| Show EDITORIAL PITH The Secretary of the Navy has suspended suspend-ed work on Dluns for tH construction of several naval coallnir stations to await the result of the Is experiments navy now makinc In the uso of oil as fuoL The Secretary bcllevcs these experiments will show that oil Is cheaper cleaner aUdI batter bat-ter fuel for the navy than coal Some recent re-cent cxoorlments on merchant steamers RO lo sustain thesame view If I the liquid fuel conies Into Koncral tine In the navy Uncle Sam will hcncriJI I siibslltiilc oil Journal tanks for coaling stations Indianapolis These new swollen overgrown over cap italized corporations trusts have their evils They are also In the line of the normal evolution of Industry which has pone from big to bigger for two centuries centu-ries Regulation Is plainly needed what regulations can only nccome clear by lost lag existing law and finding UK effectiveness Press effective-ness and I H limitations Philadelphia 9 The country raised more corn last year than In ISM 1600 JSSTor JSSI according to Government crop reports and yet In none o IhoHo periods want he crop shortage followed next season bv nny such prices as have been reached this week The price movement Is thctcforc artificial and ilUgltlmatc ali in order to lino the lockets lock-ets of a clique of desperate speculators Chicago must have Limo reputation 1 of being be-ing the world Treat clearinghouse of crop licsCimicitgo RecordHerald This Is allll the great country of opportunity oppor-tunity and the best practical boon that can be bestowed upon youth Is to train It to expect its opportunity and to be ready when il comes to iitlllzo It In the best manner Philadelphia Times The proposed agreement between the American financial nnd the British ministry min-istry lit certainly on Interesting sIgn I of the growing power of wealth under prcsmt conditions Jn the llcfaC o this development develop-ment the I interview between Mr Morgan and Kins Edward and the exchange of I formal I visits between him and I3mperor William arc easy to account for The mod fin financier has not t yet surrounded himself him-self with a Cabinet and appointed Ministers Minis-ters for the reception of foreign Kmbas sll ors hut he is I none the lens nn Important Im-portant factor In the affairs 0 nations It Is I conceivable that in I critical lime he might be In a position lo overturn lie balance of power Chicago News e So bitter and so bloody has become this 11ht for grass that the national Government Gov-ernment is now systematically Inquiring Into range titles Whore cattlemen have rSe they neither own nor lease they are being compelled to remove their fences Hut his I Is only I halfway remedy rem-edy for It loaves the range open to the migrating shepherd The only complete remedy would be to debar all from the public domain who do not cither purchase pur-chase or take definite leaseholds This would ho difficult ht reclonis whoso Inhabitants I In-habitants have been accustomed for rrcn orations to use all the land tinny wished rouardle of ownership But something of the kind evidently l will have lo be done to end the confiict now raging Chicago IntcrOccun |
