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The Affection Of The Saloon-keepers

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Day
27
Month
August
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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of New York City for ïammany Hall is not as strong as it once was. Why? Is it because that famous society is become a convert to temperance ideas? ot at all. The saloon-keepers are growing tired of paying blackmail to Taminany policemen. It is, indeed, sad to see old friends fall out on account of a few paltry dollars. Tuis is the season of "fakes." One cannot piek up a metropolitan Daper without being aware of this fact. In the first place, there is the very interest5ng collection of lies about Blaine, the tin plate stories and the invented interviews, to say nothing of the more vulgar sensations which are eagerly snapped up by certain journals. Great are the imaginative powers of metropolitan journalists, particularly those who wear the collar labeled, "I'm s Democrat." The new People's party desires the United States government to purchase the railroads and telegraphs of the country. It could be quite a little deal if the government. contented itself with buying the railroads, for they alone have cost not less than $10,000,O00,000. Yet, it must be borne in mimi that Uncle Sam owns mauy printing presses and that he would turn out $10,000,000,000 flat money in almost no time and at very little expense. By all means let the railroads be purchased. Pkohibitionists will doubtless feel much encouraged by the words uttered last week by E. J. Phelps at the Bennigton celebration. Said he : "We have lived to see the prohibition of slavery in the earliest constitution of Vermomt become a part of the fundamental law of this nation. May the time be not far ofl' when its declaration against that other and more widespread curse which corrupta and degrades free government shall be likewise put in force by the body of the American people." One thing is certain that, after such an utterance, it would be wise for Mr. Phelps to relinquish all his political aspirations or join some other party than the Democratie. Calvin S. Brice, the Wall-st gambler in stocks, senator-elect from Ohio and hairman of the Democratie national committee, is in hot water. Like all of his fellow-partisans, he has the interests of the laboring inen deeply at heart. This has been recently shown in a very effective manner. His rich mines in Tennessee have been worked by convicta whom hie paid agents have bo vilely treated as to drive them into rebellion. As a result the state'board of prison inspectors have decided to withdraw thepoor wretches from the mines, and Brice will now have to hire freemen, who, it is likely, will not work for starvation wages. The great reformer wil! probably have to content himself with a paltry fifteen or twenty per cent on his inve8tment, and the Democratie campaign funds will doubtless suffer. Drunkenness has been variously described as a habit, a sin and a disease and moral, legal and medicinal remedies have from time to time been earnestly advocated. There is the churchman, k who relies upon conscience; the prohibitionist, who relies on statute, and the pbysician who relies upon medicine. It has been proved conclusively enough that neither conscience nor law can be very effective in reforming one who has reached the last stages of inebriety, to that if there is any hope it must rest in t.he physical treatment. This, it is ciaimed, has been successfully tered by Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, of Dwight, 111. It consists of a hypodermic injection of bichloridtvof gold, accompanied by internal remedies. If reports may be eredited, the treatment has been eminently succesaful. Drunkards have gone to the institute, been treated and have returned home rejoicing, completely cured, not only from the disease but even from the desire for alcohohc gtimulants. One of these unfortunates, writing to the Adrián Press, enthusiastically vouches for the remedy. It is, indeed, possible that the cure may beonly temporary - but the fact that there is any cure, however temporary, cannot but be a great comfort to suflering humanity. At the same time, it should be borne in mind that in the case of drunkenness, as well as in that of any other disease, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The only safe policy is total abstinence. A GRKAT international labor congress issoon to be held in Europe.and unless appearances are decepiive the socialista will largely predomínate. These agitators are very much like the members of the Farmers' Alliance in America. They, like all observant men.see clearly euough that the state of industrial society is far from being healthy, but, at the same time, they do not prove themselves able to devise a practicable remedy. The nationalization of capital is a very fascinating project- in theory - but every school boy knows the objections whlch cannot luit be raised against it. The government warehouse scheme, advocated by the American Farmers' Alliance, is at first blush equally fascinating, but it is, at the ■ same time, equally objectioijable. What are progressive and conscientious men to do? Are lliey to lie supinely on their backs and lazily cry out that all is well, or are they, on the other hand, to rush forward tuiuultuously, singing amen to Senator Pefl'er'n crack - brained laments ? As in most cases, the true policy lies between extremes. We must have progress, but we need not have revolution. The industrial problem, like the temperance problem, the immigration problem, the tariff prob. lem and the silver problem, is sure to be solved some time, but it cannot be solved by the dash of a pen or the enactment of a statute. Prof. E. F. Lohr, who bas been visiting bis parents in this city, returned to South Bend Monday.

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