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1t was a criminal folly to endow the
negro with rights and powers which
he knew not how to use, and it was the
seedtime of a harvest of wrongs to
both white and black.
Wherever it has been tried negro SUI
premacy means retrogression and ulti-
mate barbarsm. In parts of the black
belt and on the Carolina islands, where
the negro has been left to himself. he
has slipped back almost to African
savagery and forgotten even the rudi-
ments of civilization. In Hayti and
Santo Domingo it is no better. They
have had their chance and made it a
failure. To permit the affairs of the
Southern states to be controlled by a
retrogressive race would be a crime
against civilization. Ultimate exter-
mination or deportation, as Professo
Churchill predicts, is the final and only
solution.
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Modern ChiValry.

IF proof We're needed that the spirit
of ancient chivalry is still alive, that
men are still ready to surrender life
for an idea or a principle, 1t would be
furnished by those who brave Arctic
dangers and perils in quest of geo.
metriCal point.
The utility of the discovery of the pole
would be practically nothing. The GER
tain knowledge that great ice cap or
an open sea exists at the place where
the meridians meet would not add one
little to the happiness of the world or
increase by one iota the worlds wealth.
Yet year after year, men of rare ad.
venturous spirit leave friends and home
to face unknown dangers and coquet
with death.
Within the Arctic circle are the I'M
marked graves of countless men the
world could Ill afford to lose, sacrifice
offered up on the altar of adventure.
And while many pay the forfeit of their
lives. a still larger proportion bring
back crippled bodies as mementoes of
the land of eternal ice.
And while one must give the full
measure of honor to men like Wellman,
Nansen and Perry, yet would not the
world be better off if they expended
their splendid abilities on some more
unitarian subject?
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 20. 1899.
TWENTY PAGES.
The Passing of Alger.

u LGER is out of politics. He has
said It himself, and said it en-
! phatically. He has drained his
cup OF ambition and It has left a bad
taste in his mouth. And it would ap-
pear to a reasonable man that the
Michigan politician had had enough to
satisfy the most greedy. No one war
secretary ever succeeded in unbottling
so many scandals in one short term as
did General Alger. He played the part
of Pandora to a wobbly administra-
ton, and he played it so well that it
shut him out of his political paradise.
If the Michigan man has been cor
rectly quoted, the coming senatorial
fight will lack its promised interest.
Pingree, as uncertain and erratic in
his course as a flea, is always inter
esting and may be depended upon for
some sensational spurts, but it really
needs Alger to break few lances
against trusts in order to give the sit
uation an artistic background.
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They Are Waking Up.

q EVERAL years ago, in tenta-
~ tive, half-hearted way, the
~ League of American Municipal
tiles was started. 1t was laughed at
by the political bosses and passed its
people. To-day 1t is recognized as the
advance guard of a new movement in
municipal government
Foreign criticism of American insti-
buttons we have learned to take with
tolerance, even when bitter in denun-
citation. We make allowance for the
bias of prejudice and place the rest to
the credit of ignorance, with that hap
ply optimism which is a predominant
American Characteristic But when
avowed friends of America WELD the
lash, We vince. And 1t is a sign of
good political health that the blow cuts
dying tissues are not sensitive.
The abuses and corruption of Amer
lean city government have been cry
ing evil for many years, increasing
with the growth of municipalities,
which gave greater opportunity for
plumber and peculation. Every city of
any size in the country has had its
Louis and Philadelphia stand out
prominently in the list. Misgovern-
ment seems to be their normal condi-
ton, and every effort at reform has
been followed by deeper political de-
graduation. Politics cuts no ice with
the men who run these cities. They
are in it for plumber, and whether they
parade in the uniform of democrat or
republican, their object is the same
they are one in the brotherhood of
thievery.
1t is marvellous that the great mass
of citizens did not long ago throw off
the disgraceful yoke and put their
| municipalities on business basis. To
permit themselves to be f1eeced, robbed
and blackmailed, year in and year out
! with scarcely a protest, shows a quies-
cent fatalism worthy of a Turk or a
| Malay.
| Lack Of time and organization We're
| the principal reasons why such con-
| dition of things was allowed to con-
| tinue. 1t was cheaper for the business
man to pay backmail and exorbtant
| taxes than to devote time to combat
| ting the evils. And even if he did feel
| like fighting. he was forced to unite
| with an organization of cranks and
radicals whose pipe dreams were
enough to queer any movement
But there has been an awakening
| AS the affairs of great cities assume
immense proportions, calling for the
highest quality of administrative abil-
ity. business men and citizens in gen.
eral are beginning to see the folly OF
the past and are beginning to demand
their rights. Municipal questions are
| receiving more thoughtful considera
| ton than ever before, and competent
observers predict that the day of the
boss with incompetent henchmen ant
ward-heelers is passing away as il
Europe it passed many years ago. Tha
| America should lag behind the coun
tries of the old world, and so far be.
| hind, Is a matter Of humiliation to al
self-respecting Americans.
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of the madness of Columbus in the re-
which he was subject Columbus
imagined himself the one picked out
and inspired by God to take the gospel
to the extreme ends of the world and
he compiled book of prophecies taken
from the bible to prove his divine mis-
sion This was his firm conviction
which to the end neither poverty nor
misfortune could shake.
Lombroso acknowledges his genius in
the discovery of revolutionary princi-
pies in navigation and astronomy, but
explains it by the use of intuition.
The world is indebted to the Italian
investigator for the fresh light thrown
upon the character of the great dis
coverer. Much that he alleges may be
true. but it is a question whether the
application of similar lines Of investiga-
ton would leave many sane men among
the contemporaries of Columbus. For
in those days, the historians tell us,
lying was a fine art and deirium was
considered a mark of divine recogni-
ton.
Another reason why one should take
Lombroso's conclusion with grain of
salt is that it is whispered that the
eminent investigator of the pathology
of crime is developing the very symp-
toms he has so long studied and that his
mind is lettering to collapse.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20
Race Against Race.

