The daily Republican., 1902-12-30


additional. 1t is safe nowadays, it
may be added. to let the Road Com
missloners of that hundred have
few thousand dollars. 1t did not
Use to be that way. But since the
Democratic farmers of st. Georges
helped to elect Republican Road
Commissioners, the public money
of the nun ired, SO it is said no
longer finds its way into the private
pockets of the Road Commissioners
The same is probably true Of Apo
qulnimink and Now Castle, as we'll
as of other hundreds.
If the Legislature will eliminate
the bumptlousness and the self
seeking politicians out of this good
roads question, it may he good
proposition to consider favorably.
The Old Year.
Tomorrow will bring to close
the second year of the twentieth
century, and while it has not been
made remarkable by long list of
great events. it has made a few
notable additions to the worlds his
tory. If one were asked to name the
chief characteristic he could not 60
far astray if he selected arbitration
as a means of settlement Of the dis
putes of nations and Of disagree
ments between employees and EN-
ployers. Just as the year is closing
nations Of Europe have agreed to
submit to The Hague Tribunal
their claims against the impoVerish-
ed and badly governed Venezuela.
A nota bic instance at home is the
scheme Of arbitration proposed by
President Roosevelt for the settle
ment of the coal strike, opposed by
both mineworkers and operators
The Commission is pushing its in
vestigation As rapidly as possible
and will no doubt soon be- able to
commend terms of agreement which
will render well nigh impossible a
recurrence of such Calamituus
struggle between capital and labor
in that important industry. In this
matter Of arbitration the year has
given an impetus to policy which
bodies well for the worlds peace and
for the friendship of the nations
| The only war Of moment which
was i'll progress when the year be-
gan was ended by the surrender of
| the Beers and their allies III South
| Africa. Great Britain was able, by
the Use Of its mighty armies and by
| an enormous sacrifice Of life and
money, to crush out the republics
in that land and to compel these
liberty loving people to acknowl-
edge subsection to the English
crown. That land is now at peace
and no doubt will gradually, if
slowly, recover from the terrible
destruction wrought by the con-
querOrs, who by this means forced
the Beers to either surrender or die
Of starvation. The war did not re
dOuud to the credit of that mighty
nation and must always remain
blot upon its history. Revolutions
have been as common as ever in
South America. but none OF them
have risen to the dignity Of wars;
nor can the peaceful blockade of
Venezuelan ports he placed on the
list. England has been chasing the
Mad Mullah. but as now that fear
less individual has twice been re-
ported dead. it is not likely that he
will come back 10 cause more
trouble.
Il hn ,,.G al. l.
some terrible disasters on land and
on the seas. HeadlIg the list, and
III many respects the most appalling
calamity since the world began.
was the eruption of Mont Pelee
and the destruction Of the City Of
st, Pierre, by which not less than
40, 600 people were slain. A second
eruption added more than u thOus-
aui to the awful record About the
same time an eruption by La SOl-
frIrre on the Island Of st. Vincent
caused the deaths Of 500 more.
Seven hundred people We're killed
10y n landslide in the Transcaurasus
Three hundred lost their lives in an
earthquake in Mexico, 800 by a
cyclone III Sicily while hundreds
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