Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-02-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.

jority of the men who we're promi-
nent actors upon the national chess
board at that time, have passed
away, although the period covers
less than a score of years. Buch-
anan, Douglas, Seward, Preston
King, Mason, Slidell, Breckenridge,
Lincoln, Greeley, Andrew johnson,
Sumner, Wilson, Vallandingham,
Lovejoy, Raymond, Prentice, Hale
and Fessenden have been gathered
by the Father, while others like
Toombs and Davis are in retire
ment. 1t is q wonderful change
which has taken place. With
country reunited and with old
issues buried in the graves OF those
who raised them, the Democrats
have once again control OF Con-
press. The work before them Is
widely different from that which
claimed their attention when they
last had the majority. Now 1t IS an
ex-slayeholder from Mississippi, the
eloquent Lamar, who pleads for
an undivided country peace and
fraternity, and who advises moder-
alton in all the affairs of legislation.
Tn 1859 the voice which came from
Mississippi was aggressive ana
sternly in favor of disunion. Those
who have lived through the last
twenty years of the Republic can
scarcely believe their senses, when
they think of what is, and soberly
reflect upon what has been.
Virginia having refused to ap-
propriate money to the Centennial,
should begin to pay her overdue
interest on her public debt. Per-
haps she was right in declining to
give what belonged to her creditors,
but the motive which dictated the
refusal was not so good. The
mother of statesmen is in sad
financial condition. Her credit is
about as low as it can run and we
look now that she has become so
just, for honest action toward her
creditors.
The Carson Tribune" says it
considers the suggestion made
some time ago by Hon. j. R. Doc
little, of Wisconsin. also NJ. DeBel-
castle, of the French Assembly, to
the effect that married men be en-
titled by law to two votes. The
Tribune" with its usual progress
sive spirit, goes even further. and
says: GAS an amendment we would
suggest that any man living to the
age of forty-five years as bachelor
should be deprived of the elective
franchise and not permitted to hold
any other than county or precinct
office. Yes, give a married man
two votes, and if the father OF
family give him two extra ones for
every two additions to the family
circle" We think there is treach-
cry in that last clause-"two extra
votes for every two additions to the
family circle" Upon that princi-
pal if family should contain twins
or pair of them, the father would
be entitled to four, eight. or even
sixteen votes. Further, we believe
Parkinson is advocating this doc
trine for the benefit of Brigham,
or at the suggestion of the Norman
Congressman, Cannon. Believing
this we think it our duty to warn
all journalists and fair-minded men
from indorsing or in any way sane
tioning a measure fraught with so
much danger to our commonwealth.
The proposition relating to bache-
lors we heartily indorse. but we
feel confident if the venerable editor
of the Tribune" were single he
would not be so hasty. Our breast
is filled with forbodings when we
think of the strife and contention
which would follow if either he or
the senior editor of the Enter
prise should throw their gloves
into the matrimonial arena. Youth,
beauty and wealth would contend
for such prizes. As the tabled
goddesses strove for the golden
apple, maidens would sigh for them
as Dido for the swift-feeing Eneas /;
as Calypso upon her enchanted
island for the departure of Ulysses
but one is protected by his family,
and the other by his-age. But the
bachelor he is perfect heathen---
because he would create no souls to
save, and should be under the con-
troll of the "home mission;" he is an
iconoclast who would destroy the
domestic altar he is a blight to
society; a species Of human mifdew
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