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Show MICAGO LETTER. McKlaley on His Way to Michigan. The Austrian? IVeed Jfot be AlaracJ. About the Education d Oar Chlldrca. lCorrapoalcr.ee cftto Drstxtr Xcws. Major McKinley himself, the famous tariff reformer, Is sojourning InCblcagatpreseut. He Ls on Ms way to Michigan to make speeches in the Interest of bis party. He says that his prospects of re-election In his own Ohio dUtrlct aregljomy. The district lias been "srerrv- manderei" since last election, nuking nuk-ing It now cso .Villi a democratic majority of 2500. Tbe Major cpeaks in glowing terms of his bill. He ssys wool has already gone up, and an increased demand for labor is perceptible. The new tin industries will employ 15,000 men directly in manufacture, while thousands more will bs cm-ployed cm-ployed in mining, saieltinjr and transporting it," Ho i thai if merchants are making up goods they aro doing so on those on which they have paid no increased tariff. He hopes tbey will work down gooes on thu free list. Ho saya positively that "the reductions in duty far exceed the advances In duty." Hesaysfurther that bis bill gives us freer trade than auy tarifls iu the whole history his-tory of our land. Until IStM every artiUo Imported was dutiable. In 132t only 0 per cent of our Imported Im-ported goods were free, iu 1S33 only 15 per cent, in IS 12 only 27 per cent, In 1S48 only 12 per ccat,In ISoTonly IS percent. Front 1S7S to ISSSoiily 30 Iter cent of imported goods were free, in 1SSS onlySU per cent, and this bill of 159J makes 50 per cent free, while the Mills bill only made 47 per cent of all imported gooJs free. II appears from the Vienna AVue Frcic JYesK of Heptcmber 10 that the MelCln'ey bill has not received much favor in Austria. It says that 10,000 persons are alreaiy dlsem ployed because of the It'll, which prohibits by its high tariff on pear buttons their importation into this country. There are 30.03J machines employed in thu carl button manufacture manu-facture in Au-tro-IIungary, and already al-ready the greater part havo craed running. Half of the buttons produced pro-duced in Vienna were sold In this country hsfelofure. There is no other market for them, consequently 15,0)9 Austrians in Vienna alone will be thrown idle. The Chicago TrAimc says the Austriaus need not be alarmed. Tub button factories, eiiruot be established es-tablished here for some time yet; that tho Viennese can work on, thu American consumer will jay thu lucn?d price. It says when we are reaJy tf e will bring over the button makers and then they will bless MoKiuley. The Tn'iam says Austria Is not remarkable for commercial friendliness friendli-ness to tho United States. For t very seven Jollars'tvortb of goodn sent us, It has taken etiiy one dollar's worth of our products, the other six being li(l in pure, shining gold. "If Austria will not take American goods Iu exchange fir all it ponds here it may stop sending anything and the sooner the lietter." The Jb'nbij Jbumao this city has an editorial depicting In ruecatu colors the beneficieiit effects of the McKInley bill. Since it became law business has revived, there is activity In commerce an J manufacture, manufac-ture, an cay money market and advanced prices for farm produce. In mercantile centres brisk sale3 and prompt collections arc 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. Xew Injustries employing millions mil-lions of canital and giving work to thousands are b:Ing established. If there are higher prices for necessaries necessar-ies it Is o Ins to other causes than the tariff. further agitation on the tariff will only cause mischief. Let business busi-ness and industry adjust them-elves to the new system. Stability and prosperity mu-t attend trade and industry in-dustry in every direction. The "calamity" shrieker, the "scare" stump orator, and the "discontent" "dis-content" wailcr are all silenced. Their croaklBga are vain in the face of prosperity, good times and abundance abund-ance of employment. The education question has at last blossomed Into a full-blown political po-litical Issue In Illinois. The German Ger-man Lutherans are In thu gap. They are forcing the fighting. The Ilomin Catholics aro not saying much, but I am of the opinion that they are sawing wood. As this education edu-cation and religious business was a matteV of much legislation and of State documents in Utah, it will hardly be out of place in Utonians to watch tho contest here. The Lutherans submit a pledge to candidates can-didates for the