The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-09

II is not the business of this Congress to
lie down and die before its time because
the people have elected different one.
That would be like the engineer who
ruined his locomotive because that morn
ing he had been told he could quit work
the next day. This Congress was elected
to do the lawmaking for the country until
March next, at noon.
Edmunds' Four DIS.
From tie Chicago Inter Ocean.
Senator Edmunds has undertaken to
explain the failure of the Senate to pass
the Elections bill. His interview, pub
lished in the Inter- Ocean yesterday, Is all
very well as far as it goes, but il is incom-
plete. II stops short Of the whole truth,
or, rather, 1t leaves out the most inn
portant factor of all, namely, himself.
Had it not been for the mulish obstinacy
liamentary reform in the Senate rule
similar to the one adopted in the House
would have been adopted by the Senate
about year ago. The four explanations
given by the Green Mountain Senator are
these: First, the Democrats; second the
doughfaces; third, the demagogues, by
whom he means the Mugwimps, and,
fourth, Dives in trade.
This Government.
The Government does nothing WE'LL
Consider its annual appropriation bill,
each year more indicative Of waste, of
extravaganza, of corruption.
In all our history the most conspicuous
and costly failures are those in which the
Government was conspicuous factor or
controlling power. We do not need more
but less OF paternalism in private affairs.
Chicago Charity.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The cold snap was an unwelcome Wis.,
itor, and the suddenness of the visitation
brings lesson. AS city we have not
sufficient preparation for the sudden de-
mands of charity. The case of poor Mrs
Finnerty is disgraceful to q great city.
Here is q woman whose measle-stricken
children are refused admission to every
hospital because not one of them has q
ward for contagious diseases. The mother
is unable. to attend properly to them.
There ought to be somewhere in Chicago
place in which the poor victims of con-
tagion can find shelter and cure.
Boston 'Israhmins."
From he 81. Louis Repabllc
In Boston paper, devoted to the inter
ests of the Beacon Hill Brahmins, who
live ON high tariffs, dividends and the
usury OF Kansas mortgages, Senator
PETER is described as IAN aged crank,
with a beard two feet long and hack
ing cough" We'll, he got there and this
sort of thing Is going ON until the Brah-
min caste of the Northeast will have to
let go its grip on the West. If that is
The Steamship Lobby Here.
From he Neie York EreaiHa Post.
The proclamation of reciprocity with
Brazil comes at an opportune moment to
help, the steamship subsidy lobby at
bordering ON despair for some weeks.
What with force bills, and gag rules, and
silver bills, and appropriation bills-not
to mention an internal discord of their
own-they have seen the sands Of time
running out and no subsidy in prospect,
but expenses running ON at fearful rate,
Something had to be done. The thing
that has been done will serve to draw at
tention once more to Mr.. III. X. Thurber $
Brazil line and its wants. Whether any
thing more has been done, time alone can
tell.
Negro Opinion.
From ne Ne,V York Eoeaiag Past
The full report of the speech ON tho
Force bin delivered in the North Carolina
Legislature by Senator Aston, a colored
Republican, representing the county of
warren where the blacks largely outnum-
ber the whites, contains one passage which
goes to the heart of the whole race prob.
LEM" He declared that the elections in
his county are free and fair, and that
"the prejudices that may have at one
time existed between the races are ceas.
ing TO exist As regards the whole State
he said: 81 do not believe that North
| Carolina needs such law" He asked
why, and thus answered his own question,
"Because we know our rights and we
dare maintain them. tell you, sir the
those of Mississippi, Alabama and other
Southern States. We are not made of that
kind ofgrit. We will cast our votes and
| don't you forget it."