The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-29
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and decide the contest. This Is just what
he intends to do; when the Kilkenny cats
have finithed their fight he proposes to
take the two tails off the line and give
them a decent burial. Awaiting this
happy solution he is very comfortable.
Journal and Bulletin.
And very ungrammatical. 1t was sup
posed the new paragrapher was recently
ont of college. The Mugwump Is better
off on the fence than in the thick OF the
fray, for really, don't you know, if he
We're to descend to mother earth he
might get his feet wet or his gloves
soiled.
This short and easy lesson upon silver
ought to be read by everyone who has been
touched with the fallacious notion that
any theory Of inance or any law enacted
by Congress can make "a cents worth OF
silver worth 100 cents in gold, or can make
a 74-cent dollar circulate alongside 100
cent dollar without loss to the people
using such rump currency, and ultimate
ENHANCEMENT of the national finances
and harm TO the general business OF the
ountry.-Telegram.
What fine time the Telegram is going
to have this winter when Bland springs
his silver bill upon the country.
''The reciprocity amendment is the little
Joker which is taking the tricks" says the
New York Tribune BY which we are To
infer, doubtless, that IL still remains the
one popular feature of the Mckinley act. "
journal and Bulletin.
Not at all; the country has long known
and appreciated the benefits of protec-
tion, and now it smiles from Maine to
California as the advantages of recipro-
city are added to those it before enjoyed.
Business men will by and by wake up to
the fact that there is as nearly as much
injury threatened to our finances by the
British gold mono-metallic politician as
by the Colorado free silver coinage advo-
cate.-Journal.
Business men have walked up to the
fact. Indeed, business men usually
wake up rather sooner than the Journal.
Truth as usual lies in the middle path,
neither with "silver cranks nor "gold
bugs" but with those who hope to see a
stable international agreement as to the
ratio of the two metals.
Judge Vogt, one of President Harrisons
circuit court appontees, is said to be but
"a years old and the youngest man ever
given such an Observation-Disclosures.
At it again! No, esteemed contem-
porary; Judge Vogt wasn't given the
appointment, but the appointment was
given 10 Judge Vogt. Democratic
simplicity shouldn't involve ignorance of
grammatical forms. Jefferson tied his
horse Cperhaps) to a worm fence on in
auguration day, but he didn't murder
the Presidents English.
Brown University has become CO.
educational.-Th Laurentian.
This will be news in Providence As
a co-educational school or college is one
where youth of both sexes are taught
together, and as no such blissful arrange
ment is yet perfected at Brown, the
Ldurentidn should correct either its in
formation or its definition. Brown has
an annex.
DIR. Lambert Of New York city, saws
that out of 200 patients suffering from
pneumonia he only lost those who took
alcohol by the advice of the consulting
physician.-Westerly Tribune.
Leaving to the the doctors, in whose
hands it belongs. the question of the use
or disuse of alcohol in medicine, hasn't
our friend of Westerly the candor TO ac-
knowledge that the cases to which con-
sulting physician was called We're pre-
sumably the more serious ones?
OF course what now brings him to the
front again, with his plumes cleansed, re-
dyed and pressed, according to the most
approved modern processes, Is twice
told tale. He has borrowed something
from the Democratic policy-not enough
to benefit the country, but enough to make
a sensation in the ranks of his own party.
He has dressed it up in weak formula
and, like the silly animal of Esop's fable,
he has been strutting about in the lion S
skin with considerable effect, for time
at least.-Boston Globe.
OF course the Globe is talking about
Blaine We all talk about him now He
is the man best worth talking about this
winter. But how has the Globe the face
to claim reciprocity is borrowed from
the Democratic policy? Is there any
thing about reciprocity inPresident Cleve-
lands famous message: or in Billy Morri-
sons horizontal reduction act? These
define the Democratic position. Recip-
rocity is good Republican doctrine, and
before the days of Republicanism it was
good Whig doctrine, as outlined though
not fully developed by Henry Clay.
The overwhelming Democratic majority
IN the house * the outcome OF a strong
popular protest against two things-the
Mckinley tariff and the extravaganza of
the billion Congress. Hence the extra
ordinary interest in the makeup of the
Ways and Means, which has to do with
the tariff, and the Appropriations, which
has to do with expenditures. There is rea-
son to believe that the people, in recording
their protest against tariff robbery and
prodigality, incidentally elected a major
ity of members who favor the free coinage
of silver. Hence the special interest in
the makeup of the Coinage committee.
Chicago Herald.
The people must be pleased at the re-
suit of their alleged protest as recorded.
They have "A chairman of Ways and
Means who will only attack Mckinley
with pin pricks, and they have chair
man of Appropriations who is quite as
likely to object to the most vitally neces-
sary as to the most wildly unnecessary
expenditures. And, in incidentally Sc
lecting majority of members who
favor the free coinage of silver" they
have as chairman of the Coinage com
mittee the trustful Bland, who looks to
Heaven for IL cents in every dollar.
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