The Penn's Grove record., 1903-01-09
Tho Record ~ The Paet Year.

HIIII UXIE XX1E4 - 49, EXX&2 x az XII w.
Possiblv the 6c,1res IL American indus
try. trade and commerce will show laro-
or totals for lg03 Int fhoaa for 1902 are
the highest VET. Moreover the passing
wear has Witnessed many national events
Of distinction. Among them were the
visit of Prince Henry 81 Prussia ii Feb
ruary. marked a Il was bv an exchange
&c composites with Germany hat had 4
bappv influence on the relations 81 the
two countries. the withdrawal of our
army from Cuba and the orderly birth
Of tile Cuban Republic. IN honorable full
flment Of onr nledces
The New England speaking
TouR OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
in which he narrowly ESCAPED death in
the collision Of a trolley car with his car
r;aoe and the s,bseonent abandonment
midway IL his Western tour. are among
;ts fortunata -recollections. The second
Venezuelan dispute. ii which Great
Britain and Germany have accented ar
at The instance Of orr Govern
ment. has even more emphaticallv than
the first strenpthed the Monroe doctrine.
by giving it the practical recognition Of
those great European powers. Sosthat as
1902 closes undoubtedly the prestige of
this country stands very high in Europ-
can capitals. 1t has been
A wAR-ENDrNa YEAR.
The Anglo-Boer conflict was closed
with a peace treaty signed on NAV 81.
and joseph Chamberlain is now in South
Africa earnestly endeavoring to expand
that peace into a real reconciliation be-
tween the English and Dutch races. In
the Philippines peace may be said to pre-
vail, though not as absolutely and on as
permanent a basis as could be wished.
It still remains for the American people
to revise and close that chapter of their
history in accordance with their old ira
ditions and the spirit of re.
The notable local disasters of the clos
ing year include the collision in the New
York Central tunnel, killing seventeen
persons, and the dynamite explosion in
the rapid-transit subway, both in Janu-
airy; the destructive fire in Paterson, n.
j., making 1000 families homeless, and
the Park Avenue Hotel fire, involving
the loss Of seventeen lives, both in Feb
ruary. Its most terrible world calamit-
les were the eruptions in May OF Mont
Pelee, Martinique, and Of Mont i Sou
friere, St. Vincent, destroying about 32,-
600 people.
IN AMERICAN POLITICS
the year has not been productive OF any
marked changes. The new national
House Of Representatives, elected in
Nov. will be, like the present one, q
Republican body. As elected it shows
20S Republican and l78 Democratic mem.
bers. The national Senate OF the next
Congress will also he Republicans to
SO. Nevertheless, tie late Corgressional
electors showed a decided popular
movement toward the revision OF the
tariff and the regulation and restraint Of
trusts and monopolies. Congress, in its
long session, ending July !, was only re-
markable for what it omitted to do. It
shelved Cuban reciprocity, army reorgan.
i%zation, anti-anarchy and s~hip-subsidy
legislation; also the fourteen reciprocity
treaties, the immigration bill, and all the
tariff revision and antitrust bills. It
passed the Chinese Exclusion act, al act
permanently organizing the rural free
delivery mail service, an act providing
for the digging OF the Panama Canal, a
Philippine civil government act-and
nothing more worth recalling.
MIR. RoosEyEIT's CABINET
has been reconstructed. Mr.. Shaw has
taken Mr.. Cages place as Secretary Of
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