The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-23
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.
From the indianapolis Sentinel.

| From the Indianapolis Sentinel.
| A FINANCIAL PoEM.--The Sentinel Is
not much addicted to poetry, at least IN
| It's editorial columns, but II feels moved
| to give its highest Enforcement to the
following gem which 1t has received
through the mails:
THE HONEST DOLLAR.
| O that odous odorous, dolorous dollar
| How heplessly hopelessly hollow holler.
For feeling, feebly | feaffully feel
I'm starving while studiously sitting a
squeat.
o that otherly, brotherly. 5O-cent dollar
How happily, hopefully haw-haw I'd
II jinglingly. dinglingly, dishonest OF nit
My neighbors and ! had plenty Of it. =
Unhappily the author is OF such modesty
| that he failed to send in his name with
his production, even as a guarantee OF god
| faith. In this way he has escaped fame, as
his poem eau never die. 1t combines the
qualities OF expressiyeness and truthful
ness. Ii seems trifle peculiar in its re-
vivai OF the ancient Anglo-Saxon form OF
ALTERATION, but that will be welcomed
rather than frowned upon by the hghly
educated. In fact as to the mechanical fea-
| lures of form and versification the poem
! leaves little to he asked, and with no
probability of getting 1t.
But it is the sentiment that will touch
the hearts of most of our readers. The
| contrast between the honest dollar
which is so abrormally good that you can
| not get 1t, and the plain old-fashioned dol
! lar OF the fathers, in which we used TO
rovel when I'VE were so happy and so
pore" is drawn with an artistic skill that
tn ,l,,tt. ha,t
We believe it was Girofla who gave utter
ance TO the great sentiment, when you
can have what you like you had better
like what you have Perhaps II may with
out straining be modified to read, when
you can't get what you like you had bet
ter like something that you can get"
| There are limitations TO the powers of the
| masses. Doubtless the sky above Naples
| IS very beautiful, and the view from Mt.
Ararat Is very fine. but inasmuch as most
| OF us VIII never get to see them we may
as well enjoy Fairview and proceed to es-
| taoish an artistic park system at home
| 10 gladden. our eyes. And SO with dollars,
a 5o-cent dollar within reach is better
INN i 2oo-dollar that you can not reach
| with a pole. q
! from the New York Sun. Rep.
THE GAGE BILL HASTILY PRE-
| PARED.-In what shape the bill will
emerge from the committee and be land
pelore congress 1t is impossible to predict
1t bears marks of having been hastily
prepared and It needs emendation to make
IL effect even the purpose of its author
For example, it speaks of Sums OF stand
ard silver dollars and silver bullion. pur-
| CEASED under the act of congress approved
July H. 1890" although no silver dollars
were purchased under that act. 1t means
probably, sums of standard silver dollars
ana of the silver bullion" etc So TOO
1t apparently intends that the banks may
deposit bonds and receive notes therefor
TO an amount equal to their CAPITALS, but
II does not provide for a repeal OF section
~ OF the bank act of 1852. which restricts
the amount of such notes to 80 per cent of
banks capital.
me essential vice of the whole bill Con-
| slsts III its making the government re-
sponsible for the bank notes issued under
II, and perform all the labor of redeeming
them. while the 2is per cent interest Maid
on the bonds they deposit as security, This
VIII be sure to kill the bill in congress,
H. indeed, 1t Is ever seriously discussed by
| that body.
From the Evansville Tribune
LIVE DEMOCRACY Was the demo-
cratic party ever in better condition?
Silver and low tariff are the twin is
sues upon which it will make its fight.
The campaign is planned and the Skin
msh line is out. The renforcements are
| ready. There is method and unity of pur-
| pose on the democratic side. The remedies
| the party has to offer for the ills that
aHlict the country are pure goods. The
republican panaceas have been unavaiing
and the people are ready tn change treat
ment
The silver question is understood bv the
people. They can see tina. there must be
a right and wrong side to every question
and that since the gold side Is wrong silver
must be right The same is true of high
and low tariff
The victory of '96 is the last tho re-
| pubilcans will win. they day is done. and
when the preseut administration retires
the party will 70 down to ruin aud dis
fupuon, The republicans are ashamed
OF the issues they advocate, while the dem
ocrats are proud to be believers in silver
| and low tariff.
Meklnleysm Dngleyism and Hannaism
are their own Obstruction.
NEW ENGLAND'S COTTON CRISIS
Atlanta Constitution.