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Show j The probabilities are that. China will ! demand damages for th recent outrages I on Chinamen in this country. The Gov-, Gov-, eminent may indemnify China, but such i j indemnity cannot wipe out the disgrace j j of the Rock Springs massacre. It is pre-1 j tended by some that the Marquis Tseng I will make an adverse report on that mas-1 j eacre because of British influence and the j j jealousy of England on account of Amer- j I ican prestige in China. Would the truth j of the matter raise America in the esti-i esti-i mation of China if it were not for Eng- ! ; lish perfidy ? I The" forcible rescue of Harry Dixon from a Deputy United States Marshal of Idaho is a serious matter, and the worst argument in the world that the advocates of polygamy could make. Just such things as that, in the present strained and excited condition of affairs in Utah, may lead to a rupture and riot that will not down until the Territory undergoes I civil war. Such things are far more j easily started than stopped, " and it is. j usually some fool-bardy fellow who starts I them. ! Theee is a sort of jaunty juvenility in the j editorial pages of the Democbat which in- dicates considerable greenness, and shows i that the writer needs the attention of the schoolmaster as well as the experience which brings ripeness. News. Well, is not the jaunty juvenility of the Democrat better than the senseless senility senil-ity of the News, and its greenness preferable pre-ferable to the experience of the News which was never ripe but always rotten ? j I . j The agitation in Canada consequent on J the execution of Riel continues unabated, j The burning in effigy of the prominent i Government men of Canada by such a j fanatical and excitable people as the I French Canadians, means more than it would with another people. Louis Riel j hanged is much more of a power than Jefferson Davis free. The Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Randolph Churchill have' entered the electoral lists in England and are tilting for the Conservatives. It is anew departure de-parture in English politics, and the Conservatives Con-servatives doubtless think it a great improvement im-provement on the Birmingham system. "The Birmingham system is too American, Ameri-can, you know." |