Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-08-26
CONGRESSES
Are the Fad in Paris this
Year.
The HAYRE DOCK STRIKES
Threaten to Put Check on Steamer
Service.
The EXPOSITION NOT OYER CROWDED.
The irish Exhibit One of the Poorest of
the Lot--An Interesting Letter.

pends largely ON Just now the lndlYld-
ual takes it. If he takes ii seriously
it must do him an immense amount of
good and may therefore be regarded as
a success; If he takes it as the great
majority do, that is Carelessly, listless-
ly, gapingly, why tEen it does him
neither good nor harm, and so succeeds
in none of its purposes and aims. l
make these remarks because there is a
very large class of people of all coun-
tries, America, as usual foremost
among them where anything is useful
to be learned, who have nothing in
common with the crowds one sees wan
dering in the last stages Of boredom
about the palaces and grounds. | refer
to the Congressionists. OF these there
must be quite a hundred thousand for
already at least thirty Congresses have
been held and there are plenty more to
follow. Seven thousand members at
,ended the Medical Science Congress
alCne. Architecture, Law, chronomet-
ry, medical electroloSy, pharmacy, der
matology customs, regulations--al-
most every conceivable subject in fact,
has its Congress, is TO have it, or has
had il, and very few indeed of those
who have attended them, or his own
special one of them, has done so and
not been greatly benefited. Are not
rhese people different from the gaping
multitude, and for them is not the Ex
position success?
One of the Congresses held this week
that on Colonial Sociology--a better
name would be Colonial Civilization
reminded me strongly of the discus
sions We used to hear in Paris towards
the close of 1898, wDen the American
Spain, were here to draw up treaty.
The questions of taking the PHILIPPINES,
and CT what should be done with them,
when taken, were burning ones
throughout the period of negotiations,
and the arguments then made, the OBJ
jections raised, the hopes formed were
all almost identically reproduced by NJ.
Decrais, the French Colonial Minister
and other speakers at the Congress on
sociology. 1t would have done
Senators Gray and Frye-the two
anti-anneXationist members of the
Peace Commission--I great deal OF
good to hear the speeches, and partcu-
larly that of the French Minister with
its noble breadth of view, as she point
ed out, there are two orders Of prob
one material, regarding railways and
roads and canals and other means of
developing the colony, the other, on a
higher plane, regarding the organiza-
ton OF system under which the nat
ives moral and material conditions
may improve, and they themselves rec
ognize the fact and be grateful for it,.
shall not be unkind enough to ask
which OF these orders of problem our
government is graphing with. 1t is
only too obvious, if the bystander
really does see most of the game, that
it is not graphing with, and cannot
grapple with, either However, this
opinion is obiter dicta and only meant
to show you how things look from the
European end OF the telescope.
An end | hasten 20 add. which may
be, and was very nearly being blocked
up, so far, at least, as France is con-
cerned This is another way of saying
that the dock strikes at lie Havre,
which have now lasted a week, threat
en- to put stop TO the steamer service
between chat port and the United,
or indeed any, States; and but for the
admiral good sense of the French Mini
OF Marine, NJ. de Lanessen, who for
ism and put the French navy stokers
on board the mail steamers, the Bre-
tagne and succeeding steamers would
not have been able to leave this side of
the ocean at all. The question at is
sue is one of wages, The coal leaders,
and stokers, and firemen, especially
are not content and, like many other
people in other departments of life.
imagine they canno: be replaced. M.
de Lanessan's prompt action must
have come upon them as a very dis
agreeable surprise, and no doubt be-
fore | write again the strike will be
over and the strikers wiser The fact
is they are discontented without rea-
son. Their earnings are enough for
comfortable existence and with econo-
my they can save money. What more
can they ask in an age where competi-
ticn is so fierce?
To revert for a moment to the Expo
sitlon. Ireland puts in decidedly
poor appearance. 1t is fair however.
to say that in one department, the tex
tile, she is fairly strong, while she has
one very curious exhibit, display of
pneumatic harness and saddlery from
a far-away spot called Cornamona
DOORS, in the county Galway. The
house OF Guinness (Lord Iveagh) too,
Is well to the front with special klos-