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Show J Nowadays political orations begin and end with I corporations. Life, indeed, is; very dear to us since the priei s keep on going up. I At least, the .street car service is n worse mov than it was before the strike. j Maybe some of the stranded strike-breakers por- petrated that saloon hold-up last week. ? Even with the vast improvement in the seareh- - - light, old Diogeues might in this day slill be on a fruitless search. Coal men are now telling people to stock up on coal for next winter, with the ice man hardly begun ! his summer's business. The easing up of the vast activity reported in j the business world" may be the calm before the pr. s- j idential campaign storm. ' t I The San Francisco earthquake shook loose abuiu ! j everything in the city except the grafters. Tht-j j I hung on like grim death. J I -"Money is growing easy in London." says rue j I press dispatch, but if sufficient is planted, si ranee j as it may seem, it will grow harder. ! r An antiseptic wash for tainted money would bo I a 1 Humph for scientific research and its discoverer I no doubt would be rewarded lil-wrsillv A newspaper remedy for headaches is "bathing behind the cars with hot water." It might o equal- I ly effective if done behind closed doors. Even if women are not permitted the glorious privilege of voting in some states, they still retain the same rights of men to swear off their taxes. Strenuous advocacy of the principle. "Do it r now" is but a growth suggested by the methods of trusts, which have for a motto, "Do them now." f It coal companies would reduce the price of coal ! a dollar a ton during the summer months, there it I would be many tons stored for next winter's use. I All the ami-trust bills in creation will not in- !duce the dcadbeat to adopt a cash basis in his bui-ness bui-ness if he can secure credit from the guileless 1 rustcr. I Whcu the child spoke of an "actorbat" hanging I to the trapeze of a descending parachute, he was 1 miermceirmslv addinf to the 1 : n mi n nf i)tn ''hol. j lunatic.' Now it is proposed to have the government pay I the expenses of presidential campaigns. Which im- 1- mediately suggests that the ward-heeler doesn't care whence the money comes, if he gets it, . The words "probe"' and "investigation'" may be s growing a little tiresome to the American people, I but those in the limelight are a unit in condemning i the craze which shows up our extraordinary civic I I and commercial integrity. P.orton is nothing if it is not unique. On ll:y I IT, an attempt will be made to raise the standard of musical culture among the colored citizens of the i Hub by the presentation of acts from "Aida" and "('aniifii."' by a company composed exclusively by ' colored people. It is sincerely to be hoped that the I majestic music of Verdi and Bizet will not be marred by the introduction of ragtime syncopations i 1 and cakewalk melodies, which have brought the innate in-nate musical tastes of the race into disrepute among white musicians. A son of Kmporor William will enter Harvard next. fall. His height, width and girth not being given, we do not know if any international difficulties difficul-ties will result, for he may eschew football. Dop of every kind and condition roam the streets of Salt Lake and bark at automobiles and buggies and yelp at the heels of bicyclists. A few kino, and swine would complete, the picture of a prosperous middle-slates village of SOD population. An amendment to the constitution concerning acts of legislatures which involve constitutional Cjuestions has been proposed, with the result that its opponents have raised the cry of unconstitutionality unconstitution-ality against it. An unconstitutional constitution! What next i If women at theatres would leave their hats off until the curtain touches the floor at the end of the tinal net, and men were not so restless as to need a little exercise between acts, the average dramatic performance might be dignified by the name of entertainment. en-tertainment. , "The yellow peril"" is entirely too indefinite in ! llie inhi1 o" A morlnciiii n-lni fiar ni-itlier .Tnilice jaundice nor the saffron hue of China's hordes. The British press has been suffering wilh nightmare because be-cause Australia has shewn symptoms of fear of the j little brown men. I I In considering reform and the evils it i songnt ! io eradicate from our national life, statesmen devote I more attention to ihc making of luw than to their enforcement. A strict observance find enforcement : of present laws would seem to offer quite as broad a iield as the eternal clamor for new laws whose ..p- eratioit the Iru-ts would defeat by an attack from behind. ! . m , j Another communication from a disciple oi I i. ' j elms appears in our editorial columns. It onsets !. many old theories. The writer gives uis persona! ; experience which may serve as a lesson to many ! who have not reached what he terms the goal of j "irresponsibility."' AVc invite still further develop-,1 ment on this great evil which saps ihc lives of many promising and talented young men. j The governor of l'orto liico. upon the recom- j hiend.ition of an expert detailed to advise and as-1 sir him in railroad matters, increased the freight j rates of the island railroads. The vast knowledge of ! the expert is shown in the result of his deliberations, delibera-tions, for the advice could not be better if it had come from one of our own practical railroad men who believe in charging all the traffic will bear. At the national conference of church clubs in Washington last month the Pennsylvania delegate, Mr. Butler, expressed the opinion that 75 per cent of ihc present-day sennous could be dispensed witii to the betterment of church attendance. The only trouble with such a general statement is that nobody no-body will include his own sermons among the 7 per cent. but. will readily concede that to every other's. Voting contents to determine the most populsr man, woman, boy or girl usually profit the promoters promo-ters of the enterprise and wind up with the one voted most popular wondering how really popular he js. A Topeka newspaper recently conducted a popularity contest for the benefit of itself and the tonsorial artists of the town. Now there happened to be a deaf-mute brrbcr in Topeka. and. as might be expected, he won the contest, and secured a $:7.") piano as a prize. As prize pianos go. the man may be considered doubly fortunate, in being so popular and in being so deaf as to be unable to hear its nitl-aneholy nitl-aneholy music. Children working in mills and factories by the hundreds of thousands should furnish quite as agreeable a subject for intellectual men and women wo-men to discuss as the poetry of Browning, the rebates re-bates and discrimination of railroads or the grrft in public places. America is ready to pop with pride and prosperity, but the subject of child labor is not downed by our bloated condition. It ought not be necessary to have laws on this subject. Public opinion opin-ion should be so strong as to make the trafficking in human chattels entirely unprofitable. At the same time the conditions at the homes of child-workers should be considered and if parents ftre incompetent incompe-tent or ground down to penury by industrial conditions, condi-tions, it is up to the people of the nation to make provision. The question, is a broad one and requires re-quires more than theory to settle it. First a practical prac-tical example is needed take the children out of the mills and factories. Then take care of the details. Experience is, after all, the greatest teacher. When Jefferson mado the Louisiana purchase he violated all the theories which had made him great. But the purchase of that territory made Jefferson even greater, even if he did try to get an amendment amend-ment to the constitution to validate the act. ' So at the present time the discovery is made that the welfare wel-fare of the people would not be conserved by the enactment into law of certain measures which make up all the political capital some leaders have, and the measures which defeated one party may be discovered dis-covered to contain much merit. The men who can lay aside partisanship and, in their best judgnr it, seek the enactment into law of principles to which they were opposed during the campaign, may at some dim distant time be considered as great statesmen states-men as was Jefferson when he made the Louisiana purchase. High-sounding words and rhetorical flights of statesmen, juvenile and mature, do not add materially to the strength of argument, and the f results following any new legislation invariably show the need of trimming and balancing to accomplish accom-plish the benefits aimed at. Experience nearly always al-ways shows the happy mean, and radicals and conservatives con-servatives usually recognize it after the echoes of high-sounding theories and pretentious words are couched in the oblivion of forget fulness. |