The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-21
WHAT THE EDITORS SAY,

Dreyfus may be pardoned, but the
court-martial than convicted him will
never be.-Springfield Union.
1t is scarcely accurate to say that the
Tagalos are the only tribe in rebellion
against the United States. There are
the Atkinsonians.-Kans City Jour-
nal.
The pardon" of Dreyfus is even more
stultifying to France than was his out
rageous conviction, for it is a confession
of powerlessness to right a wrong
New York World
Governor Pingrees plight is so un-
fortunate that it would not be at all
strange if he We're to go over to the
Bryanites during the next year. He be-
longs among them, and his own party
will not sorrow if it loses him.-Provi-
dence Journal.
1t is complimentary to the common
sense of Americans that the talk of boy
cotting the Paris exposition simply be-
cause the French army has made a
scapegoat of Capt. Dreyfus has virtu-
ally been dissipated in this country
Boston Journal.
The prompt pardon of Capt. Dreyfus
is, of course, an official confession by
France that the verdict of the Rennes
court-martial was of no real weight,
either in law or in morals. Nothing that
has been said by foreigners in con-
demnation of the majority of the court
is so severe in effect as this action by
the French government. 1t is tanta-
mount to proclaiming Dreyfus innocent
and his Judges guilty.-New York
Evening Post.
The New York World is absurdly en-
gagged in booming Dewey for the dem
oerauc presidential nomination. 1t Gays
mat to the democratic party the nom
NATION OF Dewey will mean victory
The nomination of almost any other
candidate will mean defeat" Then the
democratic party might as well throw
up its hands for Dewey is a man of
sense, and has, Furthermore, said that
he will take no nomination to the presl-
dency-Springfield Republican
President Kruger has skill
fully retreated from an unten.
able position. He endevored to
secure a remuneration of the claim
of England as suzerain by proposing a
seven-year residence and a quarter
representation for the Outlanders. This
Is fatty rejected by England Presi-
dent Kruger recurs now to the original
seVen-year law, and proposes to accept
the Joint investigation of it, which Mr..
Chamberlain demanded. Mr.. Chamber
lain can scarcely go to war when lie is
oftered what he asked, and he can
scarcely ask more, under pain of war.
until he has had the investigation he
declared wise and necessary in his
speech before -Philadelphia
Press.
Anti-expansion is anti-democracy.
The democratic party of jefferson and
jackson was ever the apostle of nation
al expansion. Manifest destiny was It's
rallying cry. That idea is none the less
living and vital today than it was so.
oO, gu years ago. All these new terri
torlal acquisitions are with us to stay.
Ihey came to us unbidden. They were
sent to us by that mysterious power to
Whlch we owe all that We are, all that
we have Who shall say it nav? He
that does this-and the more SURELY if
he be party leader-pronounces his
own political damnation. The activities
OF the Atlantic are being gradually but
certainly transferred to the Pacific. We
are there already. Shall we seize upon
the means of confirming our power
which God has given US, or shall we let
them go, and later on, at infinite cost.
be obliged to fight to recover them 2
NO party ever threw itself across the
pathway of its country's greatness and
glory and lived to tell the tale, and no
party ever can, or will, or ought
Louisville Courier-Journa1.