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TRY A NEW SCHEME SHIP SUBSIDY ADVOCATES ON AN OTHER TACK. Horn Market Club of Boston Favors Discriminating Duties as the Easiest Means of Looting the Public Treas uryAttitude of Republican Leaders Tho Home Market Club of Boston, which U for prohibitive protection. Is working, Itself Into a patriotic fervor over what ships shall bring la the for eign good which it iays should not ! Imjtorted at all. It Is now making a c'lnvans of the great business inter cut of the country to learn opinions a t what should be done. It has sent a "circular of Inquiry" to "governors. preHiJnts of colleges, railroads and bank and principal merchants and manufacturers," asking the following questions: Is It Your Best Judgment, First, that constitutional means that i to say. discriminating duties and other regulations of commerce felt t'tld be used? Or, Second, that a subsidy system should be applied? Or. Third, that nothing should be done, anrl that foreign nations shall be al lows! to continue to appropriate our commercial navigation, an It may 1Km.-u themselves or a chance may determine? Th ? club's own preference Is not left in doubt. Subsidies, it says, are "not warranted by tho constitution." It Is Irob.ib!'. however, that the real rea son why th club is opposed to subsi dies is that they are so obnoxious to tho pitipie that a ship subsidy bill cannot get through congress even a congress controlled by trusts and cor porations. Three such bills have fat LH since 1897. though promised by tho great party leaders In return for hoary campaign contributions In 1898. II inn and Frye and Payne and Gros v prior did their best to deliver the good't, but some of the leading trusts, by a great display of timidity and good Hvnso, advised their Republican congressmen to go slow in voting for a subsidy bill. They feared such a bold appropriation of the people's money for private corporations would THE LOAD GROWS Pittsburg Post. offend the people and spoil the tariff graft under which the trusts were en joying such unparalleled prosperity. They virtually said to the shipping people: " Of course we should like to let you in on a good, fat graft, but we don't want yi to spoil our graft, and. in the end. y.iirs too. We must manage to keep the Republican party in power some bow or all will be lost. The people are easy if you approach them in the right way and on the right side; but. like a young cow, they will kick and refuse to be milked when approached from -he wrong side. Don't jeopardize both our interests by attempting some thing rash. We know the people will stan I tor indirect taxes, because they do not see them, or because they vainly imagine that somebody else may be pying them, or that, in some absurd way. they are benefited by such taxes. But they might rebel and kick our whole graft over if we should show our hand. We shall gladly help you if you can devise some new scnem.? that will fit on to the present indirect tariff tax system. See what you can do." Hence it is that the ship trust has gotten the Home Market Club to pro mote the "discriminating-duties" scheme. That is. to favor an increase in the tariff of 10 per cent on all im port carried by foreign bottoms. This i clearly constitutional: it fits on to our present system; it would tax the people without their knowledge; it would give the shipping people more than they could ever get by direct ap plication to the treasury, and. best of all. it would not greatly endanger the tariff graft of the trusts. Or course, it wontd upset our treaty regulations a.vt make some trouble with foreign countries, but "what do we care for abroad, anyhow"? Incidentally it may be mentioned that there are complications growing out of the contract which the shipping tnst. the International Mercantile Marine, made with England, which may prevent that patriotic trust from participating so largely In these tariff profit a is desirable. This company has Just closed twenty year contract with the British admiralty which provides that the British companies included In the shipping combine shall remain on a footing of equality with other British companies in respect to any military, naval or postal services that the Brit ish government may require from the British mercantile marine. No Brlt - Isb ship shall be transferred to a for eign registry without the consent of the president of the Board of Trade. The officers of the vessel shall con tinue to be British subjects, and the ship nH carry the same proportion of British sailors as is prescribed In tbo case of any other British ships engaged -,D the same line of trade. Just why this shipping trust should nake au'lti an unfavorable contract with tho British government Is not ap parent, n&less we conclude that th trust Is open to legal attack, both In Great Britain and this country. In this case it Is prudent to get some kind of a legal status and to avoid trouble with British courts. It would be very uncomfort able If this trust was outlawed in both countries and could not land iti; ships at either end. except under a pirate flag or the flag of some small foreign coo:, try. But what can this trust, which is virtually a foreign concern, and under military obligations to a forelg gov ernment, expect, when it asks con gress for discriminating duties which will be paid to Its American ships? Will Congress thus aid in strengthen ing a foreign company whose ships may at any time be turned against