Show I Clipped e OP OPINIONS I IO f fC UPON 1 I I C Current 1 CURRENT CURRENTS I I C Comment ommen EVENTS E S I t tI I Kansas City Times J lU THE rnO WRONG G MAX MAN lA A MEMPHIS IE Judge jUdEo Issued an order restraining A i affidavits tho the newspapers from rom printing certain i its filed in a n case caso on trial In his court coull and for forbidding for I bidding th them m even to mention the fact that 1 met had been filed Il Then he mado made another order forbidding forbidding for for- fore bidding th the tho newspapers ne to mention the fact tact thc they had been restrained When the tho editor of ot the Scimitar News tol told his readers that his newspaper had been restrained from hiving giving them tho the news o oa or of orn ofa a n public court of ot record he was sentenced to jail Jal for tor contempt of or court Now ow If It anbo anybody In that transaction was guilty of ot bringing the judicial process Into contempt 1 It ItI clearly was not the editor I I New York Commercial J TilE THE IF F radical politicians In Congress who have been IF sincere in their belief that harr harrying business Is Isa Isa isa a holy service will learn a lesson from recent revelations rev ro revelations respecting lobbying President Wilson will willbo bo be entitled to lasting lasting- gratitude No man likes to stand exposed as a dupe a gull and a C tool Con Consequently Consequently Conse Conse- e- e the tho congressmen who havo within the past twelvemonth used material furnished them b by a group roup of or market marlet manipulators must feel decidedly cheap Tho The farcical money monc trust investigation the at attack attack attack at- at tack on United Stabs Stab's s Steel Sterl tho the brutal and LInd flamboyant flam flam- flamboyant boyant In Insistence upon questioning a a. dying man the claptrap Rn and respecting prominent business si and financial enterprises now stand re revealed revealed re- re apparently apparent as At a part of or- ora a market rl rigging scheme In which tho the congressmen who admittedly felt that thC they were en engaged in hr a a. war against J tho limo worn wore used as marionettes dancing and mouthing at tho the behest and anti jn Inspiration of a class of oC Wall all street operators who whose o character they thoy worn too unsophisticated and too enthusiastic to recognize I York Times f Tar ll n. 1 r lIE proportions of oC tho the bank banI failure reported T 1 from Pittsburgh aro are considerable rahle hut but arc oCless of oC less Importance than tho the C causes and their relation to time the pending movement for the time betterment of ot al all banking In the United States State It is not a failure caused used b by a shortage of oC currency There Is now nowa a maximum of or currency and not a maximum of or domand de do- mand Neither is tho the Pittsburgh h trouble due to lack of or reserves primarily It Is IN truo that there thero was a a. deficiency of or reserves reser but this Is IN orr offset et several sev to oral eral cr l times tinges by an asset which ought ito to have luno placed the bank on Easy street The Thc banks bank's capital Is and It has has' amon among Its resources Bonds securities etc More Mor than twice tho timo banks bank's capital was tied tle-ll up in an ll Item m not available a In tho time of ol need It does not toll follow ow necessarily that the tho Item torn Is bad or of even cven poor It may be film sini- ply slow and therefore unsuited for liquidation In a time lime of or depression Ilon On this it Is to be re remarked remarked re- re marked that tho the political party part claim claiming InK to legislate legislate legis legis- late tho time new banking conditions Is proposing proposing- to enlarge the opportunity of ot banks to entangle themselves themselves them them- selves selve in this manner A f San Francisco Chronicle I ATTORNEY I Y GE In I x N former District Attorney McNab's c abs telegram ram of I IX resignation ho explicitly stated that tho the postponements postponements postponements post post- In tho white slave sla cU cases cs and the coal fraud cases were made malle against his protest mado in the time light ll of oC conclusive c evidence c In his possession that In the white slave cases at least efforts cHarts were being made to corrupt witnesses It Is obvious to an any one that the longer a trial Is IR delayed the better the chunco chance of or suborning perjur perjury perjury per per- jur jury or spiriting witnesses out of or the tho way war Consequently no prosecuting officer who desires e to do 10 his lils duty dut- will under an any circumstances circumstance consent consent con con- sent to delay a trial when he knows that such ef efforts efforts ef- ef forts arc being made Tho The papers In the tho case are arc In tho hands of or the tho House committee which seems determined to suppress suppress sup sup- pre press s them The letter latter of or McNab Mc I c ab however howe fully Informing of ot all tho the ess essential facts has hns got Into print it amply continua confirms the statements In McNab's Mc abs telegram and shows sho-s that the attorney general general general gen gen- eral acted deliberately in the light of ot full lull information Information tion Including the fact tact that defendants at this end were wore boasting that their influence In Washington was sufficient to stave sta oft off an any effective prosecution tion I New York American merica v J COMMERCIALIZING COI G A nl c. CABINET ET POSITION HE practice of ot using a cabinet position as a T THE means o of supplying CO copy to a publication orI originated With Ith tho the editor of oC the Lincoln Common Common- er Editors have been heeti cabinet members in tho time past bu but never was one of of ot them so o lacking lacking- In good taste as IS to use his publication for the purpose of or booming his public acts and antl to use uso so a cabinet position position position tion to boost a circulation Tho The comment of or the secre secretary nr of or state stat on tho the case besides being uninteresting and platitudinous was wholly uncalled for Had Hall any member of ot the tho cabinet given out an In Interview Inter of ot sl similar purport we suspect he would woul have speedily heard from the White House Just Justh why h Mr r. r Bryan should spread his personal opinion of the acts of oC other members of ot the cabinet through his paper Is hard to understand nd save sa to people who understand Mr fl Bryan pm Iu I I Denver Republican l SENATOR It III a years ears la Is a long time awa away and many maru T things s may happen of or a corl nature said Senator John I P. P of oC Colorado in at attempting attempting at at- tempting to explain his hilS promise to rte for Cor free tree sugar ar I cannot con consider l cr leaving m my party part on account account ac ac- count of ot something which cannot happen for tOl three I years earA and n which perhaps may n never ver hap happen tn This shows th the absolute lack of oC faith the Colorado Colora Colorado Colo Colo- ra rado o stepping side senator puts put in the Underwood oo bUIas bilias a a. popular measure JI He Ile makes maleH vocal his In Inherent Inherent In- In her herent nl belief that the Underwood bill is II something f ur a transitory nature The rhe only t thing that can a I happen tappen to save sa the tho country front from the effects of or the attack on beet heet Hu sugar ar Is th time substitution of oC a a. Republican Republican Re Re- publican tariff measure I. I for fot the bill which Senator oth has promised premised to tv support but in which he shows JA little faith lie He plainly regards tho time fre free j Juga imposition as all evil n yet ct votes for the the evil evIl be bo- beC C cause Ul fr cannot happen for fOI three years and ma may J nc Thus crops out the yellow streak Democratic rear feat f of oC Democracy It Is the voice ce 1 of or th the J party art artor or of experiments the thc the party that Is neY never r c lIu KjAY M MN 1 m A t Fb |