The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-26
CURRENT COMMENT,

1AdIIAsOu sbepS OuO t00 treasury 0euclt WILL
be as large as was the surplus when he
stepped in. Who would have believed the
people capable of standing this grim pc.
litical joke when President Cleveland first
sounded his note of warning on the dangers
of a national surplus?-Boston Globe.
Gratitude has been defined as a lively
sense of favors to come. The negroes OF
the United States should bear this in mind
and they will then understand why they
are expected to be grateful forever to the
republican party. Their favors are always
coming, but they never arrive.-Chicago
Herald.
The latest bit Of possip in political circles
is that Senator John Sherman has decided
again to enter the presidential race in '92.
His programme, as the story goes. is so to
manipulate matters as to permit the re-
election of the present democratic governor
(Mr. James Campbell) year hence. and
then claim the presidential nomination az
the representative of a doubtful state
Correspondence of New York Herald.
What choice lot of those Floater Fund
ers,who are trying to cheat the people out of
fair representation by the fraudulent GEN.
sus, and to imperializes elections through
the Fraud and Force bill! Here are some
of them, with the pet names their doings
have fastened upon them: Gear" Reed,
Treasurer" Quay. ''Iron Cage Davenport,
Canal Ring" Belden, "Depopulator'' Por-
ter, and "Headsman'' Clarkson. New York
Star.
The speakers rules we're adopted upon
tho v,1a hot
ness. How have they facilitated business
in any other sense than in facilitating bad
business? They were adopted in order to
place the business of the house under con-
troll of the maiorit' of the house-that il,
the majority as counted by tho speaker.
Well, now that that contamination has
been brought about, and the business 10
under that control, has the house achieved
anything to which the republican party will
point with pride in 1881, or even in the yea-
'l?-Philadelphia Ledger.
The bill introduced by Congressman
Cogswell, of Massachusetts, to provide the
negroes with lands and farming implements
does not deserve moments serious consid-
Grafton. 1t is already possible for colored
citizens to obtain such things on the same
terms as white men, and that is all that
they can reasonably ask. The time has
gone by for special legislation in the inter-
est of the blacks. They have had quarter
of century of freedom. and the country
expects them now to quit clamorine for ex-
traordinary advantages and work ont their
own salvation.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
(Rep.1
The two subsidy bills passed by the SEN
ate on Saturday, if they should become
laws, would cut another big chunk out of
the yearly revenue. These subsidies are in
the nature of poultices for protective injur-
les. We enact laws to destroy American
shipping interests, and having committed
tins blunder undertake to remedy it by an
other blunder. Subsidies are in the nature
OF brides offered to induce merchants 10
buy ships and sail them under the Ameri-
can flag. There would be NO necessity for
subsidies If our merchants could enjoy the
privilege accorded to the merchants Of
other countries of buying ships as they bu
other Observation-Disclosures Record.
1t is grim comicality in Pennsylvania
politics that Quay has bsen ''outbribed" IN
his own congress district, and that those
who perpetrated and pro6ted by the crime
defantly faunt in the boss face his own
policy of silence. Four delegates to thu
late republican congregational CONVENTION
have admitted that they sold their votes "a
the rival Of "Quay's man"-thres Rsttina
$3.50 each and one e26O. The man Who h
supposed to have managed the "slick job
says: mr.. Quay. the leader Of the repub'
lican party, has established the precedent
of answering NO ehar9ss." and he refuses
TO say anything. And these are the mer
Who demand Supervision OF the psople'l
elections Of Representatives in the intsres
Of "fair and honest votin9!'-Nsv Yoel
World.
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