I shouldn’t wonder if he held his place upon the condition that his paper must be _railroad_. He wouldn’t dare to have an opinion unfavorable to _railroad_. When he sits down to write editorials, I compare him in my own mind to the little girl going to the piano to practice her music-lesson. She is a good little girl, and she follows the notes. She improvises no music. She puts out her trained fingers and she touches, one by one, with painful fidelity, the notes written down on the score. She couldn’t think of striking any note which was _not_ written down on the score. Dear little thing! Day after day, month after month, year after year, the trained fingers strike the notes indicated in the lesson. If by chance she hits a chord not on the book, there’s a rap and a sharp word of reproof from the authority which presides over the “practice.” “_What’s that?_” comes the cry of the teacher or parent, and the little girl, frightened at the false note, hurriedly gets back to the written score. Dear little thing. That’s the way to learn to play by note. Some editors make editorial music that way, and the scores are written in Wall Street. _Pinkerton’s Report to Ye Bankers_ Accordingly to the report made by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to the American Bankers’ Association, at its last meeting, there were arrested and prosecuted _during the ten years preceding September, 1905_, five hundred and fifty-four citizens who had committed crimes against these banks. Some of these erring citizens had committed forgery, others burglary, eleven were classified as robbers, and fourteen were called sneak thieves. These last named probably stole the cashier’s umbrella, or got away with the president’s gold-headed cane. _The Law_ came down, hard and heavy, upon the citizens who had sinned against the banks, and the transgressors were given sentences aggregating two thousand and one hundred years in prisons, chain-gangs and penitentiaries. Think of it—2,100 YEARS! The sum total of the money which the banks lost by the operations of all these criminals, during the entire period of ten years, appears to have been _less than one hundred thousand dollars_. Yet the law-breakers who caused the loss must vindicate the law by a penal servitude of more than two thousand years. There’s JUSTICE for you. During that period of ten years how many banks have gone to smash? How many presidents and cashiers have looted the funds committed to their care? How many millions of dollars have the common people lost by the rascality of dishonest bank officers? How many times have we seen frantic crowds of men and women gather about the door of some busted bank—men sick at heart because of sudden ruin, women screaming in terror because robbed of every dollar they had on earth?