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that
subjugated them, and four
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year* in the insular judiciary, one of
ibi. most obvious and pathetic facts in
♦ hr- whole situation.” Ho testifies that
"there docs In fact exist among all -the
propie of the Philippine Islands a con
sciousness of rai ial unity which draws
them togethor as zgRinst all outsiders,
and is not tnnrred by any race problem
such as exists In Cuba.”
Judge Blount says "the Independence
of the Philippines should come about
within n few years; that is. as soon as
practicable, because it is best for both
countries. AVc are governing them
against their consent at an enormous
cost to both peoples."
He urges that n date he fixed for
Philippine independence and he pre
dicts thn: If such is done “we shall
have exchanged a bilking horso for a
willing one. Tlie suller. submission of
n eonqeuered people will give place to
general and universal gratitude toward
America.”
To convey an understanding of “the
present causes of discontent, and how
incurable it is except by a promise of
Independence at a fixed date," Judge
Blount rapidly reviews the “tragedy of
errors which we have written In blood
and selfish legislation In that unhappy
land." and he shows In striking detail
how "looked at from the Oriental end
of the line, the governing of the Phil
ippines hy their supposed friends from
ihe antipodes, has been not unlike a
game of battle-dore and shuttle-cock
between rival political creeds at home,
in which the unfortunate inhabitants
have been the shuttle-cock." Looked
at from the Washington end of the
line something of this Is apparent also.
Judge Blount gives the following few
Instances.
For the benefit of American cot
ton manufacturers, cheap English
textiles, previously worn by and
satisfactory to millions of poor na
tives. have been shut out of the
Philippines by a practically pro
hibitive import duty, a surtax of
100 per cent, imposed by the United
States Congress. (Act of February
35. 19061.
For the benefit of American
shipping Interests, the Philippines
have been treated by our maritime
legislation us part of the United
states by extension of the coast
wise shipping laws to the archi
pelago.
For the benefit of American su
gar and tobacco interests, the
Philippines have been treated by
our tariff legislation as foreign ter
ritory. Those interests defeated
the effort to give to the islands
the benefit of a reduction of the
duty on Philippine products
brought here to 23 per cent of the
Plngley tariff, their representatives
insisting before the Committee on
Ways and Means, nlmost in the
language of Mrs. Jell.vby’s critics,
that our first duty is to our child
ren at home. The leading Fili
pinos perceive, as clearly as we
Americans do. that in the nature
of things this sort of argument
will always be an obstacle In the
path of their progress, so Tong as
human nature retains a modicum
of selfishness.
The Instinct of self-preservation
of our own sugar and tobacco pro
ducers would surely be satisfied
with a free trade—or at least a
low tariff—measure between this
country and the Philippines,
coupled with a promise of inde
pendence within a decade. This is
the only solution which Is at once
righteous and practicable. It is the
only lever that will lift the Philip
pine ship of State upon the ways,
and successfully launch it upon the
voyage of national life.
To all who read Judge Blount’s able
article, of which the above is but an
Inadequate synopsis, it will he readily
apparent that the United States cannot
continue indefinitely to hold those
Islands in subjection and fo r our ex
ploitation except at considerable injury
to the people of the Philippines and to
the stultification oe „ur otv . n principles
of Government. The enfranchisement
of these people and the withdrawal or
our troops from the i*U„ds should be.
as it doubtless will be. * plank In the
next Democratic national platform and
an issue in the campaign.
a parlor .? Ju«l guilty
i* a nf»gr r ' That shoots craps. Any
• who play> a sr. me of ch*tr. •*
>: a stake, be it money or a. chaf-
r.g d!*h. Is as guilty a.* a n^cro
hat. plays craps. I want you srer.-
lemen to investigate i*e question
•f sor-i:-; gambling. I have brought
bis matter before several grand
urtes. but they have either had not
a< ked th- veracity to get i: before
The gambling that goer
on in dr:i v. ing-rooms. and In which
society women Like part, must be
“topped in my judicial circuit.”
