The Washington times., 1901-07-16
POLITICAL COMMENT.

Strike or no strickland we suppose
there will be strikes so long as the sad
\ Old world wags on-let's have no hurting
| OF stones or casting of bricks or firing
| OF pistols or shooting of guns or driving
OF knives. Deadly as they are. they are
\ quite as ruinous to those employing them
| as to their victims despite ali that the
| advocates of force have to say-Phiiadei-
phie Inquirer
President Mckinley has now tried the
horseless carriage. A Wild -horseless Com
York World.
Since the abolition of the navy canteen
| our sailors have taken to drinking wood
alcohol on board ship. The drink is said
10 De second only to vitriol in its exhil-
arating effect. Let the good work go on.
milwaukee, Sentinel.
The mercury took more degrees than
Hanna did IN the late hot spell-Bir-
mingham Age-Herald.
In summer. Andrew Carnegie should
stop giving libraries and give away bath
tubs.-Chicago Record-Hera1d.
It's comfort to hear that copious rains
are falling throughout India. This means
that although our own crops may fall a
little short, we shall not be compelled to
send what surplus we may have to that
| famine-stricken country.-St. Louis Star.
1t is not of much consequence what the
jaunty Chauncey says. after his recent
bad break in London. Nobody that knows
him now takes him seriously. He is the
senatorial Gratiano.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Here's more power to the arm of the
American Consul at Tientsin. who has
undertaken to impose stiff sentences upon
American looters.-Boston Journal.
The American business men who have
offered to contribute enough money to
make Consul General Stowe the best
paid Consul at Cape Town, In order to
keep him at his post, have paid him a
high compliment even though under the
law the Government cannot accept tie
offer.-Boston Globe.
The Maryland Legislature is being asked
to sling Mudd into the United States
Senate.-Cincinnati Commerciai-Tribune.
If further opportunities fail General
Funston In the Philippines he can now
come home and engineer the New Jersey
end of Surgeon General Sternberg's cam
paign against the perfdious mosquito
Chicago News.
General Otis denies that he had any dis
agreement with General Macarthur in the
Philippines. 1t need not be remar<e ed
that General Otis never disagreed with
anybody in the Philippines-not even with
the Ffiipinos.-Chicago Journal.
With regard to the complaint that the
British Government is hampering Kitch-
ener, 1t is possibly true; but it is proba-
Bile that the Government does not ham
per him half much as the Beers do
Pittsburg Dispatch
Our Minister to Turkey ought to be able
to get job as collector anywhere.-In-
dianapoiis News.
1t would be downright funny to the peo-
pie who have to pay for the protection ac-
y
if war should break out between these
two infant industries, caused by the en-
barrassment with Russia. Russia pro-
poses to punish our iron if we persist in
furnishing its sugar. Truly, If fight
should come Up between these two, the |
world would be an Interested spectator
Galveston News.
In speaking of Canton it is now nee
essary to locate the one meant.-Atlanta |
Constitution
The good people of Ironton. Ohio. got |
after negro the other evening and came |
very near mussing up the anti-lynching |
plank in Mr.. Forakers Republican plat |
form--Philadelphia Times
Perhaps Teddy has got the Constitution |
with him At any rate it appears to be |
hopelessly lost.-Houston Post
The matter of granting franchises in
the Philippines and other islands is to |
come Detore Congress at the coming seS- I
sion. 1t is question fraught with more |
difficulty than appears upon the surface. |
Springfield News.
The American people are beginning to |
realize the fact that our navigation laws |
have protected American shipping of /
the high seas, and there Is much reason 1
to believe the day is not far distant when, |
in obedience to the popular demand. |
Congress viii repeal these antiquated |
laws which have caused the decay of our |
merchant marine.-New Orleans States.