Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-03
HEARD IN PASSING.

Some steamship companies now pro- pose to post pictures of gambling sharps in the smoking rooms of their vessels This may be measure of prudence, but rogues' gallery will hardly add to the gayety or pleasure of the voyage.-Boston Transcript.
 The essential feature of system of credit or asset currency is redemption. We have not an efficient redemption system now. We have had none for so long that many of our most emi- nent bankers are not willing to rely much upon it.-New York Journal of Commerce.
 We have seen how a commission i'll Albany or in Harrisburg can rob q state of millions under pretense of erecting a state capitol. The oppor- tunities open to the national commits sions are greater and the chances of detection much smaller-JacksOnvllle Times Union.
 President Roosevelt announces that he will this week approve the consti- tuition of Oklahoma, though his per sonal opinion of it is unfit for puali- cation" He might have told curious public whether his view of the consti- tuition of the United States is fit for publication.-NewY York World.
 It is a particularly cowardly and contemptible thing for sordid schemers here to speculate on disorder in Cuba and to foment it at long range to suit their gambling enterprise. while they keep their dear selves at home safe from either a Cuban jail or the bullets of the Rural Guard.-New York Tribune.
 Back east. the dealers are quite frank about the matter. They say the cost of 'bOttling and distributing is ! greater than it was and they want more. money to meet 1t. Here in Michigan the farmer was held re- sponsible because it was said the cost of production was higher.-Detr0it Free Press.
 Elihu Root, having returned from two months training at Muldoon's | farm. where champagne-leached mil | lionaires are rejuvenated, will give hi: country three days of his valuable services. draw his pay and start on a | long iunket to Mexico. Verify somt public offices are public snaps.-LO; Angeles Herald.
 San FranciscO's political regenera ton seems hopeless. It will cOntinH' go until the people learn the Roosevelt l doctrine that ''the worst evils that ef | feet our local government arise iron and are the inevitable result of th' mixing of the city's affairs with thu party politics of the nation ana stats.''-I4Os Angeles Express. That the best known American au thority on cooking and domesti' ] science should have failed as the man 4 ager of a Broadway restaurant is iI accordance with the principle tha made PeStaIOzzi a had teacher, ana leads judges of the United States su prpme court to mark their ballots i'm properly.-New York Evening Post. ' It is not at all astonishing that thi gentlemen of the New York Yach club should yearn to be rid of tn burden of defending the Americas cul against the repeated essays of Si Thomas Upton The defence If tI'
 famous trophy has cost much money
 has given deep annoyance and has ief J many unsavory memories--New Y0Tl Sun
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