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Arizona republican., 1902-12-25
Queer Political Fish,"

The Mexican Herald. which is in a pretty good position to give reliable pointers on the question of establishing closer relations between the United States and the Latin-American coun- tries, points out that our government has too frequently offended the sensi- bilities of our southern neighbors by sending down there the riff-raff of our political parties to represent us in diplomatic and consular positions. The position taken by the Herald is not a new one, oi course, but it is none the less entitled to serious consideration Says the Mexican paper:
 Tt takes a good while for the South American republics to forget that for long years Washington sent them all sorts of queer decayed political fish as ministers and consuls. Anything too odorous for European countries was good enough for Latin America So down there went chaps with red noses and alcoholized livers who got drunk, swore at the "dagoes," and took up any adventurer's claim against the governments of that part of the world Uncle sam used South America as a dumping ground for the war horses of politics, slightly spavined and har- ness-galled. Being a quick and pene- trating people. the Latin Americans caught on'' and felt irritated. The fruit of all this depreciatory treatment We now see in the South American sen- timent oi hostility to the big republic of North America. Then, of late. men like former minister to Venezuela (was 1t LoomisO made speech in which he advocated the annexation of the Caribbean littoral," as safe guarding the approach to the Panama canal. This was bad diplo- macy and stupidly bad taste. It is not the way to enhance the fame and
Arizona republican., 1902-12-25

prestige of the noble republic of Wash ington in Latin America.
 "Modestly may we suggest that the way to conquer South America" is to say nothing about impossible annexa- tions. to make tariff that will admit. free of duty, the great staple exports or all these southern countries, put on steamships to connect their ports and those of the United States. and go to trading in manly, earnest fashion. Commerce has a civiliZing effect. Amer jeans are learning Spanish more than ever and they would be glad to go down there in the interest Of trade. They would revive some oi the fine old friendships Of early days.
 Don't talk Monroe and his doc trines; the South Americans are sore on that point. and SO let 1t alone. Time enough to invoke Monroe or the unit ed peoples of the new world. when some great act of spoliation is attempt ed. Remember that Latin America is in d state of political evolution; it is going through a prodigious fermenta- ton. Time will make things better and honest enterprises will promote Deace"
Arizona republican., 1902-12-25

Mr. Mitchell's appeal to union men to listen to criticisms by those outside their organizations is excellent advice
 There are two sides to every question. and the unions need to be told and to hear the other side. MT. Mitchell was probably right in saying that If labor and capital would sit down together and tell each other the truth, the days of strikes and lockOuts would be al an end; but this will never happen as long as union men refuse to recognize that labor organizations are not above criticism and that those who point out their faults are not necessarily enr- mics to be denounced and reviled.- Kansas City Journal N
Arizona republican., 1902-12-25
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CURRENT COMMENT
Need to Hear the Other Side.

The severe criticisms of labor unions rules and methods lately made by Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hills of New York and President Eliot of Harvard. called forth several heated responses iron. representatives of organized labor in different parts of the country. John Mitchell president of the United Mine Workers. shows again that saneness or view which he often manifests in his public utteTances, in the comments jus made on both critics and respondents. He intimates that it is not evidence O. wisdom for union workingmea 90 De- come superheated every time anybody speaks disapprOvingly of them or their ways. Tt is q healthy sign" he says when such men as Dr. Hills and Pres ident Eliot take cognizance of the u9- ganiZed labor movement Even their opposition is beneficial. for when surl men discuss the labor movement they will make men think about it." He good naturedly predicted that "Dr. Hills will some day become a trades unionist if he is really a student ot economies"
 It is unfortunate that more labor leaders, and more of the rank and fii= of labor unions, do not take such q view as this of those who oppose them. They do not see that this spirit or In tolerance is the dearest confession they could make that the positions they take are weak and the methods they employ wrong and vicious. No well informed man questions that the labor unions have done a great deal of good in every country where they exist They have enabled the workers unitedly to resist the encroachments of unfair employers; they have protected the weak, although sometimes at the ex. pense of justice; they have exerted a powerful influence in keeping up wages But they are so violent at times ana so inconsistent at other times, as tu merit the sharpest criticism ana se- veres reproduction. They seem to think no worker who opposes them has any rights they ought to respect.
Arizona republican., 1902-12-25
HE FOUND A CURE.

