, 1890-04-24
PASSING r'ANCIEs.


PASSING ANCIES.
TT doesn't take long for the intelligent
reading public to detect the bogus
methods of swindling newspapers. 1t is
news that makes a metropolitan journal
not self-praise and false dates on stale
clippings.
JupoE BErris comes back with skill
full parry of the thrust made by eN.Coun-
Gilman Bailey about the horses bought
for the fire departmental sort OF kick
ing horse pass as it were.
IT will be a great day for the West
when silver climbs up to SLD What
will Great Britain do then, poor thing,
for cheap money to buy Indian wheat,
produced in competition with the
American farmer2
THE New York World prints Instanta-
neous photographs of Senator Ingalls,,
showing the shifting positions assumed
by the great speaker in time Of debate.
Now, If the World will print a similar
number of views OF Senator Voorhees,,
showing the Indiana gentleman's ap-
pearanco during the time that ingalls,
was making his savage assault the col
lection will be complete and entertain
ing.
II Spokane Falls had Tacoma's op-
portunity to secure the Pacific Mail
steamship line by raising subsidy OF
SOD, 900, n message would he ON the
wiies inside of six hours announcing
that the money was IN bank, ubject to
draft. But Tacoma is not Spokane
Falls.
THE finances of old England are in
better shape ths year than they have
been in long while. y surplus in
Europe is indeed novelty. MIR. Goschen
deplores the fact that 1t was obtained by
an increase in tippling He doesn't
relish the idea of putting up the finances
BY putting down rum.
TpE present season will be productive
of exceptional developments through
out the mining camps. Tho REVIEW
correspondents will record great
amount of interesting news this sum
mer. Rich strikes will be made, and
poor men will become rich. Taken alto
gether the news from the miucs this
summer will form interesting reading.
TnE farmers busy season has re.
turned Throughout tho Palousc and
WailuWalla valleys blowing Is progress
ing rapidly, and seeding has already
begun. In the Big Bend spring Is turdy
This year, because of the deep SHOWS of
last winter, but when work begins it will
bo rushed A good deal Of new ground
will be seeded this year
SPOKANE FALLS could not hope to he "A
great mining center without smelters.
She has the tributary mining country
and she will also have the smelters,
THE shrn,ies spraug up like mush.
rooms, and they went down liSo tender
plants beneath heavy frost. Lot -iump.
ing doesn't seem to thrive In spokane
Falls.
KENTUCKY outlaws are at their Old
sport of deiying tho authorities and
shooting militiamen. II would DO old
Kentucky power of good to take two
or three doses OF republican state gov
eminent.
DAY by day the rulings of the general
land office becomes more flexible and
tflNlNbbAts hOt' IeEhih - paul 10 llle
spirit Of the law, and less to the letter.
Good faith will hold claim every time
against technical violations.
Oa account of the drouth In South
Dakota last year many of: the Sun.
day schools have been unable to sub.
scribe for papers. May Crowhurst. sec
tary of the sunday schools at Salem In
that state, announces that donations in
that line will be acceptable.
II THERE ever TO be an end OF these
conflicts between labor and capital?
Every strike adds burden to both vet
workingmen persist in demanding better
pay, and capital resists the effort with
all the power at its command, There
are some evils which are incurable, and
this appears to be one of them.
THr West has boundless natural re-
sources, and she has mines of gold and
silver. II the government will coin her
silver, we shall hear less of this demand
for foreign capital.
Ar last our Eastern nnonciors have
graspcd the proposition that the country
demands an increase of money to meas
ure the increase in the nations wealth.
The South and the West are in the sad
die.
AND SO IL transplres that the small
towns have no hope of getting public