New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
FACTS AND RANCHES.

{ | =f {. T have been in public life for forty i years, and during all that time the t government of the state of New York , has been about as representative and 1 responsible as the government of N Venezuela Now the time has come
 when invisible government should give
 way" These are not the words of
 some impractical reformer.'' No one
 can discount them with the reply that 4 this is but the believing of the Bull \ Moose. The words were spoken in he 4 constitutional convention by q man whose conservatism has never been one Elihu Root New ! York Globe.
 This being president is no cinch.
 They are shooting them freely in Haiti
 and when one escapes from Mexico he is not allowed to go back and if he l were there is no telling what might happen. In either case it is a good l deal better to be right and alive ! than be president.Roch Times. 1 No one will believe for moment ' that the administration will be sat isaed" if no further outrages are com mitted by submarines If that were true the condemnation of people who have not forgotten the Lusitania would be- immediate and overwhelming. .- Philadelphia Ledger.
 The British government will bc "committeed' to death unless a halt is called. Already there are eighty- seven committees dealing with various phases of the war work, while no rec ord has heen published of the large numbers of departmental committees. Buffalo Commercial
 Carranza wishes to be recognized, but the president can hardly tell him from Huerta.P Philadelphia Record
 A rather general aversion to capital punishment, deliberately inflicted by public authority, has something to do with the sentiment developed in par- tlcular eases where there is money enough to employ skillfuI lawyers get the attention 0 the public to the de- talls or a trial and work upon the sym pathies of a jury which finally results in acquittal on the plea of insanity. a But in such eases is it insanity in any proper sense of the term that is proved, or is it only a lack of balance Tn the constitutional makeup and the mental faculties of the person who has perpetrated the criminal act? Is not | the act simply one of excited passion which is not controlled because the l perpetrator has not a sufficient motive for controlling it z? Few persons have | a very exact or complete balance of | mental faculties and moral impulses. | There is every conceivable variation in | kind and degree from what may be | regarded as the normal standard. | There are few human characters that | are even q approximately perfect. There | are all manner of faults, defects and weaknesses of character and their ef- | feet appears, not only in personal be- havior and in social and business life, but in political life and on the vast stage of characterization of nations. New York Journal of Commerce,
 In an address before the Interna- tlonal Steel congress held in Brussels I shortly before the war E. H. Gary I head of the United States Steel cor poratlon, said that the group of men there assembled, representing the great interests of the leading nations of the world. could settle fairly and 1 completely the causes of international | Irlctlon and so prevent the war that nad threatened Europe for many | years Is 1t not time for the able and ] practical men whose ability and lead- ersn1p command general confidence to adopt the suggestion of his holiness the Pope. and save the nations of | Europe from useless and incredible suffering and loss ?-New York Even ing Mail.
 This Is the season of the wear when 1t is customary to publish warnings against picking and eating poisonous mushrooms Those who make the mistake of eating toadstools are liable to find 1t out very soon, but too late. The toadstool has a way of getting into | the system, and once there it's influ- ence is very difficult to eradicate. There have been fatalities due to that blunder. Those gifted in mushroom lore say it is very easy to distinguish the edible from the poisonous, but those who are not very sure of their education along this line will be con- sulting safety first to leave them alone. Utica Press.
 The Law Abiding Submarines.
 (Meriden Recuru.1
 The brief comment in this country upon the sinking by German sub- marine of the Iberian, with several l Americans on board, shows that the press of the United States IS not dis posed to indulge in carping critism It is admitted that submarine had the light to challenge, to search and seize. When these formaIlties are ob- served there is nothing more to be