The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-24
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POLITICAL THOUGHTS or THE "a
FROM Va RIO Us PAPERS.

Sunset Cox In the Front state Laws an"
the Union EIair's Blue Laws American
| Mobiles Iaine's Daily Bulletin Big
Chief Reed-Butch.r Boys.
HEAR Mr.. S. s. Cox OF the reasons
! Tor the abandonment OF high protection
+ by Gncat Britain, he remarks:
( Great Britain was forced 10 abandon
+ her extreme protective policy only when
/ the country was brought Ia the verge oil
bankruptcy. starvation aud revolution.
/ Her protccliouists. a. early as ISL, male
the same arguments as those made III tins
. House hy The protectiOnisis. 1hey pre-
dicied that the reduction OF the Briilsh
/ tariff wOuli shake the social relations oil
/ the country 10 their very foundations.
subyert the whole system of society,
, lower wages, throw great quantities oi
+ land ont Of cultivation, render II impOs-
sible for The Government To raise taxes.
and reduce the labOrer 10 a lower scaleln
! life Nothing of the kind happened
Among other predictions were those OF
| Disraei and other Tories that the ship
building of Great Britain would vanish,
b At never i'm all history has there been
such siupendons result rs that which
/ followed the repeal Of restrictions on her
ships Her shipping rose from 3,4o0,OOO
tons in 1918 10 over 5, 000 600 tons in 1883,
and it is still rising, while We have lost
all Of our foreign shipping.
A.sIuILArE STATE LAWS The pro.
p)sal 10 rearraDec and classify our state
laws. 50 as.t to assimilate thcm and avoid
what is called chaos, has many disad-
yantagcs. There are certain class,s OF
laws which belong to States ana when
arise from customs peculiar ito their
founders, and as such worthy OF respect.
No general law should interfere with
them \ law which would at the French
in Louisiana and the Spanish in Call.
fornia would be impossible IN Mas3achu-
sets aud Pennsylvania. \ law should be
the innocent, disciplined expression OF
the habits. thoughts, customs and iradi-
lions OF "A community. and should be shell
tered, not shattered, bv the general statute
law Of The nalion-N. J. Hcrdid
SENATOR BLAIR AND THE WITCHES -
II is of course not necessary 10 consider
seriously Senator Blair's bill 10 restore
the Puritan Sunday by act Of Congress.
/ 1t wouli be quite ~ practicable to carry
the world back 10 the other primitive
Puritan customs a. Ia the Observance of
SUNDAY that prevailed two hundred years
ago
TO be entirely consistent Mr.. Blair
should have provided for the killing OF
wilches-perhaps substituting electricity
Cor fire. as concession 10 the spirit ot
the Nineteenth Ccntury-and directed
that people be fined for STAYING away
from cLurch.-N J. U'orH
SOME TITLED AMERICANS Cyrus W.
Field has an English little, and can be Sir
Cyrus whenever he wishes.
Claus Sprcckcls is "a member of the
highest Sandwich island nobility, his
title being given by the king in return
fOr a money loan
Mr.. Loubat, OF New York Union Club
fame, has Il patent of nobility from the
Pope
" ir George Pullman is the way Mr..
Pullman can write his name in Italy,
thanks TO King Humbert.
Mr. Murphy of Chicago is a marquis of
the Papal States
Surgeon Warren is Warren Bey
through The kindness of the khediye Of
Egypt
Mir Gwynn of San Francisco had the
title of Duke given him years ago by the
ill-starred MAMMALIAN OF Mexico.
Halt one moment, Mr. Boomer Il is
perfectly legitimate for YOU 10 say that
YOU prefer the nomination Of MI y, or
Mr.. C., or Mr. Y = L., but YOU have no
business Ia say that Mr. Blaine told his
party that ii ought not To nominate him y
He did tell his party that he did not want
il 10 nominate him-which Is Il very
different thing. Strict truth is desrah,
and never more desirable than now ~
v Y. Tribune. -
THE OSTRICH Acr From the alleged
protection State of Pennsylvania CONES
The following remark by the Philadelphia
Times.
when Congressman Reed declared
that there were no mOnOpOlles in this
codntry and never could be, he played
/ the ostrich act. With his head hidden in
the sand there were no mOn0pOlies in
sight. If he had been engaged in The
/ business of refining oil or sugar he would
know something about monOpOlies that
he has never learned. Congressman Reed
is said to resemble Shakespeare-in looks
II is evident the resemblance ceases at
this point"
! BouXD TO Be BUTCHER BOYS. - 1t
/ raises the imagination 10 be told that 30
oxen and 100 sheep will 10 night be roast
I cd in a ditch 22j feet long for the con
sumption of the 10000 butchers expected
at 80 morrow barbecue for the trade in
/ Philadelphia The Butchers National
3 Convention is to hold three days ses-
sion there, and they are TO march 10 the
barbecue in gala uniform Ii will be n
great occasion, and We wish good luck
to all honest butchers who sell wholesale
! meats a fair ratsg y SIM