The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-07
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
STRIKING THOU0RTS or THE DAl
FROM PROMINENT PAPFRS

| The Rond Purchase Bill Prime. AIexan-
der nnd the Daughter Of the kaiser Cor
sair. Can Use strIkes-Our Navy AT Tan
gier-The Gains Of Tariff Reform.
The Journal Of Commerce urges the fol-
lowing objection TO the bond purchase
bill passed by the House and now before
the Senate:
Under mandatory bill-leaying the
Secretary no option but to obey Tie 20 /
tive instructions of Congress-ail the OBJ
iections which lie against the present
weak scheme would be met. so long as
a Secretary of the Treasury is merely
permitted or authorized-nol commanded
to Apply surplus toward The EXITING
ton of the public debt, and he is left free
to determine the sum so 10 be expended.
the people will always fear move ~ The
dark. They will not know when, 1t ~
all. and to what extent, if any, he VIII
make bis demonstrations. They will In
cline to suspect wholly without cau-c-
should hope in his case-his compiicily
In speculative Jobs, which might be fur
ihered by his timely Intervention as "a
liberal bond purchaser at critical juno
lures"
The possible match between Prince
Alexander of Battenburg and the late
Kaiser Williams second daughter causes
In many quarters the belief that It will
| induce Prince Bismarck 10 retire from
the chancellorship.
The New York World remarks that
prince Bismarck bitterly opposes the
suit on the ground that the marriage of
! the Kaisers daughter To the Cars most
detested antagonist is certain TO embroil
Germany with Russia, and 10 cndanger
the peace of Europe.
." in semi official article published in
Prince Bismarck's fayoritc organ, the
! Cologne Gozdte, the Chancellor makes a
pathetic appeal TO Prince Alexander IA
| triO,ism as German 10 Withdraw hi
suit and not to iniure the Faiherland by
forcing its Chancellor into retirement
The Heralds pungent article on the
strike calls attention TO the fact that
strikes are used by "Corsairs" to bear the
stock market
II SAYS that "Chief Arthur sad when
he had sounded the long roll that called
engineers and iremen from the cabs OF
their locomotives, II We lose the light, II
means death Of the organization That
may be true, but we doubt it, AT any
rate. whether true or not, the quarrel be.
tween labor and capital remains unset.
tied That is the important fact. The
Knights OF Labor went all to pieces in
the Reading strike The engineers 90
al. to pieces in the Burlington struggle
Well, what OF it
What, then, have we been taught by
this CONFUSION which set business by the
ears everywhere
First, That wage earners must be
mighty careful not 10 be used hy specu-
lators of the COrsair stamp. They are in
danger of being manipulated a. catspsws
to pull somebody's chestnuts out OF the
fire. Let them keep their eyes open.
Take an example. The stock OF the c.,
B. & q. is quoted, let us say, at one hun
bred and twenty five n syndicate OF
capitalists are bearing the market II Is
worth big pile of money to them If they
can drive the price down They have
sold immense blocks at The high price,
and hope to smash the market, create a
panic, and buy al the lower rate.
The State Department has contrived
to drag the country into what is recu-
liarly a European controversy. lis de-
mand, emf reed by the presence of a
United States an-of.war, for the release
of two natives of Morocco, who have
been armed by the American Consul with
patents of protection, has been rejected
with contemptuous Indifference The
Enterprise has left Tangier presumably
10 return With the Quinnebaug and Ian
caster for a more formidable naval dem
onsiration The evoutions of this mimic
American squadron of anliquated third
rates quarter Of a century behind the
times will naturally excite cynical amuse-
ment in naval circles. This, however, is
not the worst feature of this fantastic
display of energy. 1t is ali excursion
into the realm of foreign intrigue
" !. Tribune.
The New York Star publishes tabu.
lated statement of all the proposed tariff
measures recently proposed, which shows
that the amount of reduction has steadily
increased. 1t says:
But under the influence Of the Presi.
dents message and the hOrrid surplus
Mr. Mills proposes in 1888 to moro than
double that customs reduction proposed
by Mr. Morrison. Mr Mills advises this
reduction
Free ist........... .................. s2s9J0tOO
Reducing duty on wooden goods. l7.2jO,0yO
China and glassware..-...-....- zoe. l.6OU,OUc
Chemicals ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. sj0,U0
Cotton goods. ...... .................. 5UOO0O
Flax, hemp, and juto.................. l,5OU1J
Su.ar...... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. llsUJUrj