Show edl edi editorials TO R arbitration t AYS tile tiie aliean tilean llie an franeisco francises chronicle from all quarters there come indications of enthusiastic app approval royal of the new idea of establishing courts of arbitration which will decide deolde controversies between man endman i au without regard to tech rules of law jaw or evidence it is net probable that lawyers as aa a class elass will favor the new now movement movements ayi jyl the people and the press presa eve every ry to regard it hopefully naw nevi york has done well in rati iati agthe experiment and the rest dif jbf of the country will watch its opera tion tin wath interest it is one of the 3 many advantages which we amerl ameri cans e enjoy ay 0 ver over the nations of the old world V 0 rid that experiments of this sort can be tried trie d and tested by a single state while the remaining thirty six look on and see how the tiling works 11 in this respect the people and tha ho the press manifest much good 0 sense the lawyers of course are interested in the continuance of litigation for by it they earn their bread and butter yet eyen even some efthem of them would prefer to see many differences ad adjusted j by arbitration and und mutual agn agreement ement rather than by the present method of legal compulsion in england many trade and la bor differences between employers and employed are settled by arbitration tra tion as in the case of tile the recent strike of cotton operatives at bolton and the tendency is worthy of encouragement na tio ilo nally the alabama c claims were satisfactorily settled that wa way y a and now we hear bear reports of ef t the ba p proba r 0 ba I 1 of the Sch schleswig leswig holstein oistein business what there may be left of it being settled by the same method od of adjudication the public sentiment in this territory has ever been largely jn n favor of arbitration in preference to litigation hence the legislature especially in early times thou thought alit it best in passing laws to b have ave them few in number and fundamental in nature rather than multitudinous prolix and hair split spilt ting tingly ly technical we still think the legislature were to be com eom mended for this notwithstanding the fact that they have been mercilessly ci criticised criticized and abused for I 1 it ti j judicially uricial ay and otherwise if arbitration were more in favor now than it is it would be better for the general welfare the third district court could be greatly lightened in its labors if two thirds or three fourths of the several hundreds rf of cases on its heavy civil docket were to be referred to arbitrators tra tors instead of being left for litigation as soon as the court can get at them courts of arbitration in one respect would be preferable to ordinary nary nany nonofficial non official arbitration be calise ealise the former would have the tf i norce force orce oree of law and the latter has only rests upon the mutual non binding agreement of the parties interested lamentable STATE OF 4 THINGS IN a speech at new york recently mr kernan made the following remarks a as s reported in the new york herald fellow citizens we meet tonight to take counsel in regard to political affairs under most extraordinary circumstances nearly ten vears jears have elapsed since the havoc and wasting effects and ex expenditures e adit of the war ceased we e have had bad bountiful harvests we have had developments of the resources of our mines and forests we have had llad all the elements of prosperity and yet we are nota prosperous nor a prospering people today to day aalthe all ali the industries of tb the e countr country vare yare e paralyzed the business busine as of yur your merchants antsis is stagnant your factories are stopped or running short time your mechanics shops are almost empty labor both skilled and unskilled seeks employment an nin vain we find here with evey thing from providence that should make us a prosperous people we ind at the end of a bountiful season beason in a beautiful autumn lage large bodies of men in this city suffering because honest labor can earn no wages for them themselves selvO and families applause fellow citizens citizen it is for you to say bay who hag has caused this state or of things for you to nind find out what has caused all this evil and WIS it is your duty when you have dl discovered cover edi edl it t to apply the proper remedy I 1 believe that the admi administration D I 1 8 of our executive affairs for a few years past lias has largely larg ely elj contributed to the sad bad eind ond cind lamentable condition of oui countr country cheers the deranged depre depreciated ltd and unconvertible paper currency is to the body politic what the disordered blood is to the human body if the blood is disordered the whole body becomes diseased and in the commercial world when the circulating medium is depree depreciated kited you may be sure your business and industrious pursuits will feel the enervating and dc destroying effect today to day we have a currency which is depreciated which is not convertible verti bio bie into the currency of the commercial world this country has wealth enough the people have paid taxes enough 0 t make the credit of the country as great as that of any government on the face of the