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The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
THE GATE TO INDIA

The latest news is that the Russians
have arrived at Herat, and while they
may not take possession, they are SO
near by that nothing can be done there
of which they will not have full cog
nizance and of which they will not be
ready TO take full advantage.
Herat is the historic city Of Afghan
istan. It's great earthworks are $50
feet thick at the base and are fifty feet
high, In the past it has been regardep
not only as impregnablc, but also as
unapproachable. But Russian officers
know it is neither one nor the other.
Year by year they have been construct.
ing railways and roadways through
Central Asia until they have at length
brought up almost at the base of the
renowned citadel, and Russian officers
well know what short work Russian
artillery would make of the place.
While Herat remains in Afghan con-
troll, and while IFS Afghan masters re-
main friendly with England, the much
coveted city is held to be at once the
key and the protection of India. But
already English confidence in Afghan
princes has begun to weaken, and the
Muscovite is secretly but surely playing
his own game.
He goes to Herat as merchant and
trader, but commerce with him is the
forelunner of crusade Soon his mer.
chapdise will include cannon and pow,
der and rifles. They will win the peace
full submission of the town, if that may
be possible. If not, they will stir up
revolt. Revolt within and siege with
out will justify Russian occupation,
Then what will England do about the
key to India?
Russian commerce at Herat is delu-
sion. Russian shopkeepers are the
scouts of Russian soldiers. II will only
take one or two years more to find the
two greatest powers in the world at each
others throats fighting for the richest
prize in the east.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
BIsMARCK AND SOCIALISM.

Bismarck puts himself on record as
being opposed to the suppression of the
working mems demonstration on the 1st
of May. He says, justly, it is their
right to show their strength If they
want to do so, and the only objection to
their manifestation of feeling should be
made if the labor organization should
break into disorder Ill ordered or
misinformed socialists must always be
put down in the interest of society.
Antagonism between employer aud en-
ployed is a necessity of human progress.
Progress would cease if men became
satisfied Content is possible only
under one or other Of two conditions
either where men are slaves or where
munificent nature does not ask men to
work.
He holds that it is true beneyolence
to shed the blood of riotous minority
in defense of a aw.abiding majority.
The first requisite in a government is
energy. The firmuess Of the ruling
power is a guarantee of peace both at
home and abroad. A government
which retains its authority by conces-
sions payes the way for further yield
ing, and by so doing in effect abdicates
its functions.
The demonstrations of May day will
be awaited with the greatest interest
and for the sake Of working men and In
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
THE BRAZIL GO, ERNMENr.

Many indications have come to the
surface tending to show that the Pro-
visional Government Of Brazil is not
very strongly entrenched in popular fa-
vor. 1t has been the almost unanimous
experience Of such governments to be
discredited by the very elements which
called them into being, and 1t is more
than probable that the new Brazilian
Government made the fatal mistake of
allowing too long time to elapse be-
tween its usurpation of all the func-
tions of administration and its popular
ratification by the people. Such an In
terval is usually hot bed for the pro-
duction of all sorts of oabals and con-
spiracies.
According to the latest advices, the
authorities in Brazil are acting I'M
wisely in suppressing intelligence.
When the facts in regard to any crisis
are unknown, they are apt to be
strangely exaggerated and, in this way,
they become more dangerous. Posters
have been exhibited, showing the
wasteful manner in which Government
funds were being expended and the
shameless way in which nepotism was
exhibited.
1t seems to be agreed that the ple5jscite
which is to determine the future con-
stitution of the future Republic of
Brazil will be honestly carried out.
If So the Provisional Government
will show its wisdom, if it has stored
away any of that always necessary
commodity, in giving the press the
largest liberty of utterance possible.
The immediate effect of such a policy
would be to disclose at once what is
lurking in public thought, to strike out
from all consideration what is under
going investigation in the vestibules of
public opinion, and, perhaps, to destroy
the germ idea which may have been
kept back for the restoration Of the
world
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28

