Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-03-25
oUk WARRINGTON LETvEls


for meeting will be decided on. The Re.
publicans now see their mistake made by
their retiring President IN vetoing the
Funding bill. Outside Of placing M ,inncc-
es-nry tax amounting to 81 900 900 month
ly upon The people, no better time lrns ev.
er been kaown than nov, To iloat bonds
bearing u low rate OF interest, and even
should an extra session pass u similar
Funding bill to the vetoed one, The time
may have gone past in which il could have
been noaied. Another matter which
should receive the attention OF Congress
should be policy in relation 10 inter-
oceanic canals and ship railways, II is
time an assertion should lie made of the
right aud power of the United States to
control any canal between the oceans, no
matter by what Nation constructed. 1t
would be nothing more nor less than the
enunciation OF the Monroe Doctrine, n
doctrine dear TO every native born Ameri-
can. Besides there are hundreds Of other
Just measures that were killed or died with
the last Congress, that should be rc.intro-
dnced and passed.
If il were only possible for our wise leg
islators to adopt some measures by which
the weather could be controlled, what a
blessing il would be. At present the
weather is badly out Of joint.
The extraordinary weather of the past
winter has caused a conviction in the
minds OF great many people that there
must be something more than mere idle
talk in the theories OF weather prophets,in
regard to the effect upon the earth of the
present peculiar position OF several of the
most important planets of our system. We
have been accustomed TO laugh ut tile
specu lations of those who have told us that
the perchelia. OF several great planets, oc-
curing simultaneously, would necessarily
produce violent disturbances III the atmos
pheric arrangements of the earth, since
similar positions must necessarily have
been assumed by these same planets, at
stated intervals ever since the system came
into being, and the cycles have not been
so great but what history has been able to
span from one to the other; hence we have
been wont to say, il such conjectures are
to produce such and such dire consequent
ces upon the earth, why didn't the same
causes bring forth the same results on pre-.
vious occasions? We are not prepared to
say that they did not, neither nre we pre-.
pared to deny or affirm that the present
position of Il few OF our neighbors in the
solar system has been the moving cause OF
unusual and altogether undesirable condi-
tion of terrestrial affairs, atmospherically
Il IL. 4
the immediate past-especially during the
past six months. But whether the respon-
sibllity is to be laid at the doors of planets
or comets, the moon or ground-hog, certain
it is that the times are out of joint some
where, and such succession of violent dis
turbances, occurring not only all over our
own continent, but in every part OF the
world from which we receive accounts, has
never occurred before since man began to
make record of meteorological conditions.
Unprecedented snow storms, unprecedented
hoods-.hese describe the accounts OF the
condition of the weather that have been
coming to us from various parts OF the
country almost every day since last fall,
and now, as soon as the earth begins TO re-
spond to the first kindly touches of Spring
sunshine, the dreaded cyclone presents its.
self, to fill up any measure of discomfort
that may possibly have escaped the storms
and the floods of the winter. This is very
unsatisfactory and unwelcome condition of
things, and we do not hesitate to confess
that we don't like it, but in the memorable
words of the late Mr.. Tweed, What are
you going to do about it? In ancient
times the people would undoubtedly have
concluded that the Gods were out of hu-
NOR, that few liberal sacrifices wonld
have appeased the ire OF the offended del
| ties and the elements would have settled
down into their customary tranquility,
and everything would have moved on
smoothly again. But we can't fix things
so readily nowadays. When the sun loses
linch,pin out of his cart, in these times,
we can't put it back by killing an OK and
having a religious barbecue. But all this
| does not affect the great underlying fact
that the "prince in the power of the air I"
seems to be trying to make il as uncom-
Portable for us as possible, and does not
propose to relax his efforts a whit because
of the change OF season.
| Among the persons named for Speaker
OF the next House of Representatives, none
have mere claims upon the Republican
party than has the Hon. d. G. Haskell. of
Kansas. Mr.. Haskell has served as Speak.
er OF the House in Kansas, and was uni
versally praised for his fine executive abil-
tiles as presiding officer. He labored
zealously and effectually for the great Re-
publican majority Kansas polled last No.
vember.
Kansas, the young giant of the west,
with population of n round million,wiih
her 10000 Republican majority, and with
her Thousands OF active, energetic, pracli-
cal broad-guaged men. Kansas. the ban
ner, Republican Sa'e should not be ig-
nored. So far, she has been given the cold
shoulder. The Republican party owes her
much, for it was the free soil OF Kansas
that gave rise to that party; it was that
struggle, fought out to the bitter end, that
connected the hearts and hands Of every
freedom-loving son OF Anericn, which cnl.
minated in the election Of Lincoln the
striking off of the shackles that had for
centuries torn and feslered the bodies and
souls of 100000 human beings; the blot
ting ont forever of that stigma upon free
institutions, that practically gave the liz
TO onr g!ittering claim that we were free
people. Kansas. for twenty years has beei
a strong Republican State, and in all thai
time has never been represented in tl,
council OF the Nation, and her claims have
been recognized. Her sister State, Iowa
is well repre-, ented, and the placing OF Mr.
Haskell in the Speakers chair would b'
but slight recognition by the party Of th'
services rendered by the State which he i,
part now 80 ably represents.
The appointment OF Hon. j. G. Blaine
to the head of the State Department wa
taken MT time 10 mean change in III
, foreign pulley Of the United States and
its dealings with foreign Governments. AM
Americans generally congratulated them
selves in the fact that AT last we had II MAJ
ut the head of the department. throug
which, more than any other, the prince
powers and polentates of the world ar
, brought in official contact with the Unite
, States, on whom they could rely for til
vindication of American honor and III
protection of American interests whereve
: whenever and however assailed, Just no
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