The Washington times., 1901-07-28
POLITICAL COMMENT.

| Perhaps the President finds 1t SO hard
to get a lawyer to take the s6,e00 a year
| New York judgeship because he has
asked no one who Is not employed by the
| trusts.-Chicago News.
Emperor William is all right He has
| a love of the theatrical and makes
speeches on every possible occasion that
at times sound rather bombastic, but he
has done great deal for the German na-
ton and 1t doesn't make much difference
how he wears his whiskers so long he
maintains the present position of his EN-
pire.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ex-senator Blair of New Hampshire has
discovered that, under God and Mckinley,
Secretary Gage is responsible for the pros
perity Of the country. and that he de-
serves to rank with Hamilton, Gallatin,
Chase, and Sherman as the greatest OF
the Secretaries of the Treasury. Nobody
knows exactly what the. ex-senator is
after, but it is reasonably certain that.
whatever. 1t may be. Mr.. Gage has it in
his possession. and that it will be forth
coming in due time.-Chicago Chronicle.
Civil government in Luzon is so COM
plete that Secretary Root says he will
suppress several newspapers that have
dared to criticise the military. The civil
government In Luzon would be a most
enjoyable joke were ii not for the fact
that 1t Is too hot to laugh.-Omaha World
Herald.
No man or set of men has a right to
assume the conduct of an enterprise of
the magnitude of the Steel Trust unless
possessing the ability to deal with a crisis
of this sort in a rational and judicious
manner. Five thousand troops were un-
der arms for three months for the protec-
ton of Mr.. Carnegie's works during the
Homestead affair. The American people
do not wish to provide an army of militia
to run Mr.. Morgan's Steel Trust this sum-
mer. They don't want a repetition Of the
Homestead business.-Boston Post.
Once more we get reminder that the
one hero of the Santiago campaign was
General Shafter.-Chicago Tribune.
The Steel Trust is losing $4,000 day,
but under the robber tariff It will recoup
its losses from customers. Its home price
for rails alone will do it.-Birmingham
Age-Herald.
We hope that President Mckinley will
spare no effort to stop the lynching of ne
groes in Ohio.-Atlanta Journal.
Now when a man has been lied about
he can be said to have been Maclayized.-
Baltimore World.
When King Edward VII thanked COM
mittee representing the American donors
of the new Maine to England for loyal.
dutiful service he paid them 'compIi-
ment' which they could scarcely have ax-
pected or indeed fully realized.-Boston |
Globe.
China today could supply the world with |
workingmen, but we do not want it to be- |
gin with us.-Chicago Journal.
Everything is settled In China now save |
the setting.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Perhaps some one will now undertake |
to publish a work upon Cuba that will |
drive Mr. Neely to ask TIE court to rro- |
ceed to an investigation of the charges |
that have appeared in the newspapers |
against hir. There seems to be no other |
way of sett'i his case taken up.-Man- |
chester Union.
Our exports are increasing in every line. |
South Africa has recently ordered 0.0O0 of |
our lady bugs. The katydid and rain frog |
Kansas merits the rame of being the |
Iunatic asylum of the nation.-Atlanta
Constitution.
Mr.. Havemeyer's idea of protecting the |
cane and beet growers by admitting raw
sugar free is the most remarkable exam
pie of tariff perspicacity on record.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
The Department OF Justice is said to
regard discussion of the failure to prose-
cute Rathbone and Neely as newspaper
ticials the right to regard their detention.
as governmental impertinence. Ii IL n
queer rule of impertnence that will not
work both ys.-Philadeiphia Times.
1t is a great mistake on the part OF |
employers of labor to mingie the flames
of race controversy with the passions |
engendered in a great strike. The COM
bination of two such elements Is sure to
cause an Observation-Disclosures Record,