The advocate., 1897-09-01
Public Opinion.

thNu YET An Iudhy QudIpoIb LHcIb 10 htlll
d demand for It,
Cincinnati Enquirer: The prosper
ity" wave would be good deal more
effective IL there were not so many
thousands able-bOdied men with so
much time to talk about III.
Birmingham Age-Herald The citi-
zen who is determined to take care OF
himself alone Is Of very little use to a
community, and few tears are shed
vixen he takes his final departure.
Chicago Chronicles An emplOye Of
the United States who does not pay
his just debts is a person whose char
acter cannot be good and whose use
fulness to the public service Is neces-
sarily abridged.
The American (Wharton Barker's
paper): The Democratic party seems
to think a great deal of the policy of
fusion when the other party does the
fusing, but to see little good in fusion
when the Democratic party must give
as we'll as take to bring fusion about.
New York Evening Post English
rule Of the millions Of India has been
little short of wonder for wisdom and
success, and doubtless some measures
will be devised to meet the thickening
difficulties But that they are thick
enirg and threatening cannot be de-
nied.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune:
The hundreds of millions Of dollars
that the farmers will receive by reason
Of the increase In the price of wheat Is
the spring from which the stream Of
prosperity wells. Like river, it in
creases as 1t flows. In the end all may
drink, and all are benefited.
Nashville American: The protec-
tionlsts are lucky in the coincidence OF
period of depression during the OPP
Grafton OF the tariff of 1894 and a re-
ViVal Of business at the time the new
tariff goes into effect, but to him who
will properly study the situation it is
simply coincidence and nothing more.
Atlanta Journal Now that great
crops and great prices have been dis
counted to some extent in the specula-
tive markets, another element Of pros
perlty and still higher prices begins to
appear in the form of imports Of gold.
They are coming very soon, although
London is endeavOring to postpone the
beginning Of the movement until Sep
tember.
Lewiston (Me.) Journal: Good times
may not come to this country via steel
or electric line, but there is no better
indication of the advent Of prosperity
than improvement in railroadlng. A
significant indication of the trend of
industry is afforded by the report that
100000 more men are employed by the
railways of this country at present |
than were employed year ago.
Chicago Record: Probably more sig
nitlcance attaches to the activity Of the |
gold Democrats now than during the
Presidential campaign, for upon the
success that shall attend their efforts
depends to large extent the future Of
the Democratic party. There cannot
exist for any great length of time two
party organizations, both claiming to
be Democratic. One or the other must
dominate.
Topeka State Journal: II the gov
ernment must and will interfere in
controversies Of this character through
the Judiciary, and must and will settle
them finally through the military, why
shouldn't 1t settle such contests In the
beginning and save the great financial
loss suffered by both parties and the
country at large, as we'll as the blood
shed and destruction OF property which
frequently follows?
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