The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-13
SPIRIT Of THE PRESS.
Thu English Papers Of This Morning,


The English Papers Of This Morning.
Tie Gazette saws: We have confidence in
Mayor Jacob, and we believe he will do his
duty without fear or favor. Therefore we
rejoice in the pass ge of the Kirby bill by
the Senate. 1t will of urse pass the
House by a sweeping majority, and it ought
to become law before tile cl Sc of the pres
ent week. When this bill shall become
law, the worst gang at ever had Cincin-
natl by the tnroat will 20 to the wall. We
do not refer now to the gentlemen who are
Police Commissioners, some OF whom we
know are anxious to get out OF the places
they hold; but to those who control the po-
lice for selfish or mercenary purposes.
These will now be bounced. Mayor
Jacob will be on deck, and the
davs of blood money will be brought to
speedy close. The Republicans Of the
House should see that its final passage is
not DELAYED. lie, lis have the Mayor in
control before the close of the week, If pos
sible. With the passage of the bill through
the Senate, the ring, backed by blood mon
ey, has lost its grip. In Cincinnati all good
citizens feel relief this norning.-No more
shall the Democratic party be rerronched
that it has no deiinable principles. 1t may
have boxed the compass OH greenbacks and
banks; may be all split up OIL the tariff;
have no policy on the public lands; shuf-
f1e on the public faith; oscillate from SOW
ereign State rights to t. e strongest central
lied power; bound from specie as the only
constitutional money to specie as a
barren idealitv; fly from the
choosing of Electors of President
by each sovereign State as a finally to the
making of Congress revisory returning
board, and s, may keep up its peri etual
double shuttle; but it has one principle of
craftsmanship on whish it has firmly plant
ed itsef--namely, that the appointments If
census takers shall be divided equally be-
tween the Democratic and Republican par
ties. On this great principle lave our two
Senators, Pendleton and Thurman, taken
their stand, and there they propose to hold,
even if the growth of population shall be
stopped by the lack # enumerators.-Cou
Gil should promptly pass the ordinance
providing for the sale vi coal by weight.
| The swindle upon consumers has hadstou
long run. But the ordinance should fur
ther provide for the official weighing oil
coal sold in small quantities. A great many
people can not afford to buy more than twt
or three bushels at time. This class should
be protected.
The Commercial says: The Gas Com
pany should come down gracefully to 81 Is
and depend for great gains in the future
upon the increased demand for gas and the
residual products At IL Is they can put
out the oil lamps and introduce gas, MOI
uly as an illuminatnr, but for cooking anc
| Q,anbiN.v Of rho o,lI lar
inyestIg tIgation into the cost Of manufactur
ing coal gas, and the pretense that nothins
appeared showing tnat gas could be furn
islied with reasonable profit at 81 rs pc
900 cubic feet, we have to say that IT,,
testimony is overwhelming that that tlgur'
would insure fair return even on the enor
nous capital upon which stock has been Is
sued in connection with the manufacture Q
gas in this city. The Investigation was broker
in because it was introducing TO the at
not favorable to the pretensions Of the Ga
Company. 1t is not true that the Gas Com
many could 20 into Court and show tina
81 25 per one thousand cubic feet for ga
would be an imposition upon them. The.
would be beaten out "f sight in Court OF
tnat proposition, and they know it.-W
amount OF money raised to prevent the res
toration of the old Board Of Public Work
is 5000. Precisely when and where til
money is to be applied We have not ascel
tained.-An intelligent writer VIII
: Sas has visited the middle an
southern counties of Irelan
estimates the number of the population
who will have exhausted their sources q
food supplies, even to seed potatoes an
the last pig, at fully flrty per cent Ut til
population. All along, since the beginnin
of the distress, the more fortunate anon
the farmers and peasants have eenero Isl
, divided with their peighbors. Many fam
r Lies who had enough t. carry themselve
through TO the next harvest are now then
selves on t. verge OF starvation. The pit
lures drawn OF deprivation and distres
r in particular cases are painfully patheti,
and one does not care to dwellNpOn then
but they serve to show to what extreme
? many of the people have been reduced
3 Senator Garland's BILL amending the el
listing laws against polygamy, imposing
& fine Of not more than $500 and not MOI
9 than five years imprisonment on any pei
: son having husband or wife living, sn
who hereafter narries another, is calcl
lated TO discourage plural marriages, pr
g yided it is enforced. There is the diff
y Guilty. There are already laws enough ~
i bidding the Mormon practice to break
. up, provided they were executed. Wei
this one feature of the Latter Day Churo
0 wiped out tie Mormons would be as secul
o from molestation as vther heter'
dox denominations in eur mids
1t Ii certain they will remain ]
: territorial condition until this she
|. have been done, with the consciou