Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-28
PUBLIC OPINION.

General Miles recommends the appro- priation of $125, 5,O00,0 900 for coast defenses. The coast is in no immediate need of de- lenses. Why not make some provision for treasury defenses ?-Fort Worth Ga- Zette Dem.
 Evidently there were a few episodes in the career of Ex-Superintendent Byrnes which Julian Hawthorne did not touch upon in these cleverly written sketches of the great, detective.-Roches- ter Democrat.
 During the three years and six months of the operation of the Mckinley law thd total importation of shoddy was 1852 421 pounds. In one year of Clevelandism the importaions of shoddy amounted to IT, ,666, ,563 pounds.-Dodgeville Herald.
 If Uncle Sam would grab all the terri tory involved in the Alaskan boundary dispute and settle the question as to the equities of the case at his leisure he would have illustrious precedent. That is John Bulls style.-Chicago Tribune, Rep.
 The necessity of larger revenue will compel republicans to consider in what, direction duties may be advanced. They will not be deterred in the least by the democratic untruth that any change in that direction must check business.--New York Tribune, Rep. .Y
 high tariff which shuts out competi- ] tion and gives the home market over to the control of the manufacturer causes an unhealthy stimulation, then overpro-l | duction and finally stagnation, shut downs, lockouts, reductions in wages and strikes.-Kansas City Times, Ind.
 Nobody who reads John ShermanIs book will ever after call him cold. He is a grand old hater and his hate is red hot from the furnace. The difference be- tween him and his brother, the general, is the politician is polite and the soldier was mpolitic-Louisville Times, Rep.
 If it is the gold in the country that moves England to extend her boundary lines into Alaska, she is going to a great deal of needless trouble. Let the boun- dary line remain as it is and trust to the gold going to England via the Amerl- can heiress route.-Seattle Post-lntelli- gencer.
 If the democratic party is so poor in presidential timber that it must violate an unwrtten law as sacred as the consti- tuition itself and as much in force as any law on the statute books, to make a ticket in 1896, it would better go into the hands of a receiver and quit buslness'- Chicago Press.
 No matter where gold fields are discov- cred England at once sets up the clalm that they are within her territory. She is trying to gerrymander the nations Of the earth so as to corral all the yellow metal It is not surprising that she Is opposed to international blmetalllSm.- Detroit Free Press. Rep.
 The new agreement of the trunk line railroads and their western connections ia an important step toward the estab- Iishment of civilized relations. as re- spects rates, between corporations Wnlch in the past have treated each other with a disregard of morals appropriate to say ages.-Baltimore Sun. Dem
 The American government has been too xx,;f h in nIlfhrP4k of the present war in Cuba. The duty of a friendly power has been construed by the president too strictly in faVor or Spain. The result is that Spain includes among her privileges that of impudent search of American vessels, a claim no greater than any she could set against the United States if the latter had rec ognized the Cuban patriots as belliger- ents-Chicago Times Herald. Rep.
 In it's latest issue the Iron Age states that { . current production or pig ron in the United States lis at the tremen- dous rate of 11,250,0O0 tons per annum. It adds that prepara tions now under way will probably carry the make up to 220,- OOO. 900 tons per week." and that nearly every furnace manager in the country has been driving his plant furiously.' This intense activity in the Iron indus tries does not comport very well with the multiplied and manifold predictions of calamity howlers However. this great increase in the output of pig iron may strangely effect the hogs who want to form trusts and monopolize the pig iron business.-New Orleans Picayune.
 Other problems connected with the re- formation and improvement of the cur rency the secretary does not discuss fur ther than that he expresses the signiii- cant opinion that "the treasury depart- ment ought to be, and was, intended to be simply public agency for the man. agement of the fiscal affairs of the gov ernment as government, not as bank for the collections and disbursement of the public revenues for public purposes" This was the practice in the earlier days of the republic. This was the doctrine of sturdy old Andrew Jackson, by the vigorous enforcement of which he won the admiration and the affections of the people of the United States.-Baltmpr Chr,