Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-10-12
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defeS the French ultimatum. Doesn't
he see the figure of Kaiser Bill hiding
behind the Moroccan woodpile ?-Bos-
ton Journal.
Nothing but poverty or common
sense will keep the average parents
from making a saphead of their boy
Unfortunately, neither of these is very
fashionable at the present time
Puck
More than GOO employees have been
discharged from the Philadelphia mint.
but there will probably be no suffer
ing on that account, as they have all
learned how TO make money.-Wash-
ington Post.
Russia wins the advantage in dip
lOmatic bargaining and bluff and ia
pan mounts Il pedestal as the incarna-
ton Of international morality and the
the finest representative of high ciyili-
zation.-BOstOn Post.
Iowa should not be unduly alarmed
about its loss of population With its
L,
naturally Il good many of its people
are sojourning in the District Of Co
iumbia.-IndianapO News.
With proper impartiality and a high
sense of equity, the Equitable Life con-
trlbuted to the campaign funds OF
both parties. Before blaming the COM
pany, think of what the politicians
might have done to it, if not pacified
Mexican Herald.
In Chicago 1900 men desert their
wives every year and 100 do the
same thing in New York. Here in
two cities are over 10000 women de-
serted. not divorced, but left to strug-
gle alone for the support of their chill
dren. This is a far more serious mat
ter than the divorce evil among the
400, but it attracts less attention.
Louisville Post.
The current clamor about tainted
money! hysterical and pharisaical as
the form it takes shows much of it to
be, is sign of the awakening of the
public conscience to a realization that
certain business methods which used
TO be passed over as a matter Of
course and resented only by those di-
rectly injured are. in truth, offenses
against good morals and social vel
fare.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Land Of the Rising Sun has con-
4uered Il front place among the world
covers. She is no longer a negligible
quantity in international projects and
movements. She must hereafter be
consulted in the plans of the nations.
She energies from the tremendous
struggle with glory and honor-honor
that could not shine more Respondent
than in her concessions to the foe for
the sake of peace.-Pittsburg Times.
All of the Governors of all of the
States having now replied for the most
part favorably to Gov. Pennypacker's
suggestion of 4 national congress Of
States delegates to draft uniform di-
yorce legislation to be presented to all
the legislatures, the prospect of di-
yorce reform would seem to be more
promising This is better Pennypack-
crism than the Pennsylvania Governor
has previously indulged.-New Orleans
States.
The world once convinced that Brit
ain, France and the United States
thoroughly understood each other and
were prepared to permit and sustain
the free action of every power with
in its own due sphere only, we had
the slIrest guarantee of universal peace
for the next half century. No need for
America to enter into any formal al
lance. She is for those powers only
that respect the Monroe doctrine
Louisville Herald.
With a surplus of S220O0,O00 in the
Cuban treasury. it looks rs if the
young republic is fairly able to take
care Of itself, i'll a financial way. at
any rate. Indeed. comparing the Gu
ban showing with that of our own
treasury, the result is not altogether
tiattering TO the elder sister. Cuba,
at least, is not reduced to the neces-
sity of considering the ACCESSIBILITY of
tracking Oh more taxes to meet treas
ury deficit.-Chicag Chronicle.
The agnanimity of Japan in this
affair is very great. Tile undsputed
victor in every engagement on land
and sea, she has foregone indemnity
and has given half of Sakhalin Island
back to her foe. She has yielded in
the cause of humanity, for no one
could dream of her as having any
fear of the further arbitrament of
arms. She has seemed to lose the
game. and the shouting
and tumult' are all for Witte. but she
has won handsomely enough before
the bar of the universal brotherhood
of lnan.-Boston Journal.
Stephen NJ. Crocker. of a prominent
family of New London, Conn. was shot
by Mrs. George Bindloss in the Iatter's
homo Tho woman who il q IooJor =: