The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23

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dlHerence to the incapabllity of gener-
ais IN South Africa. Reverses have he
come expected
Last Christmas society almost went
crazy over plum puddings and choco-
late hampers sent to the soldiers on the
N5ldt, rms year they are not mention
ed IN TACT the public is unuterab!y
weary OF the long drawn out struggle.
whose only interesting features are the
sensational successes of Dewet This in
no Way affects the government. whose
determination to fight it out to the
bitter end IS evident from It's decision to
reinforce the already huge army in
South Africa. Several members of the
cabinet, however would be heartily
grateful were the BOer leaders to sue
for peace.
Alarmed ct America.
The Nicaragua canal still fails to
arouse any really deep interest here.
more the question Of the day is Amer
lca commercial rivalry, which,
thfouSn0uI the week. has been form
ing the basis for long analytical articles
IN the Daily Express and the Daily
Mall, written by engineering and other
experts, which detail the results of re-
cent trips to the United States under
the headlines: Wake Up, England,
We Are Falling Behind" etc, reiter-
aJlng that the English manufacturers
are untnitiatiVe and are absorbed in
cOnSe1Va US12. which IS summed - in
the following paragraph in one article:
II the foregoing facts are unpalat-
able, 1t is better they should be known
than that the nation should dream on
IN IOOIS paradise until the next cycle
OF bad trade, when we may find our
markets in the possession of others.
The announcement that the Neither
lands does not consider Itself bound by
the Paris Venezuela commissions de-
: fzTc ~4-F-
not regarded by the foreign Office as
forming the basis of International fric-
I ton The boundary is d comparatively
minor matter on which the colonial Of
ice has been engaged for some time.
/ The Netherlands question IS regarded
as a step to ward off a contingency
which, however, Great Britain has
never contemplated.
Artists Forming a Union.
That diIettante Glass. the artists, are
joining the ranks of organized labor.
! Headed by Alma Tadema, a group of
wei known artists are sending out cir
culars to their brethren urging the for
nation Of d professional union on lines
| similar 10 those of the Society CT Au-
thors. They hope to get several hun
/ dred members to pay a guinea each.
/ The especial object of the organization
/ viii be watching the business interests
! OF struggling painters
~ tl Is now, says Alma Iauenlt,
/ the successful painter cares and
/ troubles little about his less successful
! brothers, but. given an association with
common interest, the young, unknown
man has an infinitely better chance for
/ his own interests and those of his pro-
fessioH.
A military correspondent of the Pail
! Mall Gazette CTiticising the SandhurSt
ana WOelWish methods, declares the
| British authorities admit that West
/ Point Is IN advance of anything ID
/ England. He approves the democratic
/ ana severely competitive system in
vogue there, saying:
( Education at West Point is serious
/ thOrOughness. rather aan an extension
/ of attaInments- Its ulnciple is con
trolling education tC ether with the
[ knowledge of how TO make use of II.
/ Like All exceptionally good education.
Eitis enormously COS NEST eEpeH>
siVe in the world, but IN many ways
said to be by far the best.
The principal industry IN the United
f States is education. For years past the
! Americans nave been earnestly engag-
/ ed in the business of disseminating
/ knowledge. If Great Britain is to hold
/ her own, we must follow in the steps
/ of the great republic, or be content with
I second Slace-
Bridge" is Under Ban.
A sensation has been caused by one
/ of the foremost London clubs prohibit
! ing the game of bridge within the pre-
! cincts of the club. The committee de
! cIares this is the only course IN which
/ it can preserve harmony, disputes haV-
/ ing become frequent, and the rows
1 having envelOped blows Bridge IS so
new that its varying rules create end
( less differences of opinion, considering
/ that bridge is by far the most popular
/ card game of the day, it is played eX-
( tensively by royalty aud IN almost
( every country house, generally for high
5 stakes.
! Upwards of two years ago" says the
. Spectator. the Americans were scan
/ daIized by te dismissal of President An
{ drevs of Brown university, and 1t pro
! ceeds To draw a lengthy parallel with
the case of Professor Ross of Leland
Stanford university In so doing the
+ Spectator holds to the claim that the
money DOW -. in institutions OF learn
ing is fatal TO the alumni
Ii saws: a certain commercial at
uosphere now enVelOpS some Of the UNI
versities. We would rather see Oxford
and Cambridge poor and free than rich
and shackIed. If a few trust mission
aires are 10 have their way, economic
truth cannot be reached in some OF the
American universities. 1t would De a
sad thing were America with her tree
DoliticaI life to permit any kind of in
reIIectuaI tyranny to raise Its mead III
her midst.