Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-10-05

Of armor. The increasing power Of the
defense to resist attack Is one Of the
most powerful operating forces In In.
ternatiOnal politics to-day. Coupled
with the financial perils attendant on
prolonged contests, It fortiIes the peace
Of Europe behind almost insurmount.
able barriers.
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"Thc greatest menace to the morality
Of both rich and poor In New York is
the fact that 1t Is a city Of flats and
tenements and not a city Of homes"
This Is remark Of an expert from the
United States Department Of Labor,
who, with six special agents, has been
investigating the conditions Of living
among New York working people.
Yesterday" he went OH to say. II
found the family Of skilled mechanic.
consisting Of eleven persons, living In
four rooms. That IL indecent. There can
be no privacy In such conditions. and
without privacy there can be no civil.
zation. would like to ask the men
who are building colleges and endow.
Ing libraries to build model tencments
instead. would see no college Ell.
lowed, and not a book given to a II.
brary. until the people had homes"
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Emperor william has expressed his
objection to his hyphenatcd ex.subjects
who return to their old homes on visit
and present themselves before him as
"Gcrman-Am ericans." He says that,
rs he understands It, they are no long.
or Germans. but have become Ameri.
cans. They have absolved themselves
from their German allegiance and
should fully recognize their American
allegiance In the nationality which
they formally assume on their travels.
A prominent Chicago citizen Of Polish
origin declared In discussion u few
years ago that he repudIated the name
Of u "Polish.American," and he said
that he was an Amcrican-Americau
without any other national intermix.
ture Of names to classify himself
among his fellow citizens. There Is
something In tho suggestion.
There are just as many Indians In
the country to-day as there Were on
the day that Columbus landed. The
number has just been estimated ut 207.
900. There IRE whole Indian tribes that
average richer than the general nv.
erage for the country. There are In.
dian poets and Indian statesmen and
Indian soldiers. There Is one full
blooded Indian Congressman-from
Kansas, not the Indian territory. And
there are Indian girls SO we'll educated
and Intelligent that they can ''see
through" such schemers us would have
their hands for the sake Of cheating
them out of their property. Never
mind about the Indians. They are moi
dying out ana may yet regaiv Their
places rs the first families of America
&6
The murderOus assault upon the Pres
ident called attention to ut least one OF
the dangers Of what might be called
the public official Misunderstanding habit
The assassin found his opportunity al
the public reception" In the Temple OF
Music Mt Buffalo, where the President
was cheerfully submitting to the ardu
Gus ordeal of shaking hands with thou
sands of people whom he had never
seen before and probably never would
see again. President Mckinley had
nothing to gain by this unpleasant task
nor was 1t one Of the duties of his office
He was going through the ordeal mere
~ because 1t was the custom and be-
cause he had kindly feeling for every
body. Wholesale Misunderstanding Of this
kind has no particular meaning OF
value, In the opinion of the Chicago
Tribune. 1t merely gratifes Idle curl
osity and gives people chance to say
they ''shoOk hands with the President
Their names remain unknown to the
public official whose hand they have
, shaken, and to him they are merely In
dividual members of crowd as before
10 the official himself the process Ia no,
only stale and improbable but Is for
, midable physical burden. There ar,
few kinds OF work more fatigulng thar
that Of shaking hands continuously fOl
hours with long procession Of people
, Few men are strong enough to endure
1t for any great length Of time. WheI
an attempt Is made to bestOw a smile
and word upon each individual TIN
strain Is further increased, and thu
whole performance soon deterlOrate
into perfunctOry act with no particu
D lar results except an aching shOulde
for the unfortunate man who Ia beini
| exploited. 1t Is time to stop these In
! discriminate Misunderstanding functions
, They are a superannuated survival o.