The Demopolis Times from Demopolis, Alabama • 2

The limli of the old soldiers' home THE JOY RIDERS Charley Jlilson has sold his sta ils TinivS Alabama gfg John R. Williams, harbormaster of Mobile, is dead. Heat-twisted rails caused two wrecks near Denver, CoL Two men were arrested in a buck, et shop raid at Cincinnati. Over 6,000 coal miners in the Kansas coal fields have quit work. have been brought to the attention of the people of Alabama by a statement from Coinmundant Kiuipson that more hospital room must be had.

It is pointed out that the veterans are getting very old and that a number of them are sick most of the time. To meet this demand the hospital must be enlarged and the board ia considering the idea of securing the nioney and making the addition and depending upon the legislature to give it back. Alabama takes great pride in its care of the old soldiers, and they will have to demand a great deal more than they have demanded before the people will feel that they have reached an un reasonable point. R. B.

Smyer, a prominent attorney of Birmingham, haa drawn up a bill looking to the abolishment of the fee system. He announces that the draft ia merely a suggestion for a bill to be drawn fos passage at the special session of the legislature. Mr. Smyer a idea ia that officers whose feea amount to more than $5,000 per year should receive only a percentage of all excess above that amount. The bill ia general.

The 198 Confederate pensioners in Colbert county, divided into 13 first class, two second, five third and 178 fourth class, have received their warrants from the atate auditor, and are greatly die-a pointed that their allowance ia reduced nearly 50 per owing to the fact that the appropriation for the old soldiers and their widows has run low. Ed Howard, convicted of participation in the murder of W. R. Drake, of Lane-ville, a year ago, must die, according to a ruling of the aupreme court. Joe Mc-Daniels, convicted of the same offense on the same testimony, and defended by the same lawyer, gets a new trial on the court's refusal to give a certain charge to the jury.

The farmers around Florence are very blue over the serious condition of crops. It is estimated that not less than 10 per cent of the cotton acreage has been abandoned. Practically the corn planted in lowlands is ruined, but that on uplands is in fair condition. The farmers are experiencing difficulty in aecuring necessary hoe hands, even by extra inducement. A very gratifying record ia announced by the.

railroad commission of Alabama, who gives out the information that no case ia docketed for the July meeting. Failure of the railroads and of the peo ple to register any sort of "kick" establishes the record, inasmuch as there haa been no matter docketed for considera tion the past two months. For the purpose of bringing about three great changes in the present educational system of this State, the Alabama Education Committee -is planning a whirlwind campaign for this summer that will seek to secure better supcr- intertdency in each county; a modified compulsory education law, and a constitutional chance that will vermit each -oimty to levjj a local Jho1 tax for a tax eign ions from v-t- ance. As a Com missioner Deputy Insurance Comi Sexton have written to each Alabama congres sional representative at Washington, urging that the effort be antagonized to the fullest extent. John H.

Wallace, game and fish commissioner, fears that the long wet spell will cut down the supply of game, especially quail. However, these birda have been seen in great numbers in pairs, which leads to the belief that they are gathering in numbers rapidly. Fires are bad for quail, and for this reason the commissioner is seeking to prevent for ests from getting on fire. J. B.

Thornton tells John H. Wallace, State game and fish commissioner, of great success in domesticating wild doves, which were thought to be hard to tame. He caught these birds before the game laws went into effect. He desires permission to catch othera to prevent inbreeding, but he is denied this, the game laws not allowing captivity. He is also denied permission to catch and tame some wild quail as an experiment.

Announcement is maue that the Hunts ville Cotton Mill will close down on July 5 for a period of two months, so that the operatives who are subject to the compulsory education law may comply with the provisions of the law by attending school. Jt is a certainty that Montgomery will have a fair in 1909. President R. J. Chambers says that the directors of the Alabama Agricultural Association have just held an enthusiastic meeting.

Mer chants seem anxious to help in assuring the fair for this fall. W. B. Kemp and two sons, W. B.

and John of Wilmer, were placed under $1,000 bond each by United States Com missioner Jones, on a charge of holding two negroes, George Jones and wife, In involuntary servitude in Mobile county. A. J. Montgomery, deputy collector, and R. A Smith and J.

H. Peoples; deputy marshals, made a raid on a wild-eat still 1-1 miles from Hamilton, in Marion county, and destroyed a 40-gallon copper still, together with about 300 gallons of beer. They captured A. Kichols and brought him before Commissioner Sullins and he was bound over to the United States -court. Birmingham's first horse show under roof was given June 29, 30 and- July 1 at the riding academy and it waa a big success.

