The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-05-03
What Others
fire saying.

The English tongue seems to have
the advantage today, 4 hundred
years ago English was bar
bnrous sound 10 most OF the ihhablt-
apts of the globe. IN 1900 there were
only twenty million who heard that
drum beat which Daniel Webster
spoke OF later as rolling around the
world Today there is more warning
OF supremacy often IN the English
voice than in the English trumpet. -
Minneapolis Times.
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'Tn a few days the military govern
nent OF the Philippines will give way
TO ciyil authority. The rebellion is
about over, the army Will be largely
reduced, and IL will not be long be
for the various tribes viii be living
AZ peace, Under the benencent rule OF
the United States and enjoying lib
erty such AZ they have never known.
Yes. we shall Keep the islands. we
shall be the last 20 desert them, says
President Mckinley, which Is another
way OF saying that wherever the
American flag has once been hoisted II
shall never be hauled down. "-Phila-
N'iRHA' iiA'iNifAs
.s.o.s.
"ALthematicians tell OF lines which
continually approach each other, and
yet even II indefinitely extended. new
tr touch So this list Of surrender
ing Tagals, however. much prolonged,
viii we fear, never be complete There
Will always be some three or four, per
haps we might say six or seven, va
cancies at the foot. The familiar say
ing Will be reversed--instead there viii
always be room at the top there Will
always me room az the bottom. Tin
los name is there, and others will be
added. But we shall look and wait
in vain for the names OF Atkinson and
Winslow and Garrison and Crosby aud
Pettigrew, and-lets see-who is that
other one2 They Will ne'er think the
victory won nor lay their bolos down
so long as tracts can be written. songs
be sung. lampoons uttered and faces
DC made SO. there"-New York Trib-
une.
M. Coduelin has been a little hap
pier than Is associate Bernhard In his
fnal deiiverances while on American
soil The divine Sarah talked like
when in Boston the other day on a
Question OF art where difference OF
opinion was not without offence but a
matter OF artistic conscience. Coaue-
lin has avoided such q pitfall and In
stead devotes his farewell utterances
~ u rifsetfssieii- al the American We
man. whom he naturally enough finds
worthy or his keenest analysis and sin
cerest admiration" Philadelphia
Press.
'Bnt what guarantee Is there that
this continued experience OF western
civilization as a visitation OF war, loot
and ravage may not finally drive the
Chinese people TO state OF despera-
tion that will be dangerous? II Is for
the interest as well as the credit OF
civilization TO come TO terms with Chi
ma that she can accept. "-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
"The big coal trust may divide mill
lions OF dollars as result of econo-
mic operation. Probably the other
trusts will be relatively as successful.
And the laborer and the public patient
~ wait for their share Of the econo-
mic benefits. Los Angeles Herald.
can American syndicate may buy
leading line OF British ships. conduct
il I'm the usual American style and
carry an important amount OF the
worlds commerce with it but the line
will remain British. VIII carry the
British flag, will have British reg
lister and can be taken IN any port OF
the world by the british government
for war purposes, and Great Britain
will take the credit for It's opera
tlons philadelphia Ledger.
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Laws In The old World are more
favorable, perhaps 20 the accumu-
lation Of money In certain families
than they are in the United states.
but the immensely of our material re-
sources and the huge prodts TO I've OBJ
tained In developing monopolies un-
der "A favoring tariff give us our fun
share OF millionaires. We have. per-
hans. more persons I'm the United
states worth a million than I'm all Eu-
ope."-Baltimore Sun
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According 10 the census OF 1890 there
are i52 persons TO a square mile in
New York and 102 TO square mile IN
Ohio. The ohio average. n spread
over the republic would raise the pop
ulation OF the United States TO 100000
O00 II we could reach the Chinese
standards or economy. Industry and
temperance the United states could
support on it's 500 900 600 acres pop
ula ation Of $500, O00. GOO. Chicago Rec
ord-tIcrald.
s-O...
president Mckinley enjoys the cs-
teem Of the American people to an un-
usual degree. They will unite. without
regard TO party. in wishing that he
and his eStimable wife may have a
picasant Journey and a safe return. -
Buffalo Courier
...o.s.
Banker Morgan and his maritime de-
signs. ignoring who L. mistress of the
seas. may have some thought OF giv-
ing them master Philadelphia
Times
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