It is said that Prendergast objected to ...

It is said that Prendergast objected to being hung on the i3th, owing to his absurd notion about the ill luck of No. 13. The sheriff, however, went right ahead and hung Prendergast on that day, just to show him how foolish was the old tradition. Crankism, that is sane enough to plot, plan and scheme to take life, is sane enough to hang. The stretching of hemp by Pendergast will materially check the "mania" some people have for going insane. Let every anarchist of his stripe dance on the air. Two brilliant spots discovered on the planet Mars are construed by scientists as a signal of the Marzarine inhabitants to those of our earth. The shlfting character of these luminous spots suggests to Mr. Peters that they are moving torch light processions of populists. The universal praise bestowed upon President Cleveland by men and journals of all parties for the wisdom and firmness which he displayed in promptly suppressing the incipient rebellion in Chicago again bears witness to the grand qualities of the man and to his eminent fitness for the highest trust and greatest responsibility of the nation. The people made no mistake when they elected Grover Cleveland. - Pontiac Post. The strike at Chicago is about over, but the "bill of exceptions" which the city and Cook county will have to meet later has not yet been made up. But that the losses resulting from the destruction of property by the mob will have to be made good there can be no question. Every laboring man of Chicago who owns a home or has any property, as well as all other sympathizers with and abettors of Debs in his mad undertaking will have to go down in their pockets to meet this tax levy, and forwhat? Echo answers what. The Evening News has had its special correspondent at Pullman for some time to write the full history of that place. Mr. Fitzgibbon has written several letters, and they make interesting reading. In one, he refers to the way Pullman ran the politics of the place, in the interest of the republican party, which he supported enthusiastically. We commend this letter to the Times and those papers which are tryingto make political capital out of the strike. It is refreshing reading. We wish not to give the strike any political prominence, but we cannot forbear remarking in answer to the Times article charging the strike to democratie rule, that we are proud to know that Pullman is a typical republican and his wealth is one of the results of typical republican protective legislation. There's a big lesson in this for every working man in the land. Will they heed it? - Adrián Press. I When the bilí to repeal the former income tax law was betore the senate on June 22. 1870, Senator John Sherman said: "Here we have in New York, Mr. Astor with an income of millions. derived from rea estáte, accumulated year after year by the mere family pride of accumulation, and we have alongside of him a poor man receiving $1,000 a year. What is the discrimination o the law in that case? It is alto gether against the poor man. Every thing that he consumes we tax, anc yet we are afraid to tax the income of Mr. Astor. Is there any justice in it? Why, sir, the income tax is the only one that tends to equalize the burdens between the rich and the poor. " The repeal of the tax was also opposed by Senator Morrill, of Vermont. Geo. S. Boutwell, secretary of the treasury, and David A. Wells, commissioner of internal revenue, were in favor of the tax and desired that it should be made a part of the permanent revenue system of the country. This tax was much more onerous than the one carried by the present bill. The repeal bill finally passed the senate and house by a mere majority, and this at a time when the membership of congress was three-fourths republican. Of course the change of front by the republicans on this issue may be honest, but the language they and their ally, Hill, indulge in is not. The arguments used by Senator Sherman in 1870 iré more applicable as capital and income increase, and all the reasons in favor of an income tax urged by the leading republican statesman of that day are equally applicable now. Phe characterization of the income tax provisión of the present revenue bill, therefore, as populistic and in :he nature of class legislation, is mere flapdoodle and falsehood.