The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-02
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.


4 Lesson.
New York World: Happily, the reports
: of an Indian massacre at .Jackson's Hole
! have been contradictcd, but it is Il lesson
to note that if there had been amurderous
outbreak there would have been neither
! Federal nor State troops, on or near the
ground to suppress it. Even now, after
the trouble has been long brewing and
serious disturbances long menaced, the
Federal troops have not vet reached the
scene.
| This would seem to show IL lack of vigil
lance on the part Of both the Federal and
the State authorities. The fact that a
dangerous Indian outbreak may occur and
no force be within reasonable distance to
put down the uprising and protect life and
property is not pleasant one to contem-
plate.
| The events of the past fortnight afford a
lesson which should be needed hereafter
GoRMANS PRESIDENTIAL. BOOM
The Washington Star: This reading of
the Maryland campaign calls national at
| tention to it. Mr.. German is represented
as fighting for far more than mere local
supremacy His own seat in the Senate
is not in peril He has four years to his
credit as Senator, and two years will
elapse before the fight for his seat begins
But rs a Presidential aspirant he has nc
time to lose. Every day is worth its
weight i'll gold.
The roster of the strong men in the
party is already being made up. Is he as
strong at home as formerly? Has this
latest assault on his lines affected him be
fore the people at large? Can he go be
fore the people with his ticket and his
platform and repeat the showing which he
has just made of his power in his party s
convention. Mr.. German will be Mary
lands candidate for the Presidency, and
the more absolute the demonstration this
year of his supremacy at home the better
it will be for him next year when his name
comes up for consideration by the nation
al Democracy. The German Presiden
boom, therefore, is thought to be in the
scale in this Maryland campaign, and the
effect will be to quicken the pulses of botl
sides, and make the fight one of unfla 9
ging interest
| MILLION OF REVENUE IN A DAY.
New York Herald All classes will be
glad to note the unmistakable symptoms
of the revival of business visible in tn.
large receipts of the revenue reported by
the United States Treasury
On Monday last the customs receipts
amounted to $119, 120.S4, and, with the in
ternal and other revenue, the total wa.
81, As, 2S5 The excess of the receipts
over expenditures was $275.1S3
On all Tuesdays the customs receipt:
are lighter than on other days, and Tues
day of this week was no exception. Or
Wednesday the customs receipts mounted
up to 1868 2O1, and the total Government
receipts for the day were $1,076, 1919, OF
$267, 1879 more than the expenditures. Or
Thursday the receipts were 81 ,413,924
which xsss *6sO,9s4 more than expendi
lures. The total receipts for the first q
days of this month are $25.274 $50
At this rate the total revenue of the new
fiscal year will 90 over $3.50, 00O, 600, prac
tically justifyiug Secretary Carlisle's esti
mate made last December. In the first II
months lending with June LAST of the Viii
son tariffs operation, it has yielded in Gus
toms revenue $131 ,695, 1896 In the CORES
ponding 10 months available for compari
son the Mckinley tariff yielded only $1O4,
$40, 2G2. No better proof can be needed tt
show that the Wilson tariff will yield a.
much revenue rs the Mckinley law.
NO MORE SEED DISTRIBUTION.
New York Eevening Post: OF all til,
good things Secretary Morton has done
since he took charge of the Department OF
Agriculture none will commend him to the
gratitude of snsible people more than the
death blow he has dealt that notOriou:
seed division Apart wholly from the
technical questions of the legality of the
annual seed distribution conducted for sc
many years, the use made of the seeds was
scandalous. Members of Congress EN-
ployed them, not for the promotion OF
scientific experiments. but to buy votes OF
allay hostility in their home constitu
encies The division where the seeds
were prepared for mailing was kept out
from the civil service rules so that it could
be used as sort of ''emergency hospital
for the temporary relief of those poor
victims of the patronage habit who were
too inefficient to get employed in private
life and too ignorant to pass the simples
of the examinations. 1t has been, for q
generation past, Il stencil in the nostrils
of every lover of good government and il
would have remained unchanged for al
indefinite period longer but for the fact
that we have for one a Secretary of Ari
culture with the courage of his convic
tons.
THE NEW EUROPEAN ALLIANCE.
New York World: The readers of the
World have been fully informed of the
meaning and aspects of the Triple Ali
ance in Europe-that is. of the solidity OF
interests which binds Germany, Austri;
and Italy in an agreement for their mutua
protection. AS an offset to this combina
ton the friendship between France an,
Russia is easily understood.
Until recently it has seemed as if Grea
Britain was isolated in these arrangements
As Great Britain has interests in ever,
quarter of the world she cannot afford t.
be Indifferent to any agreement which
may have an effect on the balance of pow
er in Europe. Her isolation looked like
failure of British diplomacy and loss o
British prestige.
! But Great Britain has nothing to fea
from combinations on the continent as lon.
as she can securely count on jealouse
among the powers. The Abvssnian qucS
ton, the Red sea situation and the African
interests of Italy have worked into he
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