The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-28
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
Harrison I'm the Role OF an Oyster The
balance OF rrade-rbe New European
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Nun As Az OYsTER.-It IL fact
worthy Of attention that President elect
Harrison. who daily gave the public his
views on current issues before election,
has remained AZ mum AS an oyster for
more than month. Although he has
been visited by many of the most promi-
neni men in his party nothing has trans
pired-to use that ward correctly-re
garding his intentions either as TO men
or measures The air is filed, of course,
with rumors, but the fact is that Harrison
has proved himself a man who can keep
his own counsel under strong pressure To
render him loQuacions But is not the
Harrisonian hush becoming rather OPP
pressiyes-Nao York World.
The balance of trade" during the
year ended November 30fh was S35. 800
600 against us, our imports exceeding
our exports by that amount. IL was
/ $l4, 5000 the other way during the pre-
ceding year. or difference of $J2, 100000
in two gears. This is one of the results
of the Presidential election. The failure
of Congress to pass a tariff bill also has
direct bearing upon the question.
The FAR NORTHWEST An intelli
gent officer Of the United States army
who has had much experience on the Pa
ciic coast all the way from San Fran
cisco as far as Point Barrow, on the
upper extremity of Alaska, has advanced
the proposition that at some time in the
not-disiant future there will be a great
port of entry and departure for ships at
LIT nd 10
and that it is likely TO be the American
terminus of the main ship-line to Japan
and China
Such line. he declares, could have a
cooling station on one of the middle
islands of the Aleuiian group, which, as
every geographical observer knows, ex
tends out into the Pacific from point on
the Alaskan coast. just above Sitka, TO
within 800 miles of the coast of Asia
Washington Post.
THE New EUROPEAN RIFLES A
Berlin dispatch announces that the fac
tories at Spandau, Danizic, and Erfurt
are turning out 10000 repeaters of the
new pattern every month. This new
pattern was made necessary by the dis |
covery that France possessed far more |
efficient weapon than the one which had al |
first been considered sufficiently good /
for the German army. Austria mean |
while is turning out monthly from /
50 900 TO 10000 Of her Mannlicher re-
peaters, the works at Steyr running night |
and day to supply the demand. Italy /
has new repeating arm, and is expect
ing also TO secure very soon smokeless |
and comparatively noiseless powder to |
use in it. France has been manufacturing |
her famous Lebel rifles throughout the |
past and has hoped to make herself solid. /
AN OBSOLETE lNsTITUTIoN.-Several |
of the papers are exciting themselves /
quite needlessly because the British |
Government has not sent over Minister
to Washington in the place of Lord |
Sackville, and they are demanding that
Mr.. Phelps be recalled. There is no
particular objection to recalling Mr.
Phelps, as there is no particular reason
why he should stay, but whether either
he or Lord Sackville ever have successor
is "a matter of complete indifference
Philadelphia Times.
Governor Hill, of New York, has just
appointed George b. Mcclellan, son of
Little Mac, an aid on his staff. This
makes young Mcclellan colonel at
Jump. He is one of the Wall-street re-
porters for the New York Herald
Nine. CASTOR de Fontillat, nee Mimi
Smith, sister of Mrs W. X. Wander
bilt, has joined the Roman Catholic
Church. Her husband is a French noble
man. She made her first communion in
New York at the Christmas midnight
mass.
Mrs. Frederick +. Frelinghuysen, widow
of the late Secretary of State Freling-
huysen, is in very feeble condition at
her home in Newark, n j., and her fami-
ly have the gravest fears about the out
come of her illness
GOVERNOR HILL FOR 1892 Nothing
in politics can be clearer than Governor
Hills determination to capture the Dem
ocratic nomination for President in 1892
To compass this end, he is certain TO make
the shrewdest use possible of the patron
age at his disposal, and a solid delega-
tion TO the Democratic convention will
be his if wire-pulling, dickering, and bar
gaining can secure it, The Governors
opportunities in this direction are con-
siderable 4 number of offices paying
handsome salaries are at his disposal,
provided the Senate will accept his APP
pointees. As the likelihood of favorable
action by the Senators is not large, Mr.
Hill, who will not throw away single
chance, will probably put oil making his
for year, striving mean
while TO elect a Democratic majority TO
the Senate that will be chosen next fall
Nee York tribune
IL DEFENSE OF Trusts Professor
Dwight's elaborate and learned defense
of the legality of trusts, in the Political
Science Quarterly, of course received the
warm approval of the New York Sun,
which has heretofore proclaimed its be-
lief that these conspiracies for extortion
are "a natural development of the prin- ,
ciples of civilized business"
Professor Dwight maintains that the ,
line must be drawn somewhere, and the
place 10 draw il is where the right TO ,
produce or TO trade is restricted without ,
any public advantage" He argues that ,
il is for the public advantage TO prevent !,
a glut" by regulating production. lie
insists that trusts, as a rule, are not
dangerous; they cannot overcome the
law of demand and supply nor the rest
less power OF unlimited competition" {
And he declares that no conspiracy {
against the world" is possible :
York World. q
K OF 1.-The Knights of Labor of S
Philadelphia have now set their faces Q
against the manual school that will be I
established in that city byth munidcent 4
yift of Mr. Williamson, upon the ground !;
hat il will add to the number of skilled 7
abcrers In other words, they don't
want the children Of their friends and
leighbors taught trades by which they
AN earn an honest living, though they s
NOW that hundreds OF thousands of +
oreign laborers are pouring into the O