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work together in farming the people,
who have but lately seen the point.
New York city contains more peo
ple than that of any one of thirty
eight states. Partisan politics has
heretofore made the mayor a creature
of the boss, republican or democratic
or both. The city is sold to criminals
Dr. Rainsford meant. I think the
phrase will stick like a few of Kip
ling's and to better purpose. The
Anglo-Saxon nakedness of his vocabu
lary shocks us; we can stand any kind
of wickedness if it is called by a lat
inized word, but, the Anglo-Saxon,
real word appalls us. Dr. Rainsford
by the police, unswept by the street retorts that the clergyman has the
department, andwharf'privileges sold samejigbt to the dictionary and his
to companies who pay the mayor for "emotions as any other man.
it in stock. The mayor of New York
city should be a man of m.ind and
morals, fite is. in fact a graduate
from wafdf politics witti a tigerish
conscience'about spoils and his right
to appropTiate them. National poli
tics have nothing to do with the
The Marlboroughs.
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her husband's old castles and London
house, after payingoff some very old
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RVATIONS.
OBSERVATIONS
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The Union Forever.
The civil war was fought to main
tain the union not for the negroes.
The historical proof of this fact is that
the Constitutional amendment abol
ishing slavery was not proclaimed by
the secretary of state until December
1865, four years after the declaration
of war made by the southern guns at
Fort Sumter. If slavery was the
cause of war President Lincoln would
have immediately issued the procla
mation, but he hoped to preserve the
union for which the citizen soldiers
were'fighting and he deferred it. The
north has always cared for the south
and insisted upon staying together.
Union is the permanent policy of the
north and the south will never suc
ceed in shaking us. When a man
boasts that he votes as he shot, mean
ing that he shot southern soldiers to
free negroes, he misrepresents the
meaning of the civil war. The pres
ervation of the union was the cause
of war. Its preservation now should
be our chief concern. The negro wo
men who are now striving to enter
white women's clubs and the white
women who are so anxious to let
them in even if by so doing we ex
clude the southern women should
study the causes of the civil war, and
should read President Lincoln's
speeches about the necessity of main
taining the union and of cultivating
everything which strengthens it.
.Suppose corporations selected their
administrative officers for political
reasons. If they did, there would be
no opposition to trusts. No one is
jealous of a bankrupt concern, Who
knows or cares whether Michael
Schwab is a democrat or a republican.
He was selected and is paid a million
dollars a year because he has demon
strated large ability. When the citi
zens of this country have come to
their senses they will select mayors
from men who have controlled a large
number of men and large affairs suc
cessfully. When that time comes, to
be mayor of New York or of Chicago
will be a distinction. The mayor of
either of these cities will have earned
a diploma of character and intellect
before nomination.
Dr. Rainsford.
It is silly to swear. Tiie man who
never yielded to the impetus of a
supreme disgust or disapproval to the
extent of saying "damn," which is
technically not swearing, is a rarity
and when found of not much use to
anybody. The weak loose-mouthed
loafers who swear at the weather, and
at everything are as useless as the
choice man I have alluded to who never
swears. Dr. Rainsford of New York city
is a minister and a human being. He
is a courageous, unterrih'ed minister,
quiet enough, but given to expressing
his opinion on occasion. He said
lately that the talk about the mis
sionaries being responsible for the
Chinese embroglio was "damned rot."
And when it was published and news
paper writers began to criticise him
he did not retract and lay the blame
on the reporter, but he acknowledged
that he said it and felt it. Every
man and woman who believes that
the missionaries have been blamed
unjustly was delighted when they
sweetly enduring covert snubs from
his poor but proud relations, Consuelo,
born Yanderbilt was not in the mood
for submitting meekly to English
discipline, which an English husband,
noble or middle-class, believes it his
own duty and for his wife's good to
administer.. The Marlborough match
has had the reputation of being the
only happy union of American moDey,
beauty and sweetness to impecunious
rank. But it seems Marlborough is a
cad like all the rest and has re
proached the Duchess with her Amer
ican nativity, because it was said
that otherwise he would have been
appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland.
