The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 23, 1900, Page 6

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Alcazar—“The Rallroad of Love.” Columbia—*"The Ameer."” Olympla, corner Mason and Bddy streets—Specialties, Chutee, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening Fischer's—Vaudeville Tanforan Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. Hord—Saturday, : ovember 2, at 10 o'clock, ules, at Armetrong’s Ranch, Davisville. -y —— CHINA’S PENALTY. EV. DR. MARTIN, president of the New Im- perial University of Peking, whatever that may D be, has indulged in an “open letter” in which he chides all who advise moderation and mercy in ling with the Chinese. He sees the spirit of the Great Khan in the withered body of the Empress Dowager and desires to hit it hard. He says that no it can be 100 severe for the murder of the w. H Horses and M The Great Khan, Genghiz the Con- sed to be of the same opinion. He boiled victims in oil, burned them in great heaps, grilled them in cities which he put to the torch, and the blackened foundations of which he then plowed up and sowed with salt. He built pyramids of skulls of the slaughtered and strewed the world with their bones. In carrying out his policy, which was politico- religious, it was his opinion that no punishment was too great for those who opposed him, and as an in- ventor of punishments he was a past master. If Dr. M will indulge in a little introspection he will probably see the spirit of the Great Khan in- side himseli, As between him and the Empress Dow- ager we are inclined to think that warlike and crue! shade would be more at home inside the president of the new university of Peking. What is it all about? A French missionary 2 clause into the treaty of 1860 by which mi vere to be free commoners in the Middle Kingdom They went there from many nations, leaving behind them 2 greater need for their services than they found in China. We do not say that all of them knew they were protected by a forgery, but all might have known it. Does Dr. Martin consider that phase of it> Does he try to put himself in the place of China, over- run by foreigners, who enter a door opened by for- gery to attack all other forms of religion and mu- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER | i THAT NEW PARTY @GAIN. . HE St. Paul conference between Mr. Towne, T Mr. Shively and other committeemen and sup- } porters of Mr. Bryan, in the Middle West, | which had for its purpose examination of the wreck | of Democracy wrought by the new departure of 1806, has roused other political architects and new party | cobblers, | Among these the most excited seems to be Mr. ¥ George F. Washburn, president of the Bryan Clubs | of Massachusetts. Mr. Washburn does not take the preliminary precaution to confer with anybody. He | sits down and makes a new party out of his own head and invites approving and admiring correspondence as to his head and handiwork. | His proclamation js very rhapsodical. He charac- terizes the union of Populi Silver Republicans and ! 50 forth, on the Chicago and Kansas City platiorms as an unwise “attempt to put new wine into old bottles.” That Scriptural reference as to the jugging of new wine arose out of the fact that the bottles spoken of were pigskins, and the new wine burst them and was wasted. Therefore it is that Mr. Washburn considers the Democratic name and organization as a pigskin, { and an old one at that, unable to bear the pressure of such effervescent contents as Populism and the other political vagaries which sent the brains of the old Democracy out of the party and failed to bring any new brains in to take their place. Mr. Washburn frankly states that the pigskin will go back to the con- trol of “Gorman, Hill and Croker and the old ma- chine regime they represent.” That is to say, if there is anything left of the Democracy which went on a debauch at Chicago and failed to sober up at Kansas City, the three worthies named may have it, and go to! Mr. Washburn declares that Mr. Bryan “will not again become the candidate of the Democratic party. He will not surrender to that element. He will not repudiate his record. He will not disappoint his friends. But he can lead to victory a new party, con- ductet] on safe and conservative yet progressive lines. Therefore, to hold what we have*and maintain our present momentum a new party must be formed. This can be aceomplished by uniting the Bryan Dem- ocrats, Bryan Republicans, Populists and smaller bodies.” We make no quarrel with Mr. Washburn for talking about a new party, that is not : P . = | born yet nor christened, “holding what it has, and maintaining its present momentum,” but pass on to his description of what is to happen when it is born, | named, and holding the momentum and things which it had before its own existence. He proposes that after it is created there shall be added to it “The strong personality and masterful leadership of Bryan, and history would