Unquestionably real gambling in
drawing-rooms is no hotter than real
gambling in negro dives, but is it a
faci that every form of card playing
for ;i prize is real gambling? Is it
gambling in laav and in morals to play
for an insignificant prize at a progres
sive euchre party?
"The technical defense." comments
the .Boston Herald, “usually Is that
when one play? for a score, and Is
awarded a prize for the highest mark,
he really does not bet on the gafne.
He stands to lose nothing, but may
win—or be awarded—something. When
money 'or other valuable thing’ la
staked in a game of cards, it has been
held to be gambling in the eye of the
law', whether the play was made In a
parlor. In the back room of a saloon
or in a house kept for that purpose.”
Judge Flto’s utterance and the sub
sequent discussion will be of service if
thereby it shall be clearly established
where, under the law. Innocent card
playing ends and gambling begins. To
confine “parlor gambling" within
proper limits is as desirable in its way
as putting a check on the demoralizing
game of *craps.
A MAN AS WELL AS A SOLDIER.
I>r I. Z. Am men. former, f a student
Washington College. Lexinc•••::, Va.,
a hib Gen. Let was tire president of
i - !n.»!i'.ution. relates in the Balti
more Sun, that alth- ug.t the great sol
der refused to attend aiumni banquets,
a.id it was "impossible to imagine him
responding to a toast, he allowed hint
s' .{ :o be kissed. or consented to kiss,
I retry girls, sometimes even on the
public highway. Says Dr. Ammen:
"it may not be amiss to say that
I Gen. Le' s popularity with the young
ladles of Lexington excited no little
envy among the students. The girls
had an ambition to ’have it to gay* that
I Gen. Lee had kissed them. As the
general was gallant enough to avail
himself of this weakness, there were
: instances that were harrowing enough
| to the feelings of students who hap-
| pened to be in love with some one of
. Lexington's pretty girls. The dears
not only did not conceal their partial-
I Ity to the general, but boasted of it
. to lovers to whom they denied like fa
vors! I recall an instance of this dig
nified osculation on the highway in the
suburbs where I boarded. I hasten to
' say that I was not acquainted with
I the young lady. She was awfully
pretty, and the students agreed that
in this case they would have done the
same had they enjoyed the general's
I opportunity. The Incident seems,
i however, to prove that however stern
he might be with men. the general
, could, on occasion, concede something
I to the ladies."
J It shows that the General was a man
' like other men as well as “the very
greatest of all the great captains"—to
' quote Roosevelt—“that the English-
' speaking race has brought forth.”
—
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that kind
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POLAND’S DEATH THROES.
The conquered Polish nation dies
hard, and thus after all these years
there is still a Polish problem. In that
part of Poland that was absorbed by
Gcrmanj' there has been since last Au
gust a revolt of Polish school children
against German authority. The Prus
sian Government had gradually ejected
the Polish language from the Polish
schools until it remained only in the
lowest grade in some of the schools
and there only in religious instruction.
It was finally decided to do away with
this and require six-year-old children
to recite their prayers and learn their
religion in German.
This was followed by stubborn re
sistance, the children refusing to recite
their prayers in any but their mother
tongue. Flogging and other punish
ment being of no avail, in some in
stances the German teachers—accord
ing to Polish newspapers—brought re
volvers into the school room in order
to intimidate the determined children.
The remarkable tenacity of purpose
shown by these heroic little Poles and
encouraged by their parents, is thus
explained hy the Warsaw “Mysl P.o-
laka” (Polish Thought):
"Menaced in one of its most im
portant citadels, in the language of
the communion of the child’s soul
with God, In the language of the
apprehension of the truths of re
ligion. the Polish consciousness
had to arm itself with the entire
power of the instinct of self-
preservation and go forth to a com
bat for Its existence. The resist
ance of the Polish children to
prayer and religious instruction in
the German tongue is not merely a
feeling of antipathy to the tones
of a hateful tongue. The national
instinct of the children and of the
popular masses correctly appre
hended In these new Germanizing
regulations the entire menace to
the Polish national consciousness
of the coming generations. Those
generations becoming addicted to
communion with God in the Ger
man tongue, to the expression of
(he most subtle feelings of the soul
in an alien language, would have to
lose the consciousness of their na
tional separateness." \
An open letter of protest to the Ger
man Kaiser, written by the great Pol
ish author. Sienklewicz. concludes as
follows. “"Your imperial majesty's an
cestors waged numerous wars, success
ful and unsuccessful, just or unjust in
the eyes of history, but hard and great
wars. In the present times, there ap
pears as the greatest war only this
war of the entire State, of the entire
Prussian power, with children. The
arms use! in this war are. on one side.
