The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-09-03

| THE prodigious and repeated idchles
with which the Republican press swings
| Missouri into the Republican column VIII
produce no surprise Miracles are easy Tor
some newspapers They are even now en-
| gagged In eliminating the question OF pat
ronage from politics. st. Louis hepuo-
! lie.
"A st. Petersburg cable states that a
law legalizing strikes Is In preparation
! Several strikes are already in progress ia
Russia. Evidently the enduring ana ply
! ing stages have passed and the embracing
| Is about TO happen. .'-Galveston news
"rhe racial and religious animosities
extend TO every part or the empire, ana
will continue 10 do so as long as native
Turks, Slavs, Greeks, Albanians, Arme-
mans and Jews and foreign residents
from the west are thrown together as
they are now. Religious fanaf .cism Is as
natural to the people OF the country as
the air they breathe. 1t is permanent. IN
tense and likely 10 break out at any tinne.
All the fleets OF all the Powers In the
world could not exercise It, and IL the
government were honest in it's reform
professions its strength would be most Sc
verely taxed In the effort TO prevent the
recurrence OF religious riots and murders.
In European Turkey Slavs and Greeks.
who are both Christians, but who do not
a
are ready TO slay one another when they
are not engaged with the Turk. and each
race has territorial pretensions which the
| other SCOTS at"-Chicago Record Herald
THE president didn't, by precipitate,
ill-timed, or hasty action. put this coun-
try in an undignihed or embarrassing po-
| sition He has now nothing TO take back.
| He ordered the European squadron of the
| United States navy 10 proceed from one
! port in the Mediterranean TO another. And
| in that he did just right The order VIII
| furnish the Sultan with a text over which
| TO cogitate. And the result OF these cogi-
| tations cannot but be an Increased secu-
! rity for all Americans in his domains. So
the sending OF the fleet was we'll worth
| while. Owing to the fortunate chance that
| the bullet directed at Magelssen missed.
| the Sultan has been able 10 receive VAL
liable and much needed lesson gratis. -
| Chicago Tribune.
when the Hon. Grover Cleveland was
president OF the United States he affected
this royal pose He paid his fare. He
] fanced at times that his political exigen-
cies demanded that he should visit vari-
! Gus parts OF the country TO show himself
to his constituents and make speeches TO
! them. He ordered special trains for the
! purpose but he paid for everything at
! full regular rates We take the liberty OF
! supposing that had he asked for a free
/ private car or for n free special train the
railroads would not have hesitated to
| grant the favor. Not that the railroads or
other corporations regarded Mr. Cleve-
land as an instrument OF divine wrath-a
scoirge and n destroyer TO be propitiated
at any cost. BY no means! But the rail-
! roads and the corporations are in great
! part made up OF human attributes and
| are likely 10 do almost as much by way
OF courtesy as in obedience TO self-pro-
teciion. New York Sun.
| by It's barbarous treatment OF subject
races and by its inability 20 protect for
! eigners. the Turkish government long ago
! forfeited its right 10 exist. 1t has been al
| lowed TO linger only because the powers
| could not agree as TO the terms OF its
taking off."-Kansas City Star.
Turbulence Is infectious. The disturb
ances I'm Macedonia have just become
/ known TO the dervishes I'm Asia Minor and
they arc becoming restless. No one doubts
their good will 10 murder every Christian
| In that part OF the world particularly
those from foreign lands Despite the ex-
planaton that the attempt on Mr. Ma
gelssen's life was by n personal enemy
! the probability is II was the first mani
festaton OF the desire 10 annihilate all
the Christians in that district. Protection
ls needed there and at once. "-Pittsburg
| Gazette