Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-19
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 drift away from the placid moorings of their constitution and laws they are soon lost among the stormy bill lows of despotism, revolution and anarchy.-Baltimor American.
 When Coxey's army starts on its hostile trip to Washington, we imag- inc it could secure a number of ac- lively venomous recruits in Wall street. They have been deep.y bitten by the microbe of discontent with Roosevelt methods. aw s
 Call a naval assault upon an un- defended coast town police work and it satisfies the consciences of man. kind; call the same assault war and it meets with the conscientious repro bation of mankind as unfair and in- human-Hartford Courant.
 Chicago has more Jonnsons than Smiths, according to the city di- rectory. Just what has been the source of the trouble in Chicago has been difficult to determine. ,,1 It must be the predominance of the. Johnsons over the Smiths.-Tacoma Ledger.
 Recalling the. old advertisement which asserted that Jones he pays the freight" the Topeka State Jour- nal suggests that modern knowledge of ancient methods leads to the suspicion that Jones probably got rebates.-Portland Eastern Argus. '" In the absence of any weil-founded apprehension of aggression on ! the part of Japan some of us may doubt, as a measure of naval strategy, the expediency of transferring all our battleships to the Pacific. Prof Starr, however, stands alone in opposing the movement on the ground that our battleships would simply demon- strate how infficient our navy is and would invite Japan to gobble. them up.-New York Sun. ,.s<. .....
 Can we really be face to face with that unthinkable, that horrible thing "a Roosevelt panic? We know all about the Cleveland panic" That is what wicked democrats take office for; to plunge industry and con- merce into disorder, and to ruin the country. But under republican president and especially one with the proverbial luck of Mir Roosevelt, such things as We are seeing and hearing every day cannot but excite our spe- cial wonder.-New York Evening Post.
 It is no surprise to hear that sena- tors Aldrich and Allison promptly deny that story, sent out by Wash ington correspondent hard up for yarn, that they had come out" in favor of tariff revision. They say that they stand just as pat as ever. At least, they are entitled to be credited with the virtue of frank ness. But that anybody over seven should have believed that either of them would favor any genuine tariff revision, of the kind desired and needed by the overburdened Ameri- can consumer, passes belief.-AlbanyI Argus
 The members of the court-martial which fofund cavalry ofncer not guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman in writing a brutally insulting luetter to the mother of a deserter must have al very queer conception of what con- stitutes an officer and a gentleman. It was conduct unbecoming a man to taunt an unfortunate mother with the disgrace of her son. If the idea of this court-martial that gentlemen would do so is typical. 1t Is no wen der that such social scandals are dis gracing the army. General Grant. asl far as possible. redeems the reprcaeh cast on the service by this verdict in his vigorous denunciation of the officers conduct as cruelty beyond the pale of ordinary deeeney for the feelings of others.-Baltimore Amer fcau