earth 1 I appeal to your intelligence to say whether we ever bad so much extravagance and corruption in the administration of our public affairs as exists under the grant administration for the last two years have tended to the derangement of our business to the destruction of our industry to the lamerl lamell lamentable table tabie state of things generally which exists over the country at this time THE COLONIST COLONISTS SAND AND THE MOTHER COUNTRY tim THE foll following 0 wing extracts from the first of a series of articles upon the first century of the republic in harpers monthly convey an idea in part df the tyrannical xi al 11 manner in which the mother coun country treated the adventurous colonists of north america and would almost serve for a description of the way in which this territory has been treated by representatives of the federal government the plis pils I 1 virg nixb have extracted are I 1 worth reading C yet more cruel or more ud urn friendly tha than n the terrors of bf the wilderness the climate or even the savage seemed to the coloni colonists ats the conduct of their toyal royal government in england instead ot of aiding the struggling settlers in their contest for life it had treated them as objects of suspicion and dislike A fear that they might plan at some future time a separation from the mother country governed all thee the english legislation the english had always treated the colonists with a severity like that which spain once practised practiced in south america and which she now exercises over the creoles creoler of cuba corrupt and worthless englishmen were sent out as governors councilors councillors counci lors judges and even clergymen they looked with disdain on the colonists they plundered and hastened back to E england to defame the reputation of the ab eject race it is plain that most englishmen looked upon the americans as serfs they had no rights that parliament could not abrogate and no security even for their own earnings england plundered the amer american can ean farmer almost atwIll at will and robbed of his just profits the sturdy laborer in the valleys of vermont and the wealthy rice planter in the swamps of south carolina their patriotism was no doubt stimulated by the dread of a religious rather tian blau th an a political tyranny A fear prevailed in all new england that parliament and the king 9 were resolved to imp impose ose bishops u upon each of the colonies and to enforce by law t the lie lle ritual of the church of england then mayhew of boston began a series serles of publications that sounded an alarm throughout the country he felt the danger lie he saw the unscrupulous nature of the thi e men who ruled in england the overbearing spirit of the episcopalians Episcopal ians he br brooded blooded boded over until he be almost felt once morg more the clerical tyranny from which the gentle robinson Bo binson had fled and which had bad impelled the mari Magi mayflower lower over the stormy sea wiil vili vill will they never let us rest in pea peace ae lie he I 1 clied cried except I 1 heru here lere ivre all t the 11 e weary aroa arev are at rest Is it not enough that they persecuted us out of the tile old world 5 J A PARTISAN THREATS tim other othor day our dispatches stated that measures were in contemplation to push stringent legislation through congress the ensuing session and to adopt other means to secure continuance of power to the present dominant patt pait yand and pre rep vent democratic legislation iu iti the next congress if possible i power is very sweet to tile tho ambitious bit ious and a hold on the public treasury la 19 still sweeter to many pe people 0 pie especially politicians and prominent officeholders office holders but hut it will not do in a republic like this dorany party to attempt to hold on to office in opposition to the voice of the majority it is not congenial to the genius of american government ern ment nor to the political instincts of the american people the late elections elect ions lons indicate plainly enough that the country is getting sick of radical republican rule and of the corruption and official arrogance and usurpation which appear to he be its characteristics popular rebuke should teach the party in power a little more wisdom for if the power to rule ruie is sweet so also are the uses of adversity if properly improved the hints above referred to thrown out as from the republican party and as indicative of the spirit in which it receives the action or of the people at the polls may be merely the rash impulsive expressions of the moment in chagrin on learning the tho election news and m may y n not ot be sustained by sober second seco 0 nd t thought hought and general anner afner consideration fon ion be the case all well but if it be not and all sorts of means should be adopted in congress and out to defeat the will of the people and retain in I 1 power the party now in power all hazards against the expressed wish of the people then the resulting issue will be serious one of the most serious in the history of the union such an extreme radical republican course would utterly kill tile the republican party in the popular estimation and the active members or of it would be corsi considered dered worse enemies of their heir country than ther