Current Opinion

-iliere are those wbo affect to see politics in the good work Gen. Iíussell A. Alger is doing in visiting the old veterans throughout this country. At every post gathering he lias attended, the receptions have been most hearty and the welcome extended most enthusiastic. His visils have in fact been ovation?, and they are probably what they are in tended to be, welcomes extended by the veteran'-to their highest official in the order nf ■ he Grand Army, and to one niio was b most gallant and brave soldier. Ci n Alvr may have bis ainbitions. and i' tii,l mattf r why Bhould h_e nol afjiiie in tUe liiliost office within gift nf ilie people, but he i- uu t J i i ,- . u bul ;i Jemagogue. Th oso wbu'donbt itiiMhrave soldier in thie mini ml y manuttr sliould retiro abashed. VVht he does is open and abo va hnanl, n,l if ro.-eeds to do polilical work it can be depended up on it will bc itono ■ q uire. Thi l'aciflc (A'm Francl ea . Asure oiiv of porerty. iliuiit. huh we are hearing g 101I ilenl, :- .rimarily a cure of character. ' free lomitries, certainly, most of tliu iiovt-rtv we find ia the clear result of a enk infailectual, orweak moral thararipr.or i.'.ih. Confessedly, povcrly of llie i: liored popuiat:on of the Bonth wilJ bc nieasureabiy cuied by the educalion and training of the intellect and murality of the mass of them. The moment people are relieved of their ignoranee and bad moráis, whicb is the best prosperity, they begin to prosper in a worldly way also. No matter what social, financial or governmental changes vo make for the removal of poverty - and these are possibly changes for good- let us get them; none of them will have but a transientsuccess, if any, unl il rharacter is renovated. Cure poverty? Cure character. Adrián Times. The next meeting of thf National Hepnblican League convention in Nasliville, ïenn., March 4, will be a grand success. Over 1,000 delegares will be present, and leading Rupublicans in Congress will attemi. Tha presence of such a body of men in the South ought to result in good, for intelligence, patriotisra and morality should spread its influence wherever thrown.