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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JSO. C. NEW Jfc SON. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. MONDAY, JULY 5. 1886. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be £ov.ml at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House and Ebbitfc Honse. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 The people of Chicago recognize no man as the equal of the people of that city outside the players of base-ball from the city of Detroit. These distinguished gentlemen are re garded as prodigies in the city on the lake. “A soldier’s daughter’’ gives the coarse brutality of President Cleveland a just airing in a public letter. She well says: “It is Always ill-bred to make a mock of pain. In this case it is also inhuman. ‘He jests at scars who never felt a wound.’” Credit must be given to the authorities of Gainesville, Tex., where ten men have been -arrested for participating in lynching a negro accused of an infamous crimo. The South is making greater progress in this direction than is the North. The effect for good will soon become apparent. Probably the Vincennes Sun would do well to interview Prof. Taylor as to the facts touching Grace Brewer’s graduation. The Journal's comments have been based upon official reports, and if there are any people in V incinnes who don’t like what the Journal said, the trouble is with the facts. Probably those highly “independent” newspapers which thought it would be popular to side with President Cleveland’s brutal and flippaut vetoes have changed their minds. The Journal opposed them from the first, and now nearly every reputable paper and man in the country are of one mind regarding them. •MBMaraaMisiamiau v Nfay York city has discovered an anomaly in the person of William Booth, who lia3 resigned the office of janitor of the court-house because he had learned that the man whom be succeeded was in destitute circumstances and needed the place for the support of his family. This kind of thing is not common enough to threaten to become epidemic. Mrs. Dr. Helen Cumming, of Boston, has been found guilty of manslaughter, and fined ♦SOO for causing the death of a patient by administering a dose of St. Ignatius bean, a deadlj- poison, instead of something else. She promptly paid the assessment, and was discharged. What are we Cumming to that a woman can do this thing and not be held to a stricter accountability ? The Boston Record thinks it is all very well loir Mr. Cleveland to tithe mint, anise, and cummin in vetoing petty pension bills, but suggests that there are- some weightier matters, such as bouncing Garland, stirring up Bayard, squelching Black, getting rid of Higgins and Thomas, and putting a stop to the wholesale defiance of Iho civil service law, that have a fair claim on his attention. The Rev. John Edwards is now engaged in translating the Bible into the Choctaw language. This is a noble work, but how much more sensible it would havo been to never hare had a formal Choctaw language, with characters of its own. It would have been just as easy to have taught the Choctaws the English language and letters as to have devised one to fit the jargon they had been accustomed to use. A people without a written language should be obliged to learn some other already established. There aro enough written languages in the world without adding others to the interminable list. Had the Choc 4 aws been taught the English language at the outset, there would be no necessity today of translating the Bible or. any other work into their tongue. As it is, every work has to be transcribed to adapt it to the uses of this people, so small in numbers and so de void of learning that it was like teaching children to induct them into the mysteries of a written language. Some things cau be done better than they have been. The number of gigantic defalcations developing daring the past few daj*s go to prove that the directors of certain large corporations lire not doing their sworn duty. Tho victims of these swindlers should hold responsible the men who ought to see to it that the business supposed to be under their direction is faithfully attended to. Heavy suits for damages through loss would probably arouse them to a better discharge of their very important duties. The swindle perpetrated by J. A. L. Wilson, of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company, could never havo been perpetrated but for the culpable negligence of the directors who evidently had so much confidence in their man that they did not deem it necessary to inspect his accounts. And now comes another, only loss in magnitude thau the swindle perpetrated by Wilson. R. J. Laue, of Rockford,

