Show FROM POLITICIAN TO MONK i It Is often the case that preachers of the gospel turn politicians and forsake the pulpit for the stump but rare indeed in-deed for politicians to turn priests and least of all monks The infrequency infrequen-cy of politicians turning priests is more especially true in th6se cases Where the politician has bright political politi-cal prospects The allurements of public pub-lic life are then such that few indeed will turn from them to the obscurity and life to selfabnegation attendant upon the priests life Perhaps one of the most startling Instances of the politician with a bright future turning priest is found in the announcement that comes of the avowed intention of brilliant Bourke Cockran of New York to turn monk The report says that Mr Cockran has applied to a Jesuit seminary for admission ad-mission as a monastic novitiate A representative of the New York Journal Journ-al called upon him the other day and asked him If the report of his turning monk was true Concerning that he said after a pause I have nothing to say Do you say that the report is absolutely without foundation persisted per-sisted the reporter No answered Cockran but I positively refuse to discuss this matter It Is said that the loss of his wife which happened about eighteen months ago has so saddened him that active secular life has lost for him all interest inter-est If Mr Cochran does give up secular sec-ular life for the church the Democratic party will lose one of its most brilliant bril-liant members whose future prospects In that party were of brightest promise and the Catholic church will secure to Its service a man who will be an ornament or-nament to Its Tninistrv If Mr CJopk ran bright lawyer brilliant orator promising statesman and genial gentleman 1 gen-tleman in this rude world has found briars and thorns that have torn him and sorrow has saddened his heart until un-til all uses of this world seem stale flat and unprofitable we hope that in the holy calm of the church and in Its labors of love and devotion to the afflicted af-flicted he will find the consolation that shall be as a balm to his sick heart THINGS LV YELLOW It is really astonishing sometimes how peoples views may be tinged with preconceived nations It is said that to one afflicted with the weakness of jealousy jeal-ousy things take on an emerald hue To one afflicted with the jaundice all things appear to be yellow and no one can read the eastern press without forming the painful conclusion that those afflicted with the mania of a single sin-gle gold standard also see all things in yellow Or to speak more plainly they see in everything proposed in congress con-gress an attack on the gold standard of the country Here for example is ithe Baltimore Sun that has won nearly everybodys good opinion by its wise conservatism and all round efficient effi-cient and clean journalism saying on the proposition to recognize the belligerency bellig-erency of the struggling Cuban patriots pa-triots A member of the house foreign affairs af-fairs committee says that recognition of the Cuban Insurgents will bring on war with Spain and war would drive the United States to a silver basis wdthln a week The pressure to supply tte deficiency in the treasury with silver sil-ver would be irresistible It would be said that this is merely a war measure meas-ure that the emergency justified the use of silver and as a war measure silver would come into our currency just as everything else vicious in our currency system is the result of war emergencies Upon this assumption the zeal of certain senators in behalf of the Cuban revolutionists can be easily understood They would not hesitate to plunge this country Into war if by hook or crook they could a > t the same time fasten a debased currency cur-rency upon the people It would be avery a-very adroit way to force gold to the wall and to give the silver mine owners a chance to sell their product at twice its value But between recotmifcion of Cuban b belligerency with the possibility = possibil-ity of war with Spain and free silver coinage there can be but one choice A debased currency would be more disastrous dis-astrous to this country than the withholding with-holding of recognition would foe to the Cuban insurgents SIs S-Is not the Suns vision tinted with gold yellow We suggest to the Sun since it seems not to have occurred to it in its reflections on the subject to consider this proposition If this single gold standard so excellent in the estimation es-timation of our eastern friends as the only staple financial policy for our government rests on so frail a basis that a war with Spain in ibehalf t of Cuba Is likely to force gold to the wall and bring silver to the frontif the single gold standard we say rests on so infirm a basis as that is it worth the while of our eastern friends to waste their strength in support of the tottering thing Is it so that this most excellent financial systemthis system based on a single gold standard in the opinion of this eastern advocate could not endure the strain of a war with Spain without going to pieces and making Tiray for silver Let the Sun think of it |