The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-07-17

word target was IL rather quiet locx-
| Ing woman that tue chairman called
| miss Goldman" There did not APP
pear anything particularly inflamma-
| tory about her-rather trIte.and tame,
| In fact Yet 1t gradually dawned on
me that this was the notorious Emma
Goldman, aud | wondered just what
| sort Of bunch | had got Into.
| But. returning to the raid in ques-
| ton, if our police would interfere less
with free speech and devote them
selves more to the detection and pun
ishment OF criminal acts they might
be more efficient in dealing not only
| with anarchy. but with other crimes.
In England people can say practically
what they please. but If they overstep
the bounds in deeds they get short
shrift Ia not that what we need here:
The new budget and bond issue are
the latest causes of excitement In New
York The incredible extravaganza
that has increased the city debt until
it is almost as large rs the national
debt and has prevented the building Of
new and needed subways is apparent
ly going forward unchecked As a
consequence there are fresh cries Of
anguish from the taxpayers. Presi
dent Conkling Of the Realty league
who, by the way. is ii nephew Of ROs-
coe Conklins. is putting over adjec-
tives, and Democratic antiTammany
associations are Springing up like toads
after summer shower 1t is APP
parent that this city budget and forty
million bond issue are the last hay
stacks tina; the back of the municipal
camel viii stand. The latest building
code * being sweepingly criticised by
contractors and builders. Tammany
Hall itself is being denounced as only
gigantic contract firm. Taken all
I'm all, it Is pleasure to live in the
big town now, If only to see the pO-
litical animals perform.
There were a few of us who deluded
ourselves into the belief that William
Travers Jerome was actually about TO
wake up, at least till after election.
Vain hope. 1t Is true that he did hurl
language at his queStiOnerS the other
night, but he did 1t In his sleep.
Jerome has such habit of hurting
language that he can perform without
disturbing his slumbers. The evidence
that he Is yet In dreamland Is album
dant For example. there is the post
ponement of his libel suits against the
Hearst papers. BY Jerome's own mo-
ton these have gone over till Deem
Der. The excuse is that Thomas +.
Ryan and others, who were needed as
witnesses, wanted to go to Europe. 1t
| would be too bad TO spoil their sum-
mer outings. almost as bad as it would
be to send some Of the big crooks to
jail. BY the way, Jerome says he
does not wish to run for mayor, at
which announcement there were no
mass meetings of protest.
[ see that Colonel William Dalton
Mann, who divides his whiskers In the
middle and his name ON the apOs
trophe, has been breaking into publici-
ty again. This time 1t is over libel
suit from Pittsburg. the judge setting
the verdict aside as excessive. In the
end Mann will probably wiggle out as
he has wiggled out Of so much before.
used to know Colonel Mann. 1t was
in the old days when, in addition to
running Town Topics and the Smart
Set, he also got out Tom Watson's
Magazine. 1t was a brief and inglori-
Gus experience for all concerned, but
out Of 1t comes one gorgeous memory,
and when l want to think Of anything
especially refulgent l reflect on the
whiskers, the personality and the man
| ners Of Colonel William Dalton Mann