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.
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