The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-26
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and wants big price. Therefore Oregon
dcnOunces England as a coward because she
don't fight
Philadelphia Inquirer: In this adrOitly
drafted semi-otficial paper Secretary Sher-
man does not turn another financial somer-
sault, but he gives himself plenty of scaway
to turn himself should events make muta-
tons or notifications necessary.
Chicago Daily News: Sunset Cox says
great many foolish things and great many
sensible things. A man who talks as much
as he does can not help this But Sunset
Cox never does anything that his constitu-
ents do not want him to do, and this is
what makes Sunset Cox laugh.
Pittsburg Telegraph: The House Postal
Committee have kindly decided to permit
proprietors of newspapers to choose their
own mode of conveying papers to their
patrons, This is we'll. Had it not been
done the newspapers would not only have
made new committee but a new Con
gresS.
Philadelphia Chronicle-Herad: DR.. Lin
derman is now credited with having select
ed the Morgan dollar simply out of spite.
lie has always been opposed to silver, and
thought he would be able to disgust the peo-
pie by giving them the uglieSt possible coin,
but he didn't, The people take to the new
dollar like a sick kitten to a warm brick.
New York Sun We do not insist that
Deacon Richard Smith is so very handsome.
1t is not his personal beauty that compels
our admiration and sympathy. In fact he
is not model of beauty in a physical
sense. But he wears the beautiful distinc-
ton OF being truly good man. TO him
that is perpetual glory and to us a con-
tlnuous consolation.
Chicago Tribune: Private correspondence
which passed between Hon. E. B. Wash
burne and Mr.. II. H. Houghton, of Ga1cna,
three months ago, and which is now made
public for the first time shows that the EX-
Minister to France then announced in the
most emphatic manner his determination
not to become a candidate for the United
States Senatorship as the successor of Gov.
Oglesby.
Washington Post: Charles Francis Ad-
ans, Jr., has taken that Government Di-
rectorship of the Union Pacific under ad-
viscment. Do we understand that the deli
cate etching Of Fraud upon the Brow of Mr..
els Adams, Sri This question is becoming
very interesting. If Charles Francis Adams,
Jr., accepts we shall send one of our ablest
reporters to the White House to ascertain
and report whether the Awful Brand of
Charles Francis, Sr., still cicatrices the de
facto Brow. The last time we saw the de
facto the Brand was Still There.
Richmond Va, Dispatch: We deprecate
the unkind and unjust filings at the South
which some of the leading Northern papers
are so often making. The South can never
make an appeal to Congress of any kind
that she is not spoken of invidiously-gen-
orally as though she was an outsider, and
had no right to q seat at the family table
as though she were never contributor to
the common fund, and always dead weight
to the Government; whereas, she has con-
tributed more to the wealth of the Nation
than the North. At this time, Virginia
pays more internal revenue tax into the
Federal Treasury than all the New England
States put together. She is herself oppressed
with her own obligations, and yet pays
more in this way than the New England
States, with their cities and their million
aire citizens. We do not desire these pa
pers to praise the South. The praise of some
of them we would abhor as censure in dis
them a sufficient care for their own reputa-
tions to keep them from their vindictive
course toward the South while the facrs are
daily giving the lie to their fictitious Hbels.
The Nation: We do not we'll know what
Mr. Evarts means by intrinsic money"
but we must point out to him and to the
ministers who have to present this scheme
to foreign Governments that his account of
the policy of this country, as expressed by
the Silver Act, is not strictly accurate. The
bill does not provide for the circulation of
the two metals side by side in this country,
or anything like it. That can only be done
by so fixing, and from time to time refix-
ing, the relative value of gold and silver
coins, that the one shall be as attractive as
the other as lega-tender; or in other
words, that it shall not be more profitable
to export the one than the other. The Sill
yer Bill does nothing of the kind. 1t makes
or leaves gold from eight to ten per cent.
more valuable than silver, and makes silver
legal-tender for all amounts, so that when
silver gets fairly into circulation gold must
disappear under Gresham's S Law, and silver
become our only "intrinsic money!" unless
there is considerable rise in its market
value. This is not matter of speculation,
it is matter of fact and we trust Mr..
| Welsh, Mr.. Taylor and General Noycs, at
| least, will not act on Mr.. Evarts' instruc-
tions without mastering the subject for
themselves, and being prepared for the
answer which they will probably receive
from English, German and French tinan-
Ciers