The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-18

| trude Itself that the Dominion OF Canada
Is not an Independent nation, and there
fore Ia not In a position to negotiate or
ratify treaties nor to settle any Kind OF
international disputes. However hard
President Mckinley and Secretary sher-
man may try to treat Premier Laurier
and his associates as official EQUALS. the
endeavor can meet but with imperfect
success. To suppose that the disting-
uished head Of the Canadian govern
ment will not return TO Ottawa from
Washington with a feeling OF humiliation
, In his heart on this account and with SEN
timents Of desire for national independ-
ence lurking there, no matter how care
fully he may try 10 conceal them. would
be to suppose that he Is more or less than
human.
From the Chicago Dispatch.
| AWAKENING OF THE PEoPLE.-while
many anti-democratic newspapers are en-
deayoring to minimize the results Of tho
recent elections, there are also those frank
enough to admit the truth.
Among the latter Is the Washington
Post. In speaking of the recent victor es
the Post says THE elections OF 1897
have shown that the democracy rebounds
from the downfall of 1886 stronger End
more confident and combative than ever.
1t is the Antaeus of our day. The
question is whether the republican PARTY
VIII prove to be it's Hercules. For the
present the democracy exhibits every
| quality Of heroism. 1t has courage. 1t
has the genius Of recovery and recon-
struction; 1t knows not the meaning OF
dismay. Defeat leaves 1t without fear.
Danger finds 1t without cowardice. 1t Is
"a miracle of vitality, OF vnlor and OF
hope"
t-,,tt IL An. -
They are tribute from an honest and
| worthy foe. The secret Of democratic
success rests in the fact that the people
have discovered the perfidy and false
hood of the republican party. The de-
feat In 1896 was owing to the fact that
the voters were deluded by the glittering
promises nf republicans, and were de-
ceived as to the true purposes OF the
party. All the promises about prosperity
have been broken. All the talk about honor
and honesty has been proved false, and the
people have revolted.
The republicans have shown that their
chief anxiety is to protect the trusts, that
their main object is to fasten upon this
country the evil of gold monometa llism,
that they are the tools of the money power
and the foes OF the best interests OF the
people. The awakening has begun, the
masses are aroused. the day OF reckoning
is, approaching, and in 1898 the march
to end In splendid triumph Of democracy
In 1900.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
THE NOTE AND THE BEAM.--If Glas-
gov University undergraduates possess
sense Of humor they must have enjoyed
the address Of Joseph Chamberlain. when
he made the Lord Rector's" address of in
/ etall1tinp ic "a,
Rector" Gladstone to "Lord Rector" Cham
berlain. and the address fifty typfies the
descent Joseph Chamberlain, who has for
twenty years figured as the importer OF
the Yankee caucus and boss in British
politics, signalized his admission to the
learned atmosphere Of the Scottish uni
versity by a lurid picture OF the corrup-
ton and barbarism of Yankee cities Amer
lean municipalities, he informed the stu
dents. are handed over to parties whose
avowed object is to get the greatest amount
of spoil. He then contrasts ours with the
perfection of the British system. where
there is no spoil.
Yet it is only few years ago that tho
British journals opposed to the new rec
the journalistic critics of Richard Croker
deal with him. Chamberlain was IN a
thousand columns made RESPONSIBLE for
Degrading the pellucid stream Of British
politics; he had made the electorate a
iabble OF greedy insolence; he had de-
bauehed the conscience OF the constitu-
encies; he had brutalized the liberal
party into a machine eager for spoils and
grounded Ia unholiness In fact. what
al do <xf lNt,t, rt,rht yrtf
ten In dead earnest Of Joseph Chamber
lain. that he was "Americanzng" the as
piring and guileless Briton.
Now Chamberlain echoes the same
plant Anything American Is corrlpt.
Yet, readers of contemporary British dis
icussion can point out the maladministra-
ton In British AFFAIRS, both local and i'm
perial. that We complain of here, with
this dffercnce-while We exaggerate the
shortcomings and misdeeds of our offi-
clals, the British often conceal the worst
OF these excuses 1t is only in the radical
journals that the turptudes OF British
agents are made known. These have
been the theme OF radical prints but. as
these are only read by the plain people
who have no influence, the same effect Is
not produced that follows a combined
movement In this country. 1t is not
pleasant, therefore, to see ourselves cited
In scholastic addresses; In journalistic
editorials and review articles. as awful
examples OF the hopeless wrongdoers we
are persistently painted. Tho only differ
ence between us and Europeans In ad-
ministraticn Is that We perpetually de-
nounce eyildoers, while they cover up as
much as possible the very same practices.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
MR.. BULLITTS BANKING PLAN.-Mr
3ullitt is distinguished banker and
financier in Philadelphia, and has sent to
: the monetary commission suggestions for
reforming our banking and currency sys-
tenn He would have the president. secre-
tary Of the treasury and the comptroller Of
The currency constitute a currency board.
He has borrowed the suggestions made by
the Plain Dealer that there 30 only one
: kind Of Paper money In tbs United States,
i and that thcss shall be national bank nstes.
He dcviates from tho Plain Dealers plan.