The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-24
Here is a pretty good rule of business:
Make friends of your hirelings, but do
not make hirelings of your friends.
CURRENT TOPICS.

LONDON, November 22.-The leading
| article in to-morrow's edition Of the
Spectator will be discussion of pro-
posal that Great Britain should give it's
formal adherence to the Monroe Doc
trine. The Spectator will say:
IF America will define the Monroe
Doctrine, why should we not pledge our
s%lves not to infringe upon II? When we
had acknowledged. this doctrine America
might propose it to the rest Of the Pow
ers for Endorsement. II she did, the
Powers could hardly refuse. Should they
adhere their adhesion would be Of great
use not to America, but to the cause Of
peace, for it would eliminate q great
many of the notable causes of war. If
the Monroe Doctrine became part of the
public law of the civilized world, the
risk of a war breaking out with regard
TO European Interference in Brazil or
Spanish America, now always u POSSIBLE
ity, would then pass away"
The Spectator will also approve the ca
nal treaty, and in another article on Sec
Rotary Hays foreign policy will say:
No country in the world can show two
greater or worthier statesmen than Pres
ident Roosevelt and Secretary Hay
The Saturday Review, sneering at Mr..
Hays "unctious aphorisms'' and 'plati-
tudes of universal amity,' will bestow a
page on Lord Transformers retreat and
says:
We are putting the future canal unre-
servedly into the hands OF the United
States of the future-whch will develop
in a startling manner the imDerialiStic
extravaganza of tO-day-without consult
ing in the smallest degree the interests
of the rest of the world, which are init
mately bound UP with our own in this
matter"
The Review will say that Lord Lans-
downs has ''cynically retired from the po-
sition as trustee for the civilized world
which we assumed even under the Hay
Pauncefote convention, and thrown the
whole subject of contention into the
hands Of INSCRIPTIONS opponents to deal
with as they think fit
The BapuStS We're very much ANNOYED
the other Gay, at their General Conver-
ton, in Richmond, by what many OF them
understood to be Kissing at remarks which
advocated a course on the Quarles-B Bar
bour measure not approved by the great
majority of the gathering; but it turned
out that the noise they took for kissing
was a. sll-- to secure quie. for the speak
er.
Kissing is undoubtedly out of place
in a religious gathering, but is 1t in
place anywhere? It seems to us that if
a man disapproves of what is being saiG
at q meeting the sensible course is to
await his turn, and then combat the
arguments or statements with good horse
sense. Any fool can hiss. and the bigger
the fool the more apt he is to acquire
the art but it takes "a man of sense to
talk sense. If you cannot get 4 hear
ing to reply to wrong sentiments, then
you have the choice OF leaving. which
gentleman will always do rather than de-
scend to the method of expressing dis
pproval indicated by hissing.-staunton
News.
II President Roosevelt did not enjoy a
treat to which thousands of Georgans
look forward with the coming of frost, it
was not the fault Of q De kalb county
boy " no has long been an admirer Of
the Rough Rider.
Some days ago Hon. William NJ Rags
dale and Ben and the box finally got into
|. Buffalo Exposition with his son, Ben
When they reached Washington they
made few inquiries about calling on
the President and We're told that it was
absolutely impossible to see him on that
day. Ben. was clinginS to queer-look-
ing box: "And. furthermore" they were
told, "if you so up there with that box
dynamiters."
But Georgians are not to be so easily
depressed. When the White House was
reached the same information was vouch-
safed--that the President could not be
seen by dint Of persistence Mr. Rags
dale and Ben and the blk finally got into
q hallway where an officer in uniform
stood so prinl, so stiff it seemed as though
he would break if one should touh him. Mir.
hagsdale explained that they were a pair
of pilgrims, a long way from home. want
ed to see the President before leaving the
city, and, he added. pointing to the
box which Ben was till Juggling, I'VE have
for him a box of Georgia persmmons.'
The stern officer relaxed, and a smile
spread over his face. Turning to a ne
gro who was standing near he asked,
DO you think there is a 'possum goes
with this?"
The president was in a. meeting of the
cabinet, but an engagement was made,
and at ? o'clock the Georglans met him.
While they We're shaking hands, Mr.. Rags
dale saiG:: This boy kept up with you
while you We're a Rough Rider. and
have kept, track of you since. We have.
brought you some Georgia persimmous.
gathered from trees on my farm in a
county adjoining that in which your moth
ler was born
President Roosevelt roared with laugh
ter, and accepted the present. in the best
of spirits. He gave Ben's hand anfextral
Snnneza and told him to he a rough rld-