The advocate., 1897-08-11

DOrtatiOn companies, and ultimately q
flow Of gold from Europe to America.
Springfield Republican: The Presi-
dent receives unstinted praise from re-
formers for his orders regulating civil
service. His action is the more CRATE
fully received because there had been
intimatiOns from sources alleged to be
inspired that some Of Mr.. Clevelands
best work was about to be undone at
the behest of the Republican pap hunt
ers. A very critical point for civil
service reform in this administration
has now been safely passed, and thus
strengthened, the refOrmers have little
to fear from future assaults of spOils-
men.
Globe Democrat: British protec-
tiOnists at this time are not few nor in
significant. They include some strong
and aggressive leaders, who point to
the industrial growth Of the United
States and Germany, and ask what
free trade England can do to arrest the
decline of its factories under the ri
yalry Of such powerful protected rivals
This country is at the threshold OF
new era of protection, with a wider
approval Of it among the people than
was ever before known. It's results.
no dOubt,will further weaken the whole
free trade position.
Tom Watson in Peoples Party Paper
Through the initiative and referendum
silver could, in sixty days, be given as
free access to the mints as gold, but
unfortunately the enactment of free
silver law would leave the Bryan De-
mocracy without excuse for living any
longer. The Republicans have killed
their own party by the enactment Of the
Dingley tariff bill. If they will now
enact q free silver law either by in
ternatiOnal agreement or otherwise,
they will kill the Democracy equally as
dead and thus clear the field for final
struggle between the Peoples party
and the mOnOpOlies.
Abbeville Is. CO. Press and Banner;
The dispensary is the solution of the
liquor question, and we are more
firmly convinced than ever that the law
will triumph over it's enemies. Dealers
or wOuld-be dealers, on one preteXt and
another, have been in court ever since
the law went into effect. It's enemies
have pointed out the weak places and
the law having been strengthened
where it was vulnerable, the courts and
the liquor dealers will be powerless to
defeat the will of the people, They
may defeat justice for time, but, when
people Conscientiously work for the
right, the result is inevitable.
Philadelphia Record: In this COM
monwealth it is an assault to spit on a
man, and an assault and battery to
shake or iOstle him in a rude and angry
manner; yet in this same great State,
so jealous of the rights and feelings Of
its men and women, hundreds Of little
children have been brought into court
with their bodies covered with bruises;
and nine times out of ten the teachers
or parents who committed the outrages
have been dismissed without so much
as a reprimand. It is high time, in
deed, that this abuse should be re-
formed in our schools; and then, per-
haps the reform might tend gradually
to our homes
Richmond State: It is time that
sectional prejudice was rooted out of
this nation, in order that all sections
may share equally in the progress that
is coming apace with the close of the
century. What grander spectacle could
be planned, in promotion of this very
idea, than the gathering upon the old
battlefields in the neighborhOod of
Richmond Of the foes of q generation
ago? II means much to those of us
who are living in the present, 1t means
more to those of our children who may
be here when we are gone. 1t will even
make bright spot in the lives Of those