The Portland daily press., 1885-04-23
Current Comment,
GLADsToNE's SAVAGE EASTERN POLICY.
Philadelphia News

GLADsToNE's SAVAGE EASTERN POLICY.
Philadelphia News.
WAR to the knife" cries Gladstone, ssbut
please wait a few weeks till can sharpen
it.o
THEY MUST LIVE ON THE RECoLLEcTIoNs OF
THE PAST.
North American.
The half-breeds have met with wonderful
success in Manitoba, but the achievements
OF tne MugWumps appear to be over.
IT rs WORKING WEST.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Nathaniel Conant, OF Meddybemps, Me-.
received 81 800 pension money short time
ago, and has since fallen heir to $1,000. 600.
de may not be considered very lucky, but
has at least been partially compensated for
consenting to live in town called Needy
bemps.
CLIPPED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE AM
BITIoUs.
Burlington Gazette.
A young man who is ambitious to try
clerkship at Washington should take warn
ing from the career of the Oldest clerk in the
Treasury Department. Appointed ia lS47 at
salary of 81 200, he is now getting 1,400
"a rise OF 5000 in thirty-eight years.
TO CELEBRATE GRANTS BRTHDAY.
Philadelphia Press.
Louisville voices the general Thanksgiving
OF the land in proposing to celebrate Gen.
Grants Gath birthday next Monday with a
public meeting, an example which other cit
les are requested to follow and which they
would do well to initiate.
THE NUMERICAL VALUE OF THE MUGwUMPs.
N. Y Sun.
The Legislature has to settle very i'm
portant question in regard to the State CEN
sns. We refer to the enumeration of the
Mugwumps., Shall each Mugwump be reck-
oned as equal in value to one, three or ten
ordinary citizens in making up the total pop
ulation? We should say it ought to be about
ten.
REFoRMERs AND RAscALs.
N. Y, Tribune
For sublime and colossal impudence COM
mend us to the average Democratic journals.
Here we have these people already exclaim-
ing what marvellous change has come
about in the Government, and how pure and
spotless it is, and with what fidelity the
work of the departments goes on. These
men seem not to know, or they would like
the work in every branch of the public SER
vice is to-day done by those very "rascals''
whom they are SO anxious to turn out.
THINKS THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT.
Senator Evarts.
/ have never known a more complete
union OF feeling in New York than now ex-
lists. don't believe that from the first con-
troll OF the Government by the Republican
party until now there has been a more thor
ough, more general, more deliberate and
more resolute condition of feeling than
that the country that prespered under the
republican party, and placed before the
world as wonder of civilization, of courage
and manhood, will prevail, and that the fu-
ture exhibition to the admiration of the
world shall be under the same auspices, and
with the same array of banners and trum-
pets.
ToRY'S VIEW OF THE AFGHAN QUESTION.
Lord Randolph Churchill.
The task of governing India is one of great
difficulty and danger. The sometimes
stealthy, sometimes open, always gradual,
but ure advance of Russia, now like SER
pent, then like tiger, absolutely prevents
the government or India from acquiring real
stability or of striking roots deeply among
the native people. Until the malignant and
insiduous advance of Russia has been per-
manently arrested it is foolish to hope for
real social progress in India, whose princes
and people only remain loyal while England
fultls her pledges. The question has reached
an acute crisis Therefore, ii the present
debates with Russia have shown failures on
our part to oppose once for all her hostile
designs, our rule in India. will receive a NOR
tai blow. The deadly decepitude which fell
on the old Hindoo and Mogul empires will
fall on England, and the humiliation of our
power will be only question of time.