The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-14

RICHARD BUSHELL Mgr.
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 SEPTEMBER 14, 1907
 Secretary Taft's policy doesn't suit Mr. Bryan, which should be regarded as good news by Taft's friends.
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 The trusts wouldn't so much mind President Roosevelt's habit of saying what he thinks if he would only think differently.
 Russia is entirely satisfied that Japan could whip this country. Rus sia has the best of reasons for holding such an opinion.
 If the average schoolboy should talk like some university professors, his teacher would have no hope of his ever amounting to much.
 Now it is said the designs for the new coins may have to be rejected be- cause they will not stack up. Who wants to stack lem up?
 It has cost the United States $2. 554, : gro to keep Cuba quiet. But the music may be expected to begin when Cuba has to make the amount good.
 Not much is being heard from Uncle Joe Cannon these days except that he is smoking the same brand Of cigars and using the same old seaman's en- phasis.
 Men who expect to be candidates for appointment to office under the next federal administration may just as well begin now to refer to him as "Bill' Taft
 Aren't some of the preachers of the country getting sensational? One ln Philadelphia recently declared that a man can be a consistent Christian and a politician at the same time.
 When they come to raking up some- thing against the Roosevelt admins tration, about the worst thing his en- emies can find will be the record o1 Pete, the White House bulldog.
 Milwaukee has man who spells his name Pappateodorkoummountourgeto' poulos-all in one word. What ar addition that fellow would be to the list of anti Americans in Alaska.
 If the people of foreign countries are smart, they will take a second look at Taft when he visits them. In that way they will get better idea o what the next president will look like
 We don't know just what the issue was, or who had the right or wrong of it, but just the same lot of people will think a lot more of Stuyvesant Fish since he knocked the other fellow down, even if we pretend to decry re- sort to violence to settle disagreements.
 Prospects for polar glory for this country seem to have struck the di- minuendo scale. Peary has given it up entirely for this year, and We'll man is procrastinating. Don't seem to be to any millionaire willing to go against the game as there used to be-. That's the way it always is-when a man has a good job there are always plenty of jobs offered him. Here comes the Wall Street Journal and as- sures Theodore Roosevelt that he is the best reporter ever, and that he can have place on the papers staff If he is thinking of making change. Guess Frank Jay Gould just about hit the nail on the head when he said in his Paris interview, that so far as there had been any panic or financial trouble it had only hit those who could afford it. He might have gone further and said that it had only affected those whom the public could well afford to have hurt.
 Attorney General Bonaparte has reiterated his assertion that the put ting of few big fnanciers behind the bars would have fine moral eff- ect. Since it is proposition upon which practically all of us are agreed, and he is at the head of the govern ment's department of justice, why doesn't he Ego ahead with his rat killing"
 'Oh that mine enemy might write book, is q wish that is to be grati- fled in the case of Senator Bailey of Texas. A San Antonio man who has been one of his most active enemies has written a ''History of Bailey" !" and it is now in the hands of the pub fishers, From advance notices it does