Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-08

THE EVENING STAR
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THURSDAY.-.. ...........-..October 9, 1855.
CROSBY .. NOYEs.-----.-...--....-... Editor.
NE Evesing Star has "a regular. permanent
bDua 0de daily Giro uiafiou more than treble
that Of any other daily paper published Ina
Washinsron, and equal tn that OF all the
ether daily papers here added together.
In England, party policy is defined in
speeches or manifestos by authorized leaders
instead of by a set of resolutions adopted in
convention. Mr.. Parnell Mr.. Gladstone, and
now Lord Salisbury have declared the issues of
the campaign SO that the fight may be said
TO be fairly opened. 1t is To be noticed, how
ever, that all three of these representative men
deal cautiously and somewhat vaguely with
the questions of the hour. Evidently, they are
watching one another and are not prepared
as yet to strike out boldly on an aggressive and
clear-cut policy.
Lord Salisbury, in his last nights speech, de-
clared that it was the policy of the government
TO uphold the Turkish empire, and yet he as
serted that 1t was not the duty of England to
interfere in the present difficulties in Eastern
Roumelia, which would seem to be rather in
consistent statements. He insisted on the in
tegrity of the British empire as against the Irish
sepaTatists; and favored an easier code of land
laws, thaugh not of a kind advocated by the
radicals under Mr.. Chamberlain. He strongly
upheld the union of church and state.
The address Is generally praised even by the
liberal newspapers The Times seems to like 1t
least though of late "the Thunderer'' has shown
n tendency to swing away from sympathy
with Gladstone and the liberals, in favor Of the
tories.
The Rev. DIR. Curry, who has been selected by
the President to succeed Col. Foster as our min
ister to spain, is a man OF distinction, of char
acter and of varied experience. He received a
collegiate education, then studied law, and
practiced with success, fought in the Mexican
war, entered politics and was elected to the
legislature OF Alabama and subsequently to
Congress q representative from that state,
fought in the "LOst cause" then. at the close of
the war, studied theology and entered the min
istry, became president of college and has
held q number of important trusts, the most
conspicuous being the general agent of the Pea
body Fund, to which he succeeded on the death
OF DIR. Sears. He now turns new leaf by enter
ing diplomatic service in q most honorable
capacity.
A man of such extensive acquaintance with
Life should be we'll equipped for the office of a
foreign minister, where the qualities of good
Judgment, knowledge of affairs and courtesy of
lions with Spain are more delicate than with
almost any other foreign power and our min
lister at Madrid needs to be chosen with CORE
spending care. At first sight, certainly, DIR.
Curry would seem to fill the bill.
Bishop Taylor's 4uiXOtic missionary scheme,
II seems, has already come to grief. 1t will be
remembered that some time ago a colony of
fifty persons under his leadership set sail for
the west coast OF Africa on a selfsupporting
basis. The Idea was to engage at once in agri-
culture and the mechanic arts, while propagat-
ing religion, and thus spread the gospel without
charge. The project was one that defended it.
self on the authority of the usage of the primi-
tive church, and in the hands of just the right
leader 1t might have succeeded. But the pres
ent experiment seems to have failed. 1t is re-
ported that the colony are in destitute crcum-
stances, and are a charge not on the home
churches, indeed, but on the local government
In the Portuguese settlement of Beguela. The
missionaries have apparently the innocence OF
doves, but are lacking in the wisdom of SER
penis. though the latter quality Is peculiarly
useful in a region where snakes are SO common.
The report of the grand jury in the Rock
Springs Chinese massacre case, in which no in
dictmentj are found, is not a satisfactory end
of the inquiry. The jury are careful to say that
they are sorry that the information before them
is too vague to justify action, and they declare
emphatically that the riots were without ex-
cuse, and tina. somebody ought To be punished.
But .glittering generalities' are cheap. Unless
the guilt is fastened where il belongs, and the
culprits are punished, the general belief will be
that the oca, authorities have neither the dispo-
sition courage 10 enforce the law.
It is time for revival OF the "Song of the
Shirt The hands in q large shirt mandatory
BtrucI yesterday because their scale OF pay was
30 reduced tina they can make only AZ cents a
day, instead of 90 cents, which they have been
earning. The employers defend their action by
saying that they pay the highest wages in the
business, and claim that the vacant places car
be easily filled by people anxious TO WORK at the
lower rate.
We have quite enough trouble with native
coiners of genuine silver money without the
further complication of Italian counterfeiters,
and hence 1t is gratifying to hear that our police
force have captured a nest of these mischief
makers and locked them up before they were
able TO do much harm.
Quite q number of clerks are going home to
vote. but there will be no Grassland features
this year.
Secretary Endicott TO the detached staff
officers: go west, young men, go westv'