TT is hopeless, pessimistic view that
Professor Churchill, one of the ablest
leaders of his race, takes of the future
of the negro. when the gray-haired
veterans who followed General Lees
tattered banners have passed away the
negroes best friends will have gone,
for the negro got more out of slavery
than they did" Gradual extermina-
ton. in their struggle for existence
with the Anglo-Saxon, is their newt
able fate.
That the race conflict of blacks and
whites is fast reaching an acute crisis
in the South, cannot be denied. The
news columns of the press for the last
few months show that the Palmetto
auto da fe has had no apparent effect
In decreasing negro outrage and bru-
tally. Upon the contrary, there has
been a decided increase in outbreaks of
crime and lynchings have been chron-
icled with monotonous regularity.
Those whose lives have been spent
north Of the Mason and Dixon line can
form no adequate conception of the
situation, and political sentiments or
commendable sympathy for a weak
race bias their judgment of facts.
Think for a moment what it must be
to live In hourly dread of some out
rage worse than death to wife, sister or
daughter! Is it at all strange that
after one of these too frequent brutal
assaults men lose their reason and
thirst for blood?
Gus race, small in numbers, threatened
by the domination of an illiterate, in
ferior race urged on by agitators whose
motive is plumber and whose inspira-
ton is hatred bred of two centuries of
wrong,
That is the situation in a nutshell
ugly as these two truths may be. The
bestial attack upon the sanctity of the
home embitters the race struggle of
Caucasian against Negrito. 1t is the
testimony of history-testimony which
has its sanction in biology-that no
two races can live together harmon
iously. 1t must be either slavery or
such conditions as will permit the as
similation of one by the other, the
weak by the strong. Neither one nor
the other can be made the solution of
the Southern race problem. Slavery is
abolished and American whites cannot
marry negroes without loss of caste.
Nothing is left but a struggle in which
the determination of the weaker will
lead to the survival of the fittest.
1t should be put down as funda-
mental fact, the postulate from which
all Intelligent discussion of the prob
lem should proceed that the white man
will not tolerate the rule of an inferior
race, the Caucasian will not take his
laws from the Negrito or Monaghan.
In spite of the distractions of political
ethics, the white man will find a way
TO rule and, if necessary, will fight for
his heritage of superiority.
The Southern whites had their taste
Of negro rule in the days of reconstruc-
ton, when plundering carpetbaggers
and ignorant negroes sent state after
state reeling in bankruptcy. from
which several have not yet recovered,
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~HE insanity of Columbus is the
startling proposition which Ce-
sare Lombroso, the eminent
Italian criminologist. has attempted to
establish. He goes at it with his usual
thoroughgoing methods and subjects all
known material relative to the
great explorer to a most painstaking
analysis. He proves him ignorant and
conceited. He collects incidents of
cruelty to natives and sailors and
catches up the discoverer of America in
a prodigious number of lies, varying
from the white variety to the most ma
lignant species of Justification.
But Lombroso finds his greatest proof
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Current Comment.
Not Likely to Fool Many Voters.