Jail? and rods; on the other—tears!
Verily, the greater the victory of the
State the greater will be the disgrace."
Tragedy in the life of an individual
or a single family reaches the fiiend's
full comprehension and rouses his
sympathy to the full, but the tragedy
of a conquered and politically annihi
lated nation is too vast for understand
ing or for tears: it is the tragedy of
the individual multiplied by a million.
Youthful cigarette smokers started
the fire in Beaufort, ft. C.. which swept
sway hundreds of thousands worth of
In a few hour*.
When the news of the Kingston
earthquake was first announced the
dispatches said that •Fighting" Bob
Evans had put out to the rescue with-
out waiting for orders. This proved
afterwards to be incorrect. Instead of
th-’ fighting" admiral it was the dip
lomatic Davis who took charge of af
fairs in Jamaica. What lurk! If it
had been “Fighting" Bob that Al*x.
Swettenham snubbed there would have
been a row sure.
Charles Francis Adams admitted
what wc of the South have always
claimed when he said that the South
was not whipped, but starved into sur
render. Mr. Adams stales a striking
truth when he says "Lee was never
overthrown.”
THE BALANCE OF POWER.
Tn several 'Northern and middle
Western States the negroes hold the
balance of power in ordinary elections.
In 1900 the number of male negroes of
voting age in nine of the Republican
States was as follows.
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Connecticut 4.376
Delaware 8.374
Illinois 29.762
Indiana 18,186
New Jersey 21.474
New York 31,425
Ohio 31,235
Pennsylvania 51,668
West Virginia 14,786
In the opinion of Leslie’s Weekly, the
swing of this mass of negro voters over
to the Democratic side in these States,
which have all been carried by the
Republicans in recent times, might
turn the scale In all of them. “Even.”
says Leslie's, "in the tidal-wave year
of 1904, when the Republicans had by
far the most popular candidate they
ever nominated for President, and
when the Democrats had one of the
weakest men who ever headed their
ticket, the transfer of all these negro
votes to the Democratic side would
have given Parker the electorial vote
of Delaware. Under any candidate,
aside front Roosevelt himself, whom
the Republicans can nominate their
margin in all the States named in the
table will be far smaller in 1908 than
it was in 1904. A considerable defec
tion in the negro vote next year might
give to the Democrats several States
which the Republicans have been win
ning in recent contests. Mr. Hughes’
narrow margin for Governor of New
York in 1906. and the Democratic vic
tories for one or more State officers in
such stalwart Republican common
wealths as Pennsylvania. Ohio, Min
nesota and other States in the past two
or three years, show that independent
voting is becoming more and more
common, and that the Republicans can
no longer rely on their sweeping su
premacy of 1904, when Roosevelt was
their standard bearer, and when black
as well as white Republicans were solid
for hint. Although the country may
have forgotten this fact in the recent
liigh-tide of Republican success, the
negro is an important factor in poli
tics, and this will hardly be overlooked
when the Republican national conven
tion meets next year to elect its can
didates.”
The "country may have forgotten
this fact,” but the Republican leaders
have not, nor will they, "fheir anxious
consciousness of it accounts for the
outcry against the President’s dis
charge of the negro battalion concerned
in the Brownsville affair.
JOE BLACKBURN’S COUP.
In the sparring for position on the
Brownsville issue in the United States
Senate, “your Uncle” Joe Blackburn
scored the neatest coup yet made.
