The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-12
The NEWS" TURN NOW

declare that postmaster is desired who
| ~ nrnt-claes business man, who can con
duct the once on strictly business prinol-
pies for the best intsrcsts of the govern
nient and OF tho city. Does the NEws
have any objections to these requirements $
or does IL still Insist that 'appointnents
shoult be made according 10 the nuueri-
cal proportions Of the classes from whom
the, appointees may DO drawn. -Woop
socket Call.
The News hasn't the slightest objec-
tion TO these requirements We pre-
sumo Mr.. Crum, appointed postmaster
OF Charleston by President Harrison, to
have these qualities. We don't insist
that appointments should be made ac-
cording to numerical proportion. etc.
That Is the instinct OF the politician
and, other things being equal, 1t is as
fair as II Is polite. Elsewhere in its
article the Cal intimates that the News
would kick IL a colored man We're made
fitting. we should not. But the negroes
and nine-tenths i'm Charleston, which
makes some difference, from the practi-
cal politicians standpoint.
Popularity and the trolley system don't
| go togeth.r in PROVIDENCE. X. i. And
| yet II is the best system thus far devel-
oped.-Attleboro Sun.
And not unpopular. II will be greatly
extended to the general benefit.
New York city il proudly congratulate
ing herself that the work Of burying the
wires there Is already practically an ac-
complished fac, and what remains to be
done Is simply n matter OF minor details.
boston Herald.
The minor details" have power to
darken the sky, then.
In spite OF all that has been claimed the
iron workers have not found that high
protection means high wages.-Newport
Herald.
This is ludicrously untrue. The
wages paid to iron workers in this coun-
try are, when measured by their earn
ings in Great Britain under free trade,
very high indeed. OF course iron work
ers wish them higher. That's human
nature.
The PROVIDENCE NEWS Is having hard
time OF 1t explaining that wages cut no
figure In the Carnegie lock ut.-Paw-
tucket Tribune.
Ii the Tribune had a telegraph oper-
ator, wire and service il would probably
be Informed daily that the locked-out
men would not stand on the wage ques-
ton II their union were recognized and
the time for fixing the scale We're to re-
main as at present. The wages question
affects less than ten per cent. of the
employees and these but slightly.
Though the wages of the puddlers In
the Cleveland and Pittsburgh irou works
have been cut somewhat of late years, yet
even now they earn annual salaries OF
from $1,000 to g. 900. Formerly when they
were paid WAGES varying from $4,000 to
S5,OOOannually they drove to their work In
their carriages. This was as il should be.
Newport Observer.
Yes, iron working is hard, hot, un-
healthy task aud ought to bring better
wages than pleasanter jobs do,
The more the record of Adlai f. Steven
son Is stirred up, the worse it smells.
Bridgeport News,
There's sectional difference, how
ever. Down South they hail Adlai with
enthusiasm.
The tory victory at Newcastle upon
Tyne seems to have been largely due e.
the superstition that u protective tariff
protects labor. Let the ueluded elec ors
who voted for the Salisbury candidate
upon that ground apply for information
Homestead, Pa.-Brooklyn Ea lle.
Well, let them. They'll find that the
locked outs have refused wages twice as
high as Biithish workmen are glad to
get and that the necessities of life aver
age no higher.
Guess on the diameter of the smoke
stacks of the large A lautic steamships.
Somewhere between four and eight feet,
fs.... T1,..
tunnels of the steamship Etrllria are over
eighteen feet In diameter. You could
drop your parlor right into IL bodily
Springfield Union.
Guess again yourself. Nothing larger
than a IL by IA parlor would drop into
an 1S foot funnel, not allowing for the
thickness of the walls of either pipe or
parlor, and some of the Springfield
''best rooms" must be bigger tnan that.
Il is announced that a Southern cotton
mill has been asked by Fall River print
ers to supplement the home supply.
appearance of Southern fabrics In the
Northern markets in immediate compe-
tition with our home goods, the Northern
cotton manufacturers who are thoroughly
logical will presently be asking for a
tariff on Southern goods similar to that
on European goods. Journal.
Probably the Fall River people are
not much afraid of it. But why doesn't
the Journal draw truer moral which
is, that under the tariff and with the
vast and rapidly-expanding home market
to I'LL the Fall River mills have all and
more than all that they can do?
Mr.. Carnegie pronounces his name with
the accent on the second syllable and with
hard gas Carneegge.- Springfield
Union.
No he doesn't. Carnayggee, with
the accent on the second syllable and a
hard ''g'' is the right way. "Naig' is
his pet name.
The bill limiting the amound OF wear
Ing apparel in the possession of travellers
that they may be admitted free OF duty to
the value ot 800 will. should il become n
law, perform the useful service of adding
one more To the absurd exactions Of the
tariff which are gradually making II
odious Journal.