The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-03
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
PiTHY PARAGRAPHS
BY PEERLESS PENMEN'

A "Reminiscences for the Taiiors -RepublI-
can Teaching In the south-The Money
Market and the Trcasury-The Ease-
Ball sitnation--Other Comments.
a "REMINISCENCES FOR THE ToiLRRs.-
\ correspondent in Pennsylvania sends
Us one OF the Republican campaign
cards of 1888, which we took the pre-
caution to save. 1t contains these in
functions
WoRK1xoMEN, -Proteci your honest Free
trade reduces wages Free trade VIII close /
American manufactures. Free trade serves
the interests of Europe
Protection insures fair wages and II Rular /
employment Protection serves the interests
OF this country.
These are the issues
These assurances will be recalled with |
decided disposition TO kick them
selves, by many voters who were de-
ceived by them. -Four years more of
high protection were hardly insured |
before wages in the protected INDUS
tries began to fall and mills and manu-
factories to close.
What do the cOerced employees of An
drew Carnegie think CT the fair
wages insured by protection What
do the cotton mill operatives in Fall
River. forced to accept a reduction in
wages and denied even an interview |
with tho mill owners. think of it |
What do the coal miners of Illinois |
think of the fair wages and regular |
employment Insured by &he triumph |
Of protection How do the glass work |
ers square their reduction of - per |
cent. TO take effect to-day. with these
ante-election promises IN. Y. World /
REPUBLICAN TRADING IN THE SOUTH. |
If the reports which come up from
the South are true. Mr.. Harrison's at |
tempt to break the solid South by /
building up white Republican party |
of office holders there. promises to |
break the color-line in a way not in
tended. The negroes want the offices,
and. on spoils principles. ought 10 have
them, lnasmuch as they do the Repub- |
lcar voting. They protest against
Mr.. Harrison 5 course in selecting white |
Republicans for Office to their exclu-
sion. and they are threatening to make
their dispeasure felt by voting for
Democrats hereafter or not vOtingat all. |
If they carry on. this threat TO any con-
siderable extent the color-line will be |
broken. and once broken it can never be !
re.establshed. But that IL not what
Nh Harrison intended Erchaage.
THE BIG STR1KE.-The greatest strike !
The civilized world has ever known has
up to the hour of latest advices con
tinued to gain strength in the world S
greatest city. TIE monster meetings of
Yesterday at the Thames EmDankmcnt
and in Hyde Park were supplemented
by secret councils of the trades unions,
and the belief is current that. unless
the dock masters and employers allied
with them yield To day. this evening
will witness the immense calamity of
the suspension Of work by million
wage carriers Exchange.
THE MONEY MARKET AND THE TREAS
URY. Enormous crops. with Increasing
activity in all departments of business.
make bright outlook for the general
prosperity Of the country. The only
rcal fear is on the score of financial
complications. The amount Of the
bank reserves is the controlling factor
IN such a situation. And the bank re-
serves are very low, while the crop
movement and the expanding DISPOSE
tiOn Of trade require heavy supplies Of
money. Under present conditions the
absorption Of FUNDS by the United
States Treasury must exceed its dis
bursements, unless extraordinary
measures. such as the purchase of bonds,
is resOrted to. The whole trade situa-
ton of the country depends upon the
ability aud Willingness of the head Of
the Treasury to use the methods at his
command TO facilitate the workings of
the money market. and to minimize the
complications which now exist.-Nelc
York Star.
THE BASE BALL SITUATION. The
draw in the great bali game between
Boston aud New York on Saturday
leaves the question Of the pennant pre-
cisely where it was before. but it adds
greatly 10 the interest of the contest.
If New York had won tue game the
two teams, so evenly matched, would
have varied so little in their records
that every motion Of every player from
this time until the end of the contest
would have been watched with eager
interest by tens of thousands. But If
BortOn bad added that game to her eX-
lstlDg lead. the contest for the pennant
would henceforth have been so unequal
that little interest would lave been felt
in Interchange.
TIE HUNBUG PARTY The Herald.
always quick 20 see the drift of affairs,
says of the Republican party that Its
claim 10 superior morality is the sheer
erst humbug. If it would take lis
stand on facts and declare that it wants
Office and will get it by any means. fair
or foul. our respect for it would be in
creased. But when it makes a fearful
appeal TO the nobler passions Of the
community. promising every reform
which the hour calls for, and then de-
lberately betrays the constituency
which has supported it, we must bs ex-
cused if we make few remarks.
For example, when an investigating
committee were appointed to look into
the ceiling sham at Albany they hem
med and hawed, delayed, hesitatsd and
put every possible obstacle in the way
of discovering the truth.
The people knew that over one hun
bred thousand dollars had been stolen
outright. the hard earned money of our
taxpayers. T. was not only possible
to bring the offenders to justice. but it
was a very difficult job to project the
rogues from the punishment due
\ JONAH 1T The FRONT.-Chicsgo
may rest easy about the Worlds Fair
in 1892. Mr. Dana. the greatest living
hOodco-bar Yerkes-is chairman Of
the New York Committee on Sites and
/ Buildings. He has all of them by the
e.rs. and they can't agree about any
thing except that Mr.. Dana is too bossy.
The able editor of the New
York Sun has secured the sue
cess Of everything, and everybody
he has opposed, and has caused
every thing he has endorsed to fizzle out
IN exactly the same style as bad fire
cracker. Mr.. Dana was opposed to
! Grants second term. General Grant
was elected, Of course. Mr. Dana was
against Mr.. Cleveland when he first was