The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-30

1856.
what he saba belief which other people
who wish to think better of the president
will soon bigin to share IT he shall do
nothing to prove that he was in earnest.
It will never do to wink at the abuses
of power by democratic officials which
that party SO long and so justly con-
demned in republicans. If Mr.. CleVe'
land had not been elected, or If he had
never written his letter to Mr.. Curtis, nor
penned the executive order in question,
it would still be true that democrats in
office ought to behave better than repub-
licans in the same position. But Mr..
Cleveland having been elected as pro-
fessed reformer, and having given per-
sonal and official countenance to the idea
that he Is endeavOring to conduct re-
form administration, it is doubly incum-
bent upon him to see that the reform is
not brought into open contempt.
We shall stand up for the presidents
proclaimed principles, even against his
own practices, if need be. And in the
kindest spirit we assure him that the
time is come for him to act. What is
needed now to attest his sincerity and
courage are not more appointments to
office. but the removal of at least one of
the men of his own appointment who
have disobeyed his order and practiced
the abuses which their party has often
denounced. Will the president do his
duty?
BOSTON HERALD.
Lieutenant Governor Ames would APP
pear to be entitled to regard himself in no
small degree as a man of destiny, He
has been in politics but six years, and dur
ing that time he has gained every end
that he had in view. Aside from his own
political advancement, he has procured
the passage of resolutions in the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, by unanimous vote,
calling upon congress to rescind the vote
of censure on his father, and he is firm i'll
the faith that he shall procure the ex
punging of that censure from the record
of the national house of repres entatives.
Everyone must admire the persistency
with which he continues in this purpose.
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Mr.. Parnell's defeat was a foregone con-
clusion. As we pointed out yesterday, his
argument was unanswerable; but then,
the most convincing of verbal demonstra-
tions will go down in parliament befo z
an adverse majority committed to vote as
their political leaders bid them. But the
defeat was, obviously, one of temporary
character, for the Irish leader had for his
supporters the entire regular liberal
party. showing that the lines of union
formed prior TO the last election have in
no way weakened; and as the conserv
alive party can hardly hope for any
length of time to maintain its political
ascendancy, the settlement of the Irish
question i'll the manner proposed by Mr..
Parnell must come just so soon as the
English liberals obtain the political con-
troll that in the last half century they have
held for the greater part of the time,
PHILADELPHIA RECORD.
There is no uncertain sound in the resO-
lutions of the republican state convention
of Minnesota. The resolutions declare
not for revision" but for "a reduction,
of the tariff, so that the taxes on the
necessaries of living may be moderated"
II may DC SulNl IlldO VIC Jllltt'O lNSScHb
ries of living" is quite tic, but the re-
publicans of Minnesota have given 1T a
very definite and distinct meaning. In
the Forty eighth congress four of the
members from Minnesota voted to con-
slider the Morrison horizontal tariff bill,
which was such scarecrow to the pro-
tectionists and all four of them were re-
turned with largely increased maiorities
by their approving republican constitu-
ents. In the present congress three of
these members have voted to consider the
tariff bill of the ways and means commit
tee to reduce the duties on raw materials
of manufactures and on the necessaries of
living, and their course has just been en-
dorsed by the republican state convention
of Minnesota.
The people of Minnesota inhablt a
cold region, whose winters are long and
severe, and they have need there Tor an
abundance of warm and comfortable
weather. With them clothing is prime
necessary of living, and they accordingly
favor a repeal of the duties on wool and a
substantial reduction of the excessive
rates o. duty that are imposed Oh wooden
fabrics of almost every description. They
do not believe in tariff which is so cum
ningly adjusted that the coarser woolens
are subject to the higher rates of duty.
AS a large portion of Minnesota Is
sparsely timbered its republicans are OPP
posed to the duty on lumber, which is
with them another necessary of living.
They are opposed, also, to the duties on
coal, salt and other articles of necessity
that were covered by the tariff bill of the
last congress which received the support
of their representatives. No protection
list in the land will be likely to err as to
the meaning and purpose of the Mime
sofa republicans on the tariff question.
ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT.
The queens speech proroguing parlia-
merit to November gave more or less
extended mention, considering the length
of the address. to the Bulgarian question,
the Afghan boundary affair and East In
dian politics. hut it only Incidentally re-
fcrred to the most absorbing problem
now before the people of the United
problem of home rule aud
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