A handsome monument erected in the court house yard at Athena to the memory of the Confederate soldiers of Limestone eounty was unveiled at Athena amidst a large and enthusiastic crowd. The monument cost more than $1,500 and the money was raised by Athens chanter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the surviving Confederate soldiers of Limestone county. The Sunday School Institute of Alabama held its first meeting in Tuscaloosa, While the attendance waa not very large, 'a great deal of interest was manifested. ble at Hot Springs and will abroad. President Taft will visit New- Or.

leans and Jackson, next November. Thousands of cattle are caid to be dying in Mexico of thirst caused by drouths. The 11-year-old son of President Taft is operating an automobile in Washington. I Daniel Roderick, aged 70, of St Elmo, 111., was at the clerk's office when the doors opened one morn ing last week at Terre Haute, for a marriage license to marry for the sixth time. Four wives were divorced and one died.

The last bride was Mrs. Mary Fisher, once divorced and once a widow. An agreement on all the disputed points in the bill providing for the thirteenth census has been reached by the conferees of both houses of Congress, and their report was accepted by the House, leaving noth ing but the action of the Senate and the signature of the president necessary to make it a law. Aside from the eight deaths, largely superinduced by the heat on the 30th, one man, supposed tjo have been affected by the stifling atmosphere, drowned himself in the lake. and another succumbed to injuries caused by the falling upon him of an ice box, numerous cases of prostration have been cared for at the hospitals in Chicago.

J. W. Mayes, engineer on the Norfolk and Western railway, and Robert Culbertson, both living in Norton, fought a duel in the streets of Middleboro, Ky. Anna Hayes, over whom the men were jealous, was shot twice during the fight and is thought to be dying. Mayes was shot twice.

Culbertson suffered a serious wound in the arm. From bellboy to protege of a millionaire and inheritor of a comparative fortune was the rapid change in the condition of Leon Naimais, aged 18 years. While on a visit to New Orleans this year Start Hoyt Nicholls, a wealthy New Yorker, took a fancy to young Naimais and when he left New Orleans shortly afterward he had the-boy go along with him. Just before his sudden death in Hawaii on May 31 Nich oils presented Naimais with $4,500. The University of Paris has announced two donations in the in terests of aviation.

The first is $100,000, with an annual subven tion of $3,000 from Henri Deutsche Delamanth' foundation of a departii of technical aeronan? tics, including studies and researches for the perfection of aerial apparatus of whatever form, and the second $140,000 from Basil Zaka-roff, a Greek resident of Paris, for the foundation of a chair of aviation. A startling double assassination of a political character occurred in London toward the conclusion of a public gathering at the Imperial Institute. An Indian student whose name is unknown, shot and killed Lieut. CoL Sir Wm. Hutt Curzon Wylie and Dr.

Carlas Lalicaca of Shanghai. Wylie, who had held important Indian appointments, fell dead on the spot. Dr. Lalicaca showed signs of life after he fell and was hurried to St George's hospital, but on arrival there he was dead. Although Broughton Brandenburg was acquitted at New.

York of the charge of grand larceny in connection with the sale of an alleged spurious letter of rover Cleveland to the New York Times, he had only a few minutes of freedom. Before leaving the court room he was rearrested and will be taken to St. Louis for trial on a charge of fraudulently enticing his stepson. James Shepard Cabanne III. The penalty for this offense in Missouri ranges from six months; in jail to 20 years' imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The author was taken back to the Tombs in default of $5,000 bail to await the arrival of Missouri officers. Though he could not swim -a stroke, Abbott Willard, 16 years old, dived into the Hudson river at Fort Washington Point, N. where the water is more than 60 feet deep in a vain attempt to save his brother, Norman," aged 11, from drowning. The older boy lost his head, but the younger retained his presence of mind and did everything in his power to keep his brother above water until both were drowned. W.

N. Smith, former president of the San Luis Land and Cattle Company, with headquarters in Chicago, was arrested at San Antonio, on his arrival from Mexico and ii held pending advices from the Chicago authorities. The arrest was made at the instance of Harold Y. Curry, present president of the company, who says Smith is wanted in Chicago on a charge of obtaining $6,000 under false pretenses. rVBLJBBSO WKKU.

ZMOPOUa. i ALABAMA. 8Hf Epitome of Events From All the World. Including Our Neighbor State. Two were killed in a cyclone at Brownsville, Tex.