R. H. Foster. SIS s. End Street. Salt Lake City, writes: "I have been both- cred with dyspepsia or indigestion for q years. have tried many doctors with out relief, but l have found q cure in
 ierDine. ! r""onrwe01 it to all my friends, who are afflicted that way and 1t is curing them. too. soc at Elvey x Druggists.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23

The dispute between the War and Navy
Departments over the design Of the Presi-
dents flag has been settled without blood
shed. The question was whether the shield
on the breast Of the eagle, which forms the
centre OF the Great Seal Of the United States,
and is reproduced on the flag in question,
should contain seven red and six white
bars. or seven white and six red bars. The
national flag has a field of seven red and
six white bars. but on referring the matter
to the Secretary of State, the official keeper
Of the seal. the disputants learned that the
shield on the seal bore seven white and six
red bars. They have accepted the arrange
ment. and the Presidents flag henceforth
will display the shield SO emblazoned.
That the Great Seal is thus blazoned,
and has been so since 1882, does not make
it's arrangement Of the stripes correct.
The seal reproduces the colors Of the national
flag, but reverses them without heraldic
justification This is due perhaps TO the
fact that the accepted suggestion for the
seal came from an Fnglishman, Sir JONI
PREsTwICH an antiquarian, but not ia .iliar
with our flag. The decision Of the State
Department, being on matter Of fact,
il correct; and 80 is that Of the War and
Navy Departments; but the Great Seal
should be changed to make 1t agree accu-
rately with the flag which 1t pretends TO
copy
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23
HANDS or 4 MONEY HANDLER.
A Line OF the Business In Which veavety
Fingers DO Not Predominant.
,roy, m. Mem Orleans Times De moevaf.

From the Nen Orleans Times DE- m oevdf
Look at my hands, said a man a. he
drif,ed into the ONCE OF well-known business
man. and as ne said it he stretched his fingers
out 10 their full length, exposing the palms
of his hands The nsides OF his hands were
very rough. That was eXa city what he
wanted 10 call attention to.
DO YOU see these crus,y formations" he
continued, these corns. and bunions and
knots and other things OF that sort? Look
at EN-" He still held his hands open for in
he asked -spfstin' woodf| answered the
rusty hands NAV in railsP" yentured the
man again. Nope, was the short rsebly Of
a cross-cut saw" suggested the man as
last resort. but he was wrong again, Well,
how on earth did you get EN- them" he asked
with show Of impi thence. "Handlin
at the look OF disgust and incredulity WHICH
spread over the face of the man he was talk
ing 10. Yes, sir; | got all these corns, and
hunions, and knots. and other rough things
money money You see | work for the traction COM
rany. and have to handle and sort all the
money of the company. 1t is awfully hard
on the hands. great deal OF the money
in ba ~ and packages Z various 81 res. There
is so much OF II that FLOWS hand soon be-
come hard on the inside and gradually grow
into the knotty condition which you md
handling money Is not the soft and veivety
business IL il generally supposed to be- The
association of soft white hands with the
business of handling money y dead wrong.
and II any man doubts what say about II
simply ask him to step up and take n look
And the money handler with the rough
hands blew out as suddenly as no had blown
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23
The strength Of Socialism g..

