The San Francisco call., 1906-06-18
CONTEMPORARY
OPINION.

stitution on the part of persons whose
every energy is devoted to acquiring
wealth in violation of law IS not I'M
pressive.-New York Tribune
AS one result of the packins-house
exposes nearly every one is roasting
beef.-New York Herald
Kansas has had hard luck with her
Senator's But some of it. no doubt. IS
due to the hard luck OF her senators
in getting caught.-Elmira Gazette-
Great excitement was created in New
York the other day by lunatic dash-
ing along the street in an automOolIe-
How he was distinguished from the
presumably sane who exceed the speed
limit is not stated.-PrOvidence (H- ID
Journal.
Subway express trains are now run
ming up to Two Hundred and Twenty
first street in New York II that town
keeps on growing northward no one
but a mathematician can live in the up
per regions.--Wash star
Say New York is provincial and you
strike the metropolis where its hide IS
thin. The thing has been said again
and again. and il would seem that oy
this time either the saying had become
trite or the city used to 1t; but sun
chafes the great settlement IL you point
and say, Provincial" and still there
arise men TO hurl the adjective at the
sensitive place. Possibly it is because
\ New York is provincial that she reeIS
the thrust SO poignantly; maybe II IS
because she is growing more provincial
year by year that the thrust is made
more frequently as time passes
Louisville CourierJOurnal.
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Next thing we know. some one Will
| be proving that the golden calf is ruI1
of aloy.-washington Post.
A statistician says America makes
more barrels than any other country IN
the world which is not strange when
one reflects that everybody here is try
ing to make barrel-New York Her
aid.
The report shows US another triumph
of science-turning old goat into potted
grouse.-Elmira Gazette.
1t begins to look as if the President
had cut out so much work for himself
that he will not be able to complete IL
during his present term OF ott1ee ana
may ask further time.-Dallas News
The canned meat disclosures come at
picnic season just opening.-Washing-
ton Star.
Secretary Shaw's plan for tariff re-
vision recalls the scheme of the Ten
nessee planter who insisted that the
only way to improve a toddy was to
add more whisky-New York Herald
The Chicago packers would be de-
lighted if they could treat their prod
ucts as well as their evidence TO an
immunity bath."-New York Tribune.
Tt may be plausibly expected that the
Republicans. having accomplished the
paramount object in enacting rate con-
troll and having passed such other i'm
pOrtant measures as are possible, in
addition TO appropriations, will anta9-
onize the persistent Democratic hlfbuS-
ter only so far as to fix responsibility
on the opposition. aiming TO adjourn as
near as may be at the time suggested
by Senator Allison--Omaha Bee.
t There is no nonsense about the Re-
publican party when an election is on
\ hand 1t is superb at the ballot box.
/ Its organization is perfect. and it is
directed by consummate masters OF po-
liticaI strategy. Bescides IT is Wen
Equipped for the campaign. The na-
tional committee and the Congressional
4 COmmlIIe6 nave pcIIetL uUQtISldnQ-
ing and are working in perfect har-
mony to the same end-a Republican
majority in the Sixtieth Congress On
the other hand, it is whispered that the
Hon. Mr.. GriggS considers 1T an i'm
pertinence or something like that. for
Tom Taggart 10 sit on the bleachers
/ and cheer the Democratic team. Ger
tainly Mr.. Taggart is not to be allowed
to coach the Democratic base runners.
however clumsy they may be.-Wash-
/ ington Post.
/ Mr. Hearst has decreed against Mr..
I Bryan The latters name is on the
\ prohibited list in the Hearst newspa-
pers. Recently Mr.. Bryan had an essay
4 appear in eminently respectable
magazine on "Individualism and Social
/ ISM" in which he inclined to the in
dividual This gave him his standing.
and it widened the breach with the
Hearst Democrats-Denver Republican.
/ To the fullest extent verifying the
suspicious of the public. already raised
| to a high point by Upton Sinclairs
novel and by other evidence Of bad con-
ditions at the packing houses, the NeilI-
Reynolds report, which the President
sent to Congress To-Day. is-a terrible in
dictment of the pal ers. If the neces-
sary legislation corrective of the evils
which they have fou1d and the rem
secured only through the publication
of these details. the submission OF the
report must be regarded as an act of
urgent necessity. But in any case. while
the disclosures are calculated TO shock.
the people profoundly, the report re-
quired publicity. nauseating as il is in
it's specifications. No considerations
could justify its suppressiOn.-Wash
ington Star.
The President deserves the most cor
dial praise for taking up this matter.
He is to be congratulated upon giving
this report to the public. The agitation
brought about, the pillOrying of the
meat packers before the public the
demonstration of the inadequacy of in
spection and the exposure of the mis-
cradle label frauds are decidedly whole
some. People who decry publicity in
these and kindred matters fail to ap-
preciate the regenerating power of
mere air and sunlight. An excellent