A campaign for pure milk ia being made at Springfield, 111. The tin and sheet metal workers have agreed to a new scale of wages. There were 28 deaths rom cholera in St Petersburg one day last week. President Taft has been granted $25,000 per year for expenses in Congress. Marvin Barnett of Detroit died ef lockjaw resulting from a Fourth of July bomb.

Saloon men in Chicago plan keep Salvation Army girls out of their bar rooms. White Republicans in Texas aro endeavoring to oust negroes from federal positions. A negro horse thief wag taken from officers near Mahen, Miss, and shot to death. Wm. L.

Corney, an aged wealthy recluse of Bismark, was beaten and robbed last week. flrt imvAmmpnt Tn a he (, J. 11C UUWU.U fo I forced to send troops to Teheran, Persia, to protect foreigners. I Several Alabama farmers have I been fined on peonage charges in I connection with negro tenants. I The fishing boat Emilie Marie I has been lost off the coast of Ice-s land, and the crew of 27 men pre-I eumably perished.

A negro, at Nashville, on account of the state going ary, mortgaged his home and bought two barrels of whisky. I 'A. E. Williams, fireman, was I hurled from his train by a mail I crane at Claremont, and prab- ably fatally injured. I The trial of 116 women suffra-I irisa who attested to storm the Parliament building in London was I postponed until July 9.

I A British ship was held at New York harbor last week, being ac-f cused of having arms on hoard for I the Havtian revolutionists. 'TUff B-iacamSTsnprenMr-Cuurt up- i. l1A held the locker system, ruling tnar. the sale of liquor can be pronioneo, but that toe drinking of cannot. I During an electrical etorm light-' I ning struck the barn of B.

F. Thom-6 as a woalTiv farmer, residing five I miles west of Linneous, and killed Thomas. i Articles have been signed creat ing a corporation, to be known as IHe XU1ACJ xuuovvv I to hfl controlled by the Kentucky I Burley Society, which takes in the I burley tobacco growing section 01 Ohio and Indiana. The I mlan is to use 10 per cent of the procjeds from this year's pooled I crop to capitalize tne company, mhioh is exDected to be in active mwration in one year. President i Ibus of the Burley Society made I the statement that on a pool of 000 hogshead the corporation would earn $1,800,000.

I for the presence of mind of Mis. Jennie Lewellyn, an aged wo- man, in flagging the west-Douna Excelsior Springs train on the Wa if bash railroad near Missouri City, I the head-on collision of a I freight and passenger train at that i point last week probably would have i resulted in many deaths. As it was, one man was killed, one woman bad- ly injured and ten slightly injured. I The passenger engineer was enabled to lessen the speed of his tram, noin I engines were demolished and the I baggage car and a coach on the pas-I aenger train were telescoped. The I flead man is David Parrish, an en-t gineer, who was riding in the bag- gage car.

I The State Banking Board of Ok-1 lahoma is having a great row over I the conduct of its affairs. I Ex-Gov. W. O. Dawson of West I Virginia will be appointed Ameri- I can commercial agent to China.

St. Louis capitalists are attempt-I'Jng to recover $1,000,000 worth of mining property from Montana parties, although the case has bf en in the supreme court three times the fight is still on. The debate in the Senate over the I income and corporation tax may continue a month or more, Ten per cent of the government I clerks may be affected by President Taft's "weeding out" order. Senator Gore of Oklahoma visited I a recent flying machine demonstra-I tion and kept up with the affair by i Laving his wife tell him just what I a utr.iig uuue. ucuatvi uuic Mm completely blind.

After being lost in the woods of Shel by oounty for twelve days and nights, Elsie, the 3 years and 6 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Riley Eason, of Vincent, has been found, and is now safely on the road to recovery. During the twelve days that the child wandered alone in the woods and on the mountains it rained almost incessantly, and two distinct storms passed over that section of the country, destroying timber and the growing crops. The child was barefooted and bareheaded, and waa clad only in' a light cotton dress.

When found, little Elsie was almost dead, and was horribly scratched and bitten by briars and insects. She was so weak she could hardly stand by supporting herself by a log. She could not speaa ior several days. She was aa wild as any animal. Judge A.

O. Lane, of the circuit court, declared a mistrial in the case of H. G. Clabaugh againBt J. Van Hooae, which was one of the longest civil suits ever tried in Jefferson county.

