The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-01-13


Battles. military and political, are
won by long preparation. Democracy
should begin now the work of organ
ization and preparation in order to in
sure victory next year.
Mr.. Hartman is now engaged in an
effort to turn the course of the Colo
RADIO river. This will be a small Job
compared to turning the tide of oppo-
sition to railroad control
1t seems that Mr. Hartman has
showed Mr.. Morgan over into the "ten,
tewnt', thirt'," class or at least re-
duced him to the chaser number" on
the financial vaudeville circuit
The list of the congressman who
voted against the salary increase does
not include the names of all the con-
gressmen who believe they are already
receiving sufficient compensation.
Emperor William is now declairnins
on the importance of good cooks II
is time for the cooks to rise I'D and
point to the importance of having good
things to cook provided by the head Of
the house.
David Graham Phillips declares that
one per cent of the people of the
United States control 80 per cent Of
the wealth. And the one per cent
seems to think its membership has a
vested right in the 80 per cent
A Harvard expedition has started
out to explore mo Mans Land in
South America. The chances are that
when they reach It they VIII discov-
er presumption notices stuck up by
Mr.. Rockefeller or Mr. Hartman
Yale is offering for sale a defunct
female seminary bequeathed to it by
former Yale graduate Several
other universities not defunct have al
ready been sold at private sale to
eminent gentlemen not yet deceased.
Chicago's health commissioner AYERS
that If the provisions of the pure food
law are vigorously carried out boiled
rice will be the only food that can be
legally eaten Well still stick to the
soft boiled eggs fresh from the eoun-
try. .-.N!s,st,4
The eminent statisticians of the Dun
commercial agency have at last dis
covered that It costs more to live now
than it formerly did. The discovery
is very much belated, several millions
Of American housewives having beat
the statisticians to it.
The German ambassador at Wash
ho1 hod lie So6
81 ,000 a year on account of the In
creased cost of living in the United
States. This fact is respectfully re-
ferred to the government statisticians
who have been insisting that the cost
of living has not kept pace with the
increased wages.
1t seems that Just as soon as it
dawned upon the railroad managers
that their failure to deliver coal was
the demand for govern
nlent ownership, they found a way to
break the coal famine. It is wonder
full what can be done when selfin.
terest demands IL.
The Birmingham Age-HeraId de-
clares that "the average hodcarrier Is
miles above Count Boni in morals and
too" Why should the
insult the hard working
hodcarriers by mentioning them In the
same breath with this person?
The attention of Senator Foraker is
called to another eminent and ambi.
tious gentleman who corralled the
southern negro delegates to repub-
lican national convention, only to
have another equally eminent and am.
bilious decoy them away.
Having been frozen out Of King
Leopoid's good thing in the Congo. Mr..
J. Pierpont Morgan feels it to be his
duty to protest against the
being practiced in that
far-of country. II is wonderful what
4 good conscience-rouser this being
frozen out" is.
The New York Tribune is depre.
eating the destruction of American
forests The Tribune, by the way, Is
4 '-standpatter" that upholds the tar.
IN which places premium on the de-
,truction of American forests. It
might be well for the editors OF the
Tribune to get together.
Noting increased trouble in titled
marital circles the New York CONNER
;ial observes: Perhaps clean, de-
cent American will get chance now"
We have rot noticed any disposition
IN the part Of clean, decent Ameri-
an gentlemen to complain about their
marital chances.
or
that it cost him $4,000
% be elected to an Office paying $3.50
| year, the Sioux City Tribune OBJ
crves that. there are many men with
vhcm the compensation attached TO
,fice is not a first consideration"
Does the Tribune mean also to exclude
requisites?
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