The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-05
PETH OF THE PRESS.

Chicago Times: Mr.. House, of Tennessee
has his upper story TO let
ST. Paul Globe: Repeal the Resumption
act-and let us have Treasury notes.
Utica Observer: 1t looks as-though next
years army of tramps would be composed
of Turkish bondholders.
Boston Globe: Joy over the passage of
Halstead's hair to the color of the dollar of
the daddies' in single night.
Pittsburg Telegraph: 1t was a man from
Ohio who suggested that the Nation needs
three Presidents instead of one. 1t was
perhaps best to begin modestly, but the
snake in that little bill squirms too lively
to be passed by unnoticed. Every man his
own President, and the President of the
rest of the country, of course, is the Buck
eye creed, and should be kept continually
in view in the discussion of this question.
Washington Post: 1t is announced that
Mr. James A. Garfield will take the stump
in New Hampshire to deny the allegations
contained in Bill Chandler's letter. This is
evidently shrewd dodge on the part of Bill
to give his allegations some color of truth
as it might be, but denial by Garfield
would go great distance toward making
history of the narratives of the late Baron
MunchauSen,
The New York Times declares that Aus
tfia is nation divided against itself, with
powerful elements of its population arrayed
against each other by intense prejudices of
race. 1t is, moreover, a nation afflicted
with financial weakness and exhausted by
the lingering effects of a disastrous war
England is a country of homogeneous pop
ulation, rich, prosperous, and with the
prestige of nearly century without an i'm
portant defeat of its arms Under the
circumstances, scolding Austria does not
seem a very dignfied occupation for Eng
lish writers" In another column it vents
the opinion that 1--WE have degenerated into
a present-hunting and present-receiving
people. And the officers who besiege Con-
a popular weakness Foreign orders and
foreign gifts are ridiculously cheap now a.
days. Congress should refuse to sanction
the reception Of these unmeaning gew-
gaws." l.
Chicago News: The tendency of remon-
citation must, however, to a greater or
lesser extent, be in the direction of cheap
money. 1t will not, as some journals blind
ly assert, cause gold to fall to the level of
silver simply for the reason that our de-
mand for silver will not be great enough to
annihilate the present premium in gold,
and also for the reason that our demand for
silver does not altogether cause gold to fall,
but gold and silver to simultaneously ap-
proach each other RECOMMENDATION
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property to advance, and when prop
erty advances money locked up will seek
investment; not alone metallic money, but
paper money of all kinds, including green
backs, bank notes, checks, drafts, and all
other forms of indebtedness that exchange
property. 1t is in the direction of such ex-
mansion as this that we look for the chief
benefits from the reconciliation of silver.
The Boston Journal refers to the COM
meats made by many newspapers on the
Presidential veto to the effect that the re-
suit had shown the President to be without
influence. This, it says, is simply the cry
of the spoilsmen for the violation of that
part of the Cincinnati platform which de-
clares against Congressional dictation in
Federal appointments. The class of jour
nails which have attempted to charge upon
the President the success of the Silver Bill
"openly and shamelessly declare that it is
the duty of the President to go into the
halls of legislation and bribe and corrupt
the men whom the people elect to make
the laws. They had as well declare the
President dictator Absolute power is
much to be preferred to corruption and
bribery as agents for the accomplishment
of any end of the Executive. The papers
which have been harping on the failure of
the President to use his influence with
Senators to defeat the Silver Bill, would do
well to see if they are not overshooting the
mark-that the weapons hurled at the
President do not slay the reputation and
honor of their own friends"