The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-09
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PITH OF THE PRESS.

flag of the Prophet included.
Chicago Daily News: Collector William
Henry Smith, of Ohio, President Ruther-
ford B. Hayes, of Ohio, and Secretary John
Sherman, Of Ohio, have agreed to agree,
Everything is superb.
Pittsburgh Telegraph Qnd): The great
question with the Ohio Legislature is,
whether they shall adjourn to prepare for
corn planting, or let their wives run the
farms, while they make assaults upon the
State Treasury.
Utica Republican (Rep.): Senator Howe
has received satisfactory Endorsements Of
his late speech by mail. Itwas one of those
efforts that grow more and more into favor
as the public becomes more and more fa-
miliar with them.
Wheeling Intelligencer (Rep): The great
mission of the Democracy in modern times
is to come within one of success, and then
| fail at the opportune moment. They miss
very narrowlyat times, but, thank the Lord,
they generally miss.
New Haven Register (Dem.): What the
country now needs is rest from politics. a
season of blissful inactivity, so far as poll
ticians are concerned, and any attempt,
| however specious, to revive old intrigues,
hatreds and animosites will be sure to be
fraught with evil consequences.
New York Tribune: The country has
had already all the Congressional iolting Of
the finances it can afford. The silver war
cost millions of dollars, robbing the rich
and the poor alike. What the country
wants now is to be let alone and for that
small favor it will be profoundly grateful
Philadelphia North American: Nowhere
in the United States is human life counted
so cheap as if Kentucky, nowhere is mur
der 50 rife and punishment 50 rare. The
crime is discovered and the perpetrators
are known, but the hand of justice seems
paralyzed and poweress to reach the rutlians
| who go and come unmoleSted.
Knoxville Tribune: An accommodating
people will remain content to make the best
of Hayes until they can elect u President of
their own in a constitutional way. 1t is to
/ be hoped that Blair's bill, when introduced
will be squelched in the most summary
manner. Let the chronic nuisance be
promptly abated, if not eXterminated.
4 New York World: The fiat of Germany
/ liberates Austria to act in the sense of her
own freedom and future; and if peace is
now to be broken afresh the responsibility
and with the responsibility the penalty of
| breaking it will fall upon Russia with a
force so tremendous that it is scarcely con-
ceivable she should deliberately accept the
one and incur the other.
Mobile Register: Such scenes as we wit
messed last summer along the railroads, and
such rally to the Indiana National plat
!: FORM strengthen the fear that universal suf-
frage and an Emperor must go together.
! We are not quite ready for him. He may
| have to wait until the next centennial
i The conservatism of the South and the in
i telligence and integrity of the Confederate
Brigadiers can guide the ship of State
through the breakers for many years to
come.
Richmond Dispatch (Dem): The estima-
ted aggregate of those so-called Southern
claims is over $200000,000 Now as to the
amount, that is a question altogether i'm
material to the really Southern people,
Southern in heart and Southern in history.
Those claims are presented by the truly
lcil who had not Southern sympathy and
whose claims are as little tinctured polit-
iCally with SOuthernism as if they were
from Vermont.
Nashville Banner: Our public schools
are admirable institutions, unquestionably
and the aptitudes and qualifications for civil
duties they impart are not to be belittled.
But even admitting that the public schools,
the high schools and the colleges teach the
difference between right and wrong to per
sOns.who did not know it before, the fact re-
mains that the State prisons in those States
where education is most generally ditfuscd
are not less crowded than those of States
noted for ignorance.
/ Philadelphia Press: There are 40, 100000
of people in the United States. If each one
economies but $10-saves that amount in
food or clothing or travel or
luxury-the sum of that econ
omy is a Withdrawal of $400,000000
from the circulation of the country, and,
worse than that, subtraction of $400, 900,
600 from the necessity of production. In
other words, it is paralytic stroke. If this
is done several times we have succession
of paral lytic strokes, and this is probably the
secret Of hard times.
Washington Post: Strange to say none of
the Russian Grand Dukes have been injured
in the war. This is almost as wonderful as
the harbreadth escape of such fighting pa
trots as Ben. Wade, Zach. Chandler and
Blaine during the war of the rebellion. AS
soon as peace is concluded we shall be in
formed that nobody but the Grand Dukes
did any fighting to speak Of; just as we now
understand that the fighting patriots afore-
said were the men who saved this country
from disunion in its hour of extreme peril
New York Herald: England will proba-
! bly, issue several more 'ultimatums'' before
she fights. There will be a great many
more last words before we get the first
blow. Indeed the circular is rather in the
nature of the loud defiance of Chanteieer,
delivered from proud position on the top
rail, alta moment when he has reason to be-
lieve that rival and an enemy is within
sound OF his voice. And the sequence will
be appropriate to that resemblance. There
will be defiance and counter defiance, chal-
lenge and reply, many times repeated be-
fore all intervening obstacles are overcome
and the gallant combatantS rush to the en-
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