Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-10
SPIRIT OFF THE PRESS.

SPIRIT OFF THE PRESS.
THE NEW SILENT MAN.
Phils delphia Times.
Grant Is no longer the prize ST.
lent man. Arthur has captured
that championship.
WHAT Is NEEDED
Chicago Times.
Let it be repeated and borne in
upon the public mind, that it ia not
more or better laws that we need
and must soon have. 1t is more
conscientious and common sense
administration of the laws we
have. When that great end shall
have been comprised, it will be
ample time to agitate for better
laws.
WHICH IS WHICH?
Greensboro IN. c. Tribune.
1t seems to noe a little difficult
to tell whether Guiteau is on the
side Of the prosecution or that of
the defense at the murder trial at
Washington.
WHAT TROUBLES CoLFAX.
Boston Post.
1t must grind the feelings of the
over sensitive statesman, Mr..
Schuyler Colfax, to see James F..
Wilson riding the crest of a popu-
lar wave in Iowa that is to land
him high and dry in the United
States Senate. Colfax and Will
son were partners in the Credit
Mobilier scandal, and Wilson was
as deeply involved as Colfax.
Such is life.
THE PENSION DRAIN.
New York Post.
The enormous drain upon the
Treasury caused by the pensions
arrears act threatens to upset, for
| a period of several years at least,
all the financial calculations based
upon the so-called surplus reve-
nue.. The Commissioner of Pen
sions estimates that in addition to
the sum of 500, 000, 900 already
paid TO the arrears of pensions,
1896, 600, 600 more will be required
for the same purpose.
A NEAT IDEA OF DOR5EY's.
Boston Globe.
That il rather d neat and powell
ID. ,F 10 rzTxyt.- y nnhinfr a npJ-
Vate secretary 50 well skilled in
forging his signature that the very
tellers at the bank cannot tell the
real writing from the imitation.
We wonder, now, what documents
Dorsey expects to see turn up
soon, and is so anxious to be in a
position to repudiate?
THE POPULAR THREE HUNDRED
AND SIX.
Washing ton Dispatch, Press, Rep.
The only candidates of impOr-
lance for the succession of John
G.. Thompson's position r James
II. Davis, of New York; Green
bury l.. Fort, of Illinois, and G..
w. Hooker, of Vermont. From
present indications Mr.. Davis is
decidedly ahead In the race. Mr..
Davis has never held an office. He
was one of the 800 at Chicago so
popular, and would make "a good
officer.
BLAINE's BID.
Baltimore Gazette.
Mr.. Blaine has made his bid for
protectiOnist support for the next
Presidency. La a letter to the Tariff
Convention he expressed his ex-
treme qualification at the fact that
"at no previous time has the prin-
! ciple of protection to American in
dustry been so strong with the
masses rs it is to-day 1t must
have been a little dis%couraging to
him that when the convention got
down to details there was go much
disaccOrdance of purpose. Mr..
Blaine made a strong point in his
reference to the decline of Ameri-
can shipping, and illustrated it by
the fact that the Minister to Bra
I'll to reach Rio Janerio had first
to go to England or France. And
one futher circumstance, that, in
consequence of the lack of Ameri-
can shipping, the balance of trade
with Brazil is $40, 000, 900, which is
spent for European goods, when it
should come to the United States.
Sarah Bernhardt BurIes.