look for testimony may be, but also
how warped and misled a man may be-
come, who is simply looking for facts
to sustain his preconceived views.
In all Mr. Froude's historical general
izations he has made the mistake Of
taking a special case and reasoning
from Il to a general conclusion. 1t IS
a common trick of sophistry to assume
that special cases stand for general
facts SO when Mr. Froude SAYS that
freedom is doubtful gift II 1t does
not bring with it those qualities of
mind and character which alone can
make a wholesome use of freedom" he
simply begs the question. The wide
an easy phraseology he employs is
misleading If he does not have direct
reference to the emancipated slaves of
the South
If he means these, it may be ad-
United that all the slaves of the South
were not fitted for freedom in all the
Offices and functions which the word
implies. But MIR Froude must admit
the possibility in human morals Of a
regnant principle The principle in
this case, no matter what Mr.. Froude's
instances may indicate, is that slavery
is barbarism. Bondage is monstrous
iniquity and freedom is a natural right,
restored in our country in obedience to
tie demands of justice, morality and
1pCpucv
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
THANKING LETTERS.
What This Custom Led to in the Brit
ish Kingdom.

From Chambers Jounoi
The system of "franking' letters in
England in the high postage days led
to an appalling abuse of that privilege,
which belonged to peers and membe s
of the House of Commons. II was no
doubt originally allowed to en- tble
members to correspond with their con
stituents, but, under the circumstances,
it is, perhaps, not surprising that the
plan soon became abused and was ulti-
mately used to cover all kinds Of cor.
respondence, not only members, but
other peoples as we'll At one time,
indeed, all sorts of curious packages
passed free under the franking priv
ilege, such as dogs, COW, parcels of
lace, bales of stockings, boxes of medi
cines, tlitches of bacon, etc. Some
times, indeed, franked covers were
actually sold. and they have been
known to be given in lieu of wages to
servants, who speedily converted them
into ready money.
This abuse, taken together with the
illicit traffic in letters, so openly and
widely carried on, formed, of course,
a most important argument in favor of
the proposals for cheap postage, for
mulated by Rowland Hill, aud no doubt
did much 10 damage the cause of his
opponents. But there is one other
abuse TO which Londoners were sub.
jected which may just be mentioned.
At that time the two-penny post was
in operation in the English metropolis,
and would have fairly served the in
habitants in postal matters if it had not
been for the practice which existed OF
allowing commercial houses and other
firms who were willing to pay for the
privilege to have their letters
picked out from the general
heap and delivered by special postmen,
and so enable them to get their CORE
spondence an hour earlier than those
who did not pay the "quarterage," ;" as il
was termed, of five shillings per quarter,
and which, it appears, went into the
pockets of the postmen concerned, many
of whom we are told, and it can easily
be understood, thus made incomes OF
from $500 to e400 year. However
beneficial such system was to com.
merce and trade in London, 1t operated
most unfairly on ordinary correspond
ents, and II was certainly not the least
Of the evils which the introduction Of
| penny postage swept away.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
rnrp. cnAwronp p1n lr.
That IL, He Wrote the Celebrated
Cleveland Interview.

Cleveland Interview
The interview with ex. President
Cleveland published recently in the
New York World, in which Mr.. Cleve.
land was made TO speak of Editor Dana
of the Sun as "senile liar" afflicted
with "mental paresis, and in answer
to which Editor Dana characterized the
ex.Prcsident as "the stuffed prophet of
William street." is still q subject of
comment and controversy. The World
on the following Sunday yesterday
week. practically declared in its edi
torial columns that the interview was n
grossly incorrect, If not wholly fraudu.
lent publication. Since then the Sun
has made an independent investigation
Of the interview and declares itself
Satieled that the report printed in the
World failed to exhibit the language EN-
poyed by Mr.. Cleveland in the full meas
ure OF its violence, its almost incouceiyable
grossuess and its unprintable profanity.
il has been learned that the interview
was prepared by Mr.. Fred. Crawford,
well know in this city as correspond
ent. He has been with the World for
some years. Mr.. Crawford is careful.
accurate, painstaking and conscientious
newspaper man. The fact that he had
the interview with the ex- President and
wrote it out is proof positive to all who
know him that II is substantially accu-
rate and correct, and the eX-P President
was neither misrepresented nor mis-.
quoted.
When the World attempted to dis.
avow the interview and censure the re.
porter, Mr.. Crawford promptly handed
in his resignation. The World refused
to accept it, thereby indorsing him and
condemning itself.
Last Saturday leading correspon d.
ent, writing from the Press Gallery OF
the House of Representatives, sent 6
letter to Mr.. Crawford, assuring hin
that every correspondent here who
knew him believed in his truth ant
good faith.
The truth is doubtless that Mr.
Cleveland indulged in the severe Ian
guage attributed to him. that Mr.. Craw
ford reported him faithfully; that hi
city editor, intent only on making {
sensation, printed the report as writ
ten. The sensation proved to be mucl
greater than he had anticipated, aut
the attempt was made to thrust th,
burden of the Worlds sin upon the re
porter's shoulders; the city edito
lacked judgment, and the editor.in
chief was wanting in sand.
In the meantime the only one wht
will come out of the affair unscathed i
Mr.. Fred. Crawford.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
WASHINGTON, April ~, 1890.
NoN-PARrIzAN COURTS.

