Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-24


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 0zE97aI|I5 7s5E |II'E5 I5HE0 Wise men are always tolerant. It is the marrow mind that thinks itself infalli- ble.
 It is only question of time when an other bond issue must come. The de- cline in cotton will hasten the day.
 The longer a man looks at the blazing sun the less he can see. The gold dollar seems to have something of the same ef- feet When a financial policy is established in this country which will give everybody a fair show the silver craze will be dead, and not until then. Lady Mary Hamilton Douglas. the richest young woman in England. will come into S1.UUu,UuO d year WnSil SIG req aches her Fist birthday.
 If England is preparing for war in Venezuela, she can doubtless get it. The United States will permit no further Flu ropean encroachments upon American territory.
 The rich people of New York do not now admit anyone to their exclusive cir cles worth less than $5,OOO,0OO. The mill lenium is now small potato and only to be tolerated by the common masses of the common people.
 Philadelphia has found no difficulty in selling another loan at per cent directly to it's citizens without paying a cent of commission. The new loan is for $1. 200, 900. and the subscriptions the first day amounted to $37o,6OO, in sums ranging from $10O to $40OO0.
 There is a certain paper published in Alabama which, just at this time, has it's hands very full. It is trying to find some one to run for governor on the sin gle gold standard issue and at the same time trying to make believe that the sil- yer question is dead. If the silver ques- ton is dead why is it so hard to get single standard advocate to allow him. self offered up on the altar of his coun- try?
 report comes to us from Guntersville that pr. R. A. Moseley, that grand sa- chem of republicanism, in speech there told the populites that his side of the partnership had been furnishing the brains and the money for the last~two campaigns, and that the partnership would cease if theyfd did not get at least half the offices. There ought to be no objection to this if no more offices are to be divided in the future than in the past.
 It Is announced that during the past month the republican city committee in Philadelphia has bought 42.000 poll tax receipts and the democrats 9000. The New York World makes the fine point that paying the voters poll tax is a small bribe to induce him to vote The poll tax ought to be abolished, and that would settle the question of corruption. It should be relegated to disuse with the whipping post. pillory and crying of noe turnal hours by the policemen.
 The American Bankers Association has appointed a committee to confer with Secretary Carlisle with reference to the cooperation of the banks in maintain ing the National credit. MT. Carlisle is the first Secretary of the Treasury in time of peace who ever needed the as- sistance of the bankers to sustain the country's credit. The American people hitherto had supposed that the credit of the Nation was stronger than that of any bank or association of banks.
 MT. sherman speaks in high terms of the personality and eloquence of Gar field, but says he was a man lacking in will power and changed his opinions easily This is a faithful picture, ex- pressed in terms of reserve. MT. Sher- man might have gone further and only reflected the views of contemporaneous republican politicians who had aSsoca- ton with the martyr president, and said that while Garfield was a good stumper and qualified to act in legislative body under direction and restraint, he was unfit for leadership.
 When the Prince of Wales dimes out the ordinary walters never attend the prince. He is invariably accompanied by two footmen and a page. II is the duty of these functionaries to see that none but palatable and wholesome food is set before his highness. The footmen are clad in scarlet livery. the page is dressed entirely in black. with the excep- ton of white waistcoat. Special dishes are prepared for the princes consump- ton, and he has long made it habit to bring his own champagne, usually two bottles. He rarely samples the wines provided by his hosts.
 The New York press has been making vain inquiries about the identity and whereabouts of Miss Elizabeth Phipps Train. the dramatization of whose novel, "A Social Highwayman," has been pro- duced with marked success. Miss Trains home. says the Chicago Times Herald, is in Mansfield, Mass. Daniel Websters town, and she is one of a family of sis ters whose parents have been dead for some years. Miss Thain's first literary