s.
The power behind the throne is the power that the present occupant
supposes will determine who the next occupant shall be.

_Question_. With the introduction of the Democracy into power,
what radical changes will take place in the Government, and what
will be the result?

_Answer_. If the President carries out his inaugural promises
there will be no radical changes, and if he does not there will be
a very radical change at the next presidential election. The
inaugural is a very good Republican document. There is nothing in
it calculated to excite alarm. There is no dangerous policy
suggested--no conceited vagaries--nothing but a plain statement of
the situation and the duty of the Chief Magistrate as understood
by the President. I think that the inaugural surprised the Democrats
and the Republicans both, and if the President carries out the
program he has laid down he will surprise and pacify a large majority
of the American people.

--_Mail and Express_, New York, March 10, 1885.

RELIGION, PROHIBITION, AND GEN. GRANT.

_Question_. What do you think of prohibition, and what do you
think of its success in this State?

_Answer_. Few people understand the restraining influence of
liberty. Moderation walks hand in hand with freedom. I do not
mean the freedom springing from the sudden rupture of restraint.
That kind of freedom usually rushes to extremes.

People must be educated to take care of themselves, and this
education must commence in infancy. Self-restraint is the only
kind that can always be depended upon. Of course intemperance is
a great evil. It causes immense suffering--clothes wives and
children in rags, and is accountable for many crimes, particularly
those of violence. Laws to be of value must be honestly enforced.
Laws that sleep had better be dead. Laws to be enforced must be
honestly approved of and believed in by a large majority of the
people. Unpopular laws make hypocrites, perjurers and official
shirkers of duty. And if to the violation of such laws severe
penalties attach, they are rarely enforced. Laws that create
artificial crimes are the hardest to carry into effect. You can
never convince a majority of people that it is as bad to import
goods without paying the legal duty as to commit larceny. Neither
can you convince a majority of people that it is a crime or sin,
or even a mistake, to drink a glass of wine or beer. Thousands and
thousands of people in this S