this country? Does not this trust and this contract make it out of the ques tion for this country ever to give sub sidies or bounties in any form to the Ship trust? And if the trust Is not to receive them. It is safe to say that it will not, with its control over Repub lican leaders, permit its rivals to re ceive such bounties. The ship-subsidy scheme is deaJ. The Home Market Club cannot gal vanize life into it. even with discrim inating tariff duties. Let the funeral be held. Byron W. Holt. GENERAL MILES SNUBBED. The Usual Words of Praise Upon Re tirement Withheld by the President. No administration has ever perpe trated so shabby a trick as the pres ent one In refusing to say a word of praise for Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles on his retirement for age by operation of the law of 1882. After forty-two years faithfully serving the United States ami by virtue of his distin guished services from a private to the highest command, he Is allowed to re tire without the usual compliments. When Gen. Schofleld was retired. Pres ident Cleveland paid a warm tribute to his gallantry and faithful services. President Roosevelt at the instance of the ruling cabal, headed by Root and Corbln. who are not worthy to wipe the dust from the boots of Gen. Miles, joins them in trying to humiliate the man who fought upon a hundred fields without fear and without reproach. The persistent efforts to exasperate HEAVIER OAT BY DAY. and belittle Gen. Miles during the war with Spain and since was due to jeal ousy and fear of his becoming too powerful. He was refused the active command of the army in Cuba and for his exposure of the rotten beef scan dal the whole truth of which has not yet been told he was considered po litically dangerous to the Republican oligarchy that has been in command. That he has always been a consistent though independent Republican and so thoroughly honest and capable that the powers that be could not buy or cajole him were the reasons for his mistreatment. That the official slight to Gen. Miles was concocted by his enemies was not so much to be wondered at, but that President Roosevelt should aid and countenance their meanness and hold back what was justly due from the commander-in-chief to the brave gen eral, shows the vast difference be tween the greatness and littleness of soul that should be expected of a Pres ident of the United States. It was of ficially announced in the Washington Post that: "The determination to confine the announcement of the retirement of the Lieutenant General to the usual form was reached after deliberation and with a full knowledge of the precedents. It was made a matter of conference during the last visit of Secretary Root to Oyster Bay, al though it is known the decision pro mulgated yesterday was arrived at some time ago." So it was not an oversight, but a deliberate slight. The American peo ple will remember this when the ac counts are cast up for the final reck oning. Republican Definitions. "Scandal" A charge against a pub lic officer purely for political effect; equivalent to "hot air;" a serious thing if It occurs In the Democratic party, but in your own only one ol those things that will happen in the best civil service on the planet. "Fraud" An obsolete word. For marly signified breach of trust by public ssrvant; in modern usage the synonym is "enterprise." Our Colonial Subjects. Mr. Chamberlain's hint that the gov ernment of the South African colonief may deport boers and others who dc not vote right would be a valuable hint for our own colonial functionaries, ex cept for the fact that we do not allow our colonial subjects to vote at all thla constituting one difference be tween the policy of a free and enlight ened republic and that of an effete despotism. Hay as a Soft Mark. Naturally, Mr. Hay Is "amazed" at the exhibition of Russian duplicity in the Vanchurian business, but nobody else la. Mr. Hay Is easy, that is alL FACE GRAVE PROBLEM SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS IN TH2 PHILIPPINES. American Teachers Give Up Their Pe titions Education of Our "Sub jects" in the Philippines Must Be Left to Parochial 8chools. A new and wholly unexpected dan ger threatens American supremacy in the Philippine archipelago. It is that the American public schools in the isl ands will have to be closed for lack of American teachers. The Philippine commission lured a large supply of American teachers to the islands by assurances which have not been verified. Neither in salary. In mode of life nor in predictions of popular success hare the American teachers found existence in the isl ands what they expected. They expected to be paid in the money of the United States. They have been paid in the local money and have thus suffered serious loss. They were told that they could live as com fortably on the islands as at home. They find the temperature at 90 all the year, the nights bringing no re freshment. They cannot easily adapt themselves to the tropical costumes and suffer more than the natives. They find tropical customs as to bed ding, sleeping, bathing and diet more difficult of assimilation than they hoped. Worst of all, they do not find them selves welcome, and it is the opinion of the most experienced among them that the alien pedagogue will not be acceptable in the islands during this generation. The American teachers, like the army officers, find the climate debilitating first, finally exhausting, and its evil consequences