Telegram-herald., 1891-08-16
EDIrORIAL EACkRPrs.


Governor Campbell and the Ohio
platform are drifting further apart
every day. You can already drive an
lee wagon between them.-Roehester
Democrat.
What's become ii Warden Davis and
his Jackson hotel He has either cali
Ell Off The Graed Rapids Democrat or
run out of fends Mighty poor invest
ment, WASH il, Mr. Dayis?-Lanslng
Repu bliean.
The present talk about the alleged
impcsslbllity OF establishing the tin
plate Industry In this country Is the
same kind that was heard when we
proposed 10 ma auia acturc our own
steal rails: but the steel rail mills were
built AM now supplying the demand
at e1tly re .uee psiees.-6iobe- Dem
ocrat.
Carter Harrison Il making himself
incommoniy conspicuous these days
and II is suspected that he wants the
Alliance nomination for the Prcslden-
cy. Donnelly. Pefier, simpson, Harri-
son, Only Butler and st. John are
needed now TO complete the list and
Butler Is growing restless.-Mlnneap-
oils Tribune.
President Weston, OF the Worlds
Fair commission. struck dizzy gait
In Chicago on Thursday. At o O'Clock
he hired architects and ut = he filed
| plans for a two story shed with an
| attic that Is intend.d tor serve as the
| Michigan building at tho Worlds Fair.
This is rushing things pretty fast,
but when IL CONES to the matter OF
erecting a shed President Weston can
get there ca soon as anybody. But
why this unseemly haste, aud why
shoull Che tgo archi Gets design MicAi-
gan's buildiag?-Detroit Tribune.
A clean shirt is a necessity, and the
| new tariff law makes il cheaper than
1t was before it went into operation.
| The Golden Rod" brand OF shirtin&
is used largely for working mems
shirts. The new tariff law raised the
duty on 1t from cents yard TO 4 l-2
cents. It's price was IA cents a
yard six months before tho new
| tariff law went into operation. 1t
now sells at 1-2 cents o yard. Will
| some of our free trade friends, who
say that the duty Is added to the price
OF the home product. have the kind
ness TO explain how their theory can
be reconciled with the faets?-Toledo
Blade.
In these days when there seems
disposi don i'm some quarters TO deny
| newspapers even the privilege OF ex-
| istence. IL IL refreshing to note the
| judgment just rendered by the Supreme
| Court OF Montana, vindicating the
right OF iour1al TO print the news.
In this case the paper had been inter
fcred with for alleged c0ntempt OF
| court, because IT publishkh the state
| ment OF n person that In Impartial
| trial for cas-, IN which large inter
ests were at stake couldAnot be had In
n certain Montana court. The Su-
prcn.e Court held that power is not
| given to q tribunal t6scniorce senti-
mental respect BY fmIfisoning citL
zens who may speak tlfslr minds about
it.--New York Morning Journal.
No more striking illustration OF the
backwnrdncss in some thiags OF our
Canadian neighbors co1id pc given
than is afforded In the fant that, after
having had street railways in use for
| thirty years. the city OF Toronto is
now disussing the propriety OF running
thcra on Sundays. That there Is q
! community ON the continent In pos
session of o city railway system that
| could for an hour hesitate over such q
/ question is scarcely comprehensible by
| the American mind today. But the
| fact Il, our Canadian friends, never too
| progressive, are now where we were
| long ago. We outgrew our blue laws
| a century or two sIncs. The Canadians
| are only beginning to outgrow theirs
| now Washington Post.
| Robert schillinger. the well-known
| deunagogue leader Of the eo-called Peo-
Piles party. remarked that although
| the Peoples party has delcared for
the free coinage OF silver the majority
/ cf its them bers are not in favor oil II,
f, but tolerate II az 1.-The entering wedge
/, by which they hope TO overturn the
present monetary system." This has
been echilling's pet theory for man,
years past. and his idea " TO introduce
| the same monetary system which has
recently created such wide spread ruin
and universal bankruptcy In the Argen-
| tine repubiic. To be iorewarned Is TO be
forearmed. and the voters OF Ohio can
sec clearly ia what direction the free
/ coinage planks OF the Democratic and
Peoples platform tend.-Stubenville
| Herald
Massachusetts Lns new law re-
| lating to tha manufacture OF gas by
municipal corporations. that viii be
watched with interest. By this law
cities and tow rs ore permitted TO own
| and operate their gas works. II the
| consent Of two suecessive city coun-
| cil= Ia obtained In the eb ape OF two
| thirds vote, and after this such con-
| sent is ratified ~ she whole people
at an elect ton. then Che city IL en-
| powered 20 buy or build electric orgas-
light works The plant IL to be paid
for by appropriation OF public money.
| and viii be operated By regularly ap-
| rointed officials II cities themselves
san furnish 10 cstirens cheaper lisht
than private corporations can they
\ will now have in Massachusetts, op-
| portunitv to provs it.-Chicsgo
l Journal
When Chattanooga and Birmingham
vsrt anything they 10 uos sis down.
| as it ware. and wait till it comes 60
| them. The former hss raised sloo,-
600 among its business men for tae
pur7oss of establishing a line Of steam
boats, rrsiissna that waterway u
useless unless is il utilized Rirmias-
ham has raised $3.50. 900 for the es-
| tahlishment ~ a steel plant. AMI II
was not long IN doing 70 It requires
energy and enterprise 10 build a city.
10 matter how great tie natural adj
1 vantages The town IN which ths
business men labor wholly s0r self. in
which no Pah}ic spirit - manifested,