The morning call., 1894-07-27
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The New York Constitutional convention Is
discussing the question Of compulsory voting.
we take II to be serious reflection upon the
thousands OF e-emneDtly good citizens who
prefer resolutions to ballots. There would be
better municipal government in this country II
all The men most competent to vote would ex-
erclse the right Of suffrage.-St Louis Republic.
The most thrilling thing In the papers just
now Is the announcement that Altgeld has no
Presidential aspirations. Perhaps when all the
anarchists are hived in some Out-0f-tbe-way
corner OF the world they will induce him TO
change bis mind. They know he would make
the worst President their fondest fancy could
picture.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
A cheerful confidence finds general express
zion that Dolygamy will not be countenanced
by State Government in Utah. But no one
explains how the United States Government
could Interfere if the MOrmons, entrenched be-
hind the dignity of a State, should revive their
old practices.-Boston Journal
Those patriotic newspapers which placed q
cut Of the stars and stripes at their mastheads
are now engaged in that very unpopular bust
ness Of hauling down the American flag. But
they will be ready TO hoist 1t again the moment
they think they can make any capital by the
proceeding. Bee.
PETERS movement TO abolish the Senate is
somewhat after the plan OF Charles Lambs
friends, who burned their homes to get roast
pig If the PETERS themselves were abolished
there would be very little objection to the Sem
ate.-St. Louis Star Sayings
II the useless Congressional euloges on dead
Congressman were printed at the expense Of
living Congressman the distinguished corpses
would have to fall back on the newspapers for
whatever praises might be due them.-St. Louis
POstDspatch.
Silly women and girls marry In haste through
the agency OF matrimonial bureau and repent
at leisure, when their savings and husbands
depart together. The moral OF this story Is
worn out.-Detroit journal.
A contemporary undertakes to lecture the
Western people on their want of civilization.
The performance is rather weak. Nearly half
the Western people are from the East.-New
York Recorder.
A new definition OF the board OF pardons
body of men appointed under the laws of the
State 10 release men from The penitentfary who
have become tired of staying there.-Kansas
Journal.
DR.. John Williams, who brought the infant
Duke of Kent into the world, has just been
made a Baronet. The last time the Queen met
him she said, Noble man !"-Albany Press.
The suggestion that Mr.. Gould kindly per-
mitted the Britannia TO win as a courtesy TO the
royal yachtsman. Wales, will do for the ma
rnes.-LewiSt0n (Me.) Journal.
Colonel Henry Watterson has sailed away to
Europe too but the Star-eyed Goddess remains
i'll the Courier-Journal of1ice.-Boston Herald.
Perhaps eternal Vigilant's defeats are the
price OF George Gould's entrance into British
aristocratic circles.-Chicago Tribune.
A disordered digestive apparatus is quite
frequently responsible for that which passes
for irony Washington Post
The man who smokes the yiest cigarettes
can write the most scathing editorials deuounc.
Ing them.-Chcago Times.
George Gould might get even by unloading
little watered stock ON his foreign friends
Washington Post.
A mans experience is his own property. but
he does not mind giving it away.-Galveston
News.
The pleasing conviction still remains that we
can beat England at basebal.-New York
World.