Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-07-25


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Comptroller Mct;ann has announced
that Mayor Harrison has bottled up
his presidential boom until nos. He
might as well do this as keep 1t on tap
for 1901. The result would be just the
same.
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Reorganization instead of franchise
matters appears now TO he the engross-
ing idea of the Union Traction Com.
pany. The new special counsel. John
:. Miller. is already showing what Il
man Of brains and ability can do even
with such tangled skcin us the trac-
ton problem.
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Mr.. Henry Il. Weaver. the well.
known and popular coal merchant. has
with characteristic generosity cablcd
to the Tribune Il substantial subscrip.
ton towards The cost of providing life.
saving attendants ut the free bathing
beaches.
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Like the notes of FAMILIAR echo
comes the refrain from the Health De-
partment-"Boil the water"
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IT seems strange. but Ii IL fact
that taxes are steadily going up. and
yet there never has been 80 poor pub
lie service or so little of it in this
city.
Some of the smart Alexis who have
been getting up special programs for
the grubocracy. have put the latest
plank thus: 1--WE are against anything
the other fellows want" The 'othcr
fellows happen TO be the great
majority of the Democratic party, as
the Grub Club is likely to lind out
to its cost.
IL Is all right for the transfers to
unite for their own Individual and col.
lcctive benefit. 1t Is quite another thing
however for q body of men to unite for
the individual and collective injury of
others.
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This talk about the Kaiser having
impertincntly ''noscd" about the Kear.
sarge adds to Williams list of versatile
accomplishments that Of expert cngi.
nccr and shipbuil,ler. For he must
have seen at q glance what the Ordl.
nary expert could have discovered only
after the most minute scrutiny.
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The good men do Is hot always In.
tered with their bones. 1t was M.
nounced not many days ago for the
first time that the five.thOusand.dOllar
anonymous contribution which headed
the national subscription for the relief
Of the starving Cubans, before tho
Spanish war, was made by William
Mckinley.
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What this country needs Is a rev!s-
lon of Its criminal codes that will pre-.
vent cunning lawyers from nterposing
long delays and technical obstacles be.
tween criminals and justice. Until
this Is done there can be little hope
that the lynching habit can be eradl.
Gated or checked.
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Strange as 1t may seem, there has
come to this nation Of ours no calamity
against whose results the American
heart and purse has not been suttici
cnt. When 1t was the Chicago or Bos
ton fires, the Johnstown or Mississippi
floods, the American sense Of brother
hood has flung wide the lids of oul
treasure boxes and the salve Of succol
has flown out to the needy.
Human mothers are not the only
ones who want their baby baskets
daintily trimmed. 4 woman In Gene
SEQ, n. y, missed two lace collars tina
she had put on the grass to dry. Sh'
| put out third the next day, hoping
to catch the thief. To her surprise. ;
robin came after 1t, and carried 1t I,
her nest In an apple tree, and wove !
In with the other two that We're 4
surround her young when they wer'
Matched. II the other birds follow th
new fashion, lace collars will soon b.
ut a premium In that part Of tn
country.
The great body o. the Russian peopl
are content with their government.
may be harsh, viewed from an Ameri
can standpoint, but 1t does not seem s.
to them. They know nothing bettel
and although their material condition
1t poor they trouble themselves bu
little about political questions. Tn
Russians are also exceedingly patrl
otlc. They love their country fully Il
much rs the people Of Germany O
France love theirs, and, as a rule, the
are loyal to the Car, of whom, how
ever, they have but little persona
knowledge. 1t will be difficult to sti
people of this kind to join Il revolution
especially against the government O
the present Car, who has in man,
ways shown disposition to help them
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| That n conflict between Japan an,
Russia is inevitable and not far Off i
evident to even casual observer o
political conditions In the Orient. Tn
basis OF the coming difficulty is neithe
sentimental nor insignificant, an,
moreover 1t is one that diplomacy can
not alter or avert. Japan has the larg
est shipping and carrying trade il