Indecent Partisanship

I he iingoes, annexationists and Cleveland haters of this country, judging from their indulgence in billingsgate and their indecent attacks upon the president on account of his Hawaiian policy, must be closely related to the socialists, anarchists and monarchists of France, and their purpose and aim appears to be on the same low level. Their work is fittingly characterized in the following clipping frora tle Springfield Republican : " It is a pitif ui spectacle for thoughtful people to witness. Ilere are great ; newspapers, senators of the L'nited I States, and leaders of the party which i claims almost a monopoly of the public righteousness of the land, soentirely given over to partisan bittemess as to be incapable of treating a most important public question with candor I and fairnesB, to say nothing of statesmanlike breadth of view. They see ; only a chance to lay up party capital, j to make the president's lot harder, his I great burden of responsibility more crushing, and his position more unendurable, not because by doing so they can best serve the highest interests of the country, but because they expect to gain partisan advantage or gratify their hatred of a man who bas chosen to go his way rather than theirs. There is no way in which this abuse of Cleveland and Gresham can be justified on grounds of fact, of patriotism or of statesmanship, and it is more than doubtful if the men guilty of it can justify it to themselves on the ground that they honestly believe what they say. " Where is the man in this broad land, who is intelligent and fair-minded enough to be fit to sit in the senate of the United States, or edit a great newspaper, who believes that Cleveland and Gresham are traitors, that they are seeking to further English interests at the expense of our own in Hawaii, that they hate the present government of that country, and have consciously or intentionally aided the royahsts in thelr recent outbreak? There is not a reasoning man in the country, who bases his opinions on a hal f -way candid study of all the facts and arguments, who believes anythins of the sort - not even certain senators and editors who are continually repeating these charges either directly or in the nieaner form of insiuuation. " ïhere is to the philosophic mind a certain value in such parades of partisan meanness as the country is now seeing. They opérate as the revelations of the Lexow committee did, to arouse the people to a thorough and heartfelt disgust over the bitter fruits of partisanship,and so tend to strengtli. en the ranks of the independent voters - while they weaken the influence and arouse popular distrust of newspapers and public men who are responsible for and guilty of them. Not all of the intelligent people are rabid republican partisans or Cleveland haters. Only a minority of the great whole beleng to these two classes, and it is only this minority that listen with approval to this abuse of the administration. The majority ignore it or are disgusted by it." The withdrawals of gold last week amoanted to $12,500,000. The reserve is now down to $57,500,000. Unless relief comes and that very soon, another bond issue will be necessary or gold payments will inevitably cease, gold will go to a premium and the country will drift to a silver basis. The president and no doubt a majority of the ablest men in congress look upon this possibility or probability as a serious menace, and yet it seems impossible for congress to arouse itself to the imperative demands of the occasion. There seems to be not only a total lack of crystalized sentiment around any comprehensive scheme of monetary reform, but inability to get together on a mere paliative measure. The situation is critical but not sufficiently so to cause the patriotism of congress to assert itself to the exclusión of partisanship. The menace will have to become still more accute before relief can be looked for. In the meantime the business of the country is depressed owing to the continued exports of gold. The discovery has just been made by the Spanish government that there are 20,000,000 silver dollars in circulation there not coined by the mints. It is strange if a similar condition of things does not exist in other countries, our own among them. The discovery was made by the Spanish authorities by we'ighing the bogus dollar. It contained more silver than the genuine dollar. Silver is so cheap that private individuals may niake better silver dollars than the dollars of the daddies and still realize enormous profits on the venture. The Michigan house of representatives has passed a bilí which, if it becomes law, will supply every school district with a copy of the "red book." It is a proper move. The book would be of much value to every school, as it contains a vast atnount of informatiou on subjects about which every child should be instructed. Senator VVashburn, of Minnesota, who was defeated for re-election by Gov. Knute Nelson, charges his defeat to the corrupt use of money. This is a very familiar charge, and usually accompanies the election of republican millionaire senators.