Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-02-10
PESsNSULAR PRESS.
Euitorins Comments by thc Raia-
ware and Eastern sbare News
papers.

EditOrin. Comments by tIlc pa,a-
ware and Eastern Share News
papers.
The SUSSEX Journal does not like the
way the Philadelphia Times talks about
the inhumanity of Sussex people toward
their bound boys. II says: just what
efect the Misrepresentation of the Phiia-
deiphis Times correspondent will have
upon those who have the children appren-
ticed from the Orphans homes, cannot be
told. 1t may be that many of our best
and kindest farmers will give the boys up
since they are 30 widely reported ~,
heathens and Hottentuta. That bound
boys are often ill.treated in almost every
community Is q sad fact That Sussex
county hfs "A few OF these hard task
MASTER do not care to deny, hut would
R'H7'y hem Justly dealt with. That
the +. m of Sussex are more cruel and
, inhuDlan, than any other people is libel
upon onr community. That the people of
Georg '"sn are sensitive to the abuse of
heira+S children and ready to relieve
them "a evidenced by the fact that the
, oniy two oases coming under the law
iats'y passed for the protection OF these
children have been xamined by the Justice
NN'''h fNcf'N VI NhA
Tbs Georgetown Inquirer gives another
instance ot plain talk this week. 'Isaac
N. Mills Is big man--probaLIy bigger
than the State of Delaware, but he can't
persuade people to believe it. Having run
Republican convention in Dover last
spring, he now thinks, or his master, the
p, W. & b. effects to presume that he
can manage Democratic Legislature and
prevent the construction Of competing
line. But the gauzo is too thin, Isaac /;
entirely too thin
Lewes Light. "rbe Baltimore & Ohio
railroad hiss not exhibited the best general
ship in its management of the schemes
before the Delaware Legislature In its
interest. Instead of keeping its opponents
In the dark as to whether II favored the
the Newark, Wilmington & Western Rail-
road bill, 1t has shown so deoi6ed q prefer
enoe for the latter that the former has
been temporarily withdrawn, and all the
tremendous force Of rival corporations
will be concentrated to kill the latter. The
Baltimore d Ohio will have to do better
than this if it expects to succeed in build.
ing new line from Baltimore to Phila.
delphia."
Dover DeLaDarean. Whatever else may
be done in reference to the public debt of
this State we trust its payment will not be
postponed day longer than Il can be dis
charged by the application of the revenues
Of the State to the purpose. We should
be glad to see the last dollar paid, and the
State occupy the financial position she did
before the war-euiire freedom from debt
of any character. No State deb was ever
created for a nohler purpose than that
which the exigeucies Of the war forced
upon us, and none was more faithfully
applied to the object for which II was
created, or moro beneficial In its results.
Dover Dela'o ps1a Application, we
understand, has or will be made to the
Legislature to exempt certain lands In this
State from taxation for a certain number
of years, with view OF encouraging emil
grafton to and settlement upon said lands.
without raising at present the question Of
constitutional authority for any such
exemption, we may ba allowed to say no
such proposition is worthy moments
consideration. In the first place. no Glars
OF people ought to desire TO have special
privileges of rhis character. and If they SO
desire they are not more entitled to them
than other people. In the second place,
If inducement ID necessary to procure emf
grafton to, and settlement upon, said
lands, the owners who desire to sell can
furnish such irducsmen- by selling at
lower price. Perhaps thay could remit
one-half the price asked for tine lands and
then obtain more than they gave, and
more than it ia worth, We hope the
Legislature will entertain no such proposi-
ton. Equality before iha law" ought
no, to bs more universal than equality
under the law.
The Dover State Sentinel, in view of the
recent fire. calls for public meeting Of
the ctizans to take measures FOR praaur-
ing Are apparatus. It says there has heen
enough talk an it's no time for action.
Miidletown Transcript. Superin-
tendent II. F Keuuey Of tho Phiiadelphia,
Wilmington Il Baltimore railroad, has done
a good thing, for which III pubic ought
to Hend him vote Of thanks and gold
headed cane. He has is utd circular
requesting passengers not to pay more.
and instructing news agents not to ask
more, than the priutad price for nsws-
papers. Travellers have top long been i'm
posed on by these news sharks, who have
acquired double plated b1ier-irou
'cheek," aud eau looh man square In
the eva and charge 10 cents tor pape
that cost them two cents Sooner than
have . controversy over a trifls of eight
cents the traveller usually submits to rob-
berry, aud the shark smiles ard passes to
another victim, MIR. Kanuey's plan for
the protection Of his passengers against
these traiu sharks ought to be adopted by
the superinteudent of every railroad in the
country.