The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-03-14
CURRENT EVENTS.

The income of the Church of
England is said to be 81, $4,000 per
week. So far, ]. Pierpoint Morgan
seems to have overlooked ''the es-
Enlistment"
Speaker Henderson in defaming
the press of the country has not
helped his own popularity nor the
cause of the principles which he is
trying to maintain.
"The Scotch Grays were worst
ed" says a recent dispatch from
South Africa, and the inference
that the British War Office gets is
that the story was "made out Of
whole cloth"
Perhaps the real reason for the
distrust of the Republican party
and its policy in the Philippines
comes from the fact that there are
too many official Republican mouth
pieces, and all with different things
to say.
In this era of prosperity, when
all products are sky-high, especial
ly those that make up the common
expenses of living, it will be motto
ed that the wage scale has not been
partaking altogether in the boom
OF big values.
Strong pressure is being brought
to bear on Representative De Ar
mond, OF Missouri, to induce him
to enter the Senatorial race. Should
he do so and prove successful he
would be valuable addition to the
already strong corps of orators on
the Democratic side of the Senate.
The President is still trying to
propitiate the South, if we can
Judge from the newspaper com
ments OH his receptions, dinners,
ETC., which always particularly
specify that the rooms were banked
with Southern smilax, while South
ern azaleas were everywhere.
Speaker Henderson says that the
press is being manipulated IN the
interest of free trade with Cuba.
The question naturally arises, what
interest is manipulating in other
direction? Some of the Republican
contentious are strangely like the
parable of the pot and the kettle.
The Vatican at Rome has just
had it's first thorough cleaning in
400 years. The Vatican is not a
single edifce, but a great collection
OF buildings of various ages, all
forming one group. There are said
to be 10000 rooms all together,
though this is probably not liter
ally true.
Mr.. Henderson assumes that the
people do not want any concessions
made to Cuba and says that it is
his duty to respect the popular
will. And yet Mr.. Henderson
forced through the Lower House a
bill wiping out the war tax on
beer, tobacco, bucket-shops, etc.
Did the people request that reduc-
ton?
A transatlantic liner last week
brought over cargo of animals
for circuses and museums. Those
who saw her got a better idea of
what the ark must have been like
than they ever had before. There
we're lions, tigers, bears, hyenas,
camels, antelope, moose, llamas,
zebras, condors, ostriches, monkeys
by the hundred, and 1900 singing
birds for dealers in New York.
The Democracy occupies the van
tage ground before the country on
the issues most vital to the Ameri-
can people. Tariff reform, which
has come to be necessary on &C
count of the Ubiquitous extortions
now practiced, and the maintenance
of the constitutional principles of
the government to offset the I'M
constitutional tendencies exempli-
fed in the Philippines are irresist-
ably appealing to the party.
President Schwab, of the steel
trust, wants ships, saying that
with them America can take care
of the worlds steel market. If Mr..
Schwab will sell steel to this coun-
try as cheap as he does to foreign
buyers it will be possible for our
TO turn out vessels with
out any bounty. A matter of pride
ought to keep the steel trust from
asking for ship subsidies when it
boasts it can undersel1 European
producers in the European market.
There has been much hippodrom-
ing of the German Prince for the
purpose, as annouced from the
other side, of cementing the friend
ship of the two nations. 1t is bur-
Iesque diplomacy to attempt to
the friendship of ma
lions by pageantry. The Princes
address at the banquet at the Wal
1orf-Astoria was not happy and
gulf wider than the
Atlantic that separates autocracy
rom democracy. The German