The advocate., 1897-08-11
Notes and Comment.

resign as absurd rumOrs"
Minneapolis Better Way: "The Mon
tana man who sheds his skin yearly
is probably in favor of the tariff on
hides"
Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, who has re-
Gently returned from a speaking tour
in Iowa, thinks that the silver ticket
will be elected in that State.
An investigation on the part Of gov
ernment officials shows that the KlOn-
dixie gold fields are in British terri
tory, being about thirty-1ve miles over
the line.
The Insurance Superintendent and
Attorney General of Missouri propose
to endeavOr to enforce the antitrust
law by beginning an action to break up
the insurance combine in that State
Justice Field, of the United States
Supreme court, has decided to retire.
He has served longer than any other
member Of that court in the history
of the country. He will likely be sue
ceeded by Attorney General Kenna.
Republicans are now having their
inning. They promised prosperity to
the entire country II it does not ar
rive soon people will wisely come to
the conclusion that they are victims Of
misplaced confidence rather than lack
Of It,
Of course the Mckinley administra-
tion would not perfect deal made by
Cleveland with corporations, but the
sale Of the Union Pacific Is being hur-
ried through in accordance with the
Cleveland program If Congress were
in session the steal might be exposed.
The best of feeling does not exist be-
tween Secretary John Sherman and
| WhitelaW Reid, who on his return
from England as special envoy sent a
note to the Secretary inviting him to
come and see him. AS it is the business
Of subordinate to report to his chief,
Sherman paid no attention to him.
The dispatches show that President
Mckinley is massing quite a naval
force at the Hawaiian Islands for two
purposes. The first is to prevent the
Japanese from taking possession now,
and the second is to enforce the de-
mands of this country IL Congress
at it's regular session adopts annex
alton measures.
Hanna's literary bureau has issued
one of it's patent editorials to Repub-
lican papers in which prosperity is
alleged to be in evidence In thirteen
different places in this country. The
dispatches are submitted in evidence.
They are from Estherville, Ia; COlum-
bus Grove, o.; San Andreas, Cal; Man
istique, Mich; Passaic, N. j.; Dunseith,
N. D.; RockpOrt, Mass; st. Paris, o.;
st. Marys, Kas.; Kenton, W. Va; Eu-
reka, ILL.,. Chambers, Neb, and South
Bend Wash. OF course each Of these
places are referred to as great bust
ness centers.
Wayne McVeagh, who was appointed
Attorney General by President Gar
field, says: "The black flag Of the cor
ruptionist is far more to be feared than
| the red flag OF the anarchist, and 1t is
impossible to exaggerate the ethical
change which would transhgure Amer
ican politics II all capitalists and all
corporations would, for the future, alb
sOlutely refrain from this misuse Of
money in politics, Of which they have
been guilty in the past. It would be as
II there had appeared "a new heaven
and a new earth wherein dwelleth
righteousness.
Henry G. Payne, who is a high priest
of the Mckinley prosperity idea, is
quoted in the dailies Of the past week
as saying: 'T wonder IL it is really true
that times have improved. I am some
times led to doubt the accuracy of the
information Of those who declare that
business Is better than 1t was six