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Editing by The latest attempt at editing a
Injunction. newspaper by injunction was
a failure, but the attempt is a
straw indicating the trend of the times under
present conditions. Samuel Cohen of Boston
is a member of the social set and naturally
averse to haying his name connected with any
thing smacking of scandal. He was forced to
become a party to a rather disgraceful suit at
lawv and dreading publicity applied to the
courts for an injunction preventing the news
papers from mentioning his name in connection
with the case. The application was denied,
but the mere fact such an application was made
is not an encouraging sign. In view of the
fact that a complaisant judge enjoined a minis
ter from praying with a lotof striking miners
it was not too much to expect that Mr. Cohen
would be able to find a judge willing to under
take the task of editing a newspaper by injunc-tion-
Experienced a
Change of
Heart.
A Washington dispatch quotes
Senator' William E. Mason as
giving, in "a public speech de
livered at Bloomington, 111.,
cordial approval to the administration's foreign
policy. Can it be that Senator Mason approved
the administration's foreign policy? Or imita
ting, the custom of some of our illustrious
jurists, has he adopted the plan of considering
the Philippines foreign for the purpose of ad
dresses and domestic for other purposes? In
other words can it be possible that Senator
Mason has given ;an omnibus approval of the
administration's policies under the term "for
eign policies"? If this bo true, Senator
Mason's Bloomington speech would provide
interesting reading when compared with some
of the Senator's eloquent speeches delivered at
the time he waB protesting against the policy
of imperialism which the dispatches 'now inti
mate has his candid indorsement.
Trust
Methods
Illustrated.
The Standard Table Oil Cloth
Co., the combines capitalized at
$10,000,000 that recently acquired
seven "of the largest table oil
cloth plants in the country, has issued a new price
list, advancing prices 5c a roll of 12-yards, and will
commence active operations today by starting its
salesmen on the road. for business.
The -officers of the seven constituent companies
hai e been consolidated in seven rooms on the sev
enth floor of the Central National Bank building,
No. 320 Broadway. The selling forces of the var
ious firms have been retained so far and it Is gen
erally believed that it win not be greatly changed
before the opening of the next season, December 1.
Ihe contracts of the majority of the salesmen,
managers, etc., do not expire until then.
It is expected, of course, that the new company
will not need a selling force larger than that of
any two of the constituent firms, and further that
not more than two of the eastern and two of the
western plants will be operated by the combine.
These are the Ohio Oil Cloth Co., Western Linol
eum Co., A. H. Buchanan & Sons and the Good
latta Oil Cloth Co.
The above dispatch which appeared recently
in the New York Commercial illustrates sev
eral features of the trust. First, the seven
firms consolidated will only need the selling
force employed by two firms; second, three
The Waiting
Game Being
Played.
The Commoner. '
manufacturing plants out of seven will bo
closed down, and, third, the price will bo rained.
The trust discharges employes dismantles
factories and instead of giving tho public tho
advantage of the money thus saved, collects
more money from the cpnsumers. This is per
fectly natural and ought to bo expected, and
yet some people seem rto think tho trust is a
benevolent institution. The' reaction, will come
some daywhy not at once?
"Vyhilp Captain Oberlin M.
Carter is languishing in jail
for having stolen a sizeable
sum of money from the gov
ernment, no move has been made to make other
beneficiaries of his speculations yield up their
ill-gotten gains. It is evident that some-men
with strong political pulls are working tho
waiting game policy on the government, and
preventing any further moves in the case until
a more favorable time. Five of the chief wit
nesses against Carter have died since the con
clusion of his trial, and the men who divided
the plunder with Carter appear to be confident
that if they can postpone further consideration
of the case long enough they will be able to
secure a verdict without trouble. Tho same
waiting game seems to be in force in the case
of Neeley, whose friends appear to exorcis'e a
mysterious power in Washington. Ifc has been
something more than a year since the country
was informed that Neoley was to be vigorously
prosecuted, but that was while a national cam
paign was on.' " - .
Literary Bureau The political literary bureau is
In Politics. not a new idea by any means,
but if the Chicago Record-Herald
is to bo believed tho republican administra
tion of Illinois has carried the idea to the limit.
