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From the Chicago Daily Netos.
when the learned Assistant Corporation Counsel
came into court yesterday. wearing 90 gray skirt,
narrow white leather belt, black and white check
shirt waist, standing collar, and black tie." it wm al
once apparent TO the chronicler Of the proceedings
that the time for a departure in the musty methods
OF setting down the evolution of the law had arrived.
The entrance of tho learned Assistant Corporation
Counsel was, in fact, . kind OF formal notification
that the law is even now in the process Of being in.
vested in shirt waists, gray skirts, and tho other
mysteries of multifarions feminine habiliments, and
that due regard must DO paid TO that fact hereafter In
the literature OF the law.
The law books will in time be otrown with desorfp-
tive sentences Of the sort used in reporting those
present at the charity ball. Thusi
"opnion by Juggerson. Oh. J. (Black silk, cut high
In the neck. trimmed with 1et)
Dissenting opinion by Pugsley. J. CTailormade
gown of blue cloth. full in the skirt, pearl orna-
ments. y
The journalistic account OF the trial win sayl
"Counsel for complainant then arose to reply. wear
ing a lovely satin dress trimmed with lace"
What q world OF opportunity for crushing repartee
the new order will afford. Thus, in the heat OF loren.
sic debate. shouts like this may be delivered: ~
dissent, your Honors, from the position taken by
counsel for the other side. whose hat, I may remark
in passing. is not on straight" Or: "May It please
the Court. the precedent which opposing counsel has
cited no moro ns this case than her jacket nts her
back. Her deductions. like her front hair. are false -
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The American People Not Extrava.
giant.

In the course of a shallow but preten-
tious address before a bankers convention
at Detroit on Wednesday, young Mr.. Eek
ELS, still Comptroller of the Currency, re-
peated the stale and superficial assertion
that a prime cause of our long period of
business and industrial depression was our
extravaganza. "No thoughtful student of
affairs" said his precocious financial phi
losopher, "can fail to know how largely as
q contributory element to all the past idle
ness. agitation, distress, and poverty has
been the extravaganza which has entered
into the Americans everyday life"
Who are the particular Americans whom
Mr.. ECKEI.s accuses of this baneful extrav-
agance in their everyday lifea Are they
the rich people or the poor people, the farm.
ers or the m~echanics3 and in what way has
their extravaganza been displayedi Are
they the 100000 depositors who have
So, 200 900, 900 Of their savings laid by In
the savings banks2 Where else In the
world is there an example of a population
so thrifty2
Is it the rich who have been guilty of
this "extravaganceg' No man who lives
within his income can be called extrava-
giant, and the increased accommodations of
capital during even the period of distress
through which we have been passing indi-
cate that this aw of thrift has not been
violated by our people.
Economy in expenditure is we'll, but 1t
may be carried to the extreme of a vice
injurious to society. If every American
spent only the money requisite to keep soul
and body together. saving the rest, our
complex civilization would sink to the sim.
plicity of barbarism. 1t exists and pro.
crosses because men spend their money to
crafty an increasing variety of artificial
wants created by their tastes and ambi.
tions. Thus the multiform industry of our
civilization is made possible. When men
generally begin to practice sharp economy,
depression follows. The increased economy
decreases the demand for a multitude of
articles In whose production labor is en-.
gagged, and mechanics and other workmen
are thrown out of employment, and they, in
their turn, are compelled to refrain from
buying because they are without money
with which to buy.
Thus the depression is extended to all de-
partments of trade, industry, and produc.
ton. If the people Of this country reduce
ehcii expenditures III q "'oioSo oy ohiy
B per cent. there is an aggregate loss to bust
ness vast enough to send 1t down from pros
perity to depression. The "extravagance"
of our very rich men has been talked about
loudly during recent years. but 1t does not
exist; 1t has never existed. Extravaganza
is relative only. An expenditure of $500 q
year may be extravaganza for one man,
and of $4,000 o a year prudent restraint
In another. The truth is that relatively
to their incomes tho expenditures of the
very rich men in America are much
less than of men of corresponding incomes
in Europe. and more especially England ;
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italy, nor IL IL likely that WILLIAM IL,
though IL IL his whim for the moment to
pose as the Sultan's protector, would set
himself to thwart his Austrian ally
or the Gear whom lately at st. Peters
burg he strovo 30 earnestly to con.
