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"In the recent Wall street failures
there's oe elemet etirely. pleasing 10
the public The game seems 10 pe comm
ed almost exclusively TO spectators anu
gamblers, with one set fieecins the o'hei
and both, for the time. ceaslng 10 prey oi
the public. As long as the operators play
with their own money IL would not De
considered amiss II more OF them were
driven from the pit."-San Francisco |aii
Again we are told that the army can
teen IL to be re-esta blished. Canteen or no
canteen, there is one thing that should De
disestablished and that Is the dive that Is
so numerously and malodorously IN eVi-
dence In the vicinity of every army post
Minneapolis Times.
.eTbe organs and the politicians in the
Republican party have all seemingly
united OH Theodore Roosevelt for presi-
dent next year, but II he should be SUD
denly sna tched from his position as the
monopoly candidate what beautltul
scramble there would be. Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Miles offence, 40 far as the present
administration Is concerned, lies In the
fact that he has differed with II regarding
the reorganization OF the army. and has
said some things that the president would
rather had not come TO light. But the
treatment OF Miles Is typical OF this ad-
ministration. The president has snubpeo
the hero OF Manila has actually distorted
an official report to reflect upon the nero
OF Santiago, and he has. contrary 10 the
army regulations. Extensively reprimand-
ed Miles without allowing him court OF
inquiry The actual fighters have been
neglected and'the fakirs have received
ali the recognition. Memphis CONNER
cial Appeal
Justice Brewer, OF the United States
supreme court. some years ago. In an ad-
dress which he delivered before the AM
erican Bar association, advocated doing
away with appeals IN criminal cases
Justice Brewer urged this reform-whieh
cannot be called radical when we reflect
that II Is the English method and that II
operates with excellent tresults-becauseh ne
believed the present system permits the
escape OF n larger percentage OF Grimm
ais We OF New York. who know how
many murderers and other evildoers have
evaded punishment by the use OF the
many weapons the law has put In the
hands OF the criminal in it's scrupulous
care to prevent the doing Of wrong to
the innocent can see the force OF the
Brewer argument That the doing away
with criminal appeals would harm nobody
but the criminal experience goes a long
way to show."--New York Press.
THE situation Is complicated by the
fact that were Russia to adopt an ag-
gressive course in respect to Turkey
Great Britain would be almost certain to
go TO the rescue OF the latter. Austria and
also Italy would not consent to an exten-
sion OF Russian authority over territory
not belonging 10 Turkey. All this is recog-
nized by the insurgent Macedonians and
their Bulgarian sympathizers. and they
hope TO bring about a condition that will
thus drag the leading powers into the dis
pute. denver Republican.
1T may be that negotiations for a
treaty upon somewhat different terms
will be proposed But the United States
have carefully balanced the advantages
and the costs OF the two routes, and have
offered Colombia as much money as they
can without making the Panama canal
more expensive I'm proportion TO It's W. lue
than the Nicaragua canal. The Boeo n
statesmen can drive the canal 10 Central
America. but they cannot drive the
United States into paying their exorbi-
tant demands. s."-Philadelphia Record.