apply' to both body and mind. The American teachers are resign ing as rapidly as they find sufficient reason to do so without violating their engagement to the government. There are no applicants for the vacancies. ; What is to be done? Parish schools will be opened by the new American bishops wherever there is none. Exist ing parish schools will be strength ened. After the last American public school shall be closed for lack of teachers the government of the United States will be dependent upon the parochial schools for developing love of American institutions in the isl ands. The task will not be an easy one. Will they suppress the declaration of Independence from American litera ture and all the gallant romance and thrilling verse associated with the eighteenth century on this continent? The new American danger in the Philippines is more serious than shal low politicians may be willing to be lieve. As the Philippine twig is bent the tree will be inclined. THE ARMY SOCKS SCANDAL. Further Proof of- Rottenness in the War Department. The specifications were so written down in the call for bids for furnish ing 150,000 pairs of woolen socks for use in the regular army that only one firm could meet them. Peculiar mark ings on heel and toe were demanded, and also longitudinal instead of lat eral ridges where the segments of the rounded parts are joined together, and these details shut all bidders out ex cept one Taggart of Philadelphia. He was the only bidder. The socks called for are made by the "Nelson footer," which Is controlled by the Taggart firm. Just why Taggart, whose "pull" amounts to a monopoly, limited him self to 29 cents a pair, when he might have secured tw ice or thrice that sum. is not explained. The moderation of Taggart does not, however, change the essential feature of the bidding in which competition had no part. It was Taggart socks or nothing another case of Hobson's choice. As things stand, or stood. Taggart was sole sock maker to Uncle Sam. and no one else had a ghost of a chance to furnish socks to the army. Thus far the department experts have not been fully heard. It is said, however, that they claim that latitudi nal ridges in woolen socks create corns and bunions and what not on the feet of soldiers of the regular army, whereas longitudinal ridges are remarkably happy in actual wear. They therefore drew up the specifica tions so that the Taggart concern had a cinch. The peculiar markings and the longitudinal ridges are a solace and comfort to the feet, while lateral ridges and no markings are distress ing to the feet of the regular army. Long ' live the government and the war department, which seems to be rotten at both extremities in socks as well as in gloves. It may be best' to confine the recruiting hereafter to those sections that wear no socks at all, thus cutting out Taggart and his extraordinary monopoly. President McKinley Was Not a Stand Patter. Mr. F. O. Shuster, a governor of the Union Bank of London, England, in a recent speech there, stated tl'at he "had a private interview with te late President McKinley two years oo." in which President McKinley said: "My tariff bill has done its work. We have been able to build up many great Industries in a short time, and now. gradually, but inevitably, our tariff must be reduced." Not only are these views consistent with Mr. McKinley's last and greatest speech. - in which he said that "the period of exclusiveness Is past." and strongly intimated that some tariff du ties should be reduced, but h is known to have expressed similar views in private conversation at least six months before his Buffalo speech. Either he had gotten ashamed of his own bill, when he saw the rapacious trusts of which it was the mother, or he had reached the conclusion that it was good economics, as well as good politics, to trim tariff duties down. He certainly knew tiat the manufacturers no longer needed -irift duties for their existence, for they wn selling goods to foreigners on a free trade basis, while charging Americans much higher prices. These facts were, un der hts direction, being chronicle! in government documents, notably In tho August, 1900, report of the Bureau of Statistics. As a politician be knew that the voters would not much longer support a party that would not show a willingness to reduce tariff duties which served only to tax the people for the benefit of the trusts. Hence his change of position. He most cer tainly would not be a stand-patter were he alive to-day. But. as a consistent protectionist, was he not right when he said that his bill had "done its work?" If. as claimed by protectionists, and espe cially earlier ones, the object of pro tection is to develop and establish manufactures in this country by shut ting out foreign competition, that ob ject has most certainly been gained. Not only are our manufacturers now supplying our own needs and markets, but they are exporting annually over $400,000,000 worth of all kinds of goods to all parts of the world. There is no denying this fact; the Republi cans are boasting of it, even while shouting for a continuance of high tariff taxes to continue to keep us at the mercy of the trusts. As a protec tionist, then, McKinley was right when he said that "now gradually but Inevi tably our tariff must be reduced." There is no sound reason, in or out of the protectionist's logic or theories, for continuing the present tariff sys tem. The stand-patters are unsupport ed except by