The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-27
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

/ THE New York Commercial Aaratise,'
says: =" In London, when men imagine
they've got the devil in them, they GO and
hang themselves. In New York even after
we've proved the devil to be in them, they
not only refuse to hang themselves, but it
is often more than we can do to hang them."
OF the advocacy of amnesty in the Ohio.
Republican platform the Chicago Tribune
says Such position is noble, patriotic,
and Christian. Let us hope that it may be
initiated by other States, and that its adj
monition may be needed by the Senate,
where the amnesty bill now rests, for the
future action of that body"
THE Brooklyn Union says ''Tho SIM
pie truth is the Democratic party in this
State is absolutely swamped if it undertakes
to carry the Tammany Ring and at the
same time it is pretty difficult to see how
the party can succeed without it, 1t wants
the Ring, and it don't want it. Its true
policy is to cut loose from the Ring and
take its chances, which at the present look
very small.V
THE Hartford Co,udat says: eve
would have women take more direct part
and interest in the industries of the age,
especially the production of articles that
more Immediately pertain to the household,
to dress, and the adornment Of the person
and the home. There is work for her
artistic power here, as well as for her sup
pie fingers. She has never yet had her fair
say in the building of houses and their
furnishing, or in any of the manufactures
which are the test and show of high eiviliza-
ton.
THE Philadelphia Press says: "Thc one
pride of Pennsylvania, all that makes it
wealthy, prosperous, and that provides
sslstenance for its people, is its industries
as rich or as inviting as the fertile prairies
of the West, but underneath them lies
wealth more real and lasting than that of
the golden Sierras. Slowly We are develop
ing these treasures and reaching the first
position among Commonwealths. The
periodical changes in the policy of the
country have retarded this. Development
free-trade era would end it."
THE New York 7sfb,tac says: "Every
once in while we, have a sensational
charge against the Treasury Department by
some mad Bohemian who wants to prove
that the government is loser by many nil
lions eachyear from the cxtractonof cancel
cd bonds which are resold. 1t is useless to
argue the absolute impossibility OF such
crime, even with the colluson OF the
employees of the Treasury, But
statement relating to the purchase and
manipulation of distinctive paper for
Treasury purposes shows what cxtraordi-
nary safety may be secured by a careful
system of checks and balances. TO say
that nearly fifty-nine million sheets of pa
pc. for printing bonds, etc., have been so
carefully handled that not an infinitesimal
fraction is unaccounted for is to say much
for the Treasury. q BH.
The New York Times says: ''The adj
dress of the Democratic Reform General
Committee makes the just complaint
against the Tammany Ring of having dam
aged the party as much as they have the
credit of the city of New York. On the
question of ruling out partisan issues alto
gether from the present struggle, the adj
dress is not so explicit as it might have
been. 1t is'well enough to invite the local
and inferior organizations to make the
downfall of Tammany and the redemption
of the party their paramount political obli-
CATION. Butt might, profitably, have been
added that, at the present crisis, party Or
CARNATIONS of every grade Of influence must
recognize that their sole function is to rescue
the city from the rule of thieves, and to
place it under that of honest men, be their
convictions on national politics what they
may"