The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
'.Diek, - t.1e t,.ip ynt ,ission
airy nickel2"
Nom: there's circus comm this
week, an them heather II have to
wait"
s'Uncle Tom, what is executive abiE
ity?"
people work without doing anything
yourself.
Mamma, Aunt Jane is a great tailxer,
isn't she?"
Yes, daughter, and she was never
married because no man could get her
to keep still long enough to hear his
proposal"
'.They say Elijah Morse doesn't
want to come back to Congress- said
Mr.. Walker TO Speaker Reed.
.'Humph!" answered the speaker, II
rather guess, Joe, it'll be a case OF re-
Morse"
That is the way the New York Sun
gets the news.
s9Ghe editor of the Patron and Clean
er is a postmaster who has not chang
ed his convictions on the money ques
ton. He is still for silver and speaks
out in meeting but we admit that our
brother postmasters are about all on
the other side of the question, and that
we feel mighty lonesome, and are
thinking Of resigning. Northampton
and BERTHE are still ahead-one has
gold bug farmer and the other silver
Democrat postmaster. Patron and
Cleaner.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge has
written stirring article for The MAY
Forum entitled sOur Duty to Cuba
painting in dark colors the story of
Spanish tyranny in Cuba, and advocat-
ing the recognition of Cuban belliger
elley. In the same number of The
Forum Professor John Bassett Moore,
professor Of international law and di-
pIamacy. Columbia University, New
York, contends that the Cuban insur-
gents are not entitled to belligerent
rights.
The Baptists are greatly stirred up
over an article written by the president
OF their Theological Seminary. 4 spe-
cial from Louisville, Ky, says: The
Rev. w. III. Whitsitt, ID. d., president OF
the faculty Of the Baptist Theological
Seminary, is to appear before the
Board of Trustees 10 explain his doc
trine on baptism by immersion. The
trouble is Of some months standing
DR.. Whitsitt wrote an article about
Roger Williams, IN which he said that
when Williams was baptized he was
not immersed, but was sprinlsled. lie
also said that prior to Roger Williams b
time baptism by sprinkling, and not by
immersion, was the custom"
According to Martincau's history Of
England, the resumption Of gold pay
ments after the Napoleonic wars ruin
ed thousands Of families who had been
well-to-do for generations. Farms and
big estates went under the hammer
the foilers could find no employment,
and there was a disastrous shrinage Of
values. Those who had q little money
emigrated to America, the poorer class
Is died Of starvation, and those who
would not accept such fate embraced
career of crime. We now see this
chapter Of history repeating itself in
the United States. Yet our statesmen
who forced the gold standard upon us
cannot plead ignorance. They knew
a8I ABOUT I1tlAidlu , OK ilcftelC8 ana SLttf
insisted that their own country
should travel the same road They
knew what the result would be, for
it is a maxim that similar causes viii
produce the same consequences.--At-
lanfa Constitution.
eBab'' is rather hard on her sex in
the following: "A republic does not
appeal to anything feminine. The
eternal feminine wants TO sit upon a
thrcne and command other people, on
else she wants TO be sufficiently near
the throne to influence it. With Wo-
man, an aristocracy is a necessity, and
although we may talk until we are blue
In cur faces about an aristocracy Ct
brains, there never has been and never
will be cne Brains bow 10 good mar
ners and blood Sometimes, when !
get TO thinking very hard, find myself
predicting that five hundred years
from now the United States will be a
monarchy. The day when men oi
brains and wealth, men like Thomas
jeff. On and James Madison, longed
to make an men as near as possible
equal, have gone by; in these days
each city and each little town has its
arittoar3av sfeuaJIv an nPief0pracU III