The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-17


crusade against vice IN NUw York. II rs
to be hoped that 1t is not the vice rather
than the crusade which attracts Them
Journal.
That's it. Go it, old jaundice. Pitch
into the preachers. They can't be right,
and you can't be wrong. Maui them.
Your readers don't like it, but they are
meek and mild.
The chief Prohibition newspaper OF the
country declares that one of the gentle
men prominently named in connection
with the cold-water party's Presidential
nomination is mot competent" This Is
calculated to rouse the wrath of Mr..
Demorest and his friends aud create dis
sension In n political organization not
large enough to support many factional
differences.
The idea that the Prohibition party is
not large enough for factional differ
ences to develope themselves is rather
fanciful. Indeed, the quarrel over can
didates is nearly as fierce as if it was
practical.
The combined purses OF the Astors and
the Vanderbiits and the united genius of
Greeley and a Gladstone. enlisted in the
production of daily "denominational
newspaper" would only result in leaving
on the hands of its projectors the fact of
an insolvency and the reminiscence of
ridiculosity. The Methodist General Con-
ference, which proposes such diurnal
idocy, would do we'll to think before it
jumps. s.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Well, church paper ought to stand
as good chance of succeeding as an
anti-church paper, such as we have here
i'm Providence.
If May could only warm up once for all.
New York Recorder.
1t has 1t did It will Don't worry,
unless your trousers are so frayed on
the bottom that you can't go with your
coat off.
The delegates to the Kansas Reppblieau
State Convention consumed whole car
load OF whiskey and beer during its short
session, in Hutchinson, Kan, May g.
Westerly Tribune.
Somebody has been telling ghost, sto-
ries to the Tribune. 1t would take even
a Democratic convention good while
to dispose of a carload Of drinks.
The New York World goes in for taxing
the dudes clothing when he returns home
from Europe. II is likewise in favor of an
additional provision for the protection of
the American farmer. by the taxation Of
the extra pounds of flesh which the tourist
adds TO his person by the consumption of
foreign farm products while travelling
abroad. Let equal and exact justice be
done to everybody though the breeching
breaks.-Boston Herald.
But the tourist don't get fat while
-
to the Worlds theory, ought to have a
rebate.
tied "The Ladder OF Journalism and
How to Climb It." There is only one
way TO climb the ladder of journalism,
and that is through the waste basket
Attleboro News.
One way, surely; but not the only
one. Congressman Amos j. Cum
mings, Horace Greeley, Charles A.
Dana, George w. Childs, John iSwinton
and the like never wrote for the waste
basket. On the whole it's better not TO.
We, therefore, share Senator Burdick's
fears lest the people may vote TO make the
State ridiculous and load the city with
heavy debts that IL cannot ay.-Newport
Observer.
This is the concluding paragraph of a
criticism Of the NEWS statement con-
ccrning the Newport mayors fond
proposition. II seems that the Observer
doesn't want 10 submit because the peo-
pie might endorse the bond scheme. and
Honey doesn't want to submit because
they might not. All right It's not the
first time honest men and political
sharpers have agreed upon certain ac-
tions for very different reasons.