The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-04-08

GOVERNOR HoGG, of Texas, hasn't
a very pretty name, but his head is
very level, all the same. He wants
no paternalism in his, not even when
it is presented in the shape of a cash
bounty of two cents per pound for all
the sugar produced by that State.
WHAT benefit would accrue to the
rest of the States by the admission of
Newfoundland to the Union as a State?
This question may or may not be per-
tinent at this time but we would be
pleased to have it intelligently an,
swered.
SPECIAL To OUR REPUBLTCAN
FRIENDS: Suppose you allow the
Democrats to decide who shall head
Presidential ticket next year, and de-
vote your time to nursing the numer-
GUS soreheads of your own party.
Hon. E. G. PHELPS, ex-Minister to
Great Britain, doubts the efficacy OF
arbitration as a means of settling the
Behring Sea dispute, and thinks it
will eventually be settled in one of
three ways-war, the complete back
down of the United States, or the pro-
longation of the discussion with Great
Britain until the seals are all exter,
minated.
1T is said that Hayti wants the Uni
ted States to assume a protectorate
over that Island in return for coaling
station at Mole st Nicholas. The
United States Government has never
gone into the protectorate business,
and woe be to the administration that
tries to inaugurate such policy. 1t
smacks too much of royalty to be at
home in an American atmosphere.
The State that isn't represented at
the Worlds Fair by complete and
full exhibit of it's products and resour>
ces, together with well and carefully
prepared statements of the advantages
it has to offer capital as well as labor,
will deliberately throw away chance
to obtain advertising that could not
fail, if intelligently directed, to add
millions of dollars to the value OF
property in the State. It would sim
ply be impossible to invest the peoples
money in a better way than in thus
advertising their State.
THE third party that is expecting to
get any electoral votes from the South
is doomed to disappointment.
THE old tub, Galena," has been
pulled off the rocks of Gay Head, in
order to make work for the Republi
can strikers of New Hampshire and
Massachusetts.
UNCLE SAM is quite well to do-in
fact, wealtby-but it is not probable
that he will again indulge in the ex'
travagant luxury of billion dollar
Congress for some years to come. II
did not agree with his internal ar
rangements.
LOOK OUT for the counterfeit 81 sill
yer certificates; they carry the portrait
of the late Gen. Hancock on theil
faces, and are printed upon paper SC
near like the genuine that Treasury
experts have been deceived.
THE alleged falling off in the pei
centage of increase in the negro race
in the South, is very easy to account
for. The census enumerstors in the
South didn't enumerate all of the
negroes.
IF we are to wait until the revenues
of the Post Office Department exceed
the expenditure before we can have
one cent letter postage, there is every
likelihood of very long wait, as the
postal subsidy law OF the last Congress
will add very largely to the expendi
lures of that department without add
ing much to its receipts for some time
to come,