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the lions share Of contracts and are doing
great business In all sorts of supplies.
The consul believes that this activity should
long ago have spread through other parts
Of Africa. While his view may not be as
broad as the circumstances warrant, it is
wise thus to warn the American exporter
of the field which is soon to be opened.
When Africa begins once to develop under
the impulse of a great railway system and
good government there will be no telling
where 1t will stop. The obstacles against
colonization are Insignificant compared with
what they were a generation ago. Practi-
cally the entire southern end of the coutin-
ent. itself vast area when compared with
Europe, is capable today of settlement and
development by white men. The frontiers
are being rapidly pushed both northward
and southwark. The bisecting Of the con-
tinent by the Cape-Cairo railroad will afford
a fresh line OF attack upon the wilderness.
Africa will then be open to invasion from
not only the coast but from line drawn
through its most difficult portion. It Is well
to be prepared for the progress which is
certain to come when this new line Is pro-
vided and judging from the Atbara bridge
incident in the Sudan and the more recent
successes in Cape Colony the American
manufacturer and exporter will not be
found wanting when the market is opened.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17
Gov. Boutwell's Independence,

Governor Boutwell, is far and away the
most logical of the anti-imperialists. TAX
ing the ground. as all of the anti-imperial-
lists do. that the new policy threatens the
existence of the government itself, he goes
to the limit of what the OCCASION from that
view of the case, calls for. He will support
no man for the presidency who subscribes
In any measure to that policy. He makes
no Stipulations as to free silver, free trade
trusts. government by Injunction or what
you will. but as to imperialism the man
who receives his vote for President must
be Internationally against that. There Will
be those to point out that this attitude is
easy for Governor Boutwell, He has had
many honors, is in comfortable retirement
and plays the part now merely of an OBJ
server. No political commission or ambI-
ton restraints his powers. He is answer
able to nobody but himself. Could he afford
such independence, would he indulge in it,
II he stood in Mr.. Hoars Shoes or in those
OF Mr.. Morgan? Mr.. Hoar Is in favor of
scuttle, but in 1904 will support the presi-
Dental candidate who is against it. Mr.
Morgan is against scuttle, but will support
the candidate who in some fashion will be
pledged to it. Governor Boutwells inGe-
pendence may be magnificent, but 1t isn't
politics
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17
Mr.. Bryan's Activity.

Certain democratic politicians are disposed
to lecture Mr.. Bryan on the charge of gar
rulity. They complain that he keeps HIM
self too much in evidence He talks too
much. But few days go by without u
word from him on one or all of the leading
issues of the times. Why is this? Why
should he keep such a constant vigil, and
call out the hour, as 1t were?
Why? Simply because it is both Mr.
Bryans privilege and his business to do so.
These critics forget that Mr.. Bryan Is not
only political leader. but an editor In
the latter capacity he is due to appear in
public discussion once a week. His views
are regularly expected. People pay for
them and they want them not only regu-
larly but well spiced His readers admire
Mr.. Bryans style, and he writes up to the
taste he has created Editor Bryan there
fore is very properly constantly in the pub
lie eye.
Then we have Mr.. Bryan as politician and
orator. He talks better than he writes, and
in many states the people like to hear him.
Lyceum managers offer him inducements to
lecture. He likes to talk and to travel
and these invitations are accepted His
lectures are but thinly disguised stump
speeches, and they create as much discus
sion as his political editorials do Though
not reported in full, they are searched for
pithy paragraphs. and these are put on the
wires and sent over the country.
Between his two occupations therefore
both of them legtimate-Mr. Bryan is kept
busy and prominently before the public He
makes business of politics. He likes the
game, and studies it. There are policies in
which he sincerely believes, and to which he
Is uRalterably committed. He wants to see
them prevail. He is giving up his whole
time to them. What the more bilious of his
adversaries characterize as love of noto-
riety Mr.. Bryans admirers accept as a de-
votion to principle.
Mr.. Bryan needs no encouragement, but
he does well to make himself heard. The
chances at present are against his leading
his party in 1904, but as he has views as to
what leadership that year should mean, and
as he may figure in the campaign If his
views are disregarded. now is the time for
him to address himself to the public on
that point. His opponents in his own party
are, he we'll understands, very much alive
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Judge Taft's Visit Closing.

