Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1904-03-09

Banks and schools will not forbid
marriage when teachers and clerks
show that they can support themselves
on small salaries.
Russia has concluded to dispense
with a censor and Japan to employ
one. The Gar says he hasn't any Sc
crets in the world.
Mr.. Bryan being interviewed says
''Mr. Hearst is among those worthy
to be mentioned" There is a delight
full generosity about this that Mr..
Hearst no doubt appreciates.
Senator Germans friends are boom
ing him as an economist, claiming that
he saved the Government $500, 600 a
year by preventing the printing of
various ''inane documents of the
Geological Survey and other Bureaus.
Monsieur Banana Vanilla says that
he has removed all the obstacles to
the immediate construction of the
Panama Canal. This is great news;
but is the word immediate" used in
a geographical or astronomical sense?
There seems to be growing senti-
ment throughout the United States in
favor of the re-establishment of the
whipping post for wife beating and
other moral diseases. There certainly
are some offences which Imprisonment
in a state boarding no use does not
seem to reach.
The American female nurses who
are anxious to rush to Japan to take
care of the poor soldiers may be very
much embarrassed when the wives,
sisters and mothers of those soldiers
meet them in hospital and ask them
what they came for.
1t Is hardly too much to recall the
recent trial and conviction of the post
office robbers in Washington trial
by newspaper, as the cOnspirators
were arrested and followed to the very
door of the state prison by the Wash
ington Times, which started the cam
paign against the ''grafters. -
Mr.. Shafroth of Colorado who re
signed his seat in Congress on becom-
ing convinced that there had been
fraud in the ballots which elected him,
denies that the disclosures reflect
against women suffrage. He says that
the ballot-box suffers were mostly
men.
Another land opening scheme in
South Dakota is evidently an Indian
land steal. 1t aggregates 416, 600 acres
to be sold at 50 so and So an acre.
The Indian Rights Association has
protested against the sale at less than
81 an acre, and the President says he
will vote the bill if it passes.
The statue of Frederick the Great
which the President has accepted from
Germany is to stand on a terrace of
! the War College with Alexander the
Great, Caesar and Napoleon as COM
panions. England is said to be real
mad because Wellington and Corn
wallis have been overlooked.
There are two or three hundred mill
lion dollars worth of untaxed property
in Washington City. A demand is
now becoming insistent for the tax
alton of church property in which
several clergymen join. Rev. DIR.
Easton says "We shall rejoice in be-
ing permitted to follow the example of
our Lord. who paid his taxes like
gentleman.
The Federal Assembly of Porto
Rico demands statehood or indepen-
dence," by vote of 60 to 10. Why
not? Before she became a subject
colony she sent twenty members to
the Spanish parliament, one of whom
now occupies the humble position of
eco mmissiouer" in the Hobbies of the
American Congress.
Senator BeYeridge of Indiana who
three years ago travelled all through
Manchuria, Siberia and Russia, was
asked by our Washington correspon-
dent about the Eastern war. He says
'The Russians already possess Man
churia by right of occupation; they
are there in force, the peasantry, the
church, the merchant, the railroad
builder, on the heels of the army.
Everywhere cities are springlng up;
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