Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-05-16
EDITORIAL ~BREVITIES.

VII
year is a map with some spot on it
that they can carry.
THE Republicans will repeal the Will
son bill in o good deal less time than
the Democrats are taking to pass it.
THE best Democrat nowadays is the
one who has the least recollection of
what was said in the Chicago platform.
1T is a good deal easier to recruit sin
dustrial armies" than it is to enlist men
for voting the Democratic ticket this
year.
MRS. Cleveland's new spring costume
is easily the most agreeable thing that
has any relation to the present Admin.
istration.
THE Mckinley law is being made to
appear wiser ever day by the folly of
those who are trying to pass a substi-
tute for it.
The docking" of the salaries o. Con-
gressmen for absenteeism is the kind of
deficit making that the country will
heartily indorse.
HILL is the kind of a Democrat who
believes that the best way to serve his
party is to make it sorry that it elected
Cleveland a second time.
WHEREVER the Republicans hold a
meeting of any kind this year, there is
sure to be the kind of enthusiasm that
always forebodes victory.
1T is very easy now to understand
the first Cleveland administration was
saved from shipwreck only by the
level Readiness of Dan Manning.
THE general verdict concerning Mills
answer to Hills speech is that the
Texas statesman tackled a job that was
ever SO much beyond his capacity.
THE Democratic compromise in the
tariff matter is equivalent to a confess
ion of inability to pass such a-measure
as the President has recommended.
IT is a significant fact that the Demo-
cratic party would now have a much
better prospect of success in 1896 if it
had not carried the election of 1892.
The next Senator from Illinois may
not look like Lincoln, but he will close
ly resemble that great man in the way
Of being a sound and consistent Repub-
lican.
THERE is room for the suspicion that
the Democrats are going to impose the
income tax simply because they didn't
say anything about doing 30 before the
election.
THERE is at least one thing to be
said in Coxey's favor. He doesn't bore
the country with long and ridiculous
speeches, like the average Populist
statesman.
The only income tax that the Re-
publicans favor is the one that the
policy of protection imposes upon the
incomes of foreigners who sell goods
in our markets.
THE docking" of the salaries of
Congressman who do not attend to the
business for which they were elected
Is a kind of taxation that will be heart
lily approved by this country.
The writer of the last century who
spoke of "a mass of phraseology DESC
lately bereaved of ideas" described
one of PETERS speeches as accurately
as anybody could do it nowadays.
ILLINOIS expended over $14, 900, 900
for the support of public schools last
year, and a State which thus commends
itself 70 praise and honor is not likely
to repeat the folly of going Democratic.
The tariff debate in the Senate will
probably last for several weeks, and
then there will be another long dis
cussion in the .House-provided the
pending bill ever gets back to that
body.
THE Democrats in Congress will
probably pass a bill to repeal the State
bank tax, but there is reason to be-
lieve that Cleveland will take pleas
ure in not allowing it to receive his
signature.
EX-SENATOR REAGAN says of Cleve.
land that in his financial views he is
mo better than a Republican" A
more appropriate way of stating it
would be to say that he is ''as good as
u Republican"
COMPTROLLER EcKLEs bears test.
mony to the wise and timely action"
of the New York banks in ''lessening
the severity of the distress of the past
year, and averting still more serious
disasters !" but he does not state the
important fact that such action was
taken in direct opposition to the policy
and tendency of a majority of the
Democrats in Congress.
THE wealth of the United States, ex-
elusive of Alaska, as shown by the
last census figures, aggregates $685.
OBJ, 091 ,179, which is more than that of
any other nation in the world, the next
highest being Great Britain, with $45,-
6s4, OOO, 900, according to a recent esti-
mate by Mulhall. This does not look
as Ii Republican tariff legislation had
ruined the country, as the Democrats
are SO fond of asserting.
THOUGH the publication of the fact