Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-21
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

The reluctant confession must be made
 that the visible supply of statesmanship
 in the United States senate comes far short of previous eStima ates.-Chicaga. Tribune, Rep.
 If the American public is sufficiently
 intelligent to be fntrusted with the seec-
 ton of an administration 1t is sufficiently
 intelligent to be permitted to know at all
 times what that administration Is doing. -Waslfington Star, Ind; M
 Jameson, 1t is said stands a good
 chance of being shot. Considering the
 idiotic way in which ~he ,inaugurated the
 invasion of thesTransvaal the impression
 prevails that he was about halfsshof
 when he started out.-Peoria Herald. ]
 Ex-Secretary Foster says HarrisoA
 does not want the nomination. The ex-
 secretary may have convinced hrnself of that, but. we. would advise him, not ito waste any. time frying, to convince other
 people.-Augusta (Ga) Chronicle, .s-.r If the stock market, can be regarded as trustworthy evidence of the sentiment of
 the financial community, confidence in
 the success of the pending loan of the government must be exceedingly strong in many quarters, if not absolutely gen
 eral.-New York Sun, Dem.
 There is no need for General Alger to
 shout excitedly that he will not take the
 second place on the ticket. Nobody is asking him to take any place on the tick
 ct or is thinking of him at all in con nection with any nomination. The re publicans are going to take good care to
 nominate a ticket which will need no apology or defense, either on it's back end or it's front end.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
 Practically we will need no revenue; all we will want is Bowler. When a de-
 mand for money is presented Bowler will decide that it Is afflicted with constitu- finnol imnOtpnca and daplina tO hOr- ize it's payment. We will have to collect no more revenue. pay no more taxes, sell no more bonds, and Americans born, bornng and to be born will bless now and for all time the memories of Cleveland, Carlisle and Bowler.-Louisville Com
 mercial, Ind. Rep.
 It is to be hoped in the interests of hu-
 manity and progress that there will be no war and that all existing differences
 will be settled-as they should be and
 can be-by arbitration. It cannot be ig
 nored however that Europe has been
 for some time spelling for fight" and
 that the giving of some of their standing armies work to do will go very far to-
 ward reconciling the people to the bur den of their maintenance as to which
 they have been of late somewhat restive. Detroit Free Press.
 After the war talk has subsided per haps the United States will ask England what she means by strengthening, her offenses in our neighborhood.. She has increased her squadron in the north Att
 lantic. she is bringing more troops to the Bermudas, she is active in the navy yard at Esquimault, on Vancouer island, she | talks of fortifying St. Johns, she is in- l creasing her piles of coal at St. Lucia, | Barbadoes and Bermuda, and the Win | nipeg Dragons have. added another row | of buttons to their uniforms. England | has nearly surrounded us, 1t is true, but we still have some allies. The state of the | thermometer on the north and south is one of them.-Brooklyn Eagle. Dem. | Itsbegins te.look as though Kruger, the | president of the Boer republic, had been given the opportunity to dictate the nol- l icy of Europe. The old Dutchman. who does not pretend o~be' much more than an uneducated, farmer. occupies .. a | strange position in European politics. A
 word from him may~piunge two or m,Eea great powers into the most terrible and ] most disastrous war the world has eyer | seen. If he insistss that England shan | recognize the complete independences of | the Transvaal and appeals to Germrafiy, France and Russia in support of his iuo- 1 sition. war would be almost inevitable, | It is remarkable situation for a man | like Kruger to be placed in.-Troy Times "We don't want to fight"-that is. we | don't want to carry on an insurance war l with Germany-"but. by lingo. if we do, l we've got the men, we've got the bradnsi | and we've got the money, too." If Ger man legislation proposes to freeze put l American insurance companies from Ger l many there seems to. be no alternative | but retaliation. All wars are costly, and l even h~ipsuraneeswar means more or | less injury to the peaceful interests of | insurance. But Germany has recently manifested a spirit of discrimination | wholly uncalled- for and unjust. and it may De necessary to impress on Germany | the fact that discrimination is a game that two can play at.- At least an effort
 in this direction would be better than what MT Cleveland calls "supine sub | mission. New York World, Dem. a-s, Fresh bread and candy made