Messages Of Sympathy

We notice tliat severa] of the nrwspapers uro tmMtng some of the rommon pcople have sent messages of sympathy to the state depaitment, and to the president mul family. Thcy say tliat siich people only send these BMmgM In the hope ofgalnhig aotoriety. Tliis is :i wrong view to take. The newsjHn aro not obllged (o pnbllth only snch MWgH M thc efeOOaa tO. Ainl a wt'ai'f a ilemooratic people, the humblest cttlxen in the land has a riglit to tender an expression of his feelinfr-' in ¦ ïf lie ehooses, nnd we lelieve soine of thrin imitain as inncli truc sympatliy M thoae of a more fonnil nature and f rom :i more aristocratie wurce. It savors too mueh of an aiistorraticgovcniiiicnt to exclude all the (X'ople ulikc frotn tendering 1 1 1 ¦ i r IVclingsin a messai1. If there is no law to protect 9 presidenl more than ¦ coinmon man from assault, there sbouhl be no false feeling enli'itained igailMt the private individual exprefstng his mllWW at suoli an HMOlt