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the market for tainted money
Wall Street Journal
The wizard that we are looking for
is the man who will invent the bang
less fire cracker.-New York Mail.
How can the Car pay an indemnity
to Japan when he has TO spend all his
money in building new jails to hold
his people?-New York Mail.
Of wh3t statesman before Mr. hay
has it been said with such significant
unanimity in all parts of the world,
I'VE trusted hiT Providence Jour
nal.
Still there were some fairly capable
men in the early day cabinets. al
though they didn't step into 100000
jobs when they retired,-Kansas City
Journal.
1t may be said of the late Secretary
of State Hay that he never belittled
his position by holding it as steplad-
der by which to climb to party nomi-
nation.-Boston Post
President Hadley's idea that a man
discovery. Several Equitable celebri-
ties have been acting upon it for some
time.-New York Mail.
Mr.. Justice Brewers remark that in
in the future Philippine government
there is danger of too little Taft and
zoo much graft, is as suggestive as it is
! epigrammatic-Bost Herald
A Massachusetts man of So is en-
gagged to marry woman of 81,
Through an oversight, perhaps, the
press reports neglected to state the size
of her fOrtune.-Colorado Springs Ga
zette
1t is said that the commission APP
pointed to try General Stoessel has
found that the surrender of Port Ar
thur was justifiable The Japanese
have thought so all along.-New York
Evening Sun.
A Kansas paper wants to know if
there is something about Congress
that spoils a man?" Not at all. But
there's something about some men that
tends to spoil Congress. - Florida
Times-Union.
Engineer Wallace is frankness itself.
He says he has left the Panama Canal
in such excellent shape that anybody
can do the engineering, the digging
and the incidental details.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing
about the life of the late General Co
is tba 70 fha1 hn al OF
seven years since the close of the war
without being the principal of an. in
vestigatiOn.-Des Moines News
Notwithstanding her crime was one
Of the most cold-blooded and revolving
murders in recent years, it now ap-
pears almost certain that sentimental
lists have won and Mrs. Rogers will not
hang.-Wheeling (W. Va Register.
1t would have been more pleasant if
Mr.. Loomis could have avoided going
abroad under cloud, but distinguish
ed men with important business await
ing attention in Europe cannot sit
around waiting for a dilatory and I'M
certain weather bureau.-Butte Inter
Mountain.
The resident administrators of the
Philippines, having heard of Secretary
Tafts ability as an offhand letter
4 writer, will probably be careful dur
ing his presence in the islands to avoid
saying or doing anything calculated 10
invite the attention of his typewriter.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Carnegies difficulty as to which flag
to fly from the turrets of Skibo, the
Stars and Stripes or the Union Jack.
might better have been compromised
by the adoption of on entirely new
emblem; embroidered oats and thistles,
on a ground of first mortgage steel
bonds, for instance.-Puck.
If President Roosevelt can establish
something like a real business system
in the performance of government
work in Washington, and if this re-
form, once established, is made per-
manent, then this will be even greater
than the other Roosevelt achieve
ments.-Kansas City Times.
Uncle Sans deficit for last year
comes to about 80 cents apiece for his
SO0O00 900 nieces and nephews, big and
little. 1t seems as if we might have
scraped along with 80 cents worth
less, just for the sake of applying as
sound business sense to our govern
mental affairs as to our private enter
prises.-BOston Transcript
While Mr. Morton is cutting off the
! pensioners of the Equitable and get
ting ready to demand the repayment
! of moneys suspected of having been
wrOngfully secured from the society,
what is he going to do about the pay
he will get from the government for
the time he spent in framing these re-
forms up?-Pittsburg Times
There is one very important obsta-
Gle in the way of government regula-
ton of insurance companies. The
| United States Supreme Court has de-
clared at least five times that insur-
ance is not commerce in any meaning
of the term. Hence, it cannot be inter
state commerce and Congress cannot
make laws to govern it.-Buffalo Ex-
press.
Though the President has been nm
able to convince himself that the Off
Gals of offending railroads should be
indicted, he is still determined, it APP
pears, that the roads themselves must
| be prosecuted. Perhaps we shall pres
emily see freight cars put into prison
ers' docks on charges of carrying mer-
chandise at illegal rates.-Proyidence
! Journal.
1t is clearly time that Russia ceased
/ TO fight rearguard actions in the Easl
and took up the pressing task OF get
/ ting her own house in order There
are few parts of her European empire
now which have not been stirred by