Judge — April 21, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE NEW YORK TIMES estimates that any one of the dozen great speeches delivered in the senate on the railway-rate question, if it had been spoken in the interest of a private client, would have been worth at least $100,000. This is no doubt true, and puts the services of the senate to the people in a new light. Somebody once said that all the spouting of a whole session of congress was not worth a brass-headed picayune. We have always held that this estimate was too radical. The recent slighting remarks about con- gress are no doubt due to the too general prevalence of this latter view. A better appreciation of this great arm of the gov- ernment will follow the Times's estimate. A Washington statistician has been figure ing that the Congressional Record con- tains the most expensive literature extant. He concludes that while Kipling and Sir Conan Doyle have never exceeded one dollar a word, the speeches reported in the Record cost the people an average of five dollars a word. This conforms to the estimate of the Times. At this rate a billion-dollar congress assumes a new aspect, and the total cost of speeches on the railway-rebate measure alone may fall not far short of that sum. GIR THOMAS LIPTON to challenge again? Sounds like old times, and suits us to a Tea, wae 64 BIG TIM and little Tim dropped in at the City Hall yesterday,” savs a New York head-line. Hence it is inferred that the Hearst wave is on the wane. ei a THE RUSSIAN DOUMA having been established, we learn that there is a plot to blow it up with dynamite. Evidently the Russians have no use for an institution they cannot blow up. ‘ sROCck AND RYE is one of the most seductive tipples on earth,” says Champ Clark of Missouri. has been estimated, every word spoken in congress costs five dollars, this information cost the country just sixty dollars—ana it may be worth it. IOWA TAKES THE LEAD IN REFORM. 'HE LEGISLATURE of Iowa, in its wisdom, proposed a bill which pro- vides that eggs must weigh at least twenty-four ounces to the dozen. This ultimatum to the American hen, in the very home of hendom, will very likely be accepted as the final word on the subject in every part of the country. What the penalty shall be for hens who resist this reasonable behest is not stated. But it ought to be severe enough to be self-enforcing upon the hen mind. lowa is not entirely unselfish in this move. It is understood that the lowa hen manufac- tures a more generous-sized egg than the hens of any other state in the country. Consequently the lowa farmer has to work longer hours to raise corn to feed his hens fora given output than the farmers in any other state. Nevertheless, it will bea good thing for the country at large if unanimity can be achieved, even though lowa profits most by it. Let the legislatures act as one, and that the hens of the coun- try will follow suit is not open to question, The hen always does her duty. Wesraxx Apvaxrisinc Ornice— 1313 Hartford Building, Chicago, I TERMS TO SUBSCRIRERS UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year, of s2 numbers « poumetenats One seh ‘six months, or 26 numbers - for thirteen weeks Tncloding the Cwnistatas Jvoce. PSCRIPTIONS—To all foreign countries in the postal union, $6.50. year. Saarback’s News Exchange, Maina, Germ The accompanying joke or RESOLVED, that we leave well enough alone. OOKS as if Chicago told Mr. Dunne that he might go in to swim, but he must not go near the water. eee MB: TAFT hopes the plan for the canal will be decided soon. We hope so, too. It would be too bad to finish the canal and then find that it was without a plan. GIRLS of Pittsburg, miffed because their teacher objected to their wear- ing bloomers, declare their teacher is just ‘* too persnickety "’ for any- thing. We think so, too. FIGHTING SMOKE NUISANCES OF SEVERAL KINDS. UDGE notes with pleasure the campaign of the cities against the smoke nuisance. The people of upper New York have complained of Hoboken smoke, which drifts across the river. This is right—New York should not be annoyed by Hoboken’s smoke. The people in the suburbs of Pitts- burg have equal occasion for protest against that city’s principal output. Something should be done to abate this nuisance. The movement might be carried even further. Why should not the dust stirred up by automo- biles on the highways be subject to reasonable limitations? This is a move which would be sure to meet with hearty indorsement in all the rural districts. The ruralside is entitled to all the air it has unsmirched. We even go further and sug- gest that those popular smiters of wrongs, the decimal knights-errant, be put under bonds to burn the smoke that rises from their battles. The air is full of the flying missiles of this terrific conflict. What with the attacks on a treasonable senate, a grafting statesmanship, and the thieving masses generally, the smiling surface of society is wreck-strewn and all the circum: ambient air is filled with the ruck of the contest. The world is bad enough in this spring of 1906. Everybody will admit that, but let us not insist that it is worse than it is. Hence there may be practical wisdom in the suggestion that, as the Juggernauts of magazine wrath chug-chug along the political highway, they be compelled to lay the dust they raise and remove the trail of odors, so that the landscape shall be at least as inviting after they have passed as it was before. THE PROSPECTS of the remains of John Paul Jones being buried are rather better now than for a long time past. EASTERN BURBANK, by grafting strawberry with the milkweed, has grown strawberries and’cream. It would never do for a Californian to get ahead of the effete east. ‘ THE PECULIAR tinkling sound, as of glasses struck together, which may be heard toward the south of still nights, is said to be Dixie land trying to think up a candidate for President. cee CONGRESS has added $1,000 to the salary of its door-keeper. Con- gressmen getting so fractious it costs more to keep them from break- ing down the door than it did in the old unstrenuous days. GOTHAM SOCIETY NOTE: Linen suits for pet dogs will be worn with slightly longer sleeves than usual. Duck coats piped in red, and reaching to the paws, are also in vogue in higher circles. icbooks.com