The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-05

seem to be deficient in the sense oi humor. At . time when the whole world has come to look upon the e29, coo, O0e hne imposed upon the Stan pard oil Company as joke, they psrsiss in treating the matter ser iously.
 Evidence is accommodating that the tide has turned and that industrial
 and financial conditions all over Amer ica are improving. Traffic earning: of the c. P. R. for the first week oi November increased by >ll5, 900, com pared with the same week year ago.
 Secretary Root denies that be is 6 candidate for the U. 5. senate, to sue. csed Plat.. It would be refreshing tC sec . man like Root in the senate from the Empire state, after so many years of Plstt and Depew. If the new senator is not to be Root there will be . devout hope that be is someone
 "equaliy as good"
 Csrmany's naval estimates for next year show a total expenditure of more
 than one hundred million dollars Europe is staggering under tremen- dous military burden. The period
 when 1t will become simply unbear- able cannot be far distant.
 It has been disclosed in the exami- nason of Mir. Rockefeller in the suit
 brought by the government to dissolve the Standard Oil Company, that the company earned half . million dollars
 within eight years. One does not need to be Socialist to get just a little psvish with system which renders such . thing possible.
 Those people who thought that Chins was about to go to pieces "have another guess coming" Bless your hearts, China has been going to pieces for the last forty centuries, according to outsiders; but she con tinues at the old stand just the same What the rest of the world does not know about China would make a very Hne library.
 In view of the growing use of the word gents" in this community, when "men" is what is meant, little story may be told. Once a newspaper man was asked if the word gents vas proper. He replied: "Yes, gents are people who wear pants, " which was not bad way in condemn ing two words that are an abomina- tion to all who have any respect for the English language.
 However, the real test in Cuba son't come until Comez's term ex- pires. The recent election was con- ducted practically under tine shadow of the American army. If the elec- tion four years hence passes of equally as we'll we will be justified in expecting that the Cuban republic will be . permanent establishment.
 One thing may be put down as cer- tain. Senator Foraker will seek re- election. And he will seek it with All the resources at his command. The senator is game and a manful aghter. He has pulled out of many light holes in the past. If his Ohio enemies hope to ''get" him they will have to make an early start and re- main steadily CD the job.
 General George B. Davis, judge 'dvocate general of the army, in his lnnual report states that saloons near sruy posts are highly detremental to discipline. He refers to the 'eports of the advocates of the var ous departments, favoring the restor- 'tion of the army canseen, and quotes 'tatissics snowing that large portion 'f tbs ofenses of soldiers, although 'os charged as drunkenness, are trace Ibls to the use Of intoxicating liquors obtained outside of the army posts.
 Keeping the faith involves some- hing more than a passive attitude to- yard Cuba and things Cuban. It means the hearty support of her in all ways, direct and indirect. There are hundred ways in which we could 'scrssly conspire against her, and one 'f these is by failing to help her, once he American forces are withdrawn. Her financial burden, for example, promises to be considerableand we are D part responsible for it. Unless we sssist her with it both through our money markets and our government "e may be accused of falling short in he discharge of our obligations. Un- ess we silence all underhand plotting. aOwever skillfully yelled, we may hinder her. Cuba must have a fair isld. an opportunity so genuine that Inything in the nature of annexation will be possibly only in case of her ab- Ioluts inability to govern herself or ger own clear and emphatic desire for it.