The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-21

arsenic were imported into this country,
each pound of which con tanned enough poi
son 10 kill $500 persons. 1t is sold in our
markets at wholesale price of 2 cents
pound, and is used in wall papers, paper
curtains, lamp shades, boxes, wrapping
papers for confectionery, tickets, cards,
kindergarten papers, artificial howers,
dried grasses, eye shades, ladies dress
goods, veils sewing silks, threads,
stockings gents underwear, socks,
gloves, hat Innings, boot and shoe lin
ings, paper collars, baby carriages, chi.-
dren's toys, colored enameled clothes, wool,
silk, cotton and leather goods, and in toilet
powders and candles Mr.. Angel thinks
that to remedy this formidable evil it wiA
be necessary for those anxious to secure re-
form, both buyers and retail sellers, 10 form
protective health associations in the i'm,
portant cities and towns, which should
have analyzed the various articles of con-
sumption. White laborers and mechanics
in Indiana and other Northern States are
no longer apprehensive that the uncultured
and unskilled black of the South can come
into their midst and successfully compete
with them in any form of industry. 1t is
in vain the Sentinel shakes the spook in
their faces. They have seen it before. 1t
is as familiar as the Rag Babr. But 1t is
'done gune;" it has no life in it; even
the boys laugh at it.
The Gazette says: Beyond the western
border of Kansas and the Pacific Slope the
amount of land which can be cultivated
without irrigation is comparatively small.
Mining and not agricultural interests will
bring wealth to this section. Far to the
north there is very different country
that through which the Northern Pacific
Railroad is being constructed. This terri
tory, long ridiculed and pronounced an
arctic desert, is turning out to be all that
the projectors of the railroad claimed, and
large number of settlers have already
gone there More will follow, and there
will be vast wheat producing re-
gon in the extreme Northwest. But
our own country has by no means a
monopoly of this district. 1t extends
through the Canadian province of Mani
oba, and will soon be penetrated by the
Canadian Pacific Railroad. Already 2,OO0,-
600 OF acres have been taken up under the
liberal provincial settlement law, and the
Earl of Beaconstield and the British re-
views and newspapers are sounding Its
praises. - Yesterday the Gas Committee of
Council agreed to report to that body in
favor of the ten year contract at 81 75 per
thousand feet; the Board of Education ac-
cepted the resignation of Librarian Vickers
and Police Commissioner Setchel sent in
his resignation, which was accepted in ex-
ecutlve session.-The Police Commission
ers who devote one tenth of their atten-
ton to the police, and nine-tenths to the
interest of the ring, yesterday received
and accepted the resignation OF
Mr.. Setchel. His note plainly intimated
that he was deserted bv Weber, One
against four is not fair play, and Mr.. Set
chel withdraws from the unequal contest
For several years past-for nineteen years.
indeed-the Democratic leaders have proved
themselves capable of foolish things, and
foolish things only. In 1860 they split be-
tween Breckinridge and Douglas and elect
ed Lincoln. In 1864 they nominated Gen.
Mcclellan, war man, supposed to be, on
an anti-war platform. In 1868 they forced
Sey mour, Your candidate can not be-"
to take the nomination, rejecting Chase,
who wanted it, and Pendeton, who
was the best representative of
the party then in the field.
In 1872 it committed the folly of nominat-
ing Greeley, who had been stanch Repub-
lican and an abolitionist, foolishly suppos-
ing enough Republicans would follow him
into the Democratic party to elect him, as
sumng all the while that Democrats would
vote the ticket regardless of the candidate.
In 1876 they nominated Tilden, a hard
money man, while majority of the party
was soft money. Tiden had no per-
sonal popularity. He was not even
the choice of the party. The
candidates it talks about now are Til
den, Thurman, Hendricks, and Bayard.
These have been with the party in all its
anti-war measures. Not one of them ac-
cepts the settlement of the war III the
spirit and letter of the constitutional
amendments. When the Democratic party
moves so far forward as to make platform
in accordance with the spirit Of the age and
puts upon it such a statesman as W. S.
Groesbeck, then 1t Will be entitled to the
name Of reformed Democratic party,
and the time will have come when the
bloody shirt may be folded up and put out
of sight.