The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-17
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
CURRENT COMMENTS
CAREFULLY CUlLED

The Great ProbIem-Pcnsion Figures
Abus. of the south--Eeforms In Pun
erals - Administration Scandals - The
Source Of DinncuIty-Other Topics.
THE GREAT PROBLEM. The following
is from the Journal Of Commerce, which
everybody knows to be a wise and cool
headed authority on all National ques-
tons:
"The outcome Of it all il is not easy
to forecast. 1t is all very well for
flippant people TO say that wherever the
negro ~ superior IN numbers he has the
right to rule. and the Federal govern
ment must see TO it that the power is
placed in his hands. We doubt if the
suggestion could ever he made effective
in case it should be adopted. but If it
was the remedy might prove to be- far
worse than the evil IL is sought to
cure. To give a proper amount OF
freedom TO the blacks without thereby
imposing an intoierabie yoke upon the
whites is the problem, and the key to
its solution is not easily found. Can
two races, the members of which must
be kept separate by an memorable law.
live side by side on terms OF perfect
equaityY When two ride on the same
horse one must ride behind. The ne
grocs will not leave thsir Southern
homes if ever so attractive an oppOrtu-
nifty is offered to them. If they are in
creasing morerapidly than the whites,
then tho present difficulties. 50 far as
mere numbers are concerned, must be
augmented with the lapse of time. How
shall they be managed, and how shall
the conflict for ascendeDcy between the
two races be settled ? 1t will not help
the matter TO insist that there need be no
war Of races in any community When
IA mad bull is coming up the lane" the
man on the right side of the hedge may
be calm and talk lightly of the absence
Of all real danger but the man on the
wrong side is III real peril. and mere
word will give him no help assurance.
1t is better to look at the trouble, If we
can, from the point where it is keenly
felt. and then the spirit of harsh and
unfeeling condemnation may give way
to one of tender sympathy and helpful
ness. To aid those who are disposed to
consider the question fairly to zee the
matter in its proper light has been our
object in bringing tho subject before our
readers.
PENSION FIGURES. The government
and its proper tenehciarIes are there
fore alike interested i'm prompt adju
dication. How is this possible if the
present system be rigidly adhered toY
So obviously OutgrOwn are tho old
methods that the claims outnumber the
settlements. and every year the state Of
the docket grows worse. Take. for in
stance. rs free from present cOntro-
versy, the three years ended June 30.
1883. The number of decisions steadily
increased from 1O4, 900 in the first Of
these years to $4,000 IN the last.
the number of pensions from
34j, 600 to 452, 600; the payments
from SG5.00O,0O0 to S79.0O0.0OO.
and the annual pension roll from
S3s. 900 600 to S57, 100000. Yet the
number of army and navy claims
pending on account of the war for the
Union rose in the same time from 219,-
S9i to All SOS. an average increase Of
nearly $4,000 a year. OF the 80 OS9
claims allowed in the last of these
years. nine had been pending since
1862. $50 since 1868. ,065 since 1879,
6l3 since 1880. while Of the 2lj, SOB
claims Of this class filed during the
year. only 2234 were allowed within
the year.-N y. Tribune.
| ABUSE OF THE SOUTH.-fOr twenty
years the Bourbon Republican press Of
Chicago has lied about the South. I'M
der the false title Of Northern courage.
there has been poured upon the South
an unceasing food of libel and viliiica-
| ton. What forY Purely for home
consumption. What the South did ,
these editors cared not save that they
| had preferred to see their lies made
true. The cause of the attacks was pO-
litical. and the politics local. To elect
a pOundmaster, an alderman, n Justice
of the peace. the popular heart was TO
be fired. The Moloch Of Republl-
can rancor must be fed with living
sacrifice. The south being constantly
in "rebelliOn.' the local Republican
campaign was never considered hope
less None of these libelers cared how
many blacks might be massacred, and
most of these libelers hope the blacks
might all be massacred. If Chicago
could have been carried by 10000 votes
for Roche and YeTkes, the slaughter OF
the entire servile race would have been
chrOnicled without other than political
| lamentation. That has been the reason
why the South has been villiiied. That
is the reason for the existence of the
bloody chasm. How far does tins
bloody chasm now separate Chicago
from the prize for which it runs =
Chicago Herald.
ADMINISTRATION SCANDALs.-Are we
to have under this administration AN
other illustration Of Christian states
| nanshin such 40 disnracel the first