The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-01

/ it is explained by the fact that the peo-
pie who receive good salaries often obtain
and hold their positions through influence
( while the people who are overworked and
undergrad have no influence and nowhere
else to go. That condition of things. IN
der the arrangement suggested. would
be UNNECESSARILY increased. There are
somc men in the ministry now who
! are in it mainly because it is a
respectable position in which they will
not have to work with their hands,
, and there would be morersf them ii they
! were assured that they could make money
by experimenting a mandatory or other
business which the people~ef the church
would patronize on principle. There are
religious publishing houses ard like enter
prises now in existence which are frauds
/ CT simply enormous proportions, furnish
/ ing wretched goods to a public which sup
! ports them because they are called Chris
{ tian. We do not want this kind Of thing
| in every other line of business, as wei as
| in book-making and journalism.
| There Is also a reasonable certainty that
| there would be so much sectarianism mixed
up with any such business that some of
! the people who most need help would be
repealed. 1t would attract a great many
! inferior workmen. willing to profess any
/ thing and everything for the sake OF an
| easy job. 1t is hard to run a business with
| that class OF employees, especially if one
! does not wish to use undue severity, and
| the Christian superintendent would either
/ have To be harsh enough to make his
| subordinates work, or let the product of
/ their labor be slipshod and worthless. The
workmen who are most valuable in any
| factory nowadays are quite as apt to be
| free thinkers anything else. Take a
concrete case. We will suppose that
furniture factory is started on the Shell
don principle and for the benefit Of tie
unemployed poor The men VINO apply
for work know. for the most part. nothing
whatever about the business They are
willing to work, but must be trained. The
only available person to train them is an
cid German wood-carver, who understands
his business thoroughly, and is out
spoken atheist. Under his tute.age such
workmen might in time. turn out some
unique specimens of furniture which
would really be worth the money asked.
But how long would the directors of the
establishment put up with his influence
over the men?" How long would it take
for the managers of any such business TO
give the employees to understand that the
way TO get on in their calling was to be
prominent in religious work, and how many .
hypocrites would the system make in
nf Of hp tyrtish nc
characteristics of most church organiza-
tions is that they cannot tolerate honest. !
outspoken opinions contrary to their own
and if they could absolutely control large
business enterprises, competing with secu- |
lar dealers, the effect upon the working !
class might be anything but good.
The Administration seems to have been /
having its innings in Kentucky The negro
accused of assassinating Governor Goebel I
was promptly released by the Republican /
judge at Beattyville. where. he was ar
rested. Between a reliable jurist here
and there. and the Indiana Governor, who
promises to harbor and protect them. the !
members of the late murder conspiracy
would appear to have an excellent chance
to escape the gallows. But they will prob
ably have to absent themselves from home
and thereby lose their votes in November
As a complete letter writer, Speaker
Henderson is anything but a success. In
a fresh communication to a constituent.
and designed for publicity. he says: The
fighting against the Porto Rican bill comes
from greater interests, that are not dis
turbed so much by the trade with Porto
Rico. but who want free trade with the
ten million savsges of the Philippines"
The greater interests" to which he al
udes consist of the bulk of the American
people who ARE not disturbed as much
by the trade with Porto Rico as they
are by the attempt of the Speaker and
his political associates to suppress the
Constitution of the United States.
Senator Hoar has been kind enough to
explain that his effort TO present Mrs. ]
Dominis, who. he declares, is now an
earnest Presbyterian with handsome
out of the Treasury vaults
was dictated by philanthropy and on no
account by senility. The explanation Is
entirely satisfactory. and will serve
equally well TO cover the case of Agun-
aldo should the Senator ask pension
or that individual on the ground of dis
utilities incurred in the Philippine re-
,elliOn.
It may be assumed with considerable
confidence that active operations in the
orange Free state have been inauguratei
~ Lord Roberts in the fight at the Karee
iopjes north of Bloemfontein, and that
movements of an important military char
cter will now follow closely. The report
hat the Beers have evacuated Brandfort (
probably indicative Of their falling back a
o their second line of defence, and an en- q
agement of proportions may be looked. for I
DON. and perhaps within the present week. c
The Open Door. {
From the Dies Moines Leldcr) II
Ii Russia, having extended her dominion in t
hina as now seems probable, applies the pro- Il
.ctve principle and admits Russian goods either r
ee. or on lower terms than goods from America {
Great Britain Japan, where will be the y
open doorf'' The agreement effected by Score I
ny Hay will not form much Of a barrier against a :,
itional s-lE-hncss and a national exclusfSeness .
lich We have practiced since the beginning Of n
IT Government. !, is a matter OF joke in Europe ;,
hear the United States talk OF the open door, n
the very time when the United States Is pro- g
5sing that foreign good, imported into Porto Rico b