Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-14

Republican position by declaring that
his party had, at the outset of
the legislative session, presented its
"ultimatum'' in the matter of appor-
tlonment, will render it impossible for i;
to wiggle away from the attitude. which
it has thus rashly assumed, that 1t was
not called upon to show disposition to
compromise in order that the constitu
tiOnal mandate requiring the apportion-
ment of the state by the Legislature
should be obeyed. II will get to be a
very hot position to hold during the
campaign, and ths party maintaining it
will be badly burned by it, We think.
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AGAIN the physicians have abandoned
all hopes Of Count de Cha mborA's recovery.
Heavy obituary editorials will be in order
very soon.
1T is a curious fact about suicides that
Immediately before shuff1ing off this mcr-
tai coil they are always in a cheerful
| frame of mind.
THE Republicans in the Senate have
refused all conference, and will take their
ultimatum or nothing. Now that the re-.
cord is clearly made up the Democratic
party may supinely await the ultimatum
of the people.
ANOTHER finder box, the Devon Inp,
has gone up in smoke. Again the warn
ing voice is raised anent frame hotels and
lack of fire escapes, and again the wise
mans monition is treated with d;saa IL.
So runs the world away.
TIE sad suicide of Senator A..so' 8
wife is softened by the knowledge that it
was not deliberate, but resulted from
mental arrangement. Many in humble
circumstances complain that none but the
we althy enjoy life, while the newspapers
of the day fairly bristle with the suicides
of those enjoying affluence. Wealth can
not minister to a mind diseased, and in
the mad struggle for riches this fact should
not be forgotten. Too many have made
the accumulation of money the one absorb
ing thought, allowing the heart to become
petrified to domestic joys, and the hallow-
ed influences of home have in consequence
ceased to be poteut. Wealth and honors
are good things, but sturdy constitution,
clear conscience and hopeful spirit will
make their possessor far happier.
THE heads of departments in Washing
ton do not seem disposed to give the civil
service commissioners much aid in the
Inauguration of their system. Secretary
Lincoln is roaming through the Yellow.
stone region, while the commission vainly
watches for his return to choose from q
number who have passed the examination
ordeal som, minor clerks in the war de-
partment. Secretary Teller, of the inte
rior department, also adds his mite t(
increase their embarrassment. He holes
that as the word male is used only in The
law authorizing civil service examination
it applies only to men, and that he has
the right to appoint women clerks as HI
desires without requiring them to pass a
competent or civil service examination
The commissioners are heartsick over thl
treatment they have received. Great il
civil service reform.
AFTER all, although it has proven ex
ceedingly impotent, SO far as the present
condition of tho country is concern
ed, the recent outbreak in Spain. which
took upon it many of the character
istics of formidable revolution, ha.
become an occurrence worthy of serious
consideration. Not without reason ani
as much with justness the uprising of th'
Egyptians under the leadership of Arab
Pasha was considered as the earnest
though unsuccessful, attempt Of a people
to cast from them the despotic aud abhcrreG
sway of a potent nation whose axioms o.
government as regards the acquisition and
retention of territory are founded on thu
oppression of the taxpayer and the belch-
ing of cannon and equally AS well is the
commotion in Spain, which is but an echt
of all oppressed Europe, an action which
tends strongly to demonstrate the dlssatis
faction of the populace with unscrupulous
rule. Certainly the government of Spair
is not exceedingly, if very markedly
severe, and its rulers are in no small do.
gree interested in the condition of theil
subjects. But the course of events in the
old world are too we'll outlined to deceive
the observing, who have little difficulty in
discerning the revolutionary spirit which
extends from the frozen confines of Russia
to the sunny countries of Southern Europe,
where chivalric spirits chafe under the
practice of wrong and long for the moment
of their deliverance. The divine rights
and puissance Of kings, SO strenuously
maintained by Carlyle, are but the rem.
nants of dark and deluded superst:tious
era, which must fall ere long before the
advance of the genial and ameliorating
influences of an enlightened age and a
manlier civilization.
FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS.
The Norristown Herald wo,4ld like to
see return to simpler methods in taking
the census of 1890.
The Harrisburg Independent thinks the
people will in future assume the bossing
of political parties.
The Harrisburg Patriot calls on the
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