The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-18
WHAT THE EDITORS SAY

The war taxes wifi not be increased,
but there is good chance that before
this time next year the need of theml
will have decreased.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
Although Mclean is secretly pledged
to fight Bryan, the sixteen to-oners I'M
Ohio will accept him as their leader and
vote for him without murmur.-Chi-
cage Leader.
The hardest subject the outs have gotI
to tackle in the coming political cam
paign is the widespread prosperity anil
plenty that have been coincident With
the lncumbency of the ms. Parties dol
| not create the conditions that are REL
quisite for prosperous times, but they
generally get large share Of the credit
for them.-Boston Herald.
Down goes base ball. President john
son Of the Western league, in reviewing
the past season, writes: "Our patron
age has fallen far short of the standard
| established in previous years. To the
thoughtful mind it is painfully evident
| tn great national game has to GER
| tain degree lost it's hold upon the pub
| lie" The cause of the decline may be
| stated as rum, rOwdyism and rebellion
Springfield Republican.
Never perhaps has the irony of fate
been more strikingly illustrated than in
the story of the Beers. They sought and
| found in the heart of Africa their ideal
of country which would give them a
| bare living of agriculture, and 1t mas
turned out to be of all places in the
world the richest in mining wealth, ara
1t is this very richness which menaces
! the destruction of their free and demo-
CRATIC republic.-New York World.
Does Bryan really believe that theI
soldiers who have enlisted in the United
States army have given their services
to their country because of the generous
| payment OF the government for suenl
| services? If so, does this explain why
Mr.. Bryan accepted an appointment 6sl
| colonel during the Spanish-Amercsi
war, when there was very little prop
ability that he would have anything
more than camp duty to perform =
Kansas City Journal.
That combinations Of capital may ana
often do abuse their power needs nol
demonstration. That many of the great
|
whole field to which their activities az
devoted are dangerously over-capilsl
| lied does not admit of doubt. That les
islation on these points is desirable al.Hl
can be made effective will not be dehlgu
but that the principle underlying tn'
| formation Of trusts is in itself irrec9li
cilable with the public interests remains
to be determined.-Ph Philadelphia lnquli
| en-
Whatever the small fry leaders whoI
are now at the front choose to pun w
this years platforms, nobody serlously
believes that the masses of the delii"
! cratic party are ready yet to take ny
such position as the struggling piaY
| forms would commit them to; ana w
situation may so change between NJ"
and next summer as to convince etS',
the short-sighted drivers now on w
box of the folly of their attempt 10
lect route for the party simply ~
cause il leads the opposite dlrecl.U
from that chosen by the republicans;
No one who mingles with the rank al AZ u
| I'll of the democrats can escape tn
knowledge that they are not at presem,ss
committed to the platforms when n .i
been hurriedly knocked together III
summers Henry Waterman's LoulsVl''
Courier-Journal.