The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-14
EDITORIAL COMM EMIT


! Senator Lodge addressed the Middle
sex Club at Boston and urged upon re-
publicans the ACCESSIBILITY of a policy
! of commercial reciprocity. Gen. James
H. Wilson spoke before the New Eng
land Free Trade League at Boston on
Our Trade Relations With the Trop-
les" and advocated a broader CONNER
cial relationship with Latin America.
James B. Dill, an eminent New York
lawyer addressed the Mercants' Club
of Chicago on TRUSTS, Their Uses
and Abuses" advocating a policy of
publicity. He held that combination
is not vicious, but that methods some
times employed by combines are. Lord
Salisbury, in a speech at the lord may
or's banquet, defended the British
! ministry in it's conduct of the Anglo
Boer war and the English policy in
South Africa.-Washingto Star.
President Roosevelts civil service re-
form ideas are causing the profession
al politicians no end of anxiety. He
has already made it perfectly clear to
| them by the character of his appoint
ments that purely political considera-
| TONS count for little with him as
against the efficiency and honesty of
the public service. His practice Of Sc
lecting Federal officials on his own re-
sponsibility because they are good and
competent men interferes sadly with
the so-called vested rights of Sena-
tors and National Committeeman and
State bosses, who hold that it is the
Presidents part to ratify whatever
recommendations they make-Philadel-
phia North American.
Had Sampson been present with the
fleet at the moment Cevera started out
the present controversy would never
have arisen. He would have gone
down to history as one of the greatest
American naval heroes. He missed his
chance by half an hour. The accident
of his going to confer with Shafter at
at the moment Cevera dashed out can
not rob him of his just reward for
long, faithful and invaluable services
of his country and for ouch efficient
work in building the American navy
as can be claimed for no other officer
in it.-Topeka (Kan.) Capital.
The industrial supremacy of the Uni
ted States is attracting more attention
abroad every month, and foreign edi-
tors and speakers, who a few years
ago thought what this country was
doing was of such little moment that
it was rarely referred to in a serious
manner, are now discussing the sub
ject from every point of view and
seeking to get at the causes. The enor-
nous resources of the country, of
course, give the United States a great
lead, but it is the efficiency of labor
that is startling the foreigners.-Balti
more American.
From out of the silence of the misty
blast where the bean pot smoketh on
the Sunday breakfast table comes a
weird, wild cry like unto that of the
loon. SOMEBODY says the Independence
is to be rebuilt. Hammers and chal-
lengesl Is this craft to be the Flying
Dutchman of American yachting?-
New Yark Press
No less than six hundred athletes
participated in the football games that
were reported in Sundays Leader, and
the fact that not one of them was seri-
ously injured shows that the percen-
tage of accidents to the number of
players is not so large after all
Cleveland Leader.
The fact is recalled that in 1881,
after the death of President Garfield,
the republicans had great majorities at
the November elections, but it is also
remembered that the result was de-
cidedly different in 1SS2.-Hartford
Times.
Mr.. John E. Redmond is reported to
have said, speaking of the revival of
Gaelic in Ireland: "You can't have a
separate nationality without a separ-
ate tongue" Did Mr. Redmond ever
hear of Switzerland?-New York Tri-
bune.
The Duke of Cornwall and York has
become the Prince of Wales and Earl
Of Chester. When last heard from,
however, Ernest Thompson Seton had
the same name.-Chicago Record Her
aid
David B. Hill is willing to pose as
Phoenix over the ruin of Tammany
bun, after ali, may be the only hope of
the national MISUNDERSTANDING
Leader.