smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

than to the other. The State derives the
same benefit from each, and both enioy
the same, and no more, right to its protec-
ton.


If the position of the tax resigters is cor
rect assuredly this position of the renters
Is tenable. Their theory subverts all law,
ana strikes at the foundation of society,
and produces anarchy. In condition Of
anarchy there is no title to property;
everything is free, and possession IS the
only criterion Of ownership. The poor
man can then pick and choose from the
rich mans possessions, and he is right in
doing it. The citizen can not in justice
say to the State, you must protect me in
my property, but will give you no equiva-
lent There would be nothing mutual or
fair in that In such a condition all
things are common. Let him take who
has the power, and let him keep who can.
For every tax resister there should be a
free renter. The landlord can not appeal
to the law to dispossess his non-paying
tenant, when he himself disregards the
same law in refusing rent to the govern
ment. It is a well understood principle
Of law that no man can take advantage Of
his own wrong. A tax receipt is an essen
tial ingredient to a clear title. Until the
title is good, the claimer Of property has
no right to it. If he does not own prop
erty how can he dispose Of it, either in
rental or sale.


The position IS good: a prompt pay
ment Of taxes, OF free rent.
Year: 1872

Victor Emanuel is said to be exception
ally gifted in the matter ofpubic speaking
cure is reported to have been offered him by
a distinguished American traveller as an in
ducement to stump the Western States tor
Grant
Year: 1872

this country in the interest of justice to
allow the cry Of policy to arrest the prose
cution of an offender. When we grow to
that point of demoralization that Senators
dare not investigate the conduct Of their
own officers, for fear that some fearful dis
repute may be made public to shame the
country, rascality will be privileged from
deDunciatiOn
Year: 1872

In some of the Western cities it is pro-
posed to put red glass in the street lanterns
to show the location of fre-alarm boxes,
and green glass to designate the position of
letter hOxes
Year: 1872

Not a great while since a fat, joTial city
official, who is often to be seen peramOulat-
ing up and down the Ievee, was made the
bannv reeipient of a tine gold watch and
chain bv his admiring employees and more
recently they have further manifested their
affec+onate devotion by presenting HIM
horse and buggy This is all very well, but
the question arises, how Is it done! we
are largely favorable to adequately reward
ing faithful public servants, but the testi-
monials, we think, should come from their
constituents and not their employees. 1t
locks SO much Like you tickle me and III
tickle you"
Year: 1872

own officers, for fear that some fearful dis


repute may be made public to shame the


country, rascality will be privileged from


denunciation.


With what little sense or honesty the


Picayue is conducted can not better be


estimated than by referring to its efforts


to mislead the people into resisting the


payment Of taxes If the effort is made


it can not be concluded before the next


election, when, if the friends of the Plea


yle,,e succeed, that paper will necessarily


have to advise the resistants to withdraw


their opposition and submit to the de-


mand of the collector, for it certainly does


not intend to support men and then ad-


wise the public to pay them no taxes. If


the resistants quit the contest then they


will have to pay the costs Of court, and if
they do not they may expect to be abused
as a set OF obstinates by the Picaylme


The very demagogues who are urging the
taxpayers to resist the payment Of the as
sessment against their property, even to
the extremity of an appeal to the Supreme
Court Of the United States, are plotting to
be elected tax collectors and tax con-
sumers. And the Pjcayme, which pre-
tends to take great interest in the next
election, supports the idea that the gov
ernment Of the city and State are both un-
constitutional What sort of capacity
have the men who accept Of this stupidity?


Why any Democrat should want a bet
ter tariff platform than the one suggested
by Mr.. Greeley and adopted at Cincin-
natl, passes comprehension. If the peo-
pie can not declare what they want what
right have they to assume that they are
Democrats? When Mr.. Greeley says that
if the popular representatives Of the people
pass a free trade law, he will sign it; or if
they pass a protective tariff law, he will
sign that; or if they adost a medium
course and pass revenue tariff law, he
will sign that, he has agreed to do just
what the people want to do themselves,
which is the purest sort of Democracy
He does not propose to interfere with the
will Of the country by vetoing its demand,
but offers to submit to the will Of the ma
jority. A free trader could do no more,
a protectionist could do no more, a reve-
nue. reformer could do no more In fact,
this is Democracy exempIifed.


