The advocate., 1897-09-15


Charleston News and Courier: It is
reported that the Postmaster General has
changed his mind and will appoint a
great many cOlored pOstmasters for the
Southern cities and towns. JudsOn Ly-
ons, cOlOred is said to be sure of the
Augusta postmastership, and whole
raft of cOlOred men are named in con-
nectiOn with pOstmasterships in South
Carolina. This is the way the admins
tratiOn has taken to build up the Repub-
lican party in the South; but it will not
work. It has been tried and failed 1t
will fail again. The white people will
stand together, whatever their differ
ences of opinion, when it comes to the
question of race.
Harper's Weekly: A German navy is
a quite modern thing and many patri-
Otic Germans cannot see much necessity
for one Frederick the Great never both
cred his head about navy, yet managed
to thrash all his neighbors and make Of
Prussia the strongest war force in all
Europe. His successors down to 1884
looked upon navy as unnecessary. In
1854 Bismarck was hard pressed for some
new toy with which to amuse his cap
tiOus parliamentary nursery, so he
hOlsted German flags in several swamps
along the shores Of Africa and pro-
claimed Germany colonial power; and
of course colonies must be protected, so
a navy had to be built.
A. J. Mcclure: Good journalists are
wanted all the time. There is not a day
that the newspapers do not want to en-
gage three or four, and there's not a
newspaper in town that doesn't want a
$4,000 man every hour The journalist
is one who knows and learns instinC-
lively the value Of news and how to pre-
sent 1t freshly and attractively. The
woods are full Of commonplace journal
lists. If young man comes to me and
asks what to write about know he is Of
no use The writer who cannot make
his own subject and present 1t brightly
is not a journalist. The journalist is
the one who sees a special article every
day OF his life. Nature is full of stories,
If we only know how to value and apply
them.
The American: High prices for wheat
this year will not affect the Congress
sional elections next year 1t is high
prices next year that will alone make
votes for the Republicans, low prices will
make votes for free silver. And so it
will be In 1900. If prices rule low in
1899 and 1900 men will not be influenced
In the casting OF their votes by the high
prices for wheat obtainable to-day They
will attribute the high prices of to-day
TO the true cause, and all the false plead
ings based on this rise of wheat by the
gold mOnOmetallists to-day will return
10 plague them, be the making, not of
votes for the gold standard, but for free
silver coinage. So, we repeat, the rise
in the price Of wheat has not put the
silver question out of politics.
Austin (Texas) Statesman: A wife
Deater is the most despicable Of all men.
In the first place, he is an arrant cow
lrd who would not dare to crook his fin
ger at man. In the second place, he is
too mean to live in respectable COM
and he is unworthy Of the least |
concern of a good woman. There is no |
treasure on earth like the warm, tender |
love flowing from the heart of a good wO-
man out to her husband, and the man
that does not esteem it as the best
earthly gift Of God has no right to claim
and equal rights among men.
Whip him? Yes, whip him on his bare
back, and then let every good woman !
and brave man refuse to shake hands |
with him, but turn their backs upon
him, banishlng him as a Pariah of So
,iety from association with respectable
people.
Philadelphia Bulletin: Every hour
makes the British situation in India
worse. Perhaps the gravest indication
he nnhlic ia nermittan To san la the ran-