Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-02
PUBLIC OPINION.

Attorney General Harmon says that while there Is no law prohibiting Amer iean citizens from expressing sympathy with the Cuban revolutionists, such &C., tion Is "discourteous in the highest degree to friendly power" This is sad. but the discourtesy is increasing, nevertheless. and the administration will hardly be able to stop it.-St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat, Rep.
 The Farmers National congress at At lanta has declared in favor of reciprocity with, the states of Central and South America. The farmers have had their fill of maxims. They are after markets now, and they shouldn't have to make the hunt alone, seeing that the manufac- turers have as deep an interest in the matter as hemselves.-Philadelph Record, Dem.
 Should Vice-President Stevenson go over into Ohio.' says the Chicago Inter Ocean, "to speak for Campbell, he could tell the democrats how lonesome he is at home, where at the last election the re- publicanS elected every congressman from the state and piled up a republican majority of 133, ,000." Why can't these people let bygones be bygones? Let us talk about the election in Indianapolis That is absolutely fresh in the public mind.-Cincinnati Enquirer, Dem.
 It is not intended, as Mir. Carlisle ex-
 England had a populist party about twenty years ago. A snort time DefOre the Bank of England was started this party of advanced ideas favored the is- sue of notes on landed property. If a mans estate was worth 900 he was to receive like amout in bank notes. A committee of the house of commons re- ported the plan practical ble and that it would benefit the nation, but the lunacy soon ran It's course and the land banks were never esta blished.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
 When the returns are all in from the elections four weeks hence the republi- cans will probably realize that victory in 1896 will not be quite so easy to achieve as many republican statesmen and news papers have been predicting. The mo- tion that they can elect anybody, on any sort of platform, next year, which has been prevalent in some republican cir cles, Is absurd and misehieVous, and the quicker the party gets rid of 1t and takes an intelligent view of the situation tha better it will feel after the election thir. teen months hence.-St. Louis Globe1 Democrat, Rep.
 If the quarrel between Great Britain and Venezuela has its origin in imperfect descriptions and faulty surveys, England should not hesitate to submit the dispute to arbitration. And if on the other hand, as appears from the able study and presentation of the dispute by the Hon. William L. Scruggs, late minister of the United States to Venezuela, the dispute to the boundary rests upon purely tlumped-up claim under which, through her superior power, Great Britain Is at- tempting to extend her territorial pos sessions in South America at the expense of weaker sister republic of the United States, then MT. Cleveland should enforce the spirit of the Monroe doctrine, and, in the words of MT. Jefferson, distincly let it be understood at the court of St. James that we shall oppose with all of our means the forcible interposition of any foreign power in the affairs of any American republic, and most especially the transfer of their territory or posses sions to any foreign power by conquest. cession or acquisition in any other way. This Is what MT. Jefferson understood the Monroe doctrine to mean.-Philadel- phia American.