The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-04-19
Ohat Others
fire Saying.

''ln the light of current events the
announcement that The Hague court
OF arbitration is organized and ready
for business has am unconscious Irony
OF its own Ar International court OF
arbitration f. a splendid thing, if the
idea is honestly adhered TO. But when
the Powers agree 10 establish such a
court and then proceed 10 ignore the
principals which underle its creation,
there is good deal of mockery In the
declaration that the pacific tribunal Is
open TO international disputants. -
Pittsburg Dispatch.
when the army appropriation bill
was before. congress there were long
and warm discussions over the cam
teen system. Congress yielded 10 the
prohibition sentiment Of the country
and abolished ,he canteen. We are
now hearing from the results Of this
legislation. The news from all the
army posts Is the same. Just outside
the reservations saloons are springing
mp, and drunkenness among the en-
listed men Is increasing. and incress-
ing alarmingly Philadelphia Inquir-
cr.
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and oarsmen wrangle and Witty the
umplres and one another and fight
ike cats and dogs. IL they must. Ev-
cry student who takes part In a com
petition should be Of gentle manners
and OF stainless record. our colleges
should send only true Bayards with
out fear and without reproach To the
battlehelds of Undergraduate rivalry.
Honor, fairness and good feeling
should never be forgotten I'm the i'm
petuous strife for the unsoiled prizes
of amateur fame, and cunning and
scheming should be excluded from the
counsels Of college clubs and from the
actual struggles of college athletes"
New York Tribune
I'm the present infiamed state of the
European correspondents imagination
that rumor OF somebody knitting Kru-
ger may have arisen from some bar
ber expressing longing TO cut his
whiskers s"-Philadelphia Times.
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"Aguinaldo ran so well when our
soldiers were chasing him that he
may feel encouraged 10 run for office
after his manifesto gets in it's work"
Los Angeles Herald.
-s.o.s
"The doctors now say that there are
twenty-eight miles OF sweat glands I'm
the human skin There are hundreds,
II not thousands OF people in Texas
who have never made even one mile
OF these glands do duty! IL is from
this element that crime comes Yet
the roads I'm many localities need
work. News.
"1f II be true that President Castro,
of Fenrzueia. has accumulated s2000.-
600 during his brief term of office, pol
tiles in South America appear To offer
Inducements that might even attract
the attention OF Philadelphia ex-
perts. ts."-Phiadelphia Record.
s.o.s.
There are several reasons why the
collossal Steel Trust would not well
come "A strike Of iron and steel work
ers at this time. In the first place. the
details OF the consolidation have just
been arranged and IL is essential for
the success OF this gigantic corpora
tion that there should be no interrupt
tion OF it's business. In the second
place, the organizers uf tt1e-t trust
they have effected is looked upon with
suspicion by great many people in
this country Baltimore Sun.
.s.o.s
'"The coal strike never came. The
steel strike early threatened died
away. With works fully employed and
wages high IL is not probable that any
extensive steel strikes will come
ow."-PhiIadelphla Press.
There is a statue of George Wash
ington in one or the public places OF
Caracas. We trust the Venezuelans
will not precipitately demolish st. All
may be happy between us yet."-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
Japan can never forget that China
was her first instructor, even though
the pupil has progressed beyond the
teacher. She is still affected by the
old prestige of her neighbor and liz in
clined To commiserate her misfor-
tinctly throughout the history OF the
last year."-Chicago Record Herald.
-s-O.s.
"The compiler OF the book Who's
Who I'm American would confer
kindness by getting up another vol
ume telling us Which Is Which in
China?' boston Herald
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