The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-21
The NEWS TURN NOW.

TO the Providence NEWS: Sweetiy' Is
/ an adverb qualifying the verb smell In
the connection that the Tribune USED the
| word. Sweet" Is an adjective. An a.
q verb. The Tribune meant exactly what
1t said. Westerly Tribune.
Well, after the Westerly Tribune gets
through smelling "sweetly,' 1t Will feel
"tiredly," and become 'hungrily," ana
get ''ashamedly" of being SO confound-
edly 'ungrammatically, and perhaps 1t
will go to night school and study gram
mar and common sense. But probably
it won't, being a third party newspaper,
and incapable of learning either by rea-
son or experience. "Smell sweetly," IN
deed! There ought to be laws to pre-
vent such debasement Of the Presidents
English.
But B'rer Slocum. like B'rer Rabbit, he
| lays low, and, in the opinion OF not rev,
his is the best secondary boom there Is
Brooklyn Eagle.
Gen. II. w. Slocum would be good
man for President-one OF the best on
the Democratic side-a simple, kindly
old gentleman, with white hairs ana
brilliant military record. But then ne
has no show.
The New York Times thinks it dlscov-.
ers In Mr.. Whtelaw Reid's chamber OF
commerce speech, passages that sneeesC q
possibility that McKinleyism does not
seem to him the last VI ord OF commercial
wisdom Boston Herald.
Ames had doubts And Ames, oh
where is he? Probably Reid Is sounder
than his rivals think.
If Italy could sell all her Malta men at
the rate which the United States pa'u ior
those killed at New Orleans 1T would DE
the most profitable speculation OF her Ire.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
But we don't want to buy any more.
No, sir!
The way to increase a city's prosperity
Is for every citizen, business man.. fnan-
cier and workingman TO do what he can
to forward the esame.--Westerly Tribune.
By voting the third party ticket and
so helping the party which would abolish
the tariff on dressed granite and ruin
Westerly not much!
Moreover, the Herald will always be, as
10 decency. paper you can take to your
homes, which isn't the case with all news
papers.-New York Herald.
Rhode Island Democracy needs some
thing Of the sort, and it is to be hoped
that the Herald will fill the bill.
No election of representatives at the
second trial i'm Providence. The Prohibi-
tionists acted as pc bles in the cogs
again.-Burrillville News.
That's about it. The Prohibition
votes cost the city good many dollars
each. and do no one any good.
This is Republican day. There will
be another next November. Boston
News.
In fact there will be plenty of them
right along.
La Democratic du pays est convaincue
que le Rhode Island est un petit, tout
petit Etat.-L' Esperance.
Yes, the World has quite made up its
mind that this little bit of "a State owes
it deal of gratitude for giving it such
lot Of free advertising, and ii the
World is happier for taking that view of
the situation why Little Rhody doesn't
mind.
The only architectural criticism to be
made on the new place of residence
selected by the hon. Grover Cleveland In
Fifty-first street, is that the front door
doesn't seem to be wide enough.-New
York Sun.
Well. isn't there basement window
for His Bigness to trip through!
The opinion prevails among European
chemists that coal makes the lowest
priced gas.--Journal.
European chemists are evidently not
familiar with the two cent brand of
American mugwump newspapers.
| hat ha
General Asse enbly is likely to repeal the
present law placing the appointment of
license commissioners in the hands OF the
mayors of cities, and give the selection
and control of these officials to the boards
of aldermen. This will not wholly re-
move the objection TO the present system,
although 1t would be preferable TO placing
all responsibility on "a single individual.
The license commissioners should be
chosen by direct vote OF the people, and be
accountable directly to the electorate of
the respective municipalities. w oon-
socket Reporter.
If the people of Providence were to
vote for Excise Commissioners, one Nc
Carthy, the liquor dealers pet, would
never have been wanted in this city.
During the month of March last there
were imported from Great Britain to the
| United States 23.7S9 gross tons of tin
plates, which were IL ,5i4 tons more than
In March, 1890, before the McKinly duties
were devised. The increase is perhaps
rather larger than would be expected un-
| der natural conditions OF trade develop
ment, but it certainly does not indicate
that the new duties are going to free us
from dependence on foreigners for this
commodity. y.-Journal.
Behold, the free trader beginneth to
assume somewhat more respectful tone
toward American tin plate. The world
do move.
THE PULSE OF THE PRESS.