the laws, |
the prevention of crime, the preserva-
tion of the public peace is entrusted to
the executive. 1t is the duty of the |
executive authorities, Federal, State and |
county, to preserve the peace in their
respective spheres, it is their duty to
take steps for the prevention Of crime,
and it is not the right of the courts to !
say what those steps shall be.
st. Louis Republic Even to the most
superficial observer of European affairs
N rn,nct hn nuidanf that Rnssia ia ran