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It will be cheerfully conceded in all quar
ters that Dr. Lyman Abbott is a shrewd advertiser.
By the way, there was nothing equivocal
about the promise to establish the postal sav
ings bank system.
The postmasters who did, at Hitchcock's
.command, :are. 'hoping -that Hitchcock, as poBt
.masterigemeral, will.
Now that the American Tobacco company
has been found guilty it will be solemnly en
joined not to do it again.
To. date -we have not noticed Leslie's Weekly
'trying to make answer to 'the questions pro
pounded by Collier's Weekly.
Having rounded them up before, Mr. Hitch
cock will be made postmaster general in order
to keep them rounded up after.
"It is the habit of the party in power to do
things," says the Buff lo News. Do things? It's
the habit of that party to do everybody.
But, if prosperity is contingent upon the
election of any one man, what would become of
the country if that one man should suddenly die?
And, by-the way, hasn't the American' Fed
eration of Labor quite as much warrant for go
ing into politics as' the manufacturers' association?
A"7,!;' '" Noonday uIght -'
"J slent and -dreamed thatJifp. wan .Tipn.iir.vi;
I woke and found that life was Duty,
Was then thy .dream a shadowy lie?
Toil on, sad" heart, courageously,
' ,( And- thou shalt find thy dream to be
' A noonday light and truth to thee."
.. .Merely a battle lost not a war..,.',,..,
A Thanksgiving divided is a' Thanksgiving
doubled.
. Even the -most ample supply of ''election
"crow will be exhausted in 'plenty of tiine to let
everybody get up an appetite for Thanksgiving
turkey.
Doubtless Dr. Lyman Abbott 13-prepared5, to
run editorials serially. ; . r v '
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; Mr. Cannon i says he h as-won-a- greatvyic-
tory. That much will be conceded.- ,. '
;. r There is one consolation about it all the
t r change, from the big stick to the golf stick. ,
jvtn wUf" j .
m 'V.?,e,all7 tne Washington Herald is cruel in
thug delaying its pumpkin pie peals of praise.
.. Naturally, and of course, the trusts took
the first whack at prosperity by advancing prices.
Says "Uncle Joe:" "President Taft may
- call a special session to revise the tariff,' but
I'll be. there, all right."
iChancellor Day has started for. a. tour of
. the; world, confident that the path of his pro
' sress has been well oiled.
"What shall we do with our ex-presidents?"
is a question that no longer worries the country.
It has been succeeded by one of greater mo
ment: "What will our ex-presidents do to us?"
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That heavy rumbling sound from the east
is merely the happy tread of protected trusts
marching on to Washington to help revise the
tariff upward.
s "VO&UME S, NUMBER 45
Incidentally, this is the season whon ,
chrysanthemum is among the nlant fhe
on full time, and also orif of the few twnninff
full time without tariff or rebate. rUna
Seems strange that to date no one has u,
gested that perhaps the ex-president wfnf
eff-offlcio a member of the Taft cabine Bu?
does anyone doubt that he will be?
Noting that "dollars are safe" ri,nr.nn
Day sets sail for Europe. Gentlemen who "?e
more concerned about dollars than they V
Europe611 are fl"ed to roughly
Having refused to play the nredpntui
.game -according to jMtJ&itoShS
Gompers is now to- be -deprived of the inesti-
SS? rgPs f fndliDS the White
'oa The,8J of. Gompers is loudly demand
wifpl0t -"Wican-orgaiis-that know very
.well-the;continuedxuscendency 'of-their party de-
wrkLgrn Party'S aWlity t0 to
ofr nd now, cmes the report that they have
struck an underground lake on the site of the
Panama canal's largest dam. There seems to
be a- whole lot of underground trouble about
that canal job.
Mr. Roosevelt advocates the coinage of gold
with depressed faces. But wouldn't that be a
mournful reminder of the visages of those who
suffered from a "republican panic" under his
administration?
If Senator Elkins is weary of all this fuss
about the duke and the daughter he can end
it with a- jar by merely showing that he has
lost all his money or that he isn't going to let
go of any of it.
