The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-27
THE NEWS TURN NOW


Some Scotchmen who have tho national
circusr hrns o. 'SS Which they eIsvsly n T protest
against the use OF the word. English where
British is meant ~ q serious injury, to
and an outrage upon their race: They
call 1t "usurpation," which II big word
for small thing. journal.
We wish the great Italian patriot
Garibaldi were alive to read and prop
erly rebuke thus fiippant remark. Some
one In his presence once made simMar
one. which was promptly rebuked by
Scot. Garibaldi commended the pro-
test. and told his hearers what won
derful help in achieving Italian unity
had been the local pride of the people OF
each province in generous emulation
for the common veal. Piedmontese
and Calabrians, said he. Venetians and
Neapolitans-whoso would obliterate
the lines between them wholly would
rob Italian liberty of its chief safe
guard.
Scots who object to the misuse OF the
word English are quite right. Glad
stone and Humphrey Davy, Livingstone
and Burns, Scott and Stephenson have
honored the name of Briton," but they
should not be called Englishmen." 1t
is not "small thing" at all-the pride
of splendid race in its own sons and
achievements. But the Journal cares
not so much for abstract justice as for
an opportunity to turn cynical para
graph.
The people have asked that Grover
Cleveland Be again their President, and
this Is the peoples year.-New Haven
News.
This is sample of peculiarly slushy
kind of writing that Is beneath the dig
nifty of great paper. III Grover Cleve-
land had been elected eight years ago
without the aid Of denying their electo-
raj rights to the negroes of the South, 1t
would have been fair enough then to say
that the people had asked him to be
President Whether they will this year
remains to be seen.
The Press, like many other rank Repub-
lican organs, assumes throughout the
article that free trade is the objective
point Of the Democratic party and advo-
| to point such a clause in the Chicago plat
| form.-Newport Herald.
We wouldn't advise the Press to waste
any time fooling with the Chicago plat
| form. Point to Mills, to Morrison, to
| Carlisle. Point to Cleveland, whom
Mugwumps are hailing as in himself a
platform, and his free trade message.
| Point to Watterson, who remodeled the
platform because it was not at first out
spoken enough to suit him. Oh, the
issue is plain enough this time. 1t al
ways has been.
New England stands at the front with
Mr.. Whitney as its chief in this cam
paign.-Pawtucket Tribune.
The Tribune doesn't seem quite clear
in it's geography. Mr.. Whitney is a
New Englander by birth only. What's
the matter with Patrick Collins as the
New England leader?
| The PROVIDENCE NEWS Is about to issue
a wsekly edition. Warmed over news Is
not apt to tickle the palates OF news
paper readers OF Rhode Island.-Olney
| vile Times.
Indeed it does not. That's one of the
reasons why we shall not offer any.
| Every Republican organ instinctively
condemns and makes merry over even the
| pretence that Democratic) success Is DOS
sible.-Newport News.
The organ of RHODE ISLAND Republic
canism doesn't. Democratic success Is
| quite possible. The contest must inev-
itably be close, exciting and hard
fought. It will be no walkover for any
one. But If we did say that Democratic
success was impossible it would only be
necessary to make Democratic news
papers and Democraticworkers respon-
sible for the assertion. They have said
it, not we.
| No stalwart Republican will object to
having the Democrats quote ths Harrison
delegates at Minneapolis as the bread
and butter brigade" That indeed they
were in the political sense. They went
there, and they voted there, for that great
| American policy Of protection for Ameri-
can industries, and that Is indeed the
bread and butter question with the mil
| lions of voters of this country. 1t
Valley Cleaner.
| No other political question is quite so
| dignified and important as the question
| of bread and butter. 1t is wise states
manship to see that our own people get
some of it.
| With Tammany sulking in New York
and Gray's friends feeling hurt in In
diana, the outlook for Cleveland is indeed
dubious. The selection of Stevenson will
be regarded as mistake as well as a
surprise. -Woonsocket Reporter.
| Cleveland himself has good reason to
sulk, for there are those who say that he
and Adlai don't speak as they pass by.
| The Democratic platform will be rati-
fed by the Golden Club and by every
| other free trade organization in England.
| 1t is n bold and winning bid for the en-
tire free trade vote Of Europe. York
| Press.
Yes, Grover has got all London and
| Birmingham and Manchester on his
side, not to mention Paris and Berlin.
The Voice has bitten off more than 1t
can chaw.-Independen Citizen.
For party that champions Reform
with big X the Prohibition crowd is
distressingly quarrelsome. The Voice
makes big fight against the nomina-
| tion Of Demorest for the Presidency, as
If it made any particular difference
who's put up at Cincinnati.