The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-10-13

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Tle newspaper is the Waterman Q
The community, ever on guar
against every form of evil and dar
ger. and it should be the proper PRIDE
M every newspaper man, admonlShe
fhe Kansas City Journal that he ma.
sustain the high responsibilities he as
sumes.
There is no subject talked 50 mucf
about in this country as baseball
There is nothing that is so much reat
about, notes the Ohio State Journal
War extras in the days Of the Rebel
lion were not more eagerly snatchet
I'D than baseball news Of today. They
are the daily diet Of millions OF PEG
pie who think or talk about LITTLE
else,
If there Is any basis for the re
ports from Ecuador, suggests the
Pittsburg Despatch, that there was at
one time a possibility Of the United
States baing asked 70 buy the Ga! a
pa2os Isi4r.ls for s55,Q00,0o0 and that
the overthrow Of President Garcia
cl2sed the incident there will be a
general feeling that here at least was
one revelation that did good
The serious defects in the admin.
,stration of the criminal law have ID
recent years aroused the Apprehension
oil those whose professional duties led
10 Il study Of the subject, declares the
New York Herald. Justice Brewer
excited widespread discussion by his
proposal to abolish the right CT ap
peal by which wealthy criminals Sc
cure successive and interminahle de-
lays so that even in the few Instances
in which they are finally punished the
conviction has lost all moral force.
Whether journalism be classed as
a trade or profession is matter q
no consequence whatever, observes
the New Orleans Picayune. The fact
remains that much Of it must be learn
ed in the shop, while at the same
time all the universities in the world
are not beyond the reach Of its de-
mands. There is no real school OF
newspaper art and science but the
newspaper Office itself, and yet all
human knowledge is needed IN the
conduct of a newspaper.
Anent the congressional campaign
the Boston Herald thinks there is too
much rotation in Office. Many States
have learned the lesson of the In
creased usefulness of Congressman
the longer he remains in office. Says
the Herald: Other factors being any.
where near equal, the experienced
Congressman is of much greater value
to his constituents than the new man.
While that theory may work against
the aspirations of budding politicians,
it must be remembered that congress.
sional service is of more Importance
than the mere qualification Of the po-
litical desires of any ward leader. TO
change from one party to another is
justifiable; but the rotation comes
most frequently in those doctrines
where a nomination by the majority
party is practically equivalent to an
election.
The true moral is that of Solomon:
Who maketh haste to be rich shall
not be innocent If Mr.. Rockefeller
is confident that he has made all his
money by the practice Of those prin-
ciples which he processes, suggests
he New York Times, he can entirely
affUrd to let the barkings of the yell
ow journalists and the yellow maya
,inists, and even the yellow clergy
men, pass by him as the idle wind
which he regards not. Bat if he has
NY doubt On that crucial point. then
e is necessarily hurt" and his hurt
5 of kind and degree to compensate
or the absence of purely legal pains
nd penalties. The yellow prosecut-
rs, of whatever class, should be
omewhat assuaged by that consider.
ton.
The only point at which the COM
unity can lay hands upon such con-
called property and levy the contri.
ution which it yht to have paid is
hen it is exposed to view in the I
rebate Court. In New York it was I
gently shown that estates in pro.