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become disease more conta.
gious than the smallpox, the
measles or the bubonlc plague.
Unless the courts squelch the
Great Northern Securities company.
which constitutes a vast monopoly of
transportation facilities in the great
northwest, 1t will not be long until one
/ trust will control all the transportation
facilities Of the country, including
steam ana electric railroads and steam
/ ship lines and possibly including NJ.
| Santos Dumont and his flying ma
chimes Already a Southern Securities
/ company and Southwestern Securi,
! ties company are bruited and are only
awaiting the decision Of the courts in
the fight which Governor Van SAINT Of
/ Minnesota and other northwestern gov
ernors are waging against the Northern
! Securities company. II will be inevita.
/ Bile if the courts favor that company
that an Eastern Securities company
+ will also be formed, and from these
four will grow one universal monopoly
or trust
The Inevitable Is Happening.
III the debate on the pension appr0-
priation bill the fact was developed
that the sum to he appropriated for
pensions for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1893, is only little over Sl39.000,.
600, or aboit S5,5C0.09o less than FOR
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1902,
and Mr.. Barney Of Wisconsin, who had
the bin IN charge. declared triumphant.
~ that "the high tide in pension appro-
priations has been reached. In hich
statement Mr.. Barney, while undoubt
eddy perfectly honest. was most GER
! tainy Incorrect Perhaps the high tide
! Of appropriations for pensions for vet
Grams of the civil war has been reach
ed. for the process Of dying from old
age has long been at work among the
soldiers who fought for the Onion from
1861 to 1869. Their ranks are thinning
rapidly but that by no means proves
that "the high tide of pension appro.
priatiuns has been reached, for in that
same debate the startling fact was de.
veloped by Judge Bell of Colorado. one
Of the ablest men in the house, that al
ready over $4,000 soldiers Of the Span.
ish ANA Philippine wars have applied
for pensions. and the cry is stll They
Gomez And they will continue b come
until nine tenths OF all who have sery.
ed. are serving or shall serve In the
Philippines are on the pension rolls,
Sydney Smith once said. Doubtless
God could have made better berry
than the strawberry but doubtless he
never did" So say that "undoubted-
~ some nation could perform more
idiotic caper than our attempt to con
quer the Philippines, but undoubtedly
no nation ever did" Ii is an endless
job, and the pension roll will grow for
ever and forever that Is, the Philip
I pine pension roll The only way to stop
its growth is 10 stop the idiotic war.
Jenkins.
A great many people have made
spectacular asses of themselves con
corning Governor Leslie NJ. Shaw OF
Iowa, the new secretary OF the treas.
ury. He is not "a small man." as some
Wall street financiers seemed 10 fear
4 he was. If he has six foes en- each foot,
after the fashion of one Of the buck
Indians in a famous painting in the
rotunda Of the capitol. as certain mem.
bers of the tribe Of Jenkins aliege he
has, he is rot to blame FOR that and
those extra toes in no way initiate
( against the theory that he is mentally
tit to hold his present high position, for
! it will be found that, whatever the
state of his pedal extremities, the
Hawkeye statesman carries around Il
pretty good headpiece. What il he does
wear bootsg He can perhaps think as
well with boots on rs If he was wear
/ ing spats white, black. yellow or any
other color. What II he covers his
caput with SLOUGH hat? The value of
noggin depends much more on what's
inside of it than upon what's ON the
outside, Nobody appointed or employ
| ed nae to defend Governor Shaw. His
politics is sxecrahle. no worse than
+ the creed of other Republicans and nc
better. but l like fair play. and | CON
slider many of the filings made ut him
/ as idiotic Any man who within six
! years of the time that he was an oh
I scure country lawyer and banker in a
small town, unknown outside his own
county. can be twice elected governor
Of great state. establish a national
/ reputation as public speaker and
break into the cabinet is not to be
sneezed at, and these things are pre-
cisely what Leslie NJ. Shaw has done.
Luck, Pluck and Hard Work.
His career is another illustration OF
the readiness with which the average
American turns his hand TO any task,
self imposed or otherwise. If in the
spring Of 1896 any one had cast Shaw's
/ horoscope and predicted his subsequent
career, he would have been incredulous
himself doubling Thomas. Luck
Well, yes. partly, and partly the result
Of brains, pluck and hard work.
Another thing about Mr.. Secretary
i Shaw which is greatly to his credit and
which viii increase rather than tlinin-
ish his value as public functionary-
he is not dry as dust. He possesses
rich vein of humor which he is not
afraid TO work He is delightful RAJ