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Show PRETENDS TO BE DEPRESSED. Goodwin's Weekly is shocked over the leak scandal in Washington. Goodwin's Good-win's Weekly would do excellent service ser-vice as a mock mourner, because the Weekly can pretend without cause to be heartbroken and crushed. The Weekly sheds tears of regret over the plight of the national administration and .says: "This is a sorry time indeed for the state department at Washington to become involved in a scandal with the speculators on the stock exchange. ex-change. It Is most unfortunate that the integrity of the department should be questioned at a time when It ought to be In position to command com-mand the full confidence and support sup-port of every' citzen at home and every nation abroad. In all matters of international concern the state department speaks for the govern-rm govern-rm nt. Hence the proposed congressional congres-sional Investigation is very properly in order and it should proceed with reoislOD and dispatch. It will not do to simply whitewash the department; the investigation should be the most searching possible and the responsibility, responsi-bility, if any, should be fixed where It properly belongB. In no other way can the good name of the department be redeemed and its honor and dignity dig-nity upheld. Every breath of suspicion suspi-cion must be removed before this arm of the service will again assume its high, standing in the eye6 of all American Amer-ican and before the world." Observe that Goodwin's Weekly presumes the administration to be guilty. It would be more In keeping with good citizenship to hope the scandal will not be fixed on our high officials and to withhold judgment until un-til the source of the leak is definitely traced. There are any number of avenues through which the news could have leaked, without deliberate misconduct on the part oi those Involved. There have been times In the p'ast when the connections between Washington Wash-ington and Wall street were so well established that the handing out of inside in-side information did not cause the slightest ripple on the placid waters of publicity. on |