The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-02
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
Demon.trnted by the cIidden TOUR.

Demonstrated by the GIidden Tour.
There are several pertinent deductions
which may be drawn from the l,5oO-mlle
Glidden automobile tour which just nm
ished. Primarily it demonstrated the great
advance made by American manufactur-
ers of motor-cars, twenty-one machines
having finished the trip with perfect
scores, a most remarkable achievement
considering the distance Travelled and the
difficulties encountered during the weeks of
the tour. A more general interest at
tached to the run, however, than the rec
ord made by the individual cars, for it
serves to emphasize again that which can
not be emphasized too -often-namely, the
enormity of the country roads In the
United States.
Good roads, well made and well kept,
are essential to business prosperity in rural
districts; that the farmers have prospered
in spite of them serves to show merely
the irresistible prosperity of the country
and does not minimize the necessity of
highway improvements. Good roads pay a
greater return upon the investment than
any other security within the reach of the
rural populat on of the country. AT pres
emit the farmer spends innurnerable dollars
in getting his produce to market that with
improved transportation facilities would
go to, swell his bank account or place
many more of the luxuries of life within
hS ANoSA' ANo6O 70
Reaching a Better Understanding.
He is a rash person who says that the
period of strikes through which we nave
passed has been on the whole bad for the
country. Much that has been accom-
plished might have been DONE, and better
done, in some other way, but those in
interest would not be wise to see that bet
ter way. That wisdom has, however, in
part dawned, and 1t is much easier to get
labor and capital to a common ground OF
understanding now than 1t formerly was.
Capital has come to respect labor after a
fashion, and labor is beginning, in some
instances, at least, to understand the posi-
ton and the rights of capital. We are
still far from the ideal relation between
employer and employed, but we shave
mad the right sort of a start, and may
await developments with comparative
eouanimity.-New Haven Register.
A Confession of Weakness.
Commissioner Bingham wants a ma
tional secret service to protect New York
city from the crime wave. Such confess
sion on his part is not to be condoned.
! Why does he not apply his energies to the
work Of organizing his own force TO deal
with the evil? Has the commissioner been
seized by the same panicky spirit which
disgraced some of his men in the recent
shooting affair? 1t seems from a message
sent to the Chicago pc ice head that Com
missioner Bingham comedies that the
situation in New York Is beyond the con-
troll of the policemen a pleasant admission
for a police chief to make.-Springfeld
Union,
ohio Opposition 10 Taft.
Should Mr.. Taft's strength before the
country grow rapidly between now and
convention time. and attain proportions
promising his success through combina-
tions possible among the delegates gem
orally, the attitude of a handful OF Ohio
men standing out against the will of the
Republicans of the country would be very
unenviable. and would be more likely 10
illustrate Foraker's weakness than his
power.-Boston Transcript.