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SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1887.
ORGANIZED FOR POLITICAL PUR-
POSE S.
The News is not disposed to invade the
prerogative of the prohibition leaders or to
interfere with the settlement of issues be-
tween themselves and the laymen of their
party, but in the interest of public intelli-
gence it is deemed proper to furnish Mr. G.
I. Goodwin of Brownwood and others for
whom he speaks the information asked for
in his open letter published in The News
to-day. Mr. Goodwin wants to know it the
prohibition party was organized in Texas
for political purposes or for the sole object
of prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating drinks, and if it is tho intention
of the party to keep up its organization in
opposition to the democratic party after the
election in August. Persons who discuss
the prohibition amendment often commit
the error of treating it as a non-political
question. Any question pertaining to pub-
lic policy or state affairs is political, and
therefore even if the sole object of the sup-
porters of the amendment be to prohibit the
manufacture and sale o£ intoxicating
drinks, their purpose must be political
because tho measure they advocate
is intended to change the policy of the gov-
ernment in that particular. The prohibi-
tionists declare this to be the extent of their
object, and thus far the inquiry is answered.
But how is this purpose to be accomplished
without permanent organization on the part
of the prohibitionists':' With the adoption
cf the amendment the work will only have
commenced. To give it practical effect the
law-makers and the executive and judicial
officers of the state and county govern-
ments must be in sympathy with the policy
it is sought to establish. With a legisla-
ture composed of men unfriendly tr the
principle of prohibition, it would be vain
to expect efficient legislation to mi.ke
the amendment effective, or with tho
most rigorous laws on the statute
boots, they would amount to nothing un-
less the officials charged with their execu-
tion were disposed either through motive or
desire to enforce them. This has bsan
proved wherever the local option law has
been fried, nearly every instance of its
failure to prevent the sale of in'oxic in's
belt g attributed to the dereliction of local
officials. If, then, the effectiveness of state
prohibition would depend upon the election
to office of men earnest and diligent for its
enforcement, how could the end be reached
except through the organized support by
prohibitionists of candidates pledged to that
course? Thus the party would necessa-
rily have candidates for almost every
cfficefrow the local constabulary to legis-
lative and state executive. It coald not
rely upon the nominees of other parties,
especially of the democratic party, which
has refused to recognize the question as a
paily issue, and must perforce antagonize
all other political organizations. To
abandon its work after the adoption of th9
amendment would be to desert the field
when the battle had fairly begun. The pro-
hibition executive committee may not tell
Mr. Goodwin this as plainly as The News
tells him, but in the login o£ events he will
find that party organized in every county
and precinct in the state campaign oC next
year.
SHALL THE WHEELS OF PRO
GUESS BE STOPPED•
Not a solitary instance has been ob-
served of any party going before the inter
state commission to protest against the
suspension of the long and short haul sea
tion unless such party was interested in
selling goods or services with which the
lcr-g haul would bring like goods or ser
vices into competition. It is conceivable
that any of the ultra regulating politicians
might make such protest without being en
gaged in useful calling, but even then the
motive would be the same as that
of the Ephesian worshipers of Diana;
for the politician sells his services,
and anything which liberates industry
from the trammels of arbitrary will, put
in place of experience and its
unmatched wisdom in material concerns,
is a diminution of demand for a certain
school of law-makers, and renders their
chances of getting nominations in safe dis-
tricts and elections in doubtful districts
more or less uncertain. Barnuin himself
would have deemed no competition in the
show business half so dangerous as the
cultivation of other tastes and pursuits
which would reduce the popular demand
for circuses. But the cheap long haul is
only one form of industrial competition. If
it is right for the public to sympathize with
manufacturers who want to be protected in
their section or locality against the cheap
long haul, it is equally right to sympathize
with them to the same extent and aid them
by the same means, that is by the power of
the law used for prohibition to beat down
and extinguish ail other and equivalent
causes of cheapness. Among these machiu-
ery is even more remarkable than
the cheap long haul. What differ-
ence can it make to an eastern
man whether the!prodnct of his labor is re-
duced In price by a cheap haul of the west-
ern competing product, or by a cheap out-
put by machinery in the vicinity—but quite
probably machiuery of great cost by which
the large capital, an aggregation of small
capitals it may be, does something more
economically than it was done before, with
