The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-06
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
PROMINENT IDEAS tLIPPED FROA
LEADING JOURNALS.
..rhe Private 'Anair"-The "uner"wned
t,i.o"-Free speech Denied Mr. blaine
1he MAJORITY and Minority Reports OF
the senate Bill.

! Mimi. pr.c Soee.h Denied Mr.. blaine
,,.a Nt.tort.v and Minority Reports of
the senate Bill.
THE PRIVATE AFFAIR. MIR
blaine saws that trusts are largely
n,ivate affairs. The Sugar Trust
has Just closed two rehneries
here and thrown 700 men out Of WORK.
The action was cruel, inhuman, arbitrary
and unnecessary. Ii IS described most
fully and wildly in an article mat az
peafed in Yesterdays Htri'0. IL "c0rpc-
ra,iors have no souls then trusts
the intensidcation OF soullessuess. They
are ga constituted that Il is Impossible
for a humane or generous impulse to d.
rect them Exchange.
TuF RETREAT or THE "tScRoWNED
K1xe WHY has Mr. Blaine run away
from the tariT question; Il will not do
/ Tor him TO say that the tariff Is only
mart of the canvass. and that the whole
record Of the Democratic administration
as contrssted with Republican is az issue
before the people The Democrats have
said that all along. Their platform
saws il. not only by ifs original expires
sions. but through the reatiirmstion Of
the whole Of the platform Of 1884. Bui
Mr. Blaine has held contrary opinion
On August 10. Immediately after his ar
rival from Europe, he declared that the
tariff issue was the only thing before The
country and be said Anything that
tends to divert the attention OF the Amer
can people from th6t sing e point tends,
in my Judgment, 10 weaken the cam
paign N. Y. Star.
FREE SPEECH DENIED TO Mr. BLAINE.
The Republican National Committee
might as well clip the wings Of the bald
eagle az check the bold utterances Of Nj.
Blaine. They have transformed him
from the splendid orator 10 an ordinary
stump speaker.
Senator Quay, it IS rumOred, has on
several occasions warned him that his
! freedom Of speech on certain topics Is
ruinous 10 his party, and implored him
TO curb his exuberant desire to tell the
whole truth and C0nhne himself TO gilt
tering generalilies.
For example. before his triumphant re-
turn 10 this country he cabled inslruc-
tions.to the Senate not 10 touch that
tariff lie had been a close observer OF
/ The laboriug classes in Europe, and OF
the methods by which the aristocracy
keep them in subsection, and therefore
advised his lieuienants. if they must bid
fOr their vote 10 give them a cold potato
free t0bacco-and let them 60.
/
We don't expect our Senators and Rep
reseniaiiyes at Washington 10 have the
virtue of resignation, bat if they would
only mediate on the virtue OF adjourn
ment what relief it would be 70 the
eouniry-N. y Herald.
TIE MAJORITY AND MINORITY RE
PORTS OF THE SENATE TARIFF BILL
The report Of the majority of the Senate
Finance Committee upon the tariff bill
Just submitted TO the Senate IS an in
cenious plea. II admits in the outset
what till now has been denied-ihat a
reduction Of revenue TO the extent pro
posed In the bin is imperative" but the
motives for revision which are cited
point not so much 10 tightening of tax
burdens as TO efforts 10 make the tariff
law more searching than it now is
Baltimore Sun.
PATRIOTS SUsPECTED.-On with the
lies let Joy be uUC0nfined. III one manu-
facturer who had always paid his workmen
A. GOOD wages ms he could afford TO pay
them. after allowing himself fair prOnI
on Lis investment. were 10 assure them
that the passage Of the Mills bill would
REQUIRE him 10 cut down their wages and
possibly TO close bis establishment lie
would probably be believed without
question. Bur when a number Of manu-
+ faciurers who have never been known to
+ the men in their employ as especially
generous or humane Simultaneously Ri c
/ 10 and assert that they viii be ruined by
+ the passage Of the Mills bill, and 90 on
/ in a parsphrase of famous observation
made in the year 1877, TO declare that
/ they do not care for themselves. but that
their hearts bleed for the poor working
man. the poor woTkingman begins to sus-
pect them.-New York Times.
A RECESS FOR COSGREss Congress
having now broken the record will do
well 10 adjourn as promptly as possible,
+ for the people are thoroughly tired of
the daily exhibition AZ Washington. Ru-
mors are current that after very few
speeches in the Senate the Allison tariff
measure will be pu, upon its passage and
sent 10 The House Should this be done
an adiournmsnt is improbable, and re-
cess will undoubtedly be taken until
election is oyer.-Baliimore Herald.
/ THE AUTOMATOS OUTRAGE Outrage
Gus as such conduct is, the throwing Of
rotten eggs at Republican speakers in
Virginia may be regarded as marking a
distinct advance 10 Democratic ciyiliza-
lion and campaign methods in that
region Formerly it has been the Gus
tum for the Southern chiyalry to shoot
such speakers in the back. The "New
South is coming on.
Ii was one Republican speaker, not
several, who received the insult referred
TO. The man who threw the eggs was
drunk His conduct was condemned by
all The citizens Of the town where the
event occurred lie vas promptly ar
rested and fined to the full extent o. the
law, although Senator Blair the recipi
ent of the assault, asked that he might
be let of without any penalty-Wash
inRtOn Post.