repeat itself in the rapid assembling of patriots to uphold and preserve the national honor under the inspiration of the Lincoln of the new cen- tur, All right. But a word right here. Mr. Washburn will need the services of more “repeaters” than history tc make such a movement win. Mr. Washburn then abandons himself to frenzy, in which he prophesies that: “Although unsuccessful at the polls. Bryan is mightier man than his suc- cessful oppoment. He is the greatest political cru- sader the world has ever seen. He stands alone. He i3 enough of a political genius to become the founder of a great new party, even as Jefferson founded the Democratic and Lincoln the Republican party. Millions of men would enthusiastically rally to his standard under these new conditions. It is not extravagant to say that Bryan would thus hold two- thirds of the Democratic party and would soon at- tract at least one-third of the Republicans. These, together with the other reform forces, would give him before the next election a majority of the voters of the country.” Where now is Colonel Sellers? We are amazed at Mr. Washburn's moderation. Why does he cut the Republican and Democratic parties into thirds? Why not pass the whole of each te Bryan on a silver platter and invite him to go and be inaugurated without further formality, while Hill, Gorman and Croker sit listening to the tick-tack of “the machine”? The hard background to all this iridescent vision is the fact that Mr. Bryan has already made political kindling-wood of two old parties, the Democratic and Populist, and has left on the fence the hide of one new one, the Silver Republican. In his view of policy and principle he is a destroyer and not a constructor, and his faculty for destruction is carried into his party leadership. He found the Democratic party in power and led it out and in each of his campaigns led it further out, until now it is in the wilderness, with no place to lay its head and no head to lay if it had. Republicans are far from re- joicing that all this is so to the extent to which it is so. The health of a party in power requires an op- tually assault the sectarian forms by themselves pro- | Position that is more than a mob or a memory. The | fessed? Does he consider the effect upon an anciens people of taking advantage of a forgery to attack the moral foundations of a nation whose ancient when the other existing world religions were born? The murder of the missionaries was a great crime, to be atoned for. The siege of the legations must be avenged and some oné punished for it. But has not slaughter of the Chinese gone far enough to more than balance the ted ledger? If Dr. Martin is to be ap- proved by his Christian brethfen, why should the clergy of Denver reprehend the burning of Porter? If we carry our religion abroad to be practiced in the line of Dr. Martin’s idea, why not practice it at home in the same line? e For every woman missionary sacrificed by the Boxers 500 Chinese women have gone to torture and For every man ordained for martyrdom a | death thousand Chinese men have atoned with their lives. For every missionary child cut down in its innocence a hundred Chinese babies have been tossed and im- paled on Cossack spears. For every missionary com- pound burned or sacked value a hundredfold has been Iooted in Tientsin and Peking. % What more does the spirit of the Great Khan ask, through the body of President Martin of the New University of Peking? His Highness the Mayor has been autherized by the Snpervisors to sell seven horses at auction, Hel:e at last is an opportunity for using our glorious muni- cipal flag; his Highness may drop it instead of the hammer at the sale. Lord Salisbury has decided, in condescending re- | luctance, to accept a salary as Premier of England. If it really pains him there is no doubt that some of his influential friends can save him from the un- necessary infliction. Superintendent of Schools Webster has resented the interference of the Board of Supervisors in his affairs. Perhaps he shares a very general belief that the board | has as much as it can do to mind its.own business. ———— A Kentucky cashier is $200.000 short in hi¢ accounts and he blames the races. He ought to be able to | State will be carefully guarded, and at the same time . sympathize with the story of the 2ss who tried to feed in a field of thistles. system was | | hands without wishing it. old Democracy is a memory, and the Bryan Democ- racy is a mob. Iowa is to have a constitutional convention on her The statutes of the State provide that the question of calling such a convention shall be submitted to the people every ten years, and ! accordingly it was <o submitted at the recent elec- tion. There was nothing to hold such a convention for, and no argument was made upon it by cither side. Every one supposed it would be rejected as a matter of course, but when the voters got to the polls they voted affirmatively on every proposition and carried the