The American idea of a lord is that
he is an insufferable cad, undersized,
unhealthy, the spent remnant of a
once rigorous race. Only the unhap
pily matched American heiresses and
English lords are heard from and it
is likely that Americans hold an ex-
liis sister, have lived with his mother-in-law,
a gentle lady belonging to a
real aristocracy of breeding and tra
ditions, an American artistocracy
which pays its bills and deals hon
estly with neighbors.
Police Report.
Chief of Police Hoagland has pub
lished his report of the department
for the year ending March 31, 1901.
It is a neat little pamphlet bound in
green lettered in gold and with a
frontispiece of the chief himself in
his official long blue prince albert,
with brass buttons and visored cap.
There are no severe, hard lines in the
His expression is one of
gentle contemplation, the temperate
kindly face of one not given to ex
ploiting his authority, but competent
to execute the functions of his office.
The report from Police-Matron Hyde
enumerates the number of imprisoned
women she has visited. But the effic
ient matron truly says that her work
is 'as water spilled upon the ground,
which cannot be gathered up again.'
She is employed to steady feet which
stagger, to inspire vicious women witli
a desire for reform. The task is a
very difficult one. No one in the city
is better bitted to accomplish this al
most hopeless task than Mrs. Hyde.
She visited the sick, poor and impris
oned long before she was appointed
police matron. Born with a regular
old Methodist carelessness for her own
comfort and ease,if by giving it upshe.
might convert sinners, Mrs. Hvde has
gone about among us reading the
Bible to the sick, the obscure, the
friendless, comforting and exhorting
Municipal Politics.
- In their disgust with botli Piatt
and Croker the citizens of New York
city are willing to unite on any
honest and able man. Between Tam
many and the Piatt machine there is
nothing. to choose. Piatt and Croker
read what Dr. Rainsford said about
the charges. In that much written
about speech the newspapers have
ignored another phrase Dr. Rainsford
aggerated and unjust opinion of the
unmanliness and mercenary motives
of the impoverished noblemen who
come to this country seeking rich
wives. But there is cause for dis
trust. The long line of weeping,
despairing American girls reared lux
uriously in the indulgent regime of
an American household is an indict
ment against the noble lords that has
not yet been answered. And when
the bogus peers are added to the line,
it stretches beyond the reach of the
eye.
A man who signed himself the
Count de Penaloza, wedded a few
years ago a young lady of St. Louis,
who bad a small income of her own.
From a recent inquiry at the Spanish
legation it develops that there is no
such title in Spain as the Count de
Penaloza. Just now he is making
himself conspicuous in London socie
ty. Americans who have met him in
the British metropolis describe him
as of ill-bred manners and as never
failing to express his intense hatred
of America, which he describes as a
used. "You want to keep the high- country of "shrilled-tongued women,
est in you alive," he said to a gather
ing of business men. "Life is more
than guts and gold its sentiment."
The greed for money, the passion for
luxuries, the hot pursuit after both
over the weak and prostrate is what
tobacco juice and spittoons." In the
five years, since his marriage the
"count", who claims to be a Spaniard
of blue blood and ancient lineage, lias
not contributed to his wife's support,
but lie and his wife and occasionally
with an evangelical patience and hope.
She is shrewd too and recognizes the
woman who is trying to work upon,
her sympathy without deserving it.
During the year the police arrested
222 women. The most of these Mrs.
Hyde visited in jail, endeavoring to
discover what they intended to do
when released and encouraging them
to return to their homes and employ
themselves decently. She lias secured
for such women fifteen places, sent
seven to the convent of the Good
Shepherd, one to Bancroft Rescue
Home, two to Milford Home, one to
Salvation Army Home, placed five
babies in homes, made 70 calls on be
half of neglected children, solicited
charity for eight worthy poor people,
securedentranceforfourwomen to the
Y.W.C.A., secured railroad transpor
tation for seven destitute women, tak
en seven women and children to Home
of the Friendless, returned three
runaway girls to friends, and by her
complaint tiled with board for insane
three women have been admitted to
insane hospital. Mrs. Hyde has made
besides during heryear 1120 calls on
or for the destitute and desperate.
Chief of Police Hoagland reports
that in the 1612 arrests made during
the year last past, there were fifty
two callings represented. Only seven
occupations are represented by more