Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-03-29

to be Whisky or Sugar Trust.-New
Y ork Press.
Mr.. Cleveland ought to read over now |
what he wrote in his message last De-
cember about Temporary eXpedients"
in financial legislation and about the |
''straight path leading to permanently |
sound currency."-New York Tribune.
Some United States engineers report
that the Missouri River is decreasing and |
drying up. Let her dry. No matter
what becomes of that tawny slime, the |
real Nile of the Missouri will continue to |
flow and fructify and be the great god of |
the land. The Missouri may dry up, but |
Col. Abe Slupsky never will.-New York
Sun.
When Vice President Stevenson was in
last week the cadets at Bing-
hams Military school fired a presidential
salute of 81 guns in his honor. The cor
respondent of the Atlanta Constitution
from here that Mr.. Cleveland
was as mad as fire. about it, and was
about to remove the army off -er in
charge. The Capital.
Historians will have peculiar task to
perform in writing of the Numerous
strikes that have been inaugurated by the
labor organizations during the severe
period of depression in business circles.
The explanation OF the incongruity of
such acts and condition will, if ATTEMPTED
to any extent, be interesting reading
Manchester Union.
Into the ears of the great Sovereign
and the other thinktrusts should be
poured this maddening tale of oppression
in Indiana: Three hundred workmen in
a window glass factory at Anderson have
struck because the manager refused to
furnish them with ice for their drinking
water. They must wonder at their own
moderation. But they will learn. The
next time they strike they will demand
champagne on their ice.-New York
Sun.
The humiliation of the Mckane ring
has been increased by the confession and
sentence of Police Justice Newton to
serve nine months Imprisonment in the
penitentiary and to Fay fine of $500
Newton was the prime mover in the
Coney Island prZ4 fights, and the extent
and character of the feeling against him
can be judged from the fact that bontires
we're lighted at Coney Island in celebra-
tion of his conviction.-Bu Burlington Free
Press.
The climatic freaks of the past week
are among the most remarkable on rec
ord. In Texas, where corn is up and
fruit trees are in bloom, severe frost
has caused heavy damage; various Sec
tions of the West have been visited by
billiards. or cyclones, and the weather in
the Middle and South Atlantic States last
Thursday was the warmest on record for
March, according to the Weather Bureau
at Washington.-New York Press.
1t is perplexing to be obliged to report
that business grows larger in volume and
at the same time not more profitable.
Uncertainty does not diminish, but has
rather increased, in the judgment of
many commercial bodies which have
urged the president to veto the seignOr-
age bill. Prices of commodities do not
rise, but are on the whole about / 5 per
cent lower than last week, though then
the lowest ever known in this country,
and are II per cent lower than a year
ago.-Dun's Review.
Col. John Hampton Hoge of Roanoke,
Va, has disowned the Democratic party.
He says there is "One party and half"
10 the nation, namely, the Republican
party and "the ragged edge of mug
wumpery," composed of Cleveland rs
head, Gresham in the middle and "Mac-
Yea gh holding the tail - that the Demo-
cratic party is prac ical failure and
''every financial, pecuniary and indus
trial interest in the country is being
pulled to pieces" Therefore C,l. Hoge
j,iHs the republican ranks-in paint of
fact, he has rendered his services to the
Republican citv committee of r ,anoke.
Springfield Republican.
The "Army of the Commonweal"
set out on its mem ,rable march yester-
dav. Whereas there we're only two re-
cruits as late as last Friday, 75 men were
in line when the signal Forward" was
gwen. By the time Canton, eight mil.
from Nj 4ssilon. was reached one-thirn
of the imposing host had dropped out,
partly ing to an uutoward snowstnrm
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