The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-04
The NEWS" TURN NOW.

I'LL iNIiIO iOANA'
Mr.. Peck's figures injured the cause OF
the Claimant.no more than has the hgure
cut by Josiah Quincy in the matter per.
tanning thereto.--New York Commerciai
Advertiser.
Jo. Quincy never did open his mouth
but he put his foot in it.
A Republican organ says that Mr..
Cleveland's views Of the tariff question
are murky. The people, however, VIII
make the Republicans tired OF murki-
ness.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Republicans ara already tired OF
the Cleveland murkiness, and a great
many Democrats also.
Mr.. Cleveland says he has "sworn orr
until the end of the campaign. Ii he ha
said until he was elected" the Austen
tion would be until the end OF his iife.-
New York Recorder.
Cleveland is pretty cute. He is not
promising to be good for very long
time ahead, knowing the habits of the
Tammany crowd that now owns him.
The Eagle knows none who need to do
sane and silent thinking more than the
prohibitionlsts.- Eagle.
The Eag'e might proftably inquire
whether ''sane and silent thinking"
might not benefit its own party.
They (the Republicansl are now making
ag Ingenious effort to side track the force
bill plank in their party platform.-At-
lanta Constitution.
Are they? So far as we have OBJ
served the :" force bill plank" in the
Republican platform has never appeared
except in the hot-house imagination Of
the New York Sun and a few papers like
the Constitution, that are franctically
attempting to persuade people that they
have not been scalping Cleveland for
years.
II Senator Aldrich is right In his con-
clusion that the increased tariff rates of
the Mckinley bill were made necessary
by the great changes in the methods OF
man ufacture, all labor-saving inventions
and improved machinery are products Of
u mischievous enterprise which an intel
ligent people should unite to SUPPRESS
Brooklyn Eagle.
That's the overstrained theory of a
diluted theorist. The condition is re-
agencies. Read 'em, Brer Eagle, and
get rid of your murky notions.
The favorite drink of the peoples can
didate for President, Gen. Weaver, is
Duttermilk sweetened with sugar
Woonsocket Reporter
1t oughtn't to be much effort to him
to swear of till after lection.
The Mckinley law is doing its own
campaign work this year The facts re-
xarding protection are Demc cracy's dan
ger among intelligent voters.-P. V. ID.
Times.
The party of theories can't cope with
the party Of facts.
Ihave too much business to at tend to
Just now, but II Mr.. Cleveland wants to
come over to the Normandie to see mc,
why, l shall be happy to receive himl-
Senator Hill.
And Cleveland didn't go. So fade the
Democratic hopes OF public reconcilia-
ton.
Do the Republicans think any sane
man will be influenced by the free
trade" scare when everybody knows that
JnlS COuubTy IuuSb Idlot Sl,UOO,UU ~ udy
for running expensesi-Newport Herald.
But suppose the money were raised
by an income tax, tax on windows,
carriages and the like and tariff on tea,
coffee and sugar. What domestic in
dustry would be protectedl
Mr.. George Ticknor Curtis must be
surprised at his own learning and ability
as set forth In the Republican papers
since he announced that he could not sup
port tue Democracy this year.--Journal.
Republicans who have known aught
Of Mr.. Curtis have been willing to con-
cede his eminent ability and deep erudi-
tion in constitutional matters for TWEEN.
ty wears. Does the journal DENY him
these qualities because he says n protec-
tive tariff is not unconstitutional
The suggestion that the English people.
as a whole, with their limIted cultivable
are and their dense population, could be
benefited by tariff on a food product Ia
too absurd 10 be considered.
Not so absurd after all. Men now
living in England remember when the
waving gram stood OH many miles of
land now abandoned or given over TO
game preserves. The amount of culti-
vable land in England may be limited,
but a good bit Of it is lying waste and
ought not to be. Nothing SO much sur
prises Yankee on his first visit TO Eng
land as the extent of this wasteage.
Meanwhile eggs are brought from France
packed in cheap coffins, butter from
kiel, cheese from Holland and America.
Another thing. The British farmer is
ruddy and healthy. The British opera
tive is stunted. pale. puny and i'll fed.
The hope OF Britain's future rests with
restoring the red-cheeked sons and
daughters Of toll to the lonely places
they have left. Antaeus like. our race