Sword and shield., 1885-05-02
Opinions Of the Press.

/ ~ UUuh-hCCP1nS Hdo SIGdI dufdH-
tage over Mr.. BoutweIPs. The Re-
publican Secretary upset the popu-
lar belief that figures won't lie.
The Democratic Secretary restores
it. 1t is a renaissance. Brooklyn
Eagle, Dem.
The slanders which the republican
party has made SO large a part Of its
stock in trade are shown to be base
less, and in the inevitable reaction
both whites and blackes must share
confidence in the justice and wis
dom Of the Democratic party, when
they see how fully it will deserve it.
Boston Post, Dem.
1t is not too late to increase the
acreage in food supplies, so that
when fall comes, if provisions be high
and cotton low, the farmer will find
himself entrenched behind his own
well stored barns. Ifno war comes
he will still be well off. The cotton
bale may make good breastworks
for soldiers, but the farmer will find
it safe to fight behind a we'll stuffed
barn.-Macon Messenger
Certainly if pleuro-pneumonia
exists among the horned animals of
the United States to anything like
the alleged extent, it is folly to palter
with the fact. The disease may on
" be eradicated by the application
of the actual cautery, and the sooner
efficient measures are adopted for
combating il wherever it prevails the
better for all concerned. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The Governor of San Salvador
seems to have acted in an arbitrary
and entirely uniustifiable manner in
preventing telegraphic communiea-
tion between the United States gov
ernment and the officials represen-
tatiye to the Central American
Republics. Secretary Bayard will be
quite within his right if he reads to
the government of this offending
country lesson in international
courtesy.-Boston Herald, Ind.
If the Democratic administration
had accomplished nothing more, it
would have done a great and benef
cial work in emancipating the mind
Of the people from ignorance and pref
udice. The whole people will be
happier for it, and the nation will be
more prosperous from the knowledge
that the country honor and the peo-
Piles rights are safer under Demo
cratic than under a Republican
administration.-New York World,
Dem.
It lis true, Barrios committed abom-
Unable cruelties and devoted the sur
plus of the Guatemaltecan treasury
to his personal use, but he kept down
rivals of the Preston variety by de-
capitation and other represSive meas
ure, and peaceful industry was prob
ably quite as secure under his rule
as under that of his neighbors. The
Central American population seem
to be still in that stage OF political
evolution in which the .'strong
man is good for them, even if the
strong man occasionally coVets the
goods of his neighbors. New York
Times.
During a recent balloon ascension,
made under the direction of the Sig
nal Service Bureau at Philadelphia,
a gentleman made some admirable |
sketches of the city and its approach
es, and took numerous Photographic
views. Among these was one Of a
large forest fire, raging in the Jer
sey pine woods The series ofascen-
sions just completed has been made
to develop the resources Of balloon
ing for military observations, and has
furnished important data in this d.
rection and in meteorology.
They have all been under the imme-
diate supervision Of Lieut.. L. E. Sc
bree, of the Signal Corps, Wash
ington. Times Democrat.
Secretry Bayard has instructed all
our consuls in Europe and South
America to notify him Immediately
on the appearance of cnolera in their
districts, so that the pub
lie will be warned in time. But the
main point is to put our houses iii
order and to remove all incentives to
epidemic. Every one should take
j personal interest in this matter,
for it is too serious nature to be
lightly passed over. All legislation
necessary to add to the work of pre-