He offered an amendment to the
Foraker compromise resolution calling
merely for an inquiry into the facts of
the Brownsville "shoot up.” the said
amendment expressly disclaiming any
intention “to question or deny the legal
right of the President to discharge
without honor enlisted men of the
United States Army." Senator Foraker
immediately declared bis emphatic op
position to this amendment and Sena
tor Beveridge, on the other hand, gave
notice as emphatically that he would
not be a party to any agreement on
his side of the poiitical line to vote
against the Blackburn amendment.
Once more the Republicans were at
war among themselves. The President
threw himself into the thick of the
fight. Saturday he called in some of
his friends and "told them in emphatic
terms that he stands squarely on the
Blackburn resolution and that all his
friends in the Senate should vote for
it. He said he would consider a vote
against the Blackburn resolution as not
only against his course in the Browns
ville affair, hut also as against his
whole general policy. He would con
sider a vot* to lay the resolution on
fjrced -m him by the Senate; he
had pieke.l u:. the gauntlet and will
fight to the en i. H said he hoped
. .bis fiends' In the Senate would
support Ills position and fit- had no
doubt they would; still, if the Sen
ate is opposed to him and his pol
itics. there might as well be a
showdown now as any other time,
and he would be glad to tve the
Senate go on record.
So acute did the situation become
that a "midnight caucus," it is alleged,
was held by the Republican Senators
with the result that on Monday Senator
Foraker introduced a substitute reso
lution for his pending compromise res
olution wherein ho proposed himself to
do that which he had avowed he would
never do by inserting the gist of the
Blackburn amendment into his own
resolution *nd reciting that the in
quiry would be conducted “without
questioning the legality or justice of
any act of the President in relation
thereto. It is possible that Senator
'Blackburn introduced bis amendment
principally with a view to keeping up
the fight among the Republican Sena
tors with a view to partisan advantage,
as Senator Tillman insinuated in his
“burnt cork” skit burlesquing his fel-
iow-Senators. but the alternative effect
of driving the Republican Senators to
gether in support of the President’s
legaj right to “fire” the negro assassins
and their aiders and abettors from the
army was obviously in plain sight and
this in effect it did accomplish. So
score one to the credit of Kentucky’s
veteran Senator.
PROMISE TO THE EAR BROKEN
TO THE HOPE.
The Telegraph the other day com
mented on the silence that had over
taken the subject of denatured alcohol
since the act purporting to relieve its
manufacture of the Government tax
had become effective. The Baltimore
Manufacturers’ Record says that when
it "pointed out nearly six months ago
that the so-called tax-free denatured
alcohol act as passed by Congress would
by no means meet the expectations, as
to greatly enlarged opportunities for
the, manufacture of alcohol and for its
use in the arts and industries, that had
been behind the movement for the new
legislation, attempts were ' made in
some quarters to rule the. suggestion
out of court. Subsequent develop
ments, however, including a bill intro
duced in the Senate, designed to give
the act the character hoped for by
many of its advocates before it was
denatured, have demonstrated the
soundness of the original criticism, in
spite of arguments to the effect that
there is nothing to prevent any farmer
from going into the manufacture of
denatured alcohol. The situation is
indeed emphasized by the significant
statement from Washington the day
after the act went into effect that ‘at
the outset the denaturing plants will
be few and necessarily limited to the
alcohol-producing States, New York,
Ohio. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and
•Louisiana.’ The expectation of the
mass of supporters of the movement
was that, under the act, the number of
alcohol-profiucing States would be
largely increased. Congress is able to
make a realization of that expectation
possible.” It is to be hoped that Con
gress will do so, but experience teaches
that Republican legislation in the in
terest of the masses generally ends
where this appears to have done in the
interest of the fortunate few.
IF LEE HAD JOINED THE NORTH.
The New York World suggests a
somewhat novel and pregnant thought
in its editorial on the centenary of
Robert E. Lee. “What would have
been the course of American events
since 1861 if Robert Edward Lee, the
one hundredth anniversary of whose
birth was celebrated yesterday, could
have seen his way clear to accept com
mand of the Federal army which Lin
coln virtually offered to him through
Francis P. Blair?” the World asks.
