The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-01
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
CURRENT TOPICS
COMMENTED UPON.

q London's Greaf >trikc-Thc Duty Of
!, Newspaper Kentucky In the fead--Nr
elaine and Uayti-Cuttcr Alloy .-Othel
Topics of Interest.
p LONDOx's GREAT STRIKE.-The diff
, Guilty which uuekilled labor has in en-.
forcing its reasonable demands is again
illustrated in tho strike of the London
dock hands. The difficulty IS that raw
labor cannot be cOrnered When the
skilled wcrkmen in particular trade
combine in a strike, the employers
must yield or abandon their business.
3 But when dock laborers strike their
places are not hard TO fill.
The freight handlers of New York
learned this lesson bv bitter ex perience.
Their magnificent fight for living wages
was useless because the work which
they refused to do was performed BY
nOvlces sufficiently well TO satisfy ship
pers.
Apparently the London strikers
realize the inherent weakness OF their
situation, for. as announced in Com
mercial Cable dispatch elsewhere. they
threaten to call upon the various trade
organizations Of the English metropo-
lis 10 join in them. So great is the peril
that Cardinal Manning has visited the
dock directors and raised his voice in
behalf of a speedy settlement. All the
men ask is slxpence an hOur.-Nelc
York Herald.
THE Duty OF 4 NEwsPAPER.-Th
great work Of the newspaper in gov
eminent and in politics, according to
the Professor ~is that lit has turned on
the electric light. Secrecy has been
lost and safety gained"
The truth Of this has never been more
perfectly demonstrated than in the Jar
Wis and Flack cases. Here was an Off
Ger Of the court abusing his trust 10
/ plumber and rob the wards of the
! law. His misconduct and malfeas
ance were known to the Judges, and
vet he was neither dismissed nor
otherwise punished. The World
turned on the electric light of pub
lIcity and kept it blazing and focused.
What neither the judicisry. the dis
trict-attOrney Office, nor any branch
Of modern government undertook.
one journal dedicated to the public
service Effected. Jarvis has gone
Ne,c York Vorid.
KENTUCKY ~ THE LEAD. 1T is graft
fying 10 note that large number of
the leading citizens of Nicholas county.
Kentucky. have addressed n commune
cation 10 Governor Green, Of New Jer
sey. warmly commenting the erection
Of a grand monument in Phlladel- |
phIa 10 commemorate the establish |
meni of free government in the New
World: and it would not be the ex-
preston Of chivalric Kentucky if it did |
not demand that the monument shall
he grand. imposing and majestic ia
character: a fit memorial to the men
who began. and 10 those who closed. /
the first century Of constitutional |
government. "-Phaddclphid Times.
THEY WILL BE SORRY For IT AFTER |
AwHLE.-lt is not to be doubted that
the members of the Grand Army " no |
insisted uoOn indorsing Corporal Tan |
ner at the National EncampmcDt Of that /
organization were entirely sincere. To /
them the singular offusiveness and /
frank audacity OF Tanner appeared /
quite harmless and DraisewOrthy; aud |
public TebTObatiOn. not TO mention Off
cili censure. could scarcely be a-socia-
ted in their minds with the legless ex-
soldier at the head of the Pension Blu
reau.-Philndclphid Record.
Mr.. BLAINE AND lIAYIL-It was sug-
gcstcd BY the ErcHing Neirs at the time
OF his appointment that probably the
Hon. Frederick Douglass was named for
the Ilaytian mission for the purpose Of
promoting scheme of annexation
which Mr.. Blaine is believed TO cherish.
The mission is one of verv small i'm
pOriance under ordinary circumstances
and is really beneath the dignity OF the
most eminent cOlored citizen of the
union. No one had thought of Doug.
lass in connection with IIayti and. in
fact. 10 had been all but settled that be
should be reinstated in lucrative dis
irict Office from which Mr.. Cleveland
removed him. when the news of his
appointment was annOunc-
ed hic0gO NewS
CUTTER AHOY.-The Scotch cutter ,
Minerva is certainly wonderful boat e
md the way she defeated the Burgess 2
avOrltGs, In heavy weather and in b
light. is somewhat startling. The pop.
i.ar notion that the triumphs Of Amer.
can vessels over British craft were due u
TO the centreboard is now d
towed away. Ii is tie shape of the
,oat and rot the drop of the board that "
Toes the business.-N York SIM. j
THE LEAN AND HUNGRY. AT a time -
when with perfect truth and propriety p,
he Republican press OF New York at. a.
acks that celebrated Democrat David -
3. Hill. as "whisky's Governor one =.
'erry Carson. a massive and colOred
aloon keeper in the city OF
Washington. comes TO the fore as IS
he spokesman Of the Disconnected b.
in the District of Column M
ia. At a meeting Of the Republican m
entral Committee of the District o.,
thursday evening Mr.. Carson caused ca
, be adopted series of resolutions m
ansuring President Harrison for his ac
ruel neglect Of the lean aud hungry pc
publican shoats' in the District. - rl
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hi
TIE FAIR AND THE CiTY.-The
orld's fair of 1892 Is nearly three IN
'ars CiI, and it has already excited q abb
'eper and more general interest Die
IAN has been attracted by any ca
project within the DO
emory Of New Workers. We ro
Y municipal project advisedly. for sa
Though the fair Will be national. and sii
en- an international. exhibition. the cei
edit Of its success if ITS succeeds. and rif
e discredit Of it failure if it fails. TO,
i'll belong TO the people Of New "i,
ofk. The Centennial Exhibition
Is brilliantly successful, and in
e sense, and very true one. il wasan mn
nor 10 the country. In another and per
equally true sense it was an honor III
the citizens of Philadelphia, which ans
body IN any other part Of the United as
iles would think Of appropriating or 'ai'
airing. -Ncr York Times. sho
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