thee extreme radical democrats or the fire eating southern siave slave hol hoi ders who inaugurated the late war the determined pushing of such a policy could hardly fall fail of embroiling the J coun I 1 t ry in another civil wair warn d dif dlf if such a conflict should come it would not be like tile the last lasi lasty it would be much worse and more general it would not be merely sectional as between the north and the south but it would be almost mo mob t if not quite universal throughout the states of the union republicans against democrats beig neighbor bor against neigh neighbor boy bov father against boni son SOH and brother again it brother and the end of such a ilfe lire nna ana and death struggle who couldwell could tell teli it is to be hoped however that even the most radical of the republican party will have halve more sense ahn to adopt and persevere in a course that could hardly have any other issue than such a ruinous conflict ENEMIES or OF ZION SOME particularly discouraging things are written of those who set themselves to fight against zion sueh budh as that they shall be like a hungry man dreaming of eating eting 0 but he awakes and finds finz find s his soul is 18 empty or a thirsty man dreaming of drinking but hut he awo awakes ikea and finds himself faint and longing for moisture mois mols tuie tulo and it is even stated that those who persist in their appos opposition shall be utterly wasted it does really seem as if there was something in all these predictions that is worthy of notice E events vents in these days seem to justify them we have often heard it stated that nobody who opposed the work of god and endeavored to oppress his people has made any great ca capital p ital itai by it eventually and some have found it a very short cut to adversity and public contempt in 1857 the federal government oriani organized zed splendidly equipped f and sent here tho the largest expedition that the nation had moved since the war with mexico what did that expedition effect did bid the Pre president Adent buchanan make any capital by it did any of the other principals alders IN not kot rot much formost of them went down in the subsequent civil war were the 11 mormons cormons Mor mons injured by the expedition tion it was one of the best things for them which ever visited these valleys as it supplied them with abundance of things material which they sorely ri needed eded in 1856 the republican party put in its platform a plank pledging itself to annihilate immorm mormon polygamy as one of the twin relics reiles of barbarism has that pledge been redeemed Is it likely to be redeemed Is tha republican party ina lna in a condition to lead one to suppose that the pledge ever verwill will be redeemed has not the party received such a staggering and deadly home thrust in the late elections that it has now plenty to do to look after its own health and life verily it is so in 1862 the congress of the united states passed a proscriptive prescriptive law against the latter day saints has that law specially injured any of them not to any great extent has the nation made anything by that law what has been the condition of the nation since and what is the condition of the nation now let us look into this matter a little and see whether the nation has prospered greatly since the law of 1862 was enacted the amount of the congressional appropriations 61 was seventy nine millions of dollars that for 1561 1661 62 was nearly seventy nive five millions of dollars from that time forth the public expenditures and with them he the taxation of the people have in creased wonderfully but arno no authority appeared to foresee the enormous demands that were vere soon to be made on the treasury and no provisions whatever were contemplated tem plated to meet them the appropriations for 1862 proved far from sufficient and the government ment was obliged e d to resort to loans one after another until the total was something stupendous abd and much of it effected at very high rates of interest so unused were the people to government loans of a i erious serious character that when P of treasury notes fayab payable le ina in a year were offered ed for foi public competition only was taken taked ta kenat at 12 per cent bids were put in at 24 to 36 per cent subsequently some bankers took a million and a half at 12 per cent with certain favoring stipulations afterward was taken at an average of 11 and a fraction per cent A loan of 25 millions of 10 at blk bik blk bik per cent was sold below par 4 sayat say at from 85 to pa 93 the avera average ge dis discount co u 1 t on seven millions of it being over fourteen and a half per cent these were the beginnings of the gigantic debt which soon hung over the finances of the union like a funeral pall pail and which at one time brought down the legal tender of the country to toi little more than one thirl thim the value of gold the annual expenditures of the federal government from thebe the beginning until 1861 1801 ranged from seven to eighty four millions and a half these last figures being for 1861 and the largest in the bistor history of the union to that time the tile pr pro ceding year having been sev sen seventy enty seven millions the total expenditures of the federal government from march 4 1789 to june 30 |