Show EDITORIAL PITH Tho treasury figures for April show that our exports oxreed our Imports by a little more limn n million dollars per day 1m portr are heavily Inrreiiiiud but tho ex rOfs In nindo up of purchases of raw materials I ma-terials of iniinuCacturu Thin Imiuilen tell un undlmlnlshod Industrial 1 actlvltv Philadelphia Phila-delphia Kecord n t A llcht nlorago battery Is I admittedly the Ideal motive newer for street cars Sonic limn un Mr Edison l promised that we should have suich a buttery and It la difficult to t InHove that his Judgment would allow without Rood reason a public stiLt imumicum d that I ho had performed his promNo If I ito has tho disappearance of all other motive powcis In automobllCR and of lImo trolley synicm In street railways rail-ways Is according to experts only u rjiiitlun of time New York Commercial Advertiser t B > What sort of teaching of foreign language lan-guage Is I there at West Point Our cadets may leiirn to read Vniiban In the original but the fact that I an Interpreter was necessary neces-sary for inIk with Oi n Jlrugcrc arouses the suspicion that the French course la soinethlni lime I hue schooling in Spanish which left most of our officers dumb In the Cuban campaign New York Mall arid J3xDrcu3 o The South which hiss always produced a race of soldiers should be careful not to attiisse our soldiers for severe treatment treat-ment of murderous Filipinos so long as so many lynchliiKS of negroes occur In tho South not only for the crime unspeakable unspeak-able but for offenses far less l serious Who lever elsa we may be let us not be slanderers and hypocrites Nashville American |