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“While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL, XLV. FEB, 16, 1905. No. 1168, 17 West Tuiery-Fixst Steerer, New Yorx. $5.00 a year tn ad. ¥ Thursday to foreig 1 nts contribution will be relurned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. The illustrations in LARK, are copyrighted, and ave not to be reproduced. Prompt notification should be sent by sub- seribers of any change of address VERY interest- ing thing b States Su- premeCourt has handed edown a unanimous decision in an impor- tant case. We got so used to five to four deci- sions from that court that it had come to seem unlikely that all the judges would ever again take the same view of anything. But th have. They are all of opinion that the Be i ation in restraint of ion of the Sherman Anti-trust law, and that the injunction issued against it last spring by Judge cup, to restrain its members from con- spiring to make cai nd beef de is com in vi Gross- » cheap E bod r, ought to hold. y seems to be pleased with that decision except the beef monopolists, who will have to go to work now and fix up some new kind of apparatus for making pr low on what the y what they sell, excluding competitors from the usufruct of the railroads, kill- ing off the small dealers, and having things in general all their own way. This welcome decision is a substan- tial victory for Attorney General Moody and the Administration. It comes at a time when most of the President's reform projects are moving -LIFE- prett; The present Congress ends in a fortnight. No one has ex- ‘thing in the way of tariff-reform. Even the regu- lation of railroad rates will probably go over to the next Congress, which begins at noon on the fourth of March. slow] pected it to accomplish an M ANWHILE the San Domingo . matter presses for settiement. Without much stir the executive branch of our Government has assumed what is practically a fiscal protectorate over San Domingo. It has agreed, by re- quest of the Moraies Government, to take charge of all the custom-houses of San Domingo, collect the customs reve- nues, and apply them to payment of the debts of the island republic. It had the choice of doing this at the de- sire of San Domingo, or of having some t do it without asking leave. Jt isa pretty serious d from our habits, and the Si posed to think that the President needs its cooperation and approval in mak- ing it. We gu he does, and inas- much as the vork seems a painful, but necessary, sequence to the Monroe Doctrine, we hope he will get it. other governme HE immediate direction which events will take in Russia seems now to depend upon the Czar. That is a discouraging thought, and means no more than that it depends on whether the Grand Dukes or the reformers can scare the Czar most effectually, and h ired longest. It is univer- sally recognized that he is not himself competent to think out a definite line of action and stick toit. He n only do what he is told to do by his advisers, and which lot of advisers he isto cleave to is a question which may reasonably cause him profound distress of mind. Nobody believes that mere family fection would restrain the Grand Dukes kee from attempting to put him out of the game if they found they could not con- trol him, but the strength of the re’ lutionary movement among all classes, and the desperate difficulty of continu- ing in Russia under present circum- stances such misrule as the bureaucracy has tong inflicted on her, may daunt even the Grand Dukes themselves. At this writing the Czar x de Witte and favors reforms, How long this mood will last no one can Sergius and Viadimir are likely to have their turn again presentiy. We feel sorry for the Czar. Our President ha his troubles, though he is restrained by a constitution, and admonished by an ening Post. ‘The Czar knows less about his job than our President does about anything, and has no constitu. tion to guide, nor Post to direct, him. But he will have a constitution if he liv nd Posts also. < 4 PRESIDENT ELIOT, in bis annual report, speaks at some length of football as currently played, and ex- presses much disgust with it. He nothing new ; merely that uniform en- forcement of the rules is impossible, and that the players are taught to dis- able one another, in violation of the rules, and to win by any means, fair or foul, that are available. He finds that the strategy and ethics of the game are not those of sport, but of war. The methods of war are justifiable when the purpose is to kill or injure as many of the enemy as possible, but he finds no justification for such methods in a manly game of sport between friends. He makes no suggestions im. proving the game, but merely says that there ought not to be more than one opinion whether a game, played under the act conditions of football and the barbarous ethics of warfare, can be a useful element in the training of young men. It happened that President Eliot got out of the country just before these football opinions were made public. But he might have stayed on at home with perfect safety. A multitude of observers, including hundreds of foot- ball players, share his views. d XR bor comicbooks.com