The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-16
The NEWS" TURN NOW

nation shows as important departure
from the Republican position on the mar
vests as announced by the party press anu
politicians before the election: Mr.. Har-
rison distinctly states that the gracious
prosperity of the year is due TO DIVINE
Providence, but he has not word 10 say
about the beneficent influence OF the
Mckinley bill.-Journal.
Yet If the President had considered
his proclamation a fitting medium
through which To speak of the Maklnley
bill, he might with entire justice have
called attention TO the fact that under
its workings the labor of the nation is.
on the whole, more largely employed
and more profitably employed in nearly
every department than at any other time
in its history.
Some time ago, it will be remembered,
Mayor Grant proclaimed that in point OF
cleanliness the streets of this city were
equal TO those of any other city on this
continent, and would compare fayorably
with those of the European capitals. III
would be a good thing for him, aud per-
haps for New York, If he should improve
his present opportunity TO confirm or re-
wise his recent assertion. Not everybody
has been willing TO take the mayors say
SO on the subject.-New York Tribune.
When Mayor Grant compared the
streets of New York with the streets of
other American cities he did not have
Providence in mind OF the wildness OF
his assertions would have been too great
even for Democratic utterance. AS he
treads the streets of European capitals
he will find out what low rank, in
point of municipal administration the
metropolis of this country occupies.
There are no votes TO be made out of
misrepresenting Mr.. Mills now, or mis-
representing the position of newspapers
with regard To him. 1t hardly pays To go
into such action, therefore, TO any extent:
Considerably before another election OF
Importance is held the wisdom OF choos-
ing Mr.. Mills speaker, or the reverse, Will
be apparent.-Boston Herald.
Mr.. Mills does not need misrepresenta-
tion; little representation is quite all
that is necessary.
Until the two remaining armor plates
ordered for test by the navy department
have been tried it would be premature TO
assert that the best plate has been posi-
lively indicated; but one fact stands out
beyond question-namely that American
armor makers can surely equal and prob
ably excel the best work done abroad
Never has a similar plate been pnt TO a
our American plates by Secretary Tracy,
and never has armor come out of its trial
more triumphantly.-New York Herald.
1t seems there are few things we can
do if we can't make tin plate, and who
knows, by patient endeavor perchance,
few of the least blear-eyed of the
calamityites may be brought to see the
flash of that III their vision.
II is evident that the State of New York
harbors large number of political
rascals. The Democratic papers are loud
in their denunciations of Republican at
tempts to steal the State Legislature, and
the Republican press is just as vigorous
in its cry of Democratic fraud.-Journal.
1t is one of the disadvantages of be-
ing a Mugwump that when you get
tired of being called an assistant Demo
crat and make frantic struggle for
momentary independence you can only
achieve it by declaring that there is no
good in anybody or anything. The
| Mugwump only takes Democratic
spectacles to put on blue glasses.
1t is an interesting fact which has been
noted by some student Of 'Bartlett's Fa-
mliar Quotations that that work gives
| four of eX- President Cleveland's express
| ions in its new edition, "A larger number
| than is credited TO any other President
| since Abraham Lincoln, who is represent
| ed by five. Ii is rarely the case that a man
prominent in political but not in literary
| life is thus admitted to a place in stand
| ard book of this character, at any rate, SO
! soon after his utterances have been made,
| and for this reason Mr.. Cleveland's four
| expressions deserve TO be mentioned. They
comprise his famous phrases, "innocuous
Al at M ig "A which
| fronts us-not "A theory" Il have consld-
cred the pension list of the Republic a roll
of honor" and Party honesty is party
expediency. journal
The Journal, in its devotion to Mr..
| Cleveland's interests, has no donbt set
| about the work of giving free prelimi
nary advertisements TO the great work
| on constitutional history, which the
sage of Buzzards Bay is said to be pre-
pairing, and concerning which the New
| York Sun lately remarked with truth
fulness that it would fill long-felt
want with that small but devout circle
| of worshippers who crave more than
ANYTHING else a definite system of
| canonical, Clevelandesque writings, and
by whom such volume would no doubt
be accepted promptly and eagerly as
penned by inspiration.
Democratic papers are now admitting
what they denied before election but
| knew all the while to be the fact, that
! Tammany rules the State. 1t must be a
mortifying admission TO make at any
time.-Fall River Evening News.
Oh, no, good friend, You don't know
them they don't blush so easily.
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