The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-24
The NEWS TURNNOW.


work of clipping the workingman's dol
lar was temporarily suspended. The clip
pers will, however, to-day promptly re-
sumo business at the old stand.-Tele-
gram.
Democratic stand, too, but read fur
ther-
Let Rhode Island Democrats therefore,
never for moment lose sight OF
the tremendous stake they are bound TO
do their best To help win, and never for a
moment cease TO lay all possible stress
upon the two vital questions of the tarin
and the currency, which are the most i'm
portant now before the people or to come
before them.-Telegram.
Stakes, the spoils; question, how to be
Democratic on the tariff without being
Democratic on silver. It's a hard outlook
for the party in Rhode Island.
Governor Mckinley of Ohio told our
distinguished and picturesque correspon-
dent. the Hon. Eli Perkins. the other day,
that as result of the present tariff, we
have already half dozen macaroni fac
tories in this country that make macaroni
better and cheaper than the Italian. We
trust also it is cleaner. IL anything can
produce resolution never to eat macar-
oni it Is the sight of the great factories of
| the article near Naples. They really seem
But the free trade Democrat wants
everything foreign, even dirt. Doesn't
| every one know that the classic soil of
Italy is vastly superior to our own raw
glebe? Etruria's art and Latium's
| poetry enter into the soul of mm
privileged TO masticate it and he can
compose Martialic cpiyranfs and Vergfi=
ian eclogues while picking the grit out
of his teeth. Great is dirt, when i'm
ported.
While Democratic statesmen in Con-
gress wrangle and talk buncombe, Re
publican protection goes on developing
American industries, and Republican
reciprocity increases the market for
American products. Times.
That's what the Republican party's
for, brethren.
But perhaps no part of his (Cleveland's)
speech was more heavily weighted with a
solemn and pertinent significance than
where he urged his hearers not to sur
render faith To those who discredit and
debase politics by scoliing at sentiment
and principle and whose political activity
consists in attempts TO gain popular sup
port by cunning devices and shrewd
manipulation. journal.
Good doctrine, but. as the Journal
notices, put ponderously. AS the News
and many other people have often re-
marked to the heavy claimant, thou
say'st a well-known thing in such a SOL
emn way.
The Enterprise would suggest that
striving for prohibition through voting
with the Republican party, as suggested
by the Observer and Providence News,
would be less in the line of wisdom than
would be going to as the most
direct way of getting To New York, or to
ENGLAND by way of Cape Horn. Newport
Enterprise.
The straight way of achieving temper
anCe REFORM Is, or cOurse, TO ASSIST the
Democratic party in its free rum cam
paigns. But, TO speak seriously, if the
direct route TO New York We're for any
cause, at any time impossible the sensi-
BILE man who wanted to get there would
shape his course by way of Boston. The
prohibitionist can accomplish nothing as
third party man; the roundabout
route-to England by way of Cape Horn
if the Enterprise chooses SO to put it
ought to be more in favor with him
than stan ding still or subscribing funds
to send his worst enemy across by a
four-day steamer.
About one year age a New York man
got ex-President Cleveland and Governor
Hill onto the same platform, and had
them shake hands in public. Where is
the man who could do that now?-Chicago
| lnter-Ocean.
Croker, if anybody.
Admiration for the warm-hearted Phila-
delphians who have bought ship load of
provisions for famine-strickeu Russia and
provided the ship which sailed with them
yesterday, must be mingled with pain
full recollection of the niggardly and
picayune Congress which declined to
furnish transportation for these offerings
Boston Journal.
And a British flag foated over the
wheat.
No presidential ticket nominated by the
Democrats will receive the support of the
independent press unless that party makes
an emphatic declaration against free sill
er.-Woonsocket Reporter.
Which is precisely what the Demo.
cratic party can't and won't do, until
the tail wags the dog.
The energy with which the House of
Representatives is discharging the high
trust committed to it by the people does
not recall either the natural agility of the
hare or the persevering gait of the tor
teise. 1t appears rather to be sort OF
cross between the pensive apathy of
Balaam's ass and the movement of a her.
NIT crab. Brooklyn Eagle.
The Eagle is wise and brilliant but if
this is the tone of Democratic organ
what is the outlook for harmony?
Now that the Democrats of New York
have formerly declared for Senator Hill as
their choice for presidential candidate, il
is incumbent upon those who oppose him
TO come forward and specify why he
should not he nominated. Up to the pres
ent time they have not done this The
country knows that certain gentlemen i'm
New York are opposed to Mr.. Hill. Now
let's know why.-Telegram.
What Tammany says goes with the
Telegram. ch? But all Rhode Island
Democrats don't think so.