Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-15
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

The warm hearted, disinterested and even obtrusive friendship and solicitude shown all of sudden for Hon. R. H. Clarke by the Birmingham State Herald is one of the cheering signs of the times. Mobile Register. a
 As man of action, Grover Cleveland occupies no secondary place among Amer ican chief magistrates, and as publicist his message gives to him rank that not many of his predecessors have ex- ceeded.-Brooklyn Eagle, Dem.
 May it not be possible, after all, that in our hatred for rats as an article of daily diet we have slandered China as place of happy residence? No bank has failed there for nearly 600 years, and there is only one brass band in the whole empire.-Philadelphi Inquirer
 The message misstates the facts. It asserts. for example, that the Mckinley law so reduced the exports of merchant disc as to force gold abroad. The truth is, the exports of merchandise during the period of the Mckinley law exceeded the imports by more than $500,0 ,000.- Philadelphia Press, Rep.
 It is only necessary to say that he seems in the main to have hit fair medium between the pinehback jingoism, which has a certain vogue among blath- erskite politicians in both parties. and the un-American policy into which fHs Quixotic ideas of justice led him in the early part of the Hawaiian imbroglio.- New York World, Dem.
 One of the worst features of our Amer ican life is it's invasion of privacy. There is frequent complaint that individuals with us have no security, and that the pencil of the reporter and the camera of the photographer may record with impunity the doings of individuals with out possi bility of redress for those who suffer.-Indianapo News.
 The administrations own figures, therefore, conclusvely prove that the vi- cious and illegal practice of divertlng funds that belong to the reserve in order to make up the shortage caused by ex- traVagant expenditures and deficient rev enues is the real and only cause Of s2oo,- 000, ,00O of these payments and the corre- spending increase of the bonded dept- Pittsburg Dispatch, Rep.
 It is difficult to credit the report that the Pennsylvania republicans have been alienated from MT. Harrison by his 'dls- courtesy" If there is any man on earth whose politics is entirely matter or pocket and of his own pocket at that, it is the Pennsylvania republican. The idea that courtesy or its contrary could affect him in any way is mildly prepos- terous.-New York Times.
 MT. Cleveland denounces the old tariff as inefficient for purposes Of revenue, put to the astonishment of every citizen who reads end. the end will be reached without finding one sentence or one line Of infor- nation or recommendation on the sup feet of providing revenue adequate 10 the present needs of the government or the United States.-New York sun. Dem. Ii seems almost beyond belief that such a subdued, diffdent and altogether defer ential communica tion to republican congress should come from the same pen which, with many aggressive 1ourshes and a wealth of defiant action, called upon another congress only thirty months ago to lay an ax of reform at the root of all republican policies and. make an end of them foreyer.-New York Re- corder, Rep.
 The action of the South Carolina con stitutionai convention in adopting the new constitution, framed by 1t on the | organic law of the state, without submit l ting it to the popular vote, Is in line l with the course adopted in Mississippi. l This idea seems to meet with general fa- | yor in the south, where the large mass | of negro illiteracy renders 1t almost i'm l possible to get an intelligent vote on 1 the adoption of new conStitution.-NeW l Orleans Times Democrat.
 The policy involves nearly the doub- | ling of the national interest-bearing | debt. the increase of the annual interest
 charge upon the people of not less than | s15 ,000 0o0 the extension of a large part | of the debt far into the future and the | strengthening and ~perpetuation of q | bank-note system pronounced subStan | tially by all accepted economic author | ity as Fundamentally wrong and practi
 caly dequate.-Springfield Republi l can. Mug.
 The "Old Roman CThurman) was no
 only profound jurist, but he was deep | ly read in the literature as we'll of tht
 ancients as of the moderns, his acquaint
 ance with early French in particular sur | passing probably that of any American
 of his day. His rugged exterior covere an unusually warm heart; and, in hi