constitutional convention along with the rest. It has been a great year in Iowa. s e . CHINA BA@SIN. LE@SE. | T last the lease of China Basin to the San Fran- | fl cisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad has | been satisfactorily arranged, agreed upon, exe- | cuted and signed. Thus another avenue has been | opened for the advancement of the interests of the city | and the State. All good things appear to be coming ! to us at once. A tremendous victory for pr&sperity | was gained in the Presidential election, the abundant | rains have brought a Womise of bountiful crops, the | Southern Pacific has passed under a new management | that will doubtless devote its energies to a strict at- | tentien to business, the gap in the coast road is about | to be closed, the Pacific Commercial Museum has be. | gun actual work, and now the lease of China Basin igives a terminal in this city to a competing trans- continental road. With all those advantages to start | with, the coming year ought tq be a record-breaker | in the way of industrial and commercial activity. There remains, it is true, a little element of doubt- fulness in the lease, as one feature of it will have to be | submitted to the Legislature for ratification. If is not | likely, however, that any strong objection will be 'made to it there. Every clause has been carefully con- sidered aiter prolonged investigation of all subjects that in any way affect it or will be in any way affected by it. Commissioner Herold is quoted as saying: | “We feel that it is 50 drawn that the interests of the the railroad company properly p-otected in its rights.” Prominent representatives of the Merchants' Associa- ¥ other | tion, who from the first have taken a keen interest in the lease and have studied every feature of - it, have also cordially comimended the terms in which it is drawn. Being thus satisfactory to the officers of the State, the representatives of the railroad and to the merchants of the city, it is hardly likely a valid ob- jection can be made to it on any score. The benefits to result from the establishment of a railroad terminal at the basin are many. The first will be the improvement of that section of the water front and a large district of the city adjoining it. The in- creased wharfage that will result from the improve- ment will in itself be of immense advantage to us at this juncture, when there is such urgent need of | greater facilities for shipping. In commenting upon the need of increased wharf- age Mr. Irving M. Scott gave some figures that are | interesting. He said: “Since June of this year ves- sels aggregating 250,000 tons intended for use on the Pacific have been contracted for, and during the year ending June 30 vessels were finished or contracted for aggregating 350,000 tons. Among these were seventy- | six steamers, of which ten are of 10,000 tons each. | Hill is having two monster steamers of 33,000 tons loaded displacement built, the Pacific Mail two of 18,000 tons displacement, and there are on the ways in this city two steamers of 16,500 tons loaded dis- placement for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. John D. Spreckels is having three steam- ers of 6000 tons each built. Captain Dollar has a large steamer on the ways, and the Pacific Coast Steamship Company 1s building a fast steamer to run | between San Francisco and Seattle.” These are illustrations of the rapidity with which Pacific Ocean shipping is advancing. and as Congress will in all probability pass the shipping bill this win- ter, the rate of expansion in the fiext few years will be greatly increased. Thus it will be seen we are none | too early in arranging for an increase of wharf room, | and the city, the State and the railroads are to be con- | will be speedily attained with Canada is at last to be settled, but without con- sideration to the Alaskan boundary, the critical point at issue. Our English cousins no doubt like our | friendship, but are evidently determined to lose noth- | ing by it. | i Late dispatches announce that our controversy | | RESOLUTIONS OF THE MINERS. | | SOLUTIONS adopted by the Miners’ Con- [ R vention show that the amount of work which | will have to be done in the way of reform legis- | lation to remedy existing evils is of sufficient magni- | tude tq fully justify the demand for the establishment of a national Department of Mines and Mining. It | | appears that almost every branch of the law affecting 1:11: industry requires revision to some extent, and | such revision cannot be effectively carried out except | under the direction of a responsible head. | A brief review of the resolutions will show the na- | ture of the evils complained of and the character of the legislation desired. The passage of the measu-e known as the “California mineral lands bill” is urged | for the purpose of “preventing the further absorption | by corporate interests of an area of land of great value to the prospector and the miner”; the