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'"rhe latest report OF our commerce with
Japan SHOWS constant gain. The United
States Is now the chief exporter To that
country OF electrical apparatus. mining
and papermaking machinery. watch
cases, watch movements and bicycles. In
agricultural s.aIcIn impisments weaving otpsr and
manufactured products we stand second
but our proportion OF exports In these
aliases is Increasing rapidy In rails
of first place In the last few years. The
demand OF Japan for the manufactured
products of other countries is practically
In it's Infancy, and our foremost place In
that market gives promise Of a great and
highly profitable commerce with that
country In the years to come."-Minne-
apolis Times.
There is no lack OF contributions IN
any quarter for the relief OF Martinique
and ST. Vincent. Charity knows no ma
tional boundary lines when overwhelming
woes are visited with elemental fury
upon helpless manity."-Philadelph
Record.
There is one elementary principle
which those who direct the action OF la
Dor unions generally fail TO comprehend.
and that is. that any interruption or cur
tailment OF production Is n loss that can
not be confined to their employers. Work
ingmen may see what n strike costs them
In loss OF wages, which they hope TO make
ture, but they are apt TO imagine that the
rest OF the cost falls upon the capitalists
with whom they are contending. Some
OF II will do so temporarily, but In the
main IL falls upon the community OF con
sumers. including workngmen. and the
employers aimed at suffer the least In the
make up their losses."-New York Nail
and Express
Spain. indeed, as President Palma sug-
gests, ought TO feel "a pride I'm Cuba
coming achievements as an Independent
balm for the wound that she received
when forced TO relinduish her hold upon
the island. d."-Philadelphia Times.
''Croker's interview on the subject Of
Nlxons retirement from the ostensble
control of Tammany Hall. as reported
by cable. shows in every phrase how thor
troll OF that organization. While stoutly
denying that he exercised any coercion
tained by Nixon himseif-he makes It
clear that he has always been the actual
director OF affairs. that nothing OF Inn
portaance has been done without consult
trenched In power now as he ever was. =
Philadelphia Ledger
ne Resignation OF Lewis INlhOn Is ~
new and interesting complication. but its
importance is generally exaggerated. Mr.
Nixon's leadership of Tammany has been
I'm name rather than I'm fact. His retire
ment at this time will give ample oppor-
tunity TO Ill his place and 10 bring the
warning factions amicably together be-
fore the opening OF the state campaign. -
Buffalo Courier.
"The miners have struck. They won't
have TO wait very long 10 discover who II
Is they have struck. k.'-Philadelphla Press
Small wonder that the French news
papers are pitching into their government
for the comparatively small measure of
assistance that Is going out from France
TO the volcano sufferers. and calling at
tention TO the fact that Martinique is a
French, not an American colony. France
is nothing II not thrifty. and breads the
deficit I'm her budget above all things