The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-16
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Why couldn't the Weather Bureau give
US our hot weather by degreesf-boston
Traveller.
II did. BY the hundred degrees. Great
Scott! Didn't you get enough OF EN-
Too much prosperity has ruined as
many men as has hard luck.-Attleboro
Sun.
The trouble is to find any one who is
willing to admit that he has had too
much prosperity.
1t Is bad enough for women to be beaten
and robbed on 14th street, the great mid
town shopping thoroughfare, but what Is
to be thought OF a municipal adminlstra-
tion under whose rule girl may be
beaten unconscious and despoiled OF her
savings in Central Park Mall Perhaps
the Chicago convention Is occupying the
thoughts OF the park police.-New York
Recorder.
Undoubtedly it isl What's a little
matter like robbery compared with
the great evolutions in the cyclone city?
New York policemen know what's good
for them.
Hill and victory in 1883. Hill and VIC
tory in 1s92!-New York Sun.
Warner Miller, who was beaten in
1884, says it was done by trading Hill
votes for Harrison votes. That can't be
done this year, if Hill is nominated.
1t may be accepted with good degree
OF certainty that the next President will
be Democrat. York World.
1t may be, but IL isn't.
Holland, it appears, is to be still further
diked aud drained and increased in avail
able agricultural territory, movement
having been started to drain the lagoon
called the Zuyder Zee. This, 1t is said.
was once a lake, but by the inroads OF the
North Sea became connected with that
body OF water. 1t Is now proposed to dam
up that connection and drain the land
that was once the lakes bottom. which is
of course enormously fertile. Worcester
Spy.
Chestnut! This scheme was long ago
decided upon and to nation which has
already reclaimed the HARLEM polder
and the Alkmaar polder it presents no
engineering difficulties. 1t is no new
plan.
There is one thing that is observed with
a sigh of relief in looking back at the late
Republican national convention-the
bloody shirt has passed out of politics. let
it be hoped forever. Woonsocket Call.
If you mean by that the North joins
hands in heartiest friendship with the
South it is true. If you mean that the
North is one whit less firmly resolved
that the constitutional guarantee Of
equal rights to the legal voter of every
color and of every race shall be enforced,
it Is not true and 1t never will be true.
New England has now no representative
in President Harrsons cabinet and the
new Secretary of State may be selected
from among the stalwarts OF New Eng
land. Among the names mentioned are
ex-Governors Crapo and Robinson OF
Massachusetts and Ex-Governor Cheney
OF New Hampshire. Newport News.
Well, Crapo ought to get it. He did
about as much rs any one man to in
sure the nomination of Harrison. But
he never was Governor.
Les deceptions des factions doiyvn
s'effacer devant les interets du parti, qui
sont ceux de In nation, ct lie cri de rallie-
ment unanime doit etre; ViUc Hdrrtson
ct Reid, les reprcscntdntS du republican
fsnlc!-L' 'Esperance.
Sound Republican doctrine. Vire
Harrison ct Reid!
A Dakota clergyman advertises that he
will answer religious doubts at dollar a
doubt.-Newport Herald.
Cheap enough certainly.
Now for Chicago and Cleveland. New
port Observer.
Now for Chicago; but are you so sure
about Cleveland?
The reelection of Senator Aldrich is in
itself the endorsement of Rhode Island
that her vital interests are well protected
Pawtucket Record Visitor.
Rhode Island knows when she is well
off and means to stay so.
When the Democratic party says the
country is paying too much for pensions
it should remember that but for the Dem
ocracy there would have been no war,
and consequently no pensions.-Bridge-
port Morning News.
A little economy thirty-two years
ago would have saved a deal more than
Objector Holman can possibly do now.
Hill has always been for his party
When its principles were correct.-Paw.
tucket Tribune.
All! II has always seemed to MS that
good share of his party was for Hill
when his principles were incorrect radi-
cally.
THE MCKINLEY OF THE SENATE.