The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-14

 known so little of the proper course to pursue.
 Students there will then be, who will show what we should have done, journalists will write of the loss to humanity through our not knowing our business, and lecturers will draw lessons from our shortcomings, that the young may learn how different re- suits might have been, had a little of their superior common sense been available.
 Fatal Hcad-SwelIing.
 Men of another generation, whose greatest power of accomplishment will be their power to tell others how to do what they are unable to do them selves (we have many of the class al- ways with usl will again make their contemporaries lose their heads and later their money Gas so many of you have been doing slatslyl until necessi- ty aWaksns them, takes the swelling from their heads and induces them to put nonsense and platitudes and such leadership aside for q spell, to resume life in the way that will bring pros perity akin to the great prosperity of a few years ago, which we are even now beginning to look back upon longingly, wondering if we are to again enjoy it in reality, or only as 8 remembrance.
 Painful Reformation.
 Reformation by fiat has been pain ful and unstable since the beginning of time,--has caused more suffering and loss than the evils sought to be cured. lReformers generally are much more companionable and engaging, af- ter the laose of few hundred years, when the seeds of their sowing have had time in which to germinate. and the ground in which they are sown Is better prepared to produce its crop.
 Good intentions and honesty of pur- pose are better pleas to address to succeeding generations than to those who suffer in the present through through bearing the burdens of arbi- trary and headstrong efforts to change the methods sof conducting business which (though far from satisfactory have at least the merit of being the result of evolution, the struggle of hu- manity, since the beginning of the world
 Vast Sums Lost.
 rrl,a 1a.anr to ,~a1,,n a.oait ea-4.,-. ,.. this country since the beginning of this year have been greater than oc- cured as result of the civil war Many are in distress who thought themselves but a short time since with competence; those who still have 2 competence are in distress, through lack of credit, to obtain money to car " on work so necessary, at such 8 time, to give employment to those whc must otherwise feel the pinch of hun ger.
 Everyone Will Suffer.
 This is not rich mans panic. It i! a widespread distress rapidly extend ing itself to the farthest sections oi Sthe country and 1t will levy It's tax in such way no man, woman or chile shall fail to bear his portion of the burden. On some 1t will press unduly. and only those who have nothing to lose can view the situation with euuan. unity. Even those who did not know the gun was loaded, whose only , thought was sensation and popularity are becoming sobered by the outlook and at the foot of the toboggan down which we are gliding is a bump, ant an examination of the wreckage which 1t may cause may teach us wherein lies that responsibility regarding which at the present time so many of us are in doubt,
 Because there has been a skunk un der the barn that is trouble to tn, | community, Is no occasion for the de struction or upsettlng of all the barn, in village.
 It is not right to damage and har. rass with suspicion 3 whole commun. ity because a few have gon ewrong ant you are entitled to be treated as abov, suspicion, unless, indeed, under the dis pensation recently so popular the ca pacity to harbor nuisance or commi a crime Is warrant for investigation.
 Thrust at Roosevelt.
 I There has been too much writing too much talking-too little knowledg -teo much assertion, There has beei abnormal activity hunting troubl which will now be fully employed il placing responsibility.
 It has been said "the pen is mightie than the sword" Latterly events hay seemed to proved this with emphasis That speech isl silver and silence i golden-when we have had more ex