Show fill CUTTING CASK A perusal of our exchanges shows a lino array of opposing opinions on the question of raising a bar about tho treatment treat-ment of such a disreputable man as A IC Cutting is said to ho In tho bame paragraph however In which cacti ton traihctory opinions appear all of them agree tlmt tlw principle involved should lie asserted and maintained tiy our Gob eminent knotting that if it m so maintained main-tained either Mexico must undo all she ban done or war must come to determine Ohio matter It Is somewhat Hingular tbat Intelligent newspaper JIHM should hold up the present worthless < trader of the man us a means 01 proving tlmt his rigbt us u citizen the United States should not IH maintained SnpjKM any reupectablo merchant or dealer of Kl IIHO to have done the same things Cutting Cut-ting did would it then bu right to defend him Of course it would and so It is in Cuttings case and nothing proves Ohio great power of our Ojoveminent more limn its ability togoto tho extreme of war in order to llotect tIm lulJlLIObt or its too pie and nothing ghcs the American citizen citi-zen abroad more pride 01 pleasure than the knowledge that lie Is I alwajH under tho wing of the home Government except ex-cept ho Hball commit crime in u foreign country and then Im knowx ho fom felts protecti6n loot Home of till gentlemen who now advocate leaving thin man tu the mercies of thin Mexicans lie plated < in a Himilar > omllon and they would Hiiul tin ilTwii p iii It n Q partition until the uliea weru hot to oh tain relief A man who lie eriod in life Hhonld not always ho held to t account for his doiugH especially if ho I has bit Ion 10 do better and doubtless tlmt is what 4ao Cutting bus done but the slmdow uf former for-mer mean actions now comes up to a 1 Ixitlier him antI It would bo moro charitable charit-able and generous In Ohio American press to drop such arraignment and give him tlio ease oncouragcinentthey themselves would like to have if placed In his 10si 1 lion No man is vvlongproof hence no man should cast n stone at this I man until un-til under our laws lie forfeits his right to protection from his native land Tho Tribune quotes the New York Timrt ns comparing tho case of liennctl of tho Herald who was mulcted In 2000 for libeling Field There are no paralcll points In the cases 1ield and Itcnnclt both carry on business in rngland under 1nglish license laws mid the libellous matter in the Herald was cabled from London Tho unit too was n civil one Had 11 1 criminal prosecution for libel been made against Dennett ho would have caused its immediate withdrawal as lie would have rIght 1 to do Hcing wealthy he would lather pay tho lino than expend morn In defending it nail even now the chaneo of collecting the hue is purely a visionur one Cutting is poor nail though hu had been n homothief or any other form of irimiiKil in his past life ho was soveieign titircn of the United States when ho was arrested on n criminal charge nail tried and convicted against the protest of our Government that such a law could not be enforced against one of its citizens Die country Is bound to nrntpit nil nUke rich or 1001 the mull with friends and the l man without and evoil if our Gov eminent did I sec lit to consign con-sign this man to his fate without intci posing to help him tho same journals would bo the first to plume themselves on the fact that a Democratic Administration Adminis-tration failed to piolocl its citIzens Tho coitinued hot weather produces eurioua efTectson the editorial mind by reason of its constant employment in weighing public men and me inures hut it is i hardly fair to iudiiectly nubile the blamo for being condemned to such laborious life on n poor devil who is in thin clutches of the meanest gang on mirth It would bo more manly withhold abuse of htm for pist misdeeds until Inxomes over the border free and then open on him and pour out all tho vills of wrath piovoked by the heat tiles nmsiinitocs water brash and wind colic until the welkin lings and ho is driven up a tree in i self dcfciiEC |