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I THE DAYBOOKj N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. MO S. PEORIA ST. CHICAGO, ILU SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier In Chi cago, 30 cents a Month. By Mall, United States and Canada. $3.00 a Year . Entered as second-class matter April 21. 1914, at the postofflce at Chicago. III. under the Act of March 3. 1879. PUBLIC SENTIMENT. President Sunny of the Chicago Telephone Co., . speaking of ihe automatic deal, says: "We are not going against public sen timent. It was clearly set out in the contract that public sentiment must not be against the transaction. And we are the judges of that." Perfectly safe position, Sunny, old boy. If you judge public sentiment by what you read in newspapers that are in with the deal, why, of course; public sentiment will be-what the ed itors say it is. And it may be that their judgment of what public senti ment is may be influenced by read ing your ads in their papers. I say that public sentiment is against that automatic deal, and that the loop press is deliberately misrepresenting that sentiment . NO QUITTER, ANYHOW. There is one thing can be said for Fran cisco Villa that little Casabianca didn't have a thing on him when it came to standing on the burning deck whence all but him had fled. Diaz, Huerta and several ex and would-be rulers of Mexico, whose names we have forgotten long ago, hiked out of Mexico as promptly as possible after the bubble burst. Not so Pancho. He has been in easy striking distance of the United States, where a couple of wives and a reputed handsome fortune await him, ever since Carranza put a fancy price on his bodyless Fead. He might have flitted across the line about any time he wanted to. But, instead of doing so, he is sticking like a cockle burr in a Kansas farmer's beard. Villa may be a bandit and a con scienceless assassin now. We guess he is, for the same papers which lauded him as a patriot and a hero six months ago say so. But he is sure no quitter, which is more than any of the other deposed leaders of Mexico can truthfully assert TRAVESTY, SAYS THE JUDGE. Judge Elbert Gary pronounces the Youngstown indictments of himself and the big steel corporations, for conspiracy to fix wages of labor and prices of steel, a "travesty." "A burlesque treatment" is one of the definitions of the word "traves ty," and, having closely observed the results of indicting . corporations, Judge Gary may be justified in seeing a burlesque feature about those in dictments in meek little Mahoning county, Ohio. But we are mightily interested in that "burlesque treatment," judge. If the big steel corporations of this country can be punished for fixing so low as to produce those bloody riots at Youngstown, it will not be a trav esty, but a miracle. We've seen laborers fined into pau perism for conspiring to fix their wages, but, at this time, can't put our finger on an instance wherein the corporation got such a dose of the law. SOME CROWD! Niles friends are looking forward with interest to the lecture of Dr. Edward Amherst Ott, a former well known Farmington teacher who has won fame on the lecture platform, which will be on Tuesday evening. Dr. Ott will give his famous lecture, "Sour Grapes," which he has given on 2,000 occasions and before over 1,000 people. Warren (O.) Chro. icle. ii a a nil fiiiihftriifcintirt