Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16
ALABAMA EDITORS.


 
 The New Decatur Advertiser says:
 We are publishing a newspaper
 That's exactly what you are doing. 
 Tuskegee News: Our old time friend, J. H. Nunnallee, of Selma, is with the Birmingham State Herald. He is one of the brightest and best newspaper men in Alabama and man of lofty character.
 MT Romeo German takes charges of the local department of the Opelika Evening News. MT German is a good writer and a good news gatherer, and the News is to be congratulated on securing his services.
 Politics promises to be lively in Bar bour. The Eufaula Times says: County politics are still quiet, but the prospects are that when they do begin to move things are going to be exceedingly lively"
 Montgomery Journal: Congressman Stallngs has got on Secretary Herbert's trail, and everybody knows what that means. Herbert spoke at Huntsville Fri day morning and Stallngs Friday night. That is as near as the gold advocates will allow anybody to get to Secretary Her. bert.
 The Clayton Courier thus philosophizes on the cotton crop: "It is true cotton Is bringing a better price than 1t did last year, but the spurt in price of one sea- son does not make permanent prosperity. Take land and other property, and what is it's value? Not half of what it would sell for few years ago"
 The Clayton Courier gently rebukes a postmaster editor:
 The dear old Courier is always read able but of late we are more than anX- ious to get it to see what Brother Quillin is going to say next. He keeps us guess ing all the time.-Ozark Star .
 Dear Joe, we expect to have many good things in the Cor~ier in advocacy of the free coinage of silver We can't go back on our life time convictions, when we believe they are correct. It's old and true democratic doctrine.
 The gold bug papers. big df there are any) medium and little, refer to Capt. Joseph F. Johnston as a twice defeated candidate. The friends of Johnston, like those of Richardson, admire him more in his defeats than they would have done in his success If it had been secured by the methods by which he was defeated. His friends have not forgotten Lee county yet. Those who refer to his defeats @ with such evident glee ought to mako use of a season of purification. Beware, ye Pharisees and hypocrites!-Shefield Reaper.
 Save the Sheffield Reaper:
 The Birmingham State has gobbled the Age Herald. We will be much dsap- pointed if its purchasers do not make it the morning paper of the state. The State was assuming metropolitan propor- tions at a rapid rate before it's coup. No paper ever published in the state has won such great favor with the people in so short a time before. It could not help it when it had such men to direct it's col umns as Hodgson, Greer and Wilson all Alabamians. Here's a godSpeed to the new State Herald.
 The Talladega Reporter questions some peoples understanding as to the value of a silver dollar:
 The man who objects to the silver dol lar on the ground that there isn't 100 cents in 1t eonfesses that he does not un- derstand the first principle of the money question. Dollars. like cotton or corn are regulated by the laws of supply and demand. Where plentiful. they are easy to get: where scarce and readily monop- oliZed the scramble for them brings all products which are more plentiful down, while raising the price of dollars.
 Says the Talladega News-Reporter: Cotton is rising because the demand is greater than the supply, and the law of
 
 stricted in its operation in the use of cot- ton. Silver remains low because the law has made it the object of a prohibitory act and having been forbidden the right to enter into it's most natural channels the surplus thus enforced overflows into all the other channels and falling mar ket is the result Pass and enforce a worldwide law that cotton shall not be used for weaving purposes and see whether it will rise?
 Montgomery Journal: The Birmng- ham State Herald Friday morning tore Secretary Herberts Birmingham speech, which was identical with the one delivA cred here, all to shreds. When the State Herald got through with it there was nothing left of MT. Herbert's argument. The Journal had previously shown the fallacy of his arguments in this city in behalf of the gold standard. He spoke Friday at Huntsville and the Journal has a fear that Editor Lane will not allow him to fare any better. even if so well, in that city. But the state press should not be severe on Secretary Herbert's speech. He is the ablest of the gold standard advocates in the state and comes direct from the fountain head, getting inspiration from no other than MT. Cleveland himself, and he makes tho ablest and best possible argument on that side of the question. and 1t is not his fault, but the fault of the cause he es- pouses. Just imagine how much good Secretary Herbert could do the cause of silver and bimetallism if he had not turned his back on his friends and aban- doned the principles and policies he had so long advocated in this district and state.
 AN EXPENSIVE PASTURE. | To the State Herald:
 I went home today to lunch and found | a miserable, cold-blooded COW feeding