The daily gazette., 1878-03-11
Spirit or the Psnin.uI. Press
DRIFT OF EDITORIAL DISCUSSION DUR
ING THE WEEK

DRIFT OF EDITORIAL DIsCUssION DUR
ING THE WEEK
Dover Senttnel:-There Is evidently but
one course for this country to pursue to
rid itself OF some form of that danger
which has written the blackest page In
French history and made the Commune Q
q word of horror throughout the world.
We cannot repress IL we would and re-
pressioR Is at best but sitting on the
safety-valve Of q steam boiler. Our only
course Is evidently to remove the causes
Of discomfort.
Cecil Democrat: English commerce
may see In the m maintenance Of Turkish
power a security for It's future, but 1t can
secure itself better by acting from q
standpoint Of less utilitarian and more
humanitarian character. Good govern.
ment and Kind treatment Of the people
Of India, will secure IL against all the
efforts of Russia. and II necessary, Eng
land may by occupying Egypt, maintain
her supremacy In the Mediterranean
NJ uch remains 10 be done ere the ques-
items. at issue can be set at rest. The war
Of the generals Is end.d. that Of the dip
lomats has not yet begun.
Neiodrk Ledger:-John O'Byrpe, Esq,
delivered an able address In PHILADELPHIA
on Monday, the centennial anniversary
OF the birth of Robert Emmett, the IRISH
patriot. Won't he make the Senate ring
in 1881 when he succeeds Bayard?
Middleto,on Transcript: "A number of
Eastern Shore papers are now advocat-
ing that "relic of barbarism," the whip
ping-post, as good institution for the
punishment Of petty thieves. A few
years ago the newspapers of the whole
country rvaled each other in abuse of
Delaware on account of the mode of
Furnishing her criminals. but now great
number Of them have changed their tune
and freely admit that even for their own
States the whipping-post would be q
good institution to have in the house."
and that 1t is the only true way of pun
ishing petty Grimes, and that after all, the
head OF Delaware, so TO speak, has been
eminently level for retaining this much
abused relic Of barbarism as O good in
stitutlon. Verify, the world moves.
Sussex Journdi:-If we would have
our boys start out IL life with fair and
equal chances Of success, we must edu-
cate them; refined and moral, We must
train them In the schools of refinement
and morality, then II they fail to succeed
In life, II they are coarse and immoral 1t
cannot be laid at our door. The genera al
rule Is that education and good NOR al
training make good citizens, the excep-
tions prove the rule.
Milford Netos:-The railroad corpora
tiohs are looking about for a candidate
for Governor as well as for members Of
the Legislature. The last named are most
important to them at present.
In discussing the general political out
lock the Netos also says: Even now,
thousands of sagacious men In this land
are looking for the coming King Of the
United Statesl The incapacity of the
people threatens to make way for the
Kingdom
Seaford Ipde1:-When q man aspires
to position of public trust, the people
have q right and should demand to
know If that man is capable OF discharg-
Ing the duties of the office, and If ne Is
honest, and those with whom rests the re-
sponsibility OF making the appointment,
should consult the interests of the peo-
pie, and not be governed by the opinions
OF the political wire puller, who has lost
his prestige, and who is actuated by no
other motive than to defeat the wishes of
his personal enemy. We don't think the
policy of OWL Service Reform in Della
ware would do any harm.
Denton Journdl:-The wrong
which was perpetrated by the stsaithy
characterization of silver has been right
ed, aud the legal-tender character of the
old silver dollar has been restored, but
the bill, as amended by the Senate,
leaves silver subsidiary coin, and future
legislation should be directed to placing
It on an exact equality with gold, where
IT stood previous to the act OF demone-
tization. The relation of silver to gold
can be fixed by law 80 that the owners
OF silver bullion can receive coin certif-
Gates for all they deposit with the Gov
ernment, receivable for customs, taxes
and DuhlIn duAa