The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-05-21
VARIETIES.

The European powers will undertake
big contract If they adopt Italy's adj.
vice and attempt to compel the United
States to grant greater protection to
foreigners residing among us than is
given to our own citizens.
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Shooting U. s. Deputy Marshals from
ambush appears to be favorite pastime
in Alabama.
1t is said that Amos Cummings, not
satisfied with being one of the brightest
stars in the constellation which sur.
rounds that brilliant but erratic luminary
of the newspaper world, the New York
Sun, is ambitious of becoming the boss
of the House of the Fifty.second Con-
gress, of which he is member. Better
be careful, Amos, even newspaper men
sometimes bite off more than they can
chew.
Jones, of New York, objects to paying
the freight on Representative Flowers
gubernatorial aspirations; and Jones
isn't very much to blame either.
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Here's news paragraph that is force.
full argument for the Mckinley tariff act,
that Democratic newspapers which value
free trade above news did not print at
all, and which other Democratic papers
printed in the most obscure positions:
"Chicago capitalists have closed a con.
contract with an Elwood, indiana, land
syndicate for the erection of tin-plate
factory at that place to employ 500 peo-
pie. The plant to be in operation Janu.
ary l, 1892" twill be hard to convince
the five hundred people to be employed
at this factory that protection is an in.
jury to the toiling masses.
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Emperor William, of Germany, isn't
anxious to prove which is master in that
country, he or Bismarck, or he would not
have been in such hurry in adjourning
the Reichstag to prevent Bismarck tax.
ing the seat to which he has been
elected. The adjournment was until
next November, and as Bismarck is quite
an old man the young Kaiser is doubt
less expecting some assistance from that
relentless old individual, Father Time.
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England may as we'll be told first as
last that she must keep her meddling
fingers out OF the political and CONNER
cial affairs of this continent. The United
States has in the past been Indifferent
enough to allow Great Britain to obtain
a commercial supremacy in the republics
of South and Central America, but the
lethargy of indifference has now been
shaken of, and in its place is determi.
nation to have what belongs to US
political and commercial supremacy on
American continent-peaceably, if we
can; forcibly, if we must; and if any
European nation attempts to thwart us,
so much the worse for that nation.
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Whatever some people may think Mr..
Cleveland evidently thinks he is still
Sin it," and he did not forget to say 80
in his recent Buffalo speech.
The number OF people whose thinking
apparatus has slipped cog and got oot
of gear is alarmingly large this year, and
among them are some esteemed mem
bers OF the editorial fraternity.
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Our Democratic friends are not so
confident of carrying everything before
them next year as they were few
months ago. Just now they are doing
penance for their sins of the Annanias
sort in the last campaign, which time
has fully shown up. just as the Republi.
can speakers and editors told the people
it would. A political victory won under
false pretenses is always dearly bought
and sure to prove boomerang. Truth
and honesty, in politics as in private
business, are necessary to permanent
success. By this time the Presidential
campaign opens the intelligent Demo.
crat will blush for shame everytime any
body says Mckinley bill" Some Of
them do already.
The present centre of population o.
the United States, twenty miles east O.
Columbus, Indiana, has been marked
by handsome monument bearing the
inscription "Centre of Population o
United States" This is the seconG
monument of the kind ever erected, tn,
first being twenty-three miles west O
the city of Washington, D. O., on tn,
spot which was the centre of population
in 1910.
The Golden Club, of England, ha
decided to dispense with its annua
banquet this year and to devote tn
money it would have cost to the dis
semination of free trade ideas in tn