The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-01-25

laws. Mr.. Frizell, of Dayton, offered
a resolution toinvestigate the canals;
Mr.. Lybarger, 'of Coshocton, offered
another toinvestigate the bridge pool
The resolution to investigate Ciucin'
natl will be passed, and another reso.
luton is ready to be offered which will
open up an investigation of all state
Offices. Let the probing work go or
and no guilty man escape.
UNRETURNING TIME.
Charleston News and Courier: We
have often alluded to the feeling,
which increases with increasing age
of the rapidity with which time passes
In youth a year seems almost inter.
minable, in middle age it seems only
a short time to look either backward
or forward while in old age "the days
are swifter than a weaver's shuttle
in their flight and 1--WE spend our years
as tale that Is told" But there il
another thing in connection with the
passing of time that becomes more
impressive as years roll by, and that
is its irrevocableness the certainty
that whatever opportunities we lose
are never going to be offered to us
again, and happy indeed are those
who have not in advanced years many
such lost opportunities to regret. The
worst Of 1t is that such chances appear
TO us more clearly in retrospect than
they ever can in looking forward.
Things that did not appear to matter
much at the moment have way of
assuming important proportions as we
look back at them and realize all the
consequences to which they led, and
how much better 1t would be had we
acted differentlyat the time the oppor.
tunity was presented to us.
REAL MERCHANT PRINCE.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: That some.
what overworked expression, mer.
chant prince, can be used with strict
accuracy and perfect propriety in
speaking of the late Marshall Field
He was typically American in general
and typically Chicagoan in particular,
having begun literally at the bottom
of the ladder and worked his way to
the top, through business career
that was practically co-extensive
with that of the huge, hustling me-
tropolis of the middle West with
which he was identified for half cen
tury, which bad made his success pos.
sible aud to which he always admitted
his Indebtedness. Chicago had been
good to him and was always good
enough for him.
Mr.. Fielt left large fortune, which
differed from too manv other large
aud equally new fortunes by reason of
the fact that 1t was acquired chiefly
by applying, though on a vast scale,
approved and legitimate business
methods and by cultivating the old
fashioned business virtues. He was a
merchant, an actual buyer and seller
of commodities. Nobody ever accused
Marshall Field of being "6nancier. I"
Mr.. Field did much for Chicago in
the way of gifts for public purposes
and gave, perhaps, even through his
example of commercial probity and
sense of civic duty. He was not only
the largest of the city's taxpayers but
also distinguished among these for
paying without murmur. He held
1t point of honor never to seek to
evade his just obligations to the COM
munity which had given him his op.
portunity.
BACK TO THE PEOPLE.
Dayton Journal; The citizen who
never gets an Office and never wants
one, who has nothing but his ballot to
bring him into relation with public af-
fairs, needs to do a little thinking
in these modern days that his father
and grandfather escaped. These
venerated ancestors could play favor
ties without serious thoughts OF conse-
quences. They could even allow some
one else whom they favored to play
the game for them without finding
themselves victimized. There were
not so many people around in those
days and professions of obedience to
the popular will meant more, because
they had to mean more than they do
at the present time. For the last ten
or fifteen years obedience to the will
of the people In nearly every county
In Ohio has meant the strenuous effort
In both the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties to carry out plan that
was fixed before the people ever had
a chance at It.
The public did not pay much atten-
tion to this irregularity at first; but
of late years 1t has become glaring.
Montgomery county has considerable
reputation for starting things, and 1t
cannot start anything better than a
return to the people, The way to do
this is to tell the gentlemen who think
they are professionals in politics to
stand down until the time comes.
These gentlemen will have enough to
do after campaign begins without