| Show EDITORIAL PITH I Tho plan proposed by the conference held In Now York between the leaders l of capital and labor for tho appointment of n supreme committee to Investigate and determine nil controversies which may hereafter occur between employer nnd employee In any of our great mining and manufacturing Industrie commends itself it-self to the approval of all wise and good citizens 1 Is a most palpable step toward to-ward the Just settlement of the unhappy differences which havo hitherto cxlatcd and tho prevention thereby of tho costly and bitter fruitage that all extended labor la-bor strikes Inevitably producoKunsa City World a 0 C It Is said that ndrew Carnegies benefactions I bene-factions now amount to JS2COOCOO At last accounts Russell Sages grand total witS 3 cents Chicago RecordHerald S 0 There were no operators on duty on the Illinois Central railroad when the accident acci-dent at Rockford occurred during tho night and this Is probably the case on most roads after nightfall The pecuniary loss resulting from such collisions as tho one on tho Wnbash in Michigan and tho smashup on the Illinois Central railroad near Rockford will be large enough In the aggregate to pay for n great deal of help and If tho money had been spent in that way precious lives would have been sacd Milwaukee Wisconsin a 0 P c Why should tho Berlin paper Imagine that it Is possible to Induce us under existing ex-isting circumstances to intervene In behalf be-half of the Boers Wo are not exactly In a position just now nor do we deslro to Intervene at the risk of war with a firstclass power In behalf of anybody Chicago Chronicle a S S Those men who have been Just on the point of inventing wireless telegraphy for some time but havent quite perfected tho thing yet can see several features in which Marconis device will come short of ultimate success Chicago Tribune S a 0 Mr Bourke Cochran has not yet sails fled many of his admiring auditors that It would be possible to stop the war In South Africa without risk of starting n bigger and worse quarrel Washington Star I a o The fact that a VanderbIlt declined to run against l Belmont for Congress in New York city surrounds the practical politicians of the district with an atmosphere of regret over a good thing I that hns escaped Nevertheless they find consolation in the thought that tim Van derbllt corporations are not likely to lose all interest in their political relations Plttsburg Dispatch 0 a 0 The South Americans are flighty and contentious but they will grasp the Idea before long that tho conquests of tho twentieth century will be made with the factory Inc tho plough and not with the sword Phllrdclphla Public Ledger |
