National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1872-11-26

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paper uf the District Of Columbia.
THE % RIFT or PUBLIC DISCUSSION
Politics have almost entirely dropped out Of
the principal Journals Of the country. Il Is
true we find an occasional comment on the
official figures of this Or that distant State,
but as general thing the editorial columns
Of our contemporaries, that only month ago
burned and blistcrcd with personal assaults
incident to the great campaign which has
just closed are now calm aud sweet and
placid "a u summer morning. The respective
candidates and their followers and sympa-
thizcrs are no longer painted a. so many
Ogrcs plotting aud planning the destruction
of the Republic and the preparation Of the
most unhcard-uf crimes The most bitter
and pugnaciUus editors have declared a truce
and turned their attention to repairing the
damages Of the battle, to keen and intelligent
discussion Of the great questions Of the
present and Of the future.
Here for Instance, art the Chicago Tribune
and Inter Ocean, that have during the last six
months waged the most bitter warfare against
one another as the respective champions in
the Northwest Of Republicanism and Liberal
AHlllf INV AlNlNNl lANhAAilA hlNAlNl hH W
which shall represent aud advance the great
commercial and material interests Of the i'm
mcnsc territory of which Chicago Is the CEN
tire. In "a look Into the future" after ana
lying what has been done In financial way
by the present Administration, the Inter
Ocean says;
Before US are four years Of regular and cstAl,-
lished rule on the line Indicated, under the direc
ton OF man who can stand on that line, or any
other good one, "al summer" backed by An
overwhelming maj Ority Of the American people.
This condition OF the Industrial, commercial and
political interests OF the people promises All I'M
usual degree Of permAnenCy, and must greatly
enhance our credit. We are now where We have
been striving to be-WheTe We fought to he. We
have peace, liberty, constitutional government,
nationality, established pOlicy-a wide and free
icld; humbuRs voted down, dlsorganiZers buried
IN wave OF popular contempt, and all the peO-
Pile satisfied. To conserve this state OF things Ia
the interest OF every one, II comments Itself
sinpllarly To the Judgment OF the capitalist and
the lRhOrer to the philosopher ut home, and to
the millionaire abroad"
/ The Tribune discusses the causes Of
crime" upon which local committee have
Just reported, and comes IN the following CON
illusions:
1.-THE committee have male mistake In limit
ing their consideration Ia intemperance, for two
7 reAsOnH: l. Because they have excluded very
many Other causes which, while no one Of them
may he 80 fertile In criminal seed rs mtONica-
ton, form IN the aggregate Inducements lncen-
q tYes, and announcements whose suppression IL
exactly ~ much Of necessity a. II temperance
reform. 2, because H. ~ the committee you'd
evidently have us believe, the suppression Of
crime depends upon the general suppression OF
drinking, they will mud themselves puzzled To
suggest practicable application Of the remedy
Their discussions, To DE productive OF good, must
| he Of practical nature. Il II not enough for
] them To say that the use Of alcoholic liquor must
he abolished. This cannot he done. They should
rather prescribe the way IN which lts evil effects
may he limited. Let them invent adequate
measures for exercising restraint over hAbtuAl
/ dTnnknnls, and thus check their possible career
Uf crtme. let them suggest striCter laws for the
4 that cAn he enforced. Let them Insist upon a
needed revision OF criminal statutes, and iIn-
PrOVements In the organization OF criminal JureA.
II Is only In such Studies OF which the vice OF IN
temperance forms hut one element, that the com
mltlee eau make themselves useful"
IN the EuEt we find the Boston papers still
discussing the lessons Of the great fire, aud
Gen. llawley, In the Hartford COurdnL writ
Ing an Interesting essay IN ''thC limitations
Of personal liberty" suggested by the recent
mObblng Of Mrs Laura Fair In San Francisco.
The OOurdm believes that Mn. Fair, nOtwlth-
standing her bruEcn impotence and the insult
to Justice In her acqulttal, had still right tn
lecture II she could get an audience, and that
not 10 permit her IN do 80 was violation VI
personal liberty. Our contemporary has, how
ever, some excellent Reflections IN thi- class Of
women aud the tendency Of tbeir trarhiugr
| which we reproduce:
"Certain women, more or le.s notorious, have
! been irving Ia spread In this country for several
years both In puhliC aud In private theories that
undermine the stability Of the marriage relation
The theories are not new by hundreds or by thou
sands Ut years, They were moi new when the
L poet Shelley Joined william GOlWin and Mary