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Show Say of Other Editors Bryan on Roosevelt. Ogdcn Standard: Wm J. Bryan, In an In-tervlew In-tervlew yesterday, said: "1 can't say Just how much President Roosevelt's altitude has had to. do with the present financial disturbance. If his investigations or recommendations have tended to squeeze the water out of watered stock, the blame should fall not on him, but on those who havo watered tho stocks Mv criticism criti-cism would bo that ho did not commenco soon enough to storm tho fortress. The great questions ques-tions to share the attention in the coming campaign, I believe," ho said, "are the trust, the tar I II and theso railroad questions. Hut one issue runs through all or these, tiowever, and that is shall tho government be administered adminis-tered In behalf of all the people or for the benefit ben-efit of a few of tho people." V i ' MSpMI,MM TnC UWKw WalCS, The Telegram: We wonder If the newspaper news-paper on, both sideaof the Atlantio will ever get-off ,,) .persistent eforts t prove that thereto Stall times grave danger of a waT between; be-tween; Japan and the United State. Then la Bet , bow there never has been the sllf htet4 probability prob-ability of such war. Japan Is a brave little natlon.but Japan lacks the courage, as she does the dlteosl tlon.to undertake a war of that kind, (M the doable reason that she knows she ootid wla nothing by It, and that were she to spring such a war, it would seriously jeopardize 'her etletence as a nation. She knows she woold be trlven out of the Manchuria- aad that her IwM ell Korea would be broken, and with that stage reached, It might be determined that she should no longer be a controlling power In the world. Japan Is stopping the emigration of coolies to our country, and Count Haytshlsavs that If the coolies In Hawaii seek to evade the edict of the home government, then emigration emigra-tion to Hawaii will be stopped- And he gives a reason why the most cordial relations will be kept up on the part of Japan towad this country; coun-try; that, were the two nations to become es" tranged, Japan would lose au annual sale to this country of quite 60,000,000 yen of merchandise. merchan-dise. That, to those who know the Japanese character pretty well, will supply about the oest guarantee against war that can be given. Wir Preparations. Ogdcn Standard: Heavy shipments of war material continue to go through Ogden for the coast. At San Francisco ships are being loaded load-ed with rifles, ammunition and gun-cotton and soldiers are taking passage on the transports for the Philippines Islands. On Saturday next two cruiser squadrons will be united at San Francisco. They are known as the "Big Four" and the"Pathflnder" Squadrons, and are made up of nine of as powerful pow-erful warships of their class as are to be found Id the world. A little later on .the sixteen big battle ships, under Admirable Evans, will join the nine cruisers, and the whole fleet will sail either to Puget Sound, or across the Pacific, to the possessions of this country in Asiatic waters. This Is preparing to enforce peace with a big stick, while speaking soft and low, or It Is a most formidable reply to threat of war. No one evidently Is able to answer what this all means no one, other than the men at the head (of the army and navy of the United States Thanks God for Roosevelt. Sacramento Union: The Globe and Commercial Com-mercial Advertiser of New York, having analyzed ana-lyzed tho editorial comments upon the president's presi-dent's recent message of eighty representative nowspapers of the land, found that forty-nine commended it unequivocally and thirty-one condemned. The point of difference, as we are abie to get at It from. the Globe, was as to the Roosevelt spirit. One side upheld, the moral purpose and Insisted that It boded no ill to legitimate enterprise. The other side practically practi-cally resented the Interference of moral purposes pur-poses In business affairs, and insisted that such interference had hurt business, and would continue con-tinue to hurt It. Within the republican party this Issue is the one now being fought to a finish fin-ish but when was there ever a moral movement move-ment that did not encounter opposition? Let us take comfort. We have at the head of the nation a stupendous moral force, and throughout through-out the nation five-eighths of the forces that are Imoperation are making for a recall from total absorption In mere money-making to the higher and better task of moralizing commerce and Industry. Thank God for Roosevelt! Get in behind him and help the good work. Gun Was Loaded, That's All. Slate Journal: Mrs. Partington once declared de-clared that "a gun is dangerous without lock, stock or barrel," and the same charge may Le brought against a revolveras the victim of a policeman's promptitude In Portland could testify tes-tify If he were alive to give evidence. The officer was a friend of ttie slain man, and the latter thought he would play a Joke on him, a part of which was the pointing of a pipe, and an order to the policeman to throw up his hands. Instead he drew his revolver and killed the joker. The cases of the belief that-every one goes armed are becoming so numerous that the least observant can see our laws against the carrying of concealed weapons are made a mockery of and that they ought to bo wiped from the statute books. It would be a tine thing to repeal them and substltue In their stead an absolute prohibition of tho sale of firearms except under conditions that would furnish a reasoaable safeguard against misuse. Until that Is done the bloody murder record of the United States will continue to grow worse and worse. It Is time to cut it down. Conviction of Stoessel. I Herald: The conviction of General Stocs- i sol, at the close of a long-drawn-out court-martial, was not a surprise to people who have been following the proceedings. A sentenco of deatli was imposed, but It was accompanied by a recommendation rec-ommendation that It be commuted to ten years ImDrlsonmeut. It U likely that the Czar will assent to tho milder punishment. That Stoessel Stoes-sel surrendered Port Arthur long beforo there 1 was any actual necessity for surrendering was I abundantly proven, if the witnesses against him told the truth. According to their testimony, the garrison ' was in excellent condition to further withstand the Japanese assaults. Instead of being nearly I out of ammunition, as Stoessel claimed at tho ! time, there was hundreds of thousands of cartridges cart-ridges for tho rifles, great stores of stiolls for ttio artillery and an abundance of small arms. Also the supply of provisions of every necessary description was ample. Tho health of tho garrison gar-rison had been determined, It Is true, by long hours of harassing duty, but tho men were not In sucti stiape that they could not tight. |