The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-08

THE tin workers recently agreed to accept
considerably reduced wages in making tin for use
in articles exported. Iron and Steel the organ
of the metal interests, sees in this result hope
for tho future. 1t looks for decreased wages in
many lines OF industry Especially as to tin
it says: when trade at home is dull or in
sufficient to keep all the mills and men engaged
American product can be produced at sufficient
y low cost to enable it to enter neutral markets
abroad in competition with the Welsh tin plate"
This SAYS the Chicago Chronicle sounds like
hint of permanent reduction in wages.
Acu du nebcr Wilhelm has started for
England
THE Washington Times is enthusiastic for
moral sanitation and an appropriation to purify
tho National capital Under the headline Our
Stun Problem" it declares mo city can he
really great until it has purified or eliminated
those localities commonly described as slums
However beautiful municipality may have been
made INTELLECTUALLY or otherwise, the presence
Of these physical and moral disease spots remains
blot on Twentieth century city life"
IT Is to be hoped that those Illinois excursion
lists will have this Houston weather all along
their route.
"A Lyndon saIloIlal magazine having remarked
that the trousers Of today will not only be
the trousers Of the next fifty years, but
the trousers OF civilization for all time" the
Louisville Courier Journal comments: Most Of
MS would be satisfied II the trousers of today
would hold their shape long enough to be the
trousers OF next month"
TuE democrats in New York are charging
fraud. Things do look little suspicious and
that's fact.
THE Minneapolis Journal, speaking of the great
power of Morgan and Of his followers, says:
1--WE have little doubt that both he and his satel-
tes have often had TO think twice before they
could recollect whether Morgan was nominal
president Of the United States so sincerely do
they consider him its real ruler"
HARRIS COUNTY. TEXAS, is not the only place
where they burn ballots" The republicans did
it in New York.
THE indianapolis Sentinsl says that Federal
patronage and the immense campaign fund car
ried Indiana for the republicans last Tuesday.
The same causes obtained in many Of the other
States.
Is THE millennium herep Rhode Island elected
democratic governor last Tuesday, and demo-
cratic congressman.
THE St Louis Post asks in alarm; what will
happen if time shall come when the secretary
Of the treasury can not release sIoooooooo to
save Wall street,"
opErL, having been governor for one term.
knew just what he buying when he bought
his way in for another one,
ONE Of Houston's detectives is said to have
had his pocket picked of $50 on circus day. Our
detectives should never so into crowd with
out a guardian.
THE democrats led by John R. Mclean made
fight on Tom Johnson, which accounts for the
large republican vote in Ohio
THE Cleveland Plain Dealer is Of opinion that
Cuba and Colombia are two pouting youngsters
with whom Uncle Sam may yet have to retire to
the woodshed"
REED sMoor, Mormon candidate for the senate,
believes in poygamyi but does he know right
swing from a left hook to the wind?
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NOTE AND COMMENT.
Forty years ago, says the Savannah News Il
was not uncommon thing 70 find ministers Of
the gospel protesting vehemertly against the in
trodction Of nstrnaentaf music int "a. ch,,-.h..