The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-28
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
CURRENT COMMENT on THE MOST
RECENT TOPICS.

Chaska Compared with Pocahontas.
some Pertinent Remarks by the Press OF
New York. Philadelphia. aud Baltimore.
jay Gould tells confding public OF
his large interests in Mis- ,ouri Pacific
stocks and OF his natural desire 10 keep
up their value az permanent invest
ment He spoke In like vein of Erie
stocks and of Kansas Pacific stocks bui
the trustful lambs which went in for per
manent investments came out completely
shorn The sagacious fox observed that
there were no outward tracks OF the crea-
lures which had been persuaded to visit
the den OF the sick lion. Plild. Record
Blaine's friends are still far from de.
spairing at least the New York TINES
thinks go. 1t says:
No one who reads with any care the
Trt5unGs report of the drift of Republi-
can talk at the meeting of the State Com
mittee on Saturday can doubt the cor.
rectness Of its statement that in spite OF
his letter of withdrawal Mr.. Blaine is
still the favorile with large, strong,
earnest, and growing element OF the
party A very interesting and illumina-
ting side light is thrown on MIR. Depew's
boom by the following remarks f
General John \. Knapp of Auburn, the
Chairman of the State Committee: Per
sonaly Mr.. Depew'5 election would be
most gratifying to me. He is marvel
ously brilliant and able man; but Mr.
Depew is for Mr.. Blaine General Knapp
| t.I H. nj Oft a
RICH, 10 seek or decline the nomination
Of his party for the presidency. This,
il will be seen, is a clever way OF shut
ting out Mr. Depew and shutting in Mr.
Blaine"
The World is of opinion that the Re
publicans have chance tn save them
selves, but refuse to avail themselves of
it. II says:
1.-THE revisers of 1888 promised TO re-
duce the average duty 90 per cent They
actually cut it down but little more than
per cent. They promised to reduce the
revenue SS0,000,000. They really abated
| il only about one half OF this sum, and
but temporarily at that There is a great
chance TOR the Republicans Ia show their
disposition to stop The surplus, but thus
far they seem much more inclined 10
spend H."
If the truth OF the musty apothegm
about the beneficent results of thieves
falling out be verified in the quarrel that
has sprung up between the Burlington
and other Western railroads, Tue lille
engineers and The public also may profit
therefrom The charge that the Burling-
ton vas seeking TO establish trust OF
freight and passenger traffic, and that it
was more profitable 10 let the freight
trains remain at rest than 10 run them
until the gigantic combination should be
accomplished, justiies the apprehcnsions
expressed by the Morning Herald respect
ing the conduct of the management Of
that road toward the Brotherhood Engi-
neers at the inception of the strike. II
also shows that the impression Chief Ar
thur had formed, that the management
courled the strike, was not without rea-
son. 1t was the same policy adopted by
President Corbin in the Reading railroad
suspension OF traffic, as disclosed by the
congressional investigation. Divested OF
all the speciOus pretenses by which the
action of the Burlington Company is sur
rounded it is pretty apparent that there
was a movement under consideration for
imposing upon the people. Had they
contaminated the trust that was spoken
of IN our Geographic dispatches, no doubt
it would have eventually been annuled
by the inter State commerce law, but in
the meanwhile the citizens compelled to
patronize those lines would have been
mulcted -Bdlt0 Herald.
Commenting on the WOman's National
Council now In session in Washington,
the Baltimore .San seDsibly remarks:
In works of charity their value can
not be overeslimated, while In the prac-
tical work of the world, wherever wO-
man can fill place in the professions, or
in industries for which she is fitted, she
deserves to be encouraged and helped.
That help, it is but just TO say, is now
being extended TO her. She is finding
employment in decorative art work, in
illustrating books, in telegraphy, in type
writing, as cashiers, bookkeepeTs, in
stores, and In many light branches OF in
dustIy from which not long since she
was almost completely excluded 1t is
subjects such as these that the lnterna-
tional Women's Convention may properly
and profitably deal with. Suffrage, rs
comprehending the whole field of politics,
is secondary question. But, above all
Others the home ought to be considered,
for the crown of glory TO all but n very
few belongs 10 her who is good wife,
good mother, and an excellent house
keeper"
The United States Senate has passed
the bill for the appointment by the Presi'
dent of a commission 10 investigate the
liquor traffic, which appropriates $4,000
10 pay the expenses of the inquiry. The
bill should not become law. The United
States Government has nothing TO do
with the liquor traffic In the States ex-
cept as a source Of revenue collected
through the Internal Revenue Bureau.
1t has no business TO interfere in the reg
ulation of the sale of liquors elsewhere
than in the Territories and the District of
Columbia The attempted invasion Of
Stale rights and usurption OF power by
the Federal Government Is none the less
fragrant because the amount appropriated
by the bill is small 1t is true that only