The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-03
The NEWS" TURN NOW.

A country postmistress In Connection
has been arrested for opening aud. read
ing letters that passed through her hands.
Other women who hold Government POSI-
tions should take warning. journal
The Journal is unnecessarily and un-
justly sarcastic at the expense OF the
more Trustworthy SEX The women
government employees are much less apt
to fall into disgrace than the men.
The PROVIDENCE NEWS should have
biushed To publish In its reputable and
cleanly columns, or 10 have noticed In any
WAY, the contemptible attack made on
Mayor Carroll In the Woonsocket Re
porter. Such things add neither TO the
dignity nor the reputation Of any news
paper. 1t should remember that even
now laborious mountains have brought
forth muscipular ahortions. To-day the
NEWS seems TO be ringing the bells, but
the morning after election day look out
and see IL the News man isn't wringing
his hands.-Pawtucket Tribune.
We don't see that there was anything
contemplate in the Reporters attack.
The Reporter said it couldn't support
Carroll for Congress until he had paid
an advertising bill of $3.50, or some
such tritie, due to it from him. This is
not contemplate unless human nature
is so.
Even the News, which the Tribune
commends as reputable and cleanly,
wouldn't support for Congress man
who owed 1t a year-old advertising bill
OF g. .4O--if he was Democrat,
Men never act except under compulsion,
and this Is he reason why cholera alone
VIII ever make this city purify itself. III
many so called conservative citizens
should ever discover the secret OF PER-
petual life. all hope OF human progress
would have to be abandoned.-J
The News does not think so little
of the conservative citizens. We have
not lost hope that the city will purge
and live cleanly without the moni-
tion OF cholera.
A party which doesn't want the United
States TO he prosperous is likely To go TO
the boneyard sooner than most people
suspect. Journal.
Sooner than the Democrats suspect,
perhaps, but people who have not been
wonted to the smell know that it is
bound to be buried Nov. 8.
The Springfield Republican affects
Ignorance of any bargain betw cen Grover
Cleveland and the Tammany managers.
Lowell Courier.
All the super-righteous mugwump
newspapers affect to forget what was
their chief tenet few months ago.
Senator Hill will not be happy IL the
Republicans carry the election, because
he will deplore the danger arising from
the Force bill, which that event will
bring upon the country.-New York Sun.
The Sun is very funny paper. We
all know how Senator Hill will weep
when he learns that his friend Grover
will not be shut up in the White House.
where he cannot continue his comrade-
ship with him, for four years from
March 4th next.
1t is a debased party that wants de-
based currency.-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
Well, what is there among the wants
of the Democracy that is not debased?
Tariff reform is still our purpose"
This recalls that old phrase OF the dime
novels: "'rhe villain still pursued her."
New York Recorder.
This villain, however, will not have
vitality enough to pursue anybody after
Nov. =.
1t is held by the legal luminary of
PROVIDENCE, Il. l.. that the father has
the legal right to name his child, regard
less of the sex OF his offspring. Ii this
results In knocking out some Of the idiotic
names that have been fastened upon de-
fenseless children during the last few
years the decision ought to be followed
all over the country.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
But what hope is there that fathers
will select less idiotic names than
mothers?
The senseless crusade against fruits,
etc, waged by cholera panic makers. has
run long enough to have exhausted itself.
--Woonsocket Reporter.
Right. Let's all eat grapes when we
want 'em, and let the vermiform appen-
dix and cholera germ take care of them
selves. Keep clean and boil the Paw
tuxet water and fruit won't hurt.
Ex-Mayor Goodwin has been appointed
Brown or Woons icket aud William o.
Hayward Of Providence. Mer-
curry.
Doesn't the Mercury know better than
to take news from the fake papers of
this city without looking to the Journal
and NEWS for confirmation?