Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-20
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The New York World introduced Q new
feature into journalism on Sunday by pub
fishing q PHOTOGRAPHIC interview" with
Senator ingalls,. That is TO say, twenty-six
instantaneous photographs were taken
during an interview with the Senator.
They give his position and expression at
that many points in the conversation.
The whole occupies nearly four pages of
the World. We copy few Of the scin-
tillations Of wit that fell from the Sena-
tors lips
When the Government takes control Of
oil the agencies Of society we shall all be
vrtuous. contented, and happy--iust as we
now all have giit-edged butter under the
eleomargarine law. and reduced freight
/ and passenger rates under the interstate
commerce law. and pure, non-partisaa
politics under the civil-service law.
The publication of politics is an irri-
descent dream.
Patronage will allure the ambitious, force
VIII coerce the timid. demagogism will
guu the credulous, fraud will rob the
weak. money will buy the mercenary.
Politics is battle for supremacy.
The Democratic party having neither
conscience. convictions, nor defined prin-
ciples, inevitably allies itself with discon-
tent, and Is arrayed against social order.
Cleveland will be the first i'll 1892; the
rest nowhere.
The American policy should have for its
object the unifcation OF the continent.
The interests of the West and South are
identical. and they should be unified. The
ultimate coalition of the political forces of
these sections Is inevitable and IN the near
future.
l have no sympathy with those political
economists who would array the poor
against the rich with the empty sonorous
demagogism WHICH asserts that there is an
irrepressible conflict between capital and
labor.
Western rivers and their tributaries are
Of the valleys through which they flow.
Our destiny is continental.
We shall have no wars.
The millions we are spending on the navy
might "a we'll be with the gentleman whose
name l have forgotten-at the bottom of
the sea.
Cleveland satisfied nobody.
Harrison administration has been much
more successful thus far than Clevelands
was at the end of his first year.
The most formidable error OF Harrison
is in regarding himself bound to follow
pernicious precedent.
The Constitution is perpetually invoked
by tae narrow, rigid, and liberal construc-
tionlsts, to interpose an insuperable bar
rier against every effort to better the con-
dition of the people.
The book of Job is the oldest and, in my
judgment, the highest production of the
human intellect.
Poverty will never be abolished, nor mis-
cry. nor pain, nor disease.
God is indispensable.
have no doubt that in response to the
search for eternal truth another Christ will
come and another revelation be made.
The ordinary business of Congress can
be successfully conducted by the average
merchant or lawyer.
No one is compelled to dedicate himself
10 the public service. Ii is voluntary. and
if the conditions are satisfactory there is
no obstacle TO his retirement.
If salaries (of congressman were
doubled expenses would be doubled.
No man is indispensable.
Manhood suffrage is the thing. There
are plenty of men who are illiternte yet
good citizens, and Tote of fellows who have
money and can speak seven or eight Ian
guages who are scoundrels.