The Record-Herald, which has long been
deemed an authority on matters pertaining to
republicanism, declares that the state employes
are regularly assessed 5 per cent of their month
ly salaries to maintain a literary bureau. The
money is paid to a man who watches all tho
state newspapers and clips out everything com
plimentary to the state administration. This
is made up into a six-column page of plate
matter once every six weeks and supplied free
of cost to about 450 republican newspapers of
the state. Trouble is in sight because, as some
of the officials claim, Governor Yates insists
upon receiving the lion's share of the compli
mentary notices. The employes assessed for
the benefit of the party bosses arc beginning to
think that they should receive a small-share "of
the credit in the plate matter.
A Qood The Democratic State Corn-
Beginning, mittee of Ohio has made a good
beginning. It has chosen as
chairman of the central committee Hon. Wil
liam J. Frey of Findlay, a Kansas City plafr
form Democrat and the party's candidate for
congress in the JEighth district last year. The
committee also adopted-a resolution providing
that in all counties where there is registration
and where the city precincts exceed tbe coun
try precincts the delegates to state conventions
shall hereafter be elected by a direct vote of
tho people. In tho futuro no county central
committo or executive committee shall have
power to appoint delegates to a state conven
tion. This is an excellent rulo. The selec
tion of delegates by committees enables tho
organization to pack a convention and thus de
feat tho will of tho people.
The nearer party management is brought
to tho voters tho bettqr; tho only people hurt
by such a rulo arc party bosses who arc more
interested in offices than in principles.
This resolution had the support of the Kan
sas City platform element of the committee and
the Tom Johnson element.
The Respectable The Chicago American pub
Boodlcr. lishes a letter written by Mr.
J. F. Howard on "The .Re
spectable Boodler." Tho language used is
not as respectful as it might be, but the per
sons described are not entitled to very gentle
treatment. Mr. Howard says:
"I would like to protest against the 'respect
able' boodler who occupies a seat In church on Sun
day and wears a silk hat I mean tho tax dodger.
He will advise his employes that honesty is the
best policy and prosecute any transgression on
..their part, yet ho steals hundreds of uollars an
nually from tho city, or rather from the poor, who
make up tho deficit. The boodler appropriates tho
city's money tho tax dodger beats the city and
poor out of their dues. It's strange how common
a" figure he is, considering twenty centuries of
Christianity have .passed. We are half barbaric
yet, but shame on the tax dodgery Who is a-thief
or a largo scale and a criminal, as are all who in
- any way lower public morality and opinion. It's
the outcome of greed and a decent sense of the
, obligation entailed by living in a free country and
of enjoying prosperity protected by a stable gov
ernment. The 'respectable' tax dodger is on a par
with the embezzler, defaulter, bandit, debauchee
and miser. He is a type of a past ago surviving in
an age supposed to bo civilized. The future his
toiian will have much to say about the barbarians
of the nineteenth century and early part of tho
twentieth century."
A recent cablegram from Lon
don to the New York World
England.
Enlisting
Savages.
says:
Though Commandant Kritz-
inger's shooting of General
French's native "scouts" arouses a furious protest
here, the avowal that England has enlisted savages
1 aid in exterminating the Boers has given the
nation pause. This is not only a" violation of the
express pledge giveri by Mr. Balfour at the outset
of the war, but It is contrary to all civilized usages.
Still the natives have rendered service after
their kind to the British forces on the Swaziland
brrder. They were employed both in the relief of
Mafeking from the north and by General Baden-1-owell
in defense of that place.
None know better than the British in South
Africa that when you put arms into the hands of
the natives and send them to fight It means .that
every rule of civilized warfare' will be abandoned,
that no quarter will be given, that the wounded
will be murdered, and that other and nameless
horrors will be perpetrated.
General French himself sent Zulus to harass
the Boers in Northeastern Transvaal by raiding
their cattle. He was shifted from that command
in consequence of it, owing to the protest from the
Natal government.
r Both sides have used natives with their trans
port trains, but General French has been the first
tii acknowledge that he employed them as scouts.
The Boers think they have enough to face In Eng
land's 250,000 men without being placed at tho
mercy of hordes of black barbarians.
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