ciliate. There remains only England, and,
were II agreed that her possession Of
Egypt should be henceforth unchallenged,
It is hardly conceivable, In view Of the
changed temper of her people, that her
Government would venture to obstruct
once more, as it did In 1928, 1884, 1853,
and 1873, the deliverance of the Christian
subjects of the Turk. 1t Is true hat Lord
SALISBURY coUperated with Lord BEAcoNs-
FIELD in upsetting the treaty of a Stefa-
no but there is nothing In his present atti-
tudo to justify the belief that he would
now i%nterpose to shield Turkey from attack
on the part Of Austria and Russia.
1t would be q great gain for civilization
II the last years of the nineteenth century
should witness the long-desired expulsion
Of the Turks from Europe, and, inasmuch
a. an accommodation Of the conflicting in
terests of Austria and Russia seems indis.
pensable to that end, we hope that there Is
a solid basis for the statement made with
such absolute confidence by the Quarterly
Revietp.
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How to Beat Tammany.

Last year Tammany was beaten eoun-
pletely by 90. 900 votes.
Whyi
Because the enemies Of Organism, ear
nest and slncerelin their hostility, united
under the leadership Of the Republican
party to accomplish the job. They got to-
gether and voted for the Republican party
as the only possible way Of punishing and
beating Tammany for it's social and politi-
cal crime in espousing Organism.
The victory over Tammany last November
indicates that it can be repeated next
November.
Howl
Obviously In the Same way, or by the
union Of all tho enemies of Bryanism In
earnest support Of the Republican ticket.
That was the only way In which Tammany
could ave been beaten last year, and 1t is
the only way In which 1t can be beaten
again this year.
Every intelligent citizen knows that.
Every intelligent citizen who honestly de-
sires to beat Tammany will follow that
course next November. The men who are
intriguing to resist that obvious dictate of
necessity do not want to beat Tammany
and Organism. They want to beat the Re-
publican party and consequently intrench
Organism In power.
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E1pureatine tho Chicago Platform.

From q number Of States, including New
York, com reports of an intention ON the
part Of some of the Democratic leaders to
select certain parts Of the Chicago platform
and make them into State and local plat
forms and to leave out or pass lightly over
other parts Of the Chicago programme. 1t
matters little whether such reports are sent
out for the purpose Of sounding Democratic
sentiment or whether they represent q de-
termination and not q hope Of certain shifty
Democratic leaders In Republican States,
and among the Republican States New
York is necessarily included. The plan Of
pruning the Democratic platform will be
found to be foolish even II it is feasible. No
State convention, or county convention
has any authority to take anything away
from the Chicago platform, and any Demo
Gratis who try to expurgate that gospel of
the Democracy will thereby make their
loyalty and party orthodoxy suspected.
They will be cutting themselves on from
the national Democracy and forming q lit
tie schism of their own.
The coming of prosperity and the fall in
the price Of silver have made the Chicago
declaration in favor of the free coinage Of
silver at the ratio of 10 to l seem some
what out Of date. and some of the trimmers
who never believed in 1t are naturally anx-
ious to put into prominence other parts of
the platform. There is no reason to sup
pose, however, that tho mass of the party
has changed its mind as to silver. And
what are the Issues in the Chicago plat
form which, It is said, are to be put into
the foreground, for the benefit Of Eastern
eyes, while silver is obscured In the back
groundf The protest against Government
by injunction" seems to be a ~favorite with
some of the Democratic leaders. This 10
simply a protest against good order. the
enforcement Of law, and the suppression Of
riot, and Is likely to be found considerably
more unpopular than the 10 to 1 folly was.
In fact, some men who could have been In
duced to stick to the Democracy as to the sill
yer question last fall rebelled at the free riot
plank. Mob law Is even more noxious than
scaling debts. Then there Is the Chicago
demand for an income tax and for the pack
Ing of the Supreme Court in order to have
such a tax declared constitutional. Some
of the Tammany chiefs and other powerful
Democratic intellects Of the new school
seem to think that the income tax is a good
Democratic issue that will rouse the faith
full and call back the deserters. Just try 1t
on Try 1t on right in these ATTITUDES, and
see how many votes there are in 10.
