Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-09

i < < { eralJWood was an accomplished all arcund deceiver until his promotion became imminent. New York Times. Hanna. York World.
 We do not believe that the democ- racy of the twenty-first century or the twenty second will be in any respect an improvement on the democracy of the Declaration of Independence, the democracy of Thomas Jefferson.- Hartford Times
 Now that the children who permit ted themselves to follow pernicious example in Waterbury during the street railway strike are safe behind prison bars, it might be pertinent to inquire if the investiga ton of the mur- der of the Waterbury policeman, Men delssohn. is a closed incident.-New Haven Palladium.
 The fact that three presidents of the + United States have been assassinated shows the need of protecting the man who fills that office, and yet, with all the warnings that have been given by the history of attempts on the part of cranks to approach the president, the police have not learned how to keep all such persons back.--Denver Reprb- lican.
 There are limits to what the unions can accomplish in the way of watering wage stock, just as there>Sare limits to what MT Morgan can accomplish in the way of watering other stocks. When that limit is reached the bubble bursts, and it is hardly worth while to enter into a heated discussion as to the identity of the person that pricked it,-Detroit Free Press.
 The MiddletoNn Penny Press is about to achieve fame-it has been sued For S10,O0O in libel suit. This is what It gets for telling what it thinks of company of players who appeared in that city recently. Anyone would think from this that that town was a real first night city where criticisms gre worth their weight in gold-but it isn't, that honor belongs to Hartford Hartford Telegram.
 Senator F'oraker's plans of frankly dealing with emergencies which in yolve some consideration of the tariff must commend itself to republican common sense. The idea that a great party in control offthe government can not undertake a simple piece of legis- latlon called for by new situation for Tear of slIbjecting to discussion one of it's principal policies, ito which it points with pride, is simply ridiculous. New York Tribune.
 There is nothing undignified in con- stant begging, as those hold who are still under the spell of pride. On the contrary, Yale does not beg in the sense implied by the conventional use of the term. Tn reality when she ap- pears, th1ough her officials, before her sons, and states her needs. and aLcom- panies her statement of needs with a, appeal for assistance, she asks what is her due for favors advanced. No Yale man ever began to pay the debt lie owes the university among her sons, nor can lle ever pay it.-New Haven Register.
 With the possible exception of the New Yorker whose lhidebou1ld provin- cialisn1 has firmly impressed him with the belief that the wisdom, knowledge, wealth and culture of .the United States are all on Manhattan Island. no other American is so well satisfied with his own smartness and his own town as the San Franciscan. Whether he be a sham actor counting the ties on the hOmeward trip, a shoestring peddle1" going on a brake beam, or a merchant prince in a private car, there is the same fond regard for dear old Frisco and the same naughty contempt for the rest. of the country-New Haven Union.
 A pronounced misfit in Speaker Can T1on's choice of committeeman is the dropping of NIr Hill of Connecticut from the committee on banking and currency, on which he has served with marked ability during several success sive years. If the house committees were made up as those of the senate are, by q committee acting under re sponsibility to the entire body, no mem Der who has distinguished himself in a particular position so as to draw the attention of the country, as MT Hill has, could be treated in this way. It is true that !l1e holds his place on the committee of ways and means. but it is not there that he has won leader ship. Tn dealing with the money prob lems of the day, nobody has shown q tirmer grasp of pripciples or better de batting power or the floor. Nobody commands the ronfidence of the house in d higher df The banking com- mittee is weal. by reason of his ab- sence. New York Evening Post.