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If Sweden holds any Norway securities now
is a good time to have them collected by an
eminent artist in that line. Mr. Loomis is repre
senting this country abroad again.
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As usual, all the talk about immediate work
on the Panama canal comes from eminent direc
tors and engineers who stick close to their luxu
rious offices in Washington and New York.
now.
Yes, Chauncey Depew has been caught. How
havo tho little fallen!
The two best things about a summer vaca
tion are anticipation and remembrance.
The "less" fad is being carried to extremes.
The "inspectless" bank inspector is not wanted.
It must be remembered that Mr. Shonts is
drawing a nice salary for being a canal optimist.
The Depew Improvement company seems to
have been a slice of the same old Equitable
graft.
Mr. Lawson has shown that he can tell when
a limb 4s broken, but can he sot it? His remedy
-is 'Awaited.
The trouble with most of the republican poli
cies is that they have thesame odor as the Eouit
ablo policies.
Mr. Depew says he was paid for giving advice.
Jp this not an admission that he secured money
under false pretenses?
George m. was one who thought a tax on tea
was a good thing to make good a deficit, and
history tells what the taxed ones did to George.
Mr. Depew says ho is sadly hurt by all those
Equitable stories. Some men are always sadly
hurt 'when they expose the pocketbook nerve.
'A leak in the crop report department is a
serious thing for the farmers. If there is no
law covering the Holmes case there ought to be.
They are going to turn the canal business
over to Mr. Root, a move calculated to impress
him more than ever with the enormity of his
District Attorney Bell of Philadelphia refuses
to start criminal prosecutions against the bood
lers. Philadelphia seems to have a surplus of
.damaged-bells.
u d1?n?uisihed easte Politician says that
follity. Tho Addicks bank account must havo
tone glimmering. - r
One trouble about the bank examinations is
that we never -hear anything from tho bank ex
aminers until they begin their work of explaining
why the banks have failed. ' y fa
Mr. Depew's statement that he resigned iq
counsel for the Equitable because , he waited to
be relieved of somo of his work Ie Tin "Thl
Peacn's" best vein of humor. e
A' girl kills herself because sho is nnt i,on,,
tiful. Poor girl! She ought to imvelmown S
beauty of face is of little value compared with
tho graces of the mind and heart. $5ty oTten
makps a pretty woman repulsive and a sweet
.disposition makes a homely woman lovable
But supposing, Mr. President, that Secretary
Wilson has a warm personal friend or two in his
department? Is he to be restrained from giving
them clean bills of health if he feels so disposed?
If promises and speculations were spades and
shovel's, the Panama canal would be a thousand
feet deep and so long it would stick out over
the Atlantic and Pacific like a couple of fishing
rods.
The searchlight of publicity is really working ' courts.
Justice Brewer says it is not necessary to
hold office in order to serve the nation. Justice
Brewer is giving some eminent patriots a good
excuse for bemoaning the decadence of our
Having publicly admitted that private own
ership of the public is full of graft and other
evils, what remedy has Mr. Lawson to offer now
that he has condemned public ownership of public
utilities?
While drawing $20,000 a year from the Equit
able Mr, Depew managed to borrow $250,000
from the corporation on security valued at $160,
0000. Mr. Depew says he was paid the $20,000
for giving advice.
The oculist who assures us that President
Roosevelt's eyesight is improving conveys glad
news. Perhaps the president will yet be able
to see that he made a mistake in giving Morton
a clean bill of health.
Governor Folk saj . that there is not mors
corruption today but that there is more prosecu
tion, and he insists that the prosecution indicates
an improvement in ideals. His statement will
be found on another page.
Circus vendors call those little red balloons
two squeals," because the children squeal until
they get one and then squeal when it collapses.
Tire William R. Taft presidential boom seems
to have been a "two squeal."
A large number of intensely partisan repub
lican organs are praising Secretary Bonaparte
for doing something that they ridiculed Congress
man Robert Baker for doing. Crimped and plait
. ed logic is still the principal exhibit on the G O
P. shelves.
Another banker has invested the banlc's funds
in stocks and then suicided when the market
went against him. When will trustees learn that
e n risht t0 speculate with trust funds?
fhdr ownfundsn0t t0 t0 gamble With
Up to the hour of going to press Senator
Depew has not resigned from the senate His
whch'would'Tf i? WVld be TSiedSt
wmen would, if followed, make the republican
fu'Vnni a wtffSS
sonaf ?yL fP-
some exploiters have been lmownto buy a con
trolling interest in a bank in order to get the
use of deposits. The large insurance companies
seem to be run on the same plan. comPanes
Mr. Jerome, evidently came west with the ill.
too-prevalent New York idea that he was biHed
to talk to a lot of wild and woolly cowboys and
cowgirls who butchered the King's EnS?sh Mr
Jerome goes back with the knowledge that nn
wisdom is not confined to Gotham?
Attention is directed to Mavor nnnfl0
juujs ;b?ss r?
lis critics Is 4rthy orcommJaaUon mSW6r to
IVOLTJME 5, NTJMBEn 23
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Mr. Cleveland is very determine t
mutation of -
Conversion boring to bring Mahout S,
lean citizens who are Xtoffi A
Mr. Cleveland was converted to "the muhnH W h
idea. In a great financial deaL o a dato ,n IU!oa
that middle aged men remember it vl, IT
Mr. Cleveland did not appear neariv in '
to have all the stockholders mLSl?n?om
consulted If history' has been. Srfe
Mr. Cleveland then undertook to ham l J 11
ion's finances very much after ttS Sie hrk
lantern methods which the public is ronmii V
nouncing in the case of the Equitabfe. An( J too
m the case mentioned, as well as in n? ' '
of the Equitable, it was public cUor tS
brought about a decided change in policy.
No Call
For a Great
Ado
r PL qI 1th18 new?PaPer fuss 'because John
G. Phelps Stokes married a poor girTwith whom
e untune acquainted whilo
engaged in college settlement
work in New York City? Wo
have it on cooii nnfTint,r t.j.
was In enln Mrs. Stoles Miss Proctor that
wasis a splendid young woman, interested in
t hnJ0! ,!f ht1 her felIows " Possessed of
wi?f 2f, that mak? ?r Psessor a goo,
wife. Their romance has been told and re-told
tenie.nCe ft2 daof humanty, and will bo
told and re-told until time shall be no more. Mr.
Stokes is incidentally the possessor of an amnio
o?rneVrando1ie1See?S bent 0n maklnS gd "SO
? . -' stokes knows how to use it for the
benefit of mankind. They evidently love eaoh
other. That is all there is to the story, so why
all the newspaper gossip and frenzy? Thousands
or young men and women equally worthy, equally
loving and equally interested in the welfare of
tneir fellows are married every year and no great "
newspaper fuss is made about it. Will our daily
newspapers, ever get rid of the notion that tho
great masses of tho- reading public are interested
in men and women merely because they happen
tc possess more than the usual amount of money?
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