From the Atlanta Journal
We have had frequent assurances that
the republican national convention to be
held next year will put into its platform
a denunciation of trusts and a demand
for their suppression. How will this
sound after the attorney general of the
present administration has declared that
the federal government has no power
over the trusts? Who will believe that
such declaration is honest unless the re-
publican congress which is to assemble in
December has done something to restrain
trust organization and operation?
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ONLY n Reflex Sinner.
d the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
The sins of Alger were the sins of
agency rather than of origination. 1t may
be that he now thinks the president
should have stood by him longer. but if
he does he forbears to say so. General
Alger we understand to be still cand'-
date for the United States senate and he
does not propose to begin his campaign
for that office by putting himself in an
tagonism to the president of his party.
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, the Omaha world-Herald.

FTOm the Omaha WOrIN-HoTaIU.
We gather from careful reading of
the republican organ that the best way
to get comprehensivc grasp of the Phil
ippine situation is to remain at home and
write heavy editorials Importing the adj
ministration. The soldiers who have
done the fighting have not had equal
chances with the z. q. p. editors to see
what has been going on over there.
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Need Us in Their business.

From the Birmingham. Ala, News.
1t would be the worst thing that the
South Americans could do to turn their
backs upon this nation They need the
United States and the Monroe doctrine in
their business, and if they possess only
ordinary perception they must be well
aware of this fact
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One Censorship Easily Evaded.

From the ST. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The New York police also has policy
of suppressing news of roberries. The
suppression of such news by the police
could easily be made ineffective. The
public should be educated to report all
robberies to the press. Concealment not
only shields criminals. but it hides the
defects Of every bad police system. Pub
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20
A Hint to Secretary Root.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t should be remembered in the secre-
tary of wars Office that it Is not the cam
paign in New York, but the one in the
Philippines. that the people at large are
anxious to see briskly prosecuted.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20
Human Nature North and South.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
The people of the Southern states are
not perfect; there is a good deal of hui
man nature down this wayne cannot
deny that; but we are inclined to believe
we have no monopoly of that commodity
and We may be excused for timidly sug-
costing that there are other fields which
the self-constituted "reformers'' might
work with profit to themselves if not to
others
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

From the Washington Star.
1t is difficult to understand why so
many actresses insist on trying to play
Hamlet. None of the gentlemen of the
stage assumes to teach the profession
how Juliet or Desdemona or Lady Mac
beth should be portrayed.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

New York O--ce--4s Tribune Building.
Chicago Office-46a The Rookery.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency
Eastern Representatives.
Washington Bureau-1.4l5 @ ST., N. W.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

Colonel Goebel of Kentucky has a
friend in Bryan. The democratic party
of the country at large loves Colonel
Goebel for the friends he has made.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

Although Mark Hanna may have re-
covered from his rheumatism, the can
didacy of Mr.. Mclean for governor of
Ohio will give him no end of pain.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

If the French authorities can't catch
the assailant Of NJ Labor, they at least
should be able to catch the drift of
public opinion.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

Chicago is in mourning because she
cannot get Dewey for her fall festival
and the New York papers are limiting
that Dewey objects to exhibiting him
self at country fairs.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

The present century may not witness
their arrival but there is every reason
to believe that the Montana volunteers
will reach home some time during the
next
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

Aguinaldo's appeal to the powers to
recognize the belligerency of the Fill
pinos has been received, contents noted,
and duly pigeon-holed.
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Secretary of War Root seems to be
going for the Filipinos with all the ar
dor of a prosecuting attorney bent on
establishing a reputation.
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From all accounts, the judges in the
Dreyfus case have formed an opinion
against the defendant that it will take
more than evidence to remove.
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The Standard has branch offices at
Butte, Mssoula and Great Falls, where
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1t is to be regretted that Secretary Of
War Root hasn't the authority to press
a vigorous policy in relation to Captain
Carter.
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The regular theatrical season is al
ways dull in August, and the Dreyfus
trial admirably fills in the gap.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

Boston licked Brooklyn yesterday,
but she has got to keep up her good
ticks to win the pennant.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

1t has been several days since the
San Domingo revolution revolved to
amount to anything.
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In the Best Of Humor.

How do you suppose the horse feels
toward the automobile?'
well, about the same way the mos
quito feels toward the kissing ug."-De-
troit Free Press.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

Sir Wilfrid Laurier has withdrawn
his war with the United States from
circulation.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

Not having won anything else in the
Spanish war, Admiral Sampson is de-
termined to win his suit for that prize
money.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

The Transvaal war is still at the post,
the victim of several false starts.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

If Dreyfus is convicted the world
will be guilty of a hearty contempt of
court-martial.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

The profound silence of Buzzard's
Bay is only equaled by that of Wool
fert's roost
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Foreign Notes.

