The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-20
CHATS BY THE WAY.


IT is surprising how readily ones re-
marks can be misapprehended Here, for
instance, is the Carbondale Herald say
ing: THE Scranton Tribune seems to be
very much interested in the Prohibition
vote OF late. 1t has been making COM
parsons with former votes and advising
the party 10 go out Of business because Of
the smallness of their vote. In the same
issue of the paper 1t has an account of
drunken man in Hyde Park trampling
his wife to death. So long as such cases of
brutality happen so long will men be
found who will be pious enough and patri-
otto enough to vote that such things shall
be made impossible. A vote is supposed
to represent a mans sentiments and If
he believes in the abolition of the drink
traffic more than he believes in tariff or
tariff reform he should vote for the party
that champions his ideas. If he does not
do so he is false to himself and to his
country"
Now, If the Herald had read this paper
with even ordinary care it would have
known that The Tribune did no such hope
less thing as to advise the Prohibition
party to go out of business" 1t merely
wondered what they were gaining by
staying in business. The man who be-
| leves that the problem of intemperance,
which has existed ever since man came
into being, can be eradicated by the mere
act of voting for third party candidate
| for Office is certainly welcome to vote his
| belief at the polls, as patiently as he
pleases. We wish all good citizens well.
We learn from the esteemed Wilkes
Barre Record that "the principal ship
| mir Mt % ha Il .l,
| never Scranton nor never will be. And,
| moreover, since the superficial seams of
| Lackawanna are well nigh exhausted and
| none others in sight it behooves our
| neghbors to get a move on and corral
| few more button and underwear fac
tories or the Electric City or Chicago
of the East whichever cognomen is
| right, will soon enter upon a lively pc
riod of decay The fly thought he was
| an awful load on the oX's back, but the
OK never even supposed he was there. We
are glad to know that Wilkes Barre is
| happy. Scranton doesn't mind Wilkes
| Barre's competition in the least. Fact
is, she doesn't feel it,
There Is no earthly reason why man
who pays his money for Mother Goose
| rhymes should be fed on paradise Lost"
A book dealer who should try to work
Off Dante's Inferno" In lieu of "The
House That Jack Built" would not long
retain his trade. Yet precisely q similar
thing has happened in Wilkes-Barre,
where the leader of play house orches-
ira has got mad and resigned because
the people who wouldn't 'tapplaud his severe
classics took kindly to Sweet Marie"
and johnny, Get Your Gun" What
| curios these musicians be-
| Even prosaic Allentown has invented a
social novelty in the shape of a Chewing
gum party" Chewing gum, in society,
is much TO be preferred to chewing pea
nuts.
Professor Carter, the organist of the
| Elm Park church, has arranged to give a
recital in Carbondale, Dec. 5, whereupon
the Herald pays him this neat compl-
ment "Those who recently went to
Scranton for the purpose of hearing him
will want TO hear him again and those
who have not heard the wonderful music
which he brings out Of the instrument
will embrace this opportunity of doing
So"
The tide is turning. Says the Lebanon,
Pa, Daily News: Senator Cameron de-
MES that he is interested in the formation
of q silver party. He said recently, 4 am
n Republican who thoroughly believes in
silver whereupon the Scranton Tribune
says: The probability is that Senator
Cameron will some day have many more
companions in this belief than he has to-
day We coincide in this belief and we
doubt not that the day is not far distant
when such will be the case and when
prominent Republicans will hold similar
views