The advocate., 1897-11-10
Public Opinion.

Der Tor lSOO.
Detroit Tribune: Next to the Lieut.
CERT case, the great mystery Of the year
is how the American workingman man
aged to stub along before Mr.. Hanna
began to love him.
Cleveland Leader: One Of the London
papers says that IL the United states
government is going to stick to the
Monroe doctrine 1t will have to double
It's standing army. That can be done
IN day.
Ohio State Journal Hoke Smith has
been chosen President OF the Atlanta
School Board. He is the only member
OF the Cleveland Cabinet who has been
elected to any Office since the close OF
the administration.
Hartford Courant: 1t Is not at all
likely that the ObstruCtives In the Senate
will permit any currency legislation
this winter, but thorough discussion
OF the subject in the House and In the
press will have important preliminary
and educational value.
Chicago Chronicle: 1t Is said that
there will be a general efort, not Sc
rlously opposed, to repeal the entire
body OF prohibitory legislation on the
statute books of Maine A bill for that
purpose will be introduced and will
probably pass in the next Legislature.
Troy Press: straws tell which way
the wind blows. The present campaign
in New York Is reported as awakening a
stronger interest In municipal affairs
among women than has ever been known
before Give them time and the wo-
men will do something more than talk
politics; they will demand a vote.
Kansas City Journal: Newspapers In
other cities are remarking on the great
number Of murders In Kansas City.
There Is no mystery about 1t to people
who live here. Cold-blooded murder Is
not crime in this town, Petty larceny
and common fist fights are the great
offenses against law and justice In Jack
son county, Missouri
New York Commercial Advertiser:
Tom Paine has been vindlcated by the
Society for Political Study, q club Of
women who yesterday covered him with
eulogies The feminine mind Is quick
to feel changes In the tide Of public feel
ing. There has been for some years a
steady increase OF the interest OF his
torians in Paine, and now that the wO-
men have begun to talk about him his
future Is safe.
Times Herald: 1t is not surprising
to find that the New Time, the chief
Populist organ, should oppose postal
savings banks. A writer in the NOVem-
ber issue, MR.. r. II. Ewing, violently
declalms against the legislation In this
direction proposed by Senator Mason
and Postmaster General Gary. MIR. Ew-
ing's reason for opposing the measure
IS that these new aids to thrift will
allay the popular discomfort and blind
the people to the "evils OF interest"
Savannah News: The New York Jour
nal of Commerce draws attention to the
interesting facts, as they appear from
the official figures, that the number OF
employees on the railways Of the United
States is as great as the number OF
men that the Federal government ever
had under arms at one time during the
Civil war, and that the number killed on
the railroads each year would constitute
the casualties Of great battle, that
would create mourning all over the
country.
Courier-Journal: Since the calamity
howler has been forced to give up COM
miseratlng the farmer for the wretched
prices received for products his ever
ready sympathies have been turned to-
ward the worklngman. The, laborers
ara ,,ifiad hncnIao fhav have To nav more
for -four and meat than last year, and II
Is also asserted that few more have
been given employment and that their