Judge — May 6, 1911 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Let Well Enough Alone. PLAYING politics with the tariff is a ruinous game. It was undertaken in 1893. The Demo- cratic leaders wanted few if any changes, but, in the expectation that they would gain politically and mollify some enthusiasts, they permitted the Wilson E bill to be presented. When that bill became a law it did not go far in the direction of free trade, but the threat of tariff reduction before its introduction and the discussions upon it after it reached Congress almost wrecked the business of the country. There are many who remember those dolorous times. Labor was without employment and idle people thronged the streets. The ordinary measures of charity for the needy were entirely inadequate. Rail- roads went into bankruptcy. Industrial establishments closed their doors. A blight was upon the country. Business disasters were literally too numerous to mention. At the first opportunity the people, repenting of having elected a Democratic Congress and administra- tion, elected McKinley, and the country entered upon a career that has since been mainly one of prosperity and that has never had a panic that resembled that fateful one of 1893. It is possible that in playing politics now the Demo- crats will again precipitate a series of business troubles, but it is probable that next year their power to harm will be taken from them. How Not To Be Killed. HE FIELD of travelers’ ac- cident insurance will be per- ceptibly affected when all rail- roads and carrying corporations attain the degree of safety al- ready achieved by the Pennsyl- vaniasystem. Although this road carried last year 136,000,000 pas- sengers on its lines east of Pitts- burgh, not a person was killed in a train accident. The total num-' ber of passengers injured in train acci- dents in 1910 was only eighty-four, and, although there were over 14,000,000 more passengers carried than in the pre- ceding year, the injury of eighty-four marks a reduction of fifty per cent. When the figures of the last three years are combined, it is found that the num- ber of passengers carried by,the Penn- sylvania east of Pittsburgh: and Erie was more than four times as large as the population of the United States—and only one of that vast number was killed as the result of a train wreck. The rec- ord is truly marvelous. It would seem to be safer to travel on the Pennsylvania than to remain at home. Putting the Shackles on Cupid. MPLOYERS of a Western woman considered her services so valuable that they offered her a block of stock in their corporation if she would agree to remain unmarried for ten years in their service. This incident brings into prominence another phase of the new woman question. It also leaves us in suspense, because the answer of this valuable woman has not been printed. It might be possible to suggest a com- promise, to wit, that she take half the block of stock and postpone matrimony for five years. That would insure her a substantial marriage portion and also ‘give her time to change her mind if she should feel like doing so. WOW Sander — THE KING AND THE ACE. ALS Tieing the Knot Tighter. Alu of the three hundred and eighty- seven ministers attending a Method- ist conference at Pittsburgh refused to join in marriage a certain couple, because the“man had been divorced. A magis- trate of the city consented to tie the knot. These Methodist ministers de- serve high honor. The greater number of divorces are sought because those bringing the action. have other partners in view. If the clergy of the country would follow the example that comes out of Pittsburgh—of all cities—the civil officials who are authorized to solemnize marriages would be com- pelled by public sentiment or by amended laws to do likewise, and the divorce evil would soon have less scandalous propor- tions. Caustic Comment. WHEN William J. Bryan is not lec- turing for the box-office receipts nor making the Chautauqua circuits, he seems to spend his time going round get- ting into trouble. Two years ago one of the leading men of Russia gave thanks to God that there was no parliament in that country. Re- cently a new ministry has been appointed in Russia, with this man at its head, and this ministry is due entirely to the power of a parliament. The seed of responsible government, when once planted, is of quick and steady growth. Even its opponents are =) brought to praise it. Assertion is now made that / Cleopatra wore a harem skirt. / Some statements have been cir- culated about this lady which, if they were true, would render hers a desirable example not to be fol- lowed. Possibly she may have been misrepresented. You cannot always believe what people say. William J. Bryan and Gov- ernor Harmon have shaken hands. Time may now be called for the first round. o—