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Show The convention ia mincing at prohibition pro-hibition in a very dainty sort of way. If one half the delecates were womeD, prohibition would go in with a big "p" before many hours have been passed. Ladies don't care if cities have revenues reve-nues or men toddies or not. So far in life they have been more" concerned about the spending than the collection of revenues. Not all of the intellect of the age is found under the flower-bedecked bOLnets of the women, though we admit that most of the beauty of the world ib found there, and nowhere else. How would it look if the convention were to adopt a prohibition and a subsidy sub-sidy clause, while the Sugar Mill is contemplating the establishment of a distillery? A diitillery with a bounty paid by a temperance people would be something new under the sun, for once. Drive on the cart. When once you go into this eumpluary business there is no telling where it will stop. The gentlemen pro and con in the convention do not touch the meat of the proposition to tax church property. If the churches were taxed we would soon find that we could worship God in a $1,500 church just aa well and as acceptably as we now do in a $100,-000 $100,-000 edifice. That's the way we look at the matter. Silver has struck up grade at last. In a few days it will be worth 65 cents. When it reaches 85, then it will be about right, and it will be the thing to go up Btaira over Wells, Fargo & Co's bank and see R. C. Chamber's new smile. The 85 cent figure would make him perfectly radiant. All the Cuban talk, of the unconquerable uncon-querable (Spanish navy, is mere moon-Bhine. moon-Bhine. We could take three mud-scows mud-scows from the lower Jordan and run the Spanish navy from the Gulf of Mexico. The Spaniards talk big but their men of war only shoot at merchant mer-chant vessels. Senator Fkte is a pretty fair filli-buster, filli-buster, and would in time become very popular in the south. He favors the acquisition of Cuba either by purchase or conquest with a decided leaning to ward conquest. Hurrah for Frye. There are only fifteen working days left for the convention. But a good deal of devilment may be accomplished in fifteen days, if the right conjunction con-junction exists. |