The Pensacola journal., 1907-05-11

| ait VIII cover a fOI OF territory,
announces an administration organ.
He can do that without moving an
inch.
If the Ben Davis apple buds have
peTished with the rest there will be
one CLEAN of comfort shining through
the fruiuess clouds.
You and l are practical mem
please subscribe. You are an unde-
sirable citizen"-the subscription duly
to hand and spent.
Mr.. Hartman says he prefers the
penitentiary to the poorhouse. A
great many people will cheerfully ad-
nit that he deserves it more, toe.
The Porto Ricans are beginning to
wonder when they viii be free. Per-
haps it will be about the time the
tariff is revised by its friends.
Chancellor Day says it was a bad
cigar that cured him of smoking. He
must like the taste of the pipe that
gives him such peculiar dreams.
Pennsylvania's republican Iegisla-
ture has refused to endorse President
Roosevelt for another term. 'Roose-
welt luck is certainly not myth.
France has conferred a decoration
on Mr.. Carnegie, and everybody is
wondering which French city will De
first to pull in a library building.
A lot of applicants for admission to
the Ananias club will have to wait
The president must be given d little
ume in which to transact public busi-
ness.
In an Ohio town sixteen women at
tackled one man and whipped him be-
cause he persisted in brutalIy beating
his wife. Anybody find fault with the
ratio?
The state of Illinois has sued the
Illinois Central railroad Tor $4,000. 900
and perhaps Mr. Hartman would
rather pay it than to go on the wit
ness stand again.
Wonder what President Roosevelt,
tariff and subsidy advocate, would call
Author Roosevelt after reading some
of those free trade arguments the
author penned?
who will do the talking when Loeb
| leaves the White HOuSe?" asks the
Sioux City Journal. Who will take
the blame?" is a far more important
question.
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat's OBJ
| jectiOns to a toll bridge are unanswer-
able. But the GIobe-Democrat is
afraid to apply the same arguments
TO the protective tariff.
Congressional junket to Panama.
congressional junket to Porto Rico,
congressional junket to Hawaii-and
yet people wonder why those 'insular
possessions" are retained.
Mr.. COrtelyou, it will be noted, has
not said a word about the $3.50, 900
fund Mr.. Hartman raised. Mr. Cor
telyOu is the original campaign con-
| tribution collection Sphinxer.
| Pittsburg has just turned up a big
scandal in the city council. That town
seems desperate enough to do any
thing calculated to detract' attention
from its sporty millionaires.
Papers that used to denounce Den
| mis- kearney as a demagOgue who
wouldn't work are now denouncing
him because he went to work and
made enough money so he could af--
! ford to rest for the remainder of his
| life
The st. Louis GIObe-Democrat notes
that Brazil failed to fix the price of
coffee by legislative enactment and
says: Initiation reduced to practice
| results in a fizzle." Will the Globe
Democrat kindly tell us what fixes
the price of gold?
"A people without children would
face a hopeless future" declared
Mr.. Roosevelt recently in a manner
that would make the late Mr. Tupper
! enviOus. To be sure, and people with
children face a hustling future under
! eats and wears for the benefit of men
who possess replicas of the magic
lamp of protective tariff benefits.
Notice from the coal barons that
they will not reduce the price of coal
this year is calculated to bull the
stock of the companies organized to
exploit the Altoona cObbler's inven-
ton
A crowd in Iowa started to chari-
vari newly welded couple and the
father of the bride appeared with
shotgun and punctured some thirty
or forty of the ''serenaders." Encore,
The Rhode Island legislature has
adjourned without electing a United
States senator. The average of Rhode
Islands senatorial representation is
nicely raised by the failure to elect
A recent slump in stocks revealed
another eminent banker short in his
accounts. Stock slumping seems bet
ter than even Uncle Sans expert
examiners at revealing croOkedness.
\ lot of people complain because
. labor unions occasionally strike. A
I labor union without a strike clause
would be about as successful as a
bank that made no provisions for ois-
count and interest
The St Louis Globe-Democrat criti