The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-18
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Track elevation permits OF at least one
hundred per cent greater speed OF trains
OF train operations Eliminates the greatest
freight train loads; materially reduces
the expenses OF the legal department,
does away with suits for damages aggre-
gating many thousands of dollars yearly,
eliminates the expense of maintaining
grade crossings and increases the safety
OF train operations. Eliminate the greatest
OF all considerations, the saving OF hu-
man life and limb, and IL would still
seem that track elevation Is us essen
tial 10 the economic operation OF railroads
as Is the reduction OF grades, the doing
away with curves and the construction Of
better roadbeds Chicago Record Her
aid.
There ought to be no division of senti-
ment concerning the granting OF better
pay To the school teachers. This city pays
lower salaries than any OF the large cit
les. less even than some of the smaller
ones. while the work imposed Is very diff
ficult and Is constantly increasing under
the new methods. philadelphia Inquir-
er
"A little book with maps setting forth
the postoffice patronage districts Of tho
country and giving the names OF the
United States senators who control them
would make a mighty interesting cam
paign document And IL should have
Payne for a frontispiece. Boston Her
aid.
There are times when Sam Parks,
for tho sake OF blackmail. may demand
that members OF a union shall ignore their
duties to their families. Such man may
assume jurisdiction. as Parks unques-
tionably did. the result being that the
followers OF dishonest leader
are led to ignore an obligation that Is the
most sacred and binding that any man
can assume-the obligation to protect
and provide for their families. II should
be the aim OF labor leaders to make mem
bers of their unions better citizens, better
churchmen and better heads OF families,
and 10 this end there should be no in
defniteness or ambiguity In the obliga-
tion administered To candidates for ad-
mission. milwaukee Sentinel.
"If the secretary shall decide. In depos-
iting government funds, TO pass over the
banks which are reducing their circula-
tion the business interests OF the country
will be Just as well served as II those
banks were not ignored. Nobody will CEN
sure the secretary II he refuses to consider
favorably the applications OF banks which |
are contributing to that scarcity OF cur |
rency which he Is laboring to relieve" -
lllbun'.
"Missouri's atmosphere breathes OF a |
tonic something which Is reused morality. |
IL IL a spirit almost TO be felt. A great |
number OF Mssouris people are filed |
with an interest and a concern and pur- |
pose, all In one. The spirit OF the people |
partakes somewhat of the zestful inter- |
est for politics which affects most intel |
igent Americans; IL partakes OF a public !
moral apprehension, live
thought for the states welfare; II par
takes OF vague purpose. IL Is emotional !
pulsating civic virtue. II
Is great impulse. st. Louis Republic.
THE provisions OF the bill which has
Just been passed by the senate OF Colom-
bia authorizing the government 10 nego-
tate n new Panama canal treaty with the
United States hardly falls within the
pale OF serious discussion II would be GO
ing too far TO say that the action OF one
branch OF the treaty making power OF
Colombia In Offering 10 us treaty terms
which are known TO be wholly unaccepta-
bic falls outside the pale OF International
courtesy. New York Times