the effect o£ underselling the struggling
small manufacturer and driving the petty
master mechanic out of independent busi-
ness into company employ? It is by this
that the power loom and the power
press and the sewing machine drive out
the hand loom, the hand press and the
needle and cobbler's awl. The pleas upon
which the cheap lone haul could be denied
to spare a local market to producers by dis-
regarding the interests of consumers would
suffice, if consistently extended, to author-
ize the destruction of labor-saving ma-
chinery on the farm and in the factory, for
the protection of those workers and small
isolated capitalists who can not supply
themselves with the most improved and ex-
pensive machinery. But the same argu-
ment extended to the utmost would con-
demn the plow because it does more work
than the spade, and horses because
they prevent men from being employed to
carry burdens. And if the Erie island wine-
growers had lived at Cana, in Galilee, they
would have been apt to call for an interstate
commission from Home to prevent what
they would have called a scandalous inter-
feience with the wine trade—an act more
promotive of cheapness and use than even
the long and cheap haul on wines from Cal-
ifornia. But men not 'prejudiced by their
greedy trade interests know that cheap-
ness promotes the consumption of that for
which there is a natural demand, and that
abundant consumption of wholesome pro-
ducts increases the productive energies
and consequent purchasing resources of in-
dividuals and communities in a progression
which knows no final bounds, but is synony-
mous with civilization.
THE STATE CAPITOL CONTRACT.
The capitol board does not appear to have
caught on to the policy of its predecessor in
the matter of changing the contract when-
ever advised so to do by the capitol com-
missioners. Members of the new bjard
evidently regard with suspicion any and
every proposition for a change in the con-
tract. It required nearly four years of
changes to enable the board to reach the
conclusion that any change at all would
probably vitiate the contract. But now it
is so concluded, the board will change the
contract nevermore. If the repeated
changes heretofore made have not Im-
paired the obligations of the con-
tractor nor vitiated his bond,
the new board will do nothing in that direc-
tion. The new board proposes that if the
old board has solved the problem, has made
a good-contract and has provided for tho
construction of a splendid monumental
building, the old board shall have all the
credit. But really now if the old board has
adopted plans and specifications which are
defective, and if it has made some twenty
changes in the contract which hazard the
validity of the contractors' bond, where is
the wisdom of refusing to provide against
the defects discovered and refusing
to make a new contract requiring a
new bond which certainly could be so
framed and executed as to have all the
t>indi»g force of the original con-
tract? The governor appears unalterably
opposed to changes in the contract. His
signature is essential to any change. Then
no more changes will be made. The gov-
ernor doubtless has adopted this conclu-
sion after mature reflection. It must be as-
sumed that he firmly believes the plans are
well nigh perfect by this time, that no radi-
cal defects exist, and that if the building is
completed as required by the existing con-
tract it will be substantial, safe and accept-
able. It is also to be assumed that he and
the other members of the board conclude
that minor changes, in construction can be
made under the supervision and by the con-
sent of the commissioners without the
necessity of calling tha board in
session and making formal changes
in the contract. Certainly such a conclu-
sion i3 sensible and evinces a disposition
to place responsibility where it properly
beloEpe. A board of statesmen of greater
versatility than the present capitol board
would naturally shrink from the duty of
passing upon problems of construction in-
volved in a work of such magnitude as the
granite capitol. Naturally such a board
prefers that men selected by reason of
Iheir familiarity with work of this charac
ter should solve the problems arising in de-
tail in the construction. Hence the ques-
tion of tlie change in construction in the
dome supports was properly remitted to
the capitol commissioners and the
supervising architect. The promise
ficm Ibis action is likely to prove satisfac-
tory to the public. Minor details in the inte-
rior constructionjustnowbegunrnaylead to
the discovery of numerous defects in the
specifications, which can be correoted with-
out loss to the state or the contractor no
doubt. It would be absurd to call upon the
board to make changes, in the contract or
rather to make new contraots to meet such
discoveries. If a new contract, however,
should become necessary there seems to be
no gocd reason why it should not be made,
though the aversion to frequent changes
exhibited by the board is natural in the
light of the unfortunate experience of the
ex-bcard. ____
"'he New York Evening Post, referring
to the mistaken idea that prevails to some
extent in the North that Texas is given over
to whisky and ignorance, adds:
lliu curre nt Northern idea about the condi-
tion of education in Texas is equally at fault.