Berlin boasts of seven coachmen who
are retired army officers. three who are
ex-pastors and 16 who are mobiles
The latest addition to the London 70
illogical gardens is a New Zealand parrot
called the Kea, which kills and eats
sheep.
Madrid has at present SO daily papers
and 1913 weeklies Two of the daily pa
pers have calculations of more than 100000
copies.
At Robaix, one of the socialist strong
holds of France, the 1000 public school
children receive free food and clothing
a. the expense OF the town.
The latest thing in company promoting
comes from Paris where dogs ceme
terry has been foated with capital OF
G14000. The promoters are women.
Ordination statistics in the Church of
England show a downward tendency that
is increasing year by year. The drop be-
gan in 1896 and the totals for 1899 are
lower by Al than they were three years
ago.
At Hampton Court palace. in the we'll
known Queen Anne's drawing room. the
removal of wall paper. dust and plaster
has resulted in the discovery of some Of
the freScoes of Nerrio. The paintings
represent allegorical naval subjects.
The Yellow Dragon is a school journal
published by the students of Queens
college. Hong Kong. OF its editorial staff
it says: THE chief editor and the fight
ing editor are both Chinese, while the
sub-editor and financial editor are En-
glish.''
During a fair recently held at Brad
ford. England. balloon made its escape
from the aeronaut in charge and carried
two passengers to an altitude of 5000 feet
Neither of the occupants was acquainted
with the art of aeronautics, but they set
themselves to study the balloon, and ul-
timately managed to make a safe descent
80 minutes later.
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My idea of the Masses" said the
Cheerful Idiot, disgustedly, is that the
m stands for thousands and the other
letters stand for themselves Chicago
Times Herald.
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The dossier in the Welcome case is
$50, 900 in thousand dollar bills.
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NJ. Guerin is still confined to his house
by a severe attack of police.
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Gentleman-Cabby. I'll give you a SOW.
ereign If you catch the 4:30 rain.
Cabby (excitedly)-Jump in, guv-nor
an I'll do it or break yer neck in the
attempt.-Tit-B Bits.
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Madrid has at present 36 daily paper
and 1913 weeklies. Two of the daily pa
pers have circulations of more than 100.0O
copies.
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At Robaix, one of the socialist strong
holds of France, the 11,000 public school
children receive free food and clothing
at the expense OF the town.
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How do you suppose the horse feels
toward the automobile"
well, about the same way the mos
quito feels toward the kissing bug. DE
trot Free Press.
My idea of the masses" said the
Cheerful Idiot dsgustedly, is that the
m stands for thousands and the other
letters stand for themselves. Chicago
Times Herald.
Gentleman--Cabby. I'll give you a SOW
ereign If you catch the 4:30 rain.
Cabby (exctedly)-Jump in, guv-nor.
attempt!-Tit- Bits.
Joe limp is getting old"
why do you say tnat?''
Because when he got back from fish
ing he said he hadn't caught anything
worth Dragging about. "-Chicago Record.
Blunt-Who reads your poetry anyhow?
Billets-Why, my dear sir, all the prom
inent magazine editors of the country,
and many i the lesser lights on The daily
and weekly papers.--Phadelphi North
American.
Mrs Snaggs-Isn't it odd that a French
duel is usually harmless
duce the American toy pistol into France
for dueling purposes. ''-Pittsburg Chroni-
cle-Teegraph.
Friend-You didn't extract that man IS
tooth without pain. ''.
Dentist-You bet I didn't. He is the
man who had charge of the initiation
ceremonies when l Joined the Imperial
Order of Hoodoos.-New York Evening
Journal.
They say young Foley has been wan
der:ng in his mind lately" SAIL one man
to another.
well" was the heartless reply. from
what I've seen and heard of him he's safe
enough; he can't wander very far
Youths Companion.
by lookin' in de microscope" said
Flooding Pete, you learns dat every time
you drinks water you puts bunch O.
wild an wigglin animals in yer stom-
ach."
yes" answered Meandering Mike. an
If you drinks whiskey you has EN- in yer
head: so what's a man to do?'-Wash-
ington Star.
Daughter with some show OF embar-
rassment-Pa, did Clarence interview
you last night?
Pale did
Daughter-And what was the result?
Pa-Well. my impression of the result
was that he was about to retire from lit
erature and become a confectioner.
Daughter-A confectioner? You are in
| duging in levity now, pa.
Pa-Not at all. for when. in rejecting
his suit. I spoke disparagingly of his call
| ing he struck an attitude and boasting-
| ly declared that ! would yet live to see
| the day when his works would be III every
| one S mouth.-Richmond Dispatch.
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