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Show Hj Ono mouth from today is election day in and for this city. And how littlo B lias boon actually done about it! It is claimed that, thirty pastors in Pittsburgh have been let out during B the last year because of their socialis- tie opinions. Moro martyrdom! Secretary Bryan says that President Wilson has a mind of las own. But isn't that a speech of courtesy which tiie Secretary is expected to spoak? .Mexico is producing so ramiy candi- dales for the Presidency that the cry of fraud at the election is certain to be raised. And thus President Wilson can do as he likes. The Democratic partisan tariff bill has been passed and signed. Argument and demonstration are alike useless. Wo may bo permitted to hope' for the best while dreading the worst. The contentions at Seattle appear to ; lie quite as much between the judges as upon the main point involved. It is an unseemly performance, well cal-eulatcd cal-eulatcd to bring our whole judicial sysr teiii into contempt. Wouldn't it be a good idea for Presi-W Presi-W dent Wilson .to send a special comniia- sion down to Mexico to supcrviso the Presidential, election there on October B -Gth, so that he would feel confident Ww that a fair election had been held? B A Baltimore scientist has returned B. from iforeign parts with eighty billion B germs, which he will study by cultural B mothcnls. It is to be hoped that he B won't let any of thorn escape, as that B other scientist did the gypsy moths in B Massachusetts. B Senator Lane of Oregon objects to legislation and the setting :isidc of the fl laws by the executive departments. It B is well lo have a voice of power raised in this behalf. The people of sill this W western country have been tired of that B for many years. B And now it is beginning to be spoken of as a ''revenue tariff." This while B all the time its friends admit that it won't produco enough revenue to sup-port sup-port the government by some $60,000,- LM 000 to $70,000,000, so that they have B to have an income tax to eke out I Former President Taffc recently went to Washington to lobby (not insidious-B insidious-B ly) for a commodious marble postoflice for 2sTew Haven. And he won. Cer-H1 Cer-H1 tainly New Haven should be eorre- B spondingly gratoi'ul for this successful B activity of her most illustrious citizen, Wt A third Balkan war threatens, is the report. Only the third? It seems as B though thoro have been so many, of B these wars that, one might be pardoned B - for losing count. Besides, there seems that such determination to light, that B "a third war" may prove to bo only the begiuning of a now "thirty years' B war. ' 1 The idea of frying to get up a panic B on the imagined unsafety of the heating apparatus in the public schools B of this city is reprehensible in the high- B est degree. No more impeachable and B utterly indefensible position could tho B city board of education bo found in than for it to bo guilty of opening the schools with this or any other part of B the school houses in a dangerous con- dition. It is incrcdiblo to think of fl such a thing. Portland Oregoniau: "Tho woman suffragists are now concentrating their B efforts upon Pennsylvania. Beginning Hj October G, they will carry out a scries of demonstrations in Philadelphia and thence extend their efforts over the B State. In IsTow York and Pennsylvania, B the two States where self -government B has been a conspicuous failure, woman suffrage has up to this time made the least progress. The truth of tho mnt-j mnt-j tcr is that all the elements of civilian- J tion hang together and advancement in B one means advancement in all." LWt This Democratic Congress is cn- croaehing on the civil service laws in every placo when it is thought that too much of a row will not be mado about it. Tim Campbell onco put the ingenious question lo President devo-land, devo-land, "Aw, Mr. President, what's tho B constitution between fricnds7" when . tho President had objected to Carnp- bell's proposition as unconstitutional. B So now as to tho civil service laws, tho Democratic legislative lend-era lend-era .ana President Wilson both appear B to bo answering the question, "What's B civil service legislation among us parti- sans?" with a decided "Nothing whatovor!" |