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Gotham is finding some interesting topics in
town these days.
Some of the "fads" of those society people
' seem not to have struck the "fancy" of the people
who foot the bills.
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It is given out from Washington that here
after diplomats must avoid even the semblance
of scandal. Can it be possible that the supply of
whitewash is running short?
Missouri had her Folk, Wisconsin her La
Follette, Philadelphia her Weaver and the growth
in the Pattison sentiment indicates that Ohio
intends to profit by their example.
After one week of strenuous life in the cabi
net Mr. Root is off for a month's vacation. The
sacrifices some people have to make in order to
serve their country are very touching.
Concerning yellow fever, it is better to perfect
the sanitation before than after.
When the people control the primaries the
corporations can not control the elections.
Up to date Secretary Taft has made no effort
to keep down the lid of the Japanese tea urn.
The Depew Improvement company seems to
have failed to get in its work on its promoters.
It takes something more than indictments to
keep the price 6f meat within reasonable bounds.
It seems that those peace commissioners will
find it easy.to eat their way to a mutual understanding.
The democratic party shows gratifying indi
cations of a determination to get democratic and
stay democratic this time.
The trouble with the Equitable seems to
have been altogether too many "receivers" at the
wrong end of the premium route.
However, we have yet to hear of the big
express companies complaining that Uncle Tom
Piatt's public life has been a failure.
Governor Penny packer want, to sell his
library of 15,000 volumes, but this must not oe
token that he knows all there is in the books.
- There might be more effort to obliterate graft
.In the government departments were it possible
for its discoverers to forget the fate of "Mr.
Bo wen.
When we come to think it over, are tho
graft exposures that are astonishing the people
any worse than te democracy has been stating
it since 1896?
Tho dirt removed to make graves for fever
victims in the canal zone continues to keep several
thousand cubic feet ahead of the dirt removed
from the canal.
T. Sufferin Tailor of Newport gave James
Hazen Hyde a dinner recently. That is cheering
news. The suffering public have been feeding
him lont, enough.
It will be too bad if Japan becomes seized
of the notion that the soldiers of Russia are a
type of white-skinned soldiers of the whole world
too bad fpr Japan.
The Nebraska state democratic convention is
called to meet at Lincoln, September 20, to nomi
nate .a candidate for justice of the supreme court
and two regents of the state university.
By holding, up the June bills until July -Juno
being tho last month of the fiscal year Secretary
Shaw managed to hold the annual deficit down
ix $24,000,000, according to the books. But book
keepers of that kind often find themselves called
up., on the carpet. .
And as for taunting the senate about Mitcholl
of Oregon, just remember that the senate didn't
choose him Milwaukee Sentinel. And Mitchell
isn't the only one of the same kind, either.
The Milwaukee Sentinel wants -Mr. Depew
to explain how he earned that $2Q,000 retainer
from the Equitable. Is the Sentinel joking, or
does it expect Mr. Depew to perform the impossible?
In the meanwhile Mr. Thomas F. Ryan is
letting his appointees do all the talking about
reforming the mapagement of the Equitable,
while he is merely owning and controlling the
Equitable.
What does it matter whether they are genuine
bones of the genuine John Paul Jones? Even if
they are not genuine no one has heard either
John or thj reaK owner kick about the honors
paid them.
Mr. A. Sato, it must be admitted, is making
an excellent buffer between Baron Komura and
the ubiquitous reporters. The American news
paper that secures the services of Mr. Sato will
have a star.
The mere fact that Japan alone knew .what
she could do against Russia Is evidence enough
that Japan is not at all inclined to buy any
Philippine gold bricks.
Perhaps those newspapers that are trying to
ridicule Lawson have an idea that in that way
they may prevail upon Mr. Rockefeller to beat
Mr. Carnegie's educational pension scheme with
one for subservient newspaper writers.
The Sweden-Norway method of settlement of
international troubles will never be satisfactory to
the manufacturers of arms and ammunition, but
it will be immensely pleasing to those who would
have to bear arms if war should be resorted to.
The eminent gentlemen who were quite sure
that Governor Folk could not put a stop to race
track gambling have since made the acquaintance
of a governor who has a queer fad for enforcing
the law. They are of a different opinion now.
If the postal authorities are in earnest in
their expressed desire to reduce tlie postal deficit
let them compel the railroads to transport the
mt5P? fc ? rteasonable Price. That is where the
deficit finds its origin.
