Evening journal., 1897-02-23

and sent feet to Cuba. Or, ought we
to wait till every house in the island
is burnt down and every Cuban killed?
Let the international lawyer answer
Sunday Herald.
II the present Legislature will do
something to make freight rates on
fruits and vegetables about half what
they now are, they will indeed deserve
the eternal gratitude of the whole
people. Fruit growing would double in
acreage and yield in five years time if
the Pennsylvania company were COM
PEELED to cut in half their exorbitant
charges. If cut in half, still the rate
would be very liberal one.-Milford
Chronicle.
The Sons of Delaware will have a
debate in their rooms in the Betz
Building, Philadelphia, on Tuesday
evening next. The question for debate
will be: Resolved, That the Whip
pint-post of Delaware be Abolished"
There are two sides to the question, the
same as there are nine thongs to the
cat. The question is a debatable one,
but we hardly think our Delaware au-
thorities are quite ready to do away
with the relic CT barbarism. The cat
has terrors for white thieves, who
otherwise would pay us visits that now
give our state a wide berth.-Daily Re
publican.
We are not sure that the new Con-
stitution ought to be submitted for rati-
fication by a vote of the people There
are some pretty strong arguments
against such a step, though it would
unquestionably be a popular and demo-
cratic proceeding. There are earnest
and ardent advocates on both sides,
and we should like to see the matter
thoroughly discussed before it is de-
cided to take either course.-Sunday
Star.
Some of the folks who, a short time
ago, thought 1t an awful sin for Mr.. Ad-
dicks to furnish money for political
purposes, are now finding fault with
him because he dealiues to pay bills
contracted by other people, and which
he did not authorize. Why cannot peo-
pie manifest little consistency in
business and politics ?-Dover State
Sentinel.
Delaware needs a broader system all
around, but it is of her schools that we
would write to-day. In some commu-
mites the man who is not to the manor
born is prescribed politically. This is a
mistake. 1t is that within a man that
should decide his qualifications, not the
place of his birth.-Middletow Trans
cript.
Though all the world looks on and
hears of the terrible horrors of famine
and pestilence in India, where thous-
ands upon thousands perish, still there
is class of people who fined in the aw-
| full scourge only the natural outcome Of
natural conditions of that country
which appears at regular intervals, and
which no power on earth can prevent.
| That class of people call themselves
'Casuists," and though their doctrine is
| terrible and heartless, we confess there
is some solid truth in it.-Freie Presse.
There is no concealing it. The Mid
dletown Transcript is thoroughly con-
vinced that Addicks is a ba-ad, ba-ad
man. Middletown Transcript.
Even conservative men are beginning
to criticise the Constitutional Conven-
ton for the length of its session. 1t ap-
pears to us that the point is well taken,
for the convention has now been in ses-
sion nearly three months and its work
does not appear to be more than half
completed. While there is good reason
for making haste slowly in the enact
ment of fundamental law, it is not ap-
parent that the convention should give
lengthy hearings to every interest and
ism that exists in fact or mere theory.
Milford News and Advertiser.
It is time all persons in favor of local
option should bestir themselves, and
see that the Constitutional Convention
adopt such a clause. Developments of
! ha Hfscf fn haI ha af
the tendency of the convention is to-
ward high license, and therefore op-
posed to local option. Such a fair de-
mand should not be refused and this
matter needs thorough agitation and
the people must rise and demand what
is only their due.-Sussex Republican.
Is it true that the Every Evening
grOund-hog has seen the shadow OF
those mysterious forces that are re-
sponsible for the bill to wipe out the
Constitutional Convention, and which
have until recently kept snugly in theiI
holes Morning News.
Senator Gray is recognized as one Of
the abest men in the Senate, and the
State Of Delaware, or in fact the nation
can .ll afford to lose his valuable ser.
vices in the halls of legislation, espec
tally 9t this time, when questions o.
momentous import to the veal or wo'
of the country are hanging in the bal
ance.--Sussex Countian.
The people of Baltimore are some
what nervous over the fact that Bre
Terrapin is in danger of becoming ex
tinct in the Chesapeake. That some
thing will be done to preserve him goe
without saying, at least as regards tn
gourmets of Maryland.-Afro-A American
I Citizen.