Show EDITORIAL PITH There are Jn the arid section of the country which extends from the 100th mnridlun onward to the Cascade mountains moun-tains somewhere about IJOOOOMO acres which can be rendered highly productive by Irrigation The act which will start Jn oaeratlon this reclamation of the arid lands will al once yo Irlo effect As a meant of holding Americana In America it lu essenllal that thli law be mil Into offeel as fast and JIB far ns practicable Lot ua make our wild lands so attractive that no American farmers will cross thin line to locate Si Louis GlobeDcmoaral k 0 O The volume of appropriations for public purposes could have been cut down enormously enor-mously by the simple expedient of deny lag to districts which were represented in Congress by Democrat the appropriations appropria-tions for which those Democrats were clamoring and working tooth and nail Do time Democrats think this would have been a fair Ihlncr to have done Scalllo Posllnlelllsenccr I a S i Thn Republican parly is also responsible for the smoke nuisance In the years JS92 and IMS 1 there wns no Kinoke In inn city of Cleveland Grover Cleveland and his parly are Iho only known and practical smoke preventers In the United Stales Cleveland Loader OX 1 It so happens thai I the Irealdenta atti tude toward trusts hi not Individual but In keeping with I hat of many strong men In him party Tin Sherman aniltrust law Is twelve years old That It wan drawn In good faith cannot be doubted flint It hum failed lo meet expectation Is tru Trusts lme continued to multiply and those which caused the Shcrnmn law were pmall affairs In comparison with those now existing 1C 1 restraint on trusts can bo Imposed by I statute a now hiw Is necessary neces-sary and drafted In the light I of tho latent lat-ent devnloymtiits In the iruat Hue Tho President ban said lust t where cunning in aimed at and operates against the liuer eitts of the people It needs to bo jilmcklcd The sontlmant Is pxtvllont and Is moslfcllcltoiisly expressed Wash ington Slnr o If I bloodhounds aro of any value In trail hag convicts In thn Weslern woods they have failed in prove It In the TracvMer rlll chase They are sagacious beasta doubtless and of icien scent when conditions con-ditions are favorable but they havo proved a decided failure In thin cane Men on the traIl with good Winchesters macit who are excellent mnrknmen men who when tine trail In hot do not paiis a houue on tInt way without Investigation theso arc tIne kind of detectives lo put on the trail of fleolng doubling desperate criminal crimi-nal oul for liberty and prepared lo tell their liven dearly A dog even If lie were to come up with the outlaws betraying the nearne of hhi approach by haying would be an easy victim Foilliutd Ore Ionian Today more than l00ft > 3 fanners In tIm 1nltcd Btaics have dally mull dillvrcd to their dnors This lu the roport of the Aa alstanl ioslmasurG neral As u result of this dally mall they uro fending out an average of lvo lotteni where before they s ouit one Vhucum rural I free delivery WOK firm proposer it sos ridiculed aa n fad a IILW means of Pfiuanderlnp the public pub-lic money 1 IM now In operation In every Stale in the Lnlon exopllng Montana whero mountainous roads thus far havo made li Impracticable Even lu Alaska there Is a route from Nome to Gold river Tin department estimates tInt with the present month 109 routes will be In operation ope-ration averaging twoiityflve miles In length Jt Ja tint to predict that during President Roosevelts term every thIckly nettled farm ccllon will have Us dally mnahiDcmmu Molnes Register and Leader a > To the already abounding lllcruturc of tobacco there has been added a fresh rc pout > fiom the census bureau which shows an increase In thy growth and manufacture manufac-ture of the weed that will unuiro Its unemion and may surprise Its friends The tobacco habit has evidently lost none oft that of-t phenomenal pace which It gained durlni the century after time miicou hum plants Introduction lo Europe In the face of prescribed penalties ngulnsl its tiuo which ran from Imprisonment lo the knout I and to death Of the divisions of hue Hulled Stares only Colorado the District Dis-trict of Columbia Nevada Rhode Island and Utah failed to produce tobacco In 1000 The total production was SfiSlCllia pounds an hicrcaso of 77S per cent over the crop of ISOO New York World |