El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-16

medicine for every woman.
expected.
What can be done is a problem wor-
rying the administration. 1t is not
easy to overturn government once
established. yet something must be
done Fortunately the whole matter
is in the hands of congress for confir-
nation.
Our Idea of Government Bred in the
Bone.
The administration has simply re-
peated the mistake we made in this
| country thirty years ago. when we de-
cided that the difference between the
white and other races was only skin
deep.
1t isn't.
Our ancestors in the British Isles
worked 1000 (Hengist and Horsa were
not the first comers) years to build up
the governmental system we have and
its ways and means are as inbred in
us as our language: they are not in
other races.
The average Scotch. English. Irish or
Welsh immigrant. segregated from his
fellows and placed with Americans,
drops into our habits and is an Ameri-
can. nearly at once. The Scandinavian
Dutchman. and North German. bred
up under similar systems. require only
n few years for characterization.
But with the Latin races il is rare
that foreign born men ever become
Americanized. although the second
generation does as a rule.
The Latin Idea of Government.
The universal Latin theory of gov
eminent is that somewhere there is
loo. fsar- of "a
from which authority descends. A
king or bureaucracy appoints its Of
ficers down to the last policeman.
Our theory is that power is delegated
by the people who choose their own
rulers in ascending series.
The White and the Non-White Vote.
While the white races. despite their
different theories about government
may be assumed to possess about the
same mental make up and therefore
to be adaptable to the same systems.
it is altogether different with the nom
white. Which is superior is a matter
of opinion in which Minister WI and 1
wouldn't agree, likely.
After the war We clothed a lot of
negroes. but one or two generations
removed from wild natives of a tropi-
cal jungle, with an elaborate system
of rights and powers worked out by
sixty generations of struggling and
contending white men. We might as
well have tried to fit horse harness to
COW. and the experience of the ne
gro states has shown the experiment
was not a success.
Yet we are urged by al OF of faddists
like Bryan to go ahead and make the
same old mistake all over again in the
Philippines. and to some extent we
have done il.
The Work of the 5th Congress.
The ways and means committee be-
gins to- sit next week to consider the
revision of war taxes. hoping to have
a bill complete for presentation at the
opening of congress. The approaching
session is expected to be one of the
busiest known for years. provided peo-
pie like Lentz keep ,neir hands of. In
it's short three months December to
March ~ besides the Philippine ques-
lions, II will have to consider import
ant legislation on oleomargarine. over
which a fight is expected: the proposed
increase of the army to 100000 men
the present law authorizing $500 reg
ulars and $4,000 volunteers expires by
next July; the armor plate
troubles; the shipping subsidy and so
on world without end. Reappartion-
ment in accordance with the census re-
suits promises to prove a fire-brand
and unless great dexterity is shown,
may engross the entire session. The |
south wants to eat it's cake and have |
IL too. regarding the negroes; disfran- |
chising them but having them counted |
in the apportionment. while the north |
is likely to insist that apportionment |
be based on the vote cast. Which has |
the elements of a very pretty fight in it |
The Nicaraguan Canal Bill.
The Nicaraguan canal bill which has |
already passed the senate. is to come |
up the first week. Everybody wants |
the canal except a few influential in
but the latter are likely to pre-
vail. They lost a great element of
strength in Huntington's death how
ever. The canal would mean the loss
Of an immense amount of heavy freight
to the transcontinental railways and
the Panama people. and would mean
the final extinction of hope for the
in the French schemes.