The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-04
The NEWS" TURN NOW.


and OF some contemporaneous public in-
terest.-PRovIDENcE Journal
A newspaper needs policy similarly
described. Our Mugwump contempo-
rary hasn't got it. For ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain" the
| PROVIDENCE Journal, which mines In
] the dark to make Democratic votes,
1 while ostentatiously blubbering against
the party, is peculiar.
The latest news from the planet Mars
| Is awaited with as much interest Just now
| rs IL IL were a part Of the earth's territory.
-PR0vIDENcE Journal.
The Journal sits up onights to study
Martian politics almost as IL they We're
| English. II RHODE ISLAND interests
want any attention from the Mugwump
paper, this little State would better get
itself transported to the ruddy planet or
farther.
Alabama has dropped from the doubt
full States.-Newport Herald.
When was Alabama ever a doubtful
State? The Herald seems to have ex-
elusive political information. The rest
of the Democratic world has not found
cause for great rejoicing in the fact that
the regular" Democrats Knocked out
the kicking" Democrats, having pos
session Of the counting machinery.
"Not one measure above the dignity of
rye straw will mark the annals OF the
Fifty-second Congress" - Ex-Speaker
Reed.
Let the fall elections scatter its use
less majority as chaff before the No
vember winds.
Congress will regret its insane course
in dallying over the FIVE million dollar
appropriation. Newport Observer
Northern Democrats regret 1t now,
but you can't drive sense into the heads
OF Southern mules.
Judging by the way they Democratic
Representatives. are proving their inno-
cence, they must all have heen elected on
the prohibtory ticket, and have lived up
to the principles of the cold water party.
-Woonsocket Evening Call.
Total Abstainer Cobb, for example,
claims that he drank nothing In the
course of his now famous Noyes-R Rock
we'll speech but beef tea, whiskey and
beer. Some people might think that
quite an assortment of tipples, but COM
pared with the mixed drinks of pot-house
politicians it both seems and is abste-
mious and simple.
Everybody knows that the Pinkertons
are employed as watchmen only In cases
where the public authority is dilatory in
affording protection. People whose prop
erty Is in danger Of attack would always
prefer to have public rather than
private guards. The cost Of the former
is paid by the community, while that OF
the latter falls on the individuals who
- q h. .zs.l.l lt&.s IL
being in overwhelming force, are seldom
resisted, while the Pinkertons are some
times. as In the Homestead case, over
powered and UNANIMOUSLY maltreated.-N.
Y. Evening Post.
The NEWS does not often agree with
Larry Godkin, but in the present in
stance the Evening Post has common
sense on its side. The Pinkertons would
be abolished very quickly il the need Of
them were done away. When public
protection is given promptly to owners
Of property, who have right to de-
mand it, the Pinkertons as guards will
disappear and not sooner.
Either every man must be allowed to
Ia Dor In peace and safety, or a govern
ment "of the people, for the people, and
This is the lesson of the Homestead
strike and if it is well learned it Is worth
what 1t has cost and more.
The NEWS of PROVIDENCE takes up
column of its space daily to tell Of the
advantages OK that ,city.-Narraganset
Daily Times.
They Justify the expenditure, don't
1xa1t -,
DENCE and isn't ashamed to say so.
When ono is told that a general strike
of rubber workers Is likely because the
employees in a small shop in the obscure
village of Sandy Hook. Conn.,, object to
depositing name checks in time box on
entering the mill, 1t is pardonable to re-
mark with the mild profanity Of the cap
tain of the % Pinafore," Why, -, it's
too much. ."--Woonsocket Reporter.
If the rubber workers want summer
vacations at their own expense they'll
have to have 'em, but nonsen sical strikes
only use up the popular sympathy that
some of these days will be too thorough
ly exhausted to respond to a sensible
one.
Tous les ouvriers, amis du progress, Sc
rallient aux grands principles de la pro-
lection ct de In reciprocite qui Torment Ia
bas du parti Republicain.- 'Esperance.
The American workipgman is sup
piled with that common sense which
teaches him to use his power for his
own benefit, that is for the supremacy
Of the party which maintains the coun-
try's industries.
The best way for child to spend vaca-
ton Is to spend a good portion of 1t out
Of doors. = Pawtuxet Valley Daily
Cleaner.
Don't leave out the grown folks.
They need advice more than the chill
dren.
The convention has given us q candidate
that every man OF us believes cannot carry
the state.-BURRE COCHRAN