The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-08-27

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prospect of pension, gave readily to him
some of them turning over the savings o
years. Last week the man left, saying
he was going to see Hanna.
Many persons besides the large army o
Government employees in Washington ar
carefully watching and patiently waiting
for the solution of the problem of retire
ment of those who are disabled from an!
cause in the classified service which is be
ing worked out by the Executive Commit
tee of the United States Civil Service Re
tirement Association. TO aid in this worl
they are preparing letters of inquiry to al
railroads, banks, corporations and firm:
who have a system of retirement for theil
employees. or to other plans, including the
amount paid on retirement. the number at
! fected. and their conclusions pro and cor
as to the benefits derived therefrom. They
are also securing data as to the number
who leave the service from the date on
which they would be eligible for retire
ment The result of such an inquiry i'll &
branch of one of the Departments shows
| that p per cent. of the number leave the
service prior to eligibility for retirement
So many corporal tons have adopted some
plan of retiring their employees that the
subject is being forced upon Congress
purely rs Il business proposition.
The outcome of the primary election last
week in Hooking County, Ohio. and the
action of the NintOn County Convention
indicate the unanimous denomination OF
Representative Charles Ii. GrosvenOr next
year.
Prof Wiley, of the Department of Ag-
riculture. has suspended for the time being
l., C
the Civil Service employees and has inau-
ticles of food. chiefly ''delicacies," import
ed from Europe.
The Secretary of the Interior has ap-
proved the award of contract for the con-
struction of an irrigating canal to connect
tie Truckee and Carson Rivers. in Nevada,
at an aggregate cost of $942, 337. This is
the first definite action taken by the De-
partment looking to actual construction
under the reciama ton act The proposed
canal will be so miles in length, and its
main purpose is to carry the waters of
the TrUckee River to a reservoir to be con-
structed in the valley of the Carson River.
incidentally. however, about 5000 acres
of land under the canal will be irrigated
by it. Ultimately the project is eX-
pected to reclaim about 100000 acres
of arid land in Western Nevada and East
ern California, including the old 40-mile
desert.
1t was reported that Murat Halstead,
the veteran editor. is to be at the head
of the School of Journalism provided for
by Joseph Pulitzer, but Mr.. Halstead de-
MES the statement. The school has been
endowed with S2,0O0,0O0 as a branch of
Columbia University Maui YORK
The prediction made by some political
economists that the time would come when
capitalists would quarrel over the owner
ship of the air, as they then quarrelled
over the ownership of the land, seems to
be verified. The German wireless tele-
graph trust and the propriet0rs of the
MareOni system are now quarrelling over
the right to use the atmosphere above the
broad Atlantic.
The Louisiana press is almost unani-
nous in condemnation of the effort of the
American Federation of Labor to orga-
ni2e the unskilled negro laborers of the
South into labor unions. The New Or
leans States, which is the recognized organ
of the Louisiana Democracy, and strong
sympathizer with union labor, issues this
warning: 1T has been asserted by OBJ
servant writer's and thinkers that the ANAL
gamatiOn of the races in this country is
inevitable in the course of centuries; that,
beginning with the lowest classes of the
whites, it will slowly, but increasingly and
irresistibly, progress until in the end all
visible traces OF negro race VIII have dis
appeared. We are wont to scott at this
theory, but nevertheless while we scott
that process is going on, and nothing will
Sfan aIrtsi IF he hSn Inf. nf
the races. In our judgment the most in
sidious and dangerous advance made in
that direction in recent years is this ten
dency in labor unionism to organize negro
unions. 1t is but step between indus
trial fraternity and social equality, and a
very short step at that"
A Washington hotel guest, who comes
from Texas, still triumphantly asserts the
sovereignty of King Cotton" in that pro-
life State. He says: Since L left home
see our people are talking of a 1000
U0O-bale crop, and this estimate is not too
big, if the boll-weevil or some other unlock
ed-for misfortune doesn't come along to
spoil things. IL the 100000 yield does
materialize, it ought, at $50 bale, which
is not too high an estimate, be worth to
Texas farmers S200,0OO00O Here is a
tidy bit of money, good bit more than all
the gold that is dug out of every mine in
the Union, with Alaska thown in. Cotton
will still be King in Texas at least for
many year"
Mississippi has passed through the ago
MES of nominating 4 Democratic candidate
for Governor. without any credit to herself.
Editor Fardaman. who had killed two men
and who wears long hair and has an i'm
passioned tongue, went before the people
coddling lynchefs and declaring that the
negroes should not be taught to read and
write-that their schools should be con-
fined, at any rate, to the money paid by
them. Mr.. Vardaman received the most
votes and will probably be nominated at
the second ballot; the reactionists are in
the saddle in Mississippi. and blow has
been struck at Democratic ascendency in
1904 at Washington.
The debates of Senators Burton and
Tillman at Western Chatauquas have
borne good fruit. McGregor Wilson, a
well-known Kansas farmer, publishes let
ter saying that he had been a very bad
huckleberry," but now he has confessed
religion" He says Tillman and Burton
saved him and he thanks God for it.
Accounts of the naval manuvers off the
coast of Maine make it appear that the
practicability and trustworthness of wire
less telegrapby have had complete yindi-
cation. The Olympia's prompt notification
of the Kearsarge, 20 miles away, that the
enemy" had been sighted, and the repe-
ttion Of the announcement to all the YES