The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-07-20
EditOriaI Symposium
Selected from the Columns of the Leading Newsps.
psrs of America.


Springfield Republican, 1t was
Israel Durham, of Philadelphia, the
deposed boss, who once declared that
politicians work 1856 days in the year
and reformers only six months" What
has been true there is no longer true.
Durham is out of job, and the re-
formers are working every day in the
year, Sundays included, for do not the
clergymen preach the righteousness
of reform on Sunday ?-and they could
not be in better work. But the re-
formers will have to make this not
merely squirt, but permanent poll
cy. If they relax, the other fellows
will take hold and see that things are
put wrong again. The lesson is good
everywhere.
sTRINGING 1T OUT.
Chicago Tribune: There are peo.
pie who are complaining because all
there is to tell about the Equitable is
not told at once. This is unreasona-
BILE. II that we're done the serial
story would be spoiled. The tale
would not impress the public SO much
as 1t does when 1t appears artistically
in part, with curiosity provoking
more anon" at the end of each.
There would have been a dearth Of
stirring literature during the dull
summer months If the revelation
about the Equitable had come out in
gush instead of flowing forth in a
steady, regular stream.
OHIO POLITICS.
Cincinnati Enquirer: The Ohio
campaign can be made an exceeding.
ly interesting one this year; but there
will have to be better "lining up"
of the parties than there is any indi.
cation of now. The action of the two
state conventions gave but little en-.
ligh,cnment or promise. There is a
good deal of parleying for position.
\ good deal of chatf has to be thrash.
ed out yet, and the candidates for
govern nor may have to rise up in their
Individual power and make platforms
Tor themselves. The work has been
rather botched, so far.
DOING BUSINESS.
Ohio State Journal; Judge A. G.
Thompson, of the United States dis
trict court, seems to believe in doing
business. 1t was always his way from
the time he sat on the Common Pleas
bench. he appears to be controlled
by the idea of Justice Brewer, that
tardy justice is only half Justice. Dur
ing the past year, he has attended to
the business of his courts, one in Gin.
cinnati and one in Columbu and dur.
ing that time he has disposed of ,22l
cases.
This is an honorable record, for it
indicates a devotion to business that
is not interfered with by considera.
tions of personal convenience. Judge
has so much discretion in the employ
ment of his time that 1t Is pleasant
to refer to one who has used that dis
cretion solely tor the promotion of
justice.
WEALTHY CRIMINAL CLASSES.
New York Press The conviction
of Senator Mitchell, following on the
indictment of the beef trust heads,
will 60 far to inspire confidence in the
purpose of the administration to
bring to justice those whom Mr..
Roosevelt calls the members Of the
wealthy criminal class" After the
sentence of Mitchell, who seems to
have had absolutely no claim to the
clemency of the jury save that which
Is based on his official rank and his
age, it should be easy for the depart.
ment of justice to bring to book the
criminals who can plead neither sc.
nile debility nor their political pow.
er in extenuation of an ofense quite
as harmful to society as 10 any ether
crime in the code, not excepting MUIR
der.
SAGHALIN.
New York Tribune: The real valae
of Saghalin 10 unknown. It 10 Of vast
extent, $40 miles long and $50 miles
wide, not more than 1900 of whom
nearly half are Russian convicts and
one-third are hairy Amos. It is too
cold and damp for extensive CO oniza-
tion, though it has been inhabited by
men since the stone age. But 1t coR.
tains rich coal and naphtha deposits,
and may possess vast mineral wealth,
as Alaska has been found to do. The
enormous strategic value of the 10.
land Is, however, obvious. It lies
close to the Siberian coast, blanket.
ing It for 800 miles and dominating
Nich0laevsk and the mouth of the
Amoor. With 1t and the Kuriles in
Japan's possession, Russia would be
completely shut away from the Pa
ciHc, save through sufferance of
Japan, and the Sea of Japan and the
Sea of Okeotsk would become Japan.
ese lakes. That is the chief purpsrt
OF last weeks conquest.
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