Political Clippings

With inillions of dollars worth of property destroyod by luobs in her sccoud city ; her mining inierosts paralyzed, her iron workH idle, labor at a discount everywliere, disorder and crime rainpant in her dominion, hor eapitalits alarnied and her workinginen impoverished, Ponnsylvania uiny well begiu to inquire if " proteotiou " roally protwcts. - Quiney llerald. Judge West says he favors low wagea and giviug employés a share in the profits. This is a matter which legislation cannot touch. It must bo arranged by agreouaents between individuáis ; and Judge West might set the example of how it can be done by dividing his fees with his olïice clorks. - Boston, l'oxt. Your communist is the enemy of all that is most sacredly prized amoug civilized mankind. He is the sworn enomy of public worship, of religión, of the marriage tie, of tamily as wull as proporty rights - in short, of everything held dear by society. Could anything more horrible be iniagined than would rosult if such beinga were ever perinitted to 8ecurestrongfootholdiu aa any community. - Sacaitnuh New. If af ter all we fail to find our roya road oat of depressiou and dobt anc distress, and are coinpelled to drag along by tho old slow way of econoni; and 8acrifice and prudonce, to a condi tion of financial health, it will not, al least, be the fault of Ohio, whose publio men are exhausting the resources o: statestnanship iu their elïorts to discover some easier way. - New York Tribune. Seoretary Sherman was sent out by Hayos to open the Kepublican campaign in Ohio last week, which he did a Mansfiüld in a speech lauding tho Administration generally and Hayes in particular, though ho frankly doclar ed that if ho had been President he would have rocognizeft Packard anc Chainberlain. As he says Hayes has done right he admita that he woulc havo done wrong. - State Press (iV. II.). Hayes informed Mr. George Frisbie Hoar and his fellow townsuien that the territory of the United States stretohec " frorn the torrid zone on the south to the frigid zone on the north." This bi of geographical infoxmation is accurate though hardly novel. What Hayei omitted to say was that, Bince Samue J. Tilden sailod for Europe, there ha not been anywhere iu this vast territon a man whoin tho people of the Unitec States have over elected to be their Pres ident. - N. Y. Hun. If tha campaign is fought upon such a ttimsy apology for a declaration o principies, the Domocracy have a forloru hope indeed. Not a liuo on the vital question of National iiuances ; no an honest sontence about the industrial question ; not a word for imperilec law and order ! It were botter far to scatter the platform to the four winds and inako a fight upon the candidates, who, beina: sensible men, must despise