The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-12-14

ethical distinction between honesty
and dishonesty. All they thought
was to avoid falling into the clutches
of the law. There is no reason to be-
lieve, however, that they may have
overreached themselves, and that two
or three of them may still have to an
swer for their acts before the grand
juries.-wall Street Journal.
OUR GREATEST GLORY.
It Is probable that no such tremen-
dous or successful industry as the
American farm has come to be was
ever developed. Every sunset dur
ing the past five years." Mr.. Wilson
says "has registered an increase OF
SO, 40O.O 900 in the value of the farms OF
this country" and as a result OF this
the aggregate has reached the amas-
ing SUN of So, ,133, 100000. This year
has seen a still more amazing record,
in that the yield of these farms has
exceeded their value by nearly $1,000
600, a profit of more than 100 per cent
or the capital. Four crops in partic-
ular have had their part in bringing
this about, and this was in spite of the
fact that only one of these exceeded
previous yields .-Pittsburg Times.
SURPRISING ENTHUSIASM.
The New York Times hears from
Washington that in the caucus of the
house Democrats last week Virginia
member actually offered a resolution
commenting Theodore Roosevelt's de-
mocracy and proposing him as the
party's candidate for the presidency
in 1908. The Times informant says
that Representative Hay of Virginia
and other members sat upon their in
discreet brother and that 1t was a.
greed to hush the indiscretion up. III
don't believe In this wild scramble Of
Democrats to follow blindly the lead
OF the president" Representative
James Hay said to Walter Wellman
last week. "If it keeps on, the Dem
ocratic party may as well go out OF
business" We notice that Leader
John Sharp Williams description of
Mr.. Roosevelt's rate regulation policy
as originally Democratic policy Is
exciting uneasiness In some quarters
and audible dissent.-Hartford Cour-
ant.
THE WORD GRAFT"
At a religious convention In the
East the word graft" was used in the
resolutions, when some reverend gen.
tleman objected, on the idea that it
was not dignified word, or rather 1t
was a slang word, and should not APP
pear in any statement by religious
body.
The objection was overruled and
graft" went into the resolutions. 1t
is not slang word. 1t is the only
word that exactly represents the act
to which it applies. 1t is compara-
lively new word in the application
given 1t, which Is to the form of Of
fense or wrong that has not yet been
SONCICu Ny thc'obatutS' III othSi "oiuo
to robbery perpetrated under the
forms of the law.
Every extortionate salary like some
of the auditors and others get is a
graft. Every needless expenditure
like buying penknives and fountain
pens for legislators is graft. Every
hottie of LIQUOR or box of cigars bought
for a jury or public official board is a
graft, Most junkets are CRAFTS. Much
of the public printing is graft. Every
PROMOTERS OF SOCIALISM.
office full of loafing is graft. In fact,
wherever the public overpays for a
thing, or pays for what IL doesn't need,
or doesn't get what 1t pays for, is a
graft.
The abuse has always excited more
or less, ut of late years IT has increas'
cd with the growth of the country, or
else the public conscience has become
more susceptible 20 the preserca ot
wrong II recognizes the fact that
theselyarlous forms Of plunder, which
we have named, should be classed. In
point of moral obliquity, a long with
embezzlement and theft.
SO we should preserve the word
graft" as meaning wrong that the
law does not fully meet, and until II
does, 1t should suggest duty to every
good citizen to vote against every mar
guilty of graft, or who defends
CRATER, whatever ticket he may bt
. on,-Ohio State Journal.