The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-19
THE NEWS" TURN NOW.

The shrewd and unprejudiced observer
cannot to-day declare whether Mr.. Cleve-
| land has finished his public career or just
begun it.--Telegram.
And this is why the Telegram can't
make up its mind whether or not it
likes him.
urging harmony is like his satanic
| majesty urging attendance upon the
weekly, prayer meeting.-New Bedford
Journal.
Oh Senator Hill wants harmony.
He'd make solitude and call il peace,
but the Cleveland crowd insist that
folks are still thick and precipitate war.
Two weeks ago a resident OF that Ger
man thoroughfare called Bismarck court,
tore down his house and piled the debris
on the lot. When he went to cart il away
yesterday he found that he had been an
ticipated and that only the site of his
dwelling was in sight. The perpetrators
of this daring robbery will hold the palm
for originality until some more ambitious
thief comes along and steals the cellar
Chicago Post.
Chicago thieves must be spiritless in
deed If such tame performance causes
surprise. Here was the house already
torn down. In Brooklyn, a year or two
ago. vacant house was carted away
bodily in the Baskets Of kindling wood
thieves who began with the doors and
shutters and wound up with the sills
and joists.
Secretary Foster arrived in New York
yesterday morning, and denied point
blank the report that he ever referred to
Irish immigrants as flannel mouthed."
The Fostoria statesman may be correct in
blaming some newspaper man for the re-
port. but IL is rather a strain upon credu-
lity TO suppose that an English reporter
would put that particular adjective into
| the mouth OF our travelling secretary OF
the treasury Globe.
Why so? Do You find it easier to be-
lieve that an honored American states
man has made an ass of himself than
that an anonymous British reporter has
stretched the truth. How very Demo
cratic
The price of Venezuelan coffee has ad-
vanced cents pound in the American
market in consequence of the Presidential
proclamation imposing tax upon it. The
| burden is not very heavy one, TO be sure
but il is not altogether dissimilar to that
arbitrary taxation without consultation
of popular desire. concerning which our
forefathers, just prior to 1116, entertained
n somewhat unfavorable opinion.-Jour-
nal.
The Journal ought not to kick. It's
admired governmental model, Great
Britain, taxes all coffee. Yankees can
still buy Java and Mocha and Rio un-
taxed, and rejoice in the fact that they
are helping those who help us.
We are aware that men WI sign almost
anything in the shape of petition or
pledge but as more than half the time
| fhnxy ~ Hnaff I'm ar nar raat iS fhnp
sign, and couldn't tell a day afterwards
we Judge the million sgners-if they are
secured-will not produce more than u
hundred thousand voters. .-Burrillville
Gazette.
The Gazette is pretty hard on the
country's voters in assuming that mil
lion of them will be likely to tie them
selves up even nominally against the
most important and interesting of all re-
cent Presidential campaigns.
What valid reason exists why the Demo
cratic majority should fail TO show itself
in the ballot boxes on the evening of
April 6?-Telegram.
The T'elegrdn,s malice, the Journals
indifference and the Worlds special in
voice of ignorance will produce cer-
tain different effect, in ali probability.
1t is difficult to determine just what it
is that has made Mr.. Cleveland the man
he is esteemed His early life was scarce
ly creditable, taken as "a whole. His pub
lie career has not been made notable by
stirring crises. His political creed has
been chiefly nodded upon what was evil
IDENTIFY destined to be the popular trend of
belief He is leader only in the sense
that he watches public opinion and goes
forward with tie first wave of popularity
Telegram.
L. AL l.
and this was the I'elegrdm's congratula-
ton on the anniversary.
The daily circulation of the Westerly
Tribune is now 1924 copies. Westerly
Tribune.
Being temperance man, the Tribune
editor should be more temperate in the
use of exaggeration
Ignatius Donnelly is Jerry Simpsons
| choice for President. But it is doubtful
if Donnelly would receive the support of
England, which is always necessary TO a
free trade candidate. The ''blarsted
Britishers'' are still loyal to the memory
of William Shakespeare. Inter
Ocean.
Yes, but pig-sticking Chicago would
support an admirer of Bacon.
The letter Of the Wisconsin politician
who cloves Cleveland for the enemies he
has made" is "a characteristic bit of +. :.
Braggadocio. Ii would be better for Mr..
Cleveland, however, if he had fewer enc
| mics within and more without the Demo
cratic party. Herald
Wot's eatin' the Herald is just this:
It would like to see 16-year-old Palmer
nominated. though it would probably be
the death of the poor old chap. The
spirit of i6 is all right, but the physical
endurance flags.
Four district members Of the Democra-
tic State committee who have resigned,
are called upon To pay up their assess
| ments before their designations are
accepted. Great tribulations isn't that
hard Fall River News
Not so hard, though, as good old John
| Perry's case. paying for nomination