The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-11
The NEWS TURN NOW.

L
| :. Itmay have been noticed that the Repub-
licans who dismissed the billion dollar
appropriations Of the last Congress with
the easy remark that this is q billion dol
lar country anyway, are now expressing
grave apprehension lest the extravaRance
OF the present Congress should leave the
Treasury with deficit. - PROVIDENCE
Journal.
II isn't the spending that disgusts Re-
| publicans but the fact that important
departments have been skimped to get
money to waste on Holman's private
pork barrel in Indiana and on absurd
Southern claims.
| Whichever party obtains an over
| whelming majority In the next Congress,
the public will find itself at the end OF the
session wishing 1t was the other.-PRovr-
DENCE Journal
What a snarling cur it is, swapping at
any and all legs without discrimina-
tion.
| Mr.. Cleveland is rapidly learning the
| art OF letter writing as q means OF con-
cealing thought. Nevertheless, we may
DO sure that In the quiet OF his catboat,
| during the long lapses when bluefish do
not bite, he does a heap of thinking Is
It to be tariff for revenue onlyy That
Is the question. Journal.
OF course it is; doesn't the Chicago
| platform say so, and hasn't Cleve de-
| clared no true Democrat will go back
on the platform? What more do you
want, old cynicism?
Perhaps when a young man refers to
his father and mother as the old man"
I and the ''old woman" he expresses re-
! spect and Observation-Disclosures Valley
Daily Cleaner.
1t depends on how he does it. Will
| the Cleaner kindly see Robert Louis
| Stevenson's new South Sea island story
| in which the trader who has married q
half-breed girl takes loving pains to re-
fer to her in the presence of mission
ary as "the old 'ooman" in order that
she may distinctly understand that he
means bona fide wedlock? The phrases
the Cleaner quotes are not, however,
recommended by the NEWS.
How to win Platt is problem that 10
doubtless the great first cause Of multi
tudinous cogitations these August even.
ings at Loon Lake.-Boston Globe.
But IL isn't circumstance to that
other problem that drops Cleveland's
heart lower than his lead sinkers,
'what in h can do with Hill?"
That the motto Of the thermometer. at
Evening Call.
Who cares anything, just now that is,
about next time, If only it would take q
drop on itself to-day
The peoples party will bring the cam
paign into New England. d.-Woonsocket
Re porter.
For comfortable burial.
there would seem to be excuse for the
authorities not finding the author of the Bor-
den butcheries.-New York Telegram.
We would respectfully inform our en-
terprising contemporary that Fall River
is not in RHODE IsLAND.-Newport News.
The New Yorker alludes probably to
the fact that PROVIDENCE papers are
covering" the murder much more fully
than those Of Fall River. 1t wouldn't
be surprising If RHODE ISLANDER did
the discovering.
If we had considered them-the saloons-an
advantage we should have put them in the
list They are enot.-PRovIDENcE News.
II not al advantage they are of course
a disadvantage, and yet we have never
been able t. discern that the News or the
party 1t SO ably represents, have ever
seemed to exert themselves 10 any great
extent for their removal, choosing rather
to enact the stale and played out farce of
Regulating" and restraining" them
Newport Enterprise.
The saloons are undoubtedly disad-
vantage, but the NEWS certainly pre-
fers regulating and restraining" them
to the sullen and obdurate Prohibition
obstinacy which sooner than control
nuisance will multiply it and give it the
sweep of pestilential scourge.
Representative Page promised to do
great things il he ever. went to Congress.
Now that he has declared himself not a
candidate for reelection the good people
Of this State want to know what he has
thus far accomplished at the national
aspmPawtaaet uspl.PP Valley Daily % Mimes au0 Tell
Charlie is here but he isn't doing
much talking.
In fact, property is really a nuisance. -
d. B. In Pawtucket Record Visitor.
Facts, but the lack of property is a
worse one. AS between two evils give
us cash.
You are right, and Mr.. Hayes will have
credit for his work In due time from the
public generally. ly.-Westerly Weekly.
Mr.. Hayes made a, good Congressman, a
good general in the field, q good governor and |
citizen.-Newport News.
Two deserved tributes from two good |
newspapers.
The "well Of frozen air" Is near Day
ton, Ga.--New York Press.
1t were we'll If we had that well in
PROVIDENCE; well, say providential for
August.