Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-13

is vastly better now than IL has been at
any time within the limits OF history.
Many of the obviously bad things are not
bad at all by comparison with the past,
and many brutalities are indications Of
the march of Improvement. The moral adj
vance has been even greater than the
material, and in both cases il has been
prodlgous. There Is every warrant I'm the
annals Of the race for the statement that
never has the hope Of n high destiny Tor
ankln been so well founded as 1t Is
now. II the world-enders shall Insist On
the nostponement OF the break-u until
morality and spirituality shall be at the
lowest ebb, there must be a complete
change of tendency before they can ap-
pe4Rt a specific date for the event.
Our contemporary might have added
that these blind and ignorant croakers,
so loud, az a rule. in the'r religious
protes.ltions, exhibit small faith in .lie
omniscience of Almighty when they
predict such dread failure for His work.
There is war in the Iowa Republican
camp. There is open revolt against
A. B. Cunmins, the Republican candi-
date for governor, because of his effort
to evade the responsibility of making a
anvas on the issue of railway ASSESS
ments. The Cedar Rapids convention,
controlled by the Cummins forces, ig-
nored the railway question. upon which
Cnmmins made his differentiation
fight. Mr. Cummins himself did not
refer to the railway tax scandals in his
speech accepting the nomination and
went squarely back or his position.
The Independent press of Iowa and sew
eral influential Republican journals
now seem to be waking up to the fact
that Mr.. Cummins used the anti-rail-
road crusade for the sole purpose of
securing his nomination.
TIE MOSQUITO AND THE
The mosquito is nearing a crisis in
his career when ne finds himself up
against the Standard Oil Company. For
next to the mosquito the oil octopus
Cdn lidht lotll ulOSl lett III lllo GULL
try.
Many communities are fighting the
mosquito by floating petroleum on tho
surface OF "stagnent water where the
mosqul,o raises his large and pestifer-
Gus family. The oil settles the mosquito
family at the start, or rather prevents
it from starting at all on its blood-suck-
ing career.
Our New York contemporaries tell
of the "effcrts now beirS made by Doc
tor A. II. Doty. health officer of the port,
to rid Concord, S. L., of the mosquito.
The Standard Oil Company, realizing
the Importance of developing a new
market for its product, furnished 100
barrels Of Lima oil free of charge. 1t
aided the health officer in every pos
sible way. New York is the first large
city to take up the work of mosquito
determination. So far, the small village
of Winchester. Va, is the pioneer. A
few other towns in the neighborhood
have also taken up the task. DOCTOR
Doty in starting the work in New York
opens the second stage Of the fight
against the singing insect"
II is likely that next summer every
large city in the country and every sum-
mer resort, especially wher the iron-bill-
ed Jersey mosquito holds strong sway,
will begin pouring oil upon the mos
ouito-breeding ,stagnant waters. Since
the formula calls for the repetition OF
the dose every twenty or thirty days,
Lhe Interest of the Standard Oil Com
pany in the war on the mosquito
is obvious. it viii immensely widen the
market fer crude petroleum.
The American people are not fond OF
tie Standard Oil Company, but neither
are they in love with the mosquito.
10th are pets. But in this fight me
popular sympathies are-for oIce-with
the octopus.
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