legislature. Here It Is: I. tbe n-tderstj-ned. If e'ectcl to ta ThirtT-KTcnUi l-pslstare of IheSutn of IlltDot-. lo hereby pled w m-self to make all Uirfnl esorts toward repealin-; or to re TiMn7ttiecompiileof7ictioil lawapproTCd Mir CI. l3.and now in elect as that w! Uw will net iaicrfcre dtrecur or indirectly with parea-J znuiorir-- oTcr the chUd In dolcYminmg tho men and extent of iu edcculon. wilt not prescribe a certain cchoAl or dan of achooU where It ihalt be educated. wUI not rctnct reli-loos llbenj In any form, nor leave parochial or private schools tsbject to Suu icpcrrlj.on or eonuoL" if the candidate signs this he lias tiie supiert of tbe Lutherans and Catholics. Up to date 17 democrats and 3 republicans have signed it. A number of others havo pledged themselves to modify the law. There seems to be nothing very unreason-ablelntheabovepledge.There unreason-ablelntheabovepledge.There is nothing noth-ing sild against the public school There Is no demand made fom-hool 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. If the State prescribes the school, it can also name tho religion one Is to adopt, and why not name tbe secret society, tho trade, the profession or political party the child is to follow. This is Socialism of tho most oitlio-dux oitlio-dux kind. The law which causes all this excitement ex-citement is a very simple one nnd reads honestly. However Lutherans see that In tho bands of unscrupulous unscrupu-lous politicians it could bo made a positive tyranny. Theyhavestudled cloely tiie Mormon question, and noted the capital mido out of a mythical polygamy during the last two years, liven now when po'JK-amy po'JK-amy is a tiling of tho past in this country, the Lutherans see the very papers which abuse them, still abusing Mormons, and still contending contend-ing thatpolygtmy is notabandoncd. As matters stand now both Lutherans Luther-ans and school advocates are wronf. A.S. Draptr, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Xcw York, lectured to the Illinois State Schoolmasters' School-masters' Club at Peoria a day or two ago. His subject was: "The Authority Autho-rity of tho Stato in the Education of her Children." 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 au education is the rightful enberitance of every American, Amer-ican, and that tho child must come and take it; that the school must re convenient; that It must provide an education for all children; that it must teach tbe duties of social relationship rela-tionship and of American citizenship; citizen-ship; that it must train the mind to act for it celf: that the education must bo conducted in'tbe common language or the country to justify tbe existence of public schools at public expense. He says: . "Of conne If snj- parent prefers to eda-eata eda-eata t-s duld athomooriaapriTate tcaool no one can object. If uiia If not a raere pretext pre-text and a whin, and It ths education so "proTidcd Is at lent eqciralest to what tlio roUic rc-purcs. Hut the public has the rlxbt to know-hit It is njntraient and to eiarl the ioforraauon wnirhwUI JuiWj a pnbtlenccciuncoot iuwork. There is no other wa7 of irucrtag zeneral rt-atu " What docs ho mean by a "jifo text" or "whim?" Is It a whim to be a Lutheran or a Mormon? He Is right In the main. There -6 not much unreason in an educational test for citizenship in our country. But to preserve the greatness of it, tho citlzan must be moral, conscientious conscien-tious and temperate as well as educated. edu-cated. If such a citizen cau be produced pro-duced without religion then Mr. Draper Is right. Again he toys: There Is nol i m.uintlon-t s '" ment in Kcroi-a that has not ty mot iiri-i-. ent laws. ty a raou -'V't?,1S0SS."r r-ro-edore. br Innumerable fiaWC or-cerf indterP---!uu.atfrtaf cm-, "'"' taaen to exact attendance JPfo Uj? -chools. And their efforts are attended with marted andnnilomiroee.-- .