The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-15
THE POINT OF VIEW.

tucky. Now they call IL "A great victory
To carry the state by 1900. Indianapolis
Journal.
General Blanco says that he Is soldier
and never makes war on women and
children. This gives Weyler an oppor-
tunity 10 write q CARDS.. Louis Globe
Democrat.
A man has been found in East Friend
ship, Me-. who has kept diary since 1870
and has never missed n day. How the
friends and acquantances Of that man
must hate him = Boston Transcript.
The Spanish government is waiting
Weyler's return 20 arraign him for dis
respectful words spoken Of it, Will 10 call
him TO account for his crimes & inst
humanity? These are the most shocking
of modern times Beyond their mere
statement. words are Inadequate TO char
acterize them Utica Herald
But i'm spite OF all efforts at avoiding
embarrassment To our guests by evading
and ignoring the fact, the fact will OBJ
| trude itself that the Dominion of Canada
| fore Is not in "A position to negotiate or
ratify treaties nor to settle any Kind of
| International disputes. Boston Adver-
| tiser.
If the premier and the president will
| go over the ground of what each county
wants OF the other 1t is most likely they
will find no serious difficulty in coming
to satisfactory understanding. There.
| is the seal fishery question, tne question
| of Lahore rs passing over the border and of
| mining in the klondike Chicago Inter
| Ocean.
Ii is not even necessary to inquire
! whether the friendly advance Of Canada
has been inspired by the English govern
ment or is i'm opposition to British desire.
IL is enough to recognize the fact that
| Canada is our closest neighbor, that tho
greatest mutual interests are involved:
that honorable peace Is the highest con-
slderation and that reciprocal relations
| will promote the welfare of both. Pitts
burg Dispatch.
Talk anout the great Democratic vic
tory in Virginia is laughable. The Re
publican state committee declined to call
a Republican convention on the ground
that the election laws are so unfair that
Republicans could not get tboir votes
counted. Some Republican candidates
were put up in spite of the "organiza-
ton" but to boast of Democratic vic.
tory under such circumstances Is absurd.
Philadelphia Press.
The present Canadian attitude is very
much more manly and creditable than
that foolish petulance of few weeks
ago, which prompted Lord Salisbury's s
refusal to enter the Washington Sealing
Conferences. That conference has been
held by the United States. Russia and
Japan. 1t has proved highly harmon
ious and successful. 1t now looks as il
Canada honestly regretted that it had
not taken part in the proceedings. .-Bos-
ton Journal.
The great popularity of the Amer can
4 girl abroad is illustrated by the fact that
the brother Of the kbedive Of Egypt is
willing to renounce all claims to the
bIioHo VI tbt IL it II biibWSu
to marry citizeness of the United
States whom he met during recent
journey in Europe All she had to 10
was to cast her bright eyes on the scion
of African royalty. and he was at once q
gone goose. American girls come high,
nut the aristocracy of the efiete Eastern
hemisphere must have them. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
In line with previous reports of Cuban
suffering is the news that during October
there were $50 deaths i'm Matanzas and an
average of thirty deaths "a day in the three
towns OF Santo Domingo, Villas and
Banes the united population OF which
was only five thousand. Ihe persons who
have died we're not Insurgents, 1t should
be- remembered. They were paciiicos who
took no part i'm the war. They perished,
not in battle, but miserably, of starva-
tion and disease If all these things were
occurring in distant Armenia, how indig-
nant the American people would be; but
they are taking place at our doors, and
we pay no attention to them. Chicago
Tribune.
No man who lives on meat was ever
known to lick his wife or ask tor d.
vorce Adam got into row, right of,
because he had no hog meat, butter or
black bass. Napoleon lost Waterloo be-
cause the allied forces hsd bacon for
breakfast the morning Of the fight The
French had vegetable SOUP The South
had TO give in at Appomattox because they
were out of meat No war can be success
fully waged without hog meat Amer-
cans are the most frisky people on earth,
because they eat the mos, hog meat. In-
gals would have gone back to tho Senate
had he not lived on oatmeal, baked apples
and blind robbins A vegetable diet
woman Is as cold and clammy and un-
lovable as n turnip. If you wish to put
roses in tho chseks of your girls, vitality
I'm their every motion and brains in their
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