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Some "vindications' arc hardly worth having.
If the hoopskirt returns let us make the best
Df it. Usually there is something good in a hoop-Jkirt.
It is not often that friendship, stands Between
a man's $50,000 a year job and a criminal prosecution.
If a plea of "not guilty" is enough to warrant
the discharge of the accused, what is the use of
.UU.V1U& yiuaecutors anu courts?
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While resting from the job of cutting red
tape the president might cut a little more ice in
the freight rate reform business.
; Yith riental 8 the Chinese-have touched
4-S-' V5pican Pocketbook nerve, and as a result
John Chinaman Is securing results.
., Jf thte c?ar's soldiers could do as much damage
In Manchuria as they do in Poland he m ght now
he advocating peace terms to Japan.
A Pennsylvania judge has decided that th
housewife is boss of the kitchen. That jute
was several rooms shy in his decision.
- J3x-Banker Bigelow is said to be on the verse
of nervous prostration. He seems to havl ex
hausted his nerve in his financial transactions
to see dthS ?Si pS ,an excePtionay good vision
to see that the Russian grand dukes have no in
tention of paying any large share of the war taxes.
An unprejudiced public is of the opinion thai
Messrs. Harmon and Judson are the only ones to
emerge from that Santa Ferebato case with any
. The St. Louis grafters are now offering n
cere sympathy to the Philadelpnia grawho"
to office thG mlStak f elect a "comeVc
classTK
on rcLT better th-a WS
bestLCovoJL?teuei;s s.ays ttat Cleveland is the
sudden cessation thereof. s thQ
"Let the Post follow vnnt ,oi
sprightly Washington ionTemporarv Th ,T Ur
man, however, is quite conTent to ve SSw80
more than the old-fashioned nightmare US
President Shonts declares that tho wm i
no politics in the building of the nnJ bG
Mr. Shonts collides with a session nJ m
congress he will loTotUorZuL Sminl
The Commoner.
The next time Messrs. Harmon and Judson
are asked to take a similar case they will first
investigate to find what sort of friendship lies
back of the accused.
With frenzied finance running wild in New
York city, and frenzied whitewash running amuck
in Washington, the people are not to be blamed
for waking up and taking notice.
The returns from the celebration last Tues
day are not yet all in, but it is safe to say that
it resulted in several thousand converts to the
dynamite crackerless Fourth of July.
The president's stand in the Morton case is
very apt to make the navy portfolio much sought
after by eminent railway managers who have
been violating the interstate commerce law.
Togo says it was all over in thirty-seven
minutes. -He set the time limit; doubtless, be
cause he knew the Japanese were not civilized
enough to have any courts of inquiry after it
was all over.
Having escaped the official probe himself,
Mr. Morton announces that he is going to probe
deep into the affairs of the Equitable. The
trouble with most probes is that they are al
together too short.
This is the time of year wnen the philan
thropist in New York wonders why his unem
ployed fellow townsmen do not go right out to
Kansas and get two weeks' work in the wheat
fields and earn $2 a day and board.
It seems that Paul Morton, quit a $25,000 a
year job to accept an $8,000 a year one for a
few months pending the acceptance of a $50,000
a year job, merely for the purpose of having a
good foundation for a plea in abatement.
Some gentlemen with baised ideas of morality
are denouncing a Chicago lauor leader for taking
money from one employer to call a. strike against
another employer and saying nothing about the
eminent business men" who pul up the money.
J. Hampton Moore, chief of the bureau of
manufacturers, department of commerce and la
bor, has resigned to accept the presidency of a
big trust company. That department, as well as,
some others, seems to be a regular training school
for trust managers. v
Of course Joseph Benson Foraker is quite
7ilmS tf d a" Ke can to secure the supreme
justiceship for William Hercules Toft. And it
would of course, be highly improper to attribute
any ulterior motive to the always wound-up fire
alarm of Buckeyedom. . L
The Ohio republican platform declares for
'wise and conservative" railroad legislation, and
wi ' ' Jollard republican nomi-
And JTe? f- congress in the First
SnVf irregulatto ana Sfl
?- S t wiest the contro1 f the government
from the beneficiaries or the present fyE
Tlniinnn1 1,4. n.. '. . . au
or , at uie matter was
soon to leave for Europe on an
"important mission." it now
transpires that this important
vey to America theTones o fjohfp ?dT C0U'
Also, Mr. Loomis , & whil aoad Si?11?
eign diplomats. We trust that tuv t i ?
ing by the nwltooitoL' f9flt:
SS ?encos Utaf
like naturesuch as buyinc un inim E? Z
the governments to which the diniimZ ngaInSfc
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Mission of
Loomis
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it, and precedent would demand thnt i t .
mediately dismissed from the serviL lm
hinted that this little "important I ZsiJ, 3
merely in the nature of a vacation pend J .? ,Ib
dismissal from his position as aartSSttS
The vacation season is at hand. Pconio wi
imagine that a vacation consists of an oxILVll
trip to some distant point am
The sadiy mi8taken. A vaCaS
Vacat,orv means a cessation of the usuS
Season round of daily duties, it Siv
be enjoyed in one's own door.
yard, but a change of scene and environment
makes it more beneficial. The most beneE
vacation s that which, offers the greatest contrast
to one's daily life and industrial duty, giving nw
life and uplift to body and soul. An ideal s
of society will not be attained until it is possible
for every member to enjoy a vacation.
When the Russo-Japanese war began Russia's
navy was three times as large as that of Japan.
xi. Now Russia has practically no
Why navy at all and Japan's is prac-
Japan tically as large as ever. There
Won is in this situation much food
', , for thought for the advocates
of the big stick." Russia put her dependence in
the overwhelming size of her naval armament
Japan, with, superior wisdom, put her dependence
in the efficiency of the men who manned the naval
yessels. It was the efficiency or the men that
won. American efficiency has been demostratecl
time and again during all the days between Barry
and Jones andWinfield Sott Schley. We aro
finding trouble now' in manning our- new naval
yessels. Would it not, then; be better to think
less of big- ships and give more attetion to men?
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