The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-06-10
STATE PRESS.
Items Of Interest and What the
Newspapers Have to Say.


Abbeville Meridional: History
contains no account Of the great
men of the world, men whose lives
have been devoted to the welfare
of their fellow men-as being greedy
schemers for money. There is no
such a thing as shylock being a
friend of humanity--they are a spe-
Cies Of brutes the world would be
much better off without. Occasion.
ally one of the rich robbers donate
a few millions Of his stolen wealth
to endow chair in some college or
tn build fashionable church,
thinking thereby to deceive God
and make sneak through the
pearly gates when he leaves this
earth. 1t is such donations that
communicates the latter day pulpit,
FOUNDERS and psalm singers-for
dough.
Daily States: The practical
joker is nuisance in every com
munity and one that it is impossi-
BILE to suppress. This class Of jok-
ers have beer. known to cause the
death of their victims, AID case
of this kind occurred few days
ago In Patterson, New Jersey. In
the car house Of the Patterson Rail
road Company there are large
number of employees and just for
the fun of the thing two of them ran
a live electric wire into a tub of
soft soap. The point OF the stupid
joke was that when a man put his
hand into the tub to get some soap
with which to wash he received
shock which greatly surprised him
to the intense amusement Of the on
lockers. One Of the employees un-
fortunately had weak heart and
when he put his hand into the soap
he fell dead and the consequence is
the perpetrators of the joke are now
under arrest for manslaughter, and
it is to be hoped the court will send
them to the penitentiary. In nearly
every case a practical joke Is brutal,
and is perpetrated by brutes with
the intention of causing some per-
son humiliation or physical pain,
and there is no reason in justice
why they should not be punished.
Times Democrat: The Ohio Re
publicans do not seem quite to
know what is to he the future of
Cuba, the Philippines, ETC., but
they profess a profound faith that
the omniscient wisdom of NJ ckinley,
which hitherto has done verything
better than things have been done
before since the days of Washing
ton, will solve these problems in a
way that will be most benefcent
alike TO them and to US. The faith
that these Buckeye Republicans
profess in Hanna's backboneles,
man, Mckinley, is really quite
touching; it would be interesting t"
know how much Of it they feel.
St. Mary Banner: Ex-senator
Ingalls, figures that trusts are bene-
fclal to individual consumers, but
detrimental to small merchants and
manufacturers. We decline, how
ever, to accept his argument that
trusts have lowered prices; it is i'm
provements in machinery and other
methods of production in all lines
of industry which have lowered
prices, and the lowering has been
in spite of the trusts, rather than
because of them. The only time
that trust ever favors lower prices
for anything but labor and what it
has to buy, is when it is crushing
out a rival.
Crowley Signal: 1t is evident
that the war department thinks the
war is about over, and that it does
not agree with the idea advanced |
by some, that it will take fifty or
one hundred thousand additional
troops to whip the F1llpinos. A
Washington dispatch says that the
cabinet decided at a recent meeting
that "there is no cause for the en-
listment of more volunteers. This
will be taken as good news by the
people. The cabinet of course is
on the inside SO to speak, and if