To THE EpIToR OF THE SrN-Sr, I ques-
ton the correctness OF several of the asscr-
tions of your editorial of to-day on The
Socialist Party" | understand - that the
Socialists poiled three times aS many votes
IN 1902 IA in 1900. 90, that they have steadily
increased their vote since the Introduction
OF the party In America t3), that the full
strength of the idea Is not shown by the So
cialist vote, much of It showing In the Popu-
list. Democratic and even the Republican
parties; besides tho Socialists are split in
twain.
The Socialist movement here is part Of Il
world movement, and while new and COM
paratively unknown In the United States,
II has thrivcd and prospcrcd abroad Popu-
lism may be only "a political squall," but
so cialism Is not The one was halfway
measure, "a group OF measures; the other l.
a complete system with one set. fixed idea
The one acted as resting place for all of the
discontented. the other attracts only those
who believe In the one great radical idea
Hence the growth of the Socialists il more
significant.
Inquest onably. the coal plank in the New
York Democratic platform attracted many
voters. like myself, although II also drove
many away, and thus lessened the Socialist
vote The fact that the Democratic party
with its socialistic coal plank came within II 900
Of Carrying the great COZ, co1Servaaiys tmpiTIe
detcrmini ing the growth Of the government
OWNERSHIP idea. find nothing In the Demo-
cratic platforms Of lsae and 1900 that i 80
except perhaps bimctalism. and that is no
more populi.tic than i + Democratic and
IN oG n. brTSs
Is not socialist c nor even Populistic He Is a
pure .Jenersonian Democrat, a strict individ-
ualist and an anti-collectiyi.t, ,
BROOKLYN, Nov. 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23
The Potter Casa Union Man Advises
His Neinsf ement.

To THE EpIroR or THE SUN-Sir; am a
trade unionist and want to express my hich
apprcciation Of your treatment Of the Potter
cg>c. I think that the expulsion of Potter
from hi, union because he belonged TO the
militia was a piece of stupidity in line with
There i, no doubt in my mind but that the
whole amir was planned by some of those
.ly capitalits in svmuathy with the coal
harons to bring discr'dt upon tn" great work
of settling the coal -trik"
NV advice to the Painters and Decorators
Union j. to promptly rc~ctnd the rrsolul ion
cXppling Potter and restore him TO his ri hi
Let II bc accompanied by grand patroi &c
demonstration ,
Thi, REASONABLE business must b" stamped
ont II l. We'll known that there l. no POWER
ON the fac. of the earth that can absolve a
citizen from hi dlleCiGncc to hi- governmet
The tendency of the whole dc-licablc AFFAIR
1. to rctard the great trade union movement
for n quarter OF n century.
Jrnsty CRY Nov ~ JAMES Brown,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23
The Triumphs Of Surgery.

throughout last week Midshipman
AIKEN. left guard on the football team
OF the Annapolis Cadets, was a subject
Of general public attention, He had been
struck on the head in the game with
Bucknell on the preceding Saturday.
Delirieus and in commissions, his life was
despaired OF. 4 very few years ago an
injury such as his would have been
diagnosed vaguely as an injury of the
brain, beyond human help, and the
victim would have died. Not so to-day,
however. The Dean of American sur
gerry, Dr. KEEN of Philadelphia, was
called upon. and to-day AIkEN's recov-
cry Ia looked for
Within the last few years experiments.
upon animals chiefly, have demonstrated
that the brain is not homogeneous organ
In which all the functions are located
generally throughout its substance, but
that its government of the body is di-
vided bet cen certain centres, or foCi In
consequence Of our accurate knowledge
concerning localization Of the functions
In the brain the surgeons in this case were
enabled 10 ueCl0e ueIlintelN lntt nefIl-
orrhage had occurred on the surface of
AIKENT bnin, to define its position pre-
cisely, TO open the skull AT the point indi-
catedSto find the clot of blood where
they had predicted il would be found
and TO remove it, The triumphs of
modern surgery in all sorts of accidents
and operations are familiar story to
the exp~tt and he no longer wonders at
them; but to those unfamiliar with such
facts they seem incredible.
What will strike the average layman
as particularly noticeable is that while
AIKEN suffered, as the records indicate,
no fracture of the skull and scarcely
even any perceptible brlise on the head
yet from the localizing symptoms alone
the surgeons were assured as to the
cause and seat OF the trouble and 80
ventured confidently upon what we
most earnestly hope will be success
full treatment.
This marvellous age can show no
greater marvel than the physiological
learning and faculty for making Use of
II that were invoked to save Mdship-
man AIKEN, =
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23
The New York Central's Tracks

