Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

Sneer In the Senate. The Senate investigating committee la afraid of what it may find out. —In--4 Lana polls News. There is a certain disposition to lose light of the fact that It is the Senate and not the press that is under investigation.—Washington Star. Bribery ia a very wicked and disgraceful thing. But inalde Information on which way sugar ia going ia different. —Washington Star. The more the Senate shall incline to star-chamber methods the quicker popular resentment will compel it to see stars.—Philadelphia Record. The die has been cast in the United States Senate on the issue of free sugar versus the sugar trust schedule. The sugar trust won.—Minneapolis Tribune. The Senate vote on • sugar extinguishes the lasi faint hope that the Senate investigation of the sugar trust will amount to anything.—Pittsburg Dispatch. The chances are that this will be the last time that a Senatorial committee wilt ever attempt to persecute newspaper correspondents. —Philadelphia Press. It looks very much as if the sugar trust has "got nearly all it wants” in the Senate, but it is to be hoped that the House will not yield to its dictation. —New York Herald. It is a mistake to say that the trusts are getting all the "clover” under this administration. Senators who stand in with the trusts are receiving a liberal share.—Kansas City Journal Airy, Fi try Lillian. We are sincerely afraid that matrimony with Lillian Hus-.ell has become a habit. —Chicago Dispatch. Lillian should really be more careful. The statistics show that husbands of any kind are getting very scarce. — Buffalo Express. Lillian Russell reverses the usual proceedings. Her practice seems to be to marry whenever she has leisure und to repent in haste—Boston Globe. When Lillian Russell, the songbird, tries amopera anti finds it unsuitable she drops it. The same wise rule she applies to misfit husbands.—New York Commercial.

Lillian Russell is getting a'ong in yea -s, but she experiences no abatement of marital ambition. There are fears that the demand will survive the supply.—Chicago Record. Miss Lil ian Russell ought to know a great deal about matiimony, and what she does not know 7 a congress of her lat j husbands ought to be able to tell her. —Baltimore American. Johnny Bull’.* Nml < n *n<i Kick*. It was John Barleycorn rather than John Bull who was ro-ponsible for that insult to the Amerroah flag in St. Thomas.—Chicago Record. Champagne in Great Britain is notoriously sweet, warm and sticky, and criticism of speeches delivered under its influence must bo tempered with indulgence.—New York Commercial Advertiser. There are good and sufficient reasons why we are not altogether pleased with the conduct of the Canadians, but we do not want to make a cause of quan-4 out of a trifle liko this.—Philadelphia Telegraph. It is awkward that the Queen's Own Rifles tore down the stars and stripes at St Thomas. XJnt., when the flag was flying in honor of the Queen’s own birthday. The red coats had too much whisky. But the sincerity of the “Rifles” came out when they were drunk. They did not like the flag. Mr. Coxev, the Martyr. The Washington constabulary feared the Coxey army would have the hay fever by treading on tho grass.—New Orleans Picayune. Coxey went to Washington with a petition that “had boots on,” but when he left Washington his petition was barefooted. —New York Tribune. While ha is in jail Gen. Coxey will have a chance to repent of taking his army to a city where too many doubtful characters had already been sent in a more conventi nal way.—New York World. Mr. Coxey writes glowing letters to his friends of the enj' yment that he finds in jail, but the army of hoboes in camp have not been doing any bragging over the fare they get.—Pittsburg Pippatch. Annrohv at Homa. Cripple Creek is bo ginning to earn its name.—Boston Traveller. Wage workers must appeal to reason, fairness, and lawful means.—Streator Free Pre s. The rioting mob at La Salle are foreigners who could speak no English.— Aurora News. Any reasonable arbitration is better than the derangement of business and the employment of dynamite in strikes. —New York Journal. Maj. Buttz. Buttz isn’t precisely the sort of name to conjure by, but it is on nearly everybody's tongue in Washington, just the same.—Boston Globe. Have they also hired the great Buttz to decamp? If he has done so it is probable that he has not separated himself from all the boodle.—Memphis Appeal-Avalanche.