National Republican., 1882-07-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The name of the Repression bill COM
mends it to the cordial support of the
House of Lords.
In THE shrek of 500-pound shell
there is persuasive eloquence that has
never been compassed in the rhetoric of
diplomates.
CAPTAIN PAYNE hopes, by use of great
diligence, to get himself in good shape
to be finally suppressed" again on the
Goth instant.
If the Democratic party would realize
its bright hope of getting its campaign
funds from England it must suppress all
| its prominent protectionists.
IT appears pretty certain that the Nor
mon brethren will not get the $l30,0O0
that they want as compensation for COM
pelling the government to send an army
against them.
TIE approval Of his conscience, the re-
spect of good men, and q liberal income
combine to render ex-senator Platt SUI
premely Indifferent to the sneers of the
Democratic press.
THE chief object of Bourbon concern
that which thrills all the chords of the
Bourbon heart with deep and tender
pathos-is the preservation of the Re-
publican party in the South intact and
isolated.
DEATH is scarcely more certain than
the detection, disgrace, and punishment
of postal peculators; but the news re-
ports still show that good many young
men are taking their changes in this ter
| rible lottery.
| How to straddle so as to make the en-
| tire person appear on both sides of the
| fence at the same moment is q difficult
feat in political 'acrobatics but the Ohio
| Democrats mean to achieve this in their
policy on the liquor question.
THE Democratic party are as coolly
discussing an alleged proposition to sell
Irish votes as if the Instantaneous
were tied up in punches, like asparagus
to be sold at so much bunch. The
Land Leaguers will take notice.
How very mad Old Man Massey must
have felt when he found himself openly
accused of "aiiiliation" in the editorial
columns Of the central Democratic organ
We had meyer even expected that the
old gentleman would affiliate"
A MoNTANA paper tells of corpse that
was buried in grave seven feet deep
but managed to reappear in the busy
haunts of men, and is now hale and
hearty. Such tenacity of life has been
hitherto supposed to belong only to Dem.
ocratic Presidential aspirants.
SuAKspEARE's remark that when the
brains are out n man must die is indorsed
by the Post. This may be the case with
individuals, butso long as the Democratic
party lives the world will know that
brain is not essential to the existence OF
men in an organized capacity.
IT may be true, as claimed by Il distin-
guished educator, that an educated per-
son will pick more cotton, or do more
common labor ofany kind, than an igno-
rant person. 1t is, also, most lamentably
| true that thousands of half-educated peo-
pie are ashamed to labor and unfit for
anything else.
CAPITALISTS need not take alarm at the
mercurial rise during these bright sum-
the heat reaches 1883 degrees, and even
the reviled and prosecuted "In-God.
We-Trust" dollar will hold its own
against anything less than $50 degrees.
Let us be cheerful.
BEFORE Mr. Moody unlimbered his
spiritual battery, with view to the con,
| VERSION Vi lH6 fTCHCH llclIOlOllS, lit
should read the thrilling story of thai
gallant little taurine quadruped thai
started out with the ground-plan ant
ear-elevation of scheme for butting {
railway train off the track,
How very far behind the age our Mex
lean neighbors are is clearly shown b,
the fact that they are often hurt anc
sometimes killed when they go out OF
"the field of honor" They have got t.
learn from us that, when properly under
Stood no amusement is more eminently
conducive to longevity than the duello
IT would be well for all philanthro
pists tstorememberthatth the one thing man
is the most likely 10 do, within certain
limits, is the thing he is assured he mus
not do. The incorporate zeal of fanat
les is responsible for large proportion
of the ills that wait on frail humanity
The habits of men may be controlled, L
q great extent by wholesome regulations
but restraints that inevitably provok,
angry resistance are of doubtful utility.