The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-10-03
TO THE POINT.
A Few Random Thoughts About Public
Current Events.

Only a few weeks more of the
open season for the labor vote.
Is this canned oratory being
guaranteed under the Pure Food
Law?
1t is a woeful thought; but what
is to become of Geo. Leonard
Green when Roosevelt goes?
Gov. Hughes friends should be
careful not to predict that he will
run like race horse this time.
Now Andrew Carnegie has made
the request, it would be impolite
in Emperor William not to abolish
war.
Having reached the age of Fl,
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., it is an
nounced authoritatively, will not
vote for Bryan.
The drouth of this year of our
Lord seems to be unprecedented.
Thousands are offering daily pray
er in the dry zone.
The dirt is flying SO lively in the
campaign now that nobody seems
to care for the latest news from the
big ditch in Panama.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon's friends
should remind him that it is desir-
ed to have the dirt fly at Panama,
not in the campaign.
The President was kind enough
to give Oyster Bay farewell re-
ception, preliminary to it's disap-
pearance from the map.
Evidently Chicago does not bury
its dead, if one may judge by the
number who voted at the recent
primaries in that town.
Egypt, Turkey, Persia and Rus
sia all clamor for Constitution.
It is so strange, too, coming as it
does, just as we lose ours.
1t takes a child a couple of years
to learn to talk and then it takes
the rest of a lifetime to learn to
keep from talking too much.
Some of the Republican Con-
gressmen have discovered that po-
litical ostracism comes from their
association with Speaker Cannon.
The Josephs have fallen upon evil
days. Cannon, Foraker and Sibley
all have their hands full in explain
ing. 1t were better to be Dennis.
It is said that a United States
transport will take ex-President
Roosevelt to an African port next
year. To make sure of getting rid
of him is safety.
Leslie Mortimer Shaw has secur-
ed job as president of Pittsburg
trust company. We feared all the
while that Mr.. Shaw would come
to some bad end.
William Howard Taft, William
Randolph Hearst and William Jen-
nings Bryan are booked to take
up lot of the time of the people
during October.
1t is strange after all the con-
struction the courts have received
from the President, they persist in
deciding against him. Will they
never learn what's what and who's
who3
The japanese who were discharg
ed from a Kansas City packing
house because they were too light
might see if there isn't an opening
for them as conductors of an air.
ship line.
The campaign was about as lively
as funeral until somebody began
to lambaste the Standard Oil.
Then the people woke up. Need
we, dear reader, point out the NOR
al of this tale?
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says no
man becomes really serious until he
has passed the age of 35. Possibly
Ella has never seen a married man
who was presented with twins
before he was 25.
President Roosevelt appeals to
the country for a Republican Con-
gress, so that Mr.. Taft's hands
may not be tied. But wasn't it a
Republican Congress that tied Mr..
Roosevelt's hands?
1t has leaked out at Whiting,
Ind, that the Standard Oil Com
pany has subscribed for two hum
dred copies of Harper's Weekly to
be sent regularly to its employees,
and many of the men refuse to take
it from the postoffice. Harper's is
vigorously attacking Mr.. Bryan. i
Governor Can't Order Out BIOOdhOunds.