National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-17

q seat in either branch of any national
! legislature is to n greater or less extent
directly interested in matters on which
he will be called to vote.
PERHAPS this is the worst country on
the globe for priests or parsons when
as is seldom the case-they get beyond
the spirital concerns of their flocks, and
attempt to direct them in temporal mat
ters.
As TO live stock, Texas has the most
| cattle, Iowa the most swine Ohio leads
in sheep, although California bids fair to
outstrip her in few years, while New
York has 100000 cows, or nearly double
the number of any other State.
PRINCETON COLLEGE is going to send an
expedition to Dakota to collect fossils,
| which seems an unnecessary eXpendi-
ture of time and money while there are
so many wonderful uncollected fossils on
the Democratic side of the House.
TnE time is rapidly drawing nearwhcn
the removal" of Guiteau will compel
the bold and incisive editors of the nett
trail press to fall back again on Judas
lscariot. BY the way, Judas must feel
refresh he'd having had a continuous rest
since last July.
THE alleged fact that cattle were lifted
and carried long distances by recent
cyclones in the Southwest inspires the
hope that the scientific subordination
and utilization of this great motor may
aid in solving the problem of cheap
transportation.
GENERAL 1GNATIEFF thinks there is
such thing as Nihilism yet remaining
I" in a latent state" in Russia. The de-
stroying power of dynamite is latent"
but the facility with which it is developed
is as wonderful as the sudden eruptions
of Nihilistic fury.
THE surest way to check Bourbon cleo
i ton rascalities is to make them unproiit-
able. If stolen seats in the House are
permitted TO remain in possession of
fraudulent occupants, there will be no en-
couragement for Republican majorities
to elect their candidates.
Dun able, athletic, and esteemed morn
ing contemporary greatly errs in pre-
scribing Democratic rule as n remedy for
Republican mistakes. A corn on n toe
does not require amputation of a leg.
Decapitation would cure toothachc,
but it is q remedial agency seldom re-
sorted to.
SINCE the time when an Austrian
army, awfully arrayed. boldly by battery
besieged Belgrade, the Skuptisctrina has
not been so fearfully torn and distorted
as it was by the sudden resignation of
thrty-two members the other day. No
wonder the ministry felt that it was pre-
cipitated into the vortex of q roaring
crisis.
Nopublic improvement was ever made
that did not, in some way, promote pri-
yate interests. We cannot even select n
site for post-oflice and erect a building
thereon without greatly enhancing the
value of real estate in that vicinity.
Shall we, then, have no post-oflices? Let
theopponents of the Mississippi improve
ment ponder on this line of argument.
THERE is n tremendous upheaval of the
Democratic mind consequent on q recent
exchange of visits between Messrs.
Black, Hancock, and Tilden. We vio-
late no confidence in intimating that
Judge Black had prepared another theo-
logical treatise and desired to submit it
to his friends Hancock and Tilden before
launching it against Colonel Ingersoll.
For taking the census of poultry in ad
vance of incubation commend us to the
Democratic press-the press that elected
| N1tIItll'ln III JCDt seymour III lOOO,
Greeley in 1872, Tilden in 1876, had Han
cocks Cabinet neatly made up in 1880,
and is now arranging neat but not
gaudy Democratic majority in the next
Congress. The delightful traits of Will
kins Micawber and Mark Tapley never
shone more pleasantly than in the Dem
ocratic papers of these days.
A GOVERNMENT that would decline to
improve Il great national highway to the
ocean because such improvement would
be incidentally profitable to a number of
planters, would seem to be adopting the
policy of tho man who cut down his
shade trees because they furnished q
welcome protection from the suns RAYS
to the families of the men who owned
the adjoining lots But there is deal oil
strange philosophy in the human mind
Lorenzo Dow used to tell of a man who
envicd his neighbors an attack of the
itch "because they took so much comfort
in scratching it,"
SINCE the Democratic party succeeded
in plunging the country into the war oil
the rebellion, in which one-half that
party fought against the old flag, while
three-quarters of the other half de.
nounced the war as failure, and roared
for peace on any terms, the Democracy
J has had control of the House for six sue.
cessive years, during the last two oil
which the Senate was largely Demo.
cratic. The record of those years shows
that the one great aim of the party was
to do away with national supervision OF
national elections. For this it struggled
with a zeal worthy of better cause. Tc
put the States on top of the Nation il
convulsed the country and stopped part
of the necessary mechanism Of govern
ment by refusing to make appropriations
But the record of deeds actually accom-
plished is not dreary blank. Quinint
was put on the free list! On this show
ing why should not the next House bt
Democratic?
VIRGINIA CONGRESSMEN.