Demands Should Be Enforced

There is considerable of a war cloud in the neighborhood of thè "Sick Man of Europe" just at present. In addition to the recent unspeakable atrocities perpetrated by the Turkish authorities npon the Christians of Armenia, which so shocked the civilized world, the incident of the 31st of May, in which the consular officials of England, France and Russia were attacked by Torkish troops and the British vice counsel assassinated, and officials of the other two powers badly wounded, has aroused the sentiment of those nations to such au extent as to cause them to demaud not only reparation for the crimes committed against their consular agents, but extensivo reforms in behalf of the Armenians. The reply of the Turkish government is a practical defianceof these power?. England has,however, declined to accept any rnodiflcation of her demands, and a large British fleet is now assernbled at Beyrout with the purpose, it is thought, of enforeing the demands of the three powers. Interesting news may be heard from there at any time, theref ore. The sitnation is one that deniands action by the great powers of Christendom. The awful crimes against hnmanity and civilization which have been of periodical occnrence in Turkey for centuries should no longer be tolerated. Tnrkey should be forced to comport herself in accordance with the humanitarian ideas of the times, and her treaty obligations, or take the consequences. The wiping out of Turkey as a nation and the partition of her territorv among her neighbors would be jnstiflable and an advantage to the world. The United States Bureau of Education has been collecfcing statistics upon the question of the value of a common school education, in dollars and cents, as shown in the wages of common la. bor. From the answers of various manuf acturers throughout the counry, it has been discovered that such laborers, Dossessed of a common school education, received an average of 25 per cent. more wages than those who lack that training. The same inquiries elicited the farther fact that a high school course added still another 25 per cent. to the wages paid for such labor. The knowing of these facts ought to have some influence upon therising generation. For they mean that, in addition to the various other and higher advantages derived, persons possessed of a common school education, other things being equal, have a considerable advnatage in the battle of life over their fellows who lack it and that these advantages are still more marked as education is extended. These facts ought to be indelibly impressed upon those who, with free schools all about them, are disposed to grow up in ignorance. They si ould understand that by such a course they are lessening their chances for a successul life. In the time to come competition in every line will be far keener than in the past and those who enter the race handicapped with lack of training will be quite sure to ftnd themelves distanced. Hon. Wm. C. Whitney, secretary of the treasuiy during Cleveland 'sfirst adniinistration,and a possible candidate for the democratie nomination for the presidency next year, has recently declared his belief in the onward movement of the sentiment in favor of international bimetalism. He says it is growing rapidly in Europe, not only on the continent but in England, and that the greatest obstacle in its pathway is the effort to bring abont silver monometalism by the extremists of this country. There is little douot but that the preponderance of the sentiment of the leadng n ations of the commercial world is for bimetailsm, if some plan can be hit upon that will really secure it. And there is just as little doubt as to the preference of these nations for gold monometalism over silver monometalism, if we are to have a monometalic basic curreney. When the settlement of this important issue finally comes, it will in all probability lie somewhere between the extremes. We will have neither gold monometalism nor silver monometalism, but some unión of the two on such a basis as will insure their joint use and circulation as money. Questions of such importance are seldom settled by the adoption of the extreme views of either side, but by the yielding of something by each in order that i conimon ground may be discovered. The pension case of Judge Charles D. Long, of the Michigan supreme court, which has attracted such wide atention for some time back, his been passed upon by the U. S. court of apDeals. The court upholds the right of ;he comniissioner of pensions to review the acts of his predecessors. The case will now go to the supreme court in uil probability. Judge Long's pension was reduced from $75 per rnonth to 550, by Commissioner Lochren and his was the cause of the suit, Judge Bradley, of the disrict supeme court, before whom the case was begun, decided in substance that the"J commisioner had no rightto review the acts of his predecessor and this decisión is now reversed by the court of appeals which holds that a pension is a vested ight only in a limited sense. Gradually the sphere within which he "manly art," so called, can be law'ully engaged in is beingnan-owed by ! legislativo enactment and the decisions j of the conrts. The supreme court of ■. Indiana has just rendered a decisión in the case of the Coluiubian athletic club which forever prohibits prize fightiug in that state. Governor Matthews has been persistent in following up this matter and he has at last won a notable victory. The suit grew out of the attempt of the governor to prevent prize fighting, uot only by the power of the court, but by usiug the militia. An interesting question may arise over the signing by the governor of the Mt. Pleasant normal school bill and the bill providing for the removal of. the homeopathie medical college to Detroit. The constitution says that the governor may sign within five days of the time the final adjonrnment of the legislature any bill passed during the last five days of the session. Neither of the bilis referred to was passed within the five day limit. The question is, therefore, whether those two bilis did not die with the adjonrnment of the legislature. The bill appropriatiug $25,000 for an electric light plant at the university was vetoed by Governor Rich, Wednesday. He gives as his reasons for the veto the statement that the bill was not ia accordance with the distinct understanding had in the passage of the onesixth of a mili bill, the fact that no other state institution received an appropriation for such purpose this year on account of the condition of the treasury and that the bill made the appropriation available nine months before it will be collected.