The plaintiff ought $130,000 damages on the ground that when he. was in the wholesale grocery business and because he refused to join the Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association, its president, Van Hoose, used his Influence with manufacturers so that he was unable to buy goods, and was forced out of business. The case was tried with eleven jurors. Ten of them issued a statement showing that they were in favor of allowing damages of over $100,000, but that the eleventh man would never go above and this amount, the ten considered, "grossly inadequate." The supreme court gave much encouragement to the locker system by holding that a man may own and keep as much liquor about his place as he sees fit, provided it is legally secured. The opinion is by Mr.

Justice Sayre, and reiterates the principle that intoxicating liquors are property and may be owned and held as such. The Bessemer ordinance prohibiting the storage of liquors in places where soft drinks are aold' is declared in violation of the constitution of the state and. nation. The effect will be to mm "i storage of liquors legal. For the July quarter the Confederate pensioners will again fall short, rirst class, whose usual allotment is $25 a quarter, drops to second class, from $20 to from $16 to fourth, from $12.50 to $6.90.

The pension money is raised by a direct tax of one mill. In making appropriations, however, the last legislature fixed its sights so high that the returns from the special tax haver not been sufficient to meet the third quar" There is much actfv ore lands in Colbert in the southeastern A tions are being rapidly thought that there vf awakening within the 4 or as soon as test pits' can be made. These options are being taken by several individuals and companies, and mountain land ordinarily worth $1 to $1.50 per acre is being contracted for at prices from $10 to $15 per acre, conditioned on their value in minerals and ore. Quite a sensation has been sprung in Birmingham by the finding of human bones in a junk yard there, that had been sold to the junk dealer along with skeletons of horses, cows and other animals. The dealer says that he has been receiving quite a number of such bones recently, and that they bring the same price as animal bones.

It has been revealed that the bones were found at one of the city's dumping grounds where dead animals are buried. R. M. Holland, who owns a large grist mill in New Decatur, haa adopted a unique plan to induce the farmers of his section to raise wheat. It is his plan to fit his mill up with modern flour machinery, if he can induce 200 farmers to plant two acres of wheat each as a starter.

Among the farmers petitions are being circulated and a number hare already signed, expressing their willingness to try the experiment. It ia shown by the books of the state auditor that for the fiscal year ending June 30 the state paid to old soldiers for pensions the sum of $842,119.35, as against $785,275.25 the year before. Jefferson has the greatest nuniher of pensioners, more than doubling Tuscaloosa, the next highest. Jefferson gets this year, and Tuscaloosa The total number of pensioners of all classes is 16,735. Pleading guilty to charges of holding farm hands in peonage, four of the nine Monroe county farmers and officers were today fined by I'nited States Judge Toulmin, at Mobile.

William Shannon was fined $500, Barley Dawson $200, G. Alex. Fountain, a justice of the peace, $50, and J. L. Courtney $50.

Walter Strety, whose sentence of life in the penitentiary was affirmed by the supreme court, was convicted on a showing that he killed his wife because he was poor and could not support her and the additional baby that he knew was coming. Merchants of Montgomery will put an independent line of boats on the Alabama river, owing to the stoppage of traffic by the Birmingham and Gulf Transportation Company, the only line coming this far up stream. Hugh Trammell of Tallapoosa county was pardened, after serving one year of a ten-year sentence for murder. It was shown that his two victims, one 'white and the other a negro, insulted his wife. Gov.

Comer in the pardon distinctly recognizes the unwritten law, holding that a man has right to protect his wife from abuse and insult. Kecessary funds have been and on October 22 the gates of Vandiver park, Montgomery, will be thrown open for the fourth annual atate fair. Boss Durham of Philadelphia, a famous political leader, died a few days ago. Henry Baron, a farmer, aged 28, was killed by a train at Mineral Point, Mo. Five seamen were injured in an explosion on a torpedo boat at San Francisco.

A test of the state-wide prohib-i tion law of Tennessee will be made at Memphis. All Italians implicated in the Black Hand outrages in Ohio will be tried next fall at Toledo. President Reyes of Colombia, it is said, fled from his country be cause he feared assassination. Lightning struck the oil tanks near the oil field at Lexington, and $50,000 worth of oil was burned. Bank clearings in the large cities are falling off during the last few days, presumably on account of the heat A Vatican prelate is authority for the statement that Archbishop Farley of New York will be made a cardinal.

Seven men in jail at Whiting, for beating their wives pleaded in court that the hot waves drove them to assault. Chancellor yon Buelow of Ger many has announced that he would resign as soon as the finance bill is passed by the Reichstag. The outlaws who held up a Ca nadian Pacific express train June 21 have been run down near Win nipeg and one of the bandits slain. In moving the funds of San Francisco last week 25 special po licemen were employed. Ten mil lion dollars was carried in one wag on.