Mass., has decamped with a quarter of a million, and William 11. Broadnox, a New York printer, has succeeded in disposing of SIOO,OOO worth of fraudulent bonds, printed by himself, and successfully negotiated. His failure to meet the sc-mi-annual interest on the Ist of July revealed the fraud, and he has been placed underarrest. There was little chance for directors to discover his fraudulent scheme, but iu the other two instances there was no sufficient excuse for the neglect of the men who should have better supervised the accounts of the c#mpanies they were members of. THE SENATE AND THE PRESIDENT. The report of the Senate committee on the arrogant and flippant manner in which the President has vetoed so many pension bills sent to him for approval will strike the impartial mind as a deserved rebuke for the offense he has committed. That the President, on the ex parte evidence of an under-official, tacitly instructed to find exception to these claims, should so arrogantly and flippantly put his unqualified condensation upon them, is something that the Senate cannot be expected to submit to without complaint. It is a fact that the committees to whom these claims are submitted by the Senate and by the House, before they are acted upon by those bodies, have better means of understanding the merits of such claims thau the Commissioner of Pensions can have upon a cursory examination of the same by a clerk, and with the bias he cannot help feeling when he realizes the President’s wishes in the premises. The President’s instructions to “critically examine” such claims, and to report if there be “any objections” to their approval, means that some objection of some kind must be found upon which to base a veto. Os course, under such circumstances, it is impossible that they should escape condemnation by the gentleman who begins their hasty consideration with the determination to pronounce against them. In all this contemptible business the President has shown himself to be a narrow, bigoted and bullying man. His language reveals that he rejoices over the fact that some technical flaw enables him to apologize for pronouncing against them, and the brutality and sneering contempt for the claims of the loyal men who exposed their lives to save the country in its hour of supreme peril show that he has greater regard to “saving” a few dollars to the government, to be squandered in some other direction, than to do the Nation’s whole duty to its patriotic and heroic defenders. The Journal has .already pointed out the scandalous features of some of Mr. Cleveland's vetoes, on which he is doubtless hoping to build up a record for statesmanship. If there be anything else in them than the meanest exhibitions of spleen and of narrow conceptions of what his duty should be, we have failed to see it. The man cannot conceal his satisfaction at being able to do this thing, as though it was a source of pleasure to him that he can stand between these applicants and the pitiful compensation they pray for. At the very time this is being done the government is boing run at heavier expense than it was when that party was in power that believed in giving these men their dues. The public debt is not being discharged, and there is danger of a deficiency in current expenses. The public money goes freely in other directions, but when it is asked that the men who put down the Democratic Rebellion be paid for the same he steps in and says no. And this he does not in tbejvay a man would who is simply doing his duty, but as one who takes satisfaction in it, and rejoices that he is able to do it. He has not been content to say that he could uot approve this or that bill, but has gone out of the way to * sneer at the claims made and at the men making them. He has proved himself to be a man with contemptibly narrow views, and one of the Holman school, who would rather “save” a dollar at the expense of ten, or at the greater expense of the Nation’s honor, than to do anything that would really be honorable. We misjudge the American people if they do not pi*onounce against this way of doing business. The mistake made by the American people was in selecting a man with so little conception of the nature of the duties devolving upon the chief magistrate of this great and prosperous country. To play the part of a penurious cheese-parer, he lias usurped the functions of the legislative branch of the government, and has seen fit to accept the hasty and dishonest report of his server over the careful investigation conducted by Congress in the matter of investigating and passing on these claims. If it is to be accepted that this is a better way to do this business, and that the committees appointed for this purpose are incapable of performing their duties, we might as well set Congress adrift, and let this great man do all the business of governing the 60,000,000 people making up the American Republic. Up to this time it has been insisted upon that there were some things that the President could not attend to personally, and that these of necessity must be delegated to others. To this end was Congress designated. To put in repeated and peremptory vetoes upon no other ground thau flippant personal objections is simply to say that Congress is incapable of discharging the duties devolving upon it. The gentlemanly ex-sheriff from Buffalo has set himself up as greater than the combined wisdom of both branches of Congress, and aspires to become a kind of dictator to the American people. For the veterans of the late war he L.is nothing but sneers and words of contempt. For the legislative

