The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-28
The NEWS" TURN NOW

Perhaps the trolley system of street
car propulsion is not perfect, but why
doesn't the Telegram adopt the NEWS
suggestion and invent betterl Or why
doesn't 1T let us use in peace. the best we
have?
Baby Mckee had the largest and finest
Christmas tree procurablc i'm the Wash
ington market. Little Miss Cleveland
VIII oe Old enough TO enjoy these White
House festivities by Christmas time in
lS93.-Journal.
The Journals new paragrapher prob
ably hasn't had much experience of
babies. A child trife over two years
old is not able to extract the utmost
possible enjoyment out Of a Christmas
tree. Now Master James G.. Blaine,
Jr., will be just the right age to enjoy
Christmas, 1898, TO the full still the
argument is not politically conclusive
We take il as we find it.
But whether he Russell Sage's assail-
anti was sane on insane IL is safe to say
that he was product of poverty existing
side by side with wealth, just as thieves,
prostitutes, gamblers and tramps are
And unless he is regarded in that light
the lesson of his deed will not be learned
Twentieth Century.
Another instance of rash supposition.
The man was simply a crank not a
product of poverty" but son of par
ents in moderately comfortable circum-
stances.
The present outlook is that the Graves
trial will be over some time during the
year 1892. 92.-Boston Herald.
The Herald is optimistic. But per.
haps-
The day after Christmas is very much
like half dozen blue Mondays" concen-
trated. Telegram.
What has Christmas done that the Tel
egrdm should join the Journal i'm pitching
into 1t. III a man has spent Christmas
right, he ought to feel happy for days
afterwards.
What an object lesson to Senator Brice
the people of Cincinnati are. Down there,
instead of lodging their taxes, they get
mad and smash in the windows because
the treasurer's clerk don't receive the
money fast enough.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Brice doesn't have to look all the way
to New York for object lessons. There
are honest people even In wicked
Gotham.
IL will be seen in the near future
whether Speaker Crisp is bigger man
than even the Democratic majority in the
lower house of Congress. He appears to
have selected the Chairman of the Com
mlttee on appropriations because he could
be relied upon not TO appropriate any
thing, and we happen to know that the
Chairman of the committee on manufac-
lures was selected on the principle of
"Lucus non lucendo. .n=Bnlletin- or
Journal.
Mr.. Holman is certainly ridiculous
or would be if he were not calamitous-
as the head of the Committee on Appro-
priations. But if the Bulletin or Jour
nal is sure of the truth of its assertion
about Mr.. Page, why doesn't it drop its
Latin and say squarely in plain English
that Mr.. Page is put into place to do
nothing.
Who will succeed Plumb in the United
States senate-Ingalls or Simpson There
are boundless possibilities in a fight be-
tween these two picturesque statesmen.-
Buffalo Express.
1t is race between opposite extremes.
Sockless Jerry's feet have made him fa-
nous, as has Mr.. Ingalls, head in his
case. On the whole, Kansas should pre-
fer the head to the feet.
Liverpool has refused to send an exhibit
to the Worlds Fair. And yet that is the
port which benefits more than 9ny other
by the export trade of the United States,
New Bedford Journal.
Americas corn and cotton have made
Liverpool what it is. A hundred years ago
it was nothing. Now it is a great city.
For Liverpool to sulk about the McKin-
ley bill, which doesn't interfere with
corn and cotton, is ridiculous.
The increase of insanity has been very
marked throughout the civilized world
during the last half century, though it
may not be as great as is popularly sup
posed.-Newport News
Peculiarly particularly noted in the
case of the free trade people, whose
lunacy is of a rather dangerous charac-
ter.
The act of Speaker Crisp in designating
Mr. Springer as the leader of the Demo
cratic party on the floor of the House is
one which calls for no apology on any ac-
count or from any quarter. On the con-
trary it invites una atialifiedIcommendatio
The designation of Mr.. Springer rs leader
was indeed little less than "A party neces-
sity.-Chicago Herald.
Mr. Springer is most talented gentle
man-and thorough free trader. We
look TO him for campaign material in the
months to come. Springer is all right.
Ii is quite time there was some intelli-
gent explanation of La Grippe, and some
remedy and theory of prevention formu-
lated, both for the honor of the medical
profession and for the relief of the plague
stricken people. 1t is reproach to medi-
cal science that its practitioners are
obliged 10 confess ignorance and acknowl-
! edge defeat when confronted by this ap-
! parently simple but actually serious dis
temper.-Telegram.
Providence physicians neither confess
! ignorance" nor acknowledge defeat -
in the case of the grip. They are treat
ing il intTlligently and, in creditable
proporti- N of cases. successfully. What
is there TO grumble about! Why not
howl for an intelligent explanation of
old age or rheumatism or congenital
stupidity