The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-05-10
EDITORIAL COdMLNTs.

New York World: Colonel Breckin-
ridges second speech, at Paris, KY
shows that the meekness Of his Lex
ington address was assumed for the oc-
casion. He is not a pentent sinner, but
a detected wrong-doer. And it is obvious
that his regret is less for the sin than
for being found out. In precipltatlng sucn
a contest as now RACES in his district
he is guilty Of an offence quite as seri-
Gus as the one which he asks his con-
sttuents 10 cOndone Instead Of honest
" accepting the consequences Of his own
acts. he demands Of his people that they
mitigate his disgrace by sharing II win
him. a hish-minded man would not ask
Of his friends a service which they can
not render without placing themselves
in a false position and doing public
wrong.
New York Herald: 1t Is now more evil
dent than ever that the tariff bill which
is to become q law must be the work OF
a Joint conference committee of the Sen
ate and House. That being the case the
sooner the matter is referred TO such
committee the sooner the pending agita-
tion will be settled, to the great relief
of the country.
The Senate has shown no disposition TO
follow the lines Of the Wilson bill, and
nobody imagines that the complicated
patchwork on which the Democrats in
the Senate have at last compromised ar
ter dallying with the matter more than
three months can pass the House.
Just what this is, with its four hundred
amendments. only an expert can calcu-
late. But It Is obviously nothing like the
,,-T.f h. to "a
Senate February lst. nor the bill which
the Finance Committee reported TO the
Senate March 10Th, and which the Senate
began to debate April %. All along the
line Of schedules material changes have
been made and generally in the direc-
tion Of protection. 1t is avowedly a COM
promise bill and the principle of com
promise appears to have been to give
every Democratic senator whatever con-
cesson he asked for his local interests.
it looks more like the result Of division
Of spells than a tariff measure adapted
10 the needs Of the country.
New York Sun: As the season Of mad
dog" scares approaches. IL is interesting
to refer to the recent annual report Of
the Pasteur Institute in Paris. No less
than 16lS persons bitten by rabid ami
mails were treated AT the institute during
the past year, and of these only four
died in spite OF the treatment. Out OF
the total number of patients lS were not
residents Of France Spain sent the
largest number Of these non-residents,
Greece the next largest, and England the
next. Eighteen Of the patients came from
Egypt. and one from the United States.
The number from this country would, no
doubt, have been much larger but for the
existence Of the Pasteur Institute In this
city. Every one must recall the circum-
stances of popular excitement amid which
several dog-bitten boys from New Jersey
were sent TO Paris for treatment few
years ago.
Even II the Pasteur system Of inocula-
ton had done no other good II would
certainly deserve much credit for having
allayed the popular fear OF hyGrophobla.
When that disease was looked upon as
utterly incurable the nervous terror In
spired by the bite Of a dog supposed 10
b rabid was sometimes as fatal In its
effects as the actual malady would have
been. But. as all physicians know, the
hope and expectation of recovery are in
themselves a curative agent OF marvellous
potency.