Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-02
THE NRw YORK PRESS.
Editorial Extracts From the Great Daille
oFFERINa LIQUOR TO NEw YEAR CALLERS.

oFFERINa LIQUOR TO NKw YEAR cALLEks'
tFrom the New York Tribunel
II ia TO these men, struggling TO regain their
chance for life through pain often such a. the
damned might feel in struggling to escape rom
hell, that women, good-hearted mothers anu IN
nocent girls, will offer liquor on New lear ug .yg
urge ID on them with all the allurements tnAt
beauty and cordial hospitality can add MOI
only 70 these men, but to young lads, to many
of whom, from physical reasons, stnnulant Is
actual poison, they will present 1t in away al
most impossible to resist. Yet these women IN
ali probability, suffer in their own bodies the
inherited curse Of this evil. Wherever there Is
insanity, epilepsy, nervous diseases, weak splnes
frail constitutions, there will be found in four
cases out Of Eve moderate drinker one or two
generations back, the fountainhead OF physical
poison. .-. -. 1900,
From the New York Tribune.l
He has given no hint that he would have sup
ported Chief Justice Chase as the Democratic
nominee in any contingency. he dld ardently
desire that Mr.. c.. should be the Democratic
nominee in 1868, in order that the stupid an
achronism Of resisting the admission ot ,M ine
Blacks, since they are free to the rights OF eit-
zenship, should be brushed away. In this spirit,
he has welcomed and commended the New De-
parture, without finding therein a reason why
he or any other Republican should vote the
Democratic ticket and he has never thought OF
Trader.
scHURz SHOWN UP.
From the Y. Tmesl
The admirers Of Senator Schurz strongly pro-
test against their hero being subjected TO any
unfayorable criticism. We have already eh-
planned their view-it is that Mr.. Schurz may
scatter slander broadcast through the land but
that no one must be allowed to take his name
disreapec fully upon their lips Senator Schur2
has insnuated in various mean ways, that the
President is a corrupt mana charge which he
dare not make openly, because he knows tha'
| he could not prove it. Mr.. Schurz when he goes
into the work Of defamation, need not complain
| il his own claim to be regarded as reformer II
| honestly reviewed. Not single statement We
| have made about Mr.. Schur2 has been disproyed
but we are still open to accept any corrections
| which his friends may offer to our article cor
| cerning him.
THE WHARTON MURDER TRIAL
from the N. Y. Herald
OF course we say nothing OF the guilt or inno
cence of Mrs Wharton-that will be decided
when all the evidence shall be taken but w
must say the case appears to have been fearfnlll
bungled by the incompetence OF the chemists
first employed to make tests for poison. Iht
question that ought to have been decided be
yond all doubt at the beginning-the question
whether General Ketchum was poisoned or no
appears now to be uncertaia.
NEW YORK SOCIETY TO BE PURGED OF sNoBs.
From the N. Y. Times
1t seems fitting that the community shonl'
now exert itself to purge society, just as is pur
ging Municipal politics. An unwritten Socia
Charter should be put in force, with the view t
cast out past evils and secure better things TO
the future. 1t should no longer be allowed
tacitly or otherwise, that man who is at hear
| A snob and in manners a boor, is to be reckone
a magnate; that to keep "four-in-hand,n or
snowy yacht, is passport to all social distinC
tion, never mind how the money was got tina
paid for them; that mere heavy purse is t
take precedence Of brains, or public service, o
exalted character, or attainments in science, Il
y. letters or in art; and finally that costly gai
nents or CANDY equppage,o or the most conspiC
nous box at the opera. or the biggest diamonds
: or the most palatial stables, or even the moi
frequent and most sckening puffs in the T'dule
or Windbdy. shall not hearafter establish It'll
to the consideration of decent society.