The advocate., 1897-11-10


approval OF all the Wall street men
and all the leading national bankers Oi
the country.
Atlanta Journal: II Mr.. William J.
Bryan Is a sensible man, ne must be
suffering from a severe case Of disgust In
consequence OF the silly adulation and
extraVagances Of some Of the Kentucky
orators who have introduced him dur
ing his tour over that State. II Mr.
Bryan accepts all the gush Of these sappy
declaimers as truly descriptive Of him
self, his mental equilibrium must be
completely gone. At the Elizabethtown
fair he was hailed by one enthusiast as
the greatest citizen Of the greatest
country in the history Of man" On
another occasion a rural Kentucky edi-
tor in introducing Mr.. Bryan, declared
that neither Greece with her Demos
themes. Rome with her Cicero, France
with her Mirabeau, and England with
her Burke "eyer beheld or heard the peer
of the hero from Nebraska"
Pittsburg Dispatch: Among the tri-
umphs of Edison, none Is greater than
his new magnetic separator for extract
ing iron from crushed rock. 1t differs
from the majority Of the WIZARDS ia
nous achievements in being the result
OF striving for a well-defned object
instead of being a discovery incident to
the pursuit of experiments for other
purposes. The principle Of this inven-
ton is not newt has been the dream
of inventors for years, as the records
Of more than 100 patents show. 1t Is
none the less important on that ac-
count. better index to the commercial
value being afforded by the cost OF the
experiments leading to success. It's ef'
fects upon the iron and steel trades
cannot yet be predicted. They will be
great, no doubt; but progress In these
manufactures has been so rapid OF late
years that predictions for the future
become hazardous. Inventions become
out of date almost before they are per-
| fected.
New York Evening Post: The uttel
breakdown of prohibition in New Hamp'
shire is now confessed, even by its most
earnest advocates. Testimony to thu
fact which is Of the highest importance
was furnished at the convention Of
Baptists in Manchester last week. The
whole subject of temperance was dis
cussed at length, and the result was the
| adoption of resolutions which declare
that 1--WE view with CONSERVATION the
influence Of the saloon in our State
and regard it as a nuisance which oughi
to be suppressed" and that 1--WE note
with great sorrow the open violation
of the prohibitOPy law in our cities anC
towns with the evident permission of oul
| Commissioners, Mayors and police OF
ficials." Nobody attempted to deny tha
this statement as to the wholesale vio
| latiOn Of the law was entirely true, anC
IL It Is true, 1t would seem as though the
most fanatical prohibitlon1st must sooI
see the folly of keeping on the statute
\ book q law which cannot be enforced
and which results in free rum"
Boston Post: The most cruel thing
that has been said Of the impending
distress in Ireland is that which comes
from the organs of the Tory govern
ment. that 1t is a political famine;
that the suffering of the people is ex
plotted by the opposition as an argumen
against the administration of affairs II
that unhappy country. There Is NJ
question, as the correspondent of th'
Post has shown, that the failure o
the potato crop and the destruction b,
unfavorable weather of the other agri
cultural resources Of large districts II
Ireland have already caused great dis
tress and will probably bring abou
famine conditions. The part OF human
ity is to recognize this fact, which Is a.
well known in England as 1t is here; no
To helittla the emergency by ascribing