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Show Secretary YVIndom. Harper's Weekly. The sudden death of Secretary Win-doin Win-doin profoundly impressed the country; and yet such a death, immediate and painless, just as wise views of a great and pressing public question had been ably expressed, with a touching tone of timely warning, must bo regarded for the dead as a euthanasia, although for the living tho shock is tragical. The views of a secretary of the treasury, at a time whon financial questions of the kind that now engage public attention are ponding, could not be expected to be universally approved. Especially upon the subject of freo silver coinage he could not hold and express sound views without arousing tho "free silver" opposition. lint there was universal confidence in the ability and fairness and high integrity integ-rity of Secretary Windom. He was a man of great public experience and conservative moderation of temperament. tempera-ment. His mind was hospitable to new ideas, but it was not erratic or unwisely unwise-ly impulsive. His ollicial discretion was great and his death at this moment is a serious publio loss. |