This governments final note on the sub
feet of the Withdrawal of the Spanish friars
from the Philippines has been delivered to
the Vatican, and Judge Taft will leave
Rome next week. He may receive before
his departure something in the nature OF
reply. II he should not he will proceed
to Manila with no sense of having made a
fruitless visit to Rome, but feeling the bet
ter advised of what may be necessary on
the part of this government in case 1t is
forced to settle the very difficult matter at
issue without the Vaticans valuable assist
arce
The matter, of course, must be settled
This government cannot afford to turn back.
The Americanization of the Philippine
Islands is going forward, and whatever diff
ffculties are in the way will be removed.
The Spanish frfars who remain in the ar
Chipelago are an annoyance to the United
States and no help to the Church of Rome
They are protected from the violence of
their former parishioners by the strong arm
of this government. and that they are in
the way to receive a liberal price for their
landed holdings is due to the same source.
As a matter of fact. therefore. while the
peace the withdrawal of the friars. 1t has
stood for four years as the shield against
their enemies. Had the Filipinos been per-
mitted to have their way. there would not
today be a Spanish friar on top of ground
IN the archipelago. Their lives and their
lands would long since have paid forfeit to
Filipino fury.
Meanwhile it is to be noted with regret
that some of the opponents of the admins
tratiOn are endeavoring to introduce this
question into our politics. The purpose is
as yet little guarded. but still 1t can be
traced. Judge Taft Is described as an en-
envy of the friars, and the attitude of the
members of the first Philippine commission
IS attributed to Protestant leanings or to
no religious belief at all This sort of thing
however, will not bear examination. Amer
lean authority in the Philippines means no
persecution of any church, but opportunity
and freedom for all In no country wnere
Catholicism is the established religion Is the
Roman communion so prosperous and IN
hindered as in this country. where all COM
munions live side by side and accord to one
another the respect that each asks and re-
ceives for itself. The stars and stripes IS
the symbol of no religion. but the shield of
all Religious persecution is impossible I'M
der its folds Ard this is. and will remain
true In the Philippines as in the United
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17
The Illumination of Africa.

The report from United States Consul
Rayndal. al Beira, on the railroad situa-
t!on In Africa. just published by the State
Department. directs attention to the fact
that the dark continent is In a fair way
to become Illuminated by means of modern
transportation. II certain hot. dry regions
known to tradition need only some good
society and little water to make them
according to some observers-and Cecil
Rhodes was among them-is a few railroad
lines. notably one connecting Cairo with
the Cape of Good Hope Rhodes dreamed
OF this great continental line for many
years and pushed 1t to partial success but
died before he witnessed its accomplish
ment. Consul Ravndal believes that 1t will
be fact before many more years have
passed. and cited an agreement Just signed
at Brussels by the King Of Belgium and
ROBERT Williams, a promoter, abandoning
the long-projected German line, which was
one Of the obstacles in Rhodes way, and
providing new basis for a junction of the
rails already laid from both ends toward
the hitherto impossible center of the con-
tinent
Consul Rayndars observations on the
present commercial status of the United
States In Africa are somewhat gloomy. He
does not see sufficient American activity IN
proportion to the enterprise which our mer-
chants have displayed In other parts OF the
world. Yet only recently have come re-
ports from Cape Town indicating that in
the post-bellum rush of building and ex-
panston the American firms have secured
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

You say your daughter goes around tell
ing the neighbors that you are no good"
Yes" answered the young woman's
father.
And she turns up her nose at work Of
any kind?"
Shed have a fit If anybody asked her to
help wash Dishes
And are the reports true that she says
things which shock the minister when he
comes to can?'
I'm afraid they are"
Aren't you going to do something about
it?"
II don't know what to do. I don't know
whether to get angry or to try to feel proud
because we have Mary MacLane in the
family"
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Texas and Democracy.

The Texas democrats at Galveston yes
terday declared their faith in the princi-
Piles OF the party as set forth in the Kansas
City platform" and yet we are solemnly
asked to notice. in a comment on the pro-
ceedings. that neither Mr.. Bryan nor free
silver was specifically mentioned" Why
specifically mention either after indorsing
that which included both? Silver Is In the
Kansas City platform as one of it's leading
features. and Mr.. Bryan stood on that plat
form as his party's candidate for President,
nominated by reclamation. Why whip the
devil around the stump? The democratic
convention. city, county or state which in
dorses the Kansas City platform does all
that Mr. Bryan asks and all that is neces-
sary at this time to advertise its continued
adherence to Organism. 1t is a recognition
OF the fact that Organism survives and
must be reckoned with by the democratic
party In It's calculations for 1904. Nothing
could be palmer than this The absence
OF personal reference to Mr.. Bryan, or of
reference to any particular issue for which
Mr. Bryan stands affords no comfort for
the men who are endeavoring to bring Mr.
Cleveland forward again. Mr.. Cleveland Is
impossible leader to all who even in gen.
eral terms still refer with respect to the
democratic platforms of 1896 and 1900
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A Sad Substitute.

