The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-09-24

the enacting of crude, hasty and uncon-
stitutiona measures, and the constant
attempts to legislate on subjects OUTSIDE
of the proper sphere of Legislation, 1t Is
little wonder that the people lose pa
thence with their legislatures. But, after
all is said, the fault and the remedy are
largely with the people themselves.
There is no evil of popular government
that cannot be cured through popular
suffrage, if the people choose to cure it
indianapolis Journal.
Shortly after his Inauguration President
Harrison established an elaborate system
of office brokerage in Missouri. The pat
ronage for each district was placed in the
hands of the last Republican candidate
for Congress in such district whether elect
ed or defeated. All appointments to
office in Missouri have been made under
the direction of these district bosses. Up
to date three of them have been caught
in the act of selling, for money, the offices
placed at their disposal by the president
of many prayers. This is very interest
ing condition of affairs, but it is precisely
what might have been expected to follow
the policy deliberately adopted by Pres
ident Harrison in the face Of the most SOL
emn pledges, to pursue directly the oppo
site cours e.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
Thirty years ago the man guilty of the
open nepotism and kindred offences,
charged upon this administration, would
have been made so infamous in a month
that the party responsible for him would
have sunk under the load. But Mr.. IIar-
rison fills the public service with his rel
atives, appoints evil characters to office
for their services to his son, converts pub
lie vessels into private yachts, and GEL
orally demeans himself as il al election to
the presidency invested him with the
property of the United States, and gave
him the authority to use all the machin-
cry of government without either legal
or moral responsibility.-New York Sat
urday Globe.
cannot but regard it as blunder in
craftsmanship to give suffrage without an
educational qualification, and to deem it
possible to put ignorance over intellis
gence You are not responsible for the
situation, but you are none the less in an
illogical position before the law. Now,
would YOU not gain more in rectitcation
Of your position than you would lose in
other ways, by making suffrage depend
upon an educational qualiticatian | do
not mean gain partywise, but in political
morals and general prosperity. Time
would certainly be gained by this, and it
is possible in this shifting world, in the
growth of industries and IN the flow of
population, that before the question of
supremacy was again upon you, foreign
and Industrial immigration would restore
the RAGS. balaGcc-Charlcs Dudley War
ner.
Daring the tweutv-three years since
lsG5.6 the Southern States have exported
t. Europe - $50, 900 bales OF cotton,
winch averaged lGt cents pound. This
cotton averaged 40 pounds to the bate
The loss TO the bale under the Liverpool
system vas per cent or IS cents a bale.
This shows that in the twenty-tdree years
the Southern planter has been robbed By
the European splnners OF the enormous
sum OF Sd 10000, or 81 $4,000 yearly,
an amount sufficient TO buy enough cot
ton ba2ging to cover over 3 900. 900 bales
OF cotton. This is one Injustice against
which the Southern cotton producer is
protesting. The other is against sending
$4,000 OC yearly TO Europe and to lutte
bagging manufacturers in the East, when
this sum could be kept at home The
Farmers Alliance is working to add
every year $4,000, 900 to the working
capital Of the Southern ates.-Mcridan
News.