Scrips Of History

[San Francisco Telegram.} A few days ago the Daily JSxchangc mblished an editorial suggesting the )ropriety of some reply from Justice Held, of the United States Supreme Court, to the article recently pnblished n the New York Sun, charging Justioe Bradley with having read an opinión to Justices Field and Clifford to the effect that tho electoral vote of Florida should be given to Tilden and Hendricks, the Democratie nominees, and.reversing his conclusiou without nn alteration of the preniises or agreemonts.J A number of attempts have been mside by representativos of the press to interview Justico Field on the subject, but he has uniformly ref used to say ümg on the subject, and in most cases :ias refnsed to see tliem altogether. The Exchange to-day publishes an interview with Justice Field. He at first demurred to giving any statement whatever, but finally said, after some reflection, and speaking with great deliberation, "Well, sir, all that I care to say with regard to tliat is that Justice Bradley read " [with peculiar emphasis on the word read] - ".Tustice Bradley read no opinión 1 1 me in advance of a formal sübmission of his opinión to tho commission. Beyond that, I think, itwould be improper for me to say nnything. If I should enter upon the subject, J should probably say a great deal more üian I wish to say." " I think I comprehend yoiir reply," said the interviewer. "The point you make is that the opinión which the Sun says was submitted to you and Justice Clifford in writing was so writtim, that it was a mere verbal communicatiou of the opinión Justice Bradley had arrived at." To this the Justice replied : "You have my answer ; all the answer I oan now make. Justice Bradley didnot read [again emphatically] any opinión to me as alleged." "Very well. You," continuod the questioner, "can raise no objection to my calling attention in my publication of this conversation to the emphasis you put on the word read. That will make the significanee of your reply as clear to the reader as it is now to me?" "You have all the answer I have to make," persisted the Justice. "I will not discuss the matter in any of its detail." In the course of some f urther conversation, the Justice urged his preference not to be dragged into the controversy at all. He says that he regretted that his name had been used, as he was associflted with Justice Bradley on the bench of the United States Supreme Court.and it would be exceedingly unpleasant were their social relations to be disturbëd by such a controversy. He also emphatioally declined to go any f urther into the subject, urging that the members of the commission were bound by a resclution to respect the secrecy of their deliberations. A Standing Ariny to A we Labor. The time lias como in the United States when the proposition to raise and equip a standing army for the solé purpose of suppres8Íng strikes ia advocated by a large fraction oí the journals in üie country, from the New York Nation down; flnds favor and even indorsement with the administration in power, and nowhere seems to créate a shock. At the same moment England is boasting of the final and peaceful termination of the long-lived difficulties between labor and capital. The London Standard, commeuting op. the topics suggested by the death of John Frost, the celebrated Ohartist, takes occasion to say: " It may, we think, be fairly taken for granted that the whole cyèlo of questions connected witli what used to be callea the 'Rights of Labor,' in which the Chartism of forty years ago had its origin, are now practically settled, and that the relations between employers and employed, betweeu labor and capital, will never again become the source of any widespread disaffection in this country." This country has been widely advertised as a home for the laboring man; as a land of refuge for the oppressed; as a country offering homes and plenty to the industry that wonld seek them, come from what shore they niight. The workingmen of Great Britain have been taught, when longing for food and comfort and blessings, to look toward the setting sun; and, in this country, and in this year of our Lord, it is proposed, perhaps, for the first time in history, to raise a standing army to suppress strikes. England is a martial nation, her music the note of the bngle; but England, whence labor flees, never raised or kept a standing army to quench the wrath of long-suffering workingmen. What country ever did ? Among the resulta of the late strike we have seen burning cities; the bodies of the slain; a Communistic platform sdopted by a great party in this groat State; milliots of property in ashes; starvation made more and bitterer; but it is doubtf ui if any of the melan choly consequences of the recent disturbances is so much to be regretted as the f act that it is deliberatelyand widely proposed, and even by the executive branch of the Government itself, to raise a stonding army, or to doublé the existing one, for the single object of crushing hungry and angry workiug men. Tho sad spectacle is presented in this broad, free land, longing for labor, of a Government with one hand driving laboring men to desperation, with the other bayoneting back their acts of despair; of a Congress enacting laws whose resulta it must raise a standing army to Binother; of a great and peaceful republic whose legislation necessarily leads to insurrection and anarchy unless supported by arms ! How loug will our Congress continue to enact starvation and eend it forth in statutes only to be compelled to raise an army to batter down the consequences of the hunger and want it has enacted ? But this is the comment Congress is asked to mako upon itu own policy. - New. York Herald. The (Jreat Fraud. The evente of the last nine months have mdicated very plainly what will be the leading question before the peoplo for some time to come. It is the preservation of the right of the majority to rule. Last year the people elected Mr. Tilden President by a majority of a quartcr of a million of the popular vote, and by a majority of twenty-threo of the electoral vote. But Mr. Hay es was counted in notwithstanding. The man who was elected was couuted out, and the man who was not elocted was counted in, and seat9d, and holds the place. As Mr. Tilden hns himself said, not long since, the question now is whether our elective system is to be maintained. This is the question of questions. Until it is settled theie can be no politics founded on inferior questions of administrative policy. It involves all others - flnance, labor and the whole system of popular govemment. The people must sigually condemn the great fraud put upon them. They must strip the example of everything that would attract imitation, and refuse a prosperous immunity to those who reap the benefit of the crime. Judgment is already ovcrtakiug them. I believe in keeping the greafc fraud before the people uutil we oau have it deflnitelv determined whetber the majority nlmll rule orí whefcher elections shall be decided by returning boards, and "by fraud, by perjury and by forgery," as the senior Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States says the last one was. It is now the mission of the Democratie party to see to it that this crime is kept alwaya before the people, and that the memory of it shall not die out of the land. On this question it does not seem possible that any sincere patriot or honest man should hesitate long upon which side he will be found. - Letter from Editor M. M. Ham, of the Dubuque Herald. Carpet-Bag Rule in South Carolina. The investigation which is now going on in South Carolina, and is intended not only to exposé the thieves who pillagod the treasury of tlio State during the periodof carpet-bag rulo, but to makethose who are able to do so diegorge their illgotten gains, has created a panic among the ring chiefs and Eepublican leaders who controlled the legislation and tlie Government of the State. Manyhave fled beyond the ïeach of process, thus virtually confessing their guilt. öthers who went off in disguise have been found and carried back. A noble band of these patrióte is gathered at Washington, to avoid giving testimony nnd to escape the consequences of evidence given by others. Patterson is at the head of this crowd, seeking protection under the wing of the fraudulent administration. There is hardly a doubt but conolusive proofs will be furnished to establish the complicity of Scott, Chamberlain, and others of even bettor repute, in the issue of bonds, jobbery in railroads, venal legislation, and a variety of rascally transactions. The revelations of Mose, who was an integral part of this organized robbery, who was in the confidence of all the parties implicated, and who was discreet enough to preserve a mass of original papers showing their guilt, are astounding, and, when publishod, most malte a