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branch of the government even more contempt and disregard. He is preparing the way to be sat down on in a manner that will astound him. STILL HUNTING THE SHARK. The Louisville Courier-Journal, a paper the Journal takes great delight in instructing in the ways of the practical world, turning from the mutilated remains of the Morrison tariff bill, sets up the convenient Democratic bugaboo of centralization, and proceeds to wail like a howling dervish, and to rend its garments in a very’ distressing way over the dangers that beset the complacent people of this careless but tyrannical government of ours. It expi’esses a lively fear that, somehow the government at Washington, which is a creature of the people, and having an existence of but four years, will resolve itself into an autocracy, or oligai’chy, or some other kind of greenbacker boojura, that will proceed to eat up all the people, and have things all its own way. The Louisville paper very properly and patriotically objects to this kind of thing, and advises the people to consent to no such thing. In summing up the situation, which is direful to a degree that few would suspect, the C.-J. concludes that there is nothing left now but to “choose between a free government and a paternal government.” That means that we must choose between a government representing the United States as a unit and the theory of State sovereignty, which latter, as interpreted by the Charleston confrere of the Louisville paper, means that the right of secession was constitutional, and could not be held against the South, which tried so desperately to assert it. It is difficult to understand how tho Louisville organ is going to reconcile itself to the present order of things. The logical outcome of its reasoning is, that if a State does not like the goings-on of the central government it will be at liberty to withdraw to itself, and set up a little republic of its own, in which the law will not have to be respected by any one who may choose to deny its authority. t Unless we have forgotten just how it was, that was the issue fought over in the war cf the Rebellion. Tha States that believed their rights were superior to the authority of the general government attempted to withdraw from the Union and set up a kind of government that would closely fit their idea of what they thought a government should be. It would doubtless have been a flexible and liberal one, to accommodate it to the beliefs of the men who were careless enough to attempt the responsibility of setting up another popular institution without asking the consent of the tyrannical central government, of which the Louisville Courier-Journal and a very few other papers continue to complain as intolerable. The State sovereignty South was pretty thoroughly basted for this very thing not so very iong ago, yet it now professes to be unsatisfied with the result, and would like to convey the impression that the issue was not settled some years ago at considerable expense. Suppose, for instance, the central government, as these papers are pleased to speak cf the only national government the American people have, should prove hateful to these very patriotic gentlemen, and that they could control the action in their respective States. Would they presume to te*t the issue in war? In other words,, what are you going to do about it when the general govern ment does not exactly suit you. and fails to respect that fetich of State sovereignty that you see fit to perpetuate? Has the experiment of rebellion been settled, or is there to be another rebellion sometime? And if not rebellion, what is the use of talking about centralization? There will be no hateful centralization without the consent and connivance of the people, and if the people choose to have it that way, what is there to do but to consent to it, unless you want a fight of size on your hands? It is about tune this rot of centralization be thrown out. It is on a par with that other Democratic standby, “sumptuary laws,” which is trotted out on every occasion it is thought it will have effect on that class of people that are so fearful of displeasing the ghosts of those eminent mossback Democrats who would not think of being Democrats as now understood. There will be no hateful centralization of power without the people’s consent, hence it will not be hateful to the people. Further on in its article the C.-J. betrays the object of its anxiety, in that it fears that the central government will continue to stand up for American interests as opposed to those of other countries. That paper hates the American tariff with a bitterness that finds no parallel outside the South in its hatred of everything that the North thiuks is loyal and of good report;. It says so in so many words; and because the majority of the people have de cided iu favor of protecting American industries, the Courier-Journal raises the cry of centralization, aud pretends to be alarmedover the situation. There are a good many things in the economy of this great republic of ours that do not please the Louisville CourierJournal. Yet, so fur as can be seen, it keeps right on at the old stand, without any sign of dissolution. The awful cry of centralization does not seem to have disturbed anybody out side the State of Kentucky and a few others that have learned nothing since the war, and who know of no other statesmen than those dead for a generation or more. The government at Washington still lives. TllF. Democrat* of Brooklyn are mean enough tt> object to the way the Republicans of that city bavo seen fit to make their contributions to the Parnell campaign fund, which they did as Republicans exclusively.

