Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-08
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

Thirty-three years of uninterrupted
 tariff have produced more millionaires
 than the world ever saw, but the poor are
 as poor as ever.-Kansas City Times,
 Ind.
 Philadelphia may be slow. but she
 manages to get about $11, 100000 year
 out of her street car, telephone, tele-
 graph, electric light, gas and water com
 panies.-St. Louis Republic, Dem.
 Speaker Reed and Sultan Abdul are
 the two public men just now attracting
 the most attention from the press and
 the people, Their respective methods
 are much alike-secretive, evasive and
 despotic.-Chicago Chronicle.
 Senator Peffer seems to have fallen into
 a habit of consistently misunderstanding
 the people. They are not complaining of
 the cost of burying congressman. It is
 the expense of keeping them alive that
 grinds.-Chicago Times Herald, Ind
 Philadelphia has discovered some
 strange things since her investigation
 into municipal affairs yas begun Among
 them is the fact that in 1887 the annual cost of the various city departments was s9 900 900, and in 1895 it had grown to $29,-
 900, 000.-New York Journal, Dem.
 The matter of putting down mobs Is one of the most important that faces our people. This section has everything in
 it's favor for attracting both capital and immigration. We may as we'll first and last, however, realize that these will not come here while our own people show the disrespect for their institutions and laws that are evidenced in lynchingS.- Knoxville Sentinel.
 Democracy is all right when it sticks to principle. As the advocates of com mercal freedom and financial honesty democrats stand on solid ground. In
 the shadow of bossism the party sickens and suffers. Bosses are a necessary de- vice of machine politics. Machine poli-
 tics is a device of the devil whereby the
 good of the mass is sacrificed for the benefit of the few.-Philadelph Record, Dem.
 A bright United States senator, who Is given to quick and accurate analysis of political situations, was asked day or two ago for an opinion of the presi-
 dents message. Why said he, Tit is cunning piece of work. Mr. Cleveland skillfully wipes out old scores, discharges from consideration all but two topics. and goes in strong on the gold basis and an assertion of the rights of the United States against our ancient enemy, Eng land. The idea of war with John Bull is always popular, and Mr. Cleveland lays a safe basis for encouraging the sentiment" Enquirer. There can be few things more repulsive to the cause of propriety and decency than the turning of funeral obsequies into junket yet this is what congress habitually does on the death of one of Its members while that body is in session. A committee is appointed to accompany the remains to their place of interment. and 1t is the practice to provide such committee with champagne, liquors and cigars of which it's members make the most lavish use for their own creature comfort rt.-Boston Herald, Dem.
 The new French cabinet has just taken the ground that Mada gascar is hence forth not a protectorate, but @ posses sion. This is going the military they sue ceed one better. It suggests a charac- teristic difference between radicalism on one side of the channel and the other. The English school of extreme liberal views does not care about colonial ex- pansion, much less expansion by con- | quest It has pleaded guilty time and | again to the charge of Little Britain | ism" On the other hand, the French | liberal of extreme views believes in colo | nies and conquest more than his royalist | or modern rivals, He is for the greater | France all the time. This is perhaps | feeling derived from the revolutionary | times when France aspired to carry the | principle of liberty, equality and frater- | nifty throughout Europe.-New York ] Sun, Dem.