Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-12
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.


 Gomez and Maceo are slowly but surely extending a dead line across Cuba just east of Havana, beyond which no Spanish soldier can find asylum.-Detroit Journal. The burning of the sugar-cane fields in Cuba hurts Spain worse than to lose 50,- 900 men.-New York Journal. Cubas day of deliverance is near at hand. Does she want to twinkle among the stars in Uncle Sam's flag ?-Baltimore American.
 It tests the popular feeling. It appeals directly to the public. It renders the transaction public. Whether it succeeds or not it deserves suceess.-Philadelph Press.
 If the people can get the gold there is no doubt that the new loan will be popu- lar in the broadest sense of the word. | * In issuing a call for popular loan President Cleveland disarms his critics at stroke.-Chicago News It is important to note, however, that many of the most acute financiers of this country are backing with invest ments their opinion thatwe are about to enter upon a period of pronounced and general osperity.-Chfcago Dry Goods Reporter. -.445 ..- .--.. But in limiting the offer to gold and in
 extending the time to thirty days. the
 president has taken the surest way pos sible to make the public loan plan fail
 
 Wall street friends, which, in our opin-
 ion. is precisely what he intended.-New York Press.
 How long after a general European war began would the so-called gold standard countries maintain specie pay ments of any kind, either gold or silver! Such war would destroy a great many Actions, but none, perhaps, so quickly and completely as the fiction that Europe is on a gold basis-New York Recorder. The one-man power in the republican party in the great state of New York has been growing, and the man who yields it holds no public office and no party office except an advisory one. Sc long as his opponents dread party defeat more than they dread party degradation his bosssm will thrive.-New York Times. Dem.
 Gold bullion is as good as gold coin, because the law makes it so, and that law is nothing but the free coinage and legal tender of gold. Universal use IS an unlimited demand, hence the free coin- age of gold is an unlimited coinage of gold The same law that makes gold money could make-silver money, and the same law that gives unlimited coinage to gold could give unlimited coinage to sil- yer.-Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dem. England has an established reputation for admiring success, especially when II is in the line of adding to her gold-bear- ing territory; and. in spite of the re- breaches now heaped upon the head of the "filibuster," as Dr. Jameson is called in spite of the apparent anxiety to avoid any trouble with Germany. the impress sion will be very strong all over the civ ilized world that if Jameson's raid had been a success the home government would at least have been very merciful and forgiving. even If it had not boldly availed itself of the way opened to terri torial aggrandizement.-D Free Press, Dem.
 It would make the European chess board a much less interesting object If the game of politics was played without Emperor William, who is a species of electrical eel with a crown on his head This mechanical passage at arms of the diplomats, together with the alarming side moves of the powers, keeps the world of finance on the qui vive, when il would otherwise lapse into lethargic state. But for Emperor Williams idio- syncracies how dull would be the routine | of state watching state, and the long slow checkma ting which has gone on ever since there were countries to be | jealous of one another.-Boston Herald Dpm