Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-25
Current Opinion.

The Hartford Courant: One of
the queerest things in this queer
world is the delusion which periodi-
cally seizes upon some excellent peo-
pie about election time that the cause
OF temperance can be somehow pro-
noted by cooperating indirectly, to
be sure, but efFectually) with the
whisky sellers at the polls,
The New York Tribune: a great
number of duties could be named
which the majority of the people
would infinitely prefer to have re-
moved rather than the taxes on liquors
and tobacco. Mr.. Randall may
please some politicians and some
liquor dealers by his motion. But
he will not find the plain people of
this country anxious 10 bear taxes on
everything else in order to have free
whisky.
The Cincinnati Gazette: The
whole talk Of Northern capital as
the one want TO make the South as
progressive and rich as the North,
misconceiyes the great progressive
force in the North. Not Eastern
capital, but men, have created such
great States as Iowa and Minnesota,
which forty years ago were a wilder
ness. They who convert this will
dernes5 to farm are not capitalists;
they are men of small means, who
90 West to take up cheap lands and
make farms by their own hard work.
The Philadelphia Press: All that
the act of Congress proposed to
guarantee to color, d citizens is guar
auteed in the broadest manner Ivy
the Pennsylvania statutes. Tie
schools Of all grades, the railway
cars aud other modes Of public con-
yeyance, the entree to amusements,
hotels, etc, are all declared statutory
rights of cologed citizens. The citi-
zenship of the Union knows no dis
tiuction of race or color, and every
state, North and South, is bound by
the plain terms of the Constitution
TO guarantee equality of civil rights
To white and black. Let the her
states promptly follow in th4 foot
steps of Pennsylvania aud provide
10y local statutes for the generous
fultillment Of the obligations of the
CONSTITUTE II that is the paramount
law of every section of the Union.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Con tituton:
GOV. Murray shows that no lawful
government exists in Utah, or has
existed since the establishment of nm
ecclesiastical government by the
Mormons thirty years ago. The.
township, district and county officers
are not nominated by the Governor
and confirmed by the Legislature rs
the organic act of 1850 says they
shall be- The expressed will Of
Congress has been deliberately VIC
lated and the Legislature has inform
ed the Governor that his nomina-
tons are unnecessary. Not only
has the Edmunds law been uullifed,
but many other avs Of Congress
have been defeated, and many are
to-day holding Office that are not en-
titled under the laws to cast n vote.
Instead of holding $4,000 in a
county, as the law permits, one assoc
citation for religious and charitable
purposes holds real estate in a single
county to the value of s2,5O0,o0U.
The laws Of Congress are in other
words almost wholly ignored; and
Gov Murray very naturally eX-
presses wish for something stronger
than an act of Congress to put down
SO formidable a conspiracy. Con-
gress should certainly see that its
acts are executed, or else stop the
mill that grinds them ont. The
Mormons are really in full rebellion
against the general Government,
and the sooner they are forced to
show their hand or accept the Will
of Congress, the better for us all.