Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

The Red Rag. It become’ more ev’dent each day that one flag is enough tor this coun’ry.—- ! Lawrence Journal. The red flag of the anarch st i is a* danger signal, and wj all know whai is. Hke.y to happen when danger signals are, disregarded.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The Chicago police did jmt right im compelling those rampant ana-chiets to display the Amer can flag at their revolutionary meeting.—Utica Herald. Some of these days Chicago will have a lynching in comparison with which the hanging of the Mafia assassins at New Orleans will appear trivial —Louisville. Courier-Journal. i It is only a small red flag—a harmless piece of cloth—but that red flag represents a s ntlment that is at war with everything that is distinctively American.—Knoxville Journal. The Chicago police are looking after the anarchists who seem to be growing bold again. It would seem that the last lesson should not have leen so soon forgotten—Peoria Transcript The insistance that the American flag be raised at a meeting of the anarchistsin Chicago a'ong with the red flag was very proper. The anarchists, it is to. be hoped, will learn wisdom with experience.—Milwaukee News. We do net apprehend much danger to American institutions from the anarchists as long as they confine their operations to Chicago, for t tat city has shown that it knows how to deal with gentry of this stripe.—New Orleans Delta. The red flag can be the symbol here of nothing but murder and robbery. Peo- - pie who want to keep green the memory of Spies and Parsons can hardly be held too strict y to a respect for the symbol of law and order.—New York World. Chicago anarchists are having a pretty tough t me of it, but not a whit tougher than they deserve. If some of the same medicine had been applied about ten yeais ago there would not have been a haymarket massacre.— Kansas Citv Tines. y The red flag contingent in Chicago is a public danger and a'l decent men should unite in sustaining the hands of the administration in extinguishing the embers of ananhy before they breakout into a destructive conflagration—Springfield Journal. When there is a real and pressing danger an inflammatory speech is the impulse of the lawless act. Your doer is merely the instru nent, the machine, to carry out the thought of the speaker, who lights the fuse. We need not always wait for the explosion.—Milwaukee Sentinel. The Chicago anarchists are again demanding public attention. The only time when these fellows appeared to any advantage was on that cold 11th of November, 1887. So brilliant was that event that the five red-shirted victims who were the guests of Chicago at that time have never come back to object to the amenities of the occasion.—Columbus Journal.

Dom Pedro. Dom Pedro is reported to be as “willin’ ” as was the somewhat noted Mr. Barkis.—Worcester Spy. It really looks as though Dom Pedro, would not only return to Brazil to die, birt reign sprnc time before his death—Bos on News - Dom Pedro has grown tired of being “out in the cold world,” and is ready to return to Brazil, ho matter how torrid it may be there —Kansas City Times. There would be s ronger and more general confidence in his peace-restoring power if he had made a fight for his throne when it was first assailed.—Denver Sun. Ex-Emperor Dom Pedro, late of Brazil, is in the hands of his friends, and is ready to resume business at the old stand whenever his country calls him.— Boston Herald. Dom Pedro is announc d as a deep sympathizer with the people of Brazil. A king or emperor out of a job always has very keen sensibilities touching the people who have deprived him of his situation. —Brooklyn S andard-Union. Dom Pedro says he is “ready tb return if the nation desires dis presence, in order in his old age to render a final service to the union, integrity and greatness to his fatherland.” Really the exEmperor is too kind —Minneapolis Tribune. It was a pathet’c p’eture to see old Dom Pedro sailing from Brazil an exile and a deposed monarch, but it is absolutely pitiful to see him looking across the water to his distracted country and hoping to be recalled. There is not much of the emperor in it, but much of the foolish old man that touches the. heart deeply.—Baltimore Herald.

Pale Luna’s Eclipse. There was an eclipse on the moon's eclipse, but nevertheless science got ip. some of its best work on the uneclipsed part of the proceeding.—Washington. Star. The eclipse of the moon as advertised took p’ace sure enough. Luna always keeps her engagements. But she doesn't pretend to guarantee the weather.— Ut’ca Observer. The eclipse passed off without our learned astronomers learning the secret of the moon's composition. The gfeen cheese hypothesis still holds sway.—Minneapolis Times. The pale, inconstant moon- disappointed Baltimore in her eclipse engagement. Clouds veiled her from view. Perhaps the jade was off t.irting with Jupiter.— Ba'timore Herald Chicago is growling because the clouds obscured its view of the eclipse. Everybody knows Chicago wants the earth, and now it appears she wants the moon as well. —Toledo Blade The moon had her eclipse just as if it hadn’t been Sunday. If the good people who are trying to have the world’s fair closed on Sunday could have had the r way her ladyship would, no doubt, have been locked up for Sabbath breaking.—lndianapolis Sentinel. When she was all ready for the ec’ipse the moon quietly drew her face behind a bank of gray clouds. It seemed an act of delicate shyness very worthy of pale Luna. But do you remember Yum Yum’s song in thg opera? But pray make no mistake. We are not shy. We're very wide awake, The moon and I. Much too wide awake, this gay and flirty moon, to miss the chance of fooling the earth’s expectant scientists.— New York Wond. Train Robbers. Train robbery is to modern society what piracy was on the- high seas in tffe days of the bueeaneers.—Philadelphia Record. Train robbing should really be made a capital offense. The law should threaten the crime with a rope for the reason that the train robbers comtem- r plate doing murder if necessary.—Memphis Avalanche. The train robber has made himself as dangerous and definite a character as the highwayman of last century, and the railroads need to take forcible measures to circumvent and suppress him.—Philadelphia Times.