The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-27
EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.

Headline writer's on Southern newspapers
should abandon the use OF that sensatonsi
and dsquieting phrase Race war lmm-
nent" every time the details OF a broii us-
tween the whites and negroes are published
We have had no race war In the South ana
we don't intend to have any under any ciI-
cumFtanres To admit the contrary Is 10
sink the Southern people to the level Of the
lwretched mongrel populations OF Central ana
South America. where a few ambitions dema-
gogues can embroll the ignorant masses IN
seneeloss wars with each other to promote
their personal ends. Newspapers should make
II rule TO discourage all talk about race
wars" in the South--Nacogdoches Sentinel
The suggestion Ia not a bad one. 1t Is
probably true that tho headline men never
stop TO think how napt the designation is
over a mere free for all fight, or some little
local riot In which whites and blacks are
ptted against each other, but they ought to
think about the real significance OF the ex-
preston Race War" and stop using lt--for.
as remarked by the Sentinel we have not had
and will likely never have any clash Of the
races in the South that could be called
race war"
It IL possible that some less drastic method
OF settling the differences between employers
and employees involved In the Chicago labor
disturbance might have been adopted and
the consequent loss and suffering from
general strike avoided III the parties TO the
controversy had been cool headed discreet
and mutually concliatory. San Antonio FIX
press.
"1f the parties had, etc The stumbling
block Is that the parties to such controversies
never are cool headed or discreet or mu-
tually concilihtory." or II so. only rarely so.
When citizens disagree in other matters about
money or property or contracts. they go to
law aud the courts settle the difficulty and
enforce the judgment VIII We not have to
como to an arbitration court with pleuary
powers to protect the public as well as the
parties TO the controversy"
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! England's income from money invested in
other countries Is $40 900. 600 a year That sort
4 of imperialism seems to pay her better than
the Calling gun type.--Texas stock and Farm
Journal
/ Her Calling gun type has not been paying
at all in recent years 1t is a fact worthy
the consideration OF our new tangled Ameri-
can expansIonists that neither the bulk Of
English Investments nor OF English trade
follows the dag, but Is to be found in fields
over which the flag does not float.
~
There are great many people in Texas
who are interested vitality In the State, yet
they viii not consider candidate for tho
Legislature for more than ten minutes before
they cast their vote for him. This is nm i'm
poriant office TO the people. and they should
consider well the men offering for It, and
vote for the ones beet ftted for the ofnce,
and those who will most ably represent the
people.-Denson Herald.
Tho public must not measure the Importance
of an office by its pecuniary returns to its
occupant but rather Its utility and necessity
for tho people. Some of the minor Offices
are really the most useful and important. and
communities suffer because they fail to prac.
tcally recognize this fact and rather conclude
that any old thing" ia good enough to MI
the small nost OF course one element Of
this trouble is tho refusal of the prominent
citizen" to offer for any onice except biz
one.
The republicans object to tho word i'm
porlallsm na applied to the policy OF the
government towards the new possessions But
Ii Il Isn't imperialism, what Is ~ The
subject people, without a voice In their own
control, by alens.-B renham Press
Or the control of people by the supreme
authority at will rather than by or under a
supreme law, when congress recently de
B. ,ermlncd thar our constitution did not neces-
I sarily follow our nag but that congress could
govern subjects without reference to the con
/ sututon 1t cnunciatcd the very essence oil
3 Imperialism"
4 ~ y
II Is really amusing 70 note the "enahling
qualifications with which number OF news.
papers beslobber the candidates whose cause
, they espouse, with them every fellow on thcil
eide Of the ditch "a an orator and a states
L man when in fact some OF the scribes who
cause this infection know about as much as
to what real craftsmanship Is ms the average
e country lawyer does OF International law
n La Grange Journal.
g We'll when the blind are seen leading tn,
@ blind is u not rather pitful and tragi,
{, spectacle than an amusing" one? You know
a the Inevitable result Of such procession II
II that they both fall into the ditch.
Tia next change In the charter Of For
Worth Will be in the interest Of the peopI,
o OF this city And in making the change In
!, people OF the city will take hand For
Maybe 80, and maybe not Sometimes 20
" iitioians and rings get hold OF a city, stick Xix
< ticks. and tell the people in effect Ito b
!. id"
r. Tho Beers confidently expect Intervention
from some OF the great nations OF the world
Il Tho interests Of humanity demand intergen
Q tion.-Victoria Advocate
s IL Is not the interests OF humanity tina
control the action OF cabinets in these times
but the interests OF dynasties and syndicate
, and political parties
Texans In New York
/. Especial to The Post)
il New York. April 2e,-The followln,