Show SOUS EDITORIAL COMMENTS r Philadelphia l Record AdvIce to the Northwestern Mller state that the Pro tectionist party In Holland luuj been de fettled thus assuring an open market for the American flour trade This will be good news alike for the wheat growers i and for the grinders of the northwest i who will be able to do business with Amsterdam no matter how much short I sighted statesmanship at Washington I may cut off the exports of bushels of wheat to other markets of the world I Butte Miner The end of licensed gambling should the provisions of the law be vigorously enforced will remove w1 i the open temptation to gamble removeI kont j ig I always too strong to men who wish to j I make big money on a limited Investment I Whether the temptaton will be trans j erred to n less numerous but more i powerful class whose protection amounts protecton to more than a license as has frequently I been claimed by the advocates ot open gambling remains to be seen I Kansas CIty Times The retirement of retrement Charles H Jones from journalism will remove the cause of more Internal Wii fernal and utterly unnecessary dissensions In the Missouri Democracy than occurred I In the history of the party occurre 1 I the Immigration of Jones But if the I Pulitzer crowd have ordinary sagacity I they will beware how they change the policy of the PostDispatch from free I silver which was all It had to recommend f I 1 Denver News Congressman Shafroth I has introduced a remarkable bill in i congress con-gress Jt > 1 be I nine da wonder I and be heard of no more I provides that I whenever n any month the exnenditures 01 tie government snail exceed us re cell there shall be deducted from rill government salaries over JOO a month the sum of i per cent and tom all salaries under J200 the sum of 10 per al j San Francisco Chronicle The three small boys who started out on stolen i bicycles to might the Indians at Yuma would hpve become very weary of their quest had the police not captured them neiore tnev were clear of Oakland The San Joatyuln valley In these days Is not a pleasa place to wheel through and the Colorado desert would have given them the clmax of misery As for the Yuma Irdans those redoubtable braves I have fousht nothing more formidable than vermin for 2 years Their sense of jl humor Is not keen but even they would have been tickled to think of these youngsters looting a Sunday school treasury treas-ury to sread terror among the heathen of the Colorado river Louisville CourierJournal Secretory Gage H Is said Intends among other propose reforms to consider competitive plans xor public buildings This Is welcome wel-come es The architecture of most of our iiblc buildings Is a discredit to the age Id t will continue to be so as long as the present system Is followed I |