The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-07

mean to intimate that Mrs. MAcKEY was at one
time acircus-rider?
One trust which will not provoke popular hos
tilty is that of the shot manufacturers. The
higher they put prices the better the average
citizen will like it. 1t is to be hoped the pistol
makers will now form trust and make guns so
dear that none but members Of other trusts can
buy them. Then perhaps the daily papers will
have space for something besides reports of
shooting scrapes.
Speaker REED is at home in Maine with two
important and delicate jobs on hand The first
is to count quorum Of Republican voters in his
district and this he will probably accomplish
without reducing himself to such an extent that
his sash won't fit him when he returns. The
second is much more difficult and delicate un-
dertaking. 1t is, while saying that reciprocity
will reciprocate, to convince his people, by the
way in which he says 1t, that 1t really won't.
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Representative QUINN, of New York, is doing
a work which will be commended by sill citizens
who believe that the regularly elected or ap-
pointed Government officials should govern in
this country, without having their primary and
most important functions usurped by such Or
ganizations as the PINKERToN detective CORDS
1t has been reproach to our institutions for
years that these men were permitted to dis
charge the duties of State and municipal police
during labor and other troubles, and law
should be passed by Congress, as urged by Mr..
QU1NN and the representatives of the labor in
terests, putting an end to the scandal. The
fINKERToN men have never served any purpose
which could not have been better served by police
or sheriff's officers appointed in the usual way.
While they have increased the popular prejudice
against the great corporations which employed
them.
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Even II he wanted to the President couldn't
very well have made mistake in selecting a
new District Commissioner from the list of
names presented to him by different groups of
democratic citizens. They were all those of
good men, representative citizens, experienced
in affairs. In selecting Postmaster JOHN w.
Ross for the place the President seems to have
given general satisfaction. Mr.. Ross has
made model Postmaster and that he will fill
the more difficult office of Commissioner with
ABILITY, dignity, and integrity no one doubts
de is man OF tact as well as frmness, and he
brings to his new duties entire Familiarity with
The needs OF the city and of the citizens, pro-
gresslVe ideas, and ripe experience in affairs.
IL the President fills the place left vacant at
the City Post Office as well as he has filed the
vacant Commissionership Washington will be
indeed fortunate.
1here is no doubt that the sngle-tax idea
which HENRY GEORGE put forward with such
power and eloquence few years ago in that
remarkable book, progress and Poverty is
quietly but steadily winning its way in all sec
lions OF the country. The adherents of the idea
gathered in annual convention in New York the
past week, and their proceedings have attracted
wide and respectful attention. Mr.. GEORGES
economic theories are not of kind that the
visionary, hysterical humanitarian and reformer
can catch up and initiate his highly volatile en-
thuslasm on in moment only to collapse the
next. They require patient study to fully grasp,
and when man gives to them this study and
becomes convinced of their truth and potential
usefulness to humanity he holds to them with a
tenacity which the wind-blown enthusiast is in
capable OF, and works for their dissemination
with "A quiet steadiness which almost disarms
the hostility natural in a settled society to new
theories calling for radical changes in the esab-
hshed order OF things. GEORGES single-tax
Idea seems to have taken hold of fine order of
minds, men who have no care for political pre-
terment, and whose citizenship appears to be of
excellent quality That they will be heard from
In practical shape before many more campaigns
have passed can hardly be doubted
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In nominating Postmaster Ross for Distric
Commissioner President HARRISON scored sew
eral points, all good in one view or another. He
continued in the public service a gentleman
who has given general and entire satisfaction as
chief OF the City Post Office. This ought to
please all citizens who believe that the needs of
the public, and not merely the desires Of office
seekers, should be considered in making ap-
pointments. The transfer of Mr.. Ross makes a
good place for Republican, and this is a point
which the faithful will cordially appreciate
A third point which the President scored was
tor CIVIL service reform, as the promotion of Mr..
hoss was IN accordance with the spirit of that
movement. And in naming Mr.. Ross's success
sor as Postmaster Of Washington the President
should continue to act in accordance with the
spirit Of the reform. There is excellent ma
terial in the City Post Office from which TO
select new Postmaster. Such a selection will
most decidedly be in the public interest, as the
gentlemen, through long employment in the
Office, are entirely familiar with the duties Of
the position, and could at any moment enter on
the discharge of them with Intelligence and
without in the slightest degree disturbing the
official routine The President owes it to him
self, 10 the citizens Of Washington, and TO the
faithful employees of the City Post Office 10
select Mr.. Ross's successor from among them.