The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-04
The NEWS TURN NOW.


II would be well TO collect statistics to
discover whether, In proportion TO the
number of passengers carried, the trolley
is any more fatal than the mule team
Journal.
The mule and the trolley car are alike
dangerous if you get under their heels,
and alike safe if you exercise reasonable
discretion. But the trolley car goes
faster and doesn't balk.
The Anarchists did not make so much
noise in the world on Sunday as they
would liked to have done. Between the
desire to blow up other people with dyna-
mite and the necessity, OF preserving their
own precious hides, there was found an
insurmountable difficulty.
Dyspepsia may excuse a calamity
howl, but it doesn't excuse ungramma-
tical language. What the Journal
means is s'as they would have liked to
do" There are excellent night schools
in Providence, or private tutors II one is
bashful.
Keep cool, gentlemen. The baseball
season has opened auspiciously, and the
national game will take precedence TO the
political game for several months yet
Woonsocket Reporter.
We're not so sure of that. This is
Presidential year, aud the nominating
conventions are held next month.
Lady Florence Dixie, the English
woman suffrage leader, has written Bit
ter letter to Mr.. Gladstone, apropos of
the recent unfavorable action in Parlia-
ment, in which she calls the "grand old
man. grand old humbug." This is
not the way to advance the interests Of
the cause she represents. Worcester Spy.
Perhaps not, but it is Lady Florence
Dixie's way.
Is there any person in the city who will
have the temerity to stand up and say
that within the past ten years this city
has gained in value three millions Of dol
lars more than the city of Providence p
Pawtucket Tribune.
IL man should say that, he would be
paying high compliment to Pawtucket
energy and enterprise which ought to be
better appreciated. Pawtucket is a
great city.
The Tribune has never said that the
expression smells sweetly" was either
correct or incorrect. IL merely remarked,
in reply to the criticism of the Providence
NEWS: ''The Tribune meant exactly
what it said. "-Westerly Tribune
Then the Tribune meant to talk un-
grammatically, which is awful, simply
awful: or lawfully" as the Tribune
might say.
The notorious murderer Almy. who
may procure new trial on the ground of
new evidence, should of course be given
the benefit of any new discoveries in this
direction that may be made, but il will
be surprising IL he escapes the gallows
and il at the same time Justice is salts
fied.-Journal.
Another solecism! OF course theJour-
nal means that the benefit of the discov-
cries should be given to Almy, not Almy
given to the discoveries. You can't feed
man to discovery as if it were bear,
though Almy would be good one to
try il with.
The Providence Journal published this
morning what it calls an authentic
statement of the number of regularly
purchaseable voters" In the State of
Rhode Island. IL gives the number at
4,945. That the Repu blican
majority was less than 200 under such
circumstances shows quite plainly that
the honest vote of the State is with the
Democratic party and tariff REFORM
Worcester Post.
Indeed it shows quite plainly nothing
Of the sort. AS matter of fact there
was more money on the Democratic
than the Republican side.