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Show I In raising fthe broad racial qucs- lion," Japan has raised herself out "of j the game " " Wouldn't il bo b. U if everything g wc worry about should happen?-' asks a Texas paper. But fortunately tho fates arc kindlier than our fears. flfl h Bryan's Commoner doesn't need an editor any more since it has been made flfl f .1 sort of official gazette, a-iid so its for-Hfl for-Hfl mcr editor has been made Governor of (i the Panama Canal zone. mm D A perfect solution of the Japanese flj j contention would be for all the Japs in fl this country to pack up and go homo fl $ as a proof of their actual discontent, flfl V "Wonder if they had thought of it. g A woman in the East hotly demands Sa retraction from a paper which said fl Sithat she had struck another woman fl JJwith a monkey-wrench, wheu she used Ifl a sledge hammer, g The suicide of Edward S. Perry in flB wtbis city is a deplorable event, that is An deep grief to his family, and a shock to the commuuity. All will sympathize sympa-thize deeply with tho distinguished jj family which is thus bereaved. j The return of Charlton to Italy, jj where ho murdered his wife, is so clear a case of international comity and right I? that every American must be ashamed Mhat it has been delayed so long. This jj country can not ;iffLord to stand on w hair-splitting in a case like this, r. ThcsluiVrp in railroad-stocks -in 5vew -York by reason of Ih'c decision of the U. S. Supreme Court in the Minnesota. Senile ense is no doubt but temporary. Fpr, whatever disability the judgment JiimposeL on the railroads eon be relieved !by Congress at any time, as the decis-Jjbion decis-Jjbion itself points out." II Utah granite is a good building stone, 6 none better; and the Capitol Commis-,:ion Commis-,:ion cannot go far wrong in selecting 3t for-tho walls of -the capitol structure. struc-ture. And this is not said in any way jJto the disparagement of any other J'ftone offered; But Utah granite has bcen well, proved, and can be relied I1 "The first eugenic wedding" is reported re-ported from various places. And all tpf Mich reports .must be-mistakes, for furclj- tho jnarriage of the parents of fine jjerfcet eugenic baby, recently I found in New York City, must have Kbeen a eugenic marriage. 3f not, to gvhat purpose are eugenic marriages de-f de-f Various efforts to obtaiu from Presj-ailent Presj-ailent Wilson his opinion as favoring or gppposing the siuglo six-year term for president have failed. As he is serv-ing serv-ing his four-year term with a plat- form .pledge against re-election it is manifestly unfair to ask him to take J special interest in some other man's ti;-year term. J, President Wilson is quoted as favoring fa-voring the abolition of political conventions, conven-tions, and also the abolition of the electoral coliege. But this discontent "with tlfc American idea of getting jnomiuees and adopting platforms and with tjfe constitutional method of electing elect-ing Presidents, was- supposed to be a lvoosevelt monopoly, r) t Henry CJassaway Davis of West Vir-gaiuia Vir-gaiuia was thought too old in 1904 to r)c nc initiated for Vice-President by the Democrats; yet his sprightliness overcame over-came tliis objection. And now, nine 5' ears after, v.-heu he is ninety years I'Jld, comes news that ho was thrown aiirom his horse, and gets up as fVcsh as a boy. A great old lad is that jlenry Gassavvay Davis. 5 A New York Judge declares his utter IDfiek of sympathy with women who-gharry who-gharry men of comparatively modest means and after a while aslc for a separation, sep-aration, with big alimony. Ho said that tiiis sort of thin deserves no sj'mpathy fat the hands of administrators of tho .law. Good, sound doctrine that; but it Svill drive moat . of the divorce case3 Jitway from his court. J Tho fire department of this city rould not be justified in 3ttlking by reason of the coroner jury's verdict in t"the case of the death of Elaine Paul-'son, Paul-'son, and because of it refusing to hasten ip fires; for the very essence of the 'efficiency of a fire department is .speed; this is tho measure of effic- 3onc3'. ?jo one complains of making epeed in getting to fires; what is com plained of is needless and reckless speed when not going to a fire. |