Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-01
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

For the sake of their reputation as logicians and lawyers, 1t is a lucky thing for President Cleveland and Secretary Olney that the attention of the country has been so fixed upon their moral and political offenses as to give their intel lectual feebleness and logical confusion chance to go for a time unnoticed.-Ne York Evening Post, Dem.
 Any day now the New York Evening Post is likely to call him Grove" The nickname is the thirty-thrd degree of contempt for a fallen political idol of the mugwump organ.-Albany Argus, Dem.
 Venezuela today-Alaska tomorrow It is well to remember that an English boundary line always extends just far enough to include gold fields, if there are any gold fields to be included. There are gold fields in Alaska.-New York Trib- une.
 Wall street has simply passed through an experience it is likely to have any time the bears succeed in frightening the dealers In light margins. So far as the war talk and the rumored threat of for egn bankers to withhold credits are con- cerned, there is really no cause for seri- oue concern. At any rate, the business of the country is not likely to be affected because one set of Wall street operators managed to win bit of money from an- other set.-Utica Herald, Rep.
 Perhaps the most promising feature of the situation is the determination of the leading financiers and business men on both sides of the Atlantic to bring about a relaxation of the present political ten sion between the two countries The in- fiuence they can command is so vast that neither of the governments can afford to ignore it, and there are already indica- tions that a satisfactory understanding between the United States and Great Britain will speedily be arrived att New York Tribune, Rep.
 MT Carlisle is so wrapped up in his scheme to retire the greenbacks-a scheme which he ought to know con- gress will never agree to-that he refuses to make any efforts to get rid of the present deficits, and obstinately declares that he will oppose all schemes to in- crease our revenues, although he admits that the revenues are insufficient. He Is in position of cashier who is trying to force his bank into bankruptcy in or der to make it adopt some pet financial idea of his which the directors believe unwise and dangerous.-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
 Wall street men who have their con- tracts made largely in gold will likely insist upon this policy, but we believe that if the government would have the backbone to pay out coin silver for it's obligations and let gold go to a premium this premium would be small, and simply result in proving to be an additional tar if on goods imported, and directly bring us so much additional revenue on that which we mine and ship abroad. The government has an ample silver seignior- age, which it could coin without cost and which would supply it with all the money it would need for any ordinary de- ficiency that might arise fin the next two years.---The Financial News.
 
 We have no doubt that some fitting measure of removing the disability of Confederate veterans for service in the army and navy of the United States will be passed by congress without unnec- essary delay In no section of the coun- try. and in the mind of no unprejudiced citizen, is there a single doubt of the loy- alty of the men who bore arms on the side that was defeated in the war for the union That Confederate veterans would stand by the flag of their reunited coun- try with absolute fidelity in any and all engagements is, and has long been. the conviction of the union veterans.--Wash- ington Post, Ind.
 One of the first duties of the govern ment in this crisis is to muzzle General Miles. His ostentatious assertions under the present conditions that the country's coast defenses are worthless show lack of discretion and utter absence of balance which should subject him to swift and exemplary discipline at the hands of the government. ,The head of an army in England. or any other European nation, who would proclaim on the eve of a threatened war tha hts country was pow erless for defense at the very points in which complete and decisive defense was most vital. would be court-martialed There would be no hesitation about this on the part of any foreign government The offenders connection with the ser vice would come to a quick and rerua- RsR.