A N ew Hampshire paper, for example, in eo 11-
nieniing upon the large school attendance re-
ported in Texas, reiuaifes "Tiie term 'attend-
ing school' means In Texas going to sciool
for a few days or woeks In a year, white in
New England it means going the year round,
with tlie exception of a few vacations." The
truth is, asthe latest reports of the superin-
tendents of instruction In the two states show,
tliat the average length of the school year in
t l.e various counties of New Hampshire is but
101 days, while In the vaiious counties of Tex-
as it Is 1 j0 (lays. Texas already has a decided
sprinkling of Yankees In her population, near-
ly a thousand natives of Maine alone being
l'oULd in the state in 1S80, and the New Eng
land idea about common schools Is so gener
ally accepted that the last census showed a
smaller percentage of illiteracy than In any
other Southern state.
The average Yankee editor know3 very
little about the institutions or condition of
tlie South, but that does not koep him from
publishing constant misrepresentations
such as that corrected by the Post. Texas
especially has been the subject of much un-
favorable comment and fiction published
by the-New England papers, and to this is
due tte wrong opinions that generally pre-
vail in that section regarding her socia^tnd
political affairs.
An eastern democratic paper |j?tly re-
marks that the difference between the pres-
ident and the democratic workers i3 that
the president would like to appoint one
democrat to each office and the workers
want him to appoint a dozen.
Tiie pensions for Mexican veterans are
being turned out by the pension bureau
with all reasonable dispatch, about 100
clei ks of that office working voluntarily an
hour overtime every day to dispose of
these claims. The average number granted
per day is from thirty to fifty or sixty and
it is thought that all claims will be dis-
posed of during the next six months. Most
of the work consists in establishing the
identity and service of tho applicants.
When these facts are satisfactorily estab-
lished technicalities are not permitted to
interfere with the granting of a claim.
The Washington correspondent of the
Courier-Journal furnishes the information
that President Cleveland has selected
Speaker Carlisle to be his successor. No
body is better aware than President Cleve-
land that the selection of his successor is a
matter to be attended to by the democratic
party first and the independent voter last.
David Hostetter has made $16,000,000
within fifteen years, having commenced
business as a peddler. It is almost unneces-
sary to state that he was a most liberal
advertiser. •
The people of El Paso do not take much
stock in behalf of the seedy class of patri-
ots who establish themselves in that city
for the purpose of abusing the authorities
and individuals on the Mexican side. The
board of trade held a meeting thera the
other day and denounced in severe terms
the course of Pedro Garcia. It is given
out that the Cuttings and Garcias will not
receiye any comfort in that city in their at-
tempts to obtain notoriety by abusing
Mexican citizens.
It is said that Florida ha3 any number of
dark horses who are endeavoring to place
themselves in accessible position! for a
lightning stroke. It is pretty certain that
the Detroit widower is entirely out of the
range.
As the state department is still carefully
considering the Alaskan fisheries question,
after some months of careful consideration
it has probably found matter for further
consideration. Such an inference is war-
ranted by the fact that the Alaskan fisher-
ies are bigger than the Canadian fisheries
in which Maine and Massachusetts men
take such a lively interest, and that the
British of Vancouver and that region stand
to the Alaskan fisheries prettv much as the
Gloucester whack ups stand to the Nova
Scotian coast line. What is wanted, of
course, is that Canada should open her
fisheries to us while we keep our fisheries
closed against the Canadians. If Mr. Bay-
ard's diplomacy can accomplish this re-
sult, he may be made perpetual secretary
of stale.
