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Show 0 Secretary Danicla says tho Navy is in l! xcoIIent condition. Good! But Acl- miral Dewey said it first. i Tt is said that President Wilson has ftf Rent a special representative to look 1 into the strike situation in the Lake Hj Superior region, as T-cl 1 as a special Hij agent to inquire into the matter of Fed- eral appointments in Utah. The Fodcra officials at. Washington are reported to bo becoming suspicious oC Huerta. Similarly, from Mexico Hi comen "word that the Federal officials there are becoming suspicious of us. Hj So the, suspicions match up even. It is said that tho Prince of Monaco -is to hunt bear in Wyoming. All right; i ue would do well to koep away from tho "Wyoming tiger; for no prop- aration at Monaco "will put ono in Hj training to fight; that insidious beast. Pittsburg Dispatch: "Philadelphia 1 reports ioniato growers get 5 cents a f basket, while tho local consumers pay 70 cents for the samu basketful. A Hi diagram of tho way-stations might cx-poso cx-poso the ro,ilc of the higli cost of . living.1 ' ff The calmness aud steadiness with which Gompcrs testified to his continu-1 continu-1 ous lobbying, defended his right to f lobby, and denied the right of the H American Manufacturers' Association to have agents to lobby against him, must have been an eye-opener to the lobby investigators. H; St. Louis Globo-Dmnocrnt: ''At the Hjj end of a dispatch from the Panama i zone is the following: 'Small vessels i probably v,-ill bo able to pass through caua from end to end by October K) lOtlt and t ho watcrwn- sliciuid be ready ,or shipping proper parly in December. HT Cndc Sam has made a record in what H fan be done in nine years,'" H, Detroit Free Press: ' President Wil-declines Wil-declines to attend the Perry victory Hj celebration and says he is 'kept away Hkt by the thought that no man can truly j praiso those who did their duty by neg- j Jectinig his own. Then -why doesn 't H ho send on William Jennings Bryan? Our traveling Secrotary of State is H j never troubled by any such finicky no- Hons.". j Secretary Garrison of the United .j , States War Dc-partmcut is uudoubted- 'j ly on the right track in advocating j short-term enlistments, aud the release Hj v of the recruit as soou as lio has been I traiued into a good state of proficiency. N Tn that way we could have a large and well-trained military force without u maintaining a huge standing ari)i3-, a j) thing which is always a menace to a I republic. j The Ogdcn Staudard asks ns to sec j the point as to the regulation of corpora- tious, that until Congress passes a Na-j Na-j tional incorporation act to govern thoin ! in their interstate business, tho States j ought to do this. But as we have Hj shown, the States are 'not able to do j it, and that is the main point in the -Trholc matter; and. that is why Con- Hj grcss must take up this question and ! act upon it. j New York City is not growing sym- ) ;i. metrically, when it outgrows its school : ""z. facilities, tho -way it is doing. lioport is that on the opening of the public schools of that city this year, it was ' found that a hundred thousand pupils could not bo accommodated properly, and .thirty thousand couldn't bo accom-H accom-H modatod at all. Which is an extremely r bad showing, and not lit for any H! American city to make. j The road bureau of the Department s of Agriculture finds that, the extent of Hi ,"fl0 roads to be made good in Salt j Lake county, under tho proposition to H issue a million dollars in bonds. ( ihcrcfor, :is too great for the money; accordingly, his report is sent back for j revision, so that the mileage may be made less and the roads kept up to standard, sinco the Departmbnt doesn't want any but first-class work done. Hi " This exactly suits the people, also; for H " -hey don't want their monoy rastcd on j inferior work, Y.cn. Representative George 11. Smith" of Minnesota denounces the - proposed Federal Poservc Board of the Hfi partisan currency bill as inovitably a H .political spoils creation, he emitted an 1 unmistakable truth. The very object Btj Jinii Purpose of pressing this partisan H t ' lii to clV0 democratic politiciuns H: fixed, positions at high salaried and Ml if- fi"h i'ontrol of the l)anks as will forco them to support Democratic measures, and break so far as posHiblo tho bad effects of tho partisan rovisiou of tho tariff. |