The letter of f. w. Hawthorne, editor
of the jacksonville Times Union, to the
President of the United States, presents
view of public affairs which will make
all good citizens grieve and which will
lead most partisans even to pause. The
charge which is distinctly made, and
made in an entirely responsible way, is
that the Federal courts in Florida are
organized to convict Citizens cvade
the process of the court because they
have no belief that they can obtain jus
tice there. As we understand it no more
ilagTant case could be produced for ex-
ecuiive attention than that which the
editor of the Times linton brings to the
notice Of the President.
What are all the paraphernalia and
machinery of government worth if
citizen cannot be assured of q fair trial
How can respect for the forms of law
be preserved If the accused knows that
before title of evidence has been
heard he has already been convicted
and condemned The story that
families are broken up and rendered
desolate by reason of oppression
under so.called legal process of men
charged with political ofrenses, who
have to avoid their homes TO escape az
rest, is sufficiently enormous to arouse
the attention of the whole country. If
the Federal courts in the Southern
states are as corrupt as Mr.. Haw-
thorne most earnestly declares them to
be, they will not evade the censure of
good citizens; and If the Administration
sustains them without investigation it
will incur swift, natural and necessary
condemnation.
1t is undeuiable that partisanship in
our politics goes to too great length
even in the ordinary channels. 1t is
discreditable that even when a measure
is repugnant to us we still vote for it
because the party caucus has author
lied II. But such subserviency differs
in kind and degree from that which
would corrupt the sources of justice,
would make the administration of the
law mockery, and would make the
citizen of State political pariah in
his own land.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
BABIES FOR BAIT.
A Novel Way for Mothers ITO Make
Money.
From TIE Ceulon iliessenger.

money.
From tie CeylOn Messenger.
If mothers in general shared the
nerve exhibited by mothers in Ceylon
trouble would be spared in many a
household. "Babies wanted for croco-
dile bait. VIII be returned alive" If
newspapers abounded in Ceylon as
much as crocodiles do advertisements
like the foregoing would he common in
their want columns.
AS it is, the English crocodile hunter
has to secure his baby by personal
solicitation. He is often successful,
for Ceylon parents, as rule, have un-
bounded confidence in the hunters, and
will rent their babies out to be used as
crocodile bait for small considera-
ton Ceylon crocodiles suffer greatly
from ennui; they prefer to lie quite
still, soothed by the suns glittering
rays, and while away their lazy lives
in meditation. But when dark brown
infant, with curling toes. sits on bank
and blinks at them, they throw off their
cloak OF laziness and make their
preparations for delicate morsel of
Ceylonese humanity.
When the crocodile gets about half
way up the bank the hunter, concealed
behind some reeds, opens fire, and the
hungry crocodile has his appetite and
life taken away at the same time, the
baby being brought home safely to its
loving mamma. The sportsman secures
the skin and head of the crocodile, and
the rest Of the carcass the natives make
use of.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
FROupE ON FREEDOM.

