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Show It is asserted that Jay Gould has doubled his fortune during the past year and that he is now the richest man in the world. Ho was rated a year ago at $125 0(1(1,000, but has now reached the qunrter-of a-billion mark. There must be something wrong with the laws governing the management of corporations when a single individual can accumulate such enormous wealth iu so short a timo by the manipulation of stocks. Perhaps no other man who ever lived could secure such mastery of the stock market, but it does not seem right that financial genius should be given an opportunity to make such accumulations at the expense of the public. livery man is entitled to all that his ability can earu for him in a fair field, but the public mind cannot-throw cannot-throw olT the conviction that the tiehl J iu which the "Wall Street Wizard" op- crates is not a fair one. Till' reports that come from Ireland are to the effect that the immigration 1 from that country to the I'nited Stales during the present year will be up to' the average of the past. That is one of i tho countries from which ITucie Sam is ; always glad to recciv e additions to his family. Irishmen become useful American Amer-ican citizens aud this count ry is benefited bene-fited by t heir coming. The only objectionable objec-tionable immigrants come from southern south-ern Europe, and the American people drniand thut th( jjatt's shall le Iiari'etl j atjaiust Llumi. Theni aro indiviriiml J ctiMfs in which iiiittiirunta from the j northrru countrios should not he ad- niittod, but with tho soutboru horde tin. I rtilt is revorsed. i |