Mayob Hewitt of New York and the
World are moving for parks at public ex-
pense. A deplorable condition of crowded
humanity is proved. The World, in closing
ail article, mentions the need of "cheap un-
derground transit and improved dwellings
for the poor." Is the inference allowable
that the cheap dwellings are as much an
affair of municipal paternalism as tho
parks? If not, why not?
An eastern Texas paper remarks that
calm and dispassionate argument is the
only way to win in the "campagne" for
prohibition. The editor evidently had the
wrong kind of "pagne" in his head.
What bigger office is Oleo Colman
after? With harrowing detail of personal
experience in his butcher's shop, and in-
cidental allusion to his fondne33 for loan
and lanky curs, Colman announces that
oleo is "against the people and should ba
frowned down." This implies that Jiis
frowning will always be for the people.
That is what all such yarns come to in the
penultimate no;cb. The people are then
expected to be grateful for the heroically
frowning politicians and office-holders who
are against all things which are "against
the people." An untaught Japanese might
suppose that people were being caught,
tied and compelled to swallow oleomar-
garine when they preferred butter, or that
nature had not given Americans more than
three senses, for there are two senses which
in other human beings are worth more than
all the laboratories of all the governments
in the world as regards testing butter and
butterine.
The early attainment of an ample supply
of artesian water for Galveston may be re-
garded as practically established. Tho
well at the Santa Fe yards yesterday was
flowing at the rate of 300,000 gallons per
twenty-four hours, and may go beyond that
limit. This is simply a grand result for
Galveston and means, with the multiplica-
tion of wells, the introduction upon an ex-
tensi\e scale eventually of mechanical ap-
pliances to a variety of manufacturing in-
dustries. Apart from this, just think of
the sanitary and esthetic features of the
esse. With an abundant supply of pure,
fresh water on the island, beautiful as
she now is Galveston will constantly be-
come more so. It was asserted yesterday
on the streets that the water now flowing
frcm the well had the taste of a high grade
of Appollonaris water. Think of that!
Three hundred thousand gallons of Appol-
lonaris water, from a single well, every
twenty-four hours, withenoughand tospare
to all the surrounding country. "Bring
flowers, sweet flowers," watered by Appol-
lonails water. Mills and rills and bloom-
ing parterres mark the future of Galveston.
Representative Browning should move
out of the Panhandle into a portion ot the
state where he would be more available.
Such men are needed in the public service.
The British fair traders, so called, have
cause to congratulate thomselves on the in-
dorsement of their views by the principal
commercial organization of Glasgow,
though it may yet appear that the vote was
reached at a packed meeting. Such Inci-
dents show that even where public opinion
is probably as neaily unanimous through-
out a country as it well can be on a political
question, class interests can make a show-
ing to the contrary. In the same way there
are elicited protectionist resolutions from
bodies in the South. They are no more
than warts upon the body of tho southern
working people.
Galveston will eoou be in the midst of a
heated municipal contest. There being no
question of party and no general political
issue involved, the rule in voting should be
to select tho best men for the offices to ba
filled.
a gain one of those "blasted" companies
has gone and done something it was not
hired to do by the fortissimo reformers.
Let no one be afraid that the artesian well
water will be exhausted. The height to
which it rises proves that there
is a practically unlimited supply
in some vast interior reservoir
at a certain elevation. Unquestionably it
is from subterranean lakes beneath the
mountains many hundreds of miles to the
Dorthwest. This is doubtless part of the
supply for the fresh water which is found
in a certain part of the gulf on the route to
Havana.
In the case of Jake Sharp, the New York
bocdler, the humorous feature Is that three
of the men whom ho is charged with hav-
ing bribed are already serving sentences in
Sing Sing, yet in his case the question
whether he bribed them is still to be set-
tled. The ends of justice will be better
served when he joins those of the gang who
have gone before.
