The Washington critic., 1886-07-24


and Congressman Frederick, whose
loyalty to the interests of his constitu.
ents will not permit him to brook for a
moment any such imputation upon the
great Commonwealth, which he has the
honor Of so faithfully representing, is
the first man to present himself at this
office with club to demand satisfac-
ton. Ills club is In the shape Of II
voluminous and well printed State doc.
umeut, containing exhaustive statistics
Of the census Of Iowa for 1885, and de-
monstraiing beyond the shadow of
doubt that instead of retrograding the
population has increased since 1880 from
1,G2LGlj to 1,153,0S0. We do not pro
pose to buck against official figures like
these. We take great pleasure, indeed,
in making this dmcHde hoHoraJle for the
mistake of an outside contributor; and
all the greater pleasure, for the reason
that THE CRITIC is part Iowau itself
and has sincere admiration for the
enterprise and worth and good quail
ties generally Of the Iowa people.
SIR CHARLES dixie having been
selected as the victim, in order that the
husband of a proiligate woman might
obtain legal dissolution of his mar
riage bond, goes to the Continent, vir-
tually an exile from his native land
and loaded with vastly greater
amount Of disgrace than attaches to
any one else involved in the filthicst
scandal of the day. II may be said Of
Sir Charles that through his selection
for the sacrifice by Mr.. Crawford. his
downfall is complete. The god-son Of
the Queen of England, one of the
principal leaders for years in the great
Liberal party, the man of wealth and
brains, the man whose ambition to be
Premier of England was by no means
a baseless day dream, will wear hence.
forth brand as inefTaceable as that
which the immortal Thackcray put
upon the Marquis of Steyne. There Is
no social redemption, no political
rescue, no effective penitence for this
worlds uses in the case of Sir Charles.
The man who had all there was to lose
in this most shameful matter has lost
1.-THE rest had no distance to fall.
THE Clarke County, Va, Democrats
are unanimous in the opinion that Rep
resentative Ferrall should return to
the next House. They have adopted
resolutions, in which they say that Mr..
OFerrall 'fs all the representative we
are looking for, and fills the bill to a
gnat's heel" The resolutions also say
that Mr.. O'Ferrall must come back to
Congress, and "there abide until
Gabriel sounds his trump, or at least so
long as he proves as faithful as he has
been in the past, and continues to be-
have himself personally and politically
to our satisfaction and to his honor"
The Clarke County Democrats have
done Mr.. o'Ferrall proud.
THE defence in the Anarchist cases
at Chicago have adopted new tactics.
They now want TO show that the con-
spirators had no more serious intent
than to "scare the capitalists" and
that much Of what they said and did,
was said and done merely for effect.
They threw away all chance Of leaning
on this prop when they exploded their
bomb at Haymarket Square. There
were no capitalists" there to be
Scared" 1t was then that the founda
tions of social order were undermined
and the defendants cannot crawl out oil
their terrible responsibility on the
ilimsy plea that it was all joke.
Mr.. EDMUNDs resolution directing
the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
TO sit during the recess and inquire
into our somewhat strained relations
with the colonial authorities of Grea
Britain in Canada may serve a good
| purpose, in the absence of other de
iinilive information upon what is be
coming subject of great and genera
interest. The fishermen are naturally
impatient with mere exchange o
taify between the American State De
partment and the British Foreign OF
flee, that has already cost them half ,
season without reaching result.
THE President might find warrant
for vetoing the Oleomargarine bill sucl
as he has not found in his pension
vetoes. A measure which condemns
the American people to perpetuatioI
of bad butter at fancy prices and denie
to the poor man the privilege of buy
ing substitute for it, is certainly no
good or just legislation, geY does /
look like brave and .bonGst legislation
The Government should have left tn
whole matter to State regulation; it ha'
9e-Dusincss in Congress.
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THE next yearly meeting of tn
American Bankers Association will b
held in Boston, beginning August Il
and 1t is understood that one of tn
chief topics of discussion will be th
extension of the banking syster
through the South. The associatio
will also discuss at some length tn
subject of commercial aud eXtraditio
treaties, and in all probability pay il
respects to the Morrison surplus resC
luton.
THE Payne investigation Is off an
the country is to be congratulated
The Government Printing ONCE