The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-30
The NEWS" TURNNOW.

The fall, alas, II coming on,
or seasons the most drear;
Not cold enough for whisky, and
Too cool for lager beer.
brooklyn Eagle.
1t is never cold enough for whisky and
never warm enough for lager beer Both
drinks are bad in their effects physical
and mental-often moral.
The worst thing about. the poem,
though, is that it isn't original. The
poem lives in memory. thus:
The melancholy days are Gomez
The saddest of the year,
A little too warm for w,liskey
And a little too cool for beer.
The Brooklyn plagiarist hasn't i'm
proved the stanza. He'd better have
taken it straight. as he probably does the
whisky and the beer, each In its season.
Not n word vet from Gray Gables to ID.
B. H.-N. Y. Recorder
And not word yet from ID. b. IL. to
Gray Gables. Honors are easy.
Even the free traders favor protection
as applied 10 the seaboard against chol-
era.-N. Y. Press.
It's a case of "this feller or t'other
feller." Cholera is just as likely to strike
an importer as protected laborer.
"Kings are often great convenience to
a minister" one of Frances great states
men IL made to remark by the dramatist,
and possibly there was something Of this
thought in Gladstone's mind when he
permitted it to be understood that 1t was
the queen and not he himself who de-
sired Labouchere TO be kept out OF the
Cabinet.-Journal.
He didn't permit any such thing to
be understood.
The strained condition existing between
the two wings of the Democratic party in
regard to The tariff can hardly exist much
longer without breaking its back.-Jour-
nal.
Well, let it break, and a good rid
dance. But is there so much disagree.
ment on this question as the Journal
would have it appear?
And to that end (the election ou Cleve
and Steve the electorate vote of NeS
York is highly esisable Id may bs alb
solutely necessary.--N. Y. World.
May be necessary Oh, you rank
idiot, you can't come within ten thou
sand miles of electing Cleveland with
out New York. And how are you going
to get it?
The depression I'm English cotton man.
ufactures is in somewhat startling con-
trast to the prosperity OF our own. The
losses OF England are due partly to the de-
cline in export, owing to the increased
competition of American cottons in Latin
America, partly to the competition OF the
Bombay mills.-New Bedford Standard.
Yes, free trade England cheerfully
furnishes machinery to the rice fed In
dians to weave cottons for next to moth
ing day in direct competition with her
own workingmen.
Shifting bears tariff Of i've cents a
yard. Shirting also sells for five cents n
yard. If the tariff is tax, who pays IL?
Concord Monitor.
Oh pshaw You know; the wretched
workingman, whose wages are 20 per
cent. higher than in England, poor fel-
low
has determined that he will not take the
stump during the campaign, then the ex-
president Is not altogether Bourbon, for
he has learned something from the ex-
perience of the Democratic party down in
Rhode Island last April.-New Haven
Leader.
Oh, Grover is nobody's fool. His
skull is rather thick, but still it does
feel sore when club hits it.
The managers of the new tissue paper
trust declare that the object OF the COM
bine is TO do business more economically,
and that 1t Is not proposed materially to
advance prices. This Is thinner even than
the tissue that the trust will make
Boston Globe.
Not at ALL Why shouldn't tissue
paper be made cheaper by a trust as
well as kerosene oil?
Even Editor Dana las not born In New
York.-Boston Globe.
No, but he went there to earn living
while quite young. Boston is a good
enough place to go away from.
Under Republican rule 1t is as much as
the American workman can do to pay
rent to a landlord. rd.-Newport Herald.
Our esteemed contemporary is mis-
taken. In Newport, as in Woonsocket
and in most of the towns between, many
workingmen own their homes. Great
Britain is the rent paying country.
There only one agricultural laborer-
Joseph Arch-owns his home and about
as many in other employments.
STA ATEsMEN WHO WOULD BE RE-