Teacher—Johnny, how many legs has an octopus?
Johnny—Seven.
Teacher—Why, Johnny, you ought to know better than that. The meaning of the word shows that it has eight.
Johnny—I know it used to have, but that was before dad was elected to the legislature. I heard him say he pulled a leg off the octopus.—Wetmore’s Weekly.
Under government ownership alone will it be possible to make railroad rates which shall be just to all the people, and this is now being generally recognized.—The Augusta Tribune.
What means this general onslaught, all along the line of the plutocratic press, upon one William Randolph Hearst, Democratic Congressman and late candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency? Republican and Democratic advocates of plutocracy vie with each other in the work of sticking pins into Mr. Hearst. Have these great newspapers been informed that Mr. Hearst is sincere, is honest, in his fight against the trusts? If so, their spontaneous and unanimous attempt to disarm him can be accounted for. The man who attempts to tear down the screen which is held up, mainly by these great newspapers, between the people and their despoilers, is sure to get the vials of their wrath poured out upon his head.—The Dalton Herald.