AS for giving any life to the languid ut
~terances Of the Chicago Convention in re-
gard to the tariff. it would be just as easy
to make an excitement about the Alien and
Sedition laws.
There is no pruning Of the Chicago plat
form which will do the Democrats any
good in the East. The anti-silver Demo-
Gratis of the East have mighty little to say
In the councils of the Democratic party.
There Is an inevitable air of burlesque
about their present solemn consultation
and schemes of %wabbling.
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but such 90 our expenditures were during
the last four years our ~"extrayaganoe"
helped materially to check depression by
causing q large demand for industry which
otherwise would nave been unemployed.
So 1t has been throughout our society;
h expenditures of the people who were
receiving Incomes gave incomes to other
people, who else would ave been unable to
make their living. One Of the evils Of hard
times, as they are called, is that they breed
a spirit OF unnecessary economy, which, In
the aggregate, lessons demand enormously,
with great consequent distress. In suon
times humanity and even enlightened sen-
interest dictate that people should NOV
economize unnecessarily; Mr.. EoKELss
"~extravagance" becomes q virtue.
A prime cause of the business improve
ment now setting in is that people arc
looking into the future with moro conn
dence, and money begins again to circulate
moro freely in expenditures and invest
ments provocative Of enterprise and NOUS
try. Parslmony has been replaced oy "enr
travagance." as Mr.. EoKELs calls 1t. more
money Is spent, and hence there 10 more
money to be spent, and trade and produo-
tion begin to thrive again.
The accusation that a besetting sin OF tho
American people is "e1travagance" has
been made during as many years as we can
remember in words about the same as those
used by Mr.. EoKELs; but 1t has always been
made by superficial thinkers and observers.
1t has never been true; never justified. Tho
great growth of the national wealth In ag-
gregate and per capita proves that, and 1t
is made manifest In the individual ex-
perience of men. Poor Richard Is tho
Yankee apostle. A penny saved is q penny
earned, is the American motto. and the In
junction has been obeyed even too strictly
N too willingly.
1t is not worth while to controvert in de-
tail the assertions and theories of Mr..
EcKELs as to our currency system. but gen.
orally. we may say, they are as false and
fallacious as his assertion and philosophy
concerning our American extravaganza"
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Old Ironsides.

1t Is a happy thought that has prompted
the celebration at Boston, early next month,
of the hundredth anniversary of the
launching of our famous old frigate Con-
stitution. Surely she is as worthy of honor
as NELSON'S flagship Victory, which is pre-
served by the British Navy with patriotic
care and affection.
1t is true that the old vessel has been re-
paired and altered, from time to time. until
she Is not In every respect the same craft
that brought down the flag of DAoREs In
the Guerriere. She no longer mounts the
battery that riddled the hull and picked to
pieces the masts and spars of the Java IN
I'll her British opponent was left a hope
less wreck. She has not the spread OF
canvas that served her for manoeuvre
when, bearing down upon two British
opponents, the Cyane and Levant, she cap
tured both. Housed over at Portsmouth
Tor many years past, she has been to the
eye a vastly different object from the
stately craft that helped to punish the
baroary pirates In her early career. and that
later, at the outset of the war OF 1912, by
speed and splendid m~anoeuvrinR, showed
her heels to a whole British squadron, OF
which she had seemed to be the prey.
But practically the old frigate, for the
purposes of patriotic associations and sen
timent, Is the same as she was when, sue
cessively under HULL. BAINBRIDGE, and
she won her great name. Hell
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FAST TRAINS THE SAFER
Reasons why they XIII Fewer Persons Than
the Slower Trains
From the indianapolis Journal.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
"There seems to be an impression. " said Q
railway superintendent. speaking of the fast
service the railways are now giving. that the
fast trains are the most dangerous for people to
ride on. and that moro persons are killed in
crossing tracks, &C.. than by the trains which
are slower. This is a mistake.
