The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-09
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
THE D4YS BRIGHT THOUGHTS on
MEN AND THINGS.
Convict LaboT-Mr. Chsmberliin's speech.
The Locomotive Engineers ingalls,
poun-Ihe Hoosier statesman ENDORSED
ly the kentucky Knight.

PENNSYLVANIA has proved that conyic's
can be employed rs Il rnie with adyah-
tsgc Ia the State without coming into
COMPETITION with our Legitimate indus
tries, aud wherein our laws on The sub
joct are defective they are certain to be
speedily remed ed but when the convicts
OF hall The States ere put up TO The hlgh-
est bidder TO be employ I'd in any industry
that may be- profitable 10 the prison cou-
tractor. we are simply making The Detlet
markets for the products OF the criminal
labor of other States. A large proper
ton of the mining Of coal. ore, etc in
the South Is done 10y contract convict
labor. and that puts eyerr legitimate pro-
Queer OF coal, ore, etc, at a disadvantage
In the markets OF the cOuniry-PhiIa
Times.
The fact that Mr.. Chamberlain has had
two columns Of his New York speech
cabicd TO the London Times. and That lie
carried away with him a pleasant I'm
preston of this country, aud Is honored
A. home for his part In the Fisheries
Treaty, is Interpreted BY the Republican,
organs TO mean that tho AmcriIan C0m
missionprs were Oyerreached, # not
craven in their "saTreGdeF" OK course.
Nothing wonid have satisfied these " pc
imitlcal fishermen " except q demand that
every American claim be admitted, and
cyery British preiense rejected. II Mi.
Chamberlain had been publicly thumped
and told to 90 home and report that the
Lions tail wonlt be twisted Oh Il ie daft
10 move II. il IL possible that tie rampant
Republicans would 10 satisfied, 1Eis
appears 70 be the Frye-Boutolle idea OF
diplomacy-N 7. WorH
At "A recent meeting Of locomotive en-
qlneers In Tammany Hsll one Of them
was reported as saying that tho brother
hood would win the fight with the {, =.
and O Railroad, even If they bad to
stop The turning ii every vince! IN the
country"
The iie.up on the Chicago and North
ern road indicates that this policy Is to
be attempted. II can have but one NEAL
inc TO the minds Of the men who have
undertaken u.
Il means 10 them that of all the innG-
r merable wheels that together move the
q commerce NN AIAH 'NNAN'af 'Hf
hood OF Locomotive Engineers is the biz
qcs, and most indispensable. Or that
| within the great commercial wheel there
: il aaother which controls II, and that Is
the group Of organized engineers.
Nothing could 50 psralyze commerce
3 az to stop The railroads The suppression
, of the telegraph would have no effect IN
4, comparison 60 ElcsghG5.
! Senator I~ngali. of Kansas, the most
brilliant Republican IN the upper branch
of Conrfess, who was until Yesterday
=, enumerated with sherman, Allison, His
cock, fiawley, CullOm, and others rs u
! possihle candidate Of his party for the
presidency. will have to be dropped from
e all calculations hereafter. No Republl
can in either branch Of Congress vii.
talk about him as a possible candidate TO-
day. His speech OF Yesterday, In which
+ he levellcd his bitterest inyective against
4, tho President, General Mcclellan, anc
. General Hancock, and practically accused
the whole Southern people OF continued
1 disloyaliy. is regarded as an indication
from Nj ingalls, OF his indifference TO +
presidential nomination -Corresp0hdehc'
". y. 1sma.
The intimatiOu that Mcclellan, Han
cock, and Others weTo Confederate allie
t because they had their " opinions
about the war is An insult 10 every Dem
Ocratic soldier. The sneer at Mr Greeley
must have been kerniy felt 10y Senator
@ HiscOck who abandoned his party tC
. Al Ir..I.t 4u thu nrqafGgUur
The intimation that the South had not
been sufficiently punished-ss severely
for instance, es Germany punished
10 France-and the truculent threat rs L
. what would happen If every one in th'
, army did not have as much money AS h'
. wanted out Of the pension FUNDS, reacl
the lowest range OF political thought.
There is no use in commenting upoT
such an address. As ne have said, there
. can only be regret. 1t il hard TO bes'ov
upon il ever the dignity of contempt
: y. \ HeraM
, 1t is reported in our Washington die
: patches that the Republicans in Congress
. feel a disgust and alarm 1T the TRADE o
I Senator ingalls, on Tuesday. They re
. gard his brutal attack upon the freslden'
5 ~ i'll Judged and un1ustiied by even the
@ most jealous partisan feeling, but the
feel the most concern as TO the inluenc,
Z upon decent minds of the cOwarily -
pensions cast upon the loyalty OF Genera
Hancock, who, with General Mcclellan
. was described by the Kansas Senator a
y an ally of the CoDiederacy." N }
Times.
n The controversy over the remains o
the great %conqueror ~reawakels inteFes
in the purpose and results of bis un
equalled conqnests. While Alexander
=, aim may have been to crafty persona
/" ambition by achieving mastery over tn
whole world, he must be 2 blind historian
who does not see in the Macedonia
phalanx a divinity AT work shaping II
ends, e~nergizing and welding it i~rresisti
bly, against untold odds for the accom-
plishment OF some far reaching good
II The hero OF the Granicus, Of Issus, o
Arbela might meet an untimely end ant
be sung only as
Youth VINO conquered ali things but himseI'
N. 7. Herald