Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-13
WORTH QUOTING
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Prohibition took a good many peo.
pies breath away. much to their gain.
confesses the Atlanta Georgian.
The Richmond es.Dispatch, self.
appointed censor Of subjects for hu.
morous writing In newspapers, very
properly bars sausage.
Religion affects some people 30 that
they are never happy, complains the
New York Times, unless they are On
the mourners' bench.
Five women fought for one husband
In . New York court. The merciful
Judge didn't award him to the whole
bunch, rejoices the Atlantic Constitu.
tion.
BY careful planning q man in Jer.
sey may marry new wife every two
years without legal penalty, notes the
New York American. Jersey justice
is not relentless, II recognizes that
bigamy II Its own punishment.
John w. Gates recently said: A.
soon rs people begin to wear their
old clothes, they will begin to pros.
per-" Then he went. says the Boston
Transcript. and hired suite Of apart
ments at 100000 year.
The net result Is that while Con.
sress has power to legislate over in.
terstate business. the rights Of EN-.
ployes In local branches must be safe
guarded by the legislatures, maintains
the New York World.
We have q right to our opinion.
pleads the Mobile Register, Of any
young man who will let q sweet, mod.
est sirl do the proposing, because Il
happens to be leap year.
The physician who says Il IL not
proper to call 10 grippe anything but
influenza may call II what no likes.
but. speaking for the diseased, con.
tends the Louisville Courier Journal.
anyone who has II II entitled to q
reasonable latitude In nouns sud I'd.
jectives.
The killing Of 5000 persons and the
injury OF 76.2s6 would make any read.
er Of . Newspaper shudder II he had
read these bloody figures Ia the 90.
count Of battle. asserts the Water
bury American. This 10 the 12.month
record Of our railroads, one far
bloodier than that Of most battle
eelds.
Behind tho reported heavy demand
In Venezuela for laundry machinery
there turks the skeleton OF civil war.
prophesies the Louisville Courier.
journal. Il will be easy to stir up
rebellion among Q naturally hottem.
pered people rendered unusually peev.
ish by having all OF the buttons
smashed from their lingerie once .
week.
From the narrowest mercenary
point Of view. excluding all considera-
tons Of humanity, the railroad cor.
porations, insists the Philadelphia
Record, should see that the most OK.
pensive appliances for security Of
travel involve much less cost In the
long run than the frequent catas-
trophies that result from the neglect
to install these appliances.
All honor to the kicker II he kicks
IN o good cause. and In the right di.
rection, declares the Christian Regis.
ter, but there are kickers OF many
kinds and all the difference In tho
world between the one who kicks Just
for the fun Of It and the one who by
his kicking helps on the worlds work.
The man who stands like q mule kick
ing only out Of stubbornness may
do some incidental good. but may do
. great deal of harm. A well.trained
horse pulls the load and never kicks.
The Chicago Record Herald says:-
There has been little regulation II
the United States Of what are known
- the dangerous trades" The 40
cident statistics are incomplete. Some
writer's believe that at least 10000
employees are killed or injured an.
nually In the single division Of manu-.
featuring industries. OF the accidents
In the great building industry no REQ.
ord ID made anywhere. self.interest.
to say nothing Of humanity. enjoins
the use OF all effective devices. for
the fewer the accidents In any line
the lower the premium charged BY
the accident insurance companies.