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crats have gained in the house 01 representatives will hardly prove an advantage to their party. Factions will inevitably arise.whose struggles will result in giving to the legislation passed by the house an uncertain and fragmentary character. The demócrata have an elephant on their hands, and they will appreciate this fact in 1892 more keenly than they do now. The provisional government of Braxil has passed a number of radical measures, most of which are eminently wise and practicable. Many ex-slave convicts are to be liberated, galley slaves are to be treated with greater mercy, a new criminal code is to be adopted, the banished attachés of the late imperial government will b i permitted to return, the states are to be convoked to choose their representativos and frame their constitutions before May, the cemeteries are to be secularizad, and other important reforms are to be introduced. On the whole, Brazil bas undertaken very successfully the work of Belf-government, and the probability is that the fall of the empire will ever be regretted. It is sincerely to be hoped that the democratie legislature, which Michigan has seen fit to elect, will refrain, so far as possible, from overturning the fabric of statutes wiaely passed by their republican predecessors. The local option law, for one, may fall a victim to the inordinatedemandsof the saloon power, to which the democratie party owes a heavy debt. There is, however, som e grounds for hope that this will not be the case, because of the fací that the great majority of the citizens are heartily in favor of restricting the liquor trarflc and will sweep from power any party which dares to oppose that reform. The demoerats know this, or ou?ht to know it, and if they are wise, will not rush blindly to their own destruction. The unfortunate affair ast night is to be deeply regretted. The permission of the militia upon the streets and allowing them to fire their muskets about the streete when people were excited over the escapade of the night before was a serious niistake upon the part of the city authorities. It was in fact indefensibie stupidity on the part of our military mayor which has resulted in murder. Such carelessness and inefficiency as his conduet on this occasion shows should be dealt with as it deEerves. The idea of allowing a gang of mere boys, as most of them were, to go about the streets firing guns and clubbinginoffensive people to death, as was the case last night, is altogether too much to be borne. Every one who took part in the affair should be ferretted out and sent to Jackson for a term of years. A Toledo man, with a philosophicai turn of mind, has succeeded in defining that subtle and inexplicable phenome. non, a blush. He says that it is "the reflection of an impure thought on a pure mind." This little bon mot stamps the author a pessimist. Do blushes result from no other cause than impure thoughts ? God forbid. There are many kinds of blushes ; the blush of shame, the blush of joy, the blush of health, the blush of modesty and the blush of pride. Only the first of these answers to the definition of the Toledo pessimist. The truth is that a blush can no more easily be analyzed than can a smile, a scowl, a grin or a sigh. In a maiden it is something exquisitely lovely, and that is all we need say about it. In the next congress, it is claimed, the Farmers' Alliance will be represented by flfty members. They will thus constitute a faction large enough to exert considerable influence upon the course of the democrats. Among other things, they demand that the national banking system beabolished, that the ub-treasury bill, providing for goverment warehousen, be passed, and that the railway and telegraph business be placed in the hands of the government. In short they are moderate socialists, while their allies, the democrats, are, and have been from the first1 pronounced adherents to the doctrine of laistez faire, which holds that the government should confine itself to the pólice functions and, under no circumstances, tamper with the industrial system. In order to maintain their supremacy, the democrats must make 8ome concessions to the Alliance and it will be interesting to note with what sophistry they will defend their course. It is safe to say this, at least, that, as usual, they will have little regard for principie when the success of the party is at stake. What is democracy? That it is not the ideal thing which some people asaume it to be, is shown by the following extract from the Charlestown News and Courier : " The straight-out democracy of New York [Tammany] have received a signal triumph over the hosts of deeerters, doughfaces [ clergymen and high minded independents ] and republicans, who have combined for its overthrow. The straight Tammany ticket has been elected all the way throughby majorities ranginj from teen to twenty thousand, and New York, the proud [ ? ] metropolis of the nation, still stands secure as the citadel of unterrified demooracy [and unbridled corruntion] . The importance of this victory cannot be overestimatedIt is far more than a municipal triumph; tí touches the very Ufe of the party in the nation ; it will have a direct hearing upen the result of the greai Presidential struggle in 1892. The use of money, the tongue of slander, the voice of the press, could not prevail against the democracy of the state which gave the country itt last demo cratic president and will give it the next." Seldom has any reputable journal uttered sentiments so shameless and so villainous as these. Goming from a democratie paper, they are suggestive in the highest degree. They show conclusively that the democratie party has no hope of success, except through an unnatural alliance between the ex-slave holding aristocracy of the south and the ignorant, venal, corrupt and criminal classes of our great cities. The wonder is that the American people will tolérate for a moment such an organization. It is a canker on the body politie which.so long as it existe, will never cease to threaten the destruction of the nation. So Tammany is the democratie party ! We can only rejoice that the Charleston News and Courier has finally thrown off the veil and allowed us to eee democracy in its true colors.