The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-25

manner in which resolutions In
the Senate is pass Pickwickian sense
ing bills requiring until the Providence
large appropriations post Office bill can
from the crippled be pushed through
treasury. Telegram, Telegram. JAN 23.
Jan. %.
II makes n difference, evidently, when
il is our post Office. But the Senate is
competent TO manage its own affairs.
II is rather more Objectionable than the
present silver law, but the difference IS
theoretical rather than real. The Bland
bill makes no distinction between Ameri-
can and foreign sllver-Telegram.
Well, isn't that real as we'll as theo-
retical difference between the present
law and BANDS? IL we've got to buy
silver above its value, il is well that only
Americans should profit by our bad bar
gain. But there is another material diff
ference which the Telegram hasn't
noticed. At present the government
buys silver at bullion rates and gets the
benefit of the seigniorage. Bland would
give the profit TO the mine owner or sill
Yer speculator.
James g. Blaine is heroic figure.
When placed In position where real
man would assert himself, Blaine gets
sick and is carried out vomiting. A
plumed knight, truly.-Chicago Herald.
We have seen "a good many mean
things printed about Blaine, but never
anything TO surpass the above. Few
Democratic papers have made sport of
his infrmities; fewer still made them
the occasion of reproach.
With the usual capriciousness of fame
the late Justice Bradley will not be re-
membered so much for his long years of
judicial service and his deep legal lore ms
Tor the fact that it was his vote which
seated Rutherford B. Hayes in the chair
which the majority Of the people OF the
country wished Samuel j. rilden TO oc-
cupy.-Providence Journal.
AT the time, the Journal was as GER
tain as the News is now that the major
ity of the people wished no such thing.
Such is the consistency of the Journal,
which should know that, if Southern Re-
publicans had been allowed to vote and
ii their votes had been counted, the
popular majority for Hayes would have
been tremendous.
Yet in the first little dispute with
South American State upon question
of responsibility for the acts of some
drunken sailors not an official voice is
Telegram.
Are You sure they Were drunk, or do
you take it for granted that they must
have been, as they were only United
States man-of-war's men ashore? And
even If they were drunk, which is not
probable. was their treatment calculated
to please an American?
Can 1t be possible that the message, "No
water in Chicago" had any effect on the
Democratic National Committee in Wash
ington '--Chicago Post.
1t is not only possible but probable.
Chicago knows how to turn misfortune
to account.
The ice crop seems to be secure. The
paucity of drowning accidents among the
skaters demonstrates that il is of sufficient
thickness. ss.-Boston Herald.
Rather, doesn't it demonstrate that
there isn't any ice at all?
Mayor Grant gave Mr. Croker's baby
$4,000 birthday present, and now Gov.
Flower has given Mr.. Croker's son-in-law
a $4,000 Office. Happy Crokers!-Boston
News.
Unhappy New York, which the
Crokers rule! But Democratic success
in this country depends upon them.
Talk of the adulteries of liquors, the
more there is mixed with them the safer
they are.-Independent citizen.
This is one of those statements which
cause extreme Prohibitionist organs to
lose their reputation for common sense.
If liquor is adulterated with water
only, no harm is done, but drugs more
harmful than alcohol are used to make
up for water in the mixture.
Would it not be good idea TO name
the streets in the Phenix fire district
after men that have made Phenix what
it is?-Pawtuxet Valley Cleaner.
1t would. George Washington can't
get any more fame by having 135,61Sth
street named after him. Give the local
men chance.
We think the friends of David B. Hill,
whose right TO support him for President
we freely concede Just as we do his posses
sion OF some of the qualifications for the
Office, err in not playing "a waiting race
aud I'm trying To force the pace from the
start. That, however, is their business.
IL will be the business of the Democracy
of other States TO define their own rela-
tions TO the situation as those relations
may be affected by the hurricane policy
here re-Brooklyn Eagle
This is n pretty good statement of the
case. Hill Is disgusting consistent
Democrats by his undemocratic actions.
Chicago Is at its apogee. Everything
goes To Chicago. Perhaps even the 5000
600 will 20 there. The other day "A wealthy
japanese merchant was interviewed about
the Worlds Fair city II like it better
than any other of your cities" said Mr..
Iwamoto, "for it is so busy. so active, SO
bustlng IL is ahead of New York, even.
i'm this respect" New York is obviously
shriveling Mr. Iwamoto's reasons for
liking cities are interesting. Il like PhIla-
delphia too he said, "for Benjamin
Franklin is buried there, Brooklyn
Times.
The obvious intent here is to poke fun
at Philadelphia, but we are not sure that
the consciousness of having gwen To the
country and the world great man is as
well worth pride rs present hustle and
activity.
Quay's little libel suit has been decided
i'm his favor, and damages have been
awarded him III Ouay cOuld secure dam