The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-08
THE" NEWS TURN NOW


A man should not be too economical IN
bestowing praise nor too extrayagant IN
giving advice. Telegram.
How much more of newspaper the
Telegram would be if it applied this sage
advice to its own affairs.
The Presidents message will not be
ready until tomorrow. IL will be a
lengthy document, hut entitled. 10 careful
perusal; for the official utterances OF the
Chief Executive of the United States can
never be altogether without dignity or
importance.-Journal and Bulletin.
With what calm and kind condescen-
sion our esteemed contemporary makes
this important admission. President
Harrison will no doubt feel his mind
greatly eased.
If there is one politician in this country
whose continued ascendency in public
affairs is grave menace TO the public
veal, that man is David Is Hill, the gov.
ernor-senator of New York State.-Fall
River News.
About this same Gov. Hill the Chicago
Tribune says "The conspiracy TO steal
the legislature of New York, organized
and conducted under the auspices and in
the interests of Gov. Hill, is the boldest
and most dangerous assault which has
ever been made upon free institutions
and the will of the people as expressed
at the polls. IL has startled not only
Republicans but the honest members of
the Democratic party. by its revolution
AIRY character. 1t goes without saying
that il should be resisted TO the last ex-
tremity," and the Independent declares !:
"the resistance to this attempt should
be of the most vigorous character. Such
crimes, when successful, shake our in
stitutions to their very foundation. Seat
stealing is the very worst of politica,
offenses, whether it is done by Democrats
or Republicans"
The Democrats will begin the task Of
saving the country to-day, at least that is
what they will try and do. Ii is not nee
essary to add that there are quacks in pol
itics as in medicine, and they are generally
the most pretentious takers. - Boston
News.
The Democratic majority in the House
is large enough so that the Democrats
will at least be fully responsible for
their queer salvation schemes.
The time of the average Congressman
is not very valuable, and if all the days
between now and Christmas were passed
in balloting for Speaker the country would
never know the ditference.-Journal and
Bulletin.
The worst of the Journal is it sneers
from January to December and never
lends hand to mend matters.
The Democrats in the Fifty-second Con-
gress appear to have remarkable staying
power.-Boston Herald.
It's pity they couldn't display it more
advantageously than in delaying the
country's business.
The billion-dollar Congress levied q tax
of $40 on every family in the country
What surprise would have confronted
these families had the tax collector come
around and demanded it in the usual di-
rect way.-Boston Globe.
1t would indeed have been a surprise.
They wouldn't have paid it, and they
didn't pay it, as Globe readers must
know.
Give the New York Times credit 1t
does not follow Gov. Hill in his conspir-
acy to steal the Legislature. 1t calls it 50 a
conspiracy" and tells the governor he
should have kept his meddlesome fin
gers out of Senatorial and Assembly dis
tricts." But the Times will come up
smiling and support the party all the
same.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Times has so cultivated its appe-
tite that ii sincerely dotes on crow. So
do most of the mugwump journals,
which, considering their daily bill of
fare, must be judged extremely fortu-
nate for them.
The recently published report of the
Postmaster General shows "a series of
A Il.
the postal service and especially in the
adoption of noteworthy postal reforms.
If the present Congress will only act fairly
and Justly by Postmaster General Wana-
makers recommendations, the days of /
cent letter postage. 3 cent telephone mes
sages and 10 cent telegrams may seem TO
be far distant.-Boston Journal.
Mr.. Wanamal1er, his captious critics
to the contrary Notwithstanding, Is a
clear-eyed and sagacious business man
who makes patriotic use of his sagacity.