The idea is a good one, for it has been the custom of Democrats to assert that they are the only friends of the Irish. Os a truth, it is more than probable that the Republicans of this country have contributed more to the support of the cause of Ireland than the Democrats ever did or ever will. They clubbed together and forwarded $5,000 on the occasion complained of by the Democrats. It is possible that the friends of Ireland on tho other side of the Atlantic do not care half so much whence comes the money to help them as they do for the fact that money is being subscribed and sent. They will not object to money contributed by Republicans exclusively. The New Y 7 ork Evening Post, chief of the mugwumps, devotes a column editorial to what Mr. Vilas, and the Democratic organs are pleased to call the postal clerks’ “conspiracy.” The Post quotes Mr. Vilas’s circular of March 31, and then shows how flagrantly he has violated its terms. The Post says: “Men who have rendered and were rendering ‘meritorious and faithful service’ have found that it did not protect them against arbitrary dismissal. Iu other words, the Postmaster general’s pledges have proved valueless, and because valueless, a discredit instead of an honor to him and to the administration.” The Post further says: “The state of disorganization and inefficiency they brought about in the railway service has, of course, done much to deprive the public of the benefit of the greater efficiency introduced into the large postoffices by the new rules. No matter how well the work of the New York postoffice is done, for instance, iu making up and dispatching the mails, it may be largely wasted or neutralized by the inefficiency of the sorters in the mail cars on the roads. We can testify as a matter o£*experience that this is true. Irregularities and delays in the transmission of the mails of the Evening Post have increased during the past year, and we have found almost invariably that they were due to diminished efficiency in the railway postal service.” And the article closes with the following words: “The postal clerks have organized a tradesunion, and are threatening a strike unless the Postmaster-general redresses certain specified grievances, the principal of which is the reEeated violations of the promise which we ave quoted above. We are as much opposed as any one can be to the formation of unions with striking powers, among any body of men engaged in a public service. No policeman, or railway official, or telegrapher, ought, we hold, to consider himself at liberty to join in any movement against bis employers which involves tho infliction of enormous loss aud inconvenience on the public. Anybody who tries or arranges to make his private quarrels a public calamity richly deserves the punishment of a public enemy or traitor. But we are bound to say that if a strike among public servants could ever be justifiable, it would be among the railway postal clerks. They have been badly treated, and in treating them badly Mr. Vilas has shown an indifference to the public interests which has sorely disappointed his best friends. We can hardly expect, and lie can hardly expect, the Postal Clerks' Union or ‘Brotherhood’ to consider the loss and inconvenience they will inflict on the public by striking, when he lia3 considered them so little as to let politicians get into the mailcars. It is high time for this wretched scandal to cease, and we trust that if Mr. Vilas does not feel equal to cope with it, the President will take it in hand, and make an end of it.” The Memphis Avalanche, after reproving the President for placing such a number of old and incompetent men in the diplomatic service, relents a little aud acknowledges that young men and old signed the petitions of these needy office-seekers because it was not in human nature to resist their appeals. “It was not,” says the Avalanche, “iu kindly human nature at home to resist the appeals of these old mossbacks to be fed with a spoon just once before they died. While they should have been measuring their own graves nearer home, it was their lookout, if they wanted to die abroad, to be brought home pickled in alcohol at government expense, rolling one long, sweet, alcoholic roll, seawise, homeward bound.” The Journal, in common with the public, which has been informed that President Cleveland is favorably considering the expediency of extending the age limitation in the civil-service rules to fifty-five, or, perhaps, sixty years, recognizes the fact that he is led to such action by the cry for “pap” from the aged member of his party who have gone hungry for so many years and cannot be content to die until they have had a taste of the fruit of tho promised land. The Journal, however, would not have ventured to make a remark in this connection like that quoted from the Avalanche, for fear of being accused of offensive partisanship. An outsider cannot use the same freedom of speech as a member of tbe family is safe in doing. It was on the field of Gettysburg that President Lincoln delivered his immortal oration. There is no better Fourth of July reading in all the annals of patriotic literature: “Four-score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether "that Nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that thai Nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living aud dead, who struggled here, havo consecrated it far above our power to add or detract The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought hero 1 have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us: that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that thesQ dead shall not have died in vain; that this Nation, under God, shall have anew

birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people acid for the people shall not perish from the earth." 'The adorable Miss McCann” has come to grief at a very unfortunate juncture in the city of Fall River, Mass., by being arrested the moment she stepped from the rostrum from which she was graduated from the high-school. She was charged with assault and battery by the suitor of her older sister. The parents of the girls objected to the attentions shown by this gentleman to the older of the girls. The younger, taking up the quarrel, made an assault upon him, for which he ungallantly caused her arrest. From the rostrum to the station-house is an experience not often enjoyed in this free land. The Louisville Courier-Journal, with a fiendishness that is inexplicable, publishes caricatures of the Mayor and councilmen of the city of New Albany. One of the latter, it seems, managed to escape the infliction, and the C.-J. explains that he was “too modest” to sit for a photograph. He had some idea of what it meant to have one’s alleged portrait published in a daily paper. The appearance of the Mayor and councilmen of New Albany, as represented by the Louisville paper, is by no means flattering to the people of that city. They are a hard-looking crew from beginning to end. The New York papers are moving to have icecream inspected, in view of the fact that there are so many cases of poisoning through its use. If ordinary ice-cream should be inspected, what should be done with that strange article of street commerce known as hokey-pokey icecream? Yale College, after an existence of a couple of centimes, is about to become a university. It is a poor school in the West that does not start out as a university. The Canadians have seized two more American fishing schooners. They would not lay hold of them with more avidity were they loaded with beer. The Chinese are becoming civilized. Two have committed suicide in the city of New York within the past few days. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Gen. Dan Sickles is being gossiped about as New York’s comine Mayor. Mr. B. P. Shillabkr (Mrs. Partington) still goes about on crutches, but his general health is. excellent Paul H. Hayne, the Southern poet, is reported to be seriously ill at his home, near Augusta, Ga. Mrs. George B. McClellan says, in ale tter to a friend, that her life in Europe will be retired and quiet. Mrs. Allen, of Liverpool, has presented Queen Victoria with a parasol of satin made by a poor Irishwoman. In 1509 Cardinal Wolsey first combined strawberries with cream, in an exalted moment of supreme inspiration. The female physicians in Philadelphia are becoming so numerous that they will shortly form a medical society of their own. It is said that Peyon, the French lion tamer, keeps fcis money in a box in the lion’s cage. This is safer than an average savings bank. General Buckner, of Kentucky, bas a farm of 1.500 acres in a quiet part of the State. He lives the life of an elegant gentleman. Senator Kenna, age thirty-eight, is the only Congressman in that house under forty years of age, and there are only fourteen others under fifty. Launt Thompson, the Sculptor, has nearly finished an equestrian statue of Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, which is to be set up in Providence. An advertisement in an English paper calls for a cook “no fringe, no bepr,” which being interpreted meanetb no banged hair allowed in tho kitchen. A woman states that she has, for many years, observed the men taken to the station-house by the police, aud not one in two hundred wears a tall hat • Representative Hitt’s prospects of recomi nation and re election from the Sixth Illinois district aro improving, and he is now said to be sure of success. “Clad in deep mourning, but lookiug wonderfully well, and almost cheerful,” is how the exEmpress Eugenie appeared when she visited the “Colinderies,” in London, the other day. Florida Times-Union: The bravest are not always the tenderest, as the poets sing: there is the red game rooster, for instance; he will fight a bird of double his weight, but he cuts up tough in a pot-pie. The repairs upon the church at Stratford-on-Avon, where the remains of Shakspeare repose, will have to be postponed indefinitely because subscriptions to the fund have baen so small in amount. The committee are thinking of appealing to the American public. Washington Post: A young society girl in this city says that if there is any one thing more necessary than another it is that all boys should be taught at schooj how to wield a lady’s fan to a lady's satisfaction. Not one male person in a hundred, she says, knows the first thing about fauning a lady as it ought to be done. Mr. Ruskin, as was recently related in this column, took occasion to advise churches not to run into debt “Starve and go to heaven,” he said, “but don’t borrow. Try first bogging.” Forthwith a Methodist Church in a neigboring