The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-18
POLITICAL COMMENT.

| Had the directors of the Seventh Ma
| tional taken as much time in wreckint
| the bank as they are allowed In making
| good" the depositors would have stood q
better show.-New York World.
| The 'McKeesport Times" plaintively
asks what McKeesport has done to war
rant the steel combines mill dismantling
| Nothing at ail-except to elect fool for a
mayor, and every city and town has pre-
| cisely the government 1t deserves.-Cin-
| cinnati Commercial Tribune.
Even poor old Gomez has found 1t nee
essary to explain" Surely. politics has
| taken the place OF yellow fever in Cuba
Norfolk Pilot.
Honor the man who works." says Colo
| mel Roosevelt. and he Is right; but just
the same the colonel is no more anxious
than the rest of us are to acquire horny
hands.-Philadelphia North American.
With one hand on the Monroe Doctrine
and the other on the Panama Railroad,
Secretary Hays grasp Of the situation is
copiprehensive.-Phila Ledger.
Comets portend war, and Encke's now
putting in an appearance may prognosti-
cate that South American trouble It's
not much of a comet, and it doesn't seem
to be much of a war.-Philadelphia Times.
The Amalgamated cannot be put in a
position to negotiate with a responsible
corporation until it incorporates, makes
itself amenable to the law and acquires
property of value which can be attached
to satisfy any judgment secured against
it.-New York Times.
Nobody seems to have remarked the
fact that Tolstoy's serious illness followed
close upon his incautious exposure TO
Senator Beverfdge of Indiana.-Chieago
Journal. s ,4-, ,-.s 10
Secretary Hay is back in Washington
ready to congratulate the Empress Dow
ager on her safe return to Pekin when
she finally gets there.-Chicago News.
The score of the latest pay day at Fort
Sheridan was as follows: In the guard
house. IS; missing. SO. With peace" in
the Philippines what do We need of so
large an army Chicago Chronicle.
General Kobbe, commanding the De-
partment of Mindanao and Jolo, reports
TO Washington that radical and compre-
hensive measures to abolish it slavery
would at this time be premature and in
effective" He might just as well have
said that the Thirteenth Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States is
premature and ineffective. II does not
seem to reach the Sulus.-Springfield Re
publican.
Governor Taft says that legislation is
needed for the Philippines. We may see.
at the next session, the novel feat of our
Congress going outside of the Constitu-
ton to operate.-Indianapolis News.
President Shaffer is achieving consider
able notoriety also as a labor disorgan-
izer.-Chicago Tribune
General MacArthurs latest encouraging
announcement is that the Fiiipinos are
sure to yield. His predecessor, General
Otis. improved on this style of report by
keeping the fact constantly announced
that they had yielded.-Atlsnta Journal.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, of
England in arguing for the justiiicat on
of the war against the Beers. points to
the policy of the United States in the
Philippines But there is an old and true
maxim that two wrongs never made
right--Baltimore World.
This trouble down at the isthmus should
be taken coolly by our Government, and,
so long as it is purely a family quarrel,
Uncle Sam can well afford to keep out of
II. He shouldn't go out of his way look
ing for trouble 1t isn't best to cross an
isthmus until we get to i.-Boston
Herald
Before the whole world drifts into a
universal strike there ought to be some
device to adjust these matters without
the infection of such awful costs They
or later the Legislature will be compelled
to move. The waste of strikes cannot &c
on forever.-Boston Globe.
Roosevelt's bravery is not SO much in
daring to give chase to the coyote. but in
visiting some of those Colorado towns
that tried to lynch him-or something
equally as good-last year.-Des Moines
Leader.
Word comes from Manila that the in
ed 1t has been understood that not
enough insurgents remained to suffer
rout Possibly these late routs are based
upon the necessity of some military Off
Ger making a reputation that will justify
his return honest Louis Star.