“There is little profit in crying over
the spilled milk of history, yet a cor
rect estimate of Gen. Lee’s abilities,
achievements and influence cannot be
made without considering this ques
tion.”
The dual thought Immediately sug
gested is that the South would have
been more quickly and easily defeated
with Lee in command on the other side
and that there would have been no Re
construction horrors for the South had
he been in a position of influence with
the victorious side after the cessation
of armed hostilities.
Continuing, the World says:
That Lee became commander-in
chief of the Confederate armies, to
conduct the most masterful de
fensive campaigns in modern war
fare, was little more than an acci
dent. plus the incapacity of the
Buchanan Administration. .
He opposed secession. Like Stone
wall Jackson he believed the
Southern States should stay in the
Union and battle there for their
constitutional rights. He was not
a supporter of slavery, and would
have welcomed any form of eman
cipation that promised an amicable
settlement of the differences be
tween the two sections.
Concluding its article, the World
says:
Lincoin and L«e are the two
great figures o( the civil conflict
eonrerning whom today there is ‘he
least difference of opinion North
or South. But if the North is now-
generous in paying tribute to Lee's
character and genius, it must he
said that it has never been ungen
erous. Grant testifies in his mem
oirs 'hat “it was not an uncommon
thing for my staff officers to hear
from Eastern officers, Sr - ". Grant
■taps some
shtment. that
isc was s- ur. led through
out the i-nilro North after every ic-
ti m in which he was engaged.'’ If
there has been any change of
Northern sentiment in the last for
ty years r -ward Robert E. Lee it is
to regard him less and' less as the
defeated comrnander-in-chief of a
rebel army and more and
more as one of the great military
figures—perhaps the greatest mil
itary figure—of American history.
This is praise enough of the South's
great chieftain, coming as it does from
our friend the enemy, to satisfy the re
quirements even of Southern patriots
ism.
LADIES WHO REMAIN UNMAR
RIED.
The North American Review la ac
cused of suggesting that the Interstate
Commerce Act be employed to tax la
dies who remain single. “Spinsters.” it
is quoted, “are proverbially peripa
tetic and flit from sister to sister, and
from brother-in-law to brother-in-law
with the facility of an awestruck Sec
retary of State passing from Washing
ton to New York in five short hours:
so we may assume that they could
readily be brought within the pro
visions of the act relating to inter
state commerce, and be compelled by
suitable “constructions' of the 'Consti
tution to meet their just obligations to
the rapidly disappearing, human race.”
The Review is further accused of re
garding the state of spinsterhood as
the result of sheer obstinacy and as a
subject so grave as to warrant a “spe
cial message.”
In lieu of such insolent humor, a
jurist of Wilkesbarre, Pa., offers ven
eration and homage. In his view, spin
sters are such not from obstinacy but
because of rare courage. It appears
that Miss Margaret Farram, confiding
in the strength of her youth and the
power of her physical charms, “wilfully
and' maliciously” called Miss Mary
Cassidy, of Wilkesbarre, an “old maid”
in the hearing of the passers along a
public highway. When the unusual
case came into court, the jurist re
ferred to argued as follows:
“The offense in this cause is a
serious one. A good woman, as a
reward for a noble and courageous
Act, is covered with public odium,
obloquy and opprobrium. The
plaintiff is called an old maid, and
the term is employed as one of re
proach. B'ut the thing in itself is
not reprehensible, but honorable.
To be an old maid presupposes,
not moral turpitude or criminal
negligence—but courage!”
While we would not render this
o
gallant view any less impressive, we
feel moved to suggest that courage is
also required to enter matrimony. This
was otice illustrated at a “Pilgrim Fa
ther’s” banquet by the toast offered the
"Pilgrim mothers” because of the hard
ships they endured and, above all, be
cause they had to stand the Pilgrim
Fathers.”
BEN BUMPED FOR BUFFOONERY.
