The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-26
THE NEWS TURN NOW

Congressman Andrews bill ITO reduce
the duty on certain manufactures of iron
iron T 's and wv waste STEEL would be. il
passed, of incalculable benefit to New
England. But it will receive no aid from
Republican CpnRressmen, no matter
what their inner personal convictions on
the subject may be.-Boston Globe.
OF course not. II New England gets
free iron, waste or other, the iron
States, infinitely moro powerful than
New England, would insist upon free
textile goods. And business would not
boom, exactly, in the Dig stone mills.
You never know what we will do next
New York Recorder.
That's one reason of the Recorders
magnificent success.
II Gov. Hill never heard that "Judge"
Green log-rolled the Hudson river bridge
charter through the assembly for the sole
purpose OF hawking 1t for sale, he failed
to learn what was very openly charged
New York World.
Oh, Dave heard it. He is bald, but
not deaf. The matter with him is that,
though hearing he didn't care cent.
Ninety thousand Americans are ex-
pected to cross the Atlantic this season TO
visit the "effete monarchies" of the Old
World in searcn OF rest, amusement, and
education-for all of which they will pay
something like sioo0O0,00o. - Worcester
Spy. -,
An appreciable number of them will
be American workingmen born In the
old country, going home to see the folks.
How can they afford it under the grind
ing weight of our robber tariff"
r. G. Dun e. Co. In the Weekly Review
of Trade remark general conditions OF
trade remain favorable" Alas, why is
Democrats need it SO much to give them
hope?--Boston News.
Because calamity is a matter of cause
and effect, and the calamity howlers
have neither cause nor effect.
Mr.. Edward Fox will have to get a
patch put on his coat tails.-Boston
Herald.
But his reputation for common sense,
if he ever had any, is beyond patch
ing.
England has over forty battle ships.
The United States has one We must be
careful how we jaw back when England
This country cherishes the most pro-
found respect and esteem for England,
or for Great Britain, to be more correct,
and it never "jaws back" and it hopes
never to see amity and cordial relations
tor moment interrupted. The battle
ships have little to do with the case.
The advocates Of the free coinage of
silver despairing Of ACCOMPLISHING any
thing in the present Congress-, are now
exerting all their energies in an effort to
force the adoption of a free coinage plank
in the platform Of at least one of the
rreat poftticHf parties or the nomination
of free coinage candidates for the Presi-
dency.-NewDort Observer.
In other words, they are playing sys-
tenn. And when a gambler gets to play
ing a system he's lost, for he believes in
it, while fate doesn't.
A verdict for s25,OO0 in a breach of
promise case places q higher value upon
masculine affections than most women,
estimating them impartially and without
thought Of recomDense, would be willing
to admit. journal.
Few women would be inclined to
value the affections of the Journals
dyspeptic paragrapher at $4,000, but
that masculine affection of wholesomer
type is not worth that figure or even'a
higher sum, few sensible people, mascu-
line or feminine, would affirm. Whether
there is much affection involved in the
average breach OF promise case is, how
ever, quite another question.
The moral of all of which is. that in
mat ers of mere municipal business, like
issuing bonds for sewers and other needed
work, regulating the prices and quality
OF water-supply, revising ward bounda-
ries and appraising municipal property
for purposes of taxation, it is far better to
support and strengthen the hands of
those who are, by vote of the citizens, in
control OF the city government. nt.-Newport
Herald.
Well, that depends a great deal upon
the character of those who are lin con-
troll Of the city government" If they
are Of the Honey stripe. home rule" is
the rule Of fraud at the ballot box and
jayhawking in municipal finances.
Those political prophets who have been
declaring vociferously that Mr.. Hill
would either be nominated or dictate the
nomination at Chicago may realize at
length that Mr.. Cleveland will have
something TO say about the heir to his
own considerable political fortunes In the
event Of failure to nominate him again.
with the outcome of the balloting.-
Journal.
In one way and another the Journal
manages to intimate pretty clearly every
morning that the Mugwuinp contingent
is in the market. Bid high, gentlemen.