The man who's doomed In town to stay
Throughout the summer heat,
The advertising read one day,
With illustrations neat,
Which tell the weary one just where
A citizen may go
To taste the fresh and bracing air
And feel the breezes blow.
He read of Narragansett Pier.
He studied up Cape May.
To mountains where they hunt the deer
His thoughts would fondly stray.
Far from the crowd his steps were bent.
With Fancy for his guide;
And, later on. he mildly went
And took trolley ride
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Question of the Friars.
From the New York Times

There should be no difference of opinion
in this country upon the question of with
drawing the friars from the Philippines
Wherever. within or without the Roman
Catholic Church. the facts are understood
and duly considered by candid minds there
will be general agreement, we feel sure
that the interests of the natives of the
Philippines, of the church and Of the Unit
ed states government demand the settle
ment of the question substantially upon the
terms proposed at Rome by Governor Taft
Any other settlement would put this gov
eminent In the position of forcing the spirit
ual ministrations OF the friars upon unwill-
Ing partshioners, upon native Catholics to
whom they are, personally and as religious
teachers, wholly unacceptable. That posi-
ton we cannot occupy. in that position the
authorities in Rome cannot wish to place
us.
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A Sensible Summer.

No more we hear of kissing bugs
AS in the days gone by.
No more about the summer girl
In maudlin strains we sigh.
The song that rang with rag-time glee
Is a departed fad.
Life isn't what it used to be
For which I'm very glad.
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1t has been said that the way to reach a
mans heart is through his stomach. For a
long time the best brains of the world have
had the trust question under discussion
from an economic and theoretic point of
view. But the organization of food monop-
olies has awakened the popular mind to
the situation in manner which no amount
of statistics and logical inference could at
tain The appeal is universal. The well-to-
do household accustomed to porterhouse
steak is quite as indignant as the pur-
chaser of plain boiling beef
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An Awakening.

Its terrible said the young girl with
the sad, soft eyes, ito have ones dearest
Illusions thus destroyed
What is the matter?'
''One of my romantic ideals has been
harshly dispelled."
"How?"
MY brother, who has lived in the west.
had told me that the desperadoes who look
so handsome in pictures chew tobacco and
swear"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

Now the strike fever has broken out in
Richmond and the entire street railway
system is tied up. convention of mayors
might probably be held for the purpose OF
adopting uniform rules for the government
OF the police In case of strikes. No city
is immune from this trouble and the bet
ter prepared the municipal authorities are
in advance the less likely is the public to
suffer serious loss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

Governor Taft has found himself in more
delicate positions in a given space of time
than almost any other American statesman.
And he has SO far shown remarkable tact
and Judgment
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1870

Minister WI will probably follow the
usual custom and write book of impress
sions of America. But they will be in Chi
nese, and people over here Will be unable to
read them
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Even if he were in robust condition, the
King of England would be justified in OBJ
jecting to another siege of elaborate corona
ton preliminarieS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

Mrs. Mary B. Eddy, of faith-cure fame.
mas just lost another patient. her sis
ter-in-law. Mrs. Eddys experiences with
other people should prompt her to send for
a doctor In case she becomes sick herself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

The latest Hobson story is to the effect
that he was nearly drowned In rescuing
girl who jumped into the water simply for
the sake of being saved by him If this sort
Of thing continues, Hobson will be justified
In becoming a woman hater
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SHOOTING STARS.
His Guess.

why is it, said the self-conscious young
man who is to be married, that all the
world loves a lover?"
Perhaps" answered the coarse and cyni
cal person, lit is because pity is akin to
love"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

Mr. Gates is not likely TO deny the report
that the w!nd-up of his corn deal will leave
him a loser. The monOpolist would rather
be regarded as martyr than as a CONNER
cial tyrant. whatever the facts may be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

If Convict Tracy could only arrange
few little details with the governor of ore
gon he would stand a first-class chance OF
becoming the greatest dramatic star OF
the next theatrical season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