Ben Tillman’s buffoonery in the
United States Senate had an anti-cli
max Monday that apepars' to have re
stored the South Carolina mountebank
in a measure to his senses. The spec
tacle of a United States Senator, with
out provocation or purpose, except to
amuse the spectators in the gallery,
deliberately and premeditatedly under
taking to lampoon, man by man, his
fello'w-Senators and hold them up to
public ridicule and contempt, Is possi
bly without precedent in the world’s
history of legislative bodies. The re
buke delivered by Senator Carmack to
Senator Tillman for his performance
is one of the most brilliant utterances
that has ever fallen from the lips of
that brilliant Southerner. It is worth
reproducing in part, at least, as a
model of dignified yet scathing oratory.
Mr. Carmack said:
"The Senator from South Caro
lina saw fit to allude to the fact
that I had been defeated for re-
election. It was a retort so ob
vious, so easily within the reach
of the most grovelling controversial
faculty that I am not surprised
that it should have been suggested
to the intelligence of the Senator
from South Carolina.
"The Senator from'South 'Carolina
did not need to lift his belly from
the dust to attain to the height
of that great retort. I believe it to
be true, Mr. President, and I say
it with pride, that the fact that my
service terminates is a matter of
regret to nearly every Senator upon
this side of the chamber, and I be
lieve to most of the Senators upon
the other side of the chamber. I
doubt very much whether that
could be truthfully said 'with re
spect to either side if the Senator
from South Carolina were in my
position. .
"Mr. President, the Senator from
South Carolina says that my spear
is broken, and that I have taken a
garland of flowers upon that
broken spear to the White House. •
Broken or unbroken, that spear has
never been dipped in the filth of
the gutter. I am glad to say that
that shattered spear will be with-
• drawn from here unstained with
dishonor or unstained by any act
of mine with anything that ap
proaches that name.”
What reply Mr. Tillman would have
essayed to this stinging rebuke will
never be known, for when he got up to
answer the Senate as a body gave him
another and severer rebuke. It turned
out the spectators for whose benefit
Mr. Tillman does the most of his talk
ing and closed its doors and went into
a two hours' secret session. What his
brother Senators did with Mr. Tillman
during those two hours may not be
known publicly. B'ut the effect of it
was seen in the "profuse apology”
which Mr. Tillman made to each one
of the Senators he had lampooned, in
his promise never to attempt to he
"funny” again, and in the announce
ment made that the "minstrel show” he
had attempted to conduct in the Senate
had been expunged from its records.
Shades of Havne and Calhoun! What
a spectacle in one occupying the seat
each of you once adorned!
"GREAT” GERSHUNY.
The more we know about Russian
“reformers” and their views the easier
it is to understand how an antiquated
and rotten imperialism can hold its
own in their afflicted country. Maxim
Gorky came to the United States and
went away sorrowful because ho found
that American freedom did not include
“free love" and respectability com
bined. The latest Russian to come to
this country and talk anarchy is one
Gregory Gershuny. who is raising
money to promote revolution in his
fatherland.
Gershuny Is reported to have said
recently to a Chicago Interviewer:
“The Czar will be killed before my re
turn to Russia. I only regret that my
engagement in America will prevent
my participation In his death.” Ger
shuny said further that hf was under
death sentence in Russia, that his sen
tence was commuted to life imprison
ment and that he made his escape. “I
may say with without egotism," he
modestly commented on the commuta
tion of his sentence, "that I made the
name of Gershuny so great that the
Government did not dare to kill me
of fear of a popular uprising.” Proba-
ably there are a few Americans suffi
ciently unsophisticated to accept this
as literal statement of fact.
Being asked whether he felt sure
the American Government would not
interfere with him and his utterances,
he answered: “I have every’ confidence
in the American people. They believe
with me that the Russians should have
freedom. I do not think much of your
President, but the people at heart are
with the Russian movement for free
dom. Popular indignation will restrain
the President from returning me to
Russia."