The proposition to lower the tracks
Of the New York Central railroad from
the Grand Central Station to Fifty-sixth
81. 'ect is backed by the irresistible force
of common sense and public convent
ence. 1t must come sooner or later; 80
the sooner the better
Traffic has to suffer for every inter-
ruption in the plan Of the streets. Every
park is chargeable for making trouble
in this respect, each one raising the issue
of public recreation and business in pro-
portion To its size. The New York Cen
trail tracks constitute a greater disturb
ance of business than any park south OF
the Harlem, except the Central Park.
If there were no known remedy the
tracks would of course have to stay as
they are, because they are public
necessity Of the first class. But ex-
perience shows, as in the case of the
Broad Street Station in Philadelphia, that
railroad tracks can be on different level
from that of the street without practical
difficulty. Before long we may expect
TO see the Central tracks lowered and the
existing bridges over them brought
down to city grade.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23

impossible to draw a line between the
functions Of an imperial Parliament and
those of subordinate Parliament Of the
United Kingdom than it has proved to
draw line between the functions of our
Federal Congress and those of the Legis-
lature of the State of New York. II is
not the British Isle. but the colonies, that
would have more TO lose than to gain by
the institution of such an imperial Parlia-
meht clothed with the power of taxation
and appropriation for imperial purposes.
Under such a regime the colonies would
be no better protected than they are to-
day. while, on the other hand they would
have to pay incompirably more for the
same protection. As things are now, the
Dominion Of Canada the Commonwealth
of Australia and other self-governng
colonies have exclusive control of their
own taxation and their own expenditures,
and, being safoguarded by the navy
and army of Great Britain, are obliged
10 disbursc only insignificant amounts
for defence against foreign agrees ion
The situatio of their inhabitants is
ideal; they have all the liberties, and but
few Of the burdens. of Englishmen. There
was a time, no doubt, before the colonies
were made self-governing, when Canada
and Australia would have welcomed the
invitation to send representatives to the
Parliament at Westminster. For the sake
of the preferred privileges, they would
have accepted the inseparable respon-
sibilities That day has gone by.
What the Saturday Rerior overlooks is
the fact that its proposal is identical in
principle with Mr.. GLADsToNE's second
Home Rule bill, which was based on the
assumption that Ireland, while transact
ing her local affairs in Dublin legisla-
ture, might send delegates to Westmin-
ster, who, however. should be debarred
from speaking and voting on those ques-
tons in which Great Britain should be
exclusively concerned. This feature of
the bill was denounced by the Saturday
Rerier as flagrantly impracticable. Yet
the same journal now proposes to give
Colonials exactly the same privileges
which it desired to withhold from Irish
men. lrishmen now want those privi-
leges, but they would want them if they
occupied the position of independence
which was long ago conceded TO Cana
dams and Australians.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23
This Man Cured Himself OF the Opium
Habit.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir; Regard
ing the use OF opium. desire to give express
sion at this time to my condemnation OF those
persons and institutions that advertise cures
for the addicted
For ten years was victim OF the habit
I was never seriously alarmed until ] tried
to break on, which finding il difficult TO do.
kept on because I read the ads of so many
cures that felt safe in using II with IMMUNITY,
taking 800 grains OF gum opium daily-feeling
fine all the time Finally ! resorted TO one
of the companies who stu have an oflioc on
Broadway above Madison square took
their cure for one whole year. and got no
nearer a cure than before taking II. ! left
them and took -, tof Chicago) remedy
continuing II for three whole years. II well
nigh killed me and ruined my Kidneys
Giving II up had to resort to the same
200 grains daily, but began Immediately To
cure myself by reducing my dose one grain
daily Inside of year | was cured. and
now have no moro desire for the drug II
can be done but those scamps should be-
prohibited for encouraging the habit
SAMUEL p SiMCoAK.
BELyipRRH n j. Nov. 20.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23
UNFOLDING THE LAW.
After Lecturing the Prisoner. the Judge
Proceeded TO Sentence Him.


