The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-31
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
TIE BEST PARAGRAPHS IRON YES-
TERDAY s EDITORIALS.
Protection vs.. Free Trade-An Issue ana
n Ieadcr-A Tombstone for Senator IN
raIIs-HIstrionic Artists and Amateurs.
Blair Educational Bili immigration

| BuAthn Of the American Iron ana Slcei
Association, having accused the fhlla-
delphia Tfafs # being free-trader, the
Times replies a. follows:
What this journal said oil The steel
rail trust or combine was the truth. IL
lacked the Information only lately devel-
oped, that the inordinate greed OF the
steel .ail trust had destroyed Itself by
driving its customers away and closing
its own markets against itself. The
statement or the Bulletin, given in its
own italics, that no trust or any agree
ment exists by which prices are fixed by
the Joint action OF the steel rail manufac-
turers. or ever has existed, is not trne,
and the Bulletin Is driven TO the
meanest prevarcation TO excuse its false
hoods. There is no combine now for the
reason that the greed Of the combine broke
itself: but the statement that no such
combine ever has existed is absolutely
false; and the deceiiful effort to deny
that the combine had put the price OF
steel rails up to $40 per ton, by saying
that the present price is only $3l.30 TO
1913. is a cowardly evasion Of the truth,
as it is officially presented by the editor
of the Bill TN himself"
When President Cleyeland's message
was sent to Congress The World dacaied
that he had given to the Democratic
party what II has long lacked-an issue
and leader
That the party accepted the issue has
been proved by the utterancc OF every
representative body of Democrats which
has spoken upon the subject since then.
One hundred and thirly-three Demo
cratic members Of Congress expressed
themselves to'7he IVOrlds interyiewers in
favor of tariff reform, and only six
against it.
| The Democratic State Committee in
! Pennsylvania-the State most interested
| in some of the chief raw materials of
manufactures-indorsed the Presidents
message and urged his denomination.
| And now the Executive Committee OF
the Democratic organization in Massa-
chusetts-a State among the foremost in
manufactures-has adopted resolution
declaring that
The Democrats of this Commonwealth
are unit in their support Of President
Cleveland and of the policy recommended
bv him in his lastAannual message to
| Congress.
The Washington Post has caught on to
the effect that the Woman's Convention
of Rockfork, H., will have one Senator,
ingalls,, and it says.
lone Of the gentle sisters on rising, as
she brushed aside her bangs with one
hand and deity adjusted her hustle with
the other, remarked in that calm, cool,
deliberate manner and deep contraltO
voice, so expressive OF a dreadful pur-
pose, that before she sat down she in
tended TO put up the tombstone of John
j. ingalls,. 1t is the settled policy of The
Pest 10 take people at their best-iO
think as well of them as is possible. We
always have an eye out for the silver
lining, always expect the bright side is
going 10 turn up soon and stay up good
while We cannot, therefore, suppose
that it was the intention of that gentle
sister to bury John j. Ingalls, alive. On
the other hand, we are forbidden by re-
spect 10 the lady's intelligence TO imagine
that she was going to erect a gTayestOne
as a mere mOckery at the head of bogus
grave The conclusion is, therefore, in
evitable that her thought comprised the
death and burial of the victim as condi.
lions precedent 10 the putting up of the
stone. She would not harrow up the
souls of the Senator'S many friends 10y
declaring her murderous intent in plain
terms, but put it with true womanly tact
and delicacy"
At first thought it might seem discour-
aging TO histriOnic artists who have at
tanned high positions by conscientious
work, to see amateurs jump from 80
ciety" TO the stage and command first
class prices from the start. Mrs. Lang
try and Mrs. James Brown Potter draw
as large houses at big prices as Mile
Modjeska and Mary Anderson. But in
addition TO the satisfaction which the
great actors and actresses have in the re-
lection on the genuineness of their ar.
tistic efforts, they have the satisfaction OF
knowing that their work will be appre
ciated and pay" long after the amateur
stars" pass from the theatrical tirma
ment. Mrs. Potter draws because she is
a society sensation. Mary Anderson
draws because she is an artiste.-Ih
STATE.
There is some prospect that the Blail
Education bill will be brought TO a vote
in the Senate this week. Senator Nor.
gan is expected to speak upon it, and vii
be likely TO make an argument wortl
attention If no other Senator gives
notice that he wants to address the Sen
ate, there will probably be some final &C
ton upon it. There is absolutely NJ
interest taken in the matter in the Sen
ate. The discussion" of it has been OF
the most languid and perfunctory sort
All the facts developed since the bill wa,
last before the Senate bear against the
bill, but they are not likely TO defeat it in
that body for the reasons that we have
already pointed out, and chiefly the tire
mendous obstinacy of the Senate in til,
belief that nothing it has ever done
should in the same generation be re
versed. The real fight over the bill vii
come in the House, where, from the pres