The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-26
EDITORIAL COMM EMIT

Some persons are less respectable
than they think and less so than they
look. This trite assertion has been
proved in every century as often as
there are ticks of the clock, and it was
proved at New York yesterday when
agents of the Society for the Proven
ton Of Cruelty to Animals removed
dozen pairs of burrs from the mouths
/ of horses owned by rich people, fash
tonable people, select people, leading
citizens and patrons of the Madison
Square Garden horse show. The burr
is an instrument of torture designed to
hurt a horse so that he will champ
plance and behave in a "mettlesome"
way. A burr is a circular leather pad
| about two and one-half inches in d.
ameter, the inside of which is studded
with small punches and stiff bristles
about three-eighths of an inch long, or
in some instances, with nails or
screws. The burrs are placed just
within the cheek pieces of the bits
with the spiked side next the horse $
cheek. or the skin about the corner of
his mouth. When the horse moves
his head to either side or either rein is
drawn upon, the brstles or spikes or
screws prick him.-Washington Star.
There are two sides to the Chinese
I
China for admission of our goods
We want full opportunity for American
citizens to go to China, travel in all
parts of the country. engage in bust
ness wherever they think they see an
opportunity for profit, and they want
to exploit the whole Chinese empire.
On the other hand, we do not want the
Chinese in this country. We do not
want to open our lines Of travel to
hETR Il
any opportunity to work for our peo-
pie. We do not want them to come
here and render even. full equivalents
for the pay which they receive. We
do not want to recognize the spirit Of
either our religion or of our constitu
ton in our dealings with the Chinese.
Is this one-sided feeling any credit
to the American idea of fair play? Is
it creditable to the American idea that
We are not afraid of competition from
any quarter? Most of all, is it credi-
table in any way, to our profession of
the Christian religion ?-F'itchburg
Seminal.
Those northwestern governors who
propose to lasso the trust locomotives,
have the earnest sympathy of the great
public, but they should try and bear in
mind the fate of the Indian who at
tempted much the same thing. 1t will
be remembered that shortly after he
got the moose over the smokestack he
dwindled to chunk of sorely buffeted
jerked beef on the other end of the
lasso.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Our new battleships are to be the
finest in the world, as they shohuld be,
if cost is any criterion, for their esti-
mated cost is 900 each When
they are built our Government will
need to guard it's secret of it's new ex-
plosive very carefully in order that no
possible enemy may get hold of it, The
recent experiments at Sandy Hook
demonstrated that a single shell filled
with this composition and successfully
fired at one of these fine ships would
sink it as easily as if it were one of
the old style "tin-clads. "-Philadelphia
Ledger
There are many thorny questions
threatening the peace of that corona
ton function in London. Now the
United Free Presbytery of GLASGOW
has adopted resolutions protesting
against the use of incense on the oc-
casion, and non-conformists generally
are stirred to i'll suppressed wrath
over the report that the ceremonies
are to be stiffly ritualistic. Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle.
No one can criticise Somerville vo-
tiers for lack of interest in the munich |
pal caucuses, when about 3,100 Repub- |
licans and 700 or 800 Democrats attend |
the primaries.-Somerville Journal.