the greed and gall of the protected trusts. Is their position a safe one? Can they maintain it long? Roosevelt and the Civil Service. ft is given out that Gen. H. H. Thomas, a veteran of the Union war with a distinguished record, is to be removed from the office of United States appraiser at this port in order that one L. T. Hoy, described as a Woodstock druggist and the manager of A. J. Hopkins' campaign for the senatorship. may have the place,- The appraisership Is the lowest sal aried federal office in Chicago. There were rumors some time ago that there was to be a general "shake-up" of all the federal offices and Mr. Hoy was said to be slated for assistant treas urer iu place of Williams, who was to have been dismissed. But the plan was changed and Gen. Thomas is to be turned out to make room for the druggist-politician who "managed Sen ator Hopkins' campaign." There are no charges against Gen. Thomas; the rumors affecting other offices when the "shake-up" wa3 pre dicted did not reach his office. His removal to give place to a mere ma chine worker is a piece of wanton spoils politics, contrary to all the civil service principles which President Roosevelt is supposed to represent, and it cannot be defended Chicago Chronicle. Our Polygamous Ally. Ths sultan of Sulu, that good and great friend of ours, is so enamored of life at Singapore, where he has been taking a vacation, that he con templates abdicating his sultanship. His majesty is rich from his pearl fish eries and disposed of his minor wealth before quitting his principality. This is the esteemed monarch who is in receipt of a pension from the gov ernment of the United States for main tenance of his luxurious tastes, includ ing his harem. While we are threatening to bar from a seat in the senate of the Unit ed States a man accused of polygamy it is a scandal to the nation that its money should be lavished upon a seraglio-keeper in a foreign country. The allowance to the potentate of Sulu was official only. It ought to ex pire with his abdication. All Seem to Be Smirched. For a proposition primarily charac terised as "hot air" the postal rotten ness continues to break out in more numerous and unexpected quarters than any similar scandal in the pres ent generation. If the postoffice de partment is any index to the other governmental bureaus there are going to be some mighty interesting devel opments during the coming year. Where Senator Aldrich Stands. It is painful to hear a contemporary declare that the state of Rhode Island is politically rotten and that money is plenty there when the Honorable Nel son Aldrich wants to be re-elected to the senate. Mr. Aldrich is a great and good man and the father-in-law of the Standard Oil company. It is impossi ble that he should know, much less practice, iniquity. England Facing a Danger. If we may judge from the ominous rumors heard from South Africa, the British are sending out as colonial functionaries to the Boers very much the same kind of persons that we dis patch to the Philippines. The first thing he knows. Mr. Chamberlain will have an "insurrection" on his hands. The Other Fellow's Tariff. The Furniture men. at their annual meeting, have been placing themselves on record as favoring certain steps in tariff revision. They omitted, how ever, to say anything about a reduc tion of the duties on furniture. A great many other infants think some other infants could get along with a little less pap. Relics on Wall Street. So far from crediting stories of the president's ferocious enmity toward Wall street. Uncle Thomas Piatt de clares that Mr. Roosevelt has plenty of friends there. "If he hadn't," adds the sage, "he might as well go Into liquidation." A good many people will agree with him. Choosing a Possible President. National conventions should quit making vice presidential nominations purely a matter of party expediency. Perhaps It is not necessary to go further in this line of argument than to point to the "expedient" vice presi dent who now disports himself in the White House. Getting Ready to Repeat. Rumblings from Washington re specting Cuban reciprocity warrant the belief that Beet Sugar Oxnard la aga'.n taking exercise preliminary to swinging the United States around by the tall once more. Nf "Say, Mister, I Won't like the looks of that. dog o' yourn and I don't want him on the place." 'Oh, that's all right ! He's harmless and I ain't going to keep him anyway." V( o "Hello! There's that ineasley cur again. Thought you weren't goin' to keep him?" "Well, I'm not. doing to get rid of him soon, sure." Commoner THE RACE PROBLEM. On another page will be found a Tet ter recently written by President Roosevelt to Governor Durbin on the subject of lynching. Forgetting for the present the failure of the presi dent to enforce the law against the trust magnates and Governor Durbin's refusal to deliver to Kentucky authori ties a republican ex-governor charged with murder, let us consider the sub ject of mob law as it is related to the race question. The president is right in protesting against mob law it can not be defended. It is a reflection on the people if legal means of punish ment are adequate and effective, and it is a reflection on the government if the people have reason to distrust its ability to enforce the law. All will agree with the president that punish ment should not. only be sure, but should be swift as a due regard to the rights of the accused will permit. Whatever punishments