We do not share the “great” Ger-
shuny’s confidence. The Russian "re
former” who permits himself such ex
cessive freedom of speech as to declare
publicly that to assassinate a king is
a noble act is in danger of being booted
out of the country by order of the au
thorities.
of an even m to definite character than
that at present existing.
The Count expressed the belief that
the latter solution is preferable. This
was Inevitable. Having the prejudices
of his class, he naturally prefers even
an aristocracy founded merely on dol
lars to the monotonous level to whit h
socialism in practice would reduce the
world.
To be delivered from both the Seylla
of socialism and the Charybdis of a
dollar aristocracy should be the prayer
of every patriotic American.
President Roosevelt and the United
States 'Senate have settled their squab
ble by agreeing to call the Brownsville
“shoot up” an "affray,” at the expense
of the victims of that dastardly out
rage.
Senator E'ailey goes back to the Sen
ate from Texas, but he will not be
mentioned any more in the Presiden
tial class of 'Southerners when that
subject is up for discussion.
Ben Tillman's head had become
so swollen by the applause that had
greeted his antics that he undertook to
give a Gridiron Club performance in
the United States Senate all by him-'
self. Ben’s head is not so big now.
"ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.”
The only people who are distressed
over the outcome in the Senate of the
Brownsville episode are the doubtless
well-meaning but misguided folks who
believed that the negro soldiers did not
have a “square deal” and who hoped
for some sincere action on the part of
the hypocritcal Foraker and his asso
ciates In the effort to make political
capital for themselves out of the inci
dent. Of these the Philadelphia Pub
lic Ledger is an able representative.
The Public Ledger says of the “Sen
ate’s Compromise”: ,
The result, or non-result, of the
long discussion of the Brownsville
incident is not in itself imnortant,
since the insincerity of it all was
equally aparent on both sides.
Neither side cared anything about
the discharged soldiers or about
the principles involved in the dis
charge. Those who attacked and
• those who defended the President
were but “playing politics,” and in
such a game the advontage was all
on the President’s side. The battle
raged with apparent fierceness for
many days, with many changes of
front each new combination ma- :
neuvering to put the others “in a j
hole.” The President had nothing., j
to do but wait and trust to the
Senate’s prevailing indecision. The j
result was easily foreseen. The |
Senate “compromised” by resolving i
not to "question" the action which j
had been the whole subject of de
bate, and the President once more j
comes out a winner.
The resolution of the Senate real
ly decides nothing. It expresses no
opinion. If it can be interpreted
as approving the President's notion, 1
then those who have been attack
ing him show their insincerity in ' :
voting for it. It is simply a com
promise upon tho basis of evasion,
and the eagerness with which
Senators took advantage of the
Tillman episode to cover their re
treat but accentuates their feeble
vacillation. If tho Senate were
the dignified deliberative body it is j
supposed to be, a person like Till- '
man would have little opportunity I
to occupy its attention.
To those of us who see in the j
Brownsville matter the race question .
involved to a dangerous degree the |
saying will naturally come that “All’s j
well that ends well,” notwithstanding I
the devious ways and questionable 1
methods by which the end was brought j
about.
SUPERLATIVELY ENDOWED.
Mr. Brisbane Martin, of Scranton.
Miss., has chosen a running mate for
Mr. Bryan on the Democratic ticket of
1908 in the person of Hon. 3V. G. Te-
bault, of New Orleans, and has Issued
a circular front the “3V. G. Tebauit
vice-presidential headquarters," de
scribing his hero's qualifications. He
says that Mr. Tebauit is of good family,
is a successful business man. and &
life-long and conscientious Democrat.
And further:
He is a scholar of rare ability, a
diligent student of Shakespeare,
whose works he can repeat from
memory from cover to cover, and
a careful reader, whose general
reading embraces every publica
tion of note in the English lan
guage. And what is more signifi
cant he has the Happy faculty of
retaining and assimilating what he
reads. Me. Tebauit. in spite of his
acquirements, is modest and unas
suming, and, except to a few
friends, has lived an almost seclud
ed life. His voice is soft and mel
lifluous, but when stirred and ex- 4
cited has a force, volume and dig
nity that impresses and rivets the
attention of his hearers. To this
may be added a marvellous mem
ory, and a natural elocution im
proved by study, pronounced to be
perfect by eminent and learned
critics North and South. Such is
the man, such 'his qualifications.
