| Show ED E editorials D ITO R I 1 A LS MERIT AND DEMERIT I 1 r i lias has been very strongly charged a as one one of af the bad points of preal Preil president dent Or granva urania administration thit that merit was v as not the one determining par ti eular oular in appointments to office but that partisan purpose sei were everything vivery thing grant gran t went into the presidency with a handsome majority in his hia favor but the policy of serving the party with office evi dently doutly was not a very winning klane glane liue tine for foi when hayes came to take the uio presidential chajt chaat was by the ski akiu asiu ii of his teeth that he secured it there Is no evidence giyen given that it was by a real majority of the elec toral vote and the popular majority stands against against him grants i tensely intensely it partisan policy therefore mity limy he be set down aa as a losing rather than a winning policy for it nearly lost the administration to the republican publican party it had to be saved ey e y what is generally considered tarp pharr t harp tharp practice not so honorable as IL ilc might have been what muro mure natural then seeing lauw things had gone and were going than that president hayes 1 1 I early repudiate the partisan licy llcy I ilcy iley licy lcy ley icy of the late president and bet but iet himself for a new departure a return to old landmarks to the lidicky I 1 licy of making merit and capa bi biily ulily ity the criterion the condition precedent ut for office instead of party services in the hope of reis reu ering sering vering influence to the party 1 this I us evidently is the tack which the new president has taken and v diether done in party or public in terest t resit itis ilis in many ways a step in the tilo right light direction the announcements of tim ilia guiding principles of the new nd ministration are of a sound nature they me are of a character to inspire confidence and to induce a tion of prosperity in public ati airs aira and in the nation nailon at large which has hag been wanting of late years removals from office are not to ike lie hasty are not to be without eau cau baue e which the public generally understands to mean demerit and upp appointments ointments are to be for merit viat tnt is 19 fit and deserving men only imel be appointed in the post M filje e department one term of faith uit in tit service is to be held as a recommendation men dation for a second and two irnis i ons are to be considered enough washington had no more and cai cie is not to be encouraged iii iri in this republic unless the people say so ehe fhe civil service circular of sectary mccrary does him honor and appointment are to be 1 e solely for merit which fato late is to include moral woral character and ability ami awl efi eol lelent efficient and faithful servants hut but au to be particularly looked after bhea ileo lieo vacancies occur these are all so many many good quail ti 4 that one can hardly wish any boing t hog nog but success to the adminis I tr trivun tion that adopts adap ts them whatever in rid ty y be the namo name of the party by chich M aich it is known if therefore the reform reforms ai teel itts adopted for their thein own sake rooi if for the sake of redeeming hi tit party good so far as the ex nce uce of the reforms goes for i hey bey will tend equally it not more tu i tle tie deierl benefit t of the re republic P siblie also PEACE OB OR WAR now you see it and now you iu iio it t says the cori coji conjuror juror that is about how it lus ius is with political matt ra ra both in tel tei chiai country and across A I 1 ho lie atlantic one dispatch says tui III nil all I 1 is peace or good prospects thereof and another says that a fierce an sin warlike outbreak is imminent 0 ie sensation quiet or turbulent follows another with great persis tency teney and one hardly knows what toni lu make ake of the news it is ls often often orten so mixed up and contradictory in n the far easta the report com eom comes es of or the almost certainty of peace of and of a happy haply 1 p itching up of things by concilla concilia tain ti u another report comes amroe whately of a grave impending crisis mid wid an apparent immediate angry outburst ut i burst indeed ef of actual warlike and b bloody conflict which is to nie uie vali gail that id Is the question who knows the same in america the lepor report t omes umes of the th calming down of the oiling elements ants of political rancor ind immediately lately comes another report that louisiana vi is up to the urious furious boiling point and just teady to 0 slop glop over byer into luto the fire which as a to prevail the tito peace policy or the he way war war poll poil police pollas cS conciliation of ot who knows it 1 is a perplexing guest quest question iori lori and one onel upon the factual answering of ciuch deperi depends db meantime transpiring events are aro wat watched patched lebed and coming omi ug events waited for with a high degree of interest balke TAKE ADVANt ADVANTAGE ade AdF OF THE SEED TIME NOW verily vernly the spring time is come id in good earnest and it behoves behaves the husban husbandman dinan to be up and doing while the favorable weather last lasts with the small smili grains and with much other seeding and planting in this dry climate si an n early starl start is half the battle with much of the farm and garden work here bere Is 1 no time to be lost adian tate take age should be taken odthe of the present auspicious days and hours hour for they may not last long and generally whenever falling weather comes somebody is heard wishing he be had a little imore wore plowing digging siedi seeding ngor fy planting done I 1 thattie th thal that atthe the full fuli benefit of the rains might have been obtained The present season Is much earlier than usual andy audy and unless flis ills different to other early seasons there will be by and by byj a most moat wet time and perhaps another I 1 touch of winter before permanent fine weather sets in there therefore dorethe the necessity of doing all that needs to be done while the present dry weather lasts shall we sow and plant extensively certainly As extensively as you reasonably can sow and plant as much as you can take care of and rather more than less leas because abundance of produce is always better than scarcity AB As 1 ye sow ye shall reap in a measure 21 but rut it may be said that the grass ilg hoppers kepers w wiil will 1 it devastate the crops what at of that sow bow and plant enough for yourselves and the grasshoppers if you only put in sparingly maybe the kras grasshoppers shoppers will conclude that there is not enough for them and the peaple people also and the first law of nature self breser will impel the insects to take what they need if there Is littles little they may take all if there is much they hardly will of late years they never have taken all they kave lave have left enough for thel tha people for greater breadths than ever have been sown and planted if there is much grain sow sown and d the grasshoppers take their thel r share of it they will not be so likely to kill your fruit and shade trees and your fruit shrubs and plan pian they would if there were no grain crop crops s tb bear a part of the burden the territory could better afford to lose naif half its ila grain crop than lose its fruit cruit trees and shrubs grain can be replaced ip ap one year but it ta lea vea many years to r replace fruit trees and shrubs cheref therefore ote the ithe manifest wisdom ogo ONO wing larg ly in a probable grasshopper year than in a year free from those pests besides the grasshoppers gr shoppers are the lords army and they come here for the purpose of feeding and breeding before they take themselves off oil to other parts of their vast mission field better bettee sow a large crop and save half of it than a si small crop and lose it all |
