The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-11

The New York Evening Post OF Friday
printed ana editorial introduced as ioi-
lows.
"No amount OF quibbIng viii disguise
the fact that a prizo-asht is to come or
this evening at Coney Island and tnaI
the city and State of Sew York VIII
thereby suffer disgrace
Yet in spite of this warning and pro-
test. the fight did occur, ANA theie was
uo interference. 10 was ietl"-oh
0pbt. as savage and as brutal as anf
tbat ever was pulled off, 10 was for
the championship and the winner was
proclaimed The champion OF tie Wpfl1
as soon as Dee had knocked the breath.
and weu nigh the life Out of DIS aniie1-
mist. Prize fighters DO not engage lh
"gloye contests" for the championship.
New York is as much "disgraced as
Carson.
A great many newspapers waste ltp'
and a. great many individuals waste wind
nowadays about the advent of the "ln-
dependent Voter" We believe iu the in-
deDendent voter. We believe that every
citizen of this great American Republic
should exercise his own, individual lnae-
pendent Judgment upon an puD-c t'''
lions and vote as Dis conscience anu
reason dictates. In that sense OF lue
word. we say, We believe ln inc ii'e
uendent voter. But iu It's general. come
mon. and accepted political sense l.e ODD
dopcndent voter SIS either ipAiieai
nonenttv or a political nuisance.-North-
efn Neck News.
Keen always in mind the difference be-
tween the independent voter ana me
muewump The one believes in party
organization and has party afhliauon'
but Will not sacrifice bis principle TO
party regularity The other has no
party aniiauon. but votes with this party
or that according TO the within OF the
hour. or according as IBIS personal inter-
ests dictate.
The Columbia. s. c.. state. which IS
am antitrust newspaper, says:
"The announcement of the sale OF the
Columbia Electric Railway Light and
Power Company 20 "a Baltimore synol-
cate who viii improve extend and de-
vclop the property is made 10y inc
state to-day with very special pleasure
for this newspaper has had something
10 do with prevcntns the destruction OF
the investment of this home corporation
bv the grant of another electric llght-
Sag franchise. and III has felt It's rospon-
sibliiy 10 tho public for good outcome
OF IT'S action.
"It is easy 10 see that II the second
franchise. on two occasions solicited Of
CITY Council. had been granted the sale
now effected would have been rendered
impossible. There would have ensued
q desperate struggle between two cor
porations for the possession OF a field
only large enough for one. and that
struggle would now be continuing or
would have been ended before this time
hv the destruction OF the elder COM
pany. financially the weaker
There is the whole trust question In
nut shell. Competition is not the life or
trade when two rival concerns under
tafo q fight 10 the finish. Such COM
petition IS the death Of trade. for IL de-
strovs property and kills enterprise. In
this enlightened age. business men have
learned better than 10 pursue such
suicidal policy. They think IT more sem
eible 10 compromise their differences.
~ pool issues which means combination.
And that IS the genealosy and philosophy
OF the trust.
The canaor Of the Brooklyn Eagle IS
refreshing. The other day ia tho town
Of Lavant. Me- a Methodist preacher,
named Higgins. was tafred and feathered
bv a mob. because he had been preaching
a doctrine which the mob I'D not Ike
our Brooklyn contemporary SAYS that the
story shows that human nature is pretty
much the same the world over. and that
a rural town I'm Maine is just as likely
10 be overdone with the mob as = rural
county IN Georgia
III that same crowd OF men, the Eagle
goes on. had been inhamed By murder
or assault Is there any likelihood that they
would have stopped with tar and feath-
ers and a rail? Would not the instinct
Of blood for blood have been as powerful
with them Is II WAS IN Georgia. The