The morning call., 1894-04-19
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The bandits who tried TO rob a train on the
Rock Island road, In Oklahoma Territory, Mon
day night. will be more cautious next time.
They happened to strike an express messenger
who was armed, and after be had killed one
robber and wounded another the remainder of
the band beat hasty retreat. A few such ex-
peeiences as that will destroy much of the
pleasures OF train-robbing as regular occupa-
tion.-Cleveland News.
No city of the Old World or OF the New is
located more favOraDly for a grand metropolis
than ST. Louis.-St. Louis Republic.
1t may be that this assertion is correct. Ger
tainly II ST. Louis could get the necessary popu-
lation, buildings aud business she might become
a metropolis. AS the same statement applies to
Jaekass Gulch, New, however. the metropoli-
tan outlook fol ST. Louis cannot be said to be
particularly bright.-Chicago Herald.
The Wilson bill can give rest to nothing and
satisfy nobody. Instead CT embodying the SIM
pie and asettling principle of constitutional
force expressed in tariff for revenue only"
1t is a cranky and eccentric absurdity in the
light OF any principle any purpose ever
openly advocated In American politics.-New
York Sun.
Whenever an insurgent rams a dogwood
berry down into bis popgun and points it at one
of Peixoto's men the cry OF war is Numbered
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with the news OF threatened naval battle or
something equally as fascinating TO the vu-
gar.-Mempbis Appeal
Governor Lewelling OF Kansas has asserted
himself in favor OF the United STATES Govern
ment itself building and owning the Nicaragua
canal. That settles 1t. The canal will be built
by the Government II the Governor has to or
der out the militia TO accomplish the purpose
Omaha Bee.
The Chicago Tribune says that the proposed
bimetallic convention will be in fact a mono
metallic convention. Not so. Ii Will demand
proper recognition for silver, but Will allow
gold to stay. The fight Is not between the two
money metals but for both. Cincinnati En-
qurer.
oThe French ambassador has declined several
social invitations lately with The excuse that he
is not supposed to be In Washington. This ex.
cuse will not serve number Of Congressman,
whose constituents will insist upon supposIng
them there.-St. Louis Republic.
The prospective destruction of the Mckinley
law has made a deficiency In the treasury
which the administration expects to fill by tax.
ing the poor mans sugar and the well-to- do
mans income and by selling bonds in the open
market.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
New York spends $4,000, 900 annually for
policemen and So. 100000 for scbooltea cheers
The proportion between education and sup
preston of crime might present more marked
contrast If the police actually did suppress
crIme-Pitrsburg Dispatch.
LII Congress Is not to adjourn until the tariff
bill as it stands in the Senate to-day is passed
Ii will be in session long after Its successor has
been elected and has gone to work.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Philadelphia has been called slow civ. and
to its Inhabitants has been attributed the
leisureliness of a Quaker gait But it will
spend S14,000.000 on its public works this
season.-B0ston Journal.
The Congressman's time for disappearing has
come. female industrial army has been or
ganized in Oakland, CAL, to make march on
Washington.-St. Louis Post. Dispatch.
There is, perhaps. no significance in the fact
that the first vote In opposition to the passage
of Senator Clark's woman. suffrage bill was cast
by Senator Hogg.-CIevelapd Leader.
question remaining 10 be decided In this
country is whether railroad receivers have
greater rights over their employees than other
railroad managers.-Pittsburg Press
They say the summer girl is already engaged
in preparing for the coming campaign. or
course before the season Is over she'll be other
wise engaged.-Phadelphi Times.
Senator Hill is now beyond all question the
successor of Samuel J. TiIdsn. The mantle of
the great Empire State Democrat is not too big
for him.-New York Recorder
We think that In declining to marry into the
Jay Gould family Miss Odette Tyler has done
something practical toward elevating the
stage.-Chicago Times
Miss Anna Suffer. a young Swiss singer, has
Just been engaged for eight years at Stuttgart.
The Swiss papers regard her as the rising star
on the operate stage.
The money corrupt bosses spend on race
tracks and In ri0tous living would educate
thousands Of New York chilaren.-New York
World.
william IL has decided that equestrian stat.
ues must be restricted to the HohenzoIlerns
and members OF the petty reigning sovereigns.
The Supreme cogys Vt the Unl.ed States de-.
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