Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-02-14
Editorial Notes.

onstrating their alleged friendship
for the farmer by fighting vigorously
for oleomargarine.
Baron 'Estournells de Constant,
the noted French diplomat just ar
rived in this country, where he will
make an address at Chicago on WASH
ington's birthday. He says that he
is not visiting the country solely for
pleasure, nor to celebrate the glory of
Washington, but to seek instruc-
ton and bring back examples and
models that will be useful to his
country. He win try to demonstrate
the need Of closer union between
France and America in development
and progress. He says that all the
European countries have a great deal
to learn from the United States.
Several papers recently had ac-
counts Of the leadership of Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., at Groton School,
Massachusetts, where he is a pupil.
According to the story young Roose-
welt had inaugurated the custom Of
going without a hat, a habit followed
by all the boys without regard to
the conditions Of the weather. 1t is
a mere reporters story as the Groton
school boys never wear hats and the
custom started long before the
Roosevelt boy came there. A grad
uate of the institution says that he
never wore a hat during the whole
six years he was in attendance.
Alta visit toStevens Institute, New
York, whose new laboratory is the
gift of the great philanthropist, Mr..
Andrew Carnegie was presented with
a section of the first Trail ever used
in railway construction. 1t was
used on a road between Camden and
Amboy, n. j. The rail was made
in Wales in 1880.
At meeting of the Federation of
Labor in Chicago the other day many
delegates complained that a man
over forty-five years old had no
chance to get work. 1t seems
strange that a mechanic should be
considered at his worst just at the
time when he would be at his best
in most trades and professions.
The democr ats want the trusts re-
moved so that competition will regu-
late things and bring lower prices.
Yet the world is getting to believe
that a community of interests may
accomplish more in lowering prices
than will keen competition. In ma
ture competition decides which is
fittest to survive, but after that the
surviving form thrives best when
freed from competition. And every
farmer knows that if he lets his corn
compete with the WEEDS, or even
with too many stalks Of good corn
in the same hill, he will get no crop.
The great problem then is not to
foster either line of action in the in
dustrial world but to find the golden
mean.
The British house of commons has
for the fourteenth time passed the
"deceased wife's sister BILL" permit
ting a widower to marry his deceased
wife's sister, 1t was met with un-
surmountable opposition in the house
Of lords, so that such a marriage is
still illegal in England though possi-
bic in the colonies.
Large exports of gold are leaving
the country, mostly to France in pay
ment Of obligations created by
American bankers abroad. The
place Of the United States as a credi-
tor nation whose financial influence
| is felt all over the world is thoroughly
assured.
Editor Bryan says that his paper
will not support any one who was
even a luke-warm democrat at the
time Of the last national campaign.
Two questions naturally arise at this:
Is he trying to retahete, or he is go
ing to support only William Jennings
Bryan.
The Los Angeles Times is author
ity for the statement that the liberal
patent system Of the government is
in a great measure responsible for the
present supremacy Of the United
States in the Industrial world. The
inducements it has offered have been
large, as have the rewards Of success
ful invention. Improved machinery
and methods have given America an
advantage that Europe seems to be
unable to overcome in spite Of her
much cheaper wage scale.
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