The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-13


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ROBERT MacOUOID-S
OFFICES Chic csicato@50i Tiiio and 7
PENSACOLA. FLORIDA. sATURI
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Silk is to be made in Jacksonville,
70 the delight OF every maid in Jack
Eohville.
What's the use putting locks on the
canal when 1t should be on the level?
ask some Of the inquisitive congress
men.
Relations between Tsmpa and st.
Petersburg are becoming so strained
that it's questionable if even Don Nc
Mullen can relieve them.
The Journal wishes to express its
sympathy with Editor Cleveland OF
the DeFuniak Herald in his great sor-
row over the death of his little son.
It must have been the hot air vibra-
lions from Washington during the
past seven years that caused the new
crack in the liberty bell at PhiIadel-
pnia.
Why should not the Times-Union
be perfectly frank and call them
sJacksonViIlains," the transposition of
ahe 81" being for the sake of euphony,
of course?
The affable director of the tubercu-
iosis exhibit, e. G. Routzahn, should
organize the Don't Spit" league by
the election of officers and committees
and publish the list of its members.
Champ Clark, of Missouri, is champ
ing his bit in eagerness 10 get at I'm
Gle Joe Cannon. and the other insur-
gents are equally anxious for the fray.
Hot times are promised at that spec
ial session.
The battleship Florida will be Of
21,s25 tons burden and will cost So
OOO, 900. the government having realiz-
ed that she must be a big thing, a
nigh-priced thing, a regular all around
leviathan to be worthy of her name.
In recommending the chloroforming
of criminals, Commander Evans, OF
the u, c. V, seems 10 Intimate that
the best thing to do with that sort
of people is to put them asleep. All
the boys are said TO be mighty good
when they are asleep.
American worshipers of royalty
we're put all in a feverish flutter OF
excitement by reading a headline in
the newspapers yesterday, announcing
that King Alfonso and his queen we're
al Andalusla-until they found it was
not Andalusia, Ala.
There does seem TO be a feeble ef-
fort among certain misguided and fool
ish politicians up Washington way 10
put lid on the American press. I'll
will be well to keep an eye on these
gentlemen so as to apply the thumb
screws and straight jackets at what is
known III diplomatic circles as th5
proper psychological moment
IT'S easy 10 imagine the joy of those
philopythonic professors of the Chi
csgo University when they saw a poor
starving boa-consrictor satisfy his
hunger and gather a new lease of life
by swallowing a ffty-pound pig. All,
do not weep, dear philopoTcinic !
friends; the pig was dead, though not |
roasted aud garnished with apple
sauce.
Brother Appleyard. of the Lake City !
Index. vii make things hum in that |
Tallahassee printery ne has bought. |
and viii lay down the laws with 4 /
rapidly and decision which viii far /
rxceed all his past notable efforts IN |
fhe same direction. But let him re-
member that all his Acts" Will De |
carefully scrutinized and should any /
'pi" lines be N evidence he'll be
made to revise" his conduct.
IL looks as though Jne United |
States government would do well 10 /
ieave the prosecution of the Standard /
Oil company 10 the courts Of the /
states. The wretched miscarriage OF
the recent trial before Judge Ander-
son stands out in black contrast witt
the brilliant records made by the /
courts of Texas and Missouri, in
which the iniquity of the trust was
S,,ylr prOva1 and followed by large