The herald., 1895-06-17
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EDITED BY ENOcH KNIGHT

estant missions in the Hawaiian Islands
was proclaimed as the greatest and most
triumphant, hardly less than miraculous
| achievement of the kind since the con-
version OF the Roman empire under Con
stantine. To the American Board of
Missions and its principal constituency,
the American Congregational churches,
was ascrlbed, under God. the glory of this
| WONDERFUL work. Scoffers at missions
were shamed into silence by this one
lndlsputable proof, that within the life
eiine OF single generation an entire race
VI people mad been rescued from savagery
and moral degradation too deep TO be
depicted, and had become an orderly,
ueVout, moral and intelligent people
among whom the civic ties were prac-
Ilced to degree that might well serve
as an example for countries Christian
lHeu ages ago. How well the natives have
proved their fitness for self government,
uhder the merely nominal monarchy
prevailing; how wisely they exercised the
rig OF franchise and how much lower
was the percentage of illiteracy in HoI.
oiuiu than In Boston-these were themes
tSr uhceasing missionary eloquence at
the meetings of the board and in the
documents issued by it to be used in con-
nectlon with missionary efforts in he
churches. What Mr.. Sherman tells the
leaders and promoters of the cause of
missions about the inexpressible folly.
not TO say mendacity. of turning round
and, for political purposes, denying all
these things. and vilfying the shining
exam pies OF the power of missions. is
every word true; and is written in lam
guage no more scathing than the &C.
casion warrants.
Some new, very new. political litera-
lure Is being scattered over the country
primarily amongst the Republicans, de-
ctr far
1870, which shall save the tariff issue and
not drive away the free silver men. 1t
Will be remem bered that ex -Speaekr Reed
broadly limited at this hearty year ago,
and that it has been Don Cameron $ |
creed for many years. Concerning this
new noatlng literature and its purpose
the Boston Advertiser has the following
significant editorial.
he intelligent observer has not failed |
to observe that in Pennsylvania a deter
mined movement is on foot to ally silver |
and protection. The dominant Republican
forces IN that state are outspoken for |
Doth. In the south the same is true.
we 90 not mean necessarily free coinage,
but as much OF the RECOMMENDATION OF sill
yer as it is possible to secare. a man
would be simply oblivious to facts it he
dld not also notice in New England that
at least respectable minority of the Re-
puollcans is in favor of silver. The adj
vocates OF protection claim that upon
silver basis we would render ourselves
more and more independent of England
ana become the commercial Emporium of
all the silver countries of the orient and
South America. Every day almost brings
to our desk some form of pam phleteerng
intended to show how necessary to each
other are protection and silver.
MS movement is worthy of note, |
although it strikes at the accepted condi-
hon OF things which has il many sections
81 the country made free trade and tree
silver almost synonymous. Whether the
tendency which we have noted will take
definite form in political organizations
before the presidential election is prob
ematical."
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Everything is changed, everything goes
by circles, now up and now down, all
W yi,s ana nothing positively new. In
to us from a Scotch phrase three cen.
turtles old .and simply-meant 'befooling
In dress, too. as well as in speech, we
are simply climbing the old treadmill.
Thus the big sleeves of this year of grace
lrs only reproduction of what worried
the good people of New England about
two centuries ago, will be seen by an
old Dedham (Mass.) ordinances:
And be 1t further enacted that hereafter
ment for women or any other sex with
sleeve more than half an ell wide In the
widest part and so proportionate for big
ger or smaller persons. And for present
reformation of immoderate great sleeves
and some other superfiuities which may
easily be redressed without much pre-
JUDGE or spoil of garments, 1t is ordered,
etc."
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On the whole, perhaps it ought to be
to us that we are no better and |
no worse than those who have gone before |
us. F,
The Cornhill Magazine has the bright |
est ard altogether the most delicately Sc |
we're article on the New Woman which has |
yet appeared in England. The writer !
entities it "Novissima." and takes the
well remem bered French saying. for his
text: "The wit of the majority Of women
serves more to 1ortify their folly than
their reason" Novissima's chief char
acteristic is her unbounded self-satisfac-
ton. She is dark. and one feels that If
she were fair she would be quite a differ
ent person. For fairness usually goes
with an interest in children and other
gentle weaknesses of which Novissima IS
conspicuously innocent. She dresses
simply in close-fitting garments. techni-
cally known as taior-made. She wears
her elbows we'll away from her sides. 1t
has been limited that this habit serves to