are sanctioned by public opinion should be embodied in the law and in the case of crimes against women the laws should be such even though a constitutional amendment were necessary to secure it that the victim of the outrage will be protected from the humiliation of having to give testimony before a crowd of curious, but disinterested, persons. The president is also to be com mended for having coupled a denuncia tion of rape with a condemnation of lynching. Too many cry out against the lawless punishment without say ing anything against the horrible crime which arouses the anger of the people. If some of the enthusiasm that is spent in passing resolutions denouncing mob law was employed in condemning the unspeakable beastiaT- ity that provokes summary punisn ment there would be fewer instances of mob law. hTe fact that the president did not specifically mention southern Iynch lngs shows that the Jynchings and burnings- in northern states have con vinced him that race prejudice Is as strong in Illinois, Indiana. Delaware, and Kansas as In Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, or Texas. It may be well In this connection to consider race prejudice for a moment In connection with mob law. That there Is such a thing must be admitted. It Is written on every page of history and is not likely to disappear soon. It must be remembered, too, that the negro has as much prejudice against the white man as the white man has against the negro, and If the negro was In a position to rule the white man there is no reason to doubt that the white man would have reason to com plain. This was apparent in the carpet-bag days and is apparent today wherever it can find expression. A sense or Justice, however, re strains this prejudice and it is not often that either the white man or the negro says anything in the pres ence of the other that is calculated to offend. Color is not a matter of choice, neither can it be changed by will or by law. It is, therefore, as un kind to taunt a man with being black The accommodating federal courts have given the people a choice be tween two merger decisions. In the meantime the gentlemen Interested In the merger go right ahead profiting by their scheme. Judge Thayer and Judge Lochren may be willing to submit their differ ences to The Hague tribunal. Ex-Postmaster General Smith has found a faithful friend and ally in Editor Smith of the Philadelphia Press. The asset currency bill is slated for consideration on the Tuesday after the assembling of congress next December. Between congressional glove con tracts and congressional sock con tracts. Uncle Sam is being worked at both extremes. General Miles in retirement is still so large that he makes some gentle aien still In active service look ex ceedingly small.. Naturally the parting shot at Miles was taken when his back was turned. "Sic "Im, Tige Comment- as it is unreasonable for a black man to be angcrpd by such a taunt. A man is to be praised or blamed according to the use he makes of his talents or opportunities, not by his in herited advantages. The fact that a negro is lynched by a mob because of an outrage upon a woman ought not to increase the race prejudice that ex ists. White men are lynched for the same crime. Neither must the white man's feelings toward the negro be judged by his conduct when under great excitement. Man mad is an en tirely different creature from man de liberate. Men in anger have killed fathers,, wives, brother, sons and friends they have broken every tie of love and kinship. Suffrage qualifications cannot, be at tributed entirely to race prejudice, for suffrage qualifications are to be found in nearly all countries and have been employed by white men against mem bers of the white race aud by people of every color against people of their own color. Woman suffragists com plain that women are disfranchised and such disfranchisement cannot be explained on the ground of race preju dice either, for husband' and wife, mother and son,, are not only of the same race, but are linked together by the strongest bonds known. The suffrage amendments In the south, so much complained of by re publican politicians; are not nearly so severe as the republican: colonial pol icy in the Philippines. First rn every southern state some of the negroes can vote now, and all others can qualify themselves for suffrage; in the Philippines the in habitants are permanently disquali fied.. Second The negroes in the south, even when they cannot vote, have the protection of federar and state consti tutions; the Filipino has no constitu tional protection whatever. Third The negroes in the south live under the laws that the white man makes for himself; the Filipino lives under the laws that we make for him and would not live under ourselves. While the brown man of the Orient is faring worse than the black man In the south, the republican leaders are stirring up race antagonism in this country in order to keep the colored vote solid for the republican party. Even the president has contributed more than his share to the agitation. When he has appointed a colored man to office he has done it with a flourish of trumpets and a brass band accom paniment that the world might know that the "door" was wide open. When a colored postmistress was objected to he refused to allow her to resign and closed the office and did it allay race prejudice? No; it did more to excite race prejudice than any ten colored appointments that President