The man who audits the expense accounts
OF the isthmian canal will have a very
exacting piece of work on his hands. After
Frances Panama scandal the public is sure
TO be more or less curious
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A Patriotic Effort.

why do you name your children after
all the naval and military heroes?'
Because" said Nanny Brown, with a
trace of indignation, ives got to do little
sumpin to show dat republics is not I'M
grateful
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

Chinas new representative will get on
very nicely if he will resolve to regard CHI
nese exclusion as one of the things which
cannot be helped.
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II Mr. Bailey takes the matter up with
MIR. Penfield. there is no telling how many
new bellgerents will take the field. Per-
haps it Is just as we'll TO cut the transac-
tion short
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

With the destruction of Jackson City van
ishes any possibility of Washington's rival
ing some of the conspicuous but doubtful
allurements of other summer resorts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

Policemen who play penny ante should at
least avoid exposing themselves to the view
of persons whom they may subsequently
b. called upon to arrest for shooting crap
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

Aguinaldo has no word of advice to offer
in connection with the Philippines He is
concerned entirely with considerations Of
his own safety.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

In spite Of the fact that It is getting
American goods for less than Americans
have to pay. Europe refuses to think well
Of the trusts
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General Kitchener got much glory for
being man of blood and iron, but General
H r. Jake Smith does not fare well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

1t must be admitted that Mr.. Watterson
Keeps his vocabulary more up to date than
Mr.. Cleveland does.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

Mr. Bryan insists on his right to make
after-dinner remarks, whether he goes to
the dinner or not.
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Chauncey M. Depew Is no doubt convinced
that Bishop Potter married at good, SEN
c atya
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Give Laureate Austin his due. He never
brings a blush to the cheek of innocence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-17

ticeable that all Of the metric references
are to centimeters and relate to minute
dimensions, indicating that when exact
ness in very small things is required the
metric system offers advantages which the
American style lacks. The effect upon the
readers mind is extremely confusing, caus-
ing constant transitions of thought from
one standard to another.
The principal reason today for the Amer
lean adoption of this foreign style OF state
ment Is that it has been accepted by other
countries and Is today virtually the inter-
national standard of measurement. Now
that the United States has taken the lead
In foreign trade 1t behooves our manufac-
turers to adopt style Of statement which
will appeal to the markets which they are
addressing. Catalogues stated In terms OF
feet, acres, pounds or bushels are virtually
useless to the foreign buyer. Yet the for
eign manufacturer who sells to other coun-
tries, not the United States, can conf
IDENTIFY state his wares in terms Of the me-
trio system. His domestic standards are
likewise the foreign standards. If we were
more of a buying nation we should I'M
doubtedly be the quicker to appreciate the
necessity of general understanding II not
formal adoption of the metric system.
Ex-Chief Devery continues to entertain
New York with his daily interviews. Yes
terday he gave away free ice to the peo-
pie in his district and threw $40 in nickels
to the children in the street. He Is work.
ing the publicity game for all it is worth
and is undeniably the central figure In the
eyes of the metropolis today. But then
much allowance must be made for the lack
Of news sensations. 1t is a question where
Devery will be when the real campaign
grows warm. Mercurial New York has lett
many a better man in the shade of OBJ
livion.
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On Fourth Floor

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The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-20

blsbee on July 4th. The giorious col
'eorauon at that point is not lust the
attraction, but the grand lodge will
present the Bisbee division with a
handsome banner. The A. O. Il. w
IN that city is 500 strong. and tha
lodge is the largest in the Territory,
Inc Tucson aggregation has secured
reduced rates, and three special cars
VIII be run down TO Bisbee on the Nd
ihey are gathering in all of their
friends for the procession. and n ia
thought about 200 people will accom-
pany the lodge TO Bisbee.
The band concert at the Park last
evening drew a large crowd. The pro.
gram consisted of classic selections
and popular airs. The number az
people that turned out to hear the band
was evidence that Tucson enjoys good
music. The residents who have m
spend the summer months at home
would certainly enjoy a concert three
evenings, or even one, week. Thera
seems to be sufficient talent In the CITY
Tor a good sized orchestra or band. If
only some leader would volunteer to
take hold of II. Mr. Mariner would
willingly do so. but his duties are
such that he Is in the city only off and
on. Some OF our musical societies
could probably do much along this line
II they would only take 1t up.