Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-02
SPIRIT OF THE STME PRESS.

Huntsville Mercury: The Tribune ran
 aground yesterday on Governor Oates alleged opposition to the education of
 farmers sons. The Tribune admits that
 the colleges at Auburn and Tuskaloosa
 are open to the farmer boys of Alabama,
 but suggests that they are unable to at
 tend. Does the Tribune want such an
 institution in each school district? In
 his now famous speech of opposition to
 the Blair educational bill Congressman
 Oates favored the country schools being
 brought up to a higher standard until
 every child could get common school
 education at home. In other words GOV
 ernor Oates favored giving the boy
 chance. The Tribune to the contrary
 notwithstanding.
 Troy Democrat: On every hand we
 have substantial evidence of approaching
 better times. The evidence accumulateS
 that the free silver calamity howlers are
 without support in their declarations
 that ruin. starvation and bankruptcy are
 the rule in the country and that the worst
 has not yet come. The resumption or
 iron furnaces rolling mills and various
 other manufactures, the perceptlble ln-
 crease in the commerce Of the country,
 the unsolicited increase in the wages or
 laborers in factories in various quarters
 and the advance in the iron and steel
 markets are only few signs which force
 the said calamity howler to admit the failing of their cause. Only few dayS ago one of the most prominent silver
 leaders in the country admitted that if times continued to improve the cause or
 the 1G-to-1 silverites was doomed.
 Coosa Advocate: Kentucky has led out with declaration for sound money. The free silveriteS have been claiming that Carlsle's native state would turn against him and declare for free silver, but thelr fond hopes have been blasted as will be the case on many like occasions yet to come. The Kentucky state convention met last Tuesday and one of the trst things done was to give free coinage of silver a black eye, and pay high trlb- ute to Cleveland and Carlisle for their able administrations Free silver gets
 a black eye in the first round, and only a few rounds will be required to knock it over the ropes.
 Blount County Courier: If it were true, as-some of the free silver editors would have the people believe, that they are on the verge of starvation our country would be in deplorable condition, and of "all men we would be most miserable" Happily for the good yeomanry of our county the statements made by these silverloon papers are simply absurd, ri- diculous, and are the legitimate offspring rol d IlOTDlu uHSeltleu or else the parent of such statements ex- poets, by party disruption, to be able to attain to a high place in the state or elsewhere that would be impossible to climb up to through legitimate ways. The fact is, most of the hurrah and fuss about free silver is made by dema gogues who have sought office at the hands of the sovereign people, have been weighed in the balances and had written across their foreheads. meme, meme tekel upharsin. We make the assertion with out fear of successful contradiction that the farmers of Blount are in better finan- cial condition today than they have been in some years. They owe less money and have more to live on at their homes than they have had in years. 10 illus trate: The fees to the printer for adver- Using delinquent taxes in our county have been in years past from $50 to s4o0. This year it amounts to about $20. With the present crop prospect in Blount our people ought to be happy, and they would be if they were let alone by men who have no more interest in their welfare than the wolf feels toward the lamb.