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Show Another evidence of the fitness of Engli&ti to become the worM ianpuage is founi in t lie fart that no other lan-! lan-! -I..- n, -nr.t? it self mo rendily to ragtime rag-time music. Th- SOB Of Hetty Green claim" to have MceivcH ;i thousand marriage pro i on.il .ino rbe opening of leap year. Ur might play tho Solomon act, and lake thm all. Upton Sinclair tkes lii family trou-1 trou-1 lap altogether too ariOnsly; lie is pre-li'tiiir pre-li'tiiir h terrible destructive revolution 10 England. It 's too h;id that he invited Kemp in. Boston CiloKe; "Whatever the wireless wire-less people may ia to the effort that the Utters of the alarm signals are ar bitrary eharaetera, tho pnblic will pre fer to continue to le!icvo that ' C. Q D.' standi foi 'Cotde quick, danger!' and ?8, O. 8b' for "Send out succor! ' ' The refusal of the Count? Attorney to prosecute lidU.or cases may be jnsti-fi jnsti-fi h 1 -It technically, but. a a matter of fact and law the city authorities cau compel him to prosecute, if hv no other means than by changing the or-riinanee. or-riinanee. The Springtield (Mass.) Republican iustlv says that "Col. Roosevelt, with his wholesale misrepresentations of men and facts, has dragged the on ni paigu so far as he is concerned with it. to lower level than , has ever boen done before by a Presidential eandi dale." N"o,-v here's something new: A New Jersey chauffeur who ran over and killed a boy by reckless driving, bae been sent, to tho Stale's prison for ten vears. But "Jersey justice" was ever severe, and it i too much to expert that the example, salutary as it is, will he generally followed. Roosevelt's manager in Massachusetts has sent out the notion to all trie voters, "Remember, vou don't have to he enrolled in nnv party to vote at this primary." This is a plain bid for non-Kepubiiran votes for Roosevelt, and its -tatement i untrue, for all who vote ur the primary in Massachusetts tomorrow nu:,t be enrolled according to his parts rhoice The notice, therefore, there-fore, amounts to a fraudulent and unlawful un-lawful invitation to Democrats to eu-j eu-j roll as Republicans and then vote for Roosevelt. Philadelphia Record: "Theodore Roosevelt has eaten his own words on the tariff in his life of Benton, on the independence of the .ludiciarv in his life of Marshall, on thp Supreme ourt 's derision on the inrome tax in a magazine article, on representative government in his "American Ideals," BS 1 in h't announcement to the country coun-try reeardinu a third term. He has betrayed be-trayed his friend, whom h made his Huero.-or and his partv, which he is now engage,! in dividing. Vet he poses as the champion of the simple truth and the square deal! "' On of the first acts of the Arizona State Legislature was to ratify the in-rotne in-rotne tax amendment to the Federal onstitution This makes ratification by thirty two States. Pont mora only are necessary to make the income tax provision a part of the supreme law of the Nation; and these will no doubt w tuunu wncn ir.ft legislature- mePt next winter. It will be remembered that the Republican State convention i-t' IMO in l.tah pledged the Legislature to rntify that amendment, but that the Republics,, Legislature elected that year refused to carry out the party pledge. L'fs see: isn't there an old adagp to the effect that "when rogues fall out. honest men get their dues," that is peculiarly apt in this little rumnus between members of the Federal buaChl And wLv should Sutherland , hi ng forward an executive order as acaiust Eldredge while having the ( bodv of the "bunch" free to control the Republican State pobtics as before! Ie Eldredge to be made I the "goat."' to that the "bunch" can parade its virtue and point to him a a shockine example of a Federal ofh tal who lost out hecauee he wou.d in -ist on being permiscuouslv active n politics? j |