Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-20
CiviIizing the Coreans.

We are gradully getting all the facts
relative to the object of the American
naval expedition to Corea,, Latest
dispatches disclose the personnel of the
naval diplomatic staff. We find that
Minister Low and suite were there, and
that the naval people began surveying
as soon as the feet was safely moored
in theriver. The barbarians looked on,
distrustful of these strange impertinent
doings of the foreigners. The Ameri-
can Minister had plausibly urged upon
the COreans the policy of making a
treaty; but his smooth speeches, strain
ed through Chinese Interpreters, avail
ed naught to the suspicious people,
especially as the frowning sides of the
men-of-war and their black-muzzled
batteries were threateningly held be-
hind the oily utterances of the Minist-
er's opening overture. They refused to
treat, but the surveying party went to
work s'in the interests of civilization. -
For though the massacre of the crew
of the Gen. Sherman was one of the
original excuses for the expedition, that
grievance seems to have disappeared
before the oyerpowering necessity of
mapping the Corean coast and inviting
the people to partake of the sweets of
American civilization, -, q
ALI the rest of the account might
have been anticipated. OF course, the
Coreans did not like armed foreigners
poking about. their coast with leads,
lines, surveying Instruments, and
other strange contrivances. So they
incontinently opened fire on the boats.
The result was return fire and drawn
battle, and the American Admiral, as
we learned by previous dispatch,
landed and took s'such measures as the
interests of civilization required.n In.
this case, according to the. gallant Adj
Iniraps judgment, those jeoparded and
somewhat progressive interests requir-
ed the taking of the Corean forts, guns
numberless, and the Slaughter Of all
the natives who did hot get to the tall
timber. Co. x = ,,,,-.7rr 20
What right we have in Corean wat
els, what we are 20 gain by killing
these people, how many more are to be
killed, and where this fierce diplomacy
is to land us-all these questions, viii
become interesting as we find how
mucn easier it is to go to war than to
get out of it.-[N. Y. Tribune.
Brlck Pomeroy in speaking of the
Tammany Ring uses the following and
truthful language: tN'
''1t is this combination of misers.
spectators, corruptionists and official
plunderers who propose to control the
next National Democratic Conventions
to buy John 7. Hoffman or some
other man pledged to carry out their
ideas-that there may be no change
whatever in the financial affairs of this
country" y
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'iThere are men high in Democratic
authority in New York City who can.
pilnd-folded, with one hand tied be,
hind them, steal more in one hour from
the people than all the Republicans in
washington City could steal in twenty
four hours" l''4 -.Ir''.,'
He adds further:
"These men (meaning the Tamnanv
Ring) thus made millionaires. with the
bonds of the country increased md
the power of the bayonet so fixed that
labor shall forever be at the mercy ofI
capital, will be willing the country
snail go to the devil, while thew find |
refuge in some other cline. bearing
With them their ill-gotten gains.n
f.... ~ I.-li rf
They are having funny contest in
Peoria, Ill. A young man recently
smoked cigar to within about an inch
IL the Tip without the ashes falling off
A rival smoked another half an inch
'nnrter than his, and triumphantly Ia
,elled the ashes. And now ali thel
'ounIg smokers in Peoria are trying to
moke cigar shorter than any one else