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lican journals all over the country ander taking to gcnteelly crawfish, n their attitude on tlie Fitz Jolm Poiier case, since Gen. Grant announced his error and liis espousal of' the injuied offleer's case. Hes pite the crookingsof the poiiticiana Qrant is a power in ttic republiean part}' vel. Tuk oiily way to incroase wealtb is to ncrease the quantity of the things wbich constitute wealtb. This s done either by niaking them ourselves for less than we can buy them for or by exchanging for them those llungs wbicb we eau raake more cheaply than others. Protection forbich us from doing Ihis, and henee protection is robbery in the name of law. ■4-B x Increasing the pnce of any article ■''oes not increase the value of that article. "npricn and value are different things. Price is what an article can be purchased for, or what is asked forit; value is what the article is actually worlli, nr whai it costs to make it. "Protecting" an article increases its prit-e hut doos not increase its value, henee if the farmer has to pay for a plow more than it is worth he is being robbed- that's all. That'a "protec tion." Someüodï has called attenlion to tlie fact that Indian'cliiefliins wlio have vis ited Washington have not returned to the war path. They go home visibly im pressed with the greatnegs, power and j nity of our government, and oever again ] take up arms against il, doubtlesa ! ing the hopelcssness of the struggle. Now then we have a cheap and cflicacious way of subduing the noble red man. Let congress make an appropriation for the puipose of giving a grand ludían íevoe at Washington, to which sliall he brougbt the leadingmcu of all Iudian nations and tribes. Let them be shown the capítol and public buildiugs, take tliem to the theatre, give tbem a vistt to a man of war on the Potomac, fire a hundred caenon lo impresa the event on their memory, an 1 aftel entertaining thcra a few days seud them back to their nattve hcath with a few thousand volumes of patent office reporta and congressional speeches for the Poor Loes at home. lt is safe to say they would never again lakc up arms Bgainaft the government. Certainly nol after reading thosc reporta and speeches - more likely tliey would go and kill themselvcs. Kev. Washington Gladden has a statistical artfele in the January Century relative to the increase of divorce, sbovving that within Ihe past 30 years, divorces have been increasing in tremeudous ratio. Ilis iindings are ill-foundcd. For instance, in Connecticut from 1849 to 1S64 the population in'creased about 50 per cent. while the number of divorces increased nearly 500 per cent. In Vermont the ratio of divorces to marriages .increased from 1 in 25 in 18OO to 1 in 14 in 1878. The increase in Maine has been somewhat greater and in New Hampshire has been somewhat less than in Connecticut. In Massachusetts the ratio bas risen in 20 years from 1 divorce for every 50 marriages to.l for every 21. Only scattering returns are given from other states, but Mr. Gladden, by inference at least, leaves the reader to suppose that about the same state of things prevails throughout the country as in New England. But Mr. Gladden, however, seems to have fprgotten that the causes for whieh divorces are now granted are proportionally numerous, and does not take into consideration the tact that many persons seek a temporary residence in one state where divorces aregranted on easier terms than in their own state, and henee nis record cannot be accurate in regard to all the states, or even any one of them. The New York Graphic wants to raise an army of 100,000 men to flght mormon ism, claiming, in a labored article, that the only way this false and dangerous religión can be destroyed is by cutting and shooting it out of the country. The Graphic says that mormon families must be broken up; mormons who are disobedient must be punished: mormons who insist on following the damnable practices of the church must be killed. Xo quarter and no mercy must be shown to old or young who will not submit to the rule of conscience laid down by the military coramander of the distrbt This, we Doufess, is strong talk, but it is talk to some purpose. We have already frittered years away in debate, and will waste scores of other years in discussing, devising, denouncing and resolving, but accomphshiug nothing. In ten years the evil will have become too grcat fora peaceful rem■ edy, and indeed we are not sint it is not already too great. Unless we are prepared to wage war to the very knife, we might aá well stop talking sickly, school boy sentimentalism, and sove the country considerable expense in printing for the waste paper baskets of newspaper offices and far away constituents who never read,the sophomorical debates on the subject icdulged in by windy congressmen. The Democrat does not doubt that the system of repression advocated by the Graphic would be successful in eradicating ïnortnonism, but it must actually be a system as mercilebs and cruel and unrelenting as that exercised against protestantism in Franco. Let us see, didn't mother Shipman prophecy something about areligiouswar? Well, she only got ahead of time a few years. It will come. - ♦■ . TnE religious world is go full of fanaticisrn, ic;norance, dishouesty, immorality and rascality that it is no wonder the thinking religionist lifts his hands in holy horror and quotes the common prayer "And there is no health in us!" -Still, the line must be plainly drawn between Chrislianity and its professors; between the church and its attendants; between the bible and its readers; between Jesus and His professional worldly ministers and defenders. The latter in each instance may err but the former is au institution for good, which does not deserve to be ridiculed and sneered at. There would be more bigotry and immorility in the world if there were no euch thing as religión or christianity or the biblc; and it is not a matter of even honest diflerence of opinión whether the world is not bciter off for possessing the latter, mixed as ihey are with the former. Of this there is no possiblc doubt. Heneo Tue ])&uo chatis (leeply pained to be ohliged to ob serve tbat a very grave charge lias boen lakl against the mana.irers of tlie concern known as llic Araencau bible society This charge is made by the New York In dependent, the mout prominent and iuflu ential chriatian journal publiflied in thi ctiuatry, and is notbing less than thal th society oft'in robs widows and orplians in order to furniah bibles to people who can not either read, or who will not if the; can. According to the Independent th society does this under the authority o law - that of New York and not of God The robbery is legally cornmittcd n thi way: A mau oftcn dies under the im pression thuthe is much richer than kt real ly is. Ile leaves speciflc legacies.to various cbaritable and religious institu tious. These legacies are a tirst charge on the estáte, of coursc, and, according to the secular law, must be paid whetbe there be anylhing left for the natura heirs or oot. Now when a case arises in which the testator greatly over estimatec his wealth, most of the institutions bene fiting under lus will make a compromise with the heirs and accept a proportion ately less sum in satisfaction of the be quast. Nut so the bible society. It in sists on taking the last penny of the uiiuunt willed it, even if tbc wife an( children have nowhere else to look for support. {It is fortúnate for humanity that there are persons in this world - infldels. atheists and skeptics if you will - who t hink that it sjot' more importanceto feed the buogry and clothe the naked than to print and distribute bibles. The DEMOCRAT cannot but feel that the author was not far wrong who expressed the opinión that tlierc is more true christianit}' in one acre of ground well tilled than in all the theology in the world, as ordinarily practiced.