The Kansas City Journal objects to Governor
Folk on what it calls the grounds that he Enforces-
the law with all the stage thunder and
orchestra effects possible." But there are those
who will believe that the Journal could havl
8i?te2 ItsT!'eal Jetton just as well by omitting
all after the word "law." umb
The railroads furnish the express commntea
cars and carry the express on a pKta
The government pays from 75 to 125 per cent
rental for postal cars and then pays the ra?l
roa j about eight times as much for teansnortoe
the mails as they receive for hauling the G
5? P 0UDe: FInd th6 CaU8e 0f ne deflSt ta
The esteemed Washington Post's iftotirtT, .
mated that our retention of the Philippines Z
Profitable to the government. But on? retenK
of the islands is profitable to the exploitera "and
?h? ?S??8' fJ While the eernment foots an
the bills the aforesaid exploiters and carnet
baggers get all tho revenue. carpet-
iVOLUME 5, NUMBER
A number of peonle wim
Shouts" for providing ?ecreIuon and Si"g Mr
for canal employes seem to forge tt?Tement
several million employes right hero f theie aro
States who have no clubs, no lyll'u Unlted
bathing facilities and no golf grounds m8' no
During the three years emiimr W
1905, the value of beef cattS ?? Ury J
States 'declined 1165,00000, ant durtaIh.hJJl,,ted
period the price of dressed beef SUl 40?
cent. This is another one of the manv h!
facts that Mr. Garfield forgot to L5on 8,ann
There Is one satisfaction about this em,
of graft in high places-it will greatly lessen tho
number of estimable gentlemen who wil lsTen into
the limelight during the next campaig and g
glibly about 'national honor," "sound money," and
"preserving the nation's integrity." A huge sec
tion of that particular bunch of eminent gem
men has been sadly discredited of late.
Should
Now Write a
Sequel
A year or two ago Senator Beveridge was
writing for the Saturday Evening Post a series
oi articles on "Russia's Ad
vance." After comparing tho
prophecies made by the sena
tor from Indiana with the facts
instinctively recalls to mind Josh Billing's famous
remark to the effect that "it iz better not tu kno
so mutch than to kno so mutch that ain't so."
The advance Russia has made has borne a won
derful resemblance to the advance of the crab
which crustacean always progresses backwards!
If Senator Beveridge will now write an article
or two on the outcome as a contrast for his
former articles, the scrap book of the future will
not only be interesting, but in this particular
connection will be very amusing.
China's
Unfortunate
Position
China announces that she will recognize no
agreement between Russia and Japan concerning
Manchuria in which she has
not been consulted beforehanJ.
This would be of much moro
importance if China were able
to enforce her desires in this
matter. As the matter now staiids China will
have nothing to say about it, and her only hope
lies in the land greed of the European nations.
This may sound paradoxical, but investigation
will demonstrate its truth. Failure to agree upon
a division, coupled with the attitude of the "United
States, is all that has prevented the partition
of the celestial empire for a decade. And even
triumphant Japan will hardly undertake to an'
tagonize all of the European powers by claim
ing too much Chinese territory. It would seem
that China's future depended in large measure
upon how she acts on the example, set by her
neighbor, Japan. When one begins pondering
on what might happen if Chin., should awaken
and make in the next fifty years the same ad
vance that Japan has made during the last fifty
years, one finds himself on the edge of an un
limited field for speculation.
Aimar Sato, who appears to be spokesman
for Baron Komura, declares that Japan would
not accept the Philippines as a
A Very gift from the United States.
Permanent It is difficult to understand
Investment why Japan should refuse, be
cause Uncle Sam has found It
a most convenient place wherein to permanently
invest his money. Immediately after the islands
were thrown into his lap by Providence, Uncle
Sam invested $20i000,000 therein. And every
month since he has been investing from two to
five million dollars in those islands. And Uncle
Sam does not worry about the investment getting
away from him. He knows right where tho
money is all the time. He has no fear of any
venal -cashier skipping out and taking the in
vestment to some unknown quarter of the globe.
No indeed! Uncle Sam knows that his Philippe
investment is not only safe beyond all danger
pf being stolen from him, but he knows that ic
is a permanent investment. And he has invested
much more than money in the Philippines. He lias
invested hundred upon hundreds of lives of nis
nephews until the archipelago is one vast grave
.yard. If Japan is looking for a permanent in
vestment she could not do better than to secure
from Providence a gift like the Philippines. Wnen
she does she will find surcease from all worry
about making permanent investments. Her money
will go in Luge chunks, and it will go to stay.
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