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, GROVER CLEVELAND'S FIGHT.
The Preservation of the Country's Cur
rency Due to Him.
"Wo all want good money , " said Mr.
McKiuloy in one of his southern
speeches , and he could say it without a
particle of fear that any sentiment for
free silver would stand in the way of
the applause which his auditors gave
him. Ho is having an extremely good
time on his tour , and reaping the bene
fit of all the good feeling and good
humor which go with a time of general
prosperity , and go to the man who , as
head of the government , is popularly
identified with that prosperity. As to
opposition to the gold standard the
firm establishment and preservation of
which was the exclusive issue hi Mr.
McKiuloy's first successful campaign
and a leading issue in his second the
opposition has now molted into thin air.
It is becoming somewhat difficult to re
alize that it ever was formidable , so
rapidly do events move nowadays.
But people who have memories will
recall , when they read of Mr. McKin-
ley's smooth words and his smiling
audiences , that there is another man
sitting in retirement at Princeton , and
forgotten by too many of the gaping
thousands who are greeting the presi
dent who "wanted good money" and
insisted that the country should have it ,
at a time when we did not "all want
good money. " That was a time when
Mr. McKiuloy himself , not only did not
"want good money , " but went out of
his way in a public speech to attack
President Cleveland because he had
"dishonored" one of our American
metals. When Grover Cleveland was
fighting the battle of sound money
against tremendous odds and saved the
monetary standard of the nation , and
incurred the odium of increasing the
public debt for the purpose , and stood ,
like a stone wall , against every attempt
to undermine the integrity of our cur
rency , Mr. MoKinloy was waiting to see
which way the wind would finally blow
strongest. He kept on waiting to the
very last moment , and only when it was
perfectly clear that the battle was bound
to bo on the line of an uncompromising
attack on the gold standard by the
democrats , and an ucompromising de
fence of it by the republicans , did ho let
it be known where ho stood in the great
contest of 189G.
Grover Cleveland is the man to whom
the preservation of the country's cur
rency system is due. Ho was the man
. who held the fort in the days of darkness
and difficulty and distress. It is to him ,
fo more than to any other one man , or any
, other fifty men , that we owe the con
ditions which have made the present re-
S , vival of prosperity possible. The finan-
( - ' ; oial crash of 1898 , coming at the very
beginning of his administration , was
too tremendous a b'ow ' for even his ex
traordinary hold on the American people
to stand against. He lost the support of
his party , which , until the hard times
came , had stood by him in spite of his
unfaltering opposition to the bulk of it ,
on the money issue ; but ho had held on
long enough to save the country from
the abyss of repudiation. In due course
of time just as was the case of the
panic of 1878 the country recovered
from the effects of the 1808 panic ; and
now comes this fair-weather friend of
sound money , this man who didn't know
his own mind about it , until public senti
ment had spoken out in thundering
tones , and smilingly accepts the applause
which the unthinking give him , but
which those who know , reserve for the
sturdy , old-timo democrat of Princeton.
Baltimore News.
"LAW IS COMMON SENSE. "
By the time the next book of familiar
quotations is issued , the phrase "Law is
common sense" should have become
sufficiently popular to have a place hi it
and be credited to Benjamin B. Odell.
We don't know how often it may have
been said before , but its applicability in
connection with the vetoes of Saturday
is such , that Gov. Odell is entitled to
claim originality for it , because he has
given it a clear and useful meaning.
Some one may object that a very big
proportion of the laws put on the statute
books every year are not common sense.
That is true enough. It is likewise true
that a great many public offices are not
held as public trusts. But the phrase ,
"Law is common sense , " which occurs
in the governor's veto of the bridge bill ,
lays down a principle for the guidance
of legislatures , just as Gov. Cleveland's
phrase , "Public office is a public trust , "
did for administrators. Both maxims
are concise and to the point , and not
easily forgotten , and the one no less
than the other would have been spoiled
by any attempt to elaborate it. Buffalo
Express ( Rep. ) .
A HOPEFUL VIEW OF JOURNALISM-
The New York Evening Post of
Saturday contained what may be called
"an instructive symposium" on modern
journalism. It included a long quota
tion from the recent speech by Col.
MoOlure of the Philadelphia Times on
retiring after fifty-five years of service ;
an editorial of comment , and a letter of
protest on modern journalistic methods
as experienced by a family of prominence ,
living on the Hudson. * * * Striking
a balance , one may say in a word that ,
despite the demoralizing tendency
towards sensationalism hi certain jour
nals , with its revolting invasion of the
home , the newspaper of today is a dis
tinct advance on the newspaper of even
twenty-five years ago hi tone and
quality , as well as in the amount and
character of its news. As regards sen
sationalism , it may be added that more
and moro papers are feeling their re
sponsibility in this matter , and that the
distinction between , what is proper or
improper to print is being made by moro
and more editors , despite the money
inducements to enter the competition of
sensationalism. Waterbury ( Conn. )
American ( hid. )
THE MOSQUITO PEST.
Dr. L. O. Howard , entomologist of the
department of agriculture , spoke at
South Orange , N. J. , last night on the
mosquito pest and how to stop it. Ho
said that a few years ago every one had
ridiculed the idea that mosquitoes
carried malaria and yellow fever. Now
it is known that they carry elephantiasis.
They are a constant source of expense ,
yet they may bo exterminated at com
paratively small cost. The genus culex
lays 4,000 eggs hi a mass , from which
hatch out wrigglers , which are aquatic
animals , but still are air-breathers. The
use of oil prevents them from coming to
the surface of water. The harmless
mosquitoes are hump-backed , while the
malarial mosquito has a "Grecianbend"
and spotted wings. There is no reason
why mosquitoes cannot be gotten rid of
in South Orange , Dr. Howard said , as
the area is circumscribed and limited.
Malarial mosquitoes rarely fly more
than two yards at a time. The other
kind do not fly far , and when a strong
wind springs up , they cling to trees
until the wind subsides. Many breed
ing-places were found in South Orange
by Dr. Howard , and they ought to bo
covered with oil.
THE WIND CAVE OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
Commissioner Hermann , of the gov
ernment land office has instructed the
special agent of the interior to
re-open the Wind Cave in the Black
Hills of South Dakota to inspection by
the public. The cave belongs to the
federal government , and comprises about
1,000 acres. No depredations will be
permitted on the premises , no specimens
will be allowed to be taken away by
tourists , and no fees will be permitted to
be charged or received.
Wind Cave is so called on account of
the strong rushing current of air
through the entrance. Several hundred
feet below the surface a level is reached
from which miles of arched avenues
radiate in every direction , embracing a
succession of chambers. The ceilings
are pendant with gems of stalactite
formation , while around the edges and
in niches are specimens of peculiarly
wrought figures and forms , resembling
birds and priimn.la-