Year: 1878

save them now. All the civil right


bills ever enacted cannot chang,
their doom. They crowd the towns


where every avenue to ruin and de
moralization is wide open. Misceg
enation with a stronger and nor,
powerful race is death to them. anC
of the bitterest curses of our slav,
system will be found in the una
voidable evils that grow out of it.
very extinction. The worst evils
too, fall upon the lately enfran
chised race, yet both white anc
black


"Rejoiee to see the cuss removed.


WORK OF THE LEGILsATTyE MACHINE


Our legislative machine up at the
Capitol works as slow, but not az
sure, as the mill of the gods" Il
has a famous grist, in the shape oi
several thousand bills, brought in
by all the miller boys of the coun.
try. and the old double geared ma.
chine works away pretty constantly
except nights, Saturdays, Sundays
and occasional holidays, but the
outcome is "exceeding small' in
value as well as in volume. As the
motive power is wind, a good deal
of gas naturally gets mixed up in
the mill product, and you frequently
have to wade through twenty pages
of windy words to find the true sig
nilcance that might have been COM
pressed into a single paragraph.
Exceptional to this general rule is
the brief, terse, significant language
of the Bland Silver Bill, which
might be included in one of John
sons fat sentences with the sprinlS-
ling of few semicolons. This is a
measure for the million, aud is writ
ten so that the million can under
stand it. A few wise Senators are
striving to destroy the simplicity
and force of the measure by intro.
ducing amendments,


"That palter with us in double sense" )"
and that would leave the bill almost
barren enactment. The measure
has grown wonderfully in popular
favor from the very start, and the
public sentiment of the West and
South, which was at first a mild
prayer for justice to oppressed mil
lions, now comes like the sound OF
a tornado in forest of pines. No
reasonable doubt is entertained that
the bill will become a law before we
reach the Ides of March


Other great measures that look
directly to the interests Of the
whole people; such as the rearrange-
ment of the tariff, the establishment
of postal savings banks where Un-
Gle Sam would be respons sible for all
deposits, the extension of foreign
trade by encouraging the establish
ment of ocean lines of steamers, the
increase of transportation facilities
in the West and South by improv-
ing navigation on the Mississippi

and building a Pacific railroad
through the Southwest, are now re-
ceiving special attention in the
committee rooms or on the floor of
the House or Senate.


With regard to a Pacific railroad
on the 32d parallel, its nationality
and absolute necessity are conceded
by all, the only question being as to
the manner and means Of its con-
struction. The Central Southern
Pacific combination propose terms
almost as liberal as those offered by
the devil 10 Christ, but there is
little faith either in their sincerity,
or their ability to execute the work.
The grand and conclusive argument
in favor of Che Texas d Pacific CO.
is that it would construct a com
peting line of railway TO the Pacific,
thus saving the country st least
100000 a year in exorbitant
charges. j. l.. L.