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Show WHAT THE PAPERS SAT. Foreign. London Spectator. If Mr. Parnell hopes to make Ireland more prosperous by a high, protective tariff, he is not only applying to Ireland a policy which has failed disastrously in the great United States, where protection from the foreigner means comparatively little so vast is the continent within which there is perfect free trade but he is applying it to a small and poor country, in which any blunder of that kind will speedily take effect in penury and famine. First rent asunder by home rule, and then hermetically sealed from all the world by a policy of protection, Ireland would indeed soon rue the blighting influence influ-ence of Mr. Parnell's ascendancy. Liverpool Post. It is quite intolerable that Germany should ride roughshod all over the world, robbing and insulting every power too weak to defend itself. ( Eastern. Philadelphia Times. The colossal fraud of 1876, in which John Sherman was one of the chief criminals crim-inals in the Louisiana electoral burglary, was the last great wrong perpetrated against the integrity of the ballot in the South, and since then tens of thousands of the most intelligent colored voters have openly voted the Democratic ticket, and other hundreds of thousands of colored col-ored voters have refused to vote because their party leaders, largely appointed by Sherman, were notorious and shameless thieves. N. Y, Star. There has never been a practice under onr Government so plainly unconstitutional unconstitu-tional and so dangerous in its 'tendencies as that of making Federal appointments upon Congressional dictation. Florida Times-Union. There is no pretension in any direction that the National Administration has offended the sober, thinking public of the country, or lost any . of its confidence. The steady-going business men, farmers and mechanics, who are anxious only for good and economical government, stand by Mr. Cleveland in solid phalanx. The only disgruntled people are those who have not been pleased in the dispensation dis-pensation of offices. N. T. Herald. The Mugwumps are independent voters, vot-ers, but they are not the only independents. independ-ents. There are Democratic independents also, and not a few of them ; men who are ready to vote the Republican ticket unless the Democratic Administration satisfies their hopes and desires. Well, the more independent voters the better. Our politics have been corrupted and made barren for twenty years by the paucity of this class and by the certainty with which unscrupulous political managers man-agers could count upon their party folio w-lowing, w-lowing, no matter into what dirty waters they drew "the party." |