The News is indebted to Messrs. Sam-
uel H. Dixon, journal clerk, and T. L.
Black, enrolling clerk, two of the most effi-
cient officers of the House of Representa-
tives, for valuable courtesies in the nature
of public documents.
A report has been set afloat that Mr.
Carlisle will not stand for re-election to the
speakership. The next in order will be a
statement that John Sherman intends to
cease liviDg at the expense of the govern-
ment. When there is no news the corre-
spondents have to make it.
Congressman Heard of Missouri is
seriously if not dangerously ill in Wash-
ington.
The Macon Telegraph remarks that there
would have been no President Cleveland
t ut for Samuel J. Randall. The republi-
cans also set up a claim for Brother Bur-
chard as being entitled to some credit for
the redemption of the country, but this does
not prove that Burchard is a democrat any
more than what Randall did proves him
one.
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Papers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
The Luling Signal says:
The small grain crops in this section
seem to be dying for want of rain. ... It is
a little remarkable that with the long con-
tinued drouth there has been no failing of
the wells in the city, but on the contrary
an abundance of wate,r is furnished.
Brother Williams of the Omaha Breeze
does not blow his own horn. He says:
The readers of the Breeze will bear in
mind that there never has appeared in its
columns anything from the pen of its editor
that sounded as though he aspired to a
higher degree of notoriety, politically, re-
ligiously or financially, and they will profit
by reflecting over the way we have acted in
the paGt, for, as near as possible, we pro-
pose to follow the way we have marked out.
The Breeze says:
The Galveston News clips an Item from
—we suppose—an Omaha (Neb.) paper, con
cerning the enormons amount of orima
being committed there, which of course has
reference to some other than our quiet little
burg.
The frequent occurrence of the same
names leads to many mistakes in regard to
both people and towns, The names of illus-
tiious Americans recur every clay in the
reports of parties tried in the courts. In
Mexico the names of Jesus and all the
Eaints are borne by the worst malefactors.
There are a few towns in the United States
called Galveston besides the city by the sea,
but Ibey reflect no discredit on the name.
The El Paso Times says:
W. E. Willmore, well known in this city
as the leading spirit in the Willmore Town-
site company, and who has been weakening
in body and mind recently, has disap-
peared. It is feared that he has met with
foul play or is wandoring in the mountains
demented.
The Waco Day says:
The old soldier, referred to by the poet,
who "shouldered his crutch' and showed
how fields were won," was a very pictur-
esque individual, because he simply re-
lieved the tedium of a dull country life by
recounting his deeds to a few people who
had nothing else to do except listen to him.
This was in tho primitive days before the
old soldier learned that he could enlarge
his audience and make himself a bigger
nuisance by airing his perils "in the im-
minent and deadly breach" through the
newspapers and magazines. It is now a
quarter of a century since the sun set on
Appomattox, but the clash of arms still
echoes in columns of type instead of the
ranks of war. The latest outbreak comes
from Jefferson Davis, who fight3 the battle
of Shiloh over again with General Beaure-
gard. But what it all amounts to is known
only to Mr. Davis and a few other paople
wbo have not discovered that life 13 too
short for such controversies.
People doomed to read them sometimes
feel as if life was too long. The magazines
and newspapers are full of them.
The Temple Times rejoices at the connec
tion of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Pa
railroad with the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe, and says:
Thus it is, the once plucky little Santa Fa
of Texas, for which we and almost the entire
people of the state of Texas had a kindred
teeling almost akin to a brother, has passed
into the hands of and become a part of one
of the greatest and most extensive railroad
corporations in the world. We feel like the
Etate of Texas has lost one of Its most im-
portant public benefactors and enterprises,
and a native plant, and that in its stead has
been transplanted from a foreign clime the
great giant oak, with itg strong branches
reaching out in every direction, lending aid
to and developing the country through
which it passes. While we learned to love
the dear little Santa Fe, and always regard-
ed it as our friend, and in fact the friend of
the people of Texas, we see no reason to re
gret the move recently made.
