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Show Ta!ic care f t i it dimes ami the millionaires vill take ill'O of themselves. F:md desiiny ami destination are two thing- the lailr.n-.ds help men to roach. The budding spring and t ho poetaster both :n a setback hy last week's snow snnl freeze. When a man measure. his conduct by the profits aceruin.fr, the value of his conscience is lost. j ' The "1 Won't Work society' has been bumped pretty hard hy the unionists in various parts of the vest. ; Since it weighs "only an ounce, people won't f dodge hereafter when a man "throws his whole soul ' into his work."' 1 I The old-time populist, in the light of modern i legislation, looks entirely too conservative to be considered sane. The man who ostentatiously buys the drinks for the house is usually awaited at home by a weeping wife 01 anxiously looked for by the grocer. King Kdward's income of $470,000 a year makes t the salary of our president look like 30 cents. The royal family of Fngland is )rovided for in the civil lists with incomes aggregating $000,000. "But who pays the bills ( Now is ihe time to apply to congressmen for a baieh of "choice and valuable" pardon seeds. The season is right, and the congressmen like to look after the interests of their constituents by sending out seeds under their frank. I1 is up to Upton Sinclair to study technicalities in ihe law that he may escape the penalties for not providing lire escapes to his building at Helicon Mall which burned recently. The methods of those responsible for the Iroquois theater fire may furnish quite a profitable reading for him as "The Jungle." M. rVLicdonosteff. for many years dictator of ec-oiastL'al affairs of the Russian empire, advocate advo-cate of k'-erjing the people in ignorance in order to jr-rescrvc the autocracy, and looked upon by the peasants as a tyrant and the, arch enemy of all con- 1 , fetitutionsl reforms, is dead. Mr. P. died a natural death. j Anythirg left undone that could and should be done right now will never be done at the right tint". I A duty left undone puts the world back in its steady progress just so much. A chore indolently put off till tomorrow h aves in ibis clay a void and fills the , morrow with duties which should have been done j before. I The unrest of the American people in which the f vested interests see a menace to our prosperity is but the result of ambition and a desire for the eor- ve'.'on of abuses which are patent to the people, ; If the people would stand for it. ihe trusts would i scon place liberty and freedom in a pool and divide ' the protits among themselves. The legitimate business of railroads is transpor-tHiion transpor-tHiion of freight and passengers, and railroad men e essential to the successful operation of the loads. Practical railroad men are those that gro'V up with the business, and they ere not to be found iin. : stock jobber? and financiers. When railroad nun lose control or are hampered by demands of frenzied capitalists, it is but natural that the efficiency effi-ciency of the roads should suffer. The railroads ( i ' -" " " fire lorded down with an incubus as debilitating as ihe partisan management of public business which ai'Iicts our cities and our states not to say our tuition. Whether the railroads can throw off the burden and emerge triumphantly is as problematical problemati-cal as is the. ability of the people to escape the fnbus.'nesslike mismanagement of their affairs by politicians. Graft, bribery and corruption in San Francisco furnish a utory more appalling than the late conflagration. confla-gration. City officials, public service corporation ofiiei: Is and professional politicians have been indicted in-dicted bv the grand jury for fraud in the matter o: franchises. The situation after the tire was one wherein the great, principle of common honesty I could have been advantageously applied, to th" I 1 verbs) ing benefit of the people of the city, but instead of that, what a story it is which comes from the coast ! |