The Newtown bee., 1900-11-02
The OUTLOOK.

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 WOMEN In the state of Idaho, this
 IN THE year, the women will vote
 ELECTION. for president. In three other states also they will vote, that is, in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. It is said that the interest of women in voting is not as great as it was in 1896, and the politicians, who are supposed to watch the matter closely, say that as rule the wife votes as does her husband, and the sister follows the example of her brother. Yet it is asserted that in the West, wher the women have the greatest privileges at the ballot. the result has been that there has been better order and more lawful behavior at the polls because of the presence of the women. It has also had an influence on the party leaders :; for if a particularly bad man is put up the women come out in force and help to defeat him. So that woman's suffrage has its points of value in our political system.
 "ExPANsION.'' Rev Dr Josiah Strong, whose books on "Our Country" 1.-The New Era," and others have had a large circulation and have dealt with the problems of our national life, has just issued a new and timely book on Expansion" He takes the view that our entrance into world politics is inev- itable and that we must grow and in- crease on all sides. According to his view we are to reach more and more the markets of the world. He thinks that the Pacific ocean is sure to become some time the center of the worlds commonwealth and power and that we have done wisely as nation in securing our foothold in Hawaii and the Philippines. He has these very suggestive sentences from Washington's idea of our nation looking out for itself: "Reduced to it's simplest f-as. WashiDgton's advice amounts to tl : Let us mind our own businees.'- admirable advice for that age and qually good for this. Then our business wae confined to this continent; now it Is in the ends of the earth. By all means let us mind it." It need not be said to those who have read Dr strorg's other books that this book on "Expansion" is packed with facts and figures and Is never dull.
 TAMMANY Harper's Weekly has
 HALL. published an article show ing that the return of Tammany Hall to power has had terrible effect on the life of New York City. The death rate in the tenement house district has alarming ly increased, the number of juvenile criminals has grown very fast, there is a regular traffic in bringing girls to New. York for immoral purposes. A three hundred per cent increase in homicides is recorded and even the burials fn the Potter's Field have doubled since Tam many came into power. Good men of all parties must regret that the first city of our land should be in the hands of 8 set of men who seek to increase crime and immortality that they may add to their own revenue and political power. AFRICA. The African ccntir ent is waking up and coming into the light of civilization. A telegraph line from the coast to Lake Victoria Nyarza bas been completed, which will help the peo- pie of Egypt to know how high the Nile will rise in it's annual overflow. It used to take seven months to get communities tions from the interior to the coast but now in few days the Egyptian farmer can be told how much his water supply will be, and so govern himself accord 1 ingly.
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 AT We are told that in Manila
 MANILA. before the Americans came, there were only two saloons on the prin- cipal business street. To-day there are IS and 300 licensed places in the city. The income of the largest saloon, called the Alhambra, is said to be $7OO per might. So Christian America is debauch. ing the islands of the sea. We shall pay the bill later on, for God never forgets. .