The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-10-05

Ills Sp6culdJlOnS OF leIIlDiS oPShuOi,
concludes the Atlanta Constitution.
Last year 7770,O00,O0O postal cards
were sent through Uncle Sans mails
Lots of people don't care cent
whether what they say can be read
by every cody or not.
The careless and criminal practice
of allowing children to roam and play
upon the highway is being brought
closely home to the minds of coron-
ers and coroners' juries in various
parts of the country, observes The
Autocar.
The Paterson, y. j., landlady who
was badly scalded by the explosion
of a huckleberry pie revealed a new
danger in boarding house pastry, al
ready sufficiently menacing, observes
the Boston Transcript.
The Michigan State prison has just
graduated an expert electrical engl-
neer who, when he was sentenced
there for murder twenty years ago,
was ignorant and worthless. This,
however. comments the New York
Press. is not necessarily an argument
that murder is profitable pursuit
An old farmer in Nemaha County.
relates the Kansas City Journal, re-
marks that a home grown, hand
spanked, barefooted, and hard-fisted
country boy makes much better
fighter in the battles of lie than
does the pampered, high-collared,
creased-trousered youth of our towns
and cities, whose clothes have always
been busted with a whisk broom in
stead of a single.
The New York World gives ten
reason-and very plausible reasons
why Roosevelt will be reelected to
another term in the Presidency. But
there are two lions in the way, points
out the Philadelphia Record. I'D
Mr.. Roosevelt has said he will not
have another term. (2) He could not
hope to keep on the up grade. He
has reached the summit. A second
term would be stepping down to
lower levels
The farmer has the rural free de-
livery or mails-although this was
thought to be impossible few years
ago Shall he not have parcels
post? Each year the good--oads
movement. originating at the cities.
is extending itself further into the
real country Trolley lines are ex-
tending countryvard: soon they will
come actually To serve the farmers
needs The telephone, as a separate
rural enterprise, is extending itself.
Extensional educational enterprises
are reaching further and further into
the open farming districts. Co-opera-
ton and organization movements are
at the same time extending and con-
creting themselves, suggests the Sci
entific American.
Conscience in many respectable
people consist in denouncing the
sins of other people. This may sound
cynical, but it is meant to a bald
statement of facts. What respectable
citizen likes to call himself a ras-
cal? He never brides. He is held
up by labor organizations, city coun-
ellis and state legislatures. He does
not graft. He does not expect to ap-
ply the Sermon on the Mount to bust
ness. He contributes to no corpora
ton fund. He only helps to save his
country with his money. Other men
may buy water stock. He simply
capitalizes his company on the basis
of its earning capacity There are
bribers and corruptionists and stock
gamblers He laments the fact and
writes essays on the moral of the
country in which such men live. And
he is worse than the men he con-
dennis, concludes the World today.
He is a hypocrite.
The magnificent stone foundation
which was laid for capitol at Olym-
pia a dozen years ago, is now being
used as a cowshed, states the Port
land Oregonian. Any visitor who has
viewed the old foundation and the
building now used as state capitol
can hardly fail to be impressed with
the belief that the cows are being
shelterd in the wrong building.
Gradually we are working toward
a better understanding. Not yet can
we abandon navies and abolish stand
ing armies 1t is feared that the APP
peal to arms has not been made for
the last time Nations may agree
to arbitrate matters that do not az
feet their honor, but of honor all
countries are jealous. But the horror
of war is wrong, and The Hague has
been the centre of discussions and
agreements which have decreased the
dangers of open combat This Ameri-
can idea, this latest plan of the Presi--
dent to bring about a better under
standing among nations, Is of the ut
most Importance. And to think that
the most influential man in the world
for peace is one who has been accus-
- u A.