"The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
given this matter special attention. and has
statistics to show that. in proportion to the fast
and slow trains run, moro accidents have oc-
Cured to the slow trains and more, persons not
in the employ of the company killed by the
slower trains. Men in charge of fast passenger
or freight trains are constantly on the watch for
at stake, and one will notice that the blasts
Of his whistle are more frequent and sharper;
the bell when passing through a town or a
city or near a highway. crossing, II would be
difficult nh 70 find ndI people living on the lines nes Of the
LINES ans S the G fast express opsr ,b No v 2, between snd s. p:I Louis
Kniste !1ss; te on the d%p Big F F1ais and hdpt the hume snc
keep out Of the way. The equipment of the fast
thing conduces to make them safer to ride on
and less liable to injure people at highway cross
ings and in passing through towns and cities.
The Pennsylvania transportation department is
fully satisfied that the above statement is cor
The same remark will apply to the freight
service. In 1883 twelve miles an hour was con-
sidered the highest speed limit for a freight
train, and j. j. Turner. when superintendent Of
the Indianapolis division OF the Panhandle, was
the first to increase the speed OF freight trains
in this section. scheduling a train at sixteen
miles an hour between Indianapolis and Colum-
bus. Competitors soon took similar action and
increased the, speed of the fast freights TO eigh-
teen miles an hour. then to twenty miles, which
was the maximum for through freight trains for
several. years. but with the better track and
better locomotives some of the roads are sched-
ulfng freight trains at twenty-three to twenty
fve miles an hour, using the schedules of pas
senger trains during the seventies and eighties.
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We must protest against tho project TO make
Agriculture appear prosperous on the basis OF mar
ket or speculative quotations. Washington Times.
A protest here reverently recorded. As long as
the quotations are in the hands of tho Money
Kings. how can Democratic agriculture expect
~justicei IL 1t not too probable that the re-
ported high price of wheat IL n nero fiction In
vented by the Money Sharks to deceive the
farmersi Suppose the New York and Liverpool
quotations were not manipulated by the Money
Power, docs anybody think that wheat would
not be quoted at 25 cents, the figure set by Mr..
BRYANT Depend upon 1t, tho Money Power Is at
the bottom Of the trouble. Wheat is innocent.
Wheat means we'll, but tho Money Power doc
tors the quotations.
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No Compromise on Ono Point.

The proposed conference between the
several political organizations opposed to
the Organization of New York city will be
o worthy effort, for which but one abso-
lutely fixed rule of procedure need be laid
down beforehand. Judgments may differ,
of course, as to the candidate. The desire
for harmony may make that individual, 30
far as concerns his personal sentiments and
affiliations, something Of a compromise.
But within n a"nti-Tammany combination
there can be no compromise about adopting
and putting at the front the Republican
party's platform, for which the voters soon
to elect a Mayor voted a year g by a
majority of nearly sixty thousand.
No trifling in the Greater New York with
the ideas and interests of honest money
and anti Bry anism!
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Look Out for Spoutsi

The extraordinary change in our sum-
mer weather during the past few years is a
subject Of considerable comment among
yachtsmen and boatmen. 1t is far more
dangerous now to take a trip down the bay
In a sailboat han it was some years ago.
In times past squalls were rare visitors
hereabouts. Now we get one every other
day, and it frequently happens to DO q
twister Of the most severe character.
All this is bad enough, but it appears
that we have a somewhat disagreeable ad-
dition to our ugly surprises in the form
Of waterspouts. Old salts say that these
strange phenomena hold on to their pos.
sessions and never desert the places where
they once gain a foothold. II this be true,
the spouts have come to stay.
And here it Is curious to notice the slow
but sure march Of the tornado toward
the Eastern States. Some years g that
thing was a wonder Of the wild West.
But 1t advanced with the destruc-
ton of the forests, and seems to be
spreading all over the country. Few
IL any places in the Union can be re.
garded as safe from It's attacks. The other
day Long Island was visited by a tornado.
and, inasmuch as a spout is simply q lorna
do soaked through. it becomes clear that
its kind Is bound to throw our beautiful and
once peaceful bay into spasms and fits.
This makes a poor outlook for those deli
cate but interesting craft known as sand
bag tossers. But, after all, there is no use
in fretting. Let the spouts waltz till they
burst. There will always be Jul on the
water, in spite of them.
