| Show EDITORIAL PITH Ar a matter of fad no Prooldont of the United Slates has ever crossed Its houn dary unless there be truth In tho lotcruln l thai Arthur onoo strayed acroaa the ellu nadlan line during n hunting trip tle that Cleveland wont moro than throo marine leagues from flhore whllo flailing it Is whl luhhlJ I I i tradition that baa como to bo rogardrc with reaped but It lo by no moan gardr1 lablc Foreign heads of late from the Car to tho French President go nvlslt InS l I la I cattily conceivable that time rrHldcnt of the United Stales might find It wlae and gracious to become u gu loC l-oC Canada or of Mexico or that he should In peraon attend the opening of tho iBlh m nlan canal Now York Mull and Express Tho proposed combination of the largo neatpacking concerns of this country would weld together establishments doing more Hum twice the grogs business of tho UnIted Stales Sled corporation though ho net proiltB arc lees than half aa great The new trust would be strong enough to do some dictating to the transportation companies H and could easily build or con rol I line between Chicago and the At antlc seaboard o PorUand Oregonian The registration of Alabama shown 18 318 voter of wlioiu only j arc colored nen ThoHe 1S331S voter however will elect nine meiocrs of the house In In lluna It took tuOGCO votes to elect thirteen meinbeni of time House In l Indlunupo 111 Journal S q S About five years ago the manufacturers of bicycles were envied us If they owned great gold mines But thin summer the American Bicycle company tho socalled bicycle trust haM been sorlounly I considering consid-ering tile Hunpennlon of lnt Tofu payments on Its debontun bonda 1C I It had mode nothing hilt bicycles for UK lust year thcro would not Imo been any room for loubt us to the Interest question Tile monoy would have been lacking DufTalo Express S S Saying nothing about coal the Americans Ameri-cans are Investing heavily In precious tones In one day lately 509000 worth of dlamondn passed through the appraisers apprais-ers stone at New York and In the hint lineal year J230COCOO worth of the spark hog gems paid customs dullea Then thoro are plenty of gems of purest ray which como through without dazzling tho eyes of customs officers Sioux City Journal S Amor other declarations contained In lilt platform adopted by the Illinois Populists Popu-lists Is this While lie Republican party does something and raises hell tho Demo crnllc party raises hell and docs nothing The declaration may be said to roughly express the dlfforencc between the two parlies Milwaukee Sentinel a u Not nil tho expenses ot war are paid when the death roll IE finished and tho taxes Incrcaacd England Is crowded with returned soldiers vainly seekIng for places and chances to work Readjust ment of economic balances and forcoa la always merciless to the Individual Eng land wan hampered by Iho drain of her ablest men to tho battlefields of South Africa Now she IR embarrassed to pro vldo I for thorn on their return New York Tribune |
