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retail trade was never better at this time
OF year. that manufacturers are busy and
that the outlook is fine for the future. We
have. then, the fact that the great In
dustrial community. not the corporate
trusts which have aroused so much an
tagonism. is i'm actual financial control
There Is plenty OF money for legitimate
business. and there is not the least uou-
BILE In executing ordinary contracts. lhe
country has divorced itself from Wall
street for the time being. Philadelphia
Inquirer.
I'm locating the responsibility for the
epidemic of lynching that has broken out
in this country It Is impossible to avoid
the conclusion that President Roosevelt
is the chief offender. There can be no
doubt that by his iighty actions and his
indiscreet utterances he has revived the
negro problem memphis Commercial
Appeal
mo one can deny. therefore that Sc
rum therapy is a promising and convinc-
ing avenue OF progress. The only mental
reservation TO be made Is one must not
believe that a disease Is extirpated every
time some scientist announces the discov-
cry OF a new serum. The Koch treatment
OF tuberculosis, for instance, has not been
a triumph for serum therapy so much as
a sermon on hyglenic living Chicago
Daily Tribune.
Senator Hanna seems to be in great
demand Secretary Hay. acting as minis
ter plenipotentiary and envoy extraordi-
nary for President Roosevelt. has inform
tkat hA
OF two thngs-accept the vice president
ial nomination or manage the campaign
for Mr. Roosevelt. Perhaps the senator
could be induced to do both. He Is good
manager and would make a strong candi-
date for vice president Minneapolis
Times
Postmaster General Payne has owing
TO his poor health. giving UP the personal
direction of the work OF uncovering the
postal frauds II is easy TO imagine how
resretfully Mr. Payne withdraws from
the task that was so near his heart. -
Chicago Record Herald.
1--WE will admit that II athletics could
be endowed so heavily that no charge
need be made for any athletic contests.
only those being present who were invit-
cd bv the members OF the contesting
teams, an lOe1l III
exist But in our large eastern colleges
the effect OF the increasing gate receipts
has not been TO lower the amateur stand
ing OF athletics although II may have en-
couraged extravaganza in athletic man
agement. That. however, Is something
which could be prevented by proper con-
troll on the part OF the faculty Certainly
in the East there Is no danger OF the gate
receipts running college athletics, as Pro-
fessor Woodward evidently thinks is the
case. The revenue derived from specta-
tors at Harvard and Yale games was
never as high i'm the past as now. and at
the same time the amateur standing OF
the teams has not depreciste ted. a state
ment that is also true OF athletics at
the great majority Of our Eastern coll
leges. Boston Herald.
IF George III could have come back TO
see his successor honoring a squadron of
war ships belonging TO the nation devel-
oped from the American colonies the oc-
casion might have prompted him 10 con-
siderable thinking over his historical
mistakes '--Buff8lo Courier.