Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-09

/ Ex-Congressman Harter of Ohio, an
out-and-out free trader, does not want to
hear the tariff question mentioned for
five years. There are a lot of people not
free traders who will indorse that wish
Springfield Republican.
Two prominent and worthy Marengo
county men are mentioned in connection
with the congressional nomination next
year-Judge j. c. Anderson and John j.
King. We will mention another able and
excellent one-D. j. Meador.-Clarke
County Democrat
The laws of our country should be
faithfully upheld by the press Public
opinion should be educated against crime,
and the smallest offense should not be
overlooked. Especially should the secu-
lar press insist that our Sabbath be OBJ
seryed.-Gadsden Times.
As the gold bugs are claiming credit
for what worms and drouth have done
to advance the price of cotton, we have
no doubt but that they would be delight
ed to hear of a general epidemic of hog
cholera and Texas fever or murrain
among the cattle.-North Albanian.
Whether Governor Turney was really
elected last fall or counted in, 1t is very
fortunate for Tennessee and the south
that that state had true representative
at the CnlCkdnduBd ueulcdtlOH CSitHiO-
MES. Just imagine what Gov" Clay
Evans would have said had he been there
to represent Tennessee and her Confed-
crate soldiers.-Covington Record
The people are not likely to forget that
when the good government clubs brought
in a measure in the last legislature to
make civil service reform effective, every
republican opponent of the bill was
Plat man, and every democrat in the
assembly voted against it, standing with
Plat in hostility to that, as well as to
every other reform measure of the Ses-
sion.-Buffalo Commercial, Rep.
The barbarity of the Spaniards I'M Cuba
is partly accounted for by the statement
that many of them are convicts who have
been released from Spanish prisons in
consideration of their joining the army.
This action of Spains is as bad as Eng
lands when she bought the aid of the
Indian savages in our revolution. 1t is
another reason why the United States
ought to interfere.-Chicago Tribune,
Rep.
Even Americans find 1t difficult to be-
lieve that the tonnage passing through
the Suez canal has been surpassed by
the tonnage at the Sault Ste. Marie. Yet
that is the fact, and the official reports
for 1894 prove it. When we bewail the
decline of our merchant marine we forget
the flourishing commerce of the great
lakes. which is building up fine fleet of
ships of the most modern type.-Spring-
field Republican.
When this government issues a silver
dollar and declares it a legal tender in
payment of all obligations,it Is not taking
advantage of anybody. 1t pays out what
1t is ready to receive back again on the
same basis. But when this government
adopts the policy of receiving it's silver
money in payment of any obligation to
the government. but refuses to pay it
out in satisfaction of obligations by the
government, then it discredits its own
COIN and is itself the worst enemy of it's
own money.-Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
There never was a party on earth that
went so gaily and unsuspectingly to
overwhelming defeat as did the republic
can party when 1t was passing the Sher-
man and Mckinley bills and trying to
pass the force bill. No greater amount
of political stupidity, not to give great
err name, was ever perpetrated than the
action of the Fifty-first congress. To be
sure. they have since been chastised by
defeat. but they have also been elated
by victory. They may not therefore, be
afraid to try it again-Louisville Courier
Journal, Dem.
Emperor William of Germany contin-
ues in a state of mind about the refusal
of the socialists to take any part in the
recent celebrations of the victory over
France. and is talking wildly, even for
him. about what ought to be done to
them for their contumacy. What trou-
bles William is apparently not so much
the socialists refusal to celebrate as their
contemptuous rejection of his pet notion
of the divine right of kings to do the
thinking for their subjects, and the obli-
CATION of the latter to celebrate and do
everything else that they are told to do.
Springfield Republican. Ind.
PRESIDENT JEMlSON ABSENT,