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The Open Door.
Expansion and protection can .be
advocated but they cannot be prac
ticed by the same country at the same
time. With Cuba and Porto Rico
and the Filipines as the eastern and
western frontiers of the United
States free trade will be necessary,
and what is more, the necessity will
be so instant and positive that the
dullest and most party-bound will
appreciate it We cannot ask China
to open a gap in her wall for the
Filipino American while the Filipine
American remains behind a wail
built by nineteenth century Ameri.
cans who ought to know better. An
open door will let anybody in that it
will let out unless it is a rat trap door
constructed for the purpose of keep
ing everybody fast that once enters.
China, Japan and Russia will not set
the gates on their frontiers wide open
to American traders unless their pro
ducts and traders are allowed to go
and come with equal and correspond
ing freedom in the United States. If
expansion makes America one of the
great nations of the world in policy
as well as geographically and in the
number of its inhabitants, the war
may yet be worth all the blood and
money it has cost.
The Reunion and Six O'clock Goring.
One of the speakers at the Epworth
League meetings at Lincoln park, 1
think it was Dr.Schell, urged zealous
young methodists to study more and
be less satisfied with themselves for
exhortations to sinners and constant
attendance on religious meetings.
He said that he felt that the rcproacli
of ignorance and distaste for culture
made against the membership of the
Methodist church as a whole was not
without foundation.
The Methodist church is the
church of the pioneers. On the
prairies of the west, in the moun
tainous and thinly settled regions of
the south the church was established
by devoted men who held that they
were ordained to preach although
they were unlearned in language, his
tory and literature. Doubtless wider
learning would have separated them
from the1 people they preached to
and that they were not wrong about
being called of God, is indicated by
the strength of the church In the
south and west. Rut other churches
have arrived on the territory and In
order, to maintain their prestige
methodists are raising the standard
both for ministers and laymen.
Wisdom is not always born of books,
and culture 16 the result of medita
tion and is always accomplished from
within. The economics of ihe bible
has attracted the study of the most
scientific minds in all epochs. If
there is one doctrine emphasized over
and over again in the New Testament
it is that pertaining to brotherliness
and the need of exercising it. The
perils oi the rich man and the bar
riers between him and the kingdom
of heaven are reiterated throughout
the Gospels. Christianity is not, as
the good Doctor intimated, all a
matter of experience meetings and of
testifying by word and song to the
wisdom and power of the great
Teacher of unselfishness. The real
followers make the world their meet
ing house and seek to lighten the
burdens of the heavy laden.
Doubtless most of the members of
the Epworth League are in sympathy
with these doctrines but (he reunion
here in Lincoln is most unfortunate
in being presided over by a man
named Jones who has no conception
of the breadth and non sectarianism
of the doctrines of the bible. He lias
concieved of the annual reunion of
the Epworth leaguers solely as a
commercial opportunity. Reing re
quested to say something, or to
authorize some one who could, in
favor of the six o'clock closing plan,
he replied that it would advertise
one firm and that was impossible.
He refused to admit that if all firms
could be induced to close at six
o'clock none would be losers and
hundreds of footsore, nerve-jangled
clerks would be the gainers. In con
trast with this conduct are the re
solutions passed at the Salem cliau
tauqup, hundreds of miles away from
Lincoln yet enough interested In the
movement struggling into existence
here, to pass resolutions on the sub
ject. The resolutions are printed on
another page of this paper.
General Otis' Whkkers.
Since the publication of General
Otis' latest portrait on the cover
page of Harper's Weekly, Me long
.smothered opinion that no man with
side whiskers hanging so limply and
raggedly can at the same be a great
general has been heard. Simultan
eously and without collusion the edi
tors of five weekly papers, and an un
counted number of daily ones,express
cdtheopinionthatwhiskcrslikc those
never hung on a warrior's clieek.What
a sinking of tho heart must have seiz
ed the president when he looked upon
that portrait and realized that Gen.
Otis did not have energy enougli to
get his whiskers trimmed even when
sitting for his portrait for a full page
reproduction in one of the oldest and
most popular papers in this country.
