The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-01

ZION. bau as tney are, tney are not tne
worst class in our midst Far worse are
the police and the manipulators of the po-
lice who not only tolerate, but virtually
invite gambling and they invite it because
it pays Our motto is war to the knife and
the knife to the hilt, and we want all the
rascally officials who have been controlled
by blood money to distinctly understand
it. We shall neither give nor ask quarter.
Absolute determination is the objective
point.-Itis is the Governor who. in Maine,
threatens war. He it is that
gathers up the State arms
and transports them to the Capital, and
that secretly enlists men, and that refuses
to trust to the city police. 1t is the Gov
ernor that insults the people of the State
with armed preparation against them. 1t
is this Fusion Governor backed by the
Democratic party, that challenges the peo-
pie by military demonstration, to sustain
the fraud which is to cheat them ont OF
their election. 1t is against the indignant
speech of the people that he thus gathers
arms. In countries less free than ours is
called, such demonstration by monarch
would cost him his crown, and most likely
his head.-Gen. Roberts is again in undis-
puted possession of Cabul, and for the
present, at least master OF the
situation in Afghanistan. Good gener-
alship, the bravery of the British troops,
which can always be depended upon in
great emergencies, and the singular irreso.
luton of the Afghans have saved the Eng
lish Government from a disaster which
was the legitimate consequence of its folly.
| We may read the significance OF the dis
patch from Cabul in yesterdays Gazette,
that General Hills has been reinstated as
Military Governor of Cabul. The shops in
the city are destroyed" The shops are
destroyed! Shop is the name the English
give to the trading stores. This means that
the city has been sacked by the soldiers.
The statement in the same dispatch that
General Baker has gone to Kohistan
with seventeen hundred infantry, a regi-
ment of cavalry and four guns, to punish the
insurgents there" means that he has gone
to execute vengeance on the Inhabitants OF
the town and on their property. Thus, by
deposing the Afghan ruler by force and
imposing another on the people by force,
by military expedition which at no time
held any more Of the country than that
within its own lines the people rising
against the invader to liberate their own
country, are construed into "mutineers" !"
to be hanged when taken prisoners and
their villages and towns to be made loot for
the soldiers. This is civilization, and this
the contrast it presents to Asiatic barbar-
ism. And this is the appetite with which
English officers, the sons OF the aristocrady,
become butchers of men and ravagers OF the
villages Of defenseless people. a1
The Commercial says: 1t is announced
that Governor Garcelon is preparing a
document in which he will submit some
of the propositions contained in the letter
of Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill, to the Supreme
Court for adjudication. This is sensible
course, aud the Governor need be under nc
apprehensions OF violence at the State
Capital so long as he manifests disposition
to give the opposition fair hearing That
is all he has been asked to do since the
trouble with the count began.-The out.
standing currency of the Government at
the close of business hours yesterday, in.
cluding all legal-tender issues, fractional
currency, &C., aggregated 1862, 754, ,O69-
Senator Bayard is preparing to put his
right shoulder under that resolution of his
and roll it through Congress if 1t grinds
the whole Democratic party into mince
meat.
The German Papers
The Volksfreund says: Tilden's boom
has considerably improved. One OF the
most prominent Democrats and editors o1
Ohio who formerly fought against his
nomination and who censured him severely
for his alleged consent to the Electoral
Commission swindle. has recently come
over to Tilden's side We speak of Genera
Steedman, editor of the Toledo Democrat
better known under the illustrious title O.
"Old Chickamauga."
The Volksblatt says The years1SS0 is
Presidential year. A general election agi
tation stares us in the face once more. =
The year 1870 ended with storms and ter
rible disasters. May the year 1880 com
mence more favorably. Val
Zant has declined to accept the Russian
Embassy. We know of several who woult
accept it-With tax on every "Happy
New Year. that is uttered to-day, the Ma
tional debt could be paid. 1t is strange
that our smart financial Secretary has no
thought of this.
Yesterdays Abend Post says: Mr.. Car
Schurz seems to have no luck with hi
peace policy as to the Indians. Still he de
clares, as is reported from Washington
that he has not given up the hope of
peaceable solution of the mutldle.
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