The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-15
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The two biggest figures in the politics
OF the old world are Gladstone OF Eng
land and Bismarck OF Germany, poiiti-
clans OF great mind, great deeds and great
record. who have won worldwide fame
and whose names will BE- priIted large IN
the history of the nineteenth century;
What politician have we in the United
States who takes rank with these TWO
European politicians New YORK oun.
Some folks thinks James G. Blaine
answers the description. The old world
doesn't hold all the great men.
II must set n good many Republicans
to serious thinking when so prominent q
man and Republican and one OF such
acknowledged ability and character as
the Hon. Walter O. Gresham OF lndiaEa
leaves the party aud consents 10 TAKE Tue
platform for the Peoples party.-Worces-
ter Post.
Perhaps it would, If the story were
true. But it isn't, You know. Gresham
denies it. Your wish was father to the
thought.
The love of money may not be the root
of all evil, though Paul in letter TO
Timothy once declared that such is the
fact.-PRovIDENCE Journal.
The love of money is often surmised
to be the root Of the Journals evil polit-
ical course.
Our neighbor, Block Island, has ap
parently entirely recovered from the
effect OF the late small pox scare. and &C
cording to present indications this will be
the islands biggest August after all. we
are glad of this, especially as much OF the
scare" was created by rival resorts for
selfish easons.-Newport Mercury.
This is rather handsome, especially as
Newport is better situated than any
other place to profit by Block Islands
loss.
But logic is not always the strong point
OF reformers. rs.-Journal.
Certainly not of revenue reformers."
The person who is nervous during thun-
der storms is having hard time of 1t this
summer.-W oonsocket Reporter.
Oh, no; all she has to dot usually
is a she--is to put the kitchen table In
the middle of the floor with each of its
legs in fruit jar, jump up on it and
pull feather bed over her and yell like
screech owl, and she's all right.
name Medford ought to be given to one of
the new warships in honor OF the town
where the shipbulding industry in New
England began. journal.
Glad te see that the journal occasion
ally gives credit for the ideas it takes
from the Herald.
Messrs. Jeremiah Golf and Charles H.
Sparks visited Attleboro Wednesday with
MIR. Goff's Don. When their friends
learned of their contemplated departure
il caused quite an excitement owing TO
the danger supposed to exist in the woods
of that locality from Dalton, but after
proper precautions they were allowed to
depart Warren Gazette.
It's high time Dalton was caught il
the fear of him is going to keep folks
and dog Tor is Don boy are reasona-
bly, safe, we should judge. at least by
daylight, on the main thoroughfares Of
that city.
At no time has the steady march of
Democracy been SO apparent in England
as it is to-day when England's Queen is
compelled to do the bidding OF the voters.
Woonsocket Call.
The newspapers are full of this sort of
talk, but is a little hard to tell what it
always has been compelled to do the
bidding of the voters. Royalty in Eng
land is pretty much now what it has
been since the Reform bill.
Gen. Stevenson should drop the title.
II is an honorable one--and he was dirty
copperhead; a fact which no Union sol
dier will forget at the polls.--Attleboro
Sun.
"Sir" AdIai better suits Knight Of
the Golden Circle.
At last Congress has adjourned. The
next annoyance is mosquitoes.
Greenwich Pendulum.
And the next is the man who knows
Just how the election is going to turn
out. He's oiling his jaw joint already.
Women do most of the farm work in
Europe That is the condition to which
the free traders want to reduce the
Go slow on that tack, Mr.. Recorder. A
woman who does farm work in modera-
ton is far better off physically than the
shop girl, seamstress or even house
keeper. The fine ruddy Irish and Swed-
ish dairy maids and mowers who come
70 us from the old country often break
down i'm American kitchens. Anything
that would drive women ont Of doors
would not be an unmixed evil.
Women who have political influence
over their husbands will please take no.
tice that no sooner do they begin TO wear
suspenders than rubber trust is formed
by gracious permission Of the Mckinley
act.-N. Y. World.
The writer of that absurdity must be
half blind old bachelor, not to know
that womens suspenders are worn for
show, not service, and are made of
cloth with never a particle of rubber in
them.
les Democrats appcllent leur candidat
n In Vice -Presidence des Etats- Unis le
0cncral Adlai f. Stevenson, ct dependant,
Get illustre personnage ma jamais senti In