How many Of the men who propose to
resist the taxes because the government is
unconstitutional are preparing to run for
office? How many of the lawyers who
pretend that the government is unconsti-
tutional make their living before its illegal |
courts? How can citizen who says that
the government is unconstitutional appear
before a court that he ignores in the per- |
son Of an attorney who tells him that |
every thing is unconstitutional These |
parties had better take a trip to some eli
mate where a shattered constitution can
be restored by a temperature that is hotter
than it is in New Orleans.
Year: 1872

vania and Indiana, as in 1856, popular re-
action may be created in favor of Greeley
and Brown which will secure them New York
and West against Grant and Wilson, will give
them the balance of power. Oonceding all
this, the conclusion, on the other hand. in
evitably follows that Pennsylvania and In
diana in October are indispensable. or that
Buckalew is necessary to any prospect OF sue
cess for the opposition alliance in November,
and that consequently these State skirmishes
of next Tuesday, if lost by the opposition, will
be as decisive against Greeley and Brown as,
in 1868, they were against Seymour and Blair.
Hence the tremendous pressure now brought to
bear upon both sides to carry Pennsylvania
and Indiana on Tuesday next. On the one
side the object is to carry redoubt or two
from which the great battle may be won; on
the other side the object is simply to hold the
advanced positions which command the field.


Or, in Pennsylvania, we may say each of
the two armies has brought forward its cham
pion for this October battle of next Tuesday,
and that thus the Presidential issue is mar
rowed down to the fight between Hartranft
and Buckalew. and that 'the eyes Of Della
ware" and Of all the other States are anxiously
6xed upon this momentous conflict. because
the result and its consequences cannot be fore
seen. We only know that both parties in the
Keystone State are moving heaven and earth
to give success each to their favorite champion;
it is morally certain that the State on Tuesday
next will poll larger vote than in any pre-
vious election in its history, and the same may
be said Of Ohio and Indiana; and it may be-


after oil, that certain outside factions not
taken into the general account will here and


there turn the scale. It will suffice for the
present that the Presidential issue is involved


in these October elections and mainly upon


the doubtful contest between Hartranft and
Buckalew in Pennsylvania.
Year: 1872

The DISTRICT ArroRNEYsH1p. Here also
there are four candidates pressing their claims
upon the Convention-all good and true men.
Any one of the charmers would do we'll enough
were all the others away. But, like Banquo's
ghost, they ''will not out" until they are ruled
out on Saturday next. Judge Garvin has given
all-suficient proof Of his earnestness in the
work of REFORM with which the Office of Dis
trict Attorney has great deal to do. If, how
ever, any change is to be made in this
important Office and adjunct to the
criminal Judiciary Of the city and
county, the nominating Convention will find
in Mr.. Wheeler II. Peckham one in an
eminent degree qualified to fill it. Mr. Peck
ham has materially aided in the work Of re-
form and has been an active member of the
Bar Association. He is also well posted in all
that has been done with regard to the Ring in
dictments, and as public prosecutor would
be quite in his element.
Year: 1872

The BURNING OF THE STEAMSHIP AMERICA
BY the arrival Of the steamship China, from
Japan and China, at San Francisco, yesterday,
and thence overland by Telegraph, we have
detailed report of the origin, progress and re-
suits of the conAagration by which the Pacific
Mail steamship America was lost at Yokohama.
The account varies but little from that which
was furnished to the readers of the HERALD
Immediately after the occurrence of the sad
event by our special dispatches to London and
thence through the cable to New York. Three
Americans, ffty-nine Chinese and number of
japanese were lost. An official investigation
has been held as to the cause Of the disaster
The Court declares that the fire was "the re-
suit of intention, not Of accident"
Year: 1872

AIsAcE AND LORRAINE. must be the
scenes now witnessed in Alsace and Lorraine
The French ore leaving the provinces in
thousands. On Sunday last not fewer than
one thousand two hundred men, women and
This is one of the bitter fruits of the war;
We honor the French for their love of coun-
try; but we cannot blame the Germans
Had the French succeeded it is certain that
Germany would have been dismembered
War is always and necessarily cruel Should
France ever draw the sword for revenge the
memory of this exodus will give strength to
her arm
Year: 1872

