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THE COMMONER; LtecoIa.Nsfc
The reformed Equitable seems determined to
get along without a court jester.
Before the canal can be cut enough red tape
must be cut to fill a bigger ditch.
It seems that Engineer Wallace preferred
throwing dirt to cutting red tape.
' Tfc setintry is "rapidly learning that a United
State $ttiator is just as human as any other
ma
9f. Rockefeller might turn an honest dollar
r imo by hurrying around the 'circuit after Mr.
&vson.
That Chicago -grand jury doubtless has had
many hearty laughs at the credulity of Mr. James
Garfield.
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"Hesplte the whitewash thnrn o , ;. it
of asphalt clinging to several parties 'to the
Loomis affair.
MnJ?r' Taft' sccrcty of war, has sailed for
Manna. In a couple of weeks the earth is' due
to take a decided tip.
t nJil0 vestigating our missions abroad Mr.
Loomis will have an excellent oportunity to
buy up a few more claims. . y
t,,i advanced in price 10 cents a ton on
July 1. Mr. Baer is evidently getting some more
kinks out of his trusteeship.
By the time the universities get through con
ferring degrees upon liberal millionaires everv
man of millions will be a man of letters y
Jtightminded people will be unable to spp
wherein the dishonest employers of Chicago are
any better than the dishonest employes
nf eat deal 0f mud ls flylnS m the vicinity
of the Panama canal, but it is not of the kind
that makes a showing injthe work of Lcayation.
Secretary Shaw is trying to explain why there
J hueo deficit without mentioning the fct
that it was due wholly to republican extfavagancer
t ,Tlle stockholders in the Lewis bank of qt
Louis will be slow to try "absent" treatment -Lin
jvhenthey Lave a feeLg of fulSTblne
n. ?y'ith0 Tay' wllat has Mr- Taft to say about
the resignation of Mr. Morton from an $8 000
cSSV013 t0 aCept a ?50'Mobnwi?i?a
Another bank reported all right by govern
ment bank examiners has been proved all wrong
What do bank examiners do to earn their sal
aries? Politics? saI
tice1toih ;ul ?lobomocrat prints a no
uce to the effect that parties leaving the citv
acfd esVu wTay "T th lmper ent to tffl
mints of fhtWhy 8PoU ono of tne chi argu
meats of the average St. Louisan for a vacation?
The Commoner.
Mr. Taft thinks our criminal courts are a
disgrace to civilization. Having thus expressed
himself Mr. Taft should now report on some of
our federal courts.
Mr. Wallace took a better job and was se
verely scolded. Mr. Morton took a better job
and was given a clean bill of health and a letter
of recommendation.
That Chicago grand jury managed to give
the names of a few corrupt labor leaders while
skilfully concealing the names of the wealthy
merchants who put up the money.
Senator Mitchell was doubly unfortunate in
.that he got into trouble just at the time when
the supply of whitewash was exhausted in taking
care of Morton and Loomis.
When Mr. Taft scolded Mr. Wallace for tak
ing a job that pays better he forgot that we are
holding on to the Philippines in- violation of
our principles because it pays.
Work on the Panama canal ls progressing
fully as rapidly as the Panama canal promotors
expected. That is the reason why they forced
the selection of the Panama route.
A New York physician declares that science
will cut down the meat supply largely in the
ordinary man's diet. That is not what has cut
down the ordinary man's meat supply.
Before exhausting all our wrath on the im
porters of Chinese cheap labor, let us give a little
attention to the business of importing alien con
tract labor by way of the Atlantic seaboard.
, There was no lack of big men in the cabinet
a generation ago. The reason they did not step
out of the cabinet 'into $100,000 jobs was that
there was not enough jobbery going on in those
days.
Nothing In this country has been touched by
a trust," declares William Travers Jerome, "that
has not been caused to grow and improve." Of
. course Mr. Jerome bars the trust magnate's con
science. ' ''-..
In yew of recent events, notably the Mor
ton incident, the Loomis incident, the Wallace
incident and the Santa Fe incident, it is not at
a strange that Mr. Roosevelt felt impelled to
fnn ?ankers JncliPe.d t0 speculation should not
ran to make the future assuredly easy by takinc
a course in bookkeeping. Then, when landed in
jail, they can secure an easy berth awav from
the herd of common criminals. -
In the rush let it not be forgotten that qpn
retary Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of the
SI0.' San backbon enush to go right on with
the MitcheH prosecution in spite of all the influ
ence brought to bear against it.
