The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.
THE LESSON OF HORACE GREELEY.

From the Hartford Courant
The New York Tribune is sexagenarian, and we
make il our compliments. It's anniversary number was
beauty We remember its first number very we-the Cou-
ant ss then an observant youngster seventyseven As
the tinted States of Is4 the United States OF 1901 so IS
that little old yellow first Tribune to the splendid Tribune
that reached this Office Wednesday II only Horace greeley
could have lived to see I'll Yet he at his appointed
time to do his appointed work great work was
Horace reeeys name is written indeliby mpesha-
bic chapters of American history Human allible raseoie'
not free from weaknesses not immune against haiterers
subject Gas sudden nhrmities OF temper
and Judgment he was nevertheless great and greatly useful
man He loved justice, he hated inquy he fought for
the right as God gave him to the right and every
American living is his debtor No sueh po-
tent outstanding personality survives in the Ameri-
can press that closed book, conditions have
supervened But the Tribune Of today in ways an
ncomparaby newspaper than Horace Greeeys lr-
bune These times with all their drawbacks better than
his times The takes its politics much more tenn
perately nationally and sanely.
A SENSITIVE TRADE.
From the Boston Herald.
The exceedingly sensitive character of export trade is
made evident by the alarm aroused whenever an interior
ence with threatened The retaliatory action of Russia
was in point and within the last day two the re-
ported order of the English department excluding from
army use all English raised beef has produced quite an
excitement in Chicago and has caused protests to be
telegraphed Washington One would suppose from these
experiences that the American people would realize the some
what hnsy of the glass house in which they live
and which they have for long time been attempting
destructive the glass houses of their
neighbors We have been selling products particularly
the civilized people of the world in quant-
ties that last year exported from the beginning OF the
than any nation exported from the beginning of the
world up to A. D, 1000 And yet while expect our
neighbors buy freely of that which have for sale
vehementy against extending to them anything that
resembles reciprocal treatment The French buy of free
~ the Germans buy of largely the English buy of
dgousy and shut the doors of trade in the faces
the French Germans and English when the question
OF purchasing their from them That shall be able
to practice with impuniy this policy of exclusion for
length OF time is not be believed. He be blind to
obvious signs who does the growing disposition
all OF foreign customers to raise trade barriers
against
PEN SKETCH OF EMPEROR WILLIAM.
From the Boston Transcript.
An illustrated weekly has cartoon pcturng Emperor
William needlessy stirring up the sleeping dogs capable
OF giving him and serious trouble His taka
tveness part and parcel of welldeined policy The
peror explains this writer wishes have his people
slider him the first in the state the originator who
only rules but suggests whose words only be
listened to- but needed His activity strange
and startling to but the German conception OF
is of organization that is governing everywhere and all
the time On the whole the emperor probably shapes his
with clearer understanding his people than his
critics possess He is intense that doubtless his
individuality reacts himself He is Of omniverous
reading given to omnveous questioning In the
three minutes he will ask three questions that will sup
ply him with information and tax all their resources
Nor is the the boor many caricaturss por-
tray On the contrary he is be- socially agreeable
man. Of cordial cultivated manners His physical condition
must stimulate his activity TO nervous times for il
is open medical secret in Europe that trying amen
from which he suffers chronic inflammation OF the middle
is aggravated by the crofuous tendency inerits
afflicted if he be of superior mental powers often
seeks orgetfuness of pain in activity and is
y under temptation TO indulge in the relief excess even
the slightest of the malady after interval
truce The combination of temperament and physique may
make the emperor times cratic it can not make him
the martinez fool OF papers represent him
be for he is emphatcaly of ability of learning and
OF force