WE WANT FOR our MAYOR candidate
whose high character is sufficient guarantee
in his behalf, man whose position places
him above all the temptations to corruption,
man who can have no other objects in
accepting the Office than the public good and
the appreciation of the community and such
a man is William Butler Duncan.
Year: 1872

THE MAYOR OF New York should be gen.
leman Of broad views, unassailable integrity
and large experience. In Mr.. Butler Duncan
we have such man, and he ought to be
nominated by Tammany and endorsed by all
the reform parties.
Year: 1872

RAILWAY MANAGEMENT IN ENaLAND.-"Ru
ming ahead at terrible rate of speed to
''make up time" on railway from London
for Edinburgh, produced yesterday the disas-
trous collision and melancholy loss Of life
which are reported to us by cable from Eng
land When, or how, will the managers and
the working officials of railways be brought to
due sense Of their responsibility and duty
towards the travelling public?
Year: 1872

Mn. WILLIAM BUTLER DUNCAN il n member
of one of the strongest banking houses in the
country. He is gentleman of high culture,
and possesses in rare combination all the
qualities that fit him to discharge in bril-
liant manner the manifold duties pertaining
to the position Of Mayor Of our progressive
city
Year: 1872

These newspapers have forgotten principle.
honor and duty in their own greed for partisan
success. No mans reputation is any longer
dear to them, and political opposition is con-
sidered full justification for personal vituper-
alton. Many of these stories may be true, but
even their truth in most cases is no excuse for
their present publication. General Grants
official acts are generally well understood, and
all who approve of his conduct as President
will reject the accusations of his enemies. 1t
would be impossible to convince either MIR.
Greeleys friends or his enemies among the
masses that zone B. F. Camp" was his ''agent"
in any operation involving bribery and cor
ruption. The whole course of the partisan
press is as futile as it is degrading, and it can
only end in stern rebuke of such false
journalism or the downfall of the Republic.
Year: 1872

The PoLITIoAL CANvAss-THE MAYoRALTY.
Within few days reformed Tammany will
meet in convention to nominate q candidate
for Mayor. In the nomination then made
will the citizens have an opportunity of judg-
ing whether the men who set up the banner Of
reform have strength and honesty enough to act
up to their pledges. Halfway measures never
lead men to victory. Let Tammany and the
Committee of Seventy unite in presenting the
name Of William Butler Duncan as the reform
candidate for Mayor, and popular endorse
ment will follow such as no candidate for that
Office ever before received
Year: 1872

reply, charged "Mr. Greeleys man. with
'blackmailing," and while condemning SLAM
der went into the business to an almost equal
extent on its own account. These things dis
grace us in the eyes Of the world, and
yet the world knows not the men who origi-
nate these stories or dig them up out of for
gotten records for public perusal.


The worst feature in all this is the one to
which we have already adverted-namely that
it makes little difference whether these things
are true or false. The world in general will
believe what we say Of each other. Old dynas-
ties will rejoice that our Republic is going to
pieces through the greed and corruption of
politicians and will hold up the pictures we
are painting of ourselves as q warning to dis
contented subjects. Kings will laugh at our
follies and courtiers point toward US the finger
of their scorn. We are fast becoming a
byword and reproach among nations, and
we owe the exposure Of our shame, if not our
shame itself, to the Jefferson Bricks of the
time. The American people, hearing SO many
scandals, will reject oil Of them, and so far as
any good is to be accomplished by the expo
sure of wrong-doing it will fail in the general
incredulity. But the effect will be lasting for
evil. If the scandals, or even 1.-THE of the
scandals which are being scattered broadcast
over the country are true, the Republic has
little to hope from the virtue of its public
men. II they are not true it Is loose
public sentiment and a deadened sense
Of public and political morality which permit
them to be told without rebuke. In any case
our institutions are in danger and the anarchy
Of Mexico and the degradation Of the South
American republics are impending over US. The
partisan press is fast encompassino our ruin.
Year: 1872

The doctors will tell you, and your
own observation will confirm it, that
the healthieet men in the world are
men most actively employed. The
child's hymn has it that Satan finds
mischief for idle hands and the
ghas,ly goddess of i'll health and dis.
ease finds mischief for sluggish bluod
blood and indolent muscles.


