The critic., 1891-01-05
CURRENT PITH AND POINT.

If legal talent keeps on progressing as it
has in late years, 1t will be impossible in
short time to sustain the conslitutionality
Of any law against fraud that has strong
financial backing Commercial
Gazette.
For 1890 the South shows an increase OF
$4,000 600 in assessed value of property
and in exports of s24,000 900, nearly five
times as much rs the increase at all other
ports. Patriotism would foster this prog
ress, but the "scurvy politicians" are
straining every nerve to retard it.---Ne"
York World.
When the people revolutionizcd Con-
grcss at the late election they did it for
cause, and men of the most ordinary per-
ception should perceive that the cause
should not be continued. 1t is being con-
tinued, however, and the blind leaders of
the blind in Congress are going further on
the same road along which they dragged
the party to its defeat in November, Us if
the coming and more important national
contest.-IHaddelphio Telegraph.
"Cloture, when made part of the par
liamentary practice of the United States
Senate, can have but one result. That re-
suit will be revolution. II will mean the
utter overthrow of all the preccdents of
century and the establishment of an arbi-
trary rule which will be un-democratic
and un-Amercan. 1t will mean the nulli-
iication of the Constitution Of the coun-
try, the relegation of the Declaration of
and the death to free discussion by the
representatives of free people. In such
respects will cloture be revolutionary. y
Nashville american.
General John NJ Palmer is a poor man.
He has no money to buy votes in the
joint assembly, and wouldn't resort to
such tactics if he were millionaire. For
this reason the gang Democrats of the
| Cook County delegation would like to get
him out of the way and discover some
man with whom they could "do busi-
ness" The gang" Democrats have a list
| of available men with available bank ac-
counts who, they believe would like togo
| to the United States Senate. They hope to
see condition Of things arise which will
| bring one of these men into the race
| chicago Wees.
1t seems extremely odd that man
| should have been constructed on u plan
| that requires him to stop work three
times every day and load up Meals are
| pleasant enough when they are pleasant
| but the inconvenience and expense of
them are simply ridiculous. II we were
| built ON an eight-day system or could 90
| out and gorge once or twice q week and
| have done with il, there would be better
| possibility of accomplishing something
| that would make life worth while OF
course every day brings its own pleasant
| possibility that some microscopic may
| find the bacillus of hunger and devise Il
| lymph that will eat him. Rochester Union,
1t rs apparent that Mr.. Hoars Election
law has awakened such antagonism, not
only among the people who care little for
| rtu ,,plittnu httt also thn Ram a..
| lican Senators around him at Washing
| ton, that no good result could accrue
| from its passage in a party sense, The
| people are not demanding it from any
State in this Union, not even the black
people in the South or their special
| friends, so far AS exterior facts are known,
| II belongs to that class of doubtful gs-
lation which policy in its largest sense
dictates should be let alone. Ii Is open to
too many objections respecting its probl,
BILE operation; and if il were quietly burie
along with Aldrich's clOture resolution
and the free coinage bills of tho silver
Senators, the Republican party would
gain largely in public estimation.-B)stoa
Transcript (hGp1.
The Republican position on the Force
| bill is that no man who wants honest cleo
tions can oppose It. The Democratic posi-
tion is that If after more than Il century
of constitutional liberty the Republican
! party can discover no other way to secure
honest elections than by striking DIVA
home rule, appointing election officers for
| life, backing them with the Army and
Navy and protecting them from legal pun
ishment for any act they do, either that
| party is fraud or free government is a
failure. 1t goes without saying that the
country and institutions of liberty can
survive sporadic oifenses against the bal
| lot, but they cannot survive the exercise
of autocratic civil and military power pro-
| posed by the Force bill. If that bill be.
comes q law, the more promptly the clua-
| try Is furnished the spectacle of soldiers
bayoneting citizens in front of the ballo..
| box the better. The way to destroy bal
laws is TO strictly enforce them. --Sm
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