village took him at his word and begged of him, and in reply he seat them a guinea and a gracious letter. They tell of a boy in England who, seeing a great tent in which a panorama of “Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress” was beine exhibited, went to the ticket-taker and asked if Mr. Banyan was in. Receiving a negative reply, be remarked that he was sorry, as Mr. Bunyan was his father, and ended with the query, “Os course you’ll pass me in free?" A Swiss correspondent of the Republique Francaise, in looking over the papers of the eccentric Duke of Brunswick, deposited at tbs library of Geneva, has found the draft of a secret mutual assistance treaty him and the late Emperor Napoleon. It is dated Ham, 25th Juno. 1844, and is not only signed Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, but is written by him on a white silk pocket handkerchief in marking ink. Among the papers left by the late King Ludwig is one containing the plans of the castle he had intended to build in the future. His Majesty had planned a chateau designed to surpass even that of Herrenchiemsee, on the apex of Falkenstein, the ascent to which would be wellnigh impossible. The grand hall of this projected chateau was to be paved in mosaic, and the center of the hall was to be adorned by an enormous peacock composed of precious stones. Ivan Leoski was born in Warsaw forty years ago, and when a young man loved and was loved by Rachel Korpf. But Ivan was a Republican, and so old man Korpf wouldn’t let Rachel marry him. His political opinions caused Ivan's banishment. Ho came to this country’, settled in North Bergen, N. J., as a florist, and got together a nice property. He and Rachel corresponded, and when, not long ago, Rachel received some property by the death of a relative, she at once set sail for America to join her lover. They were married on Tuesday last. Two Savoyards, who have been exhibiting a tame bear through New England sinco April 1, quarreled in Fall River, and in the fight the arm of one was broken and his thumb chewed. He sought the authorities, who arrested the victor. He was searched and S3GO found in small coins. As both men owned the bear, it was rather difficult to attach the prisoner’s half,

so it was suggested that one buy the other out and nothing be said about the fight This Ul9 men agreed to, and, after lively bidding, tbe victor got the bear for $320, and tbe vanquished took his money and his wounds to a convenient boarding house. COMMENT AND OPINION. The President has vetoed two more private pension bills. t Every such veto is a nail in the Democratic coffin.—Denver Tribune. Garland is the Pan-pachyderm of the nine* teenth century. The hide of a rhinoceros is iiv* visible gauze compared with his.—Boston Record. In Atlanta, everybody is waiting for somebody else to violate the prohibition law. This leavea the whole matter where it ought to be.—Atlanta Constitution. Certainly, Rose, certainly. Chicago will get there on time. The Mail can’t think of any classical similes, but it seconds your motion. —Chicago Mail. The most serious obstacle in the way of tlfc immediate triumph of home rple, is the fact that there is a “grand old man” in the ranks of the opposition.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Chicago clergyman says that every Christian who smoke3 a cigar associates with ths lowest and vilest class of society. So he does if he eats a beefsteak.—Detroit Free Press. Everybody seems to understand the nature of the Democratic indorsement of the President up in New Hampshire, namely, that it is not sin 4 cere. In private they growl as before.—Boston Journal. When true women marry they marry in earnest; and no one of them would exchange places with any other bride for the sake of having her nuptials paraded before the Nation. —Pittsburg Dispatch. The Payne scandal in the Senate and the Garland scandal in the Cabinet are twin disgraces which not even the sweetness and light of a reform administration can clean or conceal.—Philadelphia Press. More Democratic economy. The Brooklyn navy-yard has been closed and over a thousand men thrown out of employment, because of the failure to pass the naval appropriation bilk —Pittsburg Chronicle. The Boston Herald devotes a leader to “The Improvement of Congress.” No use; you can’t improve this Congress. The only thing to be done with it is to throw it away and get a good one.—Philadelphia Inquirer. There is certainly no reason why President Cleveland should not at once reform his diplomatic and consular service. Let us be rid of the old hacks, and political doad-beats, and playedout public men.—Memphis Avalanche. Mr. Ranney's report on the Pan-electric fool* ishr.ess serves to make it still plainer that Attor-ney-general Garland is too morally obtuse, or too innocent, to remain in a high public office; and if he doesn’t take the hint, the President should.—Boston Herald. Mr. Chamberlain puts a low estimate upon the average intelligence of Englishmen if he fancies that tbe police protection which he seeks will commend him to the country. The yarn about dynamiters plots is cheap, even for an eleotion dodge.—Springfield Republican. With all of its shortcomings, the jury system blazoned the way to personal freedom, and we must continue to trust the juries; a little sacrifice of time aud convenience on the part of intelligent men now and then would go far toward improving their personnel.