The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-31
, REAM OF THE PRESS.
DIFFERENT SUBJECTS DISCUSSED By
DIFFERENT WRITER'S.
A Middle In Franoe-A Calm View OF the
New YORK strIke-rom Piatt ana "ooa
puIp Miller Drawn to "a Fine Poin'.

Ine various SECTIONS Oh lht ~ f-.''
an party held meetings to-day. Inc
Extreme Left decided to support the pro- |
,osed re-establishment of the scr"uh
4 number Of deputies
4 this party advocate a general election
IS speedily as possible.
The Radical Left is unanimously III
avor Of maintaining the present Cabinei
n power. Premier Floquet urges ms
.oreagues TO assent 10 measure modi-
wing the press laws. especially re-
ating 70 placards and colporiage.
Apropos of Boulangers proclamation
hostile papers assert that their real author
8 the journalist, Pierre Denis, some
inc leader writer on the Cri du PHtpie'
who il now contributor To liz Prose,
md who has been successfully editor Oh
socialist, moderate republican and Bona
)artist organs.
Moderates doubt Premier Floquet 5
ability to pull through the crisis Mon
,rchist papers insist upon the necessity
Of his Immediately announcing a policy,
luoting the famous phrase Gambetla
applied to MacNahOn-" II .fauf Sc soa-
METRE on Sc demettre.
CAnss VIEW or run Nrw YORK
S deIIafe Hf iiGsi they have turned
every stone to effect a settlement with
the companies; have expressed willing
ness 10 leave the whole quarrel TO CON
nittee OF arbitration and 10 abide By the
result, whatever it may be. and in every
instance have been rebufied
They also assert that the companies
have not kept within the requirements
of the law, which enacts that man
shall have ten hours work within twelve
hours On the contrary,
they have eyaded the law by instituting
the trip system so much money for so
many trips-and the trips necessary to
days work may eat up from twelve 10
sixteen hours Of the day.
That is the cardrivers statement, and,
taking il to be true, the companies which
have tried 10 OYerreach them are respOn-
sible for the present revolt. II they are
irving to squeeze the men, they deserve
neither pity nor sympathy. Fair play II
fair play, no matter who is engaged in ii.
1t SAYS of the peoples side: The
citizens of New York willingly submit 10
the inconvenience of footing it, for q
few DAYS if il does anybody any good
We are not hot tempered about a little
matter OF that kind But when riotous
crowd gathers, menaces the life of an
employe, fills the air with sticks and
stones, smashes car windows, lays OBJ
structions on the tracks, and knocks
down or stabs a man who is minding his
own business in his own way-that is a
miniature revolution, and it must be put
down as speedily as possible. Nobody
believes in that sort of thing and nobody
will endure H.
TON PLATT AND WOOD PULP MILLER.
The report is current AT Albany that Mr.
" Tom Platt is TO be the Postmaster
General in Mr. Harrison's Cabinet, and
that the Hon. Warner Miller, the gallant
leader who fell outside the breast
works" is to be tenderly laid away in
the Department of Agriculture. cur
earnest desire TO retain some respect for
Mr.. Harrison's common sense as well as
for his standard of the public ser
vice requires Us 10 treat this report
though il is pretty well authenticated
with great reserve. We should deeply
regret being compelled 10 believe that
Mr.. Harrison could under any circum-
stances, invite to bis Cabinet 50 unscru-
pulous and so VIGOROUSLY unfit man as
Plat; we should be still more sorry to
think that, after doing that, he would in
suit every decent man in the Republican
party of New York, by Offering an in
significant pc It, such a. the Department
OF Agriculture, to Mr. Miller -Nee York
Tines
Confronted thus at the outset both
with serious condition created by a
surplus, and theory of taxation that
creates the condition, what could the new
President do except 10 summon Congress
together The sooner the better. Let
US see if Republican House, fresh from
the people, will dare to pass the Senate
bill increasing the taxes a. a means Of
reducing the revenue. II It should DO SO
there would be a reckoning .day for the
monopolists and their legislative agents
in the Congressional elections Of next
year-N = World
Woman to tramp)-There, have
obeyed the divine injunction to Feed
the hungry" and now hope you will
remember that one good turn deserves
another. and chop little wood for me
Tramp--Im very sorry, mum, but
I've got an engagement, and must hurry
off.
why, what have you 20 doy'
ut is my solemn duty, mum, 10 90 out
into the highways and by-ways. an tell
hungry gents, like myself, that this ere
house is a good place to git a square
York Weekly
DRAWN TO a FINE PoNr.-Apart
from the question whether we have any
actual interests In Samoa or any bust.
ness 10 NEEDLE there, the simple fact is,
as clearly set forth in Washington dis
patches, that Germany has given Us no
occasion of hOstilities, that our flag has
not been insulted nor American property
destroyed. The whole question is
whether we shall assert the independence
of Samoa against German aggression by
force of ams-in other words, whether
We shall declare war against Germany on
account of some black people thousands
and thousands of miles away In the Pa
oifc philadelphia Times
The most important news with respect
10 the political situation in France is
that the Government proposes to submit
a bill for the re-establishment of the
soratia darr0Hdi@emeRt Tor single dis
trict) system Of election.
The present system, the scrVtia de Isle,
which makes the number of deputies
from each department proportionqte TO
the population at the rate of one for
every 10000 inhabitants, was intended
when 1t was first proposed TO open the
way for Gambelta's election to the presi-
iency by securing his return al the head
Of great number of departmental
tickets.
GoBBLIN0 UP GERMANY. Mr. Blaine
S already announcing My Policy" al
hough il is over a month before he can
exploit himself as the Boss of the Harri-
ION Administration. At a little break
asst given TO him as the coming Pre-
nier" by number of Republican Sena-
ora vastar,av tho mo-.