--i:,n??f JSiif,' 'eclev.wteom yonrl leioreat Unlsera ty t tcinSiereJ awa, f.oo . told n-e not lopsaxo that, wten recently in the at f h'm that in that sre at city vl ""'""f?.'' aiinarterrcopleihere were sot Bro enl Src"ab.entfron. the TtiSnSS onshtta be there, la Kalad and r?Jm .. in-Ill .iGennany children from S era to "or II Jcir. old ?ah - aJ?"l liit-iru alike are compelled to suena JcSoldannr e-cry T the paWic schools sre la atttioa. Hero w bavo EngUud, France and Germany pictured as model universities on a national scale, it is to bo (uppo-ed ever thing over there is going on smoothly. Germany Ger-many a political irtradisf, I-rancc an educational vineyard where Boungeraud the Count of Paris are prunere, nnd England a breed-lug breed-lug ground fur princes and prln cos-ea. and lordly husbands for American glris. Again Mr. Draper says: "We hire leirtitated upon this subject It is true, lint we hare tr-rtlated in a diet tante. milt and water raihlen. which bat, beei pracUcally barren or rcsatta. There l almost sa anUre failure to appreclaMJ he importance of the snbiect,or how an meet iu UecJ, tear that they may-offend may-offend some one who has a vote. America Is not ta be tbe ref ne and tho stsrcpinr groan 1 of socialists and commnmsts and anarehUtft. It may be well to han-: bomb-throwers bomb-throwers and murderers, but it Is better to preTCntbort from stowinc up utolhuxe and outcasts." How Mr. Draper baa escaped the foolMIIerls n mystery. Where do tho communists, socialists, anarch anar-ch tsts and bombthrotterscoiue from? Is It not from this educational paradise para-dise of bis? but certainly riot from the Lutherans. Hero Is n man who comes all tho way from JCew i ork. wbo is a superintendent of public instruction in the Empire State, nnd wb Is presumably au Amerlcau here Is this nlad going (o Kdrope for models for bis country. He. are politically independent of Europe; wo are trying to be industrially so: aud wh' not bo educationally and religiously? We want nothing from thu tllete monarchies of Eurofe, but thciryoung honest working men and women. Our mission is to give light to Europe, and to the world politically ami rplritually. Beside?, Mr. Draper is wrong alout the English system. There tbe school funds aro distributed to sectarian schools on a results plan. That is, If a sectarian school turns out a pupil who comes up to a standard stand-ard set by the public board, a certain cer-tain sum is paid to tho private school for this pupil. It is plain Mr. Draper knows nothing of the German system cither. We want schools anise must fiavo thcm,but no must have American liberty aud Individualism with them. Education lias something to do with society and sociology. Head this Item, which Is only one of hundreds hun-dreds appearing from day to day: "sselbyTiIle, 1st.. Oct. t. Tonijfat about S o'clock (erKe Cutlcc. a tecUon ban 1 oa uie J.. 11 - I. Railroad, shot Luton Dial cla. a day la'iorer. Tbe Mil entered the abdomen and was eatt by the snr-ireon snr-ireon near tbe rpinal column. Jealousy waa the casse. UoIHe Cuilrk. the woman in dispute, is about H years old asd ta now lirias with her ninth buaband, all of whom are living, bee has shot two men herself &3d been the caute of fix traffcdtr. One of her hesbaeds hnt a man six years aro and was afterwards subbed by the same man, but neuner died. l:er a jilted tasa i 0it her head open with a batchec Cnjick is under arrest and the wounded nun has been talen toa pnrate hoBSC.' Here is another from Texas, where Kilgore's boot is now on exhibition: "Mrs. Smart, who lives in Grayaon Ooaa-ty.Tcxu.lt Ooaa-ty.Tcxu.lt liTing with her ninth butband. rooref her haf bands were bUlod la the Confederate arir, one was sent to tbe pecilesUarr? two died narl deaths, nnd ore was et to pieces tn a sawmill Mrs. smart is SI years OKI and is tbe mother of eleven children." Next comes the livening Journal, of this city, with a practical plan of settling all our social irregularities. Hera Is what It says editorially: a XIZDED SOCIAL KXrOKM. "The eseavadet of a young mamed tol dier wbo was found to be enzagad in a desiderate des-iderate Cmatlon wun three lady'a malde at unce m a protinelil Knftfua town has prompted a aealous lady to urra that ail private ao'diers wbo hare leu wires be hind then be (-impelled to decorsle the .cevesof ibetr nmformswiUiaconipicn ousietier'H.' The sniiwtlon ll isiccnl ocs. but its scope is too narrow. Red coat Johnny is no Uoab- apt to be a fxf and reoftie tchow. but even his superior olS ccr has been ajiowa to pass the bounds of propriety. Tbe archives of onr dirorce courts in Cbicafro. moreover, show the cravat kecet-snyol kecet-snyol theexicnsion tf the English lady's syttera to all ranis ot life. How many burbled homes won d still be happy if tbe telltale "II." had lfctrajel the trae character char-acter of the detizoiotrcarpet knirat. If anaddiuoaal sxtriraard etery Irarutac tin who has ceen sutlty of toytea: with Ihe tender affections of rustic beauty were branded wilb as "K." and every Impccnnt-ons Impccnnt-ons society man were compelled to display on his shut front the actual amount ot hi yearly income, ue kingdom of heaven would not be far away. ClIIOAOS, Oct. I4tb, 1S0J. Jl'.VlL'S. |