The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-12
POINTS AND PiTM OF THE PRESS.

POINTS AND PiTM OF THE PRESS.
New Orleans Picayune: A trade dollar
that poor man can trade with is good
enough.
Boston Post: Cincinnati is going to have
a big organ, but hasn't got a Elavius Jose
phuS Cook.
Philadelphia Times: The gay Muscovite
appears to have tight rein on all Europe
and would like to know what it is proposed
to do about it.
New York Sun: Stoughton is safe He
wraps himself in the American flag at st.
Petersburg, and bids defiance to the Louisi-
ana authorities.
Boston Traveller: We observe, with
mingled feelings" that legislative bodies,
boards of trade and financial organizations
that protest against the Bland Bill, no
longer denounce fair remonctization as a
''swindle' invented by 'lunatics."
Worcester (Mass) Press: The Gardner
News wants to see man in
Collector Simmons place "who will fight
for Hayes and his reform politics day and
night, and who will show no quarter to his
see a Collector who would collect.
Philadelphia Record: 1t would not look
well for the Administration at Washington
if, after denying the fugitive Returning
Board an asylum in the New Orleans Gus
tom-house, it should find them one in the
United States Courts In the name of fair
play let the rascals be punished. Of all
criminals abroad in the land, the liberty OF
these fellows is most dangerous to public
morals and to good government.
Pittsburg Telegraph The rumors that
leading Democrats will, in The event of the
conviction of the remaining members of the
Louisiana Returning Board take steps to
overturn the action of the Electoral Com
mission, must be given credence as mere
idle gossip. Every citizen of the United
States may rest assured that the work of
that Commission will remain stable and un-
done until it shall terminate by the natur-
al mutation Of civil office. The man who
talks seriously of ousting President Hayes
is, plainly speaking, fool.
st. Louis Evening Post: The proper plan
of criticising the President is to blame him
for every departure from civil service re-
FORM and to give somebody else the credit
wherever he sticks to it, AS he is the first
President who has really tried to Danish
bummerism and substitute capacity in the
public service, it might be worth while to
admit that his reforms are his own and
that he can not be held accountable for acts
to which he is absolutely coerced by the
pressure of those who censure him.
Springfield (Mass.) Union: Authentic
private advices from Washington say that
President Hayes is beginning to see a great
light on some rudimentary points of ad-
ministration, and is becoming convinced
that it takes something more than prof.
cheney in the cant of reform to make a
genuine reformer. He is getting tired of
the virtuous atttudinizing of Schurz and
expresses a determination to soon ask the
noble exile to retire from his Cabinet He
didn't want him in the Cabinet originally,
any more than SchurZ at first wanted HAYES
President, and is growing more and more
sorry that he did not carry out his first in
tention' of rewarding Schu1z's unwilling Ia
bors in the canvass with a foreign mission.
But it is never too late 80 mend; and if Mr.
Schurz should be sent from the country
now, it would be decidedly for the coun-
try's good and for the benefit of Mr.. HAYES
Administration.
New York Times; AS the division in the
House on Monday shows, the West and
South, having joined in the effort to force
into circulation debaSed coinage with the
threefold purpose of defrauding their cred
itors, impairing the contract with the bond
holders, and laying the foundation of
fresh scheme of initiation, are resolved to
aVenge themselves upon their opponents.
The income tax is one of the instruments
CnInptpI II will i+r olrn,ntas bnl;n,,,
rcac, the holders of bonds, at present ex-
empt from taxation. 1t will, as they insist,
reach the pockets of the creditor class
the investors, large and small, who object
to the fraud which their Western debtors
propose to perpetrate. Those who have
noUhing left are to crafty their grudge
against those who are more fortunate. Per
sons who pinch themselves that they may
save and live within their incomes as mat
ter of principle, are to be taxed. while the
multitude who ClamOr for silver and repu-
diatiOn will be treated to cheaper whisky
and tobacco. Such is the equity, such the
morality of the demand for the reimposi-
ton of an income tax.
STARTLING Discovery. ingenious in
vesGgator into the secret history of the
French Commune has just made a startling
discovery. He finds that there was meth
cd in the selection of the buildings to
which petroleum was to be applied and
that in that selection may be traced the
mystic, omnipresent hand of Imperialism.
The Hotel de Vile was picked out for the
reason that it held a mass of documents
proving financial corruption connected with
the rebuilding of Paris. In the Chancelle-
rie of the Legion of Honor were kept the
archives of the vile appointments to that
honor and the protests of honest men. The
War Office concealed. documentsiproving
that money was taken out Of the public
purse to pay five hundred thousand sol
diers, while the actual army amounted only
to three hundred thousand. Again, at the
Mint and the Tuileries there were heaps of
State documents wherefrom the history of
Imperial guilt might have been written.