PaimmaATuWfaitf rGSS dispatch under date of
lanama, July 13, follows: "The government in
accordance with the dpqfroa f Z &"vermnent in
.eueve the JtA'$
sr s?esr in;zhat " -
panic by ?oo much "old- nTaK W
for silver." Also the demand
Outwitted
By Railroad
Managers
TOlln Tl VaAM.. M
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--- icwuu uuuai is tne great
est humbug of the age. At the
rate of progress being made
the weeds grow up and choke
t i. , c v,autu ut cue end faster
than it can be extended at the other, and wth
double the progress now made it will take a half
century to excavate it. It is beginning to dawn
upon the people that a huge confidence game ws
perpetrated on them when the Nicaragua roTite
was abandoned at the behest of the tanscon-
tutlT1 Pn radS' and the Panma routoTubsTi.
tuted. Railroad magnates who had opposed a
canal for a generation suddenly took a deep into?-
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est when the. Nicaraugua project seemed as,t ,
and became strenuous advocates nf..? asured, ;
route. The result is that the "canal wnri a?
ing delayed, trouble is being fomSfj8 bo"
scandal Is brewing. In the famous Cnl
cut of 350 feet only alluvial soil
countered and excavation is easy. But L
.falls to the amount of thirty inchest T
hours, washing down the banks of the o,f
will take as much money to keen tin L, , lfc
stretch of canal free from ImpSsiWe mu 1 "n? u
would to fcuild the Nicaragua5 canal M? ?"
mans' interview has given the people i hd ,
how they have been again outwitted by the 112
raUofdl? f the SZ
i ,Th! San ancisco Argonaut relates a peculiar
incident of university life at Berkeley, and St-
Beaton " ?!? moral iS concealed there-
Beaten m that may be found by suffi-
ycJi?,r ?ent in7eStigation' Flv S-
Cook fsof a college fraternity
4f tailed to pass their examina.
tions and were not allowed to graduate with their
class. This particular fraternity had its "frat
5e ' d the members employed a Japanese
cook. The young Japanese, unlmown to his em
ployers, was taking the college course, and on
the day that five of his employers ignominiously
failed, he graduated with honors and was given
a-diploma.
If Paul Morton did not retire from the cabinet
because he was offered a more profitable position,
what did he retire for? And
What if he did, in what respect does
Difference, he differ from Mr. Wallace?
Please? And if there is no difference
between Mr. Morton and Mr.
Wallace on this point, why was Wallace roundly
denounced while Morton was given a letter of
recommendation that was little short of fulsome
in its compliments. There are a great many peo
ple in this country who have been asking them
selves the above question, but as yet no answers
have been given. Perhaps the administration
chiefs can provide them.
Longer
Journeys Now
Possible
, ?en Jules Verne wrote "Around the World
in .casnty Daysheo&pent a great deal of time fig-
unug out train ana snip con
nections. And all the world
took a great interest in the sup
posititious performance of
x-nineas i'ogg. were Mr. Fogg
alive now he could make the journey in consid
erably less than two-thirds of eighty days, and
make it much more comfortably. But it is also
true that in making this journey around the world
he would take more chances of - mking a vastly
longer journey in wonderfully less time. With
our ninety-miles-an-hour trains and careless
switchtenders the dangers of taking a journey into
eternity in the fraction of a second have been
materially increased.
It seems that our penal institutions are al
ways in need of expert bookkeepers. Every time
- we hear of some prominent
Many banker or financier being sent
Bookkeepers . to the penitentiary for dishon
Needed esty we hear also a few days
later that the prisoner has
,been put to work as a bookkeeper in the warden's
office. It always happens that the new book
keeper is a. man who plunged to the extent of
millions and lived like a prince while he was
busy getting away with other people's money.
One is compelled to-wonder why it seems neces
sary to have so many bookkeepers at a peniten
tlary, and why it is that the above described class
of prisoners always furnishes the necessary men.
Already pleas for mercy for Uanator Mitchell
are being made, and it is a pleasing commentary
nn ihn TOllHntrnoDa nf Jin Out
raged public to forgive those
who have betrayed its trust in
them. But would it not be we I
to rememDer mat iou w"
consideration for the guilty is oppression of tlio
innocent? Senator Mitchell, it is true, is an old
man; but his position and his years of experience,
his knowledge of law and his clear conception of
right and wrongall these would seem to demand
that punishment be even more severe than in
the case of a man less favored by nature and by
circumstances. In our sympathy for the guilty
let us not forget the duty that is due the inno
centthe duty of punishing the wrongdoer that
the innocent may be the better protected.
Consider
The Innocent
Ones
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