Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-17
At Home Again.


At Home Again.
Owing to the fire in our building, the night
before Ihe Post was issued on July II, as 1T has
been every day since until this morning. Just
one month later, from the Office OF THE EVEN.
ING STAR. 1t affords US much pleasure In dis
rary. to acknowledge our great obligations and
10 return our heartfelt thanks for It's unfailing
courtesy and uniform kindness. 1t certainly
was a neighbor and friend in time Of need
Washington Post, hug. IL.
In acknowledging the above, THE STAR de.
sires TO congratulate Its neighbor as well on tho
pluck shown under adverse and discouraging
circumstances as on the attractive appearance
1t presents In the new and handsome dress with
which IL is clothed to-day, and to wish for il
not only Immunity from further disasters, but
length Of years and prosperous fortunes. That
THE STAR was able to aid its contemporaries In
an hour of need was as great a pleasure to it
~ II could have been to them. s--<-c-
The objects sought by the professional labor
reformers in urging an extra session of Congress
are OF a sort which take away any sympathy
which the country at large might have for the
movement. Ease and plenty will not come
from upseIting the fiji ancial principles Of the
government. Such radical changes would SIM
ply precipitate a universal panic and leave
labor far worse Off than now. 1t is a thousand
pities that the laboring masses are misrepre-
sent$d In this country by class of selfap-
pointed leaders who do all they can to injure
the true interests of the workingmen.
Still, Iaboring men are not to be blamed for
asking that Congress gives them an extra month
or two of It's time. There is no reason why Con-
gress should not sit in the early autumn, and
thus get a good start In It's winters work before
the snow flies. At present every member of
Congress draws $3.50 from the public Treas
ury before he does a stroke of work beyond i'm
portuning the administration for patronage.
Why should there be this interval of nine
months idieness when 1t is notorious that Con-
gress, from lack of time, fails to cope with its
urgent and important legislative business?
In this dull season, a topic that deserves line
generally gets paragraph, and paragraphs are
inflated into columns. Thus the civil service
troubles at the New York custom house are ex-
aggerated out of all proportion. Some friction
exists, but nothing like a war. 1t was only the
other day that collector Hedden was denounced
for not being politician and for not swinging
the ak. Now he is pitched into as an enemy
OF reform and q "henchman" of the bosses. In
q measure this careless talk is born of mid.
summer desire to fill columns easily. But 1t Is
also due In some degree to a hostile zeal which
would make 1t appear that there must neces-
, sarily be a conflict between true democracy and
the civil service law. Hence the slightest diff
, ferences are magnifed into grave collisions
involving the destruction of one OF the other of
the rivals. 'F+ q - ~ !,
President Cleveland, in his purpose to keep
the public good in his eye, manages to run
against large assortment of private interests.
The ocean steamship companies cannot have
their subsidy; the cattle barons must get out of
the Indian lands, and must pull down their
fences; the land grant railroads must not i'm
pose on settlers; political bosses are kept from
footing the offices, and the army and navy pets
must take their share of service. The latest
sufferer is the express company, which claims
that the government is taking fat contracts out
OF its mouth by transporting coin in q govern
ment vessel instead of sending it as freight.
This style of administration may not be popu-
lar among those who feel the shoe pinch, but in
the historic words of Gen. Bragg, the people
ought to love it for the enemies it makes
The Charity Organization of the city of New
York, in its annual report, says that out of 153
street beggars whose cases have been examined
only 60 are apparently needy and worthy.
Generally speaking these beggars are found to
fall into one Of two classes: those who beg for
means in order to indulge In dissolute habits,
and those who make business of begging be-
cause il pays better than honest work. In con-
clusion, the report says that experience demon
trates that there is no real need or justification
flor street begging, and that to encourage it does
more harm than good.
And human nature is about the same in
Washington as in New York.
The cowardly and dishonest subterfuge by
which Austria wriggled out of receiving Mr.
Kelley gave Mr.. Bayard an opportunity of
dwelling on the religious freedom enjoyed in
this country, aud thereby refreshing the mem
DRY OF Europe On one of the main points of DIFF.
ference between the new and the old world.
Roach's work is good enough, 1t seems, for
I the Colombian government That nation has
Just bought Mr. Corners yacht, recently built
[ by Roach, and is to make a cruiser out of her.
The vessel has made about fifteen knots but
was not fast enough to satisfy her owner, and
90 he has disposed of her.
News that q retired merchant of Philadelphia
who died the other day left an estate valued at
over ten million dollars has brought all the
lawyers of that city back from the simmer