Deralte Rarbarossa as he sits in the
middle of the mountain with his
beard grown through the stone table
will be just as likely to make a quick
and energetic and decisive movement
as this gentleman with the sad, resign
ed face, and the lifeless hay beard, in
charge of the American army in the
Filipines. General Otis has been u
good und faithful soldier and accord
ing to long established custom he is
the ranking officer entitled by custom
to take charge of the Filipine cam
paign. Rut a general in charge of an
army in a foreign country needs
other qualities besides those ac
cquired by an extensive acquaintance
with military routine. Nor will It
avail General Otis now to cut off his
beard or trim it. The exhibits of
photographs and prints aro too
widely distributed and as an evidence
of his character they have been re
cognized and accepted. The army of
the Filipines is convinced of his good
ness of heart and gentleness of dis
position but it is dispirited and must
be led to victory by quite another
type of soldier.
Croker Manor.
Killarney as the ancestral homo of
the Crokers for the ensuing five hun
dred years is the plan Mr. Croker
probably has in his mind. As the
founder of a family the great chief
has certain not unworthy qualities.
He is unscrupulous, but so was Wil
liam the Conquror, Napoleon and
Julius Caesar. Questions of mine and
thine are of limited application witli
him as they were witli the three
great men just reverently referred to.
For instance, when a question of own
ership concerns himself and another
man Mr. Croker is controlled by
ordinary legal definitions as to what
belongs to his neighbor and what to
him. Rut when it is a matter of
farming out a city, the Tammany
chieftain allows no theories on econo
mics to prevent him from rpcleving
the chieftain's percent. Having ac
quired a modest capital he can retire
to Ills estates on the lake of Killarney
and comport himself with the dlgnl
tlty and impresslvenessof the founder
of a great line. Five hundred years
from now enveloped in the beautiful
atmosphere of Irish tradition Mr.
Croker will be an ancestor to be proud
of. Jn order to prepare himself for a
role ho will play principally after
death, Mr. Croker will be obliged to
leave tho opportunities of wealth ho
lias made in New York to other men.
It is hard thus to be obliged to leavo
a harvest only half gathered. Thero Is
little enougli time loft for Mr. Croker
to build Ills baronial halls, establish
relations or feudal tenderness with
the peasants on his estate and make
tho usual preparations for post
humous distinction. So of course, ho
will have to leave New York and the
many companies lie has made pros
perous by diverting city business ex
clusively to. Durning his sojourn
In England and Ireland, Mr. Croker
remarked that lie preferred to live
abroad, because the English and
Irish did not ask so many questions
about iiis private business The na
ture of his business is farming out
the city of New York and the Mazet
committee asked him concerning his
methods of making money for his
private use out of city business and
patronage. If as lord of the castle of
Killarney he attempts to absorb tho
profits of the community where lie
has indicated that he expects to pass
his declining years, the sturdy Irish
men who know a tiling or two about
politics themselves will also begin to
take an impertinent interest in his
private business. Irish, English or
American, it is all one. None of
them can bo fooled for long and each
are seized with a desire for investiga
tion when a man's income seems to
flow from the extra official manage
ment of communal patronage.
A Good Wife.
A woman newspaper writer advises
wives to let their husbands live their
lives unquestioned, unurged and un
nagged. Friendly or affectionate
attentions from one of a pair chained
together for life to the other are
grateful occasionally,perhaps usually,
but there are times when everybody
wants to be let 'alone, when the
nerves quiver and tho irritation of a
day's repression, exertion and inci
dent have deadened natural affection
and has made the desire for quiet and
solitude almost, imperative. The
writer who is a contributor to the:
Hazar says that a friend of hers who
lias a happy home and a happy bus
band told her that the whole secret
was In letting her husband alone.
She said: "1 don't think there could
ever be any real difference between
John and me on the big things of life.
Hut one does not have to confront big
things very often, und it is in the
little things that the rub is apt to
come, and where a wife can worry
her husband to death by her petti
ness. I try not to Interfere in any
way with John's business, not to de
mur when he is obliged to go away
often, and to be late at meals, and
not to ask him why, frettlngly, when
ho finally makes his appearance.
When he wants to sit up late, as he