sir Francis Jeune has an effective snec-
dote in connection with reform of the d.
vorce laws Before the act Of 1851 divorce
before the houses OF Parliament, and the
hardship thus imposed upon the mass Of
the populnt ion was deeply felt and many
proposals Of reform Were made
:, 1T Is said. Sir Francis J"une writes. IN
tn. article on Divorce, that the final I'M
hv Justice Maule The prisoners VT had
deserted him with her paramount and he
married again during her lifetime, lie
was indicted for hiramv and convicted
and Justice Maule sentenced him in the fol
hay" bee convicted OF the offence OF bigamy
that u to sa" OF marrying woman while
YOU had a wifi" still alive. though II ts true
she had deserted YOU and Is living in adultery
You have. therefore. committed a crime
against the laws Of your country, and YOU
have also uctnd under a very serious msap D.
nrehen-ion OF the course which YOU ought TO
have rnrsued You should have gone 10
AGAINST YOUR wife decree a tasnsa ct fhoro
You should have then brought an action
IN the courts OF common law and recovered
as q ubt 80 u would have RIO versd
Armed with these DEGREES YOU should have
approached the Legislature and obtained
an act OF parliament which would have rem
dered YOU free and legally competent 10
marry IN" person whom YOU have taken on
yourself to marry with no such sanction
u Is quit" true that the ~ proceedings would
have cost YOU many hundreds of pounds
whereas YOU probably have not a. many
pence The sentence Of the court upon YOU
day. which period has already been exceeded
a. YOU have been In custody sinoa ~ 80, ,
mencement Of the assizes,'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23

visit, intemperance, the greatest de-
stroyer Of home happiness and home
morality, is less here than in other coun-
the past with the present Of America
she would have added that it is notably
less than generation ago.
Mr.. WATTERsoN makes bitter COM
plant Of the morals of our smart set.
though, actually. they are generally 30
conventional that anything approach
ing moral laxity is now more cause Of
remark and reproach than at any past
time in the history of our society of fash
ion. As DR.. ABBOTT remarked, there is
more publicity now and it concerns
itself with the infrequent vice rather
than the usual virtue. But in the men,
cries of people familiar with that phase OF
social life in the past there are stored up
recollections of relatively more wicked
ness than is revealed at this time when
nothing Of Improperly in that circle can
be hidden from the public knowledge.
In politics the moral improvement
is undeniable At Washington and at the
State capitals moral offences by public
men which used to be taken as matter OF
course by the comparatively few who
were cognizant Of them would now create
damaging public scandal. Our public
life has grown more decent and our
political methods are purer. Elections,
once almost invariably scenes of blood
shed. are now wholly peaceful and or
derby, and for the reason that they have
become honest.
The present crisis" therefore, is
not a new and peculiar point of cul-
mination 1t is only continuance Of
the crisis which has been here steadily
since the development of American civil
ization and of all civilization began. We
are always at the turninG-point, but.
happily, the turning is in the direction of
better things. Undoubtedly, the room
for improvement seems always TO be the
larger the more we are turned to see the
faults and deficiencies inseparable from
human nature and from systems of hui
man devising. moral and political. But
it is that room for. improvement which
makes life worth living and gives phi
losophers like those at Wednesdays con-
ference an ever-present chance TO ex-
hibit their superior virtue and wisdom
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23

DR.. RALPH GRACE Of Battle Creek, Mich.
an authority on health foods, is occurring
on Tie Proper Diet" He tells the MEM
bers Of the South Side Club of Chicago that
they must either lose their appetite for
ice cream and bonbons or lose tn, ir COM
plexion." Hear the old-or exceeding
young dogmatist The South Side e club
women can tell him that they have ar
ranged a modus rrendi between candy and
complexion. Both may he regarded as
Indispensable. 1t is probable enough that
DR.. RALPH GRACE nibbled chocolate on his
way home to Battle Creek. Doctors are
great fellows to direct the diet of other
folks, and a good deal less careful about
their own. 1t is the doctor with large
plate Of wheats inside Of him who is the
sternest foe Of hot cakes. Ii is the doctor
with fat cigar case in his pocket who is
the quickest TO make the foolish, tiresome
and uncalled-for remark: You must leave
of smoking altogether