Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-01
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Hard Job to Hold Down.

(l11ltllnOTe hIilCllNd
King Peter of Servia is ready, 1t Is
reported, to resign his uncomfortable
throne. Between the assassns, who
seem to hold the balance of power
and the powers, who demand their
punishment, his enthusiasm over the
job has petered out.
Promises to Get in On.
Pittsburg Dispatch)
Japan does not regard Russia $
promises as very binding unless they
are Incorporated in a signed and sealed
II eaty. Even at that Russian promises
are ranked higher than those OF our
machine politicians which, after being
formally and jointly signed, do not
hold good for two years.
Hotel Rates for Politicians.
philadelphia Press.)
The question of hotel rates at the
national conventions has not been
satisfactorily adjusted, st. LOUIS
hotels are demanding, as did the
Chicago hotels. $40 day for room on
the theory that four men can sleep i'll
one room and should pay s. each. That
i. extortion. There is not shadow OF
excuse for charging higher rates at IL
convention than at any other time. In
fact. rooms should cost less, as they
can all be rented.
Law for Trading Stampers.
(Springfeld Republican,
The measure which the New York
Merchants association asks the legis-
lature to pass concerning the use of
trading stamps requires that all such
stamps must bear on their face cash
yaI,le in cents, and must be redeemed
in money or merchandise at the option
of the holder Merchants buying the
stamps are held responsible for their
redemption by the issuing concerns.
Such n provision would be likely to
have substantial preventive effect.
Blue Grassers Rout the GauIs.
philadelphia Ledger)
Those four Paris foOtpads who tried
| to hold up two Americans in tn"
French city failed to discriminate. and
were promptly rCt to route. The
beiligerent tourists proved to have
been from Kentucky. and the dispatch
did not say that either of them was
provided with the guns with which
tradition arms nine out of every ten
sons of the Blue Grass state. The
Americans handled themselves so well
that two of the would-be highwaymen
fled and two were handed over to the
police. sadder but wiser for their ex-
perience.
| Forces That Promote Temperance.
philadelphia Record)
| The progress of temperance is pro-
moted vastly more by the discrimi-
nation of railroad companies and other
large employers against men who
, drink: by the recent action of Il
miners convention against delegate:
who might frequent drinking places
or appear under the influence OF liquor
and by the advice of the international
Association of Machinists to its men,
bers against treating visiting members
of the grand lodge. than by legislation
the agitation of temperance societies
land the instruction of school children
in the deleterious effects of alcohol.
Marshall Fields Democracy.
Chicago TribuneD
But would not it be odd for the
democratic party to nominate for it:
candidate in 1904 a man who voted 20,
Mckinley in 1896 and 1900. and who ha.
been about as much of a republican a:
he has been democrat during the las
Twenty years? In fact. Mr.. Field is il
Ino respect in accord with the modern
democratic creed. except in his SINGER
attachment to the principle of a low
tariff. which. as che of the large i'm
porters in the country. he is bound Il
ladvocate. both because he conceives j
to be best for the interests of the coua
try and because it is manifestly to TIL
advantage of the commercial classes
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