Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-14


 l the women will know more than men l ip fifty years. Dr Hillis is just fifty 1 years behind the times.-W Washington Post.
 General Uribe-Uribe has taken the 1 field for Colombia an against Panama. 1 1t may yet be necessary to cut canal | through that mans narne..-Washing- l ton Post. General Merritt is said to be slated 1 for the postmastership at Washington. Generally speaking, there has been too little merit in that department for some 1 time back.-Baltimore American. l Uncle Joe Cannon gave one thought l to Morgan and Carmack and promptly
 decided he would rather remain speak 1 CT than be vice-president and presiding 1 officer of the senate.-Milwaukee Sen l tinel. sY
 l There Is no part of the administra-
 tion of MT Roosevelt that reflects great
 CT credit on him than that connected
 with the application of the merit sys- 1 tenn, which he understands far better than any president since it's first intro duction, and to which he is intelligent 1 ly devoted.-New York Times. We quite agree with those inquirers who are asking why the democratic
 party looks to Dr St Clair McKelway 1 to find 1t a candidate instead of look ing to him to be its candidate. He 1 measures up far above the Parker
 standard and is open to only one seri-
 ous objection. he is too good for his l party.--Hartford Coura9t
 President Harper of the Standard Oil university in Chicago, is said to be
 worried over the fact that MT Rocke- feller's annual donation of $1,000.O00 has not reached him, although, it gen
 erally comes to hand quite a while be- fore Christmas. But he should not
 despair The price of oil is still going
 up.-New Haven Palladium.
 Dr Harper shows himself narrow in l accusing Boston of being provincial on l the ground that half of our people have never been outside Of New Eng land. You have travelled extensively in Europe, believe, MT Thoreau" some one once asked the philosopher. "No, indeed. but I have travelled very
 extensively in Concorn," was the reply. Boston Transcript.
 Nr Cannon has the full support of
 the public. The uglier the senate gets in it's insistence upon it's alleged rights" the more emphatic will the public become. Paradoxica1 as the idea may seem the senate like all other
 branches of government, "deriyes it's just powers from the consent of the
 governed" The "governed' are about ready to make themselves heard.-Chi-
 cago Record-Herald.
 New Britain firemen find it hard to fight fires that are confined within iron clad buildings. They declare that
 sheet metal is not only hindrance to effective work, but menace to their
 personal safety while thus employed.
 The use Of metallic coverings for br1ild- ings is designed more to keep fire out than to keep fire i'll. but it is seldom
 effective in doing either, in fact it has
 often been known to thwart the very
 purpose for which it is intended.-An-
 sonia Sentinel.
 God never meant that one man
 should control all of the oil and all of
 the steel of this country; that the man
 of ten talents should crush out the one talent man. God gave genius so that every man. woman and child should benefit by it. He never intended that
 one man should control oil and possess
 S100,000,0O0, while others had none.
 And that man and others fn the trusts
 are throwing away their chance. Think
 how, instead of being reviled as they
 are to-day, they might be respected;
 how countless thousands might arise and call them blessed because of those
 things for the uplifting of their fellow
 men, they might do.-Newell Dwight
 Hills.