The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-01-02
Current Comment from
Mr.. Bryan'S COn1n1Oner

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After the ship subsidy viii come
the railroad subsidy, perhaps.
Asset currency and ship subsidy
There's a pair Of issues for YOU
You do not have to wait until next
Tuesday to begin the work Of refor.
nation
After all, the proofreader is the
court of last resort in this matter OF
| spelling reform.
The Commoner wishes every one
OF its million readers a Happy and
Prosperous New Year.
That sound from the far east is
but the bones OF Noah Webster rat.
ting merrify In their coffin.
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington,
D. c., is just now carrying an i'm
mense amount of word traffic.
Secretary Shaw is performing some
wonderful feats of mental acrobatics
on the prosperity high trapeze.
Six special messages within month
and then talk about economy in the
government printing once!
A six-day bicycle race is about as
useless as depending on the tariff
benehciaries for revision of the
tariff
1t must have required great me-
chanical ingenuity to keep some OF
those steam shovels going for three
whole days.
1t is awfully hard for a high tariff
advocate to keep his logic on straight
when it comes to paying the bill for
the lumber in his new house.
That beautiful Panama bouquet
handed US by the president promises
to be changed into lemon by the
time the treasury department foots
the bills.
Plenty of money in the country
what we need Is confideneei" Re
member how the advocates of asset
currency acclaimed that ten years
ago. Now, with double the amount
Of money we had ten years ago those
same people are demanding more.
What woeful lack Of confidence they
must have.
An eastern Judge has decided that
turtle is an animal The Minneapo-
lis Journal remarks that il looks like
a bug. However that may be, it
moves with all the incredible swift
ness of republican revision of the
tariff
There is a vague suspicion that a
lot of steam shove1s that were work
ing like mad during the three days
that President Roosevelt was on the
iSthmus, shoveled no dirt before and
have shoveled none since that historic
visit
Postmaster General Cortsfyou In
sists on business policies in the con-
duct of the postoff1ce department 1t
will be remembered that Mr.. Cortel-
you managed the republican national
campaign along very peculiar 'busi-
ness lines"
Representative Murdoch Of Kansas
declares that there is a steal of at
least 80 per cent in the amount the
government pays the railroads for
carrying the mails. Representative
Murdoch must be striving for repu-
tation as a conservative
The sugar consumers of the coun-
try have been fined about one pound
of sugar in the dollars worth in or
der to punish the sugar trust for re-
batting. 1t will appear on TIT court
records. however, as a fine o $685.
600 against the sugar trust.
The Washington lines having re
marked that B. s. stand for Iellamy
SUorer and also Big Stick, the Eouston
Post naively inquiries: as tht aIl2"
Can it be possible that the Post is
impelled to make the inquiry oy rea-
son of the headache?
Among other advice given oy the
Topeka Herald to theatregoTs is
this: Don't comment on tn per-
Torrance while it is in pr0reSS."
Thai is good advice. One ca, com
ment on the average play to much
better advantage by retiring to some
secluded spot
Some one objects to the incoIe tax
on the ground that - would 6velop
a nation of liars and perjurers' Tax
lodging must have become oronic |
If we have to abandon just ystem |
of taxation to keep the tax lodger |
from perjuring himself.
An inquirer asks whether VII is |
necessary factor in the PROCESS of |
civilization. No. A civilization which |
has to be preserved by an OCCASIONAL |
resort to battle is not worth peserv |
ing 1t puts man a little lowe than |
the brute 10 assume that he Gu not |
develop except through the process OF
killing somebody else
A PittSbuTg bank cashier is lpOrt /
ed $3.50. 900 short in his account Bad /