Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1900-02-19
EDITORIAL COMMENT.


lucky, but he got out OF that state just
as soon as he was able to travel
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Prohibltionlsts Of Erie county.
N. Y, Kentuckied together, but fortu-
nately, no one was Goebeled.---Newark
Advertiser.
Pettigrew has stirred up what he
considers q question OF veracity with
Dewey. The American people will not
waste any thought on this subject
They believe in Dewey and are yet TO
| ly quality of any kind.--St. Louis
lGlobe-Democrat
The elections OF the last four years
do not indicate that the Western and
Southern people are crazy for free sill
yer. Kansas, South Dakota and Wash
ington have been firmly recovered by
the republicans. Kentucky is still held
by them. Maryland was only regained
| by dropping the "16 to hoodoo." Both
South and West are prosperous. Good
money Is plentiful. Prices and wages
are up. Mortgages have been cancelled
by the carload. Another calamity
campaign would be both ridiculous
and futile.-New York World.
The young man who courts trouble
will find himself welded to disaster
Dallas News.
Carnegie says he will not help Bryan.
The canny one sees that he is beyond
the help Of money.-Minneapolis Jour-
nal.
Long as the report OF the commission
| is Il can be epitomized into home RUE
for the Fillpinos, together with all the
other advantages springing from inti-
mate association with nation abund-
antly capable not only OF protecting
but OF developing. And II that be i'm
lperialism, a new name for good fortune
has been found.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Will Brethren Briggs, McGiffert, ct
alteri oppose the new-fangled trust in
Bibles as they did the old-fashioned
kind?-Newark Advertiser.
1t may be that Bryan, thinking he's
the only one In the band wagon, feels
it incumbent on him to do all the blow
ing. philadelphia Times.
American steel rails are now being
sent to Holland. There is no part oil
|
trial conQuests do not extend, and Il
is conquest of peace far more graft
Z, flying than any triumph Of war could
be.--New York Commercial.
The Frenchmen who are chattering
and gestlculaung most violently
against England's war on the so-called
republic" OF South Africa are the
identical F'renchmen who are doing all
they can to overturn the French re-
public COurier-Journal.
The New York Sun sagaciously ex-
lplains that the American -four cap
ltured of Delagoa bay was intercept.
led. not seized" Please remember this
next time a highwayman intercept'
your watch or Observation-Disclosures
IlPilot.
The ratification OF The Hague arbi-
ltration treaty by the United States
Senate is gratifying. The other ma
lions which have not yet performed
this act ought now to be encouraged L
follow tho American example.-Spring.
field Republican.
Some OF the democratic papers ar,
asking why the caucus of their party
In Congress refuses to make declare
, itlon on expansion. The reason Is sim
pie. The democratic leaders In Con
gress are afraid to make the policy o
territorial contraction a test OF demo
I cratic orthodoxy The democrats
bosses In the House OF Representative
are not individuals Of large intelll
gence but they have sense enough L
know that policy of flag-furlinl
would pass sentence OF death upon tn,
party advocating it.-St Louis Globe
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