Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-03-08
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Fred Douglass.

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fred Douglass.
The negro has lost a able CHAMPION
Cincinnati Gazette.
To his influence is due much of the pro-
gress which so many colored people have
achieved.-Indianapolis Journal.
He was one of those self-made charac-
ters that nave made Americas history
Observation-Disclosures Democrat.
What a commentary is the career Of
Frederick Douglass upon the institution
of slaverysCNew York Advertiser.
The death of Frederick Douglcss re-
moves from the stage one of the most!
picturesque figures of his day.-Memphis
Commercial.
Born a negro slave, he won freedom,
distinction and widespread influence by
his W efforts and his own abilities.--
New York World.
We do not recall that the honesty of his
motives was ever doubted, or that lie
ever failed of any task assumed or any
duty imposed upon him.-IndianapOlis
News.
If u list were to be made of the Ameri-
cans who have done the greatest service
to large numbers of their fellow-citizens
the name of Frederick Douglass would
have a high place upon it.-Bufralo Tx
press.
Kaiser Wilhelm's Poems.
Perhaps the translator has not been
able to bring out the beauties of EN-
peror Williams compositions.-St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
Emperor William has taken to writing
poetry. He has what the vulgar would
call a "cinch" ON the publishers.-Cleye-
land Plain Dealer.
Emperor William, Germany's erst war
lord, having turned poet and composer,
illustrates anew the power of music to
sooth the savage breast.-New York Tele-
gram.
Kaiser William is not going to let Pre-
mier Crispi do all the phrasing. The
ltallan skeptic having called the people
to the defense of God, King, md Coun-
try" the Prussian calls his mobiles to the
defense of Religion, Morality and Or
der" 1t is probable that the German war
lord, Berlin style, understands by the
hrst the acceptance of the theory of d.
vine right; by second, military obedience;
by the third. absolute trust in the great
md only "Me."-New York Evening Sun.
Work of the legislatures.
The little Delaware Legislature con-
hnues to ballot fruitlessly for United
States Senator. Delaware is a very wee
State, but her statesmen are very big and
obstinate and the contest is likely to run
through spring md summcr.-Minneapo-
lis Journal.
The New Jersey Legislature has been
In session more than six weeks and has
enacted only a dozen laws. The excel
lence of the work of n legislature, like
that in a game of baseball, Gun usually
be estimated on the inverse ratio of the
number of scores made.-St. Paul Globe.
The Kansas Legislature is right-a bill
to suppress the butterine industry is not
only unwise but it is unconstitutional. 1t
is not only unconstitutional in Kansas,
but it is unconstitutional in any State
where it would be unconstitutional to leg
lslate b~uttcrmaking, wheat growing or
any other useful industry out of existence.
Kansas City Journal.
T~humbscrcw Civilization.
What makes the affair particularly
loathsome is the prctcnSiOns of the in.
quisitors to lofty observation-disclosures
Post.
The young republic of Hawaii is start
ing off we'll. If the story of the barbarous
tortures it's agents have inflicted in order
to extort confessions are true, it is the inn
pcrative duty of the United States to
look after the interests of it's citizens
there.-Davenport Democrat.
The San Francisco Calls story of the
torture of witnesses in Honolulu is re.
voting in the eXtreme-so revolving that
1t will have to be fully confirmed before
1t is believed. 1t ought to be both incred-
lble and untrue that the descendants Of
American missionaries could string a
prisoner up by the thumbs to make him
confess.-New York World.
The Women in Washington.
The National Council of Women that is
in Washington is a body that will com.
pare very favorably with Congress.-Bos-
ton Globe.
Dear, dear. what a time there will be
dow there if that Woman's Congress all
gets to talking ut once!-Philadelphia
Inquirer.
There will be some soreness as q result
of the Women's Congress in Washington.
for its session will not be long enough to
give a tenth of the delegates u chance to
talk.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The women in Washington Intending
the National Council have IN elegant
chance to point to the present situation of
affairs of the United States Government
as an illustration of the horrible mess tho
men make of running things. Could the
women do worse? 1t is hard to believe II.
Springfield Republican.
Ii Restored to Power.
Ii Hung Chang is getting his innings
again.-Minneapolis Journal.
Lii Hung Chang now has permission to
keep his three-eyed peacock feather-un-
less Japan happens to take a fancy to it
Washington Star.
With Ii Hung Changes yellow jacket
and peacock feather restored, and the
Chinese commanders committing suicide.
the affairs of China may presently begin
to look up.-St. Louis POST Dispatch.
The Emperor has returned to Ii Hung