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Questions of the Day.

"It is never too late to mend" is a saying so old and good that it may be used at this time in considering the Mormon question. THE JUDGE observes with much satisfaction that the newspaper press of the country, State legislatures, popular orators, and distinguish-ed clergymen have combined in an assault upon polygamy, and although it is rather late in the day to begin the crusade against the defiant law-breakers of Utah, "it is better late than never." That polygamy has been permitted to obtain such a strong footing in one of the Territories under the alleged con-trol of the national government may well as-tonish those who take time to contemplate the subject. That nothing was ever done by this all-powerful government until now looking towards the complete crushing of the polyga-mists must excite the wonder of many minds. Now that a start has at length been made in the right direction, the well-meaning people of the land have a right to rejoice. Disfranchise the Mormons. Let no man who has more than one wife have the right of suffrage, and much will be done towards purifying the moral atmosphere of Utah.

The Peruvian Company, of which one Jacob R. Shipherd seems to be the head and front, is in a bad way. Shipherd came before the public with a flourish of trumpets, assuming to have at his beck and call some of the most distinguished men of the country. His scheme to annex Chili and Peru to the United States, according to his voluminous pamphlets, was bound to be successful. At first he declined to give the names of those interested in the project with him, and it was suspected that he stood solitary and alone—the real "Colonel Sellers" of the age. Angered at the repeated attacks upon his integrity, he displayed his list of names, and demanded protection from further onslaughts. But General Grant, Senator Blair, of New Hamp-shire; W. E. Chandler, Senator Boutwell, Senator Dawes, Senator Hale, Congressman Hewitt, William M. Evarts, Sidney Dillon, William E. Dodge, Norvin Green, H. B. Claflin, Ex-Judge Hilton, W. R. Garrison, and others mentioned by Shipherd as his co-conspirators, have disowned him and his scheme, and "Colonel Sellers" is left friendless and alone in his Spruce street office. Chili and Peru may therefore continue to eat

each other without further fear of interference from him.

The police magistrates of New York, taken as a whole, would form an attraction second only to the Park Commissioners and the Dock Commissioners for a first-class traveling show. A recent freak of one of these majestic persons, who has a seat on a police court bench of this city, was to sentence a young girl to im-prisonment for six months for attempting to earn a livelihood while in the garb of a man.

Justice Smith lost no time in determining that so heinous an offense as this should be promptly punished, and the young girl, who pleaded that she had a better chance to earn a living by wearing men's clothing, is now bunched with the vicious old hags and crimi-nals on Blackwell's Island. Thus does this exceedingly lank young magistrate administer what he is pleased to call justice.

THE JUDGE believes in fair play for every one, and proposes that even Henry Bergh shall have a chance. The vivisectors who have trifled with his feelings, and who have appar-ently resolved themselves into a mob to drive him from pillar to post, should also have a chance. Then let Mr. Bergh use his scalpel upon them, just for a change, and we venture the prediction that he will be encouraged by the shouts of the people, "Let the good work go on."

Anthony Comstock.

THE JUDGE always has and always will either hesitate or refuse to raise his voice or give a decision against a worthy object, or anything that tends to the improvement and good of society, but against the shams of our social, moral, and political progress his face is ever set.

And after knowing him and his methods for several years, THE JUDGE emphatically repudiates the contemptible hypocrite whose de-nounced name heads this article.

In the first place, he is most undoubtedly a notoriety monger, and that alone unfits him for the office of a moral mentor; and in the second place, his methods are as questionable as his own moral character is said to be, for when the notoriety business is dull, and he fears that his backers will not think he is earning the fat salary they pay him—and all because he does not keep the name of this society before the public—he goes out and drums up business in this suppression of vice racket, taking care to have all his doings written out and copies sent to the papers, so that all may read about what a great, good, watchful guardian of our public morals this A. C. is.

But if his ferret nose cannot scent out any-thing that is sufficiently rotten to appease his unnatural maw, he goes to work and bribes poor men into the commission of a technical crime, by offering them large prices for some indictable article or act, and then with loud whoops of triumph he drags his entrapped victim before the courts and before the world, where by his methods he manages to blast their lives and reputations forever.

What an official centipede this creature must be, when even only this much out of a

long career of wickedness is known; and yet he fawns and spawns upon the reformers and would-be good people, trying to play the part of their chief and moral pilot.

This man must stop. THE JUDGE has a rod in pickle for him.

The Star Routers' Ascent.

A WASHINGTON Grand Jury has at length in-dicted ex-Second Assistant Postmaster General Thomas J. Brady, ex-Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, and others for their connection with the Star Route robberies. Thus these arro-gant and bombastic thieves are brought nearer to their doom, and the thousands who have predicted that Brady, Dorsey, and their companions in crime would escape punish-ment, have been assured through this action of the Grand Jury, and through Colonel George Bliss, who talks like a man determined to do his duty, that the conviction and im-prisonment of the rascals will soon follow. Colonel Bliss views the indictment of these flowers of the Republican party as a vindica-tion of the administration of President Arthur, and says that from the first the Chief Magis-trate has insisted that justice should have full sway in these cases. The American people will be gratified to know this, and will hope that the President will continue in the same frame of mind to the end. There was a time when Chester A. Arthur, Senator Dorsey, and General Brady toasted their toes on the same hearthstone, and enjoyed each other's society in a rollicking way.

It is not forgotten that at a dinner to Senator Dorsey in Delmonico's, at the close of the campaign which resulted in the election of General Garfield to the Pres-idency, that some allusion was there made by General Arthur to the influence of "sugar" in bringing about the great victory. Every man in possession of a slang dictionary knows that the word "sugar" thus used signifies money, and those who basked in the smiles of Chester A. Arthur were fully aware of the im-portance attached to the liberal supply of that article in all political movements. The posi-tion which President Arthur accidentally oc-cupies towards his old companions at the pres-ent time is a distressing one for them. Let us hope that all sentiment other than that of obeying the will of the people will pass away from him, and that he will fully understand that "standing by one's friends" does not mean that a President of the United States shall shield thieves and seoundrels from their just deserts. When Brady, Dorsey, and their accomplices shall be arrayed in the uniforms of convicts, and shall be doing the country some service in the manufacture of shoes, then the people will be satisfied that Colonel George Bliss expresses the sentiments of President Arthur when he says that he has insisted from the first that justice shall have full sway in these cases—but not until then.

It is thought they will not have a celebra-tion at Chester, Pa. this coming Fourth of July. They think they have burned powder and fireworks enough for one year.