The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-05
EDITORIAL T

SA~AVt "a SVA
Cincinnati will now spend SOM
time in attempting to find out wha
the recent riot was about.
The President has given his las
state dinner for the season and
now ready to buckle on the harpes
for the coming campaign.
Arthur is getting delegates in tn
South where he has no possible shov
Of receiving an electoral vote, am
Blaine is gathering them in in tn
North where the vote would be cas-
for him.
"Chinese' Gordon has abandone'
his policy Of conciliating the Egyp
tians and now proposes to adopt
more rigorous one. The devil mus
be fought with fire in Egypt as vel
IS elsewhere.
Ben Buffers boom seems TO b
locked up somewhere. 1t is not float
ing with the tide which is carrying
30 many Presidential aspirants with
In the charmed circle of which tn
White House is the center.
A New York market report says
'pork at Chicago was feverish and
Irregular" This is the uncandit
saying of q business rival, and its OBJ
ject is to pref udice the public mine
against a staple food product thus
dangerously affected.
Bismarck, it is said. will Withdraw
from the Prussian Ministry that he
may devote mole time to the affairs
of the Empire. Germany should in
sist that the Chancellor be relieved
from all State duties.
1t was rumored upon the streets in
NewYork few days ago that Freddie
Gebhardt had challenged one Living.
ston for calling him a liar and q
coward. AS no mention has been
made of the occurrence in our press
reports, it must be presumed the
little fellow is still saved to purchase
costly presents for Mrs. Langtry.
1t begins to look as though Mr..
Tilden will be almost unanimously
nominated by the National Demo-
cratic Convention at Chicago. AS
the chances for his nomination mul>
tiply, the clamor raised for some few
of the Republican aspirants peroept-
IDLY subsidies. None of them are
anxious to run against the sage of
Grammercy PARK.
It is the burning ambition of
Stephen w. Dorsey to 60 on the
witness stand in the Star Route
investigation, and it is the care of
certain leading Republican politi-
clans to SET that he doesn't get there
before the November elections. Mr..
Dorsey may tell some unpleasant
truths which would interfere with
the harmony OF the Republican
Presidential campaign.
The number killed in the Cincin-
natl riot is now known to be IL, and
the number wounded will reach over
$50, although it will be impossible to
ascertain the exact number of the
latter, as many of the wounded were
taken away and cared for by their
friends, who will not make their
names known for fear Of future
trouble. At the lowest estimate
there was a terrible sacrifice of hui
man life during the three memorable
nights.
The New York World gives whole
sale caution to Cpur d'Alene gold
seekers. FOOD Of all kinds,' it says,
''or rather what kinds there are there
is enormously high, and the prospect
tive miner needs to be rich before he
mining" The inhospitable
of the country Is also pointed
out, the dense timbered region hold
ing the snow in the woods and on the
neart!S nine months in the
year. There is nothing inviting
to the Immigrant adds our eastern
cotempOrary, Except the extravs-
CANT stories about the richness of the
gold finds, and scarcely one of these
has been or can be VERIFIED
This is more sensible talk than We
ind IN some eastern journals where
fifty cents to $50 is given as the pro-
duct of a pan OF dirt.
The newspapers of the country in
the outbreak at Cincin-
1ati are almost unanimous in attrib-
lting that fearful explosion of popu-
lar wrath to the lax administration
Of law and the immunity accorded to
The worst criminals. The mere pass.
age of laws for the punishment of
crime affords no security if they are
not honestly administered. In sew
.ral of our large cities elections are
controlled by the dangerous
element, and the men who
obtain office by such cooperation
Are under a moral obligation to stand
BY their corrupt allies when in peril.
This prostitution of power and per-
of Justice have been carried
70 such q length that public senti.
nent has become outraged, and this
terrible outburst ! n the Queen City
8 the elimination of a feeling that
las long been gathering force. The
price paid has been a fearful one, but
he useful lesson it enforces may
prove worth all it has cost.
The proposition to create a silk cul-
,ure bureau to establish i've silk Gull
ure stations in the United States
to mind the tea.raislng pro-