The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-22
EDITORIAL COMMENT

1t is doubtful If there has for a cen
fury been such a general and wide
spread prevalence of the smallpox as
exists today. The disease is round in
practically every city in this country
London has been full of it for months
and ships arriving at home and foreign
ports report it among their crews. A
prominent physician, discussing the
matter recently, said that the trouble
was primarily due to the efficiency of
vaccination. 1t had so subdued the
disease that the public had fallen into
a sense of security that bred indif-
ference, and had largely neglected the
precautions which safety demands.
There will have to be a new uni
versal starting up of vaccination to get
the disease under again.-Hartford
Current.
The election of Denis Mulvihill, the
stoker-mayor of Bridgeport, CT, was
not "a triumph of the labor party,
as seems to have been the impression
with many, for Mayor Mulvihill, al
though always a laboror with his
hands, whose greatest earnings were $14
a week, was not connected in any way
with labor politics or a member of a
labor union In fact. the stoker-may-
or, in an interview since his election,
said he docs not believe in labor I'M
ions, nor does he take stock in labor
agitators." Denis Mulvihill is a
staunch Democrat, was nominated by
the Democrats, but was elected by the
votes of men of all parties, receiving
an overwhelming majority in a city
that has steadily elected Republican
Mayors.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The long skirt is an anomaly on the
streets. 1t is a survival of the recep-
ton room or the seraglio. 1t is a good
thing out of place. Just as public opin-
ion refuses to countenance the bathing
suit for the feminine street wear at the
seaside resorts, and as it steadfastly,
and at last, under legal penalties, re-
fused to countenance in public places
the breakfast wrapper, or Mother Hub
bard, so it is working up to the point
of protest against the trailing street
gown. The latter is as much an Of
Tense against the modesty of nature.
or of art. as a dress suit at business.
Indeed. that is just what 1t is.-New
York Mail and Express.
One of the striking features of the
unique equipment for the Presidency
which Theodore Roosevelt possesses is
his first-hand, thorough knowledge of
manly anu Wlu6ly plldSCo VI
American life and development. He
has lived at Harvard, in the upper
social world of New York city, in Off
cial Washington, and also among and
almost as one of the cowboys of the
wide western plains. He has more
nearly tasted and measured all of the
leading forms of American life than
any other president since the Ameri-
can republic became a great, complex,
mary-sided nation.-Cleveland Leader
The German Emperor seems to be
exceedingly DESTROYS that American
yachts and yachtsmen shall assemble
in force at the Kiel regattas in order
to increase the brilliancy of the gath
erings at that Continental centre Of
ocean competitions. Uncle Sam is car
rying the broom at his masthead as
the ruler of the seas in craftsmanship,
and our Teutonic friends readily ac-
knowledge him as champion. May the
empire and the republic meet in many
a friendly battle of representative YES
sels!-New York Tribune.
The French minister of education is
preparing plans for teaching foreign
languages by means of conversations
ana oral exercises. If American edu-
Gators will take this to heart our ma
tive French might be considerably i'm
proved.-New York Press.