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ribe Conservative.
Boors , or our own recalcitrant Fill-
piuos.
Not only is ho governed without his
consent and over his strenuous protest ,
but the very lands with which the government -
, ornment has pretended to endow him
must be rented through an understrap
per acting usually in collusion with
some scheming syndicate to rob Lo of
his heritage ; what wonder that he refuses -
. fuses to emulate the white man and become -
' come "civilized" enough to do his stealing -
ing properly , legally and openly , instead
1 of covertly.
Only when it has been made possible
for the red man to be domiciled in his
own house and upon his own land will
he lay aside the eagles' feathers , grease
.f paints , horse blanket and dog-rations
and allow himself to be benevolently as
similated. Continue the present system
of surveillance and interference and Lo
will remain as he is , picturesque but
neither an agreeable neighbor nor an ac
ceptable citizen. Given a man's pri
vileges and responsibilities , he will be a
man ; keep the collar about his neck ,
and he will forever remain a dog.
An eminent physi-
WHY NOT ? cian with a desire
for notoriety offered
himself as a subject for vivisection , and
immediately a chorus of protest went
up from all points of the compass. We
do not protest ; we say why not ? In
New York , a poor dog was strapped to
an operating table , and in order that
the physician might ascertain the effect
of massage upon dislocations , the shriek
ing beast's shoulders were dislocated
and his feet tied behind his' back. In
this position the tortured animal was
left for twenty minutes , and at the con
clusion of the experiment was neither
treated nor put out of his misery , as the
former would consume time and the
latter demand the outlay of a few cents
to dispose of the carcass. At no time
was the animal placed under the influ
ence of an anaesthetic. The barbarian
who performed the operation coolly de
scribes the entire useless and wanton
performance in a medical journal.
After perusing that article it is difficult
to see why a doctor should be exempt
from the torture which he so readily in
flicts upon a poor dumb beast whose
only sin is his unfortunate association
with the worst of companions a biped
brute.
"You must know
APPROPRIATE , what privileges you
have. Not to speak
everyone what he listeth , or what cometh -
eth into his brain , but your privilege is
'aye' or/nay. / ' " So spake the Lord Keeper
of the Seals of the house of commons in
the dim long ago. It might be well for
some good old-fashioned South Carolina
dame , who understands the well-nigh
forgotten art , to secure a strip of perfor-
ated card-board , and with the regulation
red and blue woolen yarn weave that
quotation into a "motto" for the guid
ance of the South Carolinians in the
senate. "Aye" or "nay" will be a
sufficiency from South Carolina , for
some time to come.
Did you ever see a
PATHETIC AND curly-headed little
LUDICROUS. tot , thoroughly ex
hausted by the romp
ing and shouting indulged in during the
evening play-hour , sink into serene re
pose with a dirty , ragged , maimed , and
altogether unlovable and unpresentable
doll always the most disreputable of its
store clutched tightly in the little
chubby fist , the sweet baby face , so con
tented , seeming even in slumber to ex
press pride in the proprietorship of that
pitifully mutilated toy , though the
faithful little guardian's mind be wan
dering in the land of Nod ? The doll ,
too , seems to realize and appreciate the
love lavished upon it , and to reciprocate
the affections of its foster-parent. The
world may whirl on , great events affect
ing the lives of armies and the destinies
of nations may transpire , men may rise
and men may fall and countries expander
or lose their being , but babe and
doll still slumber on , unconscious of the
turmoil , strife , triumphs and failures
of the world without that nursery , con
tent to rest in sweet communion one
with the other. This is all very pretty ,
and no properly constructed man can
look upon it without experiencing a
tremble in the voice , and feeling a lump
in the throat and a suspicions moisture
in the eye.
But when that babe , grown to man
hood , enters business life , plunges into
politics , adopts journalismstill slumber-
iug with his broken doll , a discarded
theory , an idea with the arms and legs
broken off , an issue ground under the
heels of progressive and alert citizens , a
naked , unsightly lifeless treasure when
a grown man slumbers sweetly with
sucli a plaything as that clasped to his
bosom , while the world progresses , na
tions rise and fall , varying circumstances
and changed conditions demand the best
efforts of the country's statesmanship ,
the sight is no longer pathetic ; it is
ludicrous.
For a babe to love the most battered
of its toys is natural , no one knows why ;
for a statesman to cling tenaciously to
the most discredited of his theories is
unnatural , everyone knows why. In a
common man such an act is common er
ror ; in an uncommonly common man ,
it , of course , becomes Commoner.
The remarks of
ABOUT Mr. Wollman , of
TRUSTS. Now York , printed
elsewhere in this
issue , on the natural laws governing
the life of trusts , are significant and
suggestive. The modern consolida
tions of manufacturing interests are ,
in fact , not subject to legislative con-
trol so much as they are to that of u
higher law. Legislatures are often
the last to recognize the pressure of
new forces that may be in operation
around them. If these modern com
binations called trusts have come into
being through the workings of na
tural laws , they will lead rather than
follow legislation. That is , the law
makers must ultimately perceive the
changed social conditions that require
such co-operative arrangements and
rearrange the statutes to conform
thereto.
As to the life or death of any par
ticular trust , that depends more on
internal than on external matters. If
the conditions of a trade justify con
centration , and if the administration
is wisely managed , a trust will live ;
otherwise it will die as quickly as a
small business , or perhaps quicker.
It may be doubted whether the
enormous size of some of these cor
porations is not rather an element of
weakness than of strength ; whether
they will not crumble if weakened at
a vulnerable point as quickly as a
railroad bridge will collapse from the
withdrawal of a single bolt. They
are not strictly comparable to the
great railroad systems , which have
stood the test of time ; they are ex
posed to other dangers. One man
with an idea may supersede the en
tire fabric of one of these .industrial
combinations , whereas a railroad is
more permanent in its nature. A new
factory built in Nebraska may render
an old one in New York of no value ,
whereas a dislocated official of an
eastern railroad cannot come west
and start a competitive enterprise.
There has been
ISTHMUS some very attract- .
CANALS. ively written newspaper -
paper 1 i terature
circulated , claiming that the best of
all routes for a canal across the Isth
mus of Panama would be a tide-water
canal at San Bias , the narrowest point
of the Isthmus , which would consist
of a ship -tunnel through the moun
tains. Many people have wondered
why this plausible scheme was neg
lected by the promoters of the inter-
oceanio canals and all their attention
concentrated on the Panama and Nic
aragua routes.
An editorial in the last Scientific
American seems to put this project
definitely where it belongs. It seems
that the Government Commission
has made exhaustive investigation of
not one but four tide-water tunnel
routes , and that the result of their
examination condemns the project
absolutely. Their figures on the San
Bias route would make the total cost
of a canal there nearly three hundred
million dollars. Furthermore , the
projected ship-tunnel is said to be
utterly impracticable. If nothing
but perfectly sound and solid rook was
met with , it might bo done , though at
enormous cost ; but if at any point on
the route any material that was or
could become loope was encountered ,
the engineers would bo helpless and
a final stop would be put at once to
the work.
The fact appears to be that more
work and study have been put on
these different routes than most-peo
ple have any idea of.