The advocate., 1897-05-26
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The New York Capitol building narrowly
escaped destruction by fire last Thursday.
The Tombs, the celebrated New York
prison, will be torn down and modern jail
built In It's place.
Governor Culbertson Of Texas has vetoed
the general appropriation bill and roasted
the Legislature for It's extravaganza,
Wonderful things continue to happen. A
Republican Senator in Iowa has declined to
accept his salary on the ground that he did
nothing to earn It,
Pittsburg (Kas.) Tribune; "The country
will go to the dogs soon. Mark Hanna is
down with nervous prostration and VIII
liam is getting ratified"
B. o. Flower, for many years editor of
the Arena, has established new magazine
at Chicago called the New Time. r. U.
Adams Of the Democrat Press Bureau will
consolidate New Occasions with 1t and be
associated in the management.
The new Nebraska law which enables
the people Of cities to vote on ordinances
before they become effective, is a good one.
The results will be such as to develop pub
lie sentiment In favor Of the initiative and
referendum in all State and local affairs.
Secretary Alger says that hard times are
due TO the fact that the people are practic
ing too rigid economy. Well, that is too
bad. II there is any way that they can ex-
ist without such practices they would be
glad to have Mckinley, Alger or anybody
else tell them about 1t right away.
An election in Des MOlnes, Iowa, May II,
resulted In victory for city ownership Of
an electric light plant. The vote was about
three to one. The city will soon vote on
a municipal ownership of waterworks prop.
OsitiOn, and the result in the light election
indicates that the proposition will carry.
Ex.Attorney General Clapp (Rep,) Of
Minnesota says; "The whole world is on
the way to ruin. There are from to 4
million people In the United States to-day
who are hungry, who seek work and find
none. The issues to-day are more impor-
tant and the times more desperate than
those Of the Civil war"
In Toronto, Canada, the street Car fran
chise was given with provisO that cars
should not be operated on Sunday until
such time as the people by direct vote
should approve the idea. The proposition
has been voted on twice, but in both cases
Sunday operation was defeated, At an
election last week. Of S9,SS7 votes cast, a
majority Of 479 voted to run the cars every
day.
AS an illustration Of how great an army
the unemployed number, recent expert
ence In Missouri shows up well. A h0rti-
cultural association having 400 acres Of
strawberries Is said to have advertised for
10000 berry piCkers, and the dispatches
state that nearly twice that number re-
sponded. Among this number were men
from almost every walk in life who were
glad to get any sort Of employment.
An incendiary has just been arrested in
Cleveland, Ohio. The dispatches state
that the authorities In Chicago believe he
is one of the men who burned cars and
other property during the A. r. U. strike
in 1894. 1t is alleged that he confessed
that while deputy marshal and member
Of the militia he had applied the torch
pretty energetically. 1t will be remem-
bered that the corporation press endeav-
ored to fix this work on A. r. U. leaders,
but it seems that the charge made by the
Populist press at the time that 1t was
done with the knowledge Of the authorities