FIOude won his reputation as the
historian of the Tudor period in Eng
lish history. He was at once accounted
brilliant writer, but an unreliable
historian. The man who wrote the
story of the reign of that cruel tyraut,
Henry VIII, in such way as to
ignore its grossest details and to
show him lover Of liberty and of
virtue, may be justly regarded with
suspicion in all other literary ventures.
Mr.. Froude's latest publication is a
letter to gentleman of South Carolina
who has recently written biography
of an American planter of the old slave
days Mr., Froude thanks the writer
Tor giving so faithful picture of
what the gentlemen of the South were
able to be- This planter, ii seems,
was just and benefcent master, who
did much good and presented a fine
example of upright and dignified citizen
ship.
That there were such persons before
the war is not disputed. That their
personal excellence as masters did much
10 palliate the atrocities of the old slave
system is also undeniable. But they
were the exceptions not the rule. They
simply escaped the degrading influences
that the slave system placed everywhere
around them. They could not be classed
with the hundreds upon hundreds of
other masters who used their power in
an arbitrary and selfish manner
Therefore when Mr Froude writes
that the day is not far distant when
the enthusiastic emancipationists Of
your country and Of mine will be
found not to have been the truest
friends of the race Of whom they be-
lieved themselves to be the emanci-
pators," he shows, not only how thor
Oughly wrong man accustomed 10
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
SPEAKER REEDS SPEECH


is generally accepted as danger
Gus expedient for man occupying so
responsible a position as the chair of
the Speaker of the House of Repre-
seDtatives TO make a speech on general
politics such as that which Mr.. Reed
made last week at Pittsburg Ii was
not to be expected that Southern men,
bers would pass it without comment,
and accordingly we learn through the
Pittsburg Times that Congressman
Hemphill of South Carolina strongly
objects, both to the matter and the
motive of the speech
There can be no question in regard to
the fact that there is too much partisan
ship in our politics and this truth is
emphasized when prominent officials
like Mr.. Reed show how thoroughly
all their aims are devoted to their party
cause. Whatever disturbs or destroys
the sense of fairness in regard to the
methods or motives of the officials who
are charged with the duty of conduct
ing the legislative work Of the Govern
ment must have a tendency to impair
and weaken our whole representative
system.
The design which the Northern ma
iority manitests to take control of the
entire machinery of Congressional
elections is evidently aimed at the
South, and is intended to deprive the
White people of that section of al
~semblance of political power. 1t is
therefore, little TO be wondered at thai
Southern representatives should regard
Speaker Reed g utterances as little short
of revolutionary.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
KISSING THE ROD.

Oh, heart of mine, we shouldn't
Worry SO
What we've missed of calm we couldn't
Have, you know
What we've met Of stormy pain
And of sorrows driving rain
We can better meet again
If it blow.
We have erred in that dark hour
We have known,
When our tears fell with the shower,
All alone.
Were not shine aud shadow blent
As the gracious Master meantY
Let us temper our content
With His own,
For, we know, not every morrow
Can be sad;
So, forgetting all the sorrow
We have had,
Let us fold away our fears
And put by our foolish tears,
And through all the coming years
just be glad.
james lPhtc0mb Rlcy
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
A job Lot of sermons.
From tie PittsJua Dlspatch,

The negroes of Macon are preparing
to attend a large excursion to Milledge-
vile this week. The object of this is
to hold a religious meeting, and mum
her of col ored ministers will be present
to preach collectively, the funerals of
all the negro inmates of the insane asy-
lum who have died during the past
year. 1t is expected that al least 900
negroes will attend from Macon.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
shoula Have oalIea nlm Dave.

The story goes that as one of Gov.
ernor IIill's secretaries was walking
through one of the corridors of the AL
bany Capitol the other day, messen-
ger boy, looking for something he
could not find, asked him; "Say,
mister, d. you know anyone in this
buildin named Hill---D B. Hill?"
"Well, yes. rather. What of him.
"Why, I've got er dispatch for him.
an I've been alookin all over for him,
an can't find nobody what knows
who he isn
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
The Arlington.
THE ARLINeToN,"
WASHINGTON, d. c.,
March 6, 1890.

My DEAR DIR. LIGHTHIIL:
1t gives me great pleasure to state
that you effected remarkable cure of
deafness and discharge from the cars in
the case of my cousin, Marcus @.
Roessle, and that the cure has proved as
permanent as it was radical. feel sure
that without your skillful aid my cousin
would have been a deaf man all his
life. Knowing of other cases In which
you have been equally successful, l
cheerful1y give you leave to refer to me
at any time, and hope that your prac-
tice in Washington will prove distin-
guished success.
Yours, truly, T. E. RoEssLE.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
/ g. A. Q. Night at the NationaI.