execu- tive committee of the association is instructed to test ir. the courts the right of a miner to carry on hydraulic mining when “holding a regularly issued license by | the California Debris Commission”; revision of ex- isting laws is recommended so as to “effectually check | | the present ivjurious practice of holding mining claims year after year without development”; Con- gress is called upon to put an end to the practice of securing “‘as agricultural lands, by the use of so-called scrip and otherwise, great tracts of the public domain that are unguestionably mineral in character”; the passage of an act by which “the location of petroleum placer claims is so regulated as to secure to the miner an opportunity to make technical discovery” is fa- vored; State legislation for the purpose of promoting and protecting petroleum mining is called for; the | State is urged to be liberal in supporting the Mining | Bureau, the work of the Debris Commission is ap- | | proved and additional appropriations are recom- | mended for its work, and forest preservation is urged | upon both the State and the nation. | With such an array of work on hand it is not | strange the convention should have included among its resolutions one declaring: “That in the judgmen: of this association the mining industry of this country | with its output of raw n;at_erial exceeding a billion oi | dollars in annual value, its tremendous significance to the industrial prosperity of the nation and its still mere splendid promise for the future, warrants and | demands the governmental protection and assistance that can be adequately extended only through a Cab- inet department of the executive branch of the Gov- ernment. We therefore heartily indorse the now na- tional demand for a Cabinet Department of Mines and | Mining.” While much can be done under the existing s: tem in the way of redressing evils, a comprehensive plan of encouraging mining and protecting the rights of miners can hardly be effected until all governmental work of any kind relating to the industry is placed under one responsible head. For that reason the de- mand for the establishment of a national Department of Mines is one of justice and expediency. The issuz | should bg strenuously urged upon Congress. It will | not be a forlorn hope fight by any means, for in all sections of the Union there are powerful interests to be served by it, and if the West take the lead there will be no lack of supporters from the East and from the South. A national proposition is on foot to remove the internal war tax on the vast business which passes through the hands of the express co‘mpanies. ‘Wash- ington evidently recognizes that the gigantic outrage of the Wells-Fargo Company and its associates upon the public should end. The police believe that they have captured the thiei who robbed Collector of Internal Revenue Lynch of many of his valuable #fousehold effects. And" the strangest part of the affair appears to be that nothing indicates that the malefactor is one of the Collector’s political friends. Norman Godkin von Galen, with blood as noble as ;his name is long, has deserted the battlefields of Luzon to be arrested -for reading palms in Tacoma. He should have tried to turn his 6wn hands to ad- vantage instead of those of others. In the general shuffle which accompanies the la- bored efforts of our “reform” municipal administra- tion the city has lost several bronze lamps. Perhaps some local Dicgenes believes that he needs them all in his business. —_—ll General Kitchener, it is announced, intends to pur- sue in South Africa the dread tactics which made war a horror of extermiriation in North Africa. And British statesmen still prate of the glories of their | gratulated on the good prospect that such increase | 3, 1900. HINAMAN ’ JOHN C IN A QUANDARY. | 8 | | - EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VAREETY NEW YORE COMMERCIAL ADVER- TISER—To distourage divorce effectivel v, it must be m:de unfashionable, as well | as punishable by every possible social and ecclesiastical sanction that can be | brought to bear against it, and of these | the frown and pinalty of Protestant Epis- | copal authority risited upon its fashiona- ble congregations is not the least. NEW YORK SUN—Actually there Is no “negro domination” in_any State of ‘nion, and there has been no danger of any for many vears past. Sq large a per- centage of the roes are illiterate that it is easy for any State to prevent it by requiring an educaional qualification for the franchise, whick would be strictly eon- stitutional. | PROVIDENCE JOURNAL — Congress must provide not only .for a new army but for an improved staff system. We | | | | | i | | o + 1 THE POWERS ARE BUSY IN THE CHINESE NATIONAL LAUNDRY, ACCORDING TO A ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC CARTOONIST. THE PRO- | PRIETOR WONDERS WHEN THEY'LL FINISH. | | — on Matters PETALUMA ARGUS-It has always been our opinion that in the matter of primary