Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-07
HEARD IN PASSING.

Important tariff concessions are made to Germany in the new com mercial agreement made between that government and the United States Middletown Press.
 It will take only a few victories like that of the retention of Kelsey against Governor Hughes sound req sons for his removal to complete the undoing of the Albany senate.- Springfield Union.
 The per capita debt of the city of New York is $145.35, while that of the United States is but $43.45. New York has the largest municipal debt of any large city in the country and the largest per capita. But the wealth of the city is enormous and its credit is still good.-Bridgeport | Standard.
 All immigration records of the past or present were broken We'd nesday, when incoming ships dis charged 10000 homeseekers on our shores. America must shine indeed as promised land of golden oppor- tunity to these peasants familiar only with the oppression of eastern Eu- rope.-New Britain Herald.
 The property owners of Massachu- setts are confronted with the possi- bility of direct tax of five millions of dollars this year. Somehow they seem to make their state institutions little more expensive in the old Bay state than do the people of most of the other states. But a five million dollar tax added to the enormous load of city and town expenditures will be likely to "stir up the animals" It looks more and more as if this might be another democratic year in Mas chusetts-Hartford Times.
 Norfolk, this state, is especially favored. On May IT, President Eliot, of Harvard, will deliver an ad- dress to the young men and women of the place, and on May 30 the gov ernor of the state will deliver the Me- morial day address. It is not often that country village can command so much talent, and in this particular instance it will probably be as much pleasure for these two notables to get in touch with quiet, wholesome, country life as it will be for the peo- pie of Norfolk to have them.-An- sonia Sentinel.
 William J. Bryan at Chicago held the lawyer up so that the light shown upon him in full, presenting picture relieved at points with something that looked like hope, but on the whole it was not bright one. Per haps some time it will not be less disgraceful for a lawyer to assist in gigantic robbery than for a high wayman to go out and hold up the wayfarer," said MT Bryan. This is bravery, indeed. Now let the law yers get at the Nebraskan and there may not be enough of him to make presentable at the next democratic national convention.-New London day.
 For the quarter ending with last December, as reported by the Inter- state commerce commission, 474 per- sons were killed on the railroads of the United States in train accidents. There were 3,965 collisions and de- railments, 501 of which affected pas senger trains. In 21 out of 40 mo- table wrecks carelessness was the primary cause. The total of casual ties to passengers and employees for the quarter was 20,944, an increase of 1904 over the preceding quarter. These facts hardly need elaboration. It would seem that, in effect, they might be almost as damning to railway pros- perity as the passage of a public utili- ties bill.-New York World.