Grant County Herald

Editorial Notes.

President Roosevelt has defined the Monroe doctrine and stands ready to maintain it.

Unless the coal supply in Washington is soon augmented congress will be forced to adjourn before December 20, the date set.

If Benjamin R. Tillman were large enough to see his own littleness he would make less noise.

The trouble in Venezuela proves the comfort which can be afforded by a well equipped navy and a reorganized army.

A co-operative telephone company in Michigan costs its subscribers 25 cents a month.

Every report in the Philippines serves to confirm the wisdom and justice of American rule in the islands.

The Nile Dam at Assouan is completed and the works are in operation.

The Senate Committee on Public Lands will now turn its attention to a measure of relief to Alaska.

Deacon Baer is one of those "christian gentlemen" who so describe themselves.

Ninety per cent. of the office furniture sold in England is made in this country.

Why do the miserable slayers of women not commit the inevitable suicide first?

It is many years since White House hospitality has been conducted on as large a scale as it is this year.

Spiders in the stable are the horses best friends, they kill off the flies, gnats and mosquitoes.

Apparently no amount of demonstration will ever prove to some democrats that the protection policy has come to stay.

Cogs of paper are now inserted in the wheels of high speed machines. They are noiseless and very durable.

With Theodore Roosevelt in the White House the people need fear no unrebuked violation of the Monroe doctrine.

The old proverb, "It takes a thief to catch a thief" may explain the phenomenal wealth of some of the New York policemen.

The negotiation of a reciprocity treaty with Cuba robs the democrats of another choice argument they loved to dwell on.

Senator Lodge does not hesitate to place the opposition to the educational clause in the Immigration bill where it belongs.

Even the appropriation for the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission could not get through the Senate without democratic objection.

The sincerity with which Senator Proctor is carrying on the work of the Military Affairs Committee makes the absence of Senator Hawley less unfortunate.

Those representatives who clamor loudest about republican extravagance are the loudest shouters when their own town wants a new post-office.

A Pacific cable under the sole control of the United States, promises to constitute another monument to President Roosevelt's first term.

Veins of native copper have been opened in New Jersey, below some old mines, and if they prove to be more than local a great boom may be expected in that State.

Senator Beveridge's report on the territorial bill is a masterly statement of the facts and an able deduction of sound conclusions.

The respect which President Roosevelt has commanded in Germany and England promises to hold in restraint any territorial temptation those nations may experience in regard to Venezuela.

Mr. Lloyd C. Griscom has been appointed Minister to Japan to the intense disappointment of those trouble makers who desire to see friction between the President and Senator Hanna.

These states which are wise enough to return the same men to the Senate and the House year after year are the ones who actually participate in and profit by national legislation.

Theodore Roosevelt will, it is generally conceded, begin his first regular term in the presidency in 1905 and will probably be elected for a second term in 1909. Then, following precedent, he will be again eligible in 1913.

The coal famine and the death and destitution that followed are not the fault of the coal merchant or of the coal cars but of a hundred thousand or more loafers who folded their hands in idleness last summer, or were active only in dynamiting and murdering those who tried to dig coal.