Show I SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS I Philadelphia Times While Japan maybe r may-be castlmr its optics toward Hawaii It mustnt be forgotten that country has tO 1s of Its own Ner York Journal It no doubt gives tho tariff tlnkerers considerable annoyance an-noyance to have to submit to the umpiring umpir-ing of a person of the names of Jones I Plttsburg Dispatch The general character char-acter of tile senate tariff bill in modify ing many of the more extreme advances of the house measure will be approved by the vast majority of the conservative men of the country There are however some especial features of it which will arouse severe criticism Prominent among them is the sugar duty and the suspicion sus-picion it raises that the Sugar trust has won another victory San Francisco Examiner Mrs Lease in ascribing the floods of Oklahoma to a direct visitation of divine wrath evidently forgot that the grasshoppers droughts Puffers and Leases of her own beloved state might be accounted for on the same thoughtful and benign hypothesis Boston Journal Commendable efforts are being made to improve the dejected appearance of those parts of the common vMch will have to be seen by all who witness the dedication of the Shaw memorial on Mav 21 The gardeners at the state house too are trying to make the area in their charge appear a trifle moro presentable It Is a sorry prospect at Its best Kansas City Times It is being remarked re-marked that the Nashville exposition is almost the only one of its kind that was fully completed at the time of formal opening This is a surprise to those who talk so confidently of southern laziness The truth Is that no people have shown more energy when it was needed than the southerners |