The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-19
CURRENT TOPICS.


In commenting on Lord Kosebery's adj
dress at Wolrerhampton on the industrial
rivalry OF the United States md Germany,
the New York Evening Sun says:
Lord Rosebery's advice has an applica-
ton in the case of German competition.
but it is difficult to see what relevancy it
has to that of the United States, whose
great combinations of capital, according
TO him. threaten TO underseli England i'll
her own market. The remedy would seem
to be to fight the United States with their
own weapons. But Lord Rosebery init
mates that the rich Enslishnlnn prefers
TO retire from business and anuse him
self. Well he must stay in harness, or let
the American capitalist have the rail. AS
regards German competition EngHshmen
have lost u great deal of ground by taking
things too easy. Technical education in
Germany is both thorough and widespread.
and the young German business men are,
besides. very good linguists. Thus they
are much better equipped than the Eng
iishmen to enter the struggle. They spend
but little time in sport and in travel for
life much more seriously and understand
the value of time better. In. his methods
the German may seem slow and pllleS-
matte, but his pace is steady and he keeps
his goal in view always. The English
manufacturer. merchant and trader have
a good deal to learn from their German
rivals. Lord Kosebcry failed TO mention
one serious handicap which England labors
under to-day, and which threatens to ruin
her industrnlly. The reference is to the
unreasonable and fatuous eXactions OF the
trade unions. Employer and employe must
understand each other better and meet on
a plane of compromise mutually adva1n-
1ageous. or things will go from bad to
worse and England will be out of the fight
for trade.
Those who read the article in The Times
of Yesterday on this subject win note some
points of resemblance in the extract which
We hive quoted from the Sun
The Rev. Hugh T. Morrison, of Chicago,
takes a more hopeful view of the country
than Mr.. Cleveland does. In a recent SER
mon on 1.-The Growing Humameness OF
Man. he said:
1.-The nineteenth century has given moth
ing to the twentieth century that out
weighs in significance that fund Of hui
mallitarian feeling with which mankind is
now equipped. In the nineteenth century
men have learned the alphabet of love
They have come to see that the Christian
ideal OF brotherhood ought to be realized.
that civilization is q. matter of the heart,
not Of the head or the hand. Wonderful
the civilization which mans hand has
builded: Wonderful the science mans
brain has developed. But vastly greater
than this is the fund of humane impulses
which mans heart has been generating.
AS society goes toward culture and civili-
cation, the human heart grows mercltul,
human.
I'm a thousand ways this new sympathy
naSnifests itself. In the extinction OF
slavery, in the humanizing of criminal
punishments and the cleansing of prisons,
in the new sense of responsibility which
the state feels for lInfortunateS-the poor,
the imbecile the blind the orphans and
the aged: in the enactment of laws pro-
hibitinS or regulating women's and chill
dren's work in factories, in the growing
disfavur of war and the amelioratlon oil
its sufferings. So deep has this humane
instinct become that societies Lor the pre-
vention of cruelty TO animals are organized
and prove great restraint to vicious men.
Never before have men and women per-
ceived so clearly that their posse siuns.
ma terial and intellectual, We're not their
own. but We're held by them in trust from
God to be used for the good of society.
Hence Christian business men Of wealth
are deVoting millions to the building OF
educational and religious and e eemoSy-
nary institutions which shall express their
sense of obligation to their brother man.
To-day our whole city nlourns the death
OF a man whose career is a brilliant eX-
ample Of that new sense OF social sympa-
thy which man is learning to- feel. En-
dowed with extraordinary gifts. Mr.. Ar
mour never forgot his obligation to his
fellows Heswas true phi,anthropist.