Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-13
HEARD IN PASSING


 to be drawn to the White House like moths to flame on summer night Hartford Times.
 would like the city to own it's own gas and electric franchise. We are paying S1.60 a thousand feet for gas, when it is bought in some Massa- chusetts cities for 80 cents thousand. The city's lighting bill has doubled in the last six years. ."-~Mayo yor- Elect Ma han of New London. N The British army under the new scheme requires 5O,0OO recruits annual- ly According to the director. gener. aTs report only 68,ooo are examined annually, and of these about 23, 800 are reected,, giving deficiency Of $500 per annum, which England hopes to make up by colonial assistance.-New Haven Union.
 The view taken by Governor. Tillman of South Carolina. who is on trial for the murder of Editor ISpnzale is that having been stoutly opposed by the dead man he was justified in taking the law into his own hands. It will De remarkable if South Carolina endorses this view of personal license.--N ew Haven Register
 From this time on life will not be one sweet song for President Roose- welt unless everybody agrees to keep quiet about Delaware politics, the Charleston collectorship. Cuban reci- procity snive1 service reform, the New York rf1ayoralty and some two or three hundred other troublesome things. = Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Governor Chamberlain's advice should be needed by the farmers Of Connecticut in general. Stick, to the land Is a good text to go by. x The time is coming when land values will come back to their level. The foundation Of all wealth, the land, will sooner or later be the guiding star again and the quicker it comes the better for all classes. s.A-Middletown Penny Press.
 Mayor Sullivan of Derby, Mayor Charters of Ansonia, Mayor Mulvihill of Bridgeport and Mayor Sullivan of Hartford, Connecticuts four labor mayors, have all been summoned to court while serving as mayors, a fact which demonstrates nothing more or less, however, than that 1t is hard for a man in public office to steer clear of legal ntanglements.--An Senti. nel
 No matter what the preservative in- fuence of wealth, 1t stands to reason that John D. Rockefeller cannot live more than fifty or sixty years longer, and it is hoped that the authorities will not interfere with him during that time. For it will be of interest and perhaps even of educational value to know just how much an American can be worth if he is let entirely alone and allowed to do as he pleases. Brooklyn Eagle
 New York's state electrician, Ed ward F. Davis, who has put to death seventy-one men since the enactment Of the electrocution law, has no faith in the efficacy of capital punishment, but a strong impression of the lselesss ness and horror of 1t. After the death of the Van Wormer boys he declares his belief and hope that this execu- ton will sound the beginning of the end of capital punishment in the state of New York."--Concord Patriot.
 We do not believe for a moment that the great majority of working men have any sympathy with acts of law lessness or the disruption of industries, which have afforded employment to thousands of people for years. Labor unions when conducted in a reasona- hle manner are often the means of ben citing their members, but too often lately the management of such organ izations has fallen into the hands of irresponsible men who seek political advancement or else are looking strict ly to the interests of their individual pockets. Post.