election laws to govern the af- fairs of partles in their nominations and manipulation of their own concerns, the law should be very simple. The one thing to provide against Is fraud by rings and bosses. RED BLUFF NEWS—Several towns in the valley complain that there are not houses enough in them to accommodate the people who wish to make them their homes. The reason given by real estate men for not bulldln‘f houses to rent Is that the cost of building is so great that the rents to be obtained are not sufficient | 0 pay interest on the investment. JLARE REGISTER-About the first hard work we may expect Congress to take hold of upon reassembling will be the construction of the Nicaragua Canal. The East is for it now and the combinations of the transcontinental rail- roads cannot prevail against the move- ment. There will be as little dela¥ as pos- sible in beginning the work. e first year of the new century will see the first dirt thrown. POMONA PROGRESS—So manr prom- inent citizens of this community—lawyers, educators and merchants—insisted upon taking plunge baths, or wading in water with their shoes in their hands, in the maln business thoroughfares of the city while the streets were flooded with water on Saturday, that the City Trustees are talking of passing an ordinance forbidding bathing and wading barefoot in water in the public streets. SAN LUIS OBISPO TRIBUNE—Accord- ing to the new plan of redistricting the State into Congressional districts, which is now being carefully considered’ by the Republicans of California, and which will_be submitted to the next session of the Legislature for ratification, it is pro- posed to cut Los Angeles loose from the counties which it has so long governed and make that county a district by itself. Good bye to Los Angeles. Half regretful, and yet greatly pleased, are the people of this section to lose it. SANTA ROSA REPUBLICAN—A flood of moralizing may now be expected over the burning in Colorado of a flend who richly deserved to dle. While mob law is generally to be deplored, if there ever was a case in which it was excusable, this i3 one. The men who took the law into their own hands in this instance felt that they were fully justified in what they were doing and no utterances whatever will_cut any figure in the case. Tt will be just as well to dismiss the matter with the least possible discussion. FRESNO DEMOCRAT—Nero flddling while the Christians 3000 years ago were being put to death and covered with pitch set fire to to illumine the circus arena was not the less barbaric and fiendish than those 300 Lincoln County men who chained a miserable negro ravisher to an iron rail, poured kerosene on him and set fire to him with a match. After all this boasted civilization of ours is but a thin veneer. The savage man is in us all. The veneer of civilization cracks every now and then and exposes the savage and brutal man SPIRIT OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Editorial Opinion From All Parts of the State' of Interest. | 1i; in all his hidcousness, Colorado incident. CALAVERAS PROSPECT—The action of the general Government, recently, in appointing three students of the Univer- | sity of California to the task of chnrlmg the Philippine Islands for the United | States is worthy of more than passing notice. It is an act that will tend greatly | to encourage oractical education. When our universities can turn out students capable of performing such a responsible task, it shows that the work is good. The three young men are members of the de- partment of civil engineers. and are ap- rolmed on the recommendation of prom-i nent professors of the Institution. | STOCKTON INDEPENDENT — The army reorganization bill and the Nica- ragua Canal bill would make a_splendid record for tha short session of Congress, | in addition to the regular appropriation bills. There is not a great deal of time for action during the short session and | the appropriation bills take a great deal | of attention. We hope, however, that there may be a bill passed aporopriating | as witness the a definite sum for water storage reser- | voirs. even if the amount is not over | §50.000 or $0. As soon as a beginning is | made then it will not be within the power | of ene man to prevent appropriations here- after on the point of new legislation in an appropriation bill. RIVERSIDE PRESS—-We are not aware who did the job of estimating on the com- ing orange crop, which we believe orig- inated with the Los Angeles Evening Ex- press, and has been widely republished since. The figures given are 25,000 car- loads, and we believe they are much too high.’ Deducting the lemons we have not shipped over 17.000 carloads of oranges for -1900, and to suppose that the com- ing crop will be 8000 cars more than that is absurd. We have talked with a good many frult men in Southern California about the matter, and the general consen- sus of opinion is that the crop will not be much larger than last year—say 20,000 car- | loads at the outside, with lemons enough | to make a total output of 22,000 cars. The | fruit will run more to large sizes this vear | than last, but in the mature orchards there is nothing to justify any prediction | of a large Increase in the total crop. LOS ANGELES TIMES--Altogether it is most unfortunate *that a commission was not appoinicd to represent California at the Paris fair which would have gone ahead in a businesslike manner to make a first class cxhibit of our resources, for | the purpose of attracting settlers and capital, after the fashion of the highly | successful exhibits that have been made | by Southern California at Chicago. San Francisco, Atlanta and elsewhere. Major | Truman is reported to have remarked be- | fore leaving for Europe that what the | Parisians wanted was to be enfertained. not_instructed. He appears to have car- ried out his ideas on this point. Whether the taxpayers of California will approve ! of such a programme remains to be seen. One hundred and thirty thousand dollars | is a large sum to expend upon a good time | for half a dozen people, even If the hospl- | tality of the State has been lncldenufly; exploited. PERSONAL MENTION. John T. Grace, a Santa Rosa merchant, | is stopping at the Grand. ‘W. G. Gosslin, a_prominent Portland merchant, is at the Palace. J. H. Einhorn, a blg Santa Rosa mer- chant, is at the California. Surveyor General M. J. Wright and wife of Sacramento are at the Grand. Captain Walter Swelson of the United States army is at the California. V. E. Schumberg, a New York city min- ing man, is stopping at the Palace. Former Mayor Robert Effey of Santa Cruz is stopping at the California for a day or two. Marcus A. Smith and L. H. Manning, | Tucson, Ariz., mining men, are registered at the Palace. [} A. M. Tinker, who is connected with | the Interior Department at Washington, was among yesterday's arrivals at the Palace. General Manager W. G. Nevin of the Santa Fe arrived In the city yesterday from Los Angeles. He is on a tour of in- spection. P. Meigs, with his'wife and three daugh- ters, arrived at the Palace yesterday from | Sania Barbara and they will remain in | the city for some time. E. B. Shaw, a prominent Chicago mer- chant, arrived at the California yeste day with his wife and they will spend a month or six weeks here. E. E. Silverstone, contracting agent for the Southern Pacific, las been appointed traveling freight agent for the Rio Grande ‘Western, to succeed G. H. McMillan, re- signed. Willlam F. Herrin of the Southern Pa- cific leaves to-day for Washington to pre- pare for the coming hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission rslative to a suit brought against the company by the Merchants’ Association of St. Louis. Mrs. Genevieve Green Hamilton, who, as | Genevieve Green, has done much clever | foreign correspondence for The Call, has here from Burope. She is th, ‘":-'f‘;t r. and Mrs. ng Leake at zh: alace. e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Nov. 22—P. Sweed, Mrs. P. Sweed, the Misses Sweed and Mas- ter Sweed, of San Francisco, and D. K. Edwards, of Los én:elen. .are at the Ra- leigh. SBER e TR AN OPPORTUNITY—Take advantage of the round-trip steamer tickets, only $60 during No- vember, including fifteen days’ board at Hotel ideal summer and winter re- | civilization. st., city. ANSWERS TO QUERIES, THE SPRINGER HEIRS—G. H., City. For information about the Springer hetrs of Wilmington, Del., address a letter of Inquiry to the County Clerk of Newcastle County, Delaware. THE AUDITOR—F. T., City. An Aud- itor in a city or city and county Is respon- sible on his bond for any act by which he illegally indorses demands upo: maneya are paid. But before any aciion | can be taken it must be established that his act was illegal, COLDEST WEATHER-F. Groveland, Cal. The coldest her in the United Si River, Mont., January 1, 1. 8 1507 | grees below zero. At Werchojuask, Sthe- ria, on the 15th of January, 1885, the rec- ord was 90 4-10 degrees below zero. | SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR QUES- | TION—W. R., City. The Maine was de- | stroyed February 15, 188; the blockade of Cuban ports commenced April Manila was captured August 13, 1598, nnd the first fight between Filipinos’ and :merlcsn soldiers was at Paco February B C recorded 22, 1898; | THE MINT-M. G. H., City. There is | no position in the United States Braneh Mint in San Francisco designated as “lady | to take care of the ladies’ lunchroom.* There is a janitress at the Mint, who looks after the welfare of the ladies enc layed there. The sal B e, ary of janitress is s AUTOMOBILES—A., Ockenden, Cll.’ The department of Answers to spondents does not advertise any kxc:(;';n business, and for “that reason cannot {print in the Answers to Cor the names and addresses comx:ianlten dml ls-n spondents desiring busin firms Should Inclose & Sel7-addem ok stamped envelope for reply. of automobile cisco.” Corre- | unfair and antiquat | has permitted the bure | decided opposition to Mr. Tespondents | n as we can of the arrangement which uerats at the na- I capital to wax fat and lazy at the e of the officers of the line. A man s had a certain length of service hington, dancing attendance at and receptions, should be sent to the nt, both for the sak- of giving Some- body ‘else a chance to enjoy life at Wash- ington and also to emabie him to acquire some useful knowledge of the art of war- fare away from the enticements of an agreeable but enervating society. LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL— The evil of the increase of divorces Is recognized, especially when they are sur- ought to get rid as s | reptitiously obtained.\ But divorce is the consequence and not the cause of the breaking up of families. Its chief cause i inconsiderate marrfages. Where civil divorces are not allowed, there is apt to be a great deal of immorality resuiting. While there are a few persons who con- tract the divorce habit, the majority of those who get divorces elther remain sin- gle or, remarrying, get along with their new conjugal partners as well as the av- erage of married people. CHICAGO INTER OCEAN—It niay be doubted if a more tremendous compliment has ever been paid to any race of men than is offered to the Scots by Joseph Sohn in the current Gunton's Ma, ne. Eulogists have dilated upon the Greek's intellectual keenness, the Roman's genjus for administration, the Arab’s generosity. the Turk’s fortitude, the Spaniard's cour- tesy, the Frenchman's precision, the Ital- ian's art, the Russian’s patience, the Ger- man's sicadfastness. the (Scandinavian's courage an the “nglis] freedom. o the Seots Mr. Sohn gives still higher praise. He asserts that they | are the dominating, though silent, partner Eng- in the great “house” known as the the speaking races, now leaders in business of civilization. SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN—Some- thing practical in the way of expansion is In contemplation by the States General of Holland, namely, the draining of the vder Zee, that great gulf which 409 ears ago was created in the heart of the Netherlands by the Incursion of the sea. Around its border are what are known as the ‘“‘dead cities,” and beneath them | nearly a thousand square miles of land A scheme of partial reclamation was de- termined on some two years ago, preserv- ing the deep-water channels and a smail- er lake; but now, it appears, this is to be substituted by a complete drainage of the vast area. Much of the ancient beauty and charm of those ‘“‘dead cities” will be taken away, but when accomplished Hol- land’s people will be much richer. HARTFORD COURANT—Now how long will the South maintain its soltdity? For one thing, it is becoming rapidly a commercial instead of a purely agricul- tural region. Cotton is not only grown there; it is also spun and woven. Mills ars springing up with an abundance and | & success that the mill men of Massachu- setts do not need to be told of. Cities are growing, and, even this vear, there was a Bryan, though it was not openly expressed. His_defeat has brought no regrets there. Several States, by methods that are altogether unjustifiable and indefensible, have prac- tically disfranchised the negro. But the one explanation offered by Southern ple for their proverbial solidity has been the Innate opposition to alliance with the colored voters. PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER—So long as the present situatiom continues what is théMuse of saying and of pretending to believe that there is no longer any sec- tionalism in the country; that the divi- sion between North and South has ended; that we are all a happy band o brothers? There is sectionalism, section- alism of the worst and most dangerous kind, and it is the part of wisdom to rec- ognize the fact and so consider by what means, if by any, the evil can be eured. It is no use denouncing the South for the attitude which it persists in maintaining. It has its reasons which it deems suffi- | clent and upon which it has a right to act. The thing to do is to find out if there is any way of convincing the Southern mind that the attitude is one for which there is no occasion and which ought to be abandoned, NEW YORK TRIBUNE-It would be not altogether amiss to paraphrase the creed of the wise man cited by Andrew Fletcher to Montrose, and to say, “Lets me control the rallroads of a nation and I care not who makes its treaties and its laws.” That would be within the limits of discretion, at any rate, in the case of such a country as China is to-day. Dip- lomats may make treaties for open doors and what not. The practical execution of those treat!ss will lie in the actual open- ing up of the country through the exten- sion of railroad lines. The function of the diplomat is as essential as ever, but it | must be supplemented, or perhaps more properly complemented, by that of the engineer. 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