Year: 1873

would have no more tnan saJisiied the demands
OF justice, while that actually rendered by the
jury must be regarded as altogether made
quate to the crime"


Referring to the monetary situation, the
Independent, in its financial column, remarks
that If the history of the recent panic in the
stock market, with its enormous snrinkage Of
market values, were written in all its details,
so as to bring to light all the individual
losers, it would tell a story Of warning to the
general public Millions have been swallowed
up as a total loss, no small part of which
has come from persons of comparatively
moderate means. Their experience in Broad
street and Wall street ought to be lesson to
others


The Evangelist always careful in expressing
its judgment upon public events, Expresses
the hope that the present state Of things will
improve. 'sThere are some considerations"
remarks the editor, ''that encourage us in this
belief There is very little in the present
crisis like former ones. So fnr as production
is concerned the country was never moro
prosperous. It's record, as respects foreign
commerce and importations, is favorable A
check has been given to rash speculation
which has already reduced inflated values,
and will tend ere long to restore confidence
Companies that have suspended operations
may see their way clear to resume, and where
full employment cannot be given it may be
that by reduction in the hours Of labor, the
present crisis may be tided over.''


The Observer discourses on the 'sDuty Of
Debtors in Hard Times" "Pay as you co.
being its motto. If you would be true man
and keep name unspotted from the world,
says the editor skeop clear Of engagements
to pay unless the ability is assured. And If
you are now in debt you will hasten to pay.
because it is your duty to do so, and yoW
creditor may be in danger Of failing or of suf-
fering because you are not true to your word.
The want of our times is honesty, common
honesty, that old fashioned virtue, which has
now become SO obscured by new names in the
vocabulary of trade that it is scarcely recog-
nized as the virtue that requires man to pay
his debts


The Independent atfirnls that had Stokes been
poor man 'shis case would long since have
been disposed of by hanging Money, in the
purchase Of legal talent has saved his neck
The result is that practically we have one law
| for rich murderers and another one for poor
murderers. We may venture to add the hope
that the extraordinary discovery of testimony
which had unaccountably eluded the search
Of the diligent counsel in the earlier trials
really indicates less than is involved in the
suspicion it suggests. May the time be far.
distant when perjury shall be regarded, as in
the East legitimate weapon of defence"


The Baptist Weelcy thinks that 'four years i'm
|. prisonment for homicide of the character Of
that by which James Fisk was deprived Of life
is very unsatisfactory to many OF our people,
and the action of the jury in bringing in q
verdict of manslaughter is severely condemned
by several of the papers Nevertheless it has
one lesson which ought not to be lost 1t pro-
claims that when man makes himself con-
| spicuous for his contempt Of morality and .
source Of disquiet and terror in society, it is
impossible to make people feel that the same
sacredness attaches to his life as to that OF
worthier men,


The Freeman's Journal is out with character
istic vigor in support OF Catholic schools for
Catholic children, declaring 1--WE want no
shadow or appearance of special privileges.
All we ask is to be let alone We do not
want any one who does not want to to contri-
butte dollar for schools for our people"
The Catholic ReU.eu continues to urge the
proposed American pilgrimage to Lourdes and
Rome, and at the same time pitches into the
grangers' societies as oath-bound organiza-
tions which no true Catholic can join.


The. Tablet touches feelingly upon the
Month of sae Dead and directs 4 pointed
shaft at the opponents Of Catholicism, under
the title of when Rogues Fall Out.