Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-30
CURRENT COMM EN1.

When the order comes at the inaugural ball: First gentleman lead off to the right" seventeen hand mule and windlass cannot hold Mark Hanna back. Kansas. City World.
 The democrats can sit in their easy chairs in congress and await with great interest the preliminary scraps between Reed and Platt and the administra tion.- Memphis Commercial-Appeal,D Dem.
 Asphyxiation seems to be the most popular route at present among the de- spondent who become tired of Mother Earth. The strongest objection to 1t is that it is calculated to raise the price of gas for those who have the nerve to stay alive-Kansas City Times, Dem.
 The gold democrats are playing in rath- CT hard luck. Just prior to his death, District Attorney Fellows was on the point of reorganizing his office by turn ing out the democrats who supported Bryan and giving their places to those who bolted. The new district attorney is a republican, appointed by Governor Morton, and, while the Bryan democrats will have to go, the goldites will not slip into the good places over which their mouths have been watering.-Washing ton Post, Ind.
 Our fleet has been considerably strengthened during the past year, while that of Spain has not been; and we have, besides, those ocean greyhounds, the New York, Paris, St. Paul and St. Louis, and the new steamer of the Plant line, which can be taken by the government and turned into cruisers in case of war. It is not likely that Spain can do any, thing very dramatic with her fleet, and we are ready now to meet her on the sea. We might do something dramatic ourselves by sending some of our Pa- cific squadron to the Philippine Islands and helping the insurgents there to cap ture Manilla.-Louisville Commercial.
 "what is most needed at present is not more taxes, but more economy in appro- pria and expenditures" says, ,Secre-
 tary Carlisle in his recent report. If
 the American people are wise they will force congressman to recognize this truth.
 If necessary public meetings should be
 held in every State and district at which senators and members of the house should
 be given their peremptory orders to op-
 pose audacious raids on the treasury. One thing may be assumed as certainty.
 Until the people are fully aroused, the
 raiding and plundering will go bravely on Not more taxes" but "more econ omy' is what the country needs.-Galves-
 ton News, gold. We observe that some newspapers are protesting to be apprehensive that in or der to secure votes, especially fn the senate, for the enactment of a protective tariff bill, the republicans wilIFbeatempt- ed to negotiate for the support of silver senators in return for concessions of some kind of silver. But no indications of any such purpose are discernible. What the country expects from the next congress is a protective tariff bill drawn on mod crate lines. The country declared for sound money at the recent election: but | it also declared for a protective tariff, which was an essential part of the rel publican platform, It looks tq the next congress for actioh in harmony with it's expressed will; and it will be simply fair fuse to obstruct the execution of the re- publican poicy,-Boston Journal, rep. Keep your blood pure and you will not have. rheum9ftsn. Hoods Sarsaparilla puriaes tho blood