Conservative.
It looks as if
INTER-STATE there would be
COMMERCE. some amendments
to the inter-state
commerce act. This is as it should
bo. The law should be repealed alto
gether , or so amended that it can be
enforced. There should be no dis
crimination between individuals or
localities. Rates should be reasonable
and unflnctuatintr. Big shippers
should pay the same rates as small
ones. Any system of rate-making
that builds up one individual as
against another , or one community as
against another , is contrary to demo
cratic ideas and ought not to exist.
The railways of the country should
be permitted to make enforceable con
tracts with each other , and the rates
under such arrangements might be
subject to the review of the commis
sion whoso duty it shoiald be to see
that rates covered by pooling arrange
ments arc reasonable.
This is President Roosevelt's idea ,
and as usual , he is sound.
The track labor-
WAGES IN ers on the Mexican
MEXICO. railways are now
receiving sixty
( (50) ( ) cents per day in Mexican money ,
which at the present rate of exchange
means about 27 cents in American
money. This is the rate paid south of
El Paso on the Mexican Central rail
road , while north of the same town
on the Atchison , Topeka & Santa
Fe just across the Rio raude
the rate of wages for the same work ,
for the same class of men , is one
dollar and twenty-five cents ( $1.25) )
per day. Nearly five times as much.
This is an object lesson in the
finance of Bryanarchy calculated to
impress the most loyal advocate of the
double standard with the superior ad
vantages of the silver standard to
laborers. It was to bring about such
a day wage in the United States that
the mongrel politics and fanatical
vaporings of 1896 and 1900 were urged
upon a credulous people by peerless
gabsters.
The judiciary com
TO SUPPRESS mittee of the house
ANARCHY. has reported a bill
"for the protection
of the President of the United States ,
the suppression of crime , and for other
purposes. " This bill , which is the siftings -
ings of the many wild ideas of nervous
legislators , expressed immediately after
the sad tragedy at Buffalo , and drafted
into bills as soon thereafter as the agi
tated congressmen could control them
selves sufficiently to safely grasp a pen ,
is really a more conservative document
than the committee had been expected
to garner from that chaos of proposed
laws dumped into its hands for con
sideration.
Still the bill will probably fail to
touch the key-note of popular approval ,
as it is not nearly so drastic as the gen
eral public had hoped for. No deporta
tions to barren islands ; no stringing up
of speakers ; no electrocution of writ
ers ; no boiling oil for the guilty ; merely
a proposed examination of immigrants ,
and a" return to the land whence
they came , of all foreigners of an
archistic proclivities. The committee
kindly and considerately leaves the
"details" of the matter of sorting the
prospective citizens in the hands of the
Secretary of the Treasury ; but just how
he is to separate the wheat from the
chaff has not been made plain.
The entire bill is more punitive than
corrective , which is unfortunate ; but ,
as no one has co'me forward with a
feasible plan for suppressing seditious
speech and literature , defining the
anarchistic and distinguishing it from
the foolish , hot-headed utterances and
ill-considered writings of irresponsible ,
but comparatively harmless , fanatics
some of whom are loudest in their
lamentations when their works bear
fruit the bill is perhaps as effective as
the country could in reason expect.
In the eighth cen-
IRISH DIStury of her rule over
CONTENT. Ireland , either
through her own ina
bility or unwillingness to give to that
impoverished country a just and liberal
government , or through the Celt's stub
born purpose to neither appreciate nor
accept such a government , England
now finds that there is still no affinity
between the two peoples , the Emerald
Isle persistently refusing to shine as a
bright jewel in the British crown.
Lord Salisbury , in the coiirse of a
pessimistic speech , says : "The exist
ence of a hostile feeling in Ireland is a
signal that the efforts upon which de
pend in no light degree the glory and
the continuance of the empire , .must
not be relaxed. The maintenance of
our position in Ireland is the most vital
object the empire has , and it can only
be attained by strenuous exertions. An
Irish government with the power to ac
cumulate arms and ammunition , would
constitute a far more serious threat than
has the Boers. "
English perturbation is in no manner
decreased by the sound waves which
reach them from across the Atlantic.
The visits of Dillon and Redmond ;
their enthusiastic reception and success
in soliciting funds , indicate strongly
that in case the tenantry should aban
don pleas and memorials , for bullets and
bayonets , generous contributions of men
and means will reach them from this
side.
Squarely facing these conditions , Eng
land's only consolation is found in the
undisputable fact that it will be no easy
matter for the peasant to exchange
the black-thorn shillaylah for the mod
ern implements of war , no matter how
eager he may be to do so.
The approaching
VISITING visit of Prince Henry
.ROYALTY. and the official and
social functions in
connection therewith , have been the
cause of considerable comment pro and
con , and the propriety of the President's
conduct has been seriously qiaestioned
upon the floor of the house. Glancing
backward we find that there have been
few . really royal visitors who have
visited this country , and each of them
has been accorded a warm reception ,
both at Washington and in New York.
Louis Phillipe D'Oiieans , later king
of France , came across in 179Q. Being
afterwards joined by his brothers , the
royal refugee toured the country ,
President Washington obligingly ar
ranging the itinerary , and it was upon
this trip that the royal guest lost his
heart to a yaukee girl , who , however
failed to reciprocate. Later on the son
of this exile also visited this country ,
and in 1861 his grandsons , the Comto De
Paris and Due Do Chartres received a
cordial welcome from the government
at Washington , the two brothers being
made members of General McClellan's
staff , and remaining in this country un
til June , 1862.
Joseph Bonaparte , ex-king of Spain
and Naples , was received rather coldly
in 1815 , and nowhere in this country re
ceived the social recognition which ho
expected. The same is true of the
other members of this family who
visited our shores later. - <
When the present king of England
paid us a visit in 1860 , he was balled ,
wined and dined at Washington , New
York and Philadelphiaand was the guest
of President Buchanan for some time.
He was accompanied by a group of
noblemen who were not overlooked in
the social events. The ball given in
his honor in the Academy of Music
was attended by 8,000 guests , and over
a million New Yorkers escorted him
through the streets of the metropolis
upon one occasion.
The Grand Duke Alexis , of Russia ,
was escorted across by an imposing
squadron in 1871 , receiving an elaborate
and magnificent reception , being pre
sented to the president immediately
upon his arrival , and later being the
guest of honor at a ball and banquet
given in New York , but being partici
pated in by society from all of the
principal cities.
George , the sailor prince of Greece ,
and present governor of Crete , has also
visited this country , and was warmly
welcomed , though his entertainment
was entirely spontaneous , no sot pro
gram being followed.
Thus we " see that" there" is" ' a'mple
precedent to justify President Reese
velt's conduct in extending welcome tea
a brother of the great ruler of a friendly
nationnotwithstanding the toy balloons
sent up by irate editors or members of
congress :
