The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-05
SATURDAY, December s. lS9
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The report that there is to be no wine
at the White House during the life OF
the next administration looks like a diplo-
matte movement to drive ]. Hampton
Hoge out of the Republican party
Washington Post.
In 1900 we were few millions OF peo-
ple and we loved liberty. In 1900 we are
nearly hundred millions of people and
we love money-Henry Watterson.
We loved money in 1900. Your foor
Richards almanac will show you that'
We have always loved money; and in
that respect are no different from other
people.-Springfield Republican. But in
1900 we did not sell our highest office for
money.
Bourke Cochran recently said: Il am
tired of masquerading as a tariff reform
err. | will never again be found before
the public as a tariff reformer. We are
bound to recognize that the Republican
party has been the party of victory, and
we are bound to support the Republ-
can party" The sooner he calls himself
q Republican and quits ''masquerading"
the better it will be for all concerned.
The people are more tired of Cockran's
'smasquerading than he is"
The Importance of the gold fields Of
Alaska is only just beginning to be ap-
precjated. Last years product was val
ued at S3.O00,000: this years is esti-
mated at S5,000,000, and for next year,
ON account of recent important discover
les, a gold production of $12,OOO,0O0 is
promised. As there are some 200 valu-
able gold mines located in the territory
under dispute Alaska and British Column
bia, it is important that the boundary
line should be settled at once and our
rights maintained.
We do hope that the next Legislature
will increase the pay Of our public school
teachers. No class of people work har-
der and longer for such meager pay as
do the North Carolina public school
teachers. In many Of the Western
States the public school teachers are
paid seyenty-fve dollars per month. Here
in North Carolina a first grade teacher
spends twenty days in miserable, crowd
ed school room and gets thirty dollars
for his work Pay the teachers more,
make the public school system better
Monroe Enquirer.
Rev. Ransom Welborn publishes the fol-
lowing self explanatory card in the Elkln
Times, which Hon. II. u. Linney will not
find much pleasure in reading: Il see in
the Times that Congressman r. u. Lin
ney in his itemized statement of his cam
paign expenses claims to have given me
$500 in the way of charity. / never re-
4 H. I ho, 1e in,
my life But at one Of my appointments
after preaching l announced that | had
some books for sale and Mr.. f. d. Harri-
son came around and said Congressman
Linney wanted one of my books. He
handed me FIVE dollar bin and I offered
to give him the change back after paying
for the book, but he said no, to keep it
ALL"
Afillais had fayorite story Of pretty
but rather gushing young woman who
sat next to him at dinner but had not
caught his name and to make CONVERSE
ton said: II suppose you've been to The
Academy? Did you notice the Millais?
And didn't you think they were awful
daubs" The amused smiles Of those
around the fair critic showed her that
she had made a break Of some kind, aud
she yainly besought her companion TO
tell what it was. Finally, when the des-
sert came, II filled up her glass with
champagne" said the artist, "and told
her to gulp it down very quickly when
I counted three. She obeyed without pro-
test, and / took the opportunity when
she couldn't speak to say: Wei, / am
Millais. But let's be friends
Senator-elect McEnery, of Louisiana,
in a recent speech at New Orleans, de-
veloped the theory that the United States
is now justified in driving Spain out of
Cuba under the sanction Of the Monroe
doctrine. According to the Picayune,
this well-known jurist, who leaves the
Supreme court of his State to enter the
United States Senate, first claims that
the Cubans have practically established
their independence. and then:
Judge McEnery holds that Spain now
occupies merely the position Of an ag-
gressor. seeking to conquer the island.
AS such, he holds that she has become
amenable to the mandates Of the Monroe
doctrine, which maintains that no Euro
paen power shall seek to acquire terri
tory in the American hemisphere or exer-
else domination over an American State
From this process OF arguing, the dis
tinguished Senator-elect draws the de-
duction that the United States should in
terfere, under the provisions Of the Mon
roe doctrine, and compel Spain to cease
her attempts to reconquer Cuba, after
having once lost the island"