The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-05-30
Patriotic Addresses.

Very patriotic addresses were delivered
at the meeting in the Opera House Sun
day afternoon by several ministers Of the
Gospel. If words were as effective as bull.
let's the Spanish would soon be defeated
and an early peace assured. The religious
sentiment Of the country Is sustaining the
ermyand navy, and as the objact is tho
suppression Of oppression snd cruelty, wo
believe they will soon triumph. It was
saying of Napoleon that God was on the
side of the heaviest battalions, but we
have had many evidences that He is also
on the side of right and justice and those
who put their trust in Him, will be upheld
IN an emergency. just as certainly as o
passage was opened through the Rod Sea
for the Children Of Israel aud the closing
waters swallowed up the hosts of Pharoah.
Brave words will stimulate brave deods,
and consequently the patriotic clergymen
are a power In our land, aud although the
power of Jehovah may not be as marked
in modern battles, as in the days OF Gid
con, we believe those who trust in Him at
the Same time keeping their powder dry
And their woll shotted guns properly aimed
will be victorious in this and every other
war. 1t Is trite saying Thrice armed Is
he who has his quarrel just"
THERE promises to be lively times be-
tween the swalow-tail and tho overall
element OF the Democratic party. The
swallowtail element is compo. ed OF the
Young Mems Democratic Club, while tho
overall element is composed of the Bayard
Legion and the Democratic League, which
Is the youngest Democratic organization
but has grown with rapidity tnat mas
unused surprise and alarm among the
sTallowtail element. II some conpro-
mise is not effeo, ed between the wings It
will be a regular Donneybrook far when
the county convention meets 1t: is hard
to see what u going TO become of the men
who want to be leaders in the Democratic
party. They can't all b., and wa suppose
the flttsst will be those who survive as
party leaders after the county convention
meets. 1t remains to BIO seen, whether
George Gray or L. Irving Handy, Is the
bigger man in Delaware Democratic poll
tics in the neaf future.
THE Finance Committee OF City Coun-
Gil has kept the city tax rate down toSl.4s'
the same as it was last year Ninety iiYe
eents on one hun died dollars for city and
forty-nve cents for school purposes With
the city assessment reaching thirty-nino
million dollars, a revenue of SUI, 435 10 is
raised to run the city departments. The
Increase in the appropriation OF the Board
Of Education ha /; been tho means Of keep
ting the tax rate at tho pre- ent figure.
There is no saving to the real estate owner
II tho city tax rate is lowered and the as
sessmeut raised This has been the means
Of more contention among tax payers than
the Australian ballo. law, which has been
found to bo delu3ion and snare. There
should be some means found whereby the
city can raise additional revenue outside
Of real estate A saving should be effect.
oil in the salary list paid to city officials
and all useless officers should be dispensed
with, and the sooner the better. new
city charter would effect this retrench-
ment