Suffragettes in London attacked the House of Commons; and at tempted to gain admission. Special officers were required to quell the riot. S. J. Fleming, convicted bigamist, who escaped from the sippi Insane Asylum at Jackson, was captured at Burleson, and returned.

A bill will soon be introduced in the Georgia legislature seeking to exclude negroes from employment on steam railroads in the capacity of trainmen. Senator Elkins is pressing a plan in Congress to encourage American shipping by granting a reduction in tariff duties on goods imported in American vessels. The of Chicago was scored in a speech by Prof. George Burman Foster, who was recently dropped from the Baptist Ministers' Conference in Chicago. An increase in the duty on structural iron and steal valued at more than ninetenths of a cent per has been made by the Senate, the increase being from three-tenths to four-tenths per cent per pound.

Cotton bagging was placed on the free list. Prof. George Herbert Palmer of Harvard, twice married and reported to be contemplating a third venture in matrimony, has come forth with the pronunciamento that a little flirting, properly conducted, of course, is not only advisable, but imperative for the average college boy and girl. An anti-saloon campaign at In-dee, N. came to a cilmax last week, when a band of masked -men, mounted and armed, rode their horses through the doors of a saloon and after driving the customers into the street, wrecked the place by "shooting it up." The raiders next invaded a dance hall, and while some of the women fainted and others rushed screaming for the doore, the same program of destruction was carried out.

The Massachusetts monument in the National Cemetery at Baton Rouge, will be dedicated October 1. "What is whisky?" was discussed in the cabinet room of the White House last week, President Taft listening to attorneys for rectifying distillers and blenders who oppose the recent decision of Solicitor Bowers as to what should be labeled "imitation whisky." A "joker" has already been found in the corporation tax law before Congress. The discovery was made that "holding companies" are A well-dressed girl, about 18 years of ag walked to the bank of the Schuylkill river in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, laid her hat and a well-filled lunch basket on the ground and jnmned into the water and was di'owned. MsVSrfMsiMSJMWWWwayMskMkrfsMWkkasSaaws TWO SETS OF LAWS ROOSEVELT IDEA OF "RUDE AND PRIMITIVE JUSTICE." Immunity for the 8ugar Trust with Its Millions Unlawful Imprisonment for Small Malefactors Pro- nounced Innocent. "No criminal, high or low, whom we can reach, will receive immunity," shrieked Mr.

Roosevelt in his Memorial day speech at Indianapolis in 1907. "As a matter of course we shall punish any criminal whom we can convict under the law." "Wherever evil-doers can be, they shall be brought to Justice." "The power of the nation must be exerted to stop crimes of cunning no less than crimes of violence." At the time Mr. Roosevelt uttered these Inspiring sentiments the sugar trust was guilty of violating the interstate commerce, law and the Sherman anti-tniBt law and was stealing money with both hands from the United States government. George H. Earle.

receiver for the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company, complained to Mr. Roosevelt and to his attorney-general of the violation of the anti-trust law, and although "no criminal, high or low, whom we can reach, will receive Immunity," the administration refused to take any action in regard to Mr. Earle's complaint. Mr. Bonaparte now explains the Roosevelt policy on the ground that the complainant had failed to do the gov-rnment'8 work In clinching the proof.

"Had Mr. Earle offered me any evidence that Involved the nubile' interest, I should have acted," he says; yet the sugar trust comes into court and settles for millions in a private suit brought under the Sherman law rather than allow the trial to proceed. The testimony that forced the settlement waa the very testimony that Mr. Earle offered to the Roosevelt administration. What a different picture of Roose-veltian methods presented itself when the United States supreme court decided that confederate notes were not counterfeit-money! In spite of this decision and of the protests of Attorney-General Knox, Mi.

Roosevelt refused to release from prison a man who had been convicted without due process of law, boasting that he was administering "rude and primitive justice," and that regardless of the court this man was "undoubtedly a scoundrel and morally a criminal." There was plenty of Rooseveltlan justice for the man that passed confederate notes, but none for the criminal sugar trust with its millions of capital and assets. For Cheaper Raw Materials. It is a mistake to assume that American consumers are the only clamorers for lower duties in certain tariff schedules. Manufacturers, giving allegiance to both political parties have joined In the demand In order to increase the export market. Herein we have one of the main reasons for lower duties on certain raw materials in the Payne bill.

