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POLITICAL.
"Prosperity ig essential to peace and
order in Cuba , " says the Ohicngo Post
( Rep. ) , "and there can bo no prosperity
without access to American markets. "
Congressman Lorimer , of Chicago ,
says that ho will not again be a candi
date for office. He is not out of poli
tics , but is to devote his time to making
money for his large family.
The Cleveland Plain-Dealer ( Dem. )
explains that the action of the Ohio pro
hibitionists in dropping woman suffrage ,
after advocating it for sixteen years , was
because of a belief that the plank was
a handicap.
1 'With Bryan leading his faction in
one direction , and with a now faction of
'democrats' who are merely republicans
in disguise , springing up in the south ,
the prospects of a restored and reunited
democratic party" are said by the Hart
ford ( Conn. ) Times ( Ind. dom. ) "to bo
about as brilliant as the plumage of a
crow. "
"What is to be done in Alabama in
reforming the franchise is not for the
purpose of making absolute the power
of any political party in the state , " ex
plains the Mobile Register ( Dem. ) , "but
to free the party now in power from the
iucxibus that has so long rested upon it
of maintaining civilization by processes
that do not command the approval of
good morals. "
In the opinion of the Chicago Record-
Herald ( Ind. ) , "the worst imaginable
condition would bo , that in which Cuba
should bo treated as a bound and help
less tributary. It might better retain
its freedom and wage a customs warfare -
faro with this country , than resign its
freedom and accept the hostile tariff
framed by its competitors , now become
its masters. "
The St. Paul Pioneer Press ( Rep. )
contends "that whenever the manu
facturing establishments engaged in the
production of any protected article have
been consolidated with a view to con
trol the output and the market , they
have by that fact forfeited all claim to
protection , because operated on princi
ples and purposes directly opposed to
the principles and purposes of the pro
tective policy. "
"Will this telling accusation and ap
peal produce any action by the Presi
dent in vindication of the principles of
civil-service reform ? " asks the Boston
Herald ( Ind. ) with reference to the com
plaint against Postmaster Hicks , of
Philadelphia. "We know of no reason
to expect such a result. The evidence is
cumulative that the President lias bart
ered the cause of the civil , service re
formers to obtain support of other
causes dearer to his ambition. "
"If we had held to the tariff for rev
enue plank ns one of the prominent
planks in our platforms , and insisted
on maintaining that sound principle , in
stead of wandering off after strange
gods in 189(5 and 1900 , our party would
be in a far different plight from that in
which it now finds itself , " laments the
Montgomery ( Ala. ) Advertiser ( Dem. )
'When democrats abandoned the sound-
money theory , the republicans took it
up and rode into power on it. Shall we
let them continue in power by appro
priating another distinctive democratic
principle ? "
"Fusion is not only dishonest , " argues
the Kansas City Journal ( Dem. ) "but
Mr. Brj'au's own experience should
teach him that it is also unwise. It may
seoui to succeed for a time , but like
most other dishonest practices , it fails
disastrously in the end. See what it has
done for Bryan. See what it has done
for the democratic party. Sec what it
has done for the populist party. Bryan is
dead. Populism is dying , and democ
racy is desperately ill. On the other
hand , the republican party has made no
unholy alliances ; its candidates have ac
cepted only republican nominations , and
stood only on republican platforms.
Even in politics , honesty genuine hon
esty is the best policy. "
"We trust the democratic party has
done for over with 'fusion , ' " says the
Charlottesville ( Va. ) Progress ( Dem. )
"It is a fatal policy. It is wrong in
principle and disastrous in practice , and
the harm it has worked us in recent
years is , we believe , incalculable. It
has not only not brought us any promi
nent gains , but it has shaken pxiblio con
fidence in the soundness and safety of
our principles. It has made conserva
tive people afraid of us. It has placed
us in bad company in the fellowship of
men whose politics arc considered wild ,
radical and revolutionary men whose
views are so extreme and dangerous as
to suggest anarchy ; and with these men
the world is going to identify us until
we cut loose entirely from them , and re
turn once more to our old , safe moor
ings. "
THOREAU'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS
NATURE.
It is his New World inheritance ,
joined of course with his own inex
plicable personality , which must not bo
left out of account that makes Tlio-
reau's attitude toward nature something
quite distinct from that of the great po
ets who just preceded him , says Paul
Elmer Moore in the Juno Atlantic. There
was in him none of the fiery spirit of
the revolution which caused Byron to
mingle hatred of men with enthu
siasm for the Alpine solitudes. There
was none of the passion for beauty and
voluptuous self-abandonment of Keats ;
these were not in- the atmosphere ho
breathed at Concord. Ho was not
i
touched with Shelley's unearthly'mys
ticism , nor had ho ever fed
"On the aerial kisses
Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses ; "
his moral sinews wore too stark and
strong for that form of mental dissipa
tion. Least of all did he , after the man
ner of Wordsworth , hear in the voice of *
nature any compassionate plea for the
weakness and sorrow of the downtrod
den. Philanthropy and humanitarian
sympathies were to him a desolation
and a woe. "Philanthropy is almost
the only virtue which is sufficiently ap
preciated by mankind. Nay , it is greatly
overrated ; and it is our selfishness which
overrates it , " he writes ; and again :
"The philanthropist too of ten surrounds
mankind with the remembrance of his
own cast-off griefs as an atmosphere ,
and calls it sympathy. " Similarly his
reliance on the human will was too
sturdy to be much perturbed by the in
equalities and sufferings of mankind ,
and his faith in the individual was too
unshaken to be led in to humanitarian in
terest in the masses. "Alas ! this is the
crying sin of the age , " he declares ,
"this want of faith in the prevalence of
a man. "
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