The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-05-27
Political POfnOurri.

popularity ut the present rate it will moi
be long before his name car be used as
Il deadly epithet.-Kansas City Times
There is likely to be a rush of Ohio
men to Alaska. Six new commission.
ers and six new marShals may be ap
pointed for the territory.-St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Broker Chapman thinks it's hard
lines that he should be punished fol-
contempt for body that is held in con
tempt by whole lot of people.-Bing,
hamtOn (N. " Leader.
A man who would not dream of re-
sorting to rascality or felony for him.
self, or even for his church. will some.
times wade into trickery and crime up
to his neck for his political party:
Minneapolis Tribune.
The advance of So a share in sugar
trust stock on the day that the Senate
tariff bill was reported is perhaps all
the comment that it is necessary to
make on the sugar schedule of that
Observation-Disclosures Or. ~ Journal.
In the Senate discussion on the Chap.
man case yesterday Mr.. Allen spoke of
the Ssoate as representing 100000
people" While this is true, it is also
true that the gentlemen whose cases
are behind the Chapman case represent
$1O,000,000, and the pull on both sides
seem to be about eyen.-New York
World.
The clash of interests between the
Americans who have lumber invest.
ments in Canada and Americans whose
lumber interests are all on this side of
the border places the tariff robbers in
an awkward position. Whatever is done
will injure. or be supposed to injure,
American interests.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
The first requirement of national
commerce is to have something to sell
which meets the demands of the age in
utility and superior workmanship; the
next is to let other nations. and espe.
cially those deficient in these lines,
know it; the last is 10 be an intelligent
buyer in foreign markets.-Portland
Oregonian.
There are old hard-headcd mossbacks
In the Senate who care not what public
sentiment or public interest may be.
They decide their course of action
through some sort of mental process
known only to themselves and their
Maker, and, having decided. no amount
of popular protest or petition can.
change them.-Kansas City Journal.
The population of the United States
is how nearly double that of the Brit.
jsh isles, yet Notwithstanding the dis
parity in natural resources the COM
merce of Great Britain is more than
British coax trade to come to them; the
United States repel trade by hostile tar
ifs as if it We're Il plague.-Philadel
phia Record.
Private interests can get the ear of
Congress without difficulty. and can Sc.
cure the active support of politicians
in their campaign for higher taxes for
their benefit. But when there is great
cause. in which the people of the whole
country are deeply interested, its repre-.
sentatives are told nothing can he done
until it is known whether or not there
Is to be tax on hides. Public bust.
ness is sacrificed to private greed.-In.
dianapolis News.
The fact is that the Republicans are
afraid TO touch the money question.
They have always been afraid of it.
They bungled it whenever they touched
it. They are not agreed among them
selves. Mr. Reed could form no com.
mittee on banking and currency with
Il harmonious Republican majority.
They will do nothing effective at either
this or the long session. except to try to
devise some scheme of postponement.
st. Paul Globe.
Senator Tillman is crratic and wild
on some things. But he struck the
heart of the matter in the Senate yes
terday when he proposed that the
sugar trust investigation of 1894 be re-
opened and Chapman. Havemeyer ct
al. be forced to testify in regard tC the
United States Senators charged with
speculation i'll sugar stocks and other
crookedness i'll connection with the
sugar schedule of the Wilson-Gcrman
law.-Grand Rapids Democrat