Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-07
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

The government is not rich enough to
 provide lion tail soup for all the profess sonal idlers of this country.--Dallas News.
 The continuance of the life of the re- publican party is one of the greatest out rages of modern times.-Louisville Cou- rier-Journal, Dem. The republicans do not stop to have a gabfest when the question is one that involves the maintenance of the public credit.--St Louis Globe-Democrat, Rep.
 In summing up the business failures of
 the year MT. Brice's failure to buy an- other term in the senate should not be overlooked.--Kansas City Journal, Rep.
 Now that they have handed over the finance committee to the enemy, the re-
 publicans can no longer boast of being
 the defenders of sound money.-New
 York Evening Sun.
 The democrats in congress appear to
 be standing together nobly, and they are
 being joined by some republicans and all
 the populists. Good enough. The lines
 are forming for r1S96.-Springfield Regis ter
 One day perhaps there will be another true laureate, but he will be born, not made. Divine right as a title to king
 doms is wornout myth, but it remains,
 and always will remain, the only valid
  Tribune.
 Thirteen hundred British authors ask the American people to keep the peace. The American people do not intend breaking it. The nation that refuses to
 arbitrate a question is the nation that
 contemplates breaking the peace.-Cleve-
 land World.
 A popular loan of $10O, ,O00, ,o0O will bring out the gold in the old stockings and tea
 not will ,ntc hoo olx hnrn 1IratH
 the thrifty have found time to make the
 saving. That will be better than getting a supply from Europe one day and send
 ing it back the next.-Troy Times. Now the republican congress is in ses- sion and the proposition to restore a large percentage of the Mckinley rates on wool and woolens is immediately fol- lowed by an announcement of reduced opera tion of wooden mills and a demand for a restoration of of-McKinleyism. We submit that, to say the least the woolen industry, like the heather Chinee,is pecu- liar.-Utica Observer.
 General Miles is a gallant soldier and nice fellow personally, but he has an abominable habit of talking too much and with too little discretion. His recent remarks refecting on the condition of our national defenses and his implied strictures on the administra tion would warrant his being censured. When will
 
 come to understand that an unbridled tongue is a boomerang g?-Lafayette Journal.
 If there is another instance on record besides that of the Belknap case, in which a congressman has volun- tarily given up contested seat because he was convinced that the certificate of election was wrongfully awarded him, we have not had it brought to our atten- tion. A man whose sense of political honesty is developed to this high moral plane deserves something better of his constituents than defeat when he stands for re-election.-Omaha Bee. The speech of Senator Lodge of Massa- chusetts, delivered on the Venezuela question, is firm, patriotic and instruc- tive. He maintains that the very exist ence of the Monroe doctrine is deeply in- volved in the pending controversy, and he upholds that doctrine in it's integrity. Arbitration, and not war, is the instru- ment, in his view, by which this issue will be adjusted, and he defends the ac- ton of the president and of congress as l a means to secure the peaceful and hon. orable settlement of the question.-Phil- adelphia Press, Rep.