Even the mountain lake, for all the
cool fresh wind that continually crisps
its dark surface into tiny waves, grows
dull and stagnate In its inactivity !;
and that Christian life which is only u
pool, shut into its own broodings, must
Of necessity stagnate also.


How different the dull surface of the
standing water, with its mating oi
heavy weeds, from the clear, musical
tide of the streamlet that rushes by
field and wood, with a song and bles
sing wherever 1t goes.


Activity is essential to healthy life,
and especially to healthy Christian
life, The Christian life Is like the bi
cycle that hurries along our roads
while It is in motion you are born on
ward safe and upright, but when il
pauses you fall helpless to the earth
Golden Hours.
Year: 1872

HASTE AND HEALTu.-It is not. at all
wholesome, says DR.. Hall, to be in a hurry;
Locomotives have been reported to have
moved mile in minute for short distances
but locomotives have often come to grief by
such rapidity. Multitudcs, in their haste
to get rich, arc ruined every year. The men
who do things maturely, slowly, deliberately,
arc the men who oitcnest succeed In life
People who are habitualy in hurry gener-
ally have to 10 thinSs.twice over. The tor
toise beat the hare at last Slow men seldom
knock their brains out against post Foot
races are injurious to health, as are all kinds
of competitive exercises; steady labor in the
field is the best gymnasium in the world
Either labor or exercise: carried to exhaust
ion or prostration, or even to great tiredness,
expressed by "fagged-out," always does more
harm than the previous exercise has done
good. All running up stairs, running to
catch up with vehicle or ferry-boat, are
extremely injurious to every age, sex and
condition in life. II ought to be the most
pressing necessity which would induce q
person over fifty to run twenty yards Those
live longest who are deliberate, whose act
ions arc measured, who never enter into any,
speculation without sleeping over in" and
who perform all the every day acts of life
with calmuess Quakers are proverbially a
calm, quiet people, and Quakers are thrifty
folk tic world over.
Year: 1872

To write an ugly hand


may be called amisfortune, If you will;


but to write an illegible hand is a


crime against society. Every one who
chooses eau form each letter distinctly,


can make difference between an n


and u, between and C, can dot Ts


and cross t's. Therefore. NO educated


person who wishes for employment as
an amanuensis or copyist can be ex-


cused for writing badly. He ought to
be able to write letters and copy man.


uscripts clearly and legibly; if he can.
not, he has only himself to blame.


To those who feel their deficiency and


wish to improve, here are few hints.


Write two or three copies every day in
large hand. Look at your copy up
side down, when the turns of the let
ters should appear as well shaped as
they did when you looked at them
in the right way. Thus, let the letters
nu, when turned upside down, make
q good clear mi, only wanting the ad-
tion Of the dot to the i. Never leave
an to be dotted or tn be crossed
till you have finished the line or SEN
tence. Dot your is and cross your t's
when you finish the word, at latest.
Remember that the lines of legibility
in writing, as of beauty in nature, are
all curved. Angular writing is never
pretty, seldom legible. Never indulge
in making Over-lOng tails to g's, q's,
US or oven long heads to rs, t's, and
similar letters, running them into the
upper line. Indulge not in turns,
curls, or flourishes of any kind.
Study to make your whiting compact
without being cramped; free, without
struggling. 10 write rather upright
than otherwise contributes to the
union of compactness and freedom.
Never initiate another PERSONS writ
ing under the idea that it is prettier
than your own. Many q person has
spoiled good handwriting in this
way. Let your hand writing form it.
self from free, bold copy-writing, and
let it bethoroughly your own. Gull
tivate the power Of writing quickly,
because it will probably be necessary
to you-certainly an advantage. But
eschew hurry. Legibility must never
be sacrificed to speed. Victoria Nag
asi,ae.
Year: 1872

Those people who are interested i'm
hard money will perhaps be profted
by reading the following story from
the Christian Weekly, by DR.. Spauld-
ing:


my father was a poor man. A
large and growing family was de-
pendent ON him for its daily bread.
Coming home one wintry evening
from a weeks toll i'm a neighboring
town with ten hard-earned dollars in
his pocket, he lost them in q light
snow. Long and fruitless was the
search for them. After the snow was
gone, again and again was the search
renewed, with the same result. The
snow fell and melted again for a
whole generation, and still the story
of the lost dollars was fresh in our
family circle; for silver dollar to a
poor man in those days was larger
than full moon.


