The advocate., 1897-10-27
Public Opinion.

Denver Post: The order has gone on
to give pension claimants from the Buck
eye State the right Of way.
Atlanta Constitution: Everywhere tn
party is solid in behalf Of its principle
enunciated at Chicago, and everywher
the gold men are forming alliances will
the Republicans. Let the good work g,
on!
Democrat: The four adjacen
States OF Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Ne
braska have raised over 950,0O00 900 bush
els of corn this year. That looks like
good times, and 1t Is only one Of The
items
Savannah News: How long will 1t take
North Carolina to return to the realiz.
alton of the fact that If she wants brains
competency, and honesty in her govern
ment, she must look to the Democratic
party?
Louisville Commercial: The opposition
to the Republican party in all the States
where contests are going on Is based on
purely personal issues, and purely pOlit-
ical issues have been abandoned or sub
OTdinated
Omaha World-Herald: George Fred
Williams is another Of those dead and
buried free silver leaders who has bobbed
up and carried CONSERVATION into the
smiling mourners clustered about his
political grave.
Minneapolis Journal: The anti-cigar-
cite law of Tennessee has been declared
unconstitutional by Judge LurtOn, of the
United States Circuit court. Judge Blr-
ton, we fear, has never detected the fetid
Odor behind the woOdshed caused by his
offspring furnishing suction to the little
air polluters.
Pittsburg Times: The kindergarten
begins to mold the childish character as
the character forms. Although rapidly
making a place for itself in the school
system, it cannot make headway too fast
The kindergarten Is the most important
side growth Of the public schools since
the schools were inaugurated
Mobile Register: Dollar wheat does
not help the Southern farmer" says a
depressed Alabama editor Why not?
There are 30000000 bushels of wheat
raised In the South, not counting Mis-
sOuri's 10,000,000. That means $15,0O0,-
600 more for the South than last year,
Seems to us that is right smart help.
Springfield Republican, A depleted
State treasury is one Of the issues in the
Iowa campaign, and inadequate public
revenues fact in Illinois, as well as in
some other States, to say nothing of the
Federal government. 1t would be better
to say that inordinate public expendi-
lures are the rule throughout the cOun-
try.
Topeka Capital: These decisions show
that popular rights are endangered nei-
ther by the encrOachments of trusts or
combinations, nor by the arbitrary ac-
tion Of men who interpret or administer
laws. The decisions Of the Federal
courts have given a scope to the anti
trust law which very few persons i'm
agined it had when enacted.
Boston Globe; The great lesson of Neal
Dow's long and busy career--character
ized as 1t was among other things by
gallant service in the war for the Union,
In the course Of which he was four times
wounded and once made prisoners
that character and integrity count as
nothing else can in making a mans life
notable and honorable in the eyes of his
fellows.
Louisville Dispatch: The issue is one
that will never be settled, as Mr.. Bryan
says, until it is settled right Defeat for
a principle binds true men closer to that
principle and 1t makes the party more
determined and united. 1t may discour-
age few persons, and it gives traitors
the courage to speak out and show their
true colors, but it purifies and strength