The members of the Columbia Ath-
letic Club will attend the New National
Theatre this evening in body 10 wit
ness Hub. Smiths latest effort, Swing
ing in the Grapevine Swing" which
the comedians, Donnelly and Girard,
have introduced In Natural Gas"
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
That Tired Feeling

Debility and prostration which follows
Ia Grippe or the Influenza
Is the most dangerous stage of the disease,
because in the weakened condition of the
body and the decline of health tone, the sys-
ten is very susceptible to relapse, pneu-
monia or typhoid fever. To overcome that
tired feeling take
Hoods Sarsaparilia
The best tonic and blood purifier, 1t gives
strength and vigor to the whole body, re-
stores and sharpens tne appetite.
81 can't begin to tell all the good Hoods
Sarsaparilla did me. My pains and aches are
relieved, my appetite improved. Had re-
allied how muce good a single bottle of
Hoods Sarsaparilla would do me l would
gladly have paid ten dollars for it. / say to
others who need q good medicine, try Hoods
Sarsaparila and see "-GEoRGg +. JACKSON,
Roxbury Station, Conn.
Renewed My Grip
Hoods Sarsaparilla has renewed my grip
l am 65 years of age and was all run down
and discouraged. have taken Hoods Sar-
saparilla and on looking myself over find that
| am much better; in fact quite chap. OF
course the medicine will not discount my
years, but it comes nearer to it than anything
else."-CHAs. B. LONG, Shrewsbury. Mass
Hoods SarsaparilIa
Sold by all druggists. 81; SIX for s5. Pre-
pared by @. l. HOOD s. CO., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
Tho origin Of a Vendetta.
FROM NE PhiiadeIDhia Press.

TIWW Wtt IHtuUtFNVtU FItee'
ting off of Samson's hair brought great
tribulation upon the dwellers in Gath
and in the land of Asllelon, but down
in Kentucky, ii seems, the bloody
Howard Turner feud originated in the
burning off of the snaly locks of one
of the mountaineers during night of
joviality. As a tonsorial accessory fire
is not quite the thing, and the Ken
lucky backwoodsmen evidently believe
the best hair. cut is to be obtained by
using tin basin and sheep shears.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28

THE GERMAN EMPERoR says he is
determined to have peace. The Ger
man Emperors have been mostly built
that way. They would have peace if
they had to fight for it,
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28

A CONTEMPORARY suggests that If
the new silver bill passes there will be
no room left in Washington except for
that and the office. holders.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
THE PETTY HuMoRIsTs.

The trees are the ballet girls Of spring;
Their age is a hundred or less
Their ill-clad limbs they upward fling,
And the leaves are their scanty dress.
columbus DisDdtch
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28

The WORST PUN which we have seen
for long time is that about the Lowell
plasterers, which say that they are de-
demanding an advance of wages and
that it will be hod If they don't get it.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28
rHE wAsHINGTON CRITlC MONDAY EVENING" APRTL 81 sal

iurlherance of all the beuefcent move
mcnts in which they are concerned it Is
TO be hoped they will pass without tur-
buleucc or wrong. doing.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28

Tue DISASTERS THIS YEAR on The
Mississippi have served to show conclu.
sively the insufllcicncy of the levee sys.
TEN. The plan to which attention will
be inevitably called is known as the out
let system. The waters of the great
stream must be furnished with a natural
vent This is a question that will re-
ceive more serious attention than it has
ever received before.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28

EVEN THE PRIDE Of race seems t. he
dying out of the Indians. A couple of
years ago a Sioux buck so far forgot him
self as to marry a reservation teacher,
and now a Sioux belle has Tilted her
Indian lover and adopted the undivided
skirt for n white man.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28

AccoRDING TO THE Philadelphia
Record Congressman Cummings Of
New York has made himself solid with
the BARRIERS of the Capitol, and 1t is an-
ticipated that his NEXT" will be both
halcyon and vociferous.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28

"Well, | got there!" exclaimed jay
smith, announcing recent success.
Yes with all four feet" replied
Cumso, ,-Judge.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-28

II am very much put out about this
matter" said my young friend who had
Just been shown the door by the father
of a pretty young maiden, - West Shore
There's a good deal to be seen in this
direction, too, said the young man to
his lady friend. The speaker was in the
particular direction to which he re-
ferred.- West Shore
Respectable Book Agent 10 a snap.
pish lady)-Does Mrs. f. live here?
Snappish Lady-No, sir? She Doesn't
Book Agent-Yes; well, does anyone
live here (The door closes with a
slam. y West Shore.