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I'm the preliminary preparations which
have been made for the sessions OF the
arbitration congress which has been call
ed for the adjustment OF Venezuelan
difficulties the press has been excluded.
The arbitrators are evidently willing 10
tread on the dangerous ground which
covers thinly a quagmire OF misinforma-
tion and misrepresentation. An nonest
press should be excluded from an OBJ
servai!on OF no honest proceeding that
affects public or national interests. -
San Francisco Call
The proper function OF free govern
n,ent is to secure equal rights 10 all and
grant special favors 10 none, and that
government can do this best that refuses
u recognize or tolerate class distinction
OF any KIND. To demand no more than
equal justice and except no less - the
high duty OF every American citizen. and
,'rrsident Roosevelt is deserving OF the
highest commentator for having made
this duty the keynote OF his admirable
address. Philadelphia North American
These propositions are so preposter-
Gus that II is not worth while taking
them under serious consideration. They
form an exhibition OF sordid. senseless,
unrestrained greed, OF the kind OF greed
which defeats its own object by It's very
excess which Is as repulsive as IL is ex-
traordina ry The only comment which ap-
pears appropriate is one OF astonisnment
that they should be seriously advanced
By the men whose true schemes they tc-
tray. when those men must be very well
pware OF the futility OF their action. IL
is unimagnable that by this time the
grafters' who evidently control the Co
lombian senate have not been convinced
o, secretary Hays sincerity In the as
sertion that the treaty is TO take or leave
in its integrity. and that any amend
rent OF Il will be equivalent TO It's re-
lection. Ii Is impossible to believe that
these shameless 'boodlers, who want 20
collect q, ,OO00.0 900 from the United States
and ten more millions from the Panama
company for what is practically the same
thing, can really think for moment that
there is he slightest chance OF their be-
ing able to enforce their 'hold-up -
Philadelphia Inquirer
81. Is possible that succession OF nu-
initiating defeats have brought British
de sixncrs and builders OF yachts TO
point where they will make a slavish
COPY 20 the best of their ability. OF an
American model. Even then their pro-
duction will fall short OF the model They
can build big. strong and cheap ships,
bu' when they are called on 10 turn out
feet sailing vessels, large or small. 'ney
are ~ able 10 do it."-Chicago Tribune.
III the fake assassination OF Magelsen
In responsible for the Introduction OF the
Turkish three veil fashion among our
women a war with that country would
doubtless bring bloomers into prominence.
Those warships should be recalled -
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
"The famous meeting of jefferson with
n foreign ambassador. whom he received
in his slippers. has long been quoted as a
dreadful example OF our early lack OF
diplomatic manners. but in receiving the
credentials Of Ambassador Speck Won
Sternberg at his country home, and with
a noticeable absence Of other courtesies
than those shown by one private gentle
man to another. II is not likely that Pres
ident Roosevelt will ever be paraded as
parallel Our age is one OF decreasing for
malities. s."Minneapolis Times.