The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-29
The NEWS TURN NOW

30 we'll on paper that IL would seem pity
TO transfer them into harsh realities at an
enormous expense to the taxpayers
Providence Journal.
Well, now, for nice, cheerful, good
natured old lady who always likes to see
business booming and local improve
ments under way, commend us to the
Journal!
lie triomphe diplomatique de co pays
est complet, ct la guerre nest plus re-
douter.
Au Is ucu that ends tpcll Central
Falls L'Esperance.
And the triumph is conceded by all
parties, except the Mugwump partylet,
partykin or particulus.
Considering the plans themselves, ire
spective of the cost, there is the general
remark to be made, applying to them all,
that they lack originality and are stereo-
typed forms Of rchitecture.-Telegram.
Originality is not wanted in State
House so much as dignity, fitness for
the purpose and the quality of wearing
well.
The low, moaning, sobbing sound which
is sweeping over the country just now is
not a seismic disturbance-it is the re-
lieved sigh of Secretary Blaine uttered
when Chile accepted the ultimatum.-
Chicgo Post.
No, it isn't; the low, moaning, sob
bing sound is the sigh of the Mugwump,
who realizes that he is left again.
1t was once remarked of an Engiishman
of prominence that ''what time he can
spare from the adornment of his person
he devotes to the neglect of his duty"
To suit American politicians this might
be paraphrased. What time they can
spare from the lining Of their own pockets
they devote to the neglect OF their duties
to the Nation. -Pawtucket Times.
To snit Dave Hill further paraphase
might run, "What time he can spare
from the weaving of his private political
duties rs q senator"
The petition of the Wool Consumers
Association for free wool and an equitable
scaling down of the duties on woolen
goods is a sufficient answer to the pretence
that the wishes of American woolen manu-
facturers are truthfully represented in
the request of the so-called national asso-
citation that the Mckinley wool schedule
be left unchanged.
The wooden manufacturers who sign
the petition are political innocents who
ask for free trade in everything they
buy. but insist on sufficient protec-
ton" on all they sell. AS the Fort Worth
(Tex.) Gazette puts it: Massachusetts,
is in favor Of free trade raw material
and protected manufactured goods.
Texas is in favor of both being free, and
if there is any tariff that it be on raw
material like wool and hides" Now
which is likely to find more favor in the
eyes of the big Democratic House ma
jority, the Journal or the Gazette idea?
The style of tariff reform that suits the
latitude and longitude of New England
is not the style for the latitude of South
Carolina or Texas or the longitude Of IL
linois or Iowa.
The crew Of the cruiser Yorktown are to
have three days liberty in the port of Cal
lao. There Is hope for the jingoes yet
although the Peruvian government is
bankrupt and without an army or navy.
journal.
Again the Journal sneers at the Amer
ican sailor with its usual cynicism.
Notwithstanding the fact that the pres
ent cold snap came from Canada. there
are still men who believe in annexation. -
Boston News.
Of course we're for annexation, and
we wouldn't get any more blizzards than
now, either. Do you think howl
ing cyclone, tearing along sixty
miles an hour and biting chunks ont Of
things generally is going to be stopped
by a boundary line?
A big anti-lottery meeting was held last
night in fremont Temple, Boston. The
Louisiana gamblers were given some
knockdown blows.-Telegram.
You err, esteemed contemporary. The
knock down blows were given to the
gamblers, not vice versa. However,
errors of ignorance are more excusable
than some which you have committed.
Ex-Mayor Goodwin will undoubtedly be
appointed postmaster this week.-Paw-
tucket Record Visitor.
The Record Visitor must have a
straight tip from the White House.
II would not be surprising il the selfish
ambition of Hill defeated both himself
and Cleveland and the Democratic con
yention be Obliged to seek candidate
outside either faction. The quarrel has
materially frightened Republican pros
pects.-Newport News.
We are not sure that the quarrel
makes the prospect any brighter than it
has been for long time, because there
has never been any doubt that il would
come to fight between the fat man and
the bald one.
II is worth while noting that the David
B. Hill whose commands the New York
Democracy is so humbly obeying is the
same David B. Hill who was last fall pic
tured by Mugwump artists as back
number. New York Tribune.
The Mugwumps' wish was father to
A. tho,,bt aud doomed like all their