McKinley made. The Booker T. Washington dinner at the White House did even more than the Indianola postoffice incident to ex cite race prejudice. The president surely did not intend to inject the question of social equality into politics, for on that issue he could The administration will draw the color line in the navy, but owing to circumstances will not at this time draw it in the conventions. Secretary Root is not the first man to breathe easier with Miles out of the way. It often happened while Miles was in active service. When the democratic party adopts a platform that meets with the approba tion of the men who control the repub lican party, it will be when loyal dem ocrats forget principle. - Up to date, however. Wall street has not felt the necessity of asking con gress for an elastic conscience. It is admitted that John R. Walsh's bright editorial writers are making herculean attempts to earn their sal aries these days. Congressman Littauer's defense reads something like that of the man who was asked to pay for a kettle he had borrowed and broken. "I sent the kettle back. I never borrowed your kettle. The kettle was broken when I got it." ' ;I fcee you've got that ornery pup yet. Whim are you going to get rid of him i" "Oh, lie wouldn't hurt anyldy, hut ain't much account, t-o I'm not going to keep him longer." ! Sie 'im !" not carry a state In the Union; then,' why arouse the colored people to ex pect social equality or agitate th whites with the fear of It? It In a grievous inh-.talce to turn the negro's thoughts from the HiiliH-tantlal advan tages of industrial, Intellectual and. moral progress to the unsubstantial promises of sociaT recognition. The amalgamation of the races Is not 1 lie solution of the race question, and that would be the logical result of social equality. In their natural right to life, liberty and the pursuit, of happineHrt the white man and the black man are equal and these rights should be pro tected with jealous care. Educational advantages should be open to both races and both should be encouraged; to secure all the nitntal discipline pos sible. Whether the more advanced race should fir suffrage qualifications for the lesa advanced Is a question to be determined by the facts in Hip cane, but it is safe to say that on this bub ject the people of the north would be much like the people of the south if they were compelled: to meet the same conditions. As to social equality,, there should be a frank and candid understanding. There is no difference on this subject between the white people of the-north and the white people of the south. Th color line Is drawn by republican fam ilies as distinctly as it is by democratic families, as distinctly by northern families as by southern families. There is more friendliness and hdpfulnes where this Is recognized than where it Is left fn doubt and! uncertainty. The white race ought to; recognize the rights of the black race and lend it every possible assistance. The whites of the south are taxing them selves to educate the children of dark er skin, while republican politicians in the north are riding Into office on black votes ank while they exclude the colored people from their social functions, are constantly trying to ar ray the southern negro against the southern white man. There is another aspect of the ques tion. The promise of social equality false as it Is encourages the edu cated negro to hope to get away from his race and thus the race loses the benefit that the more progressive ne groes might bring to it. Instead of trying to bleach the face or to take the kink out of the hair, let the col ored man recognize that he is black by nature and set to work to show whit one of his race can accomplish. No upright. Intelligent and law-abiding colored man ever gets Into trouble himself or Involves his people in a race war. After the colored man has es tablished a reputation for virtue, so briety and good sense, let him devote himself to the building up of a society that will satisfy his needs. If he has daughters, let him make them worthy of the best young men of his race; if he has sons, let him make them ex amples of Industry and good habits. To deserve respect and not enjoy it is better than to enjoy respect without deserving it, but to deserve respect Is the best and surest way to secure It. A good character is more valuable and more permanent than a postoffice. and nothing will do more to kill race prejudice than the building up of char acter. The white man needs to be remind ed, as the president suggests, that law lessness Is dangerous and torture de moralizing to those who practice it. but the black man must also be cau tioned not to Judge the white man's life purpose by the passions of an hour and he should be warned not to allow the vices and lusts of the most aban doned of his race to provoke hostility between himself and the whites. The race question is here and it will require the intelligence and the pa triotism of the people north and south to settle it aright. It has too long been used for political advantage. Contrary to expectations, the Root resignation has distanced the Balkan war rumor. Mr. Littauer announces that he will fight the charges against him. Hard or soft gloves? Mr. Parry should emigrate to Russia. It seems that labor conditions there are exactly to bis liking. By "standing pat" Mr. Hanna avoids the humiliation of explaining why it is that Tom Johnson always downs him In a Cleveland fl&bt. T i V