Salt Lake Herald | 1897-12-11 | Page 4 | Some Editorial Comments

SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS Anaconda Standard The California supreme su-preme court yesterday dismlsedanother batch of Durrant appeals and again thsrp Is a possibility that a limited rope of hemp may be substituted for the enaless chain of legal subterfuges Seattle PostIntelligencer I Is a piece of Imp rtnence for the American Protect Iwo association to issue an address to the president protesting against the elevation of Attorney General McKenna to the supreme su-preme bench on the ground that h2 Is a Romanist I there is one principle sacred and inviolable in American government it Is that religion shall not be made a test for public office and the A P A dallb erately asks the president to violate the spirit and letter of the constitution in making its objection Besides the statement state-ment that the departments are being Romanized is not true The really serious se-rious question as to McKennas appointment appoint-ment concerns his fitness and his abilities to fill the position Nothing has been said about his character and nothing should be said about his religion Houston T2X Post Mr Bryan win is nOw in lear says he has found the sIva scntin onger than ever In his recent re-cent ticwia Silvers enemies has unintentionally unin-tentionally been putting in soma powerful licks for the white metal In the past six or eight months Kansas City Star The government of Great Britain embraces as great a varlet va-rlet of interesfc as that of the United States and the queens speech never exceeds ex-ceeds a half column of ordinary newspaper newspa-per space The Britons with much mora leisure at their disposal than the Americans Ameri-cans would be absolutely appalled by a speech from the throne us Ions as the briefest of the presidents messages Chicago News Baltimore papers are making much ado over the finding of an eel In the city water pipes Of course eels are not indigenous to Chicago but as fine a dish of cornbeef and cabbage cpn be had from a city water faucet as one would wish for I Springfield Mass Republican Spains offer of autonomy to Cuba recalls Dean Richmonds famous response when asked if the New York Central freight cars could be painted some other color than the one in vogue You can paint the oars any d color you like said he so long as you paint em red Spain says that Cuba can have as much selffrovernmerft as she likes provided she Is governed in accordance with Spains wishes