The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-21
THE" NEWS TURNNOW


II is kind Of the Journal to admit that
man may possibly be patriot and yet
not be a double-dyed villain.
When we have big navy scattered all
over the world we shall probably become
well accustomed TO the adventures oil
Jack while having a days liberty ON
shore. The starboard watch OF any fast
cruiser can furnish enough evidence from
twenty-four hours experience TO rival even
the Barnaby trial.--Journal.
If the Journal had its way, it would
be some time, wouldn't it, before we
got the big navy? BY the way, how do
our sailors, supposing any OF them do
read the Journal, enjoy that papers
opinion Of them?
While there are many who do not APP
prove of the political motive that prompts
the secretary (Blaine) and his friends to
conceal his actual condition, there are
few who do not sympathize with him in
his affliction and hope that he Will finally
be able To overcome the distemper that
has evidently obtained tight grip upon
him. m.-Telegram.
Will the Telegram kindly excuse lit
tie slang, il the NEWS is moved TO re-
mark, "Aw, come off, now." Blaine
needs to eat his supper little earlier,
but he has no occasion for the Ielegrdm's
effusive sympathy.
The President will not send his message
on Chilean affairs TO Congress for ''some
days" il is announced from Washington
He is waiting for more manifestations OF
enthusiasm for war, probably. He ought
to be disappointed and he probably will
be. The people do not want war IL they
can have peace with acknowledgement.
Neither does the President Mr..
Harrison and the country are quite at
one in wishing and expecting peace with
honor, but preferring war to peace with
dishonor.
DR.. Garvin of Lonsdale is n wild man in
speech and behavior. So is DR.. Smith of
Valley Falls, politically. DIR. Garvin
helped to make DR.. Smith a doctor. DR..
Garvin and DR.. Smith have now combined
to make DIR. Garvin United States Sena-
tor. DIR. Smith is now sending circulars
over the State to help out DIR. Garvin for
the Senatorship. DIR. Smith tried to de-
feat Congressman Page in the same way
in the last Congressional campaign. DIR.
Garvin and DR.. Smith were defeated
Pawtucket Tribune.
And all this because DIR. Garvin as
pires to the Democratic nomination for
senator. Why shouldn't he. In the
present state Of the local Democracy it
doesn't make much difference.
Hon. Rathbone Gardner of Providence,
is reported as having said in n recent
speech, that "a man who negtects TO vote
is very nearly on the same plane with him
who sells his vote" Mr.. Gardner has
said great many good things in his life,
but he never said one better one than that.
This country is in great danger from the
apathy of the stay-at-home voters than IL
is from any combination OF dishonest
voters. Westerly Weekly.
fhis IS very true, yet we don't always
weep effusively when the other fellows
get lazy and stay at home, That's
human nature.
There is no use talking. 1t does look
like grim, bloody war, and Chile, mark
you, will not be so easy to thrash as most
people imagine. News.
IL is just as well to bear this latter
fact in mind. However, there could be
no doubt of the final result.
We are not afraid to prophecy that
within twenty years every town adjoining
Springfield will be connected with this
city by electric roads. Springfield Union.
There they have given it fair trial,
you see, instead of calling names and
making fuss. 1t makes difference.
In the event Of war our naturalized citi-
Zens will repudiate the pasillanimous ad-
vice of some of our naturalized editors.
That's a slap at the World, and its pro-
prietor, Joe Pulitzer. But never mind.
They'll both be patriotic enough If the
need for fighting comes.
1t is not true that politeness is declining
Mankind take really "a more kindly inter
est i'm one another's welfare than they ever
did before, and where goodwill spreads
doliteness cannot be lacking.
Observer.
The observer of the Observer is correct.
Politeness doesn't consist of scraping and
bowling, but in acting as a kind heart
prompts. In essentials, not externals,
the Americans are the most polite peo-
pie known.
Mr.. Andrew Green has at length got his
Greater New York bill in shape and ready
for introduction TO the legislature. BY the
aid of Tammany it is likely TO pass that
body.
The one redeeming feature of the meas
ure is the fact that it gives the selected
victims an opportunisy TO say whether
they want to be swallowed by Tammany
or not. w nateVer tne- -Nerllcb OF New
York may be, we think that Brooklyn and
Queens County can be trusted to utter
and emphatic ''No. brooklyn Times.
Pshaw: New York and Brooklyn,
with certain of their suburbs, will be
one city within five years, and why
shouldn't they? Every Brooklyn man
away from home calls himself a New
Yorker already.
Boston, too, is afflicted by the crank
One of him has voluntarily returned his
pension check on the ground that he did
not need the money.-Chicago Past.
Naturally the honest Bostonian ap-
pears crank to the journal which made
the discovery that Democratic rascal
is more honest than Republican rascal.
A Republican scheme for reducing the
vote Of workingmcn has been matched
out" In Rhode Island. IL is sure to react
on the heads of its promoters, who are
"forn universal suffrage I'm theory, but