Some of- these days American voters who
express a willingness to die for-a principle will
not be deterred from supporting it by the 'threat
of being deprived of a few" meals'.
A few -more letters on things in general r;
and the new associate editor of the Outlook
will have run out of topics before he mounts
his editorial tripod.
Tho announcement of Senator Aldrlch's re
tirement in 1911 would read better if about
1 three years were lopped off.
Every four years wo are more and more
favorably impressed with the wonderful re
sources and possibilities of Texas.
The Outlook announces that "Mr. Roose
velt s contributions will be necessarily restricted
in length and frequency." Huh!
A whole lot of papers that four, eight and
twelve years ago "buried Bryan' seem to bo
worrying a whole lot over Mr. Bryan's future.
; "But remember," observes 'the Wall Street
Journal, "that the' revision (of the tariff) is to
be carried out by its friends." It is just 'that
fact that gives no hope of relief to the -victims
and -causes rejoicing among the beneficiaries
Is it venturesome to predict that the work
of revising the tariff will be begun by the ap
pointment of a commission to consider the mat- "
ter for a few years?
Only six more days . until Thanksgiving
Those who are thankful that it was so good
should not begrudge others a feeling of thanir
- fulness that it was no worse.
'TnffeiaShingt0n HeJald suggests that Mr. .
Taft and Mr. Bryan Tender it "Maryland Our
Maryland," as a duet. Will the Herald kindlv
strike tho chord A minor, please 7
'i iffir? nehSl maF not be wilng to ad
mit it but his efforts to preserve our forests
will be unavailing as long as the nreson?
-premium on forest destruction continues.
They are making so much noise over the
Morse conviction In New York that a lot of
fellows worse thanMorse are likely to escane
notice. And that may, perhaps, be T the game!
Mr. Baer calmly declares that he can see
no reason for reducing the price of coal, it is
safe to say that Mr. Baer Is not strain ng h s
eyes in an effort to see a reason.
f ajir MI?aniascot is quietly eating alfalfa
at Fairview while awaiting a definite answer to
the oft-repeated query, "Who gets the mnLZ
New. York City having been e?iminated from the
equation the answer is slightly simplified.
The czar of -Russia has purchased seven
mechanical piano players for use in the palace
, Jr,V iPetersurg, but a man who can stand the
nihilists ought to be able to stand at least that
many mechanical piano players.
t Century Magazine suppressed an en
tire edition at the request of Emperor William,
who did not want to stand for an interview
printed in the magazine. We see the Outlook
of the future doing anything like that!
Having been declared a trust in restraint
of trade the American Tobacco company may
now prepare for a real nawsty slap on the wrist,
dont yer know. Then will come the reversal
of judgment, and all will go along as before.
Now that Banker Morse has gone to jail,
perhaps he can explain how it happens that he
could not fix things up so that the statute of
limitations could get in its work. Several other
New Yorkers seem to have been able to work it.
Now that their demands for free wood pulp
and print paper will not sound so much like
a democratic demand for tariff revision, a lot
of republican organs will resume their tearful
pleas for a removal of the tariff on the articles
they have to purchase in quantity.
The ways and means committee has re
sumed its tariff hearings in Washington. This
simply means that- the tariff beneficiaries are
there In the persons of salaried pleaders, but
the people who foot the bills have to remain
at home and hustle while they suffer.
Sherman presiding over the senate, Cannon
presiding over the house, Payne, chairman of
the ways and means committee, with Dalzell to
help him apply the brakes and the republican
party promises "unequivocally" to "immediate
ly" revise the tariff. No, those western earth
quakes were not caused by shivers of fear shak
ing the eastern trust 'magnates.
Today the treasury of the United States
Is called upon to meet $14,000,000 of the three
-per cent bond issue of a year ago the issue
made to "move crops" when republican pros
perity was rampant, confidence restored, more
money In circulation than ever, a tariff in force
that was-a sure preventive of panics. Remember
how the republican organs damned Cleveland for
a bond Issue? And remember how they prnlsed
the statesmanship of Roosevelt for a bond issue
that did not havb a tithe of the cause that
brought on the Cleveland issue.
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