The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-07
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Don't Judge a man by the clothes
he wears, And don't Judge the clothes
by the man who wears them.-Willie
Rustler.
Hasn't Mr.. Simpkins proposed yet.
daughter?"
NO. mamma; I can't get him to talk
about anything but baseball. "-Chica-
go Record.
Ten young ladies of Pittsburg have
organized into society and resolved
that thew twill never marry men,"
This leaves a chance for native dudes
and titled foreigners York
Mercury. -
eve can't have the free coinage OF
silver unless by international agree
ment." say some of the gold men.
+ Here is one thing we want to know.
Did we have international agreement
when the Declaration of Independence
was proclaimed, or when the Consti-
tuition was a. d.GG,eted ?-Durham sun,
held in Ohio. the silver men won. They
were counties that elect Democratic
officers. In Davidson county, Tennes-
see. in which Nashville is situated,
every one of the delegates elected IS
free coinage man. These are straws
that shows how the wind blows where
Democrats are Democrats.
Referring TO the selection of gold
delegates in Michigan, Senator Jones
said: ssAs far as the loss of the dele
gates to the National convention is
concerned, it is not matter of con-
sequence. 1t viii ne prevent our con-
trolling the convention. We shall have
a majority of a hundred or more with
out counting any of the Michigan
delegates.
Hurrah! for North Carolina! To
ship from Wilmington 100000 worth
of strawberries in three days is a very
big thing and will do to crow over
Up i'm Western Carolina farmer "a
wears old raised 1877 bushels Of corn
on one acre That is very hard to
beat. His name is Benjamin West and
he TOO is hard to Wilmington
Star.
Eighty per cent of the presidents
and general managers OF the railways
of the United States are men who
have climbed up the ladder from the
bottom. out of $50 only 90 stepped
into railway service at, or anywhere
near the top. And even this is very
unfairly large proportion, for this rea-
son. namely. that, with only some half
a dozen exceptions, those men who
have dropped into dignified office from
above are the heads of very small com
panies.
The report from Chicago that the
special District Attorney of the United
States. Mr.. lands, is manifesting sucf
vipor and intelligence in prosecuting
his researches into the affairs of tbs
Beef Trust that the trust barons are u
dire alarm is cheering Successful
smashing of just one trust before NO
vember next would be of incalculabI'
benefit to the people of the country
and incidentally worth few hundred
thousand votes to the Democracy
New York Journal.
The New York Evening Post ad
vanees the somewhat novel PROPOSE
ton that an income tax in Great Bri
tain is all right because it is levieC
simply to raise revenue; while an in
come tax in the United States couI'
not be all right because it would b
levied for the purpose OF mulcting tn
rich. Nothing quite equal to that ha
vet been heard on this matter. Mus
we then, in order to clear our purpose
Of all suspicion of communism, rul
out the property taxes and go it 0
capitation levies exclusively? Dear oil
England, how can we ever rise to tina
stature of moral greatness Spring
field Republican.
Raleigh is glad to have in the cit
the delegates to the Royal Arcanun
They are body of splendid men, rel
resenting one Of the most popular an
most useful orders in the country.
"The Object Lesson Of the Michiga
Convention" from the Cincinnati II
quirer, and What of It." from Il
Asheyille Citizen, are valuable contI
buttons to the silver discussion. The
appear en- the third page of to-day
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