The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-02
The NEWS" TURN NOW,

y III Is announced that secretary rosscf
will strike the keynote out In Ohio this
have died away before the band caught
on.-Boston Herald.
No. Foster will strike the same key
note. And the rest have 1t.
They say Mr.. Cleveland does all his let.
ter writing between 10 o'clock II. M. and
2 o'clock A. M. He seems to have been
cut out for a night editor.-Boston Herald.
Hardly, with his present physical con-
figuration. Your true night editor hath
lean and hungry look, born OF much
hustling to get the last form down on
time.
The carpenters who went on q strike in
New York this week received ~ day.
Carpenters in England receive Sl.621s a
day.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
And lose more time than here on ac-
count of bad weather, dull work and
over-competition.
The Hon. whitelaw Reid Is going West.
We are still wsiting to hear that the
typographical unions are TO unite In CIV
ing him grand reception.-Boston
Globe.
And you can wait a while longer. For
why should they?
We observe that William Dean Howells
is guilty of the misdemeanor OF using the
word language AS a verb. 1t Is true that
the late James Russell Lowell was ad-
dicted to this abominable practice, but
the English of Mr.. Lowell was not al
ways of the best.-New York Sun.
This is great. We like it. Hurrah
for a newspaper which is as ready TO
score the nigh and mighty for syntacti-
cal transgressions as to birch the little
fellows. By the way, "birch'' as a
verb is good USAGE For heavens sake,
let's straighten cut the English language
a trifie before the campaign sets in hot
and heavy.
Perhaps the country will finally come
to the conclusion that it might rs well let
the candidates flip pennies for the Office.
PROVIDENCE Journal
1t probably gratifes the cynic humor
of the Journal to know that when 1T
fiips its penny up to decide between the
candidates, if it's heads, Harrison, Re-
publicans will grieve; if it's tails, Cleve-
land Democrats will swear. The best SER
vice the Journal can render any party is
to oppose it.
One of the most remarkable features OF
this reduction in the cost of living and
increase in wages which the defenders OF
McKinleyism tell us the present tariff
has brought is that it is almost impossi-
BILE to find man who has observed either,
to say nothing of both, of these phenom-
ena in his own experience. ce.-PRovIDENCE
Journal
1t is not in the least remarkable that
the Journal should buy no sugar. 1t
has long subsisted on diet of vinegar
and (untaxeD wind.
The partisan papers are publishing in
daily installments good many "Reasons
Why You Should Vote for Harrison"-or
average ingenious Yankee could invent
quite as many and excellent reasons for
casting ballot for Richard Roe or John
Smith. Journal.
Our sincere condolences to the Peo-
ples party. The suspicion is forced
upon us that the Journal squints
towards Weaver.
Thus it is that our nightly thunder
storms have done SO little toward amelio-
rating the condition Of suffering human
ity.-WooDsocke Reporter.
It's cooler now. but the Reporter is
right in this; SO far as cooling things il
concerned, thunder storms are the big
gest frauds going.
"Gray Gables" il q rathar sombre
name for the Democracy to tie to. Why
not paint it red-until after election p
Fall River News.
Too much trouble and expense to re-
paint SO often. There'n be blue coat
to go on in November.
Theft is never crime when It Is COM
mitted by an honest man.-Pawtuxet
Valley Daily Times.
Do honest men steal?
The fishermen report the fish lazy and
10th to bite this warm weather.-Pascoag
Herald.
They've heard Cleve's after them. The
fish are no Mugwumps. They want
protection.
Our Q. c., the PROVIDENCE Claimant,
was decidedly off last evening in its ideas
upon the Attleboro end Of the Haswell
affair.-Attleboro Sun.
That didn't surprise you, did it?
The PROVIDENCE Ne,os would do vel l
to read Senator Carlisle's speech.
tucket Tribnne.
Bless you, we've read it and smiled
over it. He did his best but It was of
no use against Aldrich's facts and