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Special thanks are hereby given to our
esteemed contemporary, the Toledo Ne,rs,
which, in spite of many obstacles, shows q firm
courage in trying to keep down its spirits and
show a lugubrious countenance. "Fie upon
Prosperity Out upon her!" this sturdy hacker
Of disaster seems to say. bring on your good
times. Roll in good fortune. Nothing can
mako ne cheerful. I'm bound to be wretched,
and nothing shall prevent me-" Hear tho
whimsical chap, as he squeezes out q
tear and remarks that 1.-The darkest phase
Of the Dingley bill is the fact that mil.
lions Of poor fellows are out Of employment
Always millions, mind you; never less than
millions. Those imaginary millions are a great
comfort to the inexorable sons of calamity.
Has the Toledo Netrs heard about some harvest
ers somewhere in Minnesota who have struck
for five meals a dayi There is something com.
forting. There are three or four Of tho mil.
lions"
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lines are there, and the feeling that nearly
seventy years ago prompted HoLAfEs 10 pen
his famous verses, protesting against the
proposal to break her mp, still appeals for
the preservation of this noble craft.
There has been some discussion In Con-
gress and In various societies Of the uses to
which Old Ironsides should be put. A
favorite project has been to have her lowed
30 Washington, and there held as q floating
museum, filled with various naval relics,
or Illustrations Of naval progress. 1t has
also been proposed hat she should be as
signed to the instruction of naval militia,
the view being that her very career would
be inspiring for this purpose.
But whatever the merit In such suRges-
tions, tho important point IL that Old
1ronsides needs no further utilization.
She is q monument to the great deeds and
great naval heroes Of the war Of 1912.
Simply to preserve her Is to make her of
sufficient use, and the employment most
suitable for her IL that which will alter
her least, and make her surest to escape
the wear Of time and the danger Of the
seas. In the case of the Kearsarge we
had a bitter experience Of the false
economy of utilizing a historic ship for
routine drudgery, although incompetency
In those who had charge Of her was
the real cause of her sad fate. There Is no
danger that the Constitution, older and
still dearer to the country as q whole, will
be sent to face any such perils as those OF
Roncador Reef; but we must make as little
change in her as possible, and her final
resting place should be chosen with q view
to keeping the centenarian ship for the ad'
miration Of generations to come.
Old Ironsides was successfully locked at
Portsmouth some days ago, and on or about
Sept. 1 is to go to Boston, the port where
she first entered the water. It is fitting
that at that point she should celebrate he,
hundredth birthday.
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sFxn, diussmblsFr, chssts. end isrs, for dirssnnbfinn
Il only one form Of lyinsf
ITO lead people nstray. 10 induce them 70 adopt
false doctrines. and te practice deception and double
dealing, involves . fearful responsibility. 'Woeuntc
that man by whom offences come. It were better for
him that q milestone were hanged about his neck and
he was cast into the depths Of the sea-"
And after much moro admonition, equal
ly vigorous In language and fortified BY
Biblical preoepts which would make even
a less sensitive egotist than BRYAN shrink
and shiver, the ex-senator ~pronounces the
sentences:
'Tho man who tries TO make hypocrites Of other
will. by the general public, most assuredly be olassed
~ one himself. II IL q dreadful thing to DO q hypo'
critic, for how can he escape the damnation ofhelf'
1t is . pretty severe sentence. but it II
strictly according to Divine Law.
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Zone does not hear anything now" says
tho Indianapolis Journal. "about there not
being money enough to do tho business of the
country. Business has improved wonderfully,
and yet there Is no complaint Of scarcity of
money" just wait until the Populists have got
In their other crops and begin to SOW resolu-
lions again. Just wait until the autumn winds
sigh and sob with resolutions about the scarcity
OF the circulating medium and tho insuhi-
Gent amount OF circulation per capita. No
article in tho whole Populist dream book
10 more sweetly mathematical than this per
capita article. my COW eats 30 much hay
q day" says the Populist economist; therefore
every man, woman. and child must have 30
much money. At least, there must DO some
money which they could have II they could get
it." II business has improved under existing