Far be it from us to suggest that
any gentleman who has a .“mellifluous
voice” and can repeat Shakespeare
backwards would not’ make a good
vice-president, but we venture to think
that Mi’. Martin protests a little too
much. His style recalls that of the
“society” reporter for the Wilson, N.
C., Times who, in describing a gor
geous social function of the recent past
in that locality, said:
The elegant home of that spark
ling little jewel. Miss Elsie Moore,
who is a s pretty as a picture and
as bright as an icicle and as pure
as a dewdrop and as sweet as a.
flower, was a sparkling scene of
radiant loveliness last night, for
this beautiful little maiden and her
handsomely and magnificent form
ed sister had invited a number of
their friends to assemble in honor
of the beautiful and bewitching
Miss Neda Taylor, and the charm
ing and fasbinating Miss Rosalie
Setzer. who are now dispensing
their charms and witcheries in
Wilson and making so many
hearts drunk with 'the inebriating
potations of their intoxicating
graces. . . . As said above,
it was a brilliant scene of joyous
festivity, for the lovely faces of
our glorious little maidens were as
radiant as the pure and stainless
gloamings of a crystal rubbed over
in sunbeams and burnished with
the dazzling strikes of quivering
lightning.
Mi. Tebauit may be as rare and lH-
diant in his own particular way as are
the "glorious little maidens” described
above, but the superlatives of Mr.
■Brisbane Martin do not make it clear
that he is endowed with all tho quali
ties we are accustomed to look for In
candidates for statesmanship.
DIAMOND CUTTING IN SOUTH
AFRICA.
According to the African World, of
London, cable messages received in
that city have revived in more definite
form the report that the De Beers man
agement is considering the estab
lishment of a diamond-cutting in
dustry in South Africa, which will
give employment to fifteen thous
and white laborers. A colonial cor
respondent points out that uncut
stones to tho value approximately of
$35,000,000 are shipped annually from
South Africa, and says that the com
pany loses a large sum of money
which could be made by c.uttina the
diamonds on the spot.
The reports say that the several
Governments in South Africa are to
be approached with a view of adding
to their financial policy a clause im
posing a duty on the exportation of
uncut stones and thus assisting in
building up a cutting Industry.
When Senator Tillman undertook
manage the Rate bill in conjunctic
with President Roosevelt, Teddy ar
his Republican enemies got togethi
and left Ben out in the cold. 3Vhc
Mr. Tillman undertook to cnllabora
with Senator Foraker against tl
President, again a secret conferent
was held between the Republics
friends and enemies of the Presiden
and again Ben was left cut in the col
But it is a mistake to think he i S n
useful. By out-Heroding them t
keeps the Republicans from doing the
worst.
SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS.
The.Comte de Mandat Grancey de
livered a lecture In Paris a few days
ago on “The American Aristocracy,” i
and as this scion of an aristocratic
French family spent twelve years of :
his life on a ranch in the West, he is
not wholly unacquainted with his sub
ject.
His chief point, according to the
cable dispatch, was that the two thous- |
and millionaires who possess one- j
quarter of the national wealth of the
United States constitute a real aris- ]
tocraey, which he defined as the claps j
which establishes superiority for itself j
by capacity for producing riches. The
solution of the present social iiroblem j
in the United States would, be said, I
be either socialism or aristocratic !
domination by the very wealthy class j
Replies to Secretary Root's “central
ization'’ speech are still heard. On
Friday of last week Hon. 3VilIiam
Pinkney Whyte, speaking in the Senate
in favor of the rights of the States, de
clared that the United States is not a
"nation.” except in its relation :o for
eign countries, but a federated repub
lic, and he quoted weighty authorities
in support of his views.
When John Bull gets through with
Sir Alexander Swcttenham, Governor
of Jamaica, he will know the meaning
of the term “sweating” by experience.
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