The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-03
THE NEWS" TURN NOW.

ne EuktiSu AffutBuuIhv~h b,ONio'y ~
Engineers has 72, ,006 members. The aver
age earnings of its members are about "a
per week, against 80 to "a per day In the
United States. The low wages are under
free trade. the higher WAGES under pro-
lection. Even a child ought to be able TO
understand the significance OF such
figures as these.
A child would. But mugwump's
mental processes go by contraries ike
the Irishman's pig, which could be got
to Dublin most easily by driving 1t In
the direction of Cork.
The Pdtpturet Ddtly Times Is young
but strikes out charging that the PRovI-
DENCE-- (Cldimant's) picture of Bergman
Is really the picture OF wellknown
patent medicine advertiser which Is kept
on tap in the Office for miscellaneous
illustration. Newport News.
1t doesn't take long to find out the
ways of the paper which faxed" q
picture of the RHODE ISLAND parlor in
the West Hotel at Minneapolis and
then worked it over just trife to serve
for the RHODE ISLAND parlor at Chicago.
After enjoying Old Virginia hospitality
in her cities by the sea, (the Virginia
Press Assoclation) we regarded our re-
ception in PROVIDENCE as a mighty cold
sailors say. In fact the only courtesies
received from the press Of PROVIDENCE,
were extended by the PROVIDENCE NEWS,
the only Republican paper in the city.
The lengthy complimentary notice re-
ceived in this paper was written by a col
ored reporter, a former citizen OF Norfolk,
Va.-Tazewell (va. .)Republican.
The NEWS regets that the fact that
its contemporaries were caught mapping
should be construed as Intentional neg
lect on the part of the Virginia editors.
The NEWS gets the news and as the
repre- sentative daily Of Rhode Island
is glad to extend the hospitalities of its
capital city.
All that a speech like that of Senator
Aldrich's last week does is to answer
those extravagant alarmists who two
years ago indiscreetly committed them
selves to the prophecy that the Mckinley
law would ruin the country.-PRovIDENC
Journal.
Well, that's about enough, when you
come to think of it.
The success of certain popular authors
goes to show that grammar and svntax
are on the whole disadvantages
DENCE Journal.
This explains why the Journal says,
dIlu MIS- <ASd WCAO 6lfCh q
complimentary reception"
Good luck and increasing ma tural pros
perity are still conspiring to overcome
the more troublesome Consequences of
our Mckinley system Of taxation.-PRovI-
DENCE Journal.
Good luck and increasing prosperity,
when persistent, have causes. A little
investigation might perhaps teach our
free-trade contemporary that the Nc
Kinley system of taxation is one Of
them.
We hope that the teeth of the NEWS of
PROVIDENCE that were set on edge" by
the Ddtly Cleaners "who were offered
labor were its "store teeth. "-Pawtuxet
Valley Daily Cleaner.
Alas, no; we're not old enough to
have any, but it was kind Of the Cleaner
to express such consideration.
Senator Carlisle began by frankly ad-
mitting that the general tendency OF
lower prices for commodities, attributing
this TO improved machinery and trans
portation. Herald.
How much these causes affect free
trade England
Balloon1nR this year pretty closely re-
sembles suicide. e.-Woonsocket Evening
Call.
Almost as closely as free trade tactics
resemble murderous assaults on our in
dustries.
why not establish a Keely cure in the
capital at Washington.-Boston News.
The patients probably don't want to
be cured
We would suggest that hereafter plat
forms contain but one plank-"We be-
lieve as you do What do you believer
Pawtuxet Valley Times.
Good idea. Democratic success is i'm
possible with fixed opinions. II is nee
essary in order to accomplish deceit sue
cessfully to be all things TO all men.
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