The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-02
The NEWS" TURN NOW

I'LL NLWO lUNlV NUU
With projected improvements in trans
portation facilities the demand ior urban
and suburban real estate is likely To De
increased, and land values well main
tanned, IL not materially advanced
city where that is the case cannot DO SAID
TO be altogether unprosperous, nor 70
have no reasons for satisfaction WIN
itself.-Journal and Bulletin.
The New Year seems TO find the Jour
nal in fairly good humor, since, 1t Is
able to bring itself to the conclusion
that all is not rotten i'm Denmark or, in
other words, that Providence is city
worth some small share Of its valuable
attention.
The directors of the Worlds fair have
voted to allow the sale of liquor on the
exhibition grounds. There are good
grounds TO doubt the wisdom of this de-
cision, as there are good grounds to doubt
the wisdom of deciding against the sale
of liquors. The business ought TO be very
strictly limited and very carefully CON
Quoted, which we have no doubt will be
provided for.-Telegram.
TO do the Telegram justice it is not
much in the habit of straddling ques-
ton, but when il makes an effort to sit
on the fence, it seems to poise itself with
remarkable grace and precision. If it
doesn't suit everybody OH the liquor
question it won't be because it doesn't
try.
What is the matter with Gov. Hill OF
New York Will some of the Mugwump
sheets that think il is smart TO denounce
him about three times week step to the
front and specify what he has ever done to
merit the disapproval Of single honest
Democrat Telegram.
The NEWS is not Mugwump sheet,
and therefore cannot fiatter itself that it
is included in the Telegrdm's invitation.
1t will not therefore step to the front"
but will merely suggest that the Tete-
grams definition of honesty must be
peculiar one if it sees no obliquity in the
| steal of State, which is not stomached
even by the New York !Sun.
The man who puts himself in the way of
| the onward progress of tariff reform is
| likely to meet the familiar fate of the bull
that confronted the locomotive. 1t can
not be believed that there are any demo
Gratis in the House of Representatives
| who will be foolish enough TO expose
themselves in that way.-Journal.
AS the ''onward progress of tariff re-
won't the Journal kindly pass around its
| blue spectacles SO that we can all look.
OF course, the public library people will
| keep the London Punch on the list of read
ing room periodicals, just as usual; That
| isn't in the least comic-to the mind of the
average Yankee.-Boston Globe.
Ii seems to be the fashion to poke fun
| at poor Punch, but that ancient and
1 hAnArob1a taG Of itcalf
| 1t is one of the institutions not only of
Great Britain but of the English speak
| ing world, and no great reading room
| should be without it. Punch is often
brilliant and always scholarly it's
sometimes dull let US remember with
| bushes that we have humorous" papers
| Of wide circulation which are never
brilliant or scholarly, and always ineffa-
bly, dull because insuferably silly.
The crank who called upon Cornelius
| Vanderbilt, to get his brains to analyze,
and ascertain how he could mako so much
money, called two generations too late.
| The old Commodore's brains made the
| Vanderbilt money.-Westerly Tribune.
True and well stated. The Tribune is
an authority on cranks.
The hope which Providence has for
wears cherished of having a new railway
station, in place of the big brick shed that
now does duty for one, bids fair to be
realized. The need of these improved
| facilities is so manifest and the obstacles
| in the way have been so successfully over
come on paper, that it is reasonable to ex-
| pect that Providence people will rouse
| themselves from their wonted apathy in
| regard to matters Of public improvement
and will put up the building before the
end of the entury.-Newport Observer.
Come up by the end of the century if
not sooner and you will see the new un-
! ion station already little crowded, the
| commerce and traffic of the city vastly
! increased, new areas Of suburban land
occupied by beautiful dwellings and in
general highly satisfactory state of af-
fairs all round.
It is quoted as an anti-tariff argument
| that the savings bank deposits of Brook
! lyn and New York have fallen off 4,O00,-
600 during the past year.-Newport News.
More likely it means that temper
! ance crusade is needed. How about the
savings banks in the manufacturing dis
! tricts!
The New York Democrats are pledged
TO pass bill for a new Telegram.
Why didn't the boss Democrat-Hill-
sign census bill when he had it passed
and sent to him? And isn't the Tele-
gram aware that in all probability no
new census bill can be legally passed be-
| fore 1895?
Don't believe that the "chances" of the
| men who lead the country are greatly
affected by every little gust and Whit of
local prejudice, of personal spite, and of
the momentary excitements of political
cranks. The charlatan, the demagogue,
and the political adventurer live much
more on newspaper wind than on the hon
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