The Fort Worth Gazette weakens and
owns that it is fallible:
A newspaper being edited by mortals is
not infallible, and the Gazette admits its
fallibility.
Such admissions are calculated to weaken
the influence of the press. Newspapers
like kings, can do nothing wrong.
The Coleman Voice says " the Voice this
week is devoted to castor oil and prohibi-
tion " Things are working, but somewhat
mixed.
The Bellville Standard says:
The Galveston News entered its forty-
sixth year last Wednesday. Dike good
brandy, the older it gets the better it be
comes.
The Standard tells a tale that discounts
the little hatchet story:
The Standard bas always believed that
Hon. James H. Shelburne had a very pious
regard for the truth, and on last Monday
he fully confirmed that belief by saying
that he had just returned from a fishing
excursion to Mill creek without catch-
ing any fish. There could be no better
proof of a man's strict adherence to the
truth, under any and all circumstances,
than this.
The Crockett Economist says:
Economy is a matter of supply and de
ruand. If you have more of anything than
you need, no matter if it even be money,
trade it off for something that will be of
usetoyou. Well, we will not mention the
dozen or two things commonly indulged in
by poor people the price of which, if judi-
ciously applied, would bring them much
more profit and pleasure.
The Economist also says:
A lot of burglar's tools were found con-
cealed under the depot in Lovelady soma
time ago, with the name of one Audersou
written on something within the box. The
discovery was published two or three morn-
ings ago in The Galveston News, and al-
ready letters of inquiry have begun to cms
in to the constable from officers at Bren-
ham and other points who are wanting
such a man.
The News is a terror to evil doers and
catches thieves who dodge the telegraph.
The editor of the Houston Age will'ba in
fnnds when he collects $25,0(10 from the
editor of the Palestine Advocate for print-
ing the following insinuation: The Anti-
Prohibitionist having said " Uncle Dan'l
never drinks anything stronger than coffee
or chocolate,"the Advocate says:
Though he won't drink himself he de-
lights in seeing others drunk. We do re-
member the last time we were in Houston
he tried for two hours to get Colonel Brews-
ter, Jack Martin and ourself drunk—but
failed, of course. Did he drink any him-
self at the time? O, no! But he got very
tired of his job, and we kindly put him in a
one-horse vehicle and sent him to the Age
cffice to cool off. The 15 cents we paid the
drayman (driver, we mean) has not been
repaid us at this writing.
The Overton Sharp-shooter continues the
publication of "Fifteen Years in Hell," by
Luther Benson, who claims to have come
out after fifteen years spent in the service
of king alcohol and his satanic majesty.
About every other word is a capital I. Mr.
Benson is an egotistical donkey, and thinks
no one else has been there.
BLIND.
I am blind, I am blind ; and when to my mind
Came the knowledge, like fetters my spirit to
bind,
How daik my despair, as I fancied the worth
Of my life had gone out with the beauty of
earth.
How chill was the gloom that encircled my
soul!
And how deep the dejection that over me
stole—
An alien forever from liope and delight
And a wand'rer for aye in the shadows of
night.
No more for my vision the brightness and
blrom,
No glimmer could pierce through tho terrible
gloom-
No gleam from a star, no glow from the moon,
Nor ray from tlie brilliant effulgence of noon.
I.ost, lost to my gaze are the tints of tlie dawn
Her raiment of beauty the eartn may put on
But though every blossom should glow iifco a
star
I never will heed them nor know where they
are;
And the sea, the deep rolling, the boundless,
the free,
Ihe joyous, the mournful, mysterious sea,
Tho'lost to my vision the waves In tiielr roll
Jliid accord with echoes that surge in my soul.
But some one has said that the brightness of
life,
The joy' and'the pleasure In youth that are
Come not from the world with It's burden
of woe,
But are fresh from the heart ere It ceases to
glow,
And l think in the Innermost depths of the
soul
Are regions which time in it's happier roll
Can never disclose, and the lore they conceal
The torch of affection alone can reveal.
