Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-12-20
EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYE.
brooklyn Eagle.

EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYE.
brooklyn Eagle.)
Manufacturers know when they are
making money and when they are rum
ming behind. 1t is impossible to raise
wages when profits are falling. But the
thing which employers sometimes fail
to take into account is that employees
know almost as well as they do when
there is an increase in the profits. They
may not know the figures on the books,
output or receipts, and they feel the
spirit in the air as quickly as a barom-
eter indicates moisture. .
A DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.
philadelphia Times.)
There would be much to be said in ia
vor of this proposed department If as
surance could be furnished that a man
familiar with the problems of commerce
and industry would always be placed
at it's head. The commerce of the coun-
try is making tremendous strides, and
it could doubtless be further advanced
by d wise administration of our consul
lar system and a proper revision and
administration of our navigation laws.
With an efficient business man of the
first rank to administer such a depart
ment, it could be made of great service
to our commercial and manufacturing
interests.
REQUISITES FOR STATEHOOD.
(New York Commercial Advertiser.)
Governor Otero's plea for statehood
for New Mexico will serve once more
to emphasize the fact that the older and
bigger this republic grows the more ex-
acting will be the terms of admission
for new states. 1t won't do to present
statistics of population; the test is also
one Of intelligence and education. Ter
~ritories on the rim of more settled states
must approximate i'm political capacity
to those states before they can share in
the authority of congress. Blu repeat
ed attempts and repeated failures are
a wholesome educating process, and by
means of it the territories will know be-
fore long just what they have to do to
become states.
EXPANSION OF AMERICANISM.
(Kansas City Starr
With the extension of the United
States to what are up to this time called
and considered foreign countries, there
is to come the expansion of American
ism, which means a great deal more
than the raising of the Americans flag
and the appointing of a number of fed
eral officeholders. No territory has ever
been absorbed by the United States and
remained as it was in the matter of civ |
ilzation. No country attached to the
United States has continued Spanish or
French or Mexican or Russian or In
dian of any variety. All the annexed |
districts have become in government, in
manners, in language, in ideas, Ameri-
can. They have conformed to the pat.
tern in the American ark.
Prior to this change, it is safe to say
that 1T has, in each instance, been de-
clared impossible. The prophecies ut
tered of the impossibility of the recla-
nation of the province of Louisiana
would make a book much larger than
the works of the Prophet Jeremiah, in
Guiding all his lamentations, and so
with the others. down to what was for
merly called worthless and frozen
Alaska.
TURNING TO PRACTICAL ISSUES.
(St. Louis Globe Democracy
A large majority of the saner silver !
ties now begin to see hal their cause |
is lost, and they will abandon it on that
account. 1t is useless to fight against
fate and against the tendencies of CIV
.ilization. Silver has forever dropped to
a subordinate place as compared with
gold, The silver which is in circulation
as dollar coins and as certificates will
in circulation, and it will be
though the market price of the metal
goes far below its present level. This
amount of token currency can easily be
kept afioat, but it will not be Increased.
The circulating medium is rapidly ex-
banding, but the increase Is in the gold
element chiefly. Silver will be an issue
in the coming canvass, for the Repub-
lican gold standard bill will prevent
from lodging the question, but
after the overthrow which will come to
his side in that canvass there will be no
fight on that metal, and the per.
sons who have been c~hampioning 1t will
drop it and turn to practical issues.
Most Of the silver Republicans are max
ing that change of base now. 1t is safe
to predict that half or two-thirds of the
mem who followed Teller out of the Re-
publican party in 1896 will be back in
old places next year, and that the
majority will be much greater
than 1t was then.
AMERICANS, NOT HESSTANS.
fSt. Louis Starr
Wisconsin does not give the Hon. Mr..
Schurz much encouragement. A can
Of the German Republicans Of that
state demonstrates that nine out of ten
IF them favor the Presidents Philip
pine policy, The average German dOaa