Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-05
PUBLIC OPINION.

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Detroit Tribune.
IT will not be SO easy now as it was
twenty years ago to convince practical
Americans that tariff which secures
cheaper products than can be had any
where else in the world is necessarily a
tax oppressive to consumers, harmful tO
industry, unjust, wicked, and intolerant
-Ne1o York Tribune
DoN CAMERON says he is not Presi-
Dental aspirant, but that he will guar
antee majority Of 100000 in Pennsyl-
vania for Senator Sherman in case the
eminent statesman shall be selected as
a candidate. Is there single Republi-
can State, by the way, that Mr.. Sherman
could not carry?-.St. Louis Globe Dem.
IT viii do the Columbus tally-sheet
forgers no good to whine about persecu-
ton. They are bound to get their just
deserts, and if they shall be found guilty
at the conclusion of the trial, which be-
gins on January 3, they should be sent
to the penitentiary like ordinary crimi-
nails. A long suffering people have at
last decided that elections in Ohio shall
hereafter be fair and honest, and the
Columbus and Cincinnati boodlers must
abide by that decision Leader.
IT is to be hoped that the incoming
Legislature Of Ohio viii pass an act this
winter to punish certain misdemeanors
of the lower grade with corporal punish
ment. If it is deemed inexpedient to
apply the cato -nine-tail remedy to a
variety of cases, give us a good strong
dose on wife beating anyway. We Just
want to see the day in Ohio when the
lash will cut a flourish of red furrows in
the naked hide of the whelp that will
beat woman.-Nt. Vernon Republican.
1T is mortifying reflection that the
United States is the only country where
the importation of art work is taxed.
1t is still more outrageous because it is
a tax against which the artists them
selves protest. Art is not an infant in
dustry in this country. 1t is firmly estab-
liShed, and if it has not reached its full
developement it is because of the bar
rier which senseless, So-called protec-
tion sets up, by which American artists
who cannot afford to go abroad are shut
out from the study of works upon
which culture and progress depend
Chicago Tribune.
OTHER men, nominated, much more
able and deserving than Lamar, have
been rejected by the Senate, when they
were named for Justices of the Supreme
Court, Caleb Cushing, E. r. HOar, and
Mr.. Merrick Either of these would
make far better Justice of the Su-
preme Court than Mr.. Lamar could ever
be, but the Senate rejected their nomi--
nations for reasons not half so potent,or
pertinent, as the reasons which now ex-
ist for Mr.. Lamar's rejection. The Uni
ted States Senate has no business to put
an incompetent, or weak man in the
place of a Justice of the Supreme Court
of the nation.-JerSey city Journal.
THE best temperance law in the Uni
ted States, taken all in all, is the Dow law
of Ohio. 1t is the ripe result of many
years of costly controversy. That which
is needed is that it shall be firmly fixed
in the habits and minds of the people
placed beyond the chance of repeal or
of destruction by Democratic Court.
The people of Ohio have not so far es-
capped from the horrors of criminal rule
that they can afford to try experiments
that viii imperil the advances they have
made.
1t should not be forgotten that a few
thousand votes thrown in November last
for the Democratic judicial ticket would
have resulted in the destruction of the
Dow law, and in the turning of the
public works of Cincinnati over to the
old gangs of red ribbon thieves.
We are not unwilling that the Dow
law shall be held to be susceptible of
but we wish the basis
fixed before the superstructure is made
so heavy as to be experimental. A bet |
ter liquor law than the Dow law is pos
sible, but we should be glad to believe
as good one certain to be perpetuated
in our midst.
The foremost and lOudest and most
violent for wide and sweeping amend |
ments are the very men who never will
be satisfied with any legislation. The |
third party cranks will never be stilled
with any amendment or anything what
ever. If they were given white paper
and told to write the laws on liquor,
they could not please themselves. We
must fight them under all circumstances. |
There can be nothing done with the
Dow law that they will not go on with
their Justification and villification.
The one hope that the Democrats
have of getting back into power in Ohio
and resuming where they left off, brib-
cry and forgeryas great principles, and
Cincinnati especially, pay the expenses,
is that the Republicans may stride into
a grand march of idiots on the liquor
question, and give up to folly in that
-he strength that was meant for man
Com. Gazette.