And though the fond hopes through the years
that are fled
Which glowed In my bosom lie withered and
dead,
Which whispered of scenes to my fancy so
dear
That the goal In my dreaming for many a
year
Was to drink inspiration from tower and
dome,
'Midst the wonders of Venice and splendor of
Rome,
And tho thousand delights that fond nature
has spread
Wherever the feet of humanity tread.
But regret is now gone, and instead there has
sprung
The glory that glows In tho hearts ol tho
young,
Which comes from within, and my soul in its
ken
Sees fairer domains than the dwellings of
men.
And my spirit has strength with allltctlon to
cope,
For again in the fairy dominions of hope
It muses on scene; where the pain and dis-
tress
Of the children of earth have a happy redress;
Where beauty unfading is born of'true worth
Unsullied and iree from the taint of tlie earth;
Untroubled by sorrows It can not allay,
Jt is free from the follies that cling to the clay.
And now, though yet groping, thero comes to
my mind
A pathway of peace I shall joyfully find,
When earth and Its fetters have fallen from
me
Like the chains of a captive who longs to be
free.
And I de nbt not my eyes will then guide me
ailglit
From the depths of the gloom to the haven
Of lifelir.
M. C. Mum.
—
Durikg the month of March over 500 Ger-
man and Italian emigrants settled in the
vicinity of New Castle, Pa.
=* JL
CARDINALGIBBONS'S RETURN
TO BALTIMORE EXPECTED VERY SOON
On Account of His III Health and Tumult
and Unrest Among Catholic Work-
ipgmen of this Country.
New York, April 30.—A Biltimore
special to the Sun says: Private advicas
from Paris have been received in this city
to the effect that Cardinal Gibbons, who-
was not expected to sail for America until
the latter part of August, will suddenly re-
turn at once. Any steamer which "sails
from Havre within the next few days may
contain him among its passengers. Os-
tensibly the motive for this sutlden r6tnm
is illness, for the cardinal has been in ba*
health for a number of years and has suf-
fered considerably during his present trip.
In reality there are other reasons beneath
the surface. The tumult and unrest among
the Catholics of the United States, who
are chiefly workingmen, are likely to in-
crease during the summer when thousands
are thrown out of employment and deliv-
ered over to the teachings of leaders who-
tell them all their woes are owing to a per-
verted organization of society innately
corrupt, and who call upon their followers
to destroy. Cardinal Gibbons has put his-
position regarding the Knights o£ Labor
upon record, and the facts he presented to-
the holy see were of sufficient import to
make a suspension of Cardinal Tasche-
reau's condemnation necessary. Bat those
who are inclined to view the matter as set-
tled in favor of the knights, and some ot
tte papers say the church has "sanc-
tioned" the organization are shooting be-
yond the mark. The word "sanction"
would signify from its derivation a sort oil
solemn religious blessing bestowed upon
the order; but the action of the holy office
bas been simply to withdraw its decision
concerning the order,which has been based
upon Cardinal Taschereau's report of the
facts, because Cardinal Gibbons' report
presented other facts in serious conflict
with the first. This court is constituted
like all other courts of law where such
archbishop will submit the data he has
gathered and the views they have led him
to form, and a concordance of opinion will,
if possible, be reached. If they fail in this,
then two reports will probably be made, a
majority and a minority report, and both
be transmitted to Home. A careful consid-
eration of the matter may lead the holy
office to continue the suspension and re-
set ve its final decision for a future devel-
opment of facts. Of course throughout the
u I most amicability will mark the discussion
of the archbishops, even though their views
widely diverge. It is idlo to forecast what
the upshot of the matter will ba. I be-
lieve most of the archbishops are on the
liberal side of the question, and will recom-
mend theholy;office to allow the Knights
oX Labor free play. Even if there are some
trivial flaws in the organization it is not the
part ot the church to examine tham too
closely. If Catholics are prohibited from
joining organizations whose principles are
not perfect very few political parties would
receive their votes. Cardinal Gibbons
struck the keynote when he said that dan-
gerous theories in this country had best be-
left to that good sense and natural justness
of the American public which he so much,
admires. _ h, p. m.
