The advocate., 1897-10-06
Public Opinion.


Pittsburg Times: Long after the seals
are all dead we suppose the diplomats
will be corresponding about 1t and hold
ing conferences.
Baltimore Herald, The announcement
that General Lee will return to Cuba
to continue as American Consul will
meet with the appreciation Of all par
ties.
Baltimore News: 1nese be prosper
Gus times. We call the attention OF our
free silver friends to the fact that the
Philadelphia mint is now working night
and day turning out money. What more
do they want?
Manchester Union: Virginia politics
is in bad way, indeed. The DemOc-
racy Is under the absolute control Of the
silverites, and now the Republicans are
planning 10 join forces with the Pop
ullsts for the State campaign.
Boston Globe: Successful agriculture
cannot but be followed by increased ac-
tivity in almost every other calling, for
there Is very little along the whole line
Of manufactured goods that the farmer
will not buy as long as he has anything
to buy with.
New York World: BY all means let
us punish lynChers. BY all means let
us educate public sentiment. But above
all and beyond all, let us make laws
permeated with common sense, and let
us make the machinery for executing
the law smooth and swift and relent-
lessly sure.
Kansas City Star: To array the Ia
boring classes against capital and to
persuade the wage-earner that he Is
oppressed and put upon Is a favOrite
device Of demagogues who yearn for at
tentiOn and support which they are un-
able to command through the force Of
genuine ability.
Chicago Evening Post There have
been times In the history Of the cOun-
try when manufacturers prospered and
agriculturists langulshed, but now man
ufacturer, merchant, mechanic and ag-
riculturist are all rejoicing together
over the renewed activity along all lines
OF industry and effort.
Baltimore American According to the
latest statistics available, there were in
this country during the year 1900 muir
ders and hOmicides, 113 legal executions
and 100 lynchings. Every year for ten
years the lynchings have exceeded the
legal executions. II Is horrible fact
to face, but the statistics are before us.
Philadelphia North American: A
German laborer near Berlin has been
sentenced to six years Imprisonment for
alleged reasonable remarks uttered
many years ago. This is another result
Of the present campaign against the Ger
man Socialists, and, in fact, all classes
of German subjects who offend against
the swelI-headed ideas of the present
German Emperor.
Atlanta Constitution: Word is sent
over the country that Ave men were
lynched in an Indiana town for the crime
Of burglary. In view of the character
Of this most remarkable display of reck-
lessRess and lawlessness the COnstitu-
tiOn feels called on to refer the matter
to those brethren Of the North and West
who have for years, without fee or re-
ward, constituted themselves the critics
and censors Of the Southern people.
Savannah News: Tat was not
Southern lynching bee in Versailles,
Ind, where five men were shot and
hanged for robbery and burglary. The
unparalleled horror of the affair was
that two Of the men were .anged after
they had been shot TO death and dragged
through the streets. People in the South
usually take the law in their hands
when british negroes commit the un-
speakable crime, but never lynch bur-
glar.