Man ufacturers, with market conditions at their fingers' ends, know that cheap er raw materials will enable a furth er invasion of foreign markets. "And don't forget, either," cautions a Kansas paper, "that it was the Republican party that said the tariff must be revised by its friends." If the Republican party said that it seems to be making good with one campaign 'pledge, at least Kansas City Star. No Inquisition! We do not believe the country will continue long to look with favor upon these efforts to increase the power of the general government over private business. There Is no doubt that what we need is not a commissioner of corporations, poring over the records of private business and inserting his' interfering figure wherever he sees a chance, but laws, known to all men, the violation of which can pretty gen erally be punished without searching the books of the companies for evidence. Philadelphia Record.

Always "On the Job." In New Hampshire every Republi can, regular or progressive, and all the Democrats, should make an outcry In behalf of the corporation Income tax now, and an amendment of the sonstltutioB and a permanent and income tax later. The Hon. William Eaton Chandler. Mr. Chandler seems to be the only New Hampshire Republican, regular, irregular, progressive or regressive, who Is making an outcry; but he is a competent and an experienced outcrler and likes the Job.

WEST MUST THROW OFF YOKE. Time to End the Domination of ths New England Representative at Waahlngton. The total area of the six New Eng. land states is less than 70,000 square miles and the total population is about 6,000,000. Six western states Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Indiana have more than 350,000 square miles and a population of How does the influence of these six western states compare with the New England influence in framing the present tariff lawT Iowa, Wisconsin and Indiana have Cummins, Dolllver, La Follette and Beverldge on guard.

But what ia their Influence compared with that of the New England group? These western senators are voicing the sentiments of the really representative American states. But what headway are they making? The great west and middle west could put New England in an ob scure corner, geographically, and still have an American empire left. Yet New England continues to assume-that all real statecraft, all tariff wisdom, all loyalty to American ideals are vested in its senatorial representatives. When will the west throw off the New England yoke? Unappreciated Warnings. Warnings of political retribution suchr aa Senator Cummins addressed to Ald-rlch and the other members of the tariff hog combine" slide easily off the backs of senators who have their local machines under good control and their legislatures in their breeches pocket.

Fancy frightening Hale or Lodge in that way! It is in the doubtful states, and particularly those of the west which are so filled with disgust at the threatened betrayal of tariff revision. that the prophecies of the Iowa senator will come true, if at all. But this prospect does not in the least disturb the over-lords of the senate. They have much tariff goods laid up for many years, and are saying to their souls, "Eat, drink and be merry." Aid-rich indignantly said: "I am responsible to my constituents alone." He need have no concern for the welfare of the party at large. Provided Rhode Island stays Republican, what matters it if Illinois or Iowa be lost? Aldrich ia not asking either of the latter states to keep him in the senate.

But there is one man who is bound to take notice that the country is somewhat larger than Rhode Island, and whose duty Is to consider the interests of the whole people. He is the president of the United States. N. Y. Evening Post Policy of Deceit.

''The Republicans have made a spectacular show of changing the old law here and there, but in nearly every essential item the return always is to Dlngley. In response to a great outcry against the Payne increase of the tax on such necessaries as gloves and hosiery, the senate graciously proposes to retain the highly protective Dingley rates. Payne kept the Ding-ley rates on wines and liquors. The. senate appeals to a popular sentiment by raising them.

The proposed increase from $8 a dozen on champagne to $9.60 will certainly cause no grumbling among the champagne makers of New York state. A Makeshift Revision. It is evident that such tariff revision as we are to get from the present extraordinary session of congress will be a temporary makeshift satisfactory to nobody but its direct beneficiaries, who are a small minority of the people of the United States. N. Y.

Journal of Commerce. We were told that the trusts must be slain or that they would rule the government What we see Is that the trusts are stronger than when they were attacked, and that the law is in the mire. It has been perverted from the regulation bf morals and the protection of liberty to an entanglement with the intricacies of economic: competitions, which it is not fitted tr control. It has been a bitter and humiliating experience, and the profits of it are all to be reaped. Thus far the dividends have been solely of disaster and disgrace.

Exchange. Root with Aldrich. The touching spectacle of Ellho Root arguing against Income tax on corporations on the ground that it is class legislation, is a sight to make men and angels weep. No one can doubt that the new senator from New York la a worthy successor of Piatt, and a fit co-operator with the trust-owned Aldrich, Lodge and Crane. The west has nothing to hope from Senator Root Like Aldrich.

he repre sents, not the people, but money the millions of big eastern corporations..