CATTLE IN CHICAGO
Are Quarantined on Account of the Preva-
lence of Pleuro-Pnemnonia, which Has
Become Epidemic—Its Origin.
Chicago, 111., April 80.—A local paper
says this morning: Pleuro pneumonia^
according to the statistics of the state live
stock commission, is more prevalent in
Chicago and vicinity than ever before. It
has been found necessary to quarantin&
the district between the lake and Das-
plaines river, lying north of Twenty-second
street, including the towns of Lakeview
and Jefferson. Since the first dis-
covery of the disease last fall it has
been spreading slowly despite the pre-
ventive measures. It has become epi-
demic and apparently can only be eradi-
cated by sacrificing all cattle that have-
been exposed to it. Yesterday a count
of veterinarians engaged showed that
82C0 cows were quarantined, and that
upward of 200 had been slaughtered. The
number in quarantine two weeks ago was
10,280, the decrease being due entirely to the
slaughtering method in vogue. All ani-
mals inspected now are marked with a tag
in order to prevent tneir removal without
permission. Chairman Pearson says the
present outbreak of the disease is traceable-
to the outbreak in the distillery sheds last
fall. He also believed that it was brought
to Chicago originally from Geneva, where
it made its appearance three or four years
ago, and came to Illinois from Maryland
and New York through indiscriminate al-
leged blooded stock.
YICTOBIA.
A Pleasant Church Entertainment—The Drouth.
Continues-Movement ol Cattle-
Minor Matters.
Victoria, Tex., April 30.— The Milk-
maids' supper, given in the yard of the
Presbyterian church, last night, was one of
the most delightful events that over hap-
pened in this city. The arrangement of the
affair was novel and most unique in design^
everything being on the rustic order. A
large platform was erected near the rear o£
the church, on which twenty-five young
ladies, dressed as milkmaids, wearing
white caps and carrying in their hands
fancily painted milk pails, marched in reg-
ular file, and forming in good order,
sang the (milkmaids' chorus, whica
was repeated twice by request. The pro-
gramme was made more pleasing by a reci-
tation by Miss Jessie Thurmond, followed
by a song, the Cow is in the Corn, splendid-
ly rendered by Miss Minnie McClanahan,
who was encored time and again. The
tables were placed in various portions ot!
the yard, and waited on exclusively by the
ladies. Some $150 was received from the
supper, which will go toward replacing the
tower on the Presbyterian church, blown
off during the storm last August.
Still no rain, and if the people hava been
serious heretofore they are treoly more
so now.
Fifteen mares belonging to Sam Da Lam
were seized this week by Judge O. !.. Threl-
keld, United States customs collector for
the District of Haluria, and Mr. D > L9on
bound over to await the action of the fed-
eral grand jury. The mares were brought
from Mexico.
Mr. D. R. Fant of Goliad has made a con-
tract with the government to furni-sh thjs
Indians in the territory with 7,000,0ty>
pounds of be6f. The beeves will be take?/
from Mr. Fant'a ranch in Goliad county. J
About forty carloads of stock W^/,'
shipped from this point this week. /
Dusiness dull and everybody waiting Cor
rain.
Commissioner Colman Denies.
CnicAGO, 111, April 30.—A recent inter-
view with Commissioner Colman on the
subject of oleomargarine, in which that
gentleman was quoted as saying that in-
vestigations by the department showed that
carcasses of dogs and other animals were
used in the manufacture, caused consider-
able excitement among manufacturers here.
One large concern telegraphed the commis-
sioner yesterday on the subject and re-
ceived the following reply, dated lfc'ashing-
tcn: ' Ihave never said toanyone^hat oleo-
margarine is made of carcasses dl dogs,
horses, swine and dangerous acid. '
"Norman J. Colman,
"Commissioner of Agriculture."
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