The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-08-17
POLITICAL OPINION.

Detroit Tribune: The party of Lin
coin. Grant. Garfield, Arthur and Harri.
. is still good enough for the colorcd
voters of tho country.
Philadelphia Bulletin: Why is it that
Secretary Endicott must send to Eng
land in order to make a purchase Of
5000 blankets for the army?
Ohio State Journal: The highest type
OF American manhood never goes fishing
on Decoration Day, neither docs it in
suit the widows and orphans of the pa
tri0t dead.
Those Democratic party managers who
are trying to manufacture a political
sensation of some kind to head off the
rapidly growing popularity of Harrison
and Morton should remember that sem
sati0ns of that kind sometimes act MS
boomerangs. There's the Morey letter
forgery, for instance.
At Joliet, ILL.,, the Stone City protcc.
tive Tariff club has been organized
among the wagc-workcrs of the rolling.
mill. with 600 members, mostly demo-
Gratis. Joliet. usually democratic by 400,
will so republican by u substantial ma
jority.
The Mills bill is freightcd with dam
gerous promise. The Denver Republican
says: Half the lead bearing silver
mines in Colorado would be closed by
the passage of the Mills bill. Most Of
them are badly hurt at present by the
free importation of lead ores from
Mexico"
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: When
they talk about sectional papers in Gin
cinnati That are rcd-hot and all that,
they mean the Commercial Gazetc. and
We have no hesitation in putting on the
hat, to show what an Mbominably bad
At it is. We ask that the people of
Ohio shall have MS much political power
In the United States, man for man, MS
the people of Georgia. and That is all. Is
that awful, radical, sectional?
New York Tribune: General Harri-
sons addresses to the delegations that
arc visiting him from nearly every
county i'll Indiana are informal and UNI
pretentious. but most effective. Sim
plicity and sincerity, which are char
acteristic traits of tie man, shine through
these speeches. AZ the same time he re-
duces public questions 10 their simplest
terms. II deals with them comprchcn-
sively, with lucidityo OF style and sagacity
of judgment.
New York Tribune: England is now
the only free trade country of the world,
and yet the average rate of duty c%ollcct-
ed by Great Britain on all dutiable inn
ports is G9.5 per cent. In 1856 the value
OF these imports was .eaaS. 95J. 36S, and
the amount of duties collected, SEQ, $780,
5SS. Nearly the whole duty was levied
ON ten. tobacco and wines, which that
country does mot produce at all. and ON
spirits which it taxes whether produced
at home or imported.
Rochester Democrat: In New York il
is plainly discerned that no more avail
able candidate thar is General Harrison
could have been selected. The most
stancll of the old "Stalwaris" and the
most earnest Of half breeds are alike
enthusiastic for him. There is no ripple
OF dissent anywhere in the state. Re-
publicans vic with each other as TO VINO
can do the most effective service. The
Republicans of the Empire State have
NOT been as harmonious as they are now
since 1864. This means much.
ST. Paul Pioneer Press: The Clcvc-
land Plain Dcaier. abiding to- Union
veterans. calls them stupid and bigoted
old soldiers Well. yes. they are asin,
fast. and almost daily some of them pass
silently from the ranks of this life to
answer roll call in the mysterious land
"Ovcr yonder.' Their eyes are moi so
bright nor their steps so firm and slrinsy
as when they marched to the sen with
Sherman and rallied beneath Grants
victorious standard mt Appom.ttox.
Yes. they are stupid row. for age d,ms
the intellect. And yet they made il pos
siblc for the ilippam. young man who
pennc,l this pitifui slur to write his
daily journalistic grist in the peace and
freedom guaranteed by a pcrfcc, Union.
They made it possible for him TO exist
north instead of south of the Ohio.
They made it possible for him to write
untrainmclcd by governmental dic.ation
and governmental spies. They made
patriotism u reality and disioyalty q
failure.