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Show Editorial Notes. Judging from his letter in answer to Mr. lilaine's telegram Governor Nicholls, of Louisiana, is a better diplomat than the Secretary of State. There is a suspicion that ex-Speaker ex-Speaker Reed has gone to Europe for the purpose of coaching the young Emperor of Germany in the "Czar act." We hear a good deal about what the negro needs. Lie needs to have the blatant demagogues of the John M. Langston stripe muzzled worse than he does anything else. The more that is learned of the characters of the men recently killed kill-ed at New Orleans the feebler becomes be-comes the objection to their killing. There is no room for professional murders in this country, large as it it. Eviv little Hawaii is disposed to bluff Mr. Blaine in to granting it extraordinary trade favors by threatening to make a reciprocity treaty with Canada. That shows how the "vigorous foreign policy" impresses foreigners. The sugar trust is doing a bit of juggling with the tariff law, which is not creditable to the law or the men composing the trust, but it is no more than what was predicted by long-headed democrats when the sugar bounty was added to the tariff bill. Did ex-Representative McKinley speak sarcastically when he recently recent-ly told a New England audience that 1 Mr. Harrison was as good a presi-1 presi-1 dent as we have had in years? There 1 is a suspicion -ttaar ty tniktake h neglected to have the word "years" preceded by "two. The negroes are making things quite lively for Mr. Benjamin Harrison; Har-rison; they want representation in the management of the World's Fair, and they want a member of their race made judge of the U. S. Circuit Court. While they are about it they should also demand a place upon the next republican ticket. They are just as likely to get one as the other. Gov. Hogg, of Texas, is so strict in hit idea of the rights of the several sever-al states composing the Union that he has vetoed a bill passed by the legislature authorizing the acceptance accep-tance of the bounty of s cents per pound provided in the McKinley bill, for sugar produced upon the farm owned by the state and operated oper-ated with convict labor. Gov. Hogg is right, the bounty system, whatever what-ever applied to, is un-American and un-Democratic. The Indian question will not down. It is stated that the Sioux are again suffering from short ration and fears of another outbreak are spreading. Why the Indian bureau of this government cannot be run on common sense, business principles is one of the connundrums of the time. Why make, promises to the delegation of Indians that from time to time go to Washington, unless it is intended to keep them? The Indians should be properly taken care of or they should be left to themselves. Enough money is appropriated exery year to provide well for those Indians not in a position po-sition to care for themselves, but so many fancy salaries are paid from that fund and so much of it is stolen by dishonest officials and contract ors that the red man is anything else but well taken care of. Until there is a radical change of our treatment of the Indians occasional outbreaks accompanied by bloodshed may be expected, and as long as the republican repub-lican party is in control of the national na-tional goyenaent there will be no change. |