The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-07-06
Editorial Symposium
Selected from the Columns Of the Leading Nswsps-
psrs of Amerios. 5 esf

bear being trifled with, even by a man
who, having all the virtues of Haroun
al Raschid, Is given to forgetting the
difference between President of the
United States and acaliph of Bagdad.
EARNED HIS SALARY.
Sioux City Journal: Secretary
Morton has more than earned his sal
airy in one transaction. He has uego-
tiated new telephone contract by
which the government will save S17,.
635 a year, and possibly more II
various economies suggested by him
are carried out. The rate on each
telephone is cut in two-reduced from
sl2 to S6 a year, and the message rate
Is reduced from 3 cents to ~. Under
the new arrangement the government
next year will pay s47,582 for tele.
phone service In Washington. 1t
would seem talk In Washing should
be cheaper than that.
CIRCULATION OF THE BIBLE.
New York Sun: In spite of the
general lament that the Bible 10 no
more read and studied as in former
times, the British and Foreign Bible
society reports in May that 5000, 900
copies of the Bible have been issued
In 1905, showing an increase of 100, 900
over the previous year. The complete
Bible is now published In 100 languages
the new.testament in "a, and one book
of scripture in 198 more. Some $780,.
900 copies of the Russian and japanese
scriptures have been distributed
among the belligerents in the far
East.
ENEMIES OF REPUBLIC.
New York Tribune A republican
office-holder in Philadelphia has just
been discharged from the federal
servi, L i'rcausr vi nj, connection with
an ELECTION fraud Cas-. Twelve dem.
ocra's - some of th, III office.holdrr
have just beer. forcen to plead guilty
to e ection fra uds in Cambridge, Mass.
Whether republican or democ rat,
VIII, thrr IN l'h Iaiel pnia or Cambridge,
the faisitirr of the hallot deserves no
quarter. He shuud d be hunted down
as one Of the worst enemies of popular
government.
NEWS IN FICTION.
indianapolis News: Anyone who
follows the course of current fiction
at all closely must have noticed a
marked increase of late in what may
be called the news element. When.
ever a new region of the earth is ex.
plored and distinct manner of living
disclosed straightway someone write 8
a novel on it. Thus we have had
many stories founded on life in the
Klondike since the discovery of gold
has drawn the attention of the world
to that quarter. A new industry,
fresh discovery in science, fresh COM
mercial conditions, all these are
seized by eager, waiting writer's and
made the subjects of stories. In the
ethical and spiritual world it is the
same.
MEN AND GUNS.
Philadelphia Press: Admiral Togo's
official report ought to end the de.
mand for more battleships and con.
centrate all on efficiency. Russia
spent on her navy s5 to 81 spent by
japan. When the war opened Russia
had thirty-nine battleships and coast
defense vessels. Japan had nine. In
armored cruisers Russia had eight and
Japan six. Russia had twenty.seven
cruisers and Japan eighteen. In spite
of this preponderance the Russian
fleet is annihilated. II is, with triAing
exceptions, all sunk or captured.
This was accomplished not by size but
by efficiency.