Show OUR CHICAGO major mckinley himself the famous tariff reformer is sojourning sojo tu in chicago at present he is ia on his way to michigan to make speeches in the interest of his party he says that chat his prospects or of reelection election re in his hie own ohio district are gloomy the district has been 69 gerry manderud man nan dered since last election making it now one with a democratic ni majority arity of 2600 the he major speaks in glowing terms of his bis bill he says wool has already gone up and an n increased demand for labor is perceptible the new tin industries will employ men directly in manufacture re wilile while thousands more will be employed in mining smelting smelling sm elting and transporting it he says that if merchants are making up goods they are doing so on those on which they have paid no increased tariff he hopes they will work down gobas gloos on the free list he says positively ively that the reductions in auty duty far exceed the advances in duty he says further that his bill gives us freer trade than any tariffs in the whole history of our land until 1824 every article imported was dutiable in 1824 only 6 per cent of our imported p arted goods were free in 1833 only 1 15 per cent irk in 1842 only 27 per cent in 1846 only 12 percent per cent in 1857 only 18 per cent from 1873 to 1883 only 30 per cent of imported goods were free in 1888 only 39 per cent and this bill of 1890 makes 50 per cent free while the mills bill only made 47 per cent of all imported goods free it appears from the vienna neue airelle prease of september 16 that the mckinley bill has not received much favor in austria it says that persons are already aisem aloyed because of the bill which prohibits by its high tariff ta on pearl buttons their importation into this country there are machines employed in the pearl button manufacture in austro austere hungary and already the greater part have ceased running half of the buttons produced in vienna were sold in this country heretofore there is no other market for them consequently austrians Aust rians in gienni t alone will be thrown idle the chicago tribune says the austrians Aust rians need not be alarmed the button factories cannot be established here for some tithe yet that the Vi viennese eunese can work on the american consumer will pay the increased price it says when we are rem ready ly we will bring over the button makers and then they will bless mckinley the tribune abys austria is not remarkable for commercial friendly new nees to the united states for every seven dollars dollar worth alworth of goods sent us it h has as taken only one dollars worth of our products the other six being paid in pure shining gold if austria will not dot take american goods in exchange for all it sends send here it may stop sending anything and the sooner the better the evening journal of this city has an editorial deplot depicting ing in roseate colors the benefic tent effects of the mckinley bill since it became law business has revived there is activity in commerce and manufacture an aa easy money market and advanced prices for farm produce in ila mercantile tile centres bentres brisk sales and prompt collections are the rule in manufacturing districts thrift and prosperity are apparent while there are no strikes and no men unemployed trade failures are few and insignificant new industries employing millions of capital and giving work to thousands are being established if there are higher prices for necessaries it is owing to other causes than the tariff further agitation on the tariff will only cause mischief lot let business and industry adjust themselves to the new system stability and prosperity gro prosperity must attend trade and industry in every direction the calamity the scare stump orator and un discontent waller are all lanced ced their croak inge are vain in the face of prosperity good times and abundance or of employment the education question has at last blossomed into a full blown political issue in illinois the german lutherans Luth erans are in the gap they are forcing the fighting the roman catholics are not saying much but I 1 am of the opinion that they are sawing wood cation and religious business was a matter of much legislation and of state documents in utah it will hardly be out of place in 8 to watch the contest here the lutherans Luth erans ans submit a pledge to candidates for the legislature here it is 1 I the undersigned undersigner under signed it elected to the thirty seventh legislature of the state of illinois do hereby pledge myself to make all lawful efforts toward repealing or so BO revising the compulsory school law approved may 24 IM and now in effect as that said law will not net interfere directly or indirectly with parental authority over the child in in determining the means and extent of its education will not prescribe a certain school or class of sob schools op ag where it shall be educated will not restrict religious liberty io any form nor leave parochial or private schools 8 subject to state supervision or control if the candidate signs bigos this he has the support of the lutherans Luth erans and catholics up to date 17 democrats and 3 republicans have signed it A number of others have pledged themselves to modify the law there seems to be nothing very unreason alei n the above pledge There is nothing said against the public school I 1 there is no demand made for school funds nor is there any protest against paying school taxes there is nothing exorbitant in a parent claiming control of the education and religion of his child inthe if the state prescribes the school it ean can also name the religion one isto is to adopt and why not name the secret society the trade the profession profession or political party the child chil is to follow rhia is socialism of the most orthodox kind the law which causes all this ex cit ement is a very simple one and reads honestly however lutherans Luth erans see that chat in the bands of unscrupulous politicians it could be made a positive tyranny they have studied closely the mormon question and noted the capital made out of a mythical polygamy during the last two years even now when polygamy is a thing if j the past in this country the lutherans Luth erans see the very papers which abuse them still abusing mormons cormons Mor mons and abill contending that polygamy is not abandoned As matters stand now both luther ans and school advocates are wrong A 8 draper superintendent of public instruction of new york lectured to the illinois state schoolmasters schoolmaster club at peoria a day or two ago his subject was the authority of the state in the education of her children 22 he traced the progress of education from the days when it was a matter of individual concern to our day of general public schools and compulsory attendance he says that an education is the rightful of every american and that the child must come and take it i t that the school must be convenient that it must provide an education for all children that it must teach the duties of social relationship tion ship and of american citizenship that it must train the mind to act for or it self that the education must be Conati conducted eted in the common language of the country to justify the existence of public alic r schools at public expense we he pays of lot course it if any parent prefers to educate his child at home or in a private school no one can object if this is not a mere pretext and a whim and it the education so provided to is at least equivalent to what the public requires but the public has the right to know that it is equivalent and to exact the information which will justify a public acceptance of its work there is no other way ot of insuring general results 11 what does he mean by a pretext or whim Is it a whim to be a lutheran or a mormon he is right in the main there is not much unreason in an educational test for citizenship in our country but to preserve the greatness great nesa new of it the citizen chust be moral conscientious and temperate as well as educated if suh a citizen can be produced without religion then mr draper is right again he be says there is not a constitutional government in europe that has not by most string ent laws by a most elaborate course of procedure by innumerable public off officers leers and evere bevere penalties at great cost undertaken to exact attendance upon the schools and their efforts are attended with marked and uniform success my friend dr levi seelem whom your lake forest university has sequestered away from us told me not long ago that wl en recently in the city of berlin a prominent german officer assured him that in that great city of a million and a quarter people there were not live five children absent from the public schools who ought to be there in england and france as well as germany children from 6 or er 6 to 13 1 or 14 years old in the cities and the rural districts alike are compelled to attend school during very every day the public schools are in session here we have england france and germany pictured as model universities on a national scale it is to be supposed everything over there is going on smoothly germany a political paradise prance france sin aa educational vineyard where boulanger and the count of paris are primers and england a breeding ground for princes and princesses and lordly husbands for american girls again mr draper says we have legislated upon this subject it is true but we have legislated in a dilettante milk and water fashion which has been practically barren of results there is a almost an entire failure to appreciate the importance of the subject or how to meet it legislators tear that they may offend some one who has a vote america to Is not to be the refuge and the s ahping eam pin groan of socialists and communists and anarchists it may be well to hang bomb throwers th rowers and murderers but it is better to prevent boys from growing up into thugs and outcasts how mr draper has escaped the fool killer is a mystery where do the communists socialists anarchists and from Is it not from this educational paradise of his bis but certainly not from the lutherans Luth erans here is a man who comes all the way from new york who is a superintendent of public instruction in the empire state and abo is presumably an american here is this man going to europe for models for his country we are politically independent of europe we are trying to be industrially so 1 and why not be educationally and religiously we want nothing from the effete monarchies of europe but their young honest working men and women our mission is to give light to europe and to the world politically political lr and spiritually besides mr draper is wrong stout the english system there the school funds are distributed to sectarian schools on a results plan that is if a sectarian school turns out a pupil who comes up to a standard set by the public board a certain sum is paid to the private school for this pupil it is plain mr draper knows nothing of the german system either we want schools and we must have them but we must have american liberty and individualism with them education has something to do with society and sociology read this item which is only one of hundreds appearing from day to day Shel shelbyville byville ind oct 4 about 8 george cusick a section hand on the J if I 1 railroad shot easton daniels a day ia laborer lai the ball entered the abdomen and was out cut out by the surgeon near the spinal column jealousy was the cause mollie cusick the woman in dispute die dit is about 28 years old and is now living with her ninth husband all of whom are living jiving she has shot two men herself and been the cause of six tragedies one of her husbands shot a man six years ago and was afterwards stabbed by the same man but neither died later a jilted ins men n 1 split plit her head open with a hatchet cusick 21 is under arrest and the wounded man has been taken to a private house here is another from fexas where Kil kilgoree gores hoot boot is now on 00 exhibition mrs smart who lives in grayson county F texas is living with her ninth husband your pour of her husbands were killed in the confederate army onedas one wan sent to the penitentiary two died natural deaths and one was cut to te pieces in a sawmill mrs smart is 61 51 years old and is the mother of eleven children next comes the evening journal of this city with a practical plan i a n of settling all our social irre irregularities gurl r aties here is what it says editorially A SOCIAL REFORM the escapades escapade of a young married so soldier w who ho was found to be engaged enga garl in a des flirtation wita three ladys maids at once in a provincial english town has prompted a zealous lady to urge that all private soldiers who have have left wives be private hind ind them ue be impelled compelled to decorate the sleeves of their uniforms with a cons piou oua lettera let terM 1 the suggestion is ingenious but its scope is too narrow redcoat red coat johnny is no doubt apt to be a gay and roe roc less follow fellow but even his hid superior officer has been known to pass the bounds of propriety propriety T the is archives ot of our oar divorce court in moreover show the urgent necessity 0 the extension f the ea english IV I 1 oh ladys ladola system to all danils of life how ow many blighted homes won d still be happy if the telltale 11 vi A had betrayed the true ch tr ir acter of the designing carpet knight if as an additional safeguard every traveling flirt who has been guilty of toying with the tender affections or of rustic beauty were branded with an IF F and every impecunious society man were compelled to display on his bis chirt front the actual amount of his bis yearly income the kingdom of heaven would not be far away jumus CHICAGO oct 1890 |