The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-05

The health officer of Brooklyn Is said to have zealously urged others to submit himself. 1t Is just another case of He jests at wounds who never felt scar" Cleveland. Plain Dealer.
 Elihu Root, Secretary of War, did much to break up an army custom rooted in precedents and mossgrown with favorit- ism when he changed the style of the as- arguments to the stan and made them temporary instead of during life or good behavior. .h-Minneapoii (Minn) Times. 
 Whatever sympathy he American peo- pie may have for the Filipinos, they can- not but realize that this country having assumed the responsibility for. their gov- ernment. cannot recede by allowing it's population to relapse into barbarism or to destroy itself In internecipe warfare Omaha (Nebo Bee.
 The task before Mayor Low is almost colossal in its m litude. The problems involved cannot be solved in three weeks a- three months. The reformers headed bv Df. Parknurst have rendered valyable aid in purging New York of Crokerism. but they are now paving the way for the return of Crokerism to power and plunder.-Chieago tIll) RecordHerald.
 The trouble with ssenator FrNe's bill is that 1t gives-proportionately more to the ocean greyhounds and floating hostelries Tor summer tou. ists than 1t does to the cargo carriers. fact thlt remains fact even though the subsidy Is labeled mail subsidy instead of speed subsidy as h the last Congress.-St. Paul Pioneer Press
 The chief obstacle to a change to the election Of United States Senators by di- rect vote of the people Is the. United States Senate itself. Senator's who hon estly deplore the .absuses that thrive un- der the present system sti. find excuses time. however, urti they will he forced to yield to the persistent demand for re- form. Philadelphia North American.
 There arc gocd reasons, growing out of the diversity of language and custom! why Cuba should not now be made/a part of the United States It Is sufficient that its international position should be In perfect harmony with our own. But Its conditions demand a policy of reel procity in trade relations that might in due time grow into complete commercial Review. of Reviews.
 The real revolution in PeRin is the re- versal of the ridiculous yet dangerous precedents that ir the past hobbled and hampered all of China's outer relations. With Orientals etiquette Is everything, and. while optimism should be tempered.
  come from preventing the Manchu reac- tionaries making up in an insolent cere- monial at Pekin the prestige lost at the treaty ts.-Philadelphia Press.
 When that distinguished delegation of world fair workers invadcs New York for the purpose of securing a world fair ap- propriation of $750.0o0 from the New York State Legislature the way should be found clear and the work easy. Indeed, if the Empire State is awake to the op- portunity for benefiting New York the appropriation finally made will be for round s1,OO0,o0o A better and safer in- vestment is not possible to New York; St. Louis (Mo) Republic.
 The war tax on tea appears to be in- creasing the consumption of coffee in the United States, which Is now by far the largest coffee-consuming country of the world. The importations of coffee. aggre- gated S7.S9l,9l1 pounds in 1910 and S54s71.- S10 pounds in 19nl and it is estimated that 1 ,000. .000. 900 pounds will be imported dur ing the calendar year 1902. Both tea and coffee are stimulants, but the latter Is undoubtedly stronger and therefore more harmful than tea. On this ground also it is illogical to increase the difficulties of the tea trade by the further imposi- tion of the war tax.-Evening Wisconsin.