"AbOut a mile away lived another
father of a family in similar eircum-
stances. He, too, knew how much
dollar cost dug out of the heart of a
rocky farm. At least once or oftener
every week for forty years he had oc-
easiOn to pass our door, giving and
receiving the common neighbOrly
salutations, and every time with a
weight increasingly heavy on his
conscience. But all such pressure has
its limit; and when that is reached
the crash Is the greater for the sever
ity of the strain. In this instance it
was as when an old oak rends its
body and breaks its limbs in falling.


Zone day, completely broken down,
he came to my father in tears, con-
Tossing 81 found your dollars lost
in the snow forty years ago. They
have been hard dollars to me. and L
can carry them no longer. L am
come to return them, and ask your
forgiveness, and rs soon as L can L
will pay you the interest"


1.-The scene was like that when
Jacob and Esau met over the ford
Jabbok.


He did not live long enough 10
pay the interest, but quite long
enough to furnish a practical COM
ment on the text: The spirit of a
man will sustain his intirmity, but a
wounded spirit, who can bear" Who
will say that conscience, though
slumbering in this life, will never
awake to punish the offender in the
life to cOmew


II any man wants hard money, let
him get it dishonesty, and he will
find it the hardest money that he
ever saw-hard to keep, hard to think
of, and hard to answer for in the
Judgment day.
Year: 1872

Ten hack-drivers at Niagara Falls
ave formed an association and pur'
chased the hacking privilege of the
Cataract House, paying therefor the
reported sum of $500 for the coming
season. 1t sounds like an unprofita


be investment to pay such an amoun


or the mere carriage monopoly of
any one hotel, and yet look into it
will afford convincing proof of the
shrewd judgment of the originators
of the combination. The company
pays 500 per month, which is about
81 35 per day for each hack-suppos-
ing the organization confined to ten
-.nd their charges are two dollars
per hour. AS there are no drivers to
paw, the commissions on the sale OF
fancy goods, which are usually re-
tanned BY them, will be turned into
the treasury, and will nearly if not
quite balance the loss sustained by
dull days and unfavorable weather


Then to this considerable income can
be added the bonuses paid by the Mu-
scum, Lundy's Lane, Whirlpool,
Rapids, ETC., and the extra receipts OF
many days when the specified num-
ber of carriages will be inadequate
for the demand. Three thousand
five hundred dollars for the carriage
monopoly is pretty good evidence OF
the business done by the Cataract
House.-Baltimore american.
Year: 1872

JOURNALISM OF THE FUTURE.-In
the January number of OJd and NetO,
Edward Everett Hale predicts that
five years hence the literary journal
for which and from which there is
most to be hoped, will be one not des-
tined for what please to call them
selves the literary classes, and that
the progress Of newspaper publication
in point of frequency, will by that
time bring US into the era of the hour
ly press. He says: at need surprise
nobody to see the next great typical
enterprising journalist establishing
q periodical whose successive issues
shall appear punctually every hour,
twenty-four times day, without any
intermission for nights, Sundays or
holidays. The first will fail, as the
first penny paper did; but the second
or third will make a great fortune
and q great reputation.
Year: 1872

A little six year old boy was asked
by his teacher to write composition
on the subject of water, and the follow
ing is the production: "Water is good
to drink, to swim in, and to skate on
when frozen. When was little baby,
the nurse used to bathe me every mornI
ing in water. I have been told that the
Injuns don't wash themselves but once
in ten years. / wish was an Injunp
Year: 1872

THERE are nine hundred aud twenty
eight manufacturers Of tobacco in the
United States, and they profess to pay
$25, 600, 900 per annum as internal revenue
tax. Itisa question with the able and
worthy chief Of the tobacco division Of the
Internal Revenue Bureau how so small a
number of men can long sustain this enor-
nous draft upon them. He purposes short
ly TO discuss at length this very complicated
subject in letter % be addressed TO the
Commissioner, or the Committee on Finance
or the House Committee on Appropriations
or to all of them