Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

Opinions of Gresham. The administration of the State Department under Secretary Gresham will be regarded by the historian of the future as equal to any.—Milwaukee Journal In each of three fields—war, the bench and the cabinet, as soldier, jurist and secretary—he attained a distinct and enduring fame.—Grand Rapids Democrat. One of his best characteristics was hostility to the growth of corporation influence in political affairs, and to this was due most of his strength with the masses. —Buffalo Express. Personally Mr. Gresham was probably, the most democratic man that ever occupied the State Department. He was mors accessible than any of his clerks. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As a soldier he was brave, faithful and knightly; as a cabinet officer he established beyond question the qualities of efficiency and integrity; as a judge he was just and pure, holding the scales of justico without partiality.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Republicans cannot bnt believe that his uncertainty of political faith was unfortunate and that he was in error when he cast his lot with the Cleveland administration, but he can be credited with honesty and a desire to do his duty.—DulHth News-Tribune. A man has died who has deserved well of his fellow citizens. The Secretary of 6tate was a brave soldier and a just judge, jin his later career many of his countrymen find things to disapprove, and find other things that stamp him with the same patriotism that won him fame in bygone years.—Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, i There are those who were closely attached to Secretary Gresham and who were cemented to him by years of personal .friendship, fvho will feel that a light has gone oat of their lives, and that grief has come in to sit where hope of the future of the dead.statesman had held its place and joy at his suceess-was genuine and tho outgrowth of appreciation and true sympathy,—New i Albany Ledger.

i n: .an .-jy; j . >■ Utah's New Constitution. The Utah constitutional convention provided for no'lien tenant governor in the list of State officers. Utah should provide for such an emergency, so that when the ■people elect officials representing one party or policy there will be some one to slip jn when a Governor dies and carry on the work as it was begun.—Chicago Inter Ocean. A glance at the new constitution which is to be submitted to the people of Utah In November will suffice to show what a tremendous advance Is in Store for womanhood in that territory when if shall become a State. Not Only is the Federal statute prohibiting polygamy confirmed, .but woman suffrage is established at one sweep.—Chicago Herald. The constitution which is to be submitted to the people of Utah in November prohibits polygamy, as do all the States; It provides for woman suffrage, as does Wyoming; it does away with Jury system, as does Michigan, and it does not provide for a lieutenant governor, in which it is like Delaware, .Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maine and some other States. It incorporates some new features in trials by jury, providing for petit juries of eight persons, six of whom can render a verdict, except in criminal cases, when a unanimous verdict is required to convict. The constitution provides for a school system that is comprehensive, and If well carried out will give the new State a high rank in educational matters. —Chicago Record.

The Russian Squeeze. If Japan was about one-fourth the size of Russia the latter wouldn’t be offering it any adyice.—Chicago Tribune. Japan, like Cuba, may not have the sympathy of the United States Government, but both have the cordial sympathy and good will of the American people.— jNew York Advertiser. Russia is inclined to crow over what It regards as a diplomatic victory in forcing Japan to agree not to demand any of the Chinese mainland. It is hard to see -wherein the victory lies, for Japan was clearly made the victim of bulldozing by three of the most powerful nations of the world.—Kansas City Star. Russia’s tender regard for “those principles on which rests the concert of civilized nations,” and her agonized fear lest Japan, by violating them, should imperil the progress of civilization in the East, almost make one forget the part Russia took in the dismemberment of Poland and her more recent treatment of the Jews.— New York Times. . The Lion’s Grab. ( It will be England’s next move to cultivate an impression that the Monroe doctrine is a theory and not a condition.— Washington Star. The savage is not far beneath the skin of this Christian nation. The instinct that leads England to enter up judgment without arbitration, to refuse mediation and to chastise the quaking antagonist is the instinct of the aborigine.—Chicago Post England’s conduct in the Nicaragua matter is arrogant and cowarcUy, but it is characteristic. It is the course she has always taken in dealing with f sihall nations. She is a swaggerer and a bully except when the other party is a country of her own size.—Globe-Democrat. If this method of procedure should take place between two individuals, one a big |man and the other a little boy, we should apply epithets to the big man that would not be flattering. Why should not the same methods of justice exist between nations as between individuals?—Boston Globe.