Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-02
HEARD IN PASSING.


 company is going to make war on the steel trust, we aren't going to worry We don't care which licks.-Cleyeland Leader.
 He is able and he is eloquent, but he IS otherwise a solecism. A house. hold, community, state or a nation of Darrows would be impossible New York World.
 If they had put some of the starch into their backbones instead of into their immaculate white garments the i Koreans would not look so foolish to- | day.-Chieago Dailyy News.
 The interest for us in the new .con- yention' which Japan has just imposed upon Corea lies chiefly in it's effective exclusion of any foreign influence other than Japanese Philadelphia Ledger.
 Japan could get all the money she wanted to carry on the devastating operations of war, but when she goes into the market for funds to nnance enterprises of peace her guarantee fails to attract lenders.-Toronto Mail and Empire.
 Now that law-abiding Armenians are aroused and uniting the murder ous and blackmailing Hunachakists see their finish in America. One ! after another the undesirable eiti- zens" are being shown the door that opens only upon another world.-Ncw York Commercial.
 Banking in the United States is out growing the function of fostering small industrial establishments. The larger borrower has the right of way. Operations on an extended scale are more 10 be preferred, from a banking standpoint, at first sight at least..- Wall Street Journal.
 Colonel Ayres has been retired. Hereafter when army men wish to re- tain their positions they will allow their wives to fight their own battles alone and unaided. It is evidently conduct unbecoming an officer to take the part of his wife in any quarrel.- Baltimore American.
 While it is readily conceded that his Cw. s. Hays'sl journalist achieve ments were overshadowed by these of his chief. 1t must be admitted in re- turn that he was possessed of a native talent which made some of his works, at least. as widely famous as Mir Wat tersOn himself-1Ianchester Union.
 In many states of the union to-day the people are beginning to reap tine whirlwind which was shown in the frenzy of legislative regulation last winter. The great crop of new laws have complicated things to such an extent that able lawyers are lost ia the meshes of legal entanglement.-Kan- sas City Journal
 We cannot but feel lingering fOnd- ness for the nre-eating monsters that have borne their part in the Iatter-day romance. after all; nor can We accus- tom ourselves tO believe that the train driven by a third rail or a trolley or a gasoline motor will present the senti- mental appeal that the iron horse has made.-LoweIl Courier-Citlzen.
 This failure to distinguish between contracts and agreements that have an injurious effect upon trade and commerce and restraint that is leg itimate and beneficial. this sweeping prohibition If what may in ifs effect In some eases be desirable eoopera- tisn. Is the vlunerable point n the antitrust law. which has largely caused its failure t0 aceomplish lie purpose snd produced the eTecs If aggravating srile 1t was intential to remedy This las not. indeed tp@en the result of the original intent. but If syfeh construction of the act as the courts were impeIled tO put Upoa II hg its own phraseoloxy.-New York Journal of Commerre-