Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

Perhaps it is asking too much of Mr..
Mckinley to issue his view of the money
question. Why should one man be ex-
pected to furnish more than one idea to
the republican rty?-Indianapolis Sen
tinel.
Reports from Ohio have it that Mark
Hanna will profit some 100000 year
from the soft coal trust, which has been
organized to advance prices % per cent.
Major McKinley's campaign may be
costing money, but the wherewithal is
being duly provided.-Springfel Repub-
lican.
Under the Wilson "free trade tariff"
we are exporting greater quantities of
manufactured goods than ever before,
and are invading the markets of the
world to an extent never before known.
This could not be so If our workingmen
were not pretty generally employed
Utica Observer.
AS long as we can continue to send to
Russia farming implements, locomotives
and steel armor, and to Japan cotton,
flour, lumber and steel rails, no better
answer will be needed to the clamor OF
political soothsayers to build higher the
protective walls to keep out the invasion
of alamity.-Philadelph Record.
These free silver fellows, prosperous
under present laws, but eager to precipi-
tate a business panic by enacting 90
cent dollar law, remind us OF the shoat
that used to scrape the hair all OIL the
ridges of his back trying TO crawl under
the fence in order to get out of a rich
pasture into a d-wallow.-Chicago
Times-Herald, Ind.
No straddle should be adopted by the
national democratic convention. If sound
money is to be advocated the plank
should be intentionally for sound mon
ey; if fiat silver money is to be the plat
form, say so plainly without trimming.
Let the republicans do the lodging and
straddling, but democrats should speak
in no uncertain words.-Nashville Amer
lean, Dem.
1t is daily becoming more evident that
the republican national convention Will
straddle on the money question, despite
the protests of sound money republican
newspapers and leaders. This Will FUR
nish the democracy the golden opportu-
nifty of the campaign to put forth clear
cut declaration for sound money in order
to win next Observation-Disclosures
News, Dem.
When Mr.. Bayard declared that pro-
lection did more to corrupt public life,
to Danish men of independent minds
from public councils and to lower the
tone of national representation than any
single cause he could not have known
that he was making a shoe to fit the
Fifty-fourth congress. yet congress has
put it's foot in the brogan and the fit is
so snug that try as it may, it cannot ex-
trfCaIe IACCoio
All this talk n Indiana about Mckinley
is humbug. The republican bosses in the
state are knitting him. They are pipe
LAYING for Harrison. The impression is
being made that Mckinley is radical and
Harrison conservative upon the tar1m
question. The latter Is as radical as the
former, and perhaps more so. Harrison
signed the Mckinley bill willingly. II
he ever suggested any modification 1t is
not ed.-Indianapolis Sentinel,
Dem.
Russell Alexander Alger trying to con-
vince himself that he wouldn't like to be
candidate for president is spectacle
both gratifying and edifying. but 1T is
hard to change old habits. For many a
year the Wolverine mighty man of valor
has covered Michigan with attentive
ears, waiting to hear the country call
him. The country has failed to call, but
1t is impossible to believe that the pa
tient. expectant ears are not in their old
attitude, longing, listening for voice
which will never speak.-New York Sun,
Dem.
The scheme of the honorable British
secretary for the colonies is daring in
conception and bold in its statement. 1t
reaches to the broadcast construction of
offensive and defensive alliance between
Great Britain and her colonies, and Of
fers to her colonies. in return for their
fealty, full participation in the general
government. 1t is an enticing picture.
In harmony with British policy and Brit
ish ambition, and can only be rivaled by
the dreams of universal empire enter
tained by the autocrats Of Russia.--Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
This decision takes the seal from the
mouths of the parties to the Illegal con-
tract 1t enables the courts to find out
what railroad companies are making dis
terminating rates in favor of ship
pers aaA 20 put in scrce the penalties of
the statute. 1t puts the law for the first
time inactive force and enables its adj