The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-31
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Ianger-Ancient Homer on Ingails-Re-
pubIicans shirk the Chamberlain
on American wderiy on the Strikes.
1t was with surprise, and no doubt with
pain, that every reader Of our amiablc
and widely read contemporary looked
upon his Sun the other day and found it
in the hands Of Jay Gould, the enemy Of
every American who respects himself
from the Rio Grande to the frontier OF
Canada. Jay Gould has done more TO
disgrace the fair name OF the United
States and iniurc American credit than
twenty Benedict Arnolds Arnold was
disgraced and defeated traitor. Gould
is rich and thus far successful. Arnold
was a traitor for revenge, ambition, dis
appointment. This mciccnary wretch in
human form menaces the nations good
name for money-dollars, only dollars,
not even ambition or revenge
As for the Tribune, we can only under
stand the course of Miss Nancy Reid
upon the theory that it only lives by
finding some one 10 boom ii. So the
Tribune is used to permit the Corsair to
give vent to his rage The course of the
| TriJune in this ignoble surrender is what
| the public expected since Mr.. Blaine
ceased to be candidate for the presi.
dency. The only success Of the Tribune
its rdison detrc-is in being somebody's
organ. Since Blaine has no use for its
services it again reverls to Gould.
| AS to this modern father of lies, we
/ 1,.t hot III ap,a.
nations as they appeared in the Sun and
Tribune because we would give the devil,
let alone Jay Gould, his due-N. Y. Her
ald
General Boulanger, in his address to
the electors of Nord, says WhcG .! "as
Minister said that ii / desired war should
be mailman, but If did not prepare for
il ! should be villain My sentiments
have not changed" lie further declares
that the inaction of Parliament and re-
cent events have proved that the Cham
bers have ceased to represent the aspira-
tions of the country, and that the two
bodies no longer understand each other.
the only remedy, he says, is dissolution
OF Parliament and revision of the Con-
stitution.-Cable dispatch 10 the Herald
INGALLS, AS TnERsITEs. We copy be-
low the famous lines from Homer that
make a splendid portrait OF the modern
charlatan statesman and hero
Against Achilles and Ulysses most
His hate was turn'd; on them his venom
pourd
Anon. al A gamemnon's self he launchd
His loud-t0ngued ribaldry; 'gainst him he
knew
Incensed the public mind.
On Agamemnon leader OF the host,
With words like these Thersites pOur'd his
But straight Ulysses at his side appeared,
And spoke with scornful glance IN stern re
buke:
Thou babbling fool, Thersites. prompt Of
speech.
Restrain thy tongue. nor sinsly thus presume
The Kings 10 SANDER; thou, the meanest la
or all that with the Atride came u Troy.
III it beseems, that sucn an one rs thou
Should lift thy voice against the Kings, anu
with scurril ribaldry, and pirate of home.
How these affairs may end, We know not yet !;
Nor how. or well or Ill, We may return.
Cease then against AtridcS. King or men,
TO pour thy spite, for that the valiant Greeks
To him despite thy raillog, as OF right
An ample portion OF the spoils assign.
But this tell thee, and viii make ii good,
If e'er find thee play the fool, as now,
Then may these shoulders cease this head 10
bear,
And may iny son Telemachus no more
Own me his father. II strip not or
Thy mantle and thy garments, aye. expose
Thy nakedness, and fog thee to the ships
Howliag, and sc)urgd with ignominious
stripes"
The Sun, in describing Chamberlain at
the Birmingham banquet, says that he
intends to illustrate his ideas with the
example of America rs he got hold of
our institutions at Washington dinner
parties
"Of the impressions received by him
in America he has probably reserved the
choicest Tor the House of Commons,
where he. means to cStinglsh the CLAD
stonians and Pafnelites by the announce
ment that in the United States approval
of home rule Is confined to the ignoble
vulgar, the mere dregs and scum of our
republican society, and that the people OF
distinction and intelligence who courted
him in Washington feel a hearty though
discreetly hidden sympathy with British
Unionists.
The Republicans are plainly afraid to
stick to their policy of sheer obstruction
to tariff legislation. They have kept 1t
up now for two Congresses with great
deal of firmness They have insisted
that as a minority 1t was none Of their
business to propose legislation, and that
they had a right to defeat any proposed
by the majority If through detection in
the ranks of the latter they could do So
They dare not adhere to this position any
longer. On the one hand they cannot
hold all their own members to it as they
must If they are to succeed in maintain
ing It, On the other they perceive that
the country will not approve OF 1t; that
the people are tired of this selfish, dog
ged, unreasoning obstinacy. But the
moment they abandon that position their
difficulties increase The moment they
undertake to do anything they have to
agree upon what they will do. So far
they have not come to any agreement
N y Times.
That is a new departure indeed which
Mr Powderly makes in appealing d.
rectly to the silent and conservative ma
iority of the Knights of Labor. as he