The advocate., 1897-10-13

Philadelphia North American: Charlie
H. Cramp offers to duplicate the ship
the Japanese are having built in Eu
rope at the prices they are to give, ant
says his firm would be glad to get th'
order. SO far as our ship-build
ers go, they ask but fair and equa
chance. The ships they have already
buiIt--cruisers and merchantmen-arC
the heetest afoat They can build more
like them, and as cheaply as any Other
nation in the world.
Hartford COurant: The printed copies
giving in full the annual report Of Presl-
dent Clark OF the New York, New Haven
& Hartford road, are now out. The fig
ures show most suggestively what an
immense corporation this has become
In ten years its capital account has In
creased from $15,5O0,00O to $71, 1928, 400
an increase of about $5S, 600, 900, or nearly
$4,000 a day right along. 1t operates
3,003.05 miles of track. 1t has no loco
motives and 1880 cars.
Boston Traveller: The history Of ma
tiOns shows that degeneracy follows hard
upon the heels Of separation Of the peO-
pie into the very wealthy and the very
poor classes. In the large cities OF this
country there are already the "fOur hun
dred" into whose select circles others
may not enter, and the selection Is made
upon the basis Of wealth, or, what is
worse, the degree Of effeminacy to which
the poor dude has degenerated in his
extreme devotion to the cut Of his trOu-
uauu OYs ibfo ho m -pOOTo TOnnnnpu
Detroit Free Press: Opposed to the
divOrcement Of party politics from mu-
nicipal control are the professional poll
ticians and party servers, expecting to
be rewarded at the expense of the tax
payers, eminently respectable citizens
who hold the interests Of party higher
than the welfare of the city, and shrewd
and designing men who have some
scheme to work through and who know
that the disreputables who get into
power through party Vaccinations make
the best kind of material for their pur-
pOses
Atlanta Constitution: To no element
Of its population and citizenship is At
lanta more indebted than to those Of the
Jewish faith, who have taken up their
abode here. They have contributed
their energy, their business acuteness,
and their money to the work of building
up Atlanta, and have been constant fac
tors In It's progress, In season and out
Of season they have been foremost
among those who seek commercial su-
premacy in Atlanta, and to every move
ment in that direction they have given
their time, their genius and their money.
Harper's Weekly: While the English
language Is spreading over the face Of
the globe wherever liberty Is possible,
It is sad to mark the apparent incapacity
Of the noble German tongue to conquer
new territory or even to maintain itself
within its own legal limits. In Bohemia
1t Is rapidly disappearing. In Hungary
1t has been exterminated within the last
fifty years. The eastern provinces Of
Russia have been in German hands more
than a hundred years, yet the people
there are as little Prussian to-day as
when KOsciusko laid down his life for
personal liberty.
Boston Globe: The widow Of Baron
Hlrsch has decided to proceed no further
with the scheme for the emigration of
Russian Jews to the Argentine Republic.
1t has been decided that the balance of
the funds remaining in the hands of the
committee Of management OF the enter
prise will be devoted to the establish
ment of technical and industrial schools
In Russia, where the cause of popular
education seems to have found a warm
and efficient advocate in the CZar What
may not the new regime Of liberalism
and wise toleration accomplish for Rus
slams OF every belief and race!
Richmond Dispatch: With rare excep-
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