—Philadelphia Record. The right of men to better themselves in all lawful ways is undtspntable, but the time has not yet come when Americans are prepared to include not, murder and the wanton destruction of property in the list of lawful and proper means of self-advancement.—New York Commercial Advertiser. The Republicans quarrel and nurse their enmity. They strike back at each other through the ballot-box. The Democrats do not. They may be enemies before, but at the polls they are friends. The wings of the Democratic rooster flap together on election day, aud that is why i| sometimes overcomes the Republican eagle. —Philadelphia Inquirer. The passage of the House resolution [in the Pan-electric case] will neither exonerate nol vindicate anybody who needs it. Such action will simply smirch the House with a scandal which is now the exclusive property of the administration. The only possible relief for anybody is for the Attorney-general to retire. The Solicitor general has never been confirmed and probably never will be.—Springfield Republican. The only safe prediction possible under the circumstances is that, sooner or later, home rule, more or less according to Mr. Gladstone’s plan, will be granted to Ireland, and, be that speedily or slowly accomplished, never aeain will such coercion be applied to her as she has groaned under during the twenty years of which Mr. Bright so eloquently speaks as a period of advancement and comparative prosperity for her. —Brooklyn Eagle. The hopeless indecision and want cf nerve shown by Governor Oglesby have done more to retard and demoralize the business interests o l Chicago during the past two months than can well be imagined. If Illinois voters ever get a chance to elect another Governor and dou’t elect a man with more of the qualities of a real Governor than Oglesby has displayed, the State deserves to be at the mercy of Anarchists and rioters indefinitely.—Philadelphia Times. The esteemed Herald thinks Mr. Ranney would have done better not to have made prominent the fact that the gentlemen involved iq this disgrace [pan-electric] are all Democrats, That is a question of style which we shall not argue with our Boston criticaster. They are Democrats, and their performance in this matter is a reproach not only to the party to winch they belong, but to the administration of which several of them are officers, and to the country of which they are citizens. —Boston Advertiser. America’s sympathy for them does not necessarily involve any hostile feeling towards England. We on this side of the Atlantic, who have healed the wounds of a rancorous and desperate civil war through the application of the homerule principle, know and feel that the same remedy would be beneficial to Great Britain, as well as to Ireland. We send money there partly becouse we like to help a struggle for human rights anywhere, and partly because the aid thus given is trivial compared to the tribute sent from this country to fatten Irish landlordism during half a century past.—New York Graphic. One thing is incomprehensible. Just as onv home industries are showing signs of vigorous life and prosperity, some of our Southern Congressmen are. bestirring themselves in the interests of the free-trade folly. They would let ia the cheap products of Europe, and force our struggling farmers and mills to close doors. We all have too much at stake to permit any mischievous tiukering with the tariff. Our farmers areas deeply interested in this business as anybody else. The building up of our own industries means more people, more towns, bigger towns, in a word home markets.—Aslant# Constitution. It will not do to try And laugh this movement down, or to treat it, as some Democratic paper* do, as an attempt on the part of the Republican! to rake up old war issues for use as campaign material. The New Orleans Tiraes-Democrnt ia one of the leading Democratic papers in the South, and is not engaged in manufacturing Republican campaign weapons. The question should be met firmly but dispassionately, and settled decidedly in the negative. That the South, as now politically constituted, would vote solidly in favor of such a proposition, there is only too much reason for fear; but that the North will ever consent to pay the cost of the effort to destroy the government is too preposterous for serious consideration.—Philadelphia Press. ___________________ Not a Very Pronounced Attitude. St. Louis <llole-Democrat. “The Democratic party,” says the New York Sun. “is not a free-trade party or a protectionist party; it is the DeiuocrAtio party.” This happy definition recalls the case of the unfortunate Missourian who, being exposed to raids on bis property from both armies during tbe war, had a habit of saying when asked as to his polities: “I’m neither a Union man or a confed’rit; I’m jest nuthin’, and d—d little o’ that.” •' ' u Cleveland Going to Get His Harvard L. 1.. D* Boston iicrali. The Massachusetts Legislature to-day passed a bill appropriating $20,000 for entertaining President Cleveland, in caso he should pay a vitit to this State this summer. The Governor signed the bill. This is double the amount which was appropriated in 1875 to entertain General Grant at the Bunker Hill Q ntennial.