The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-05-18

washington Post: When the
record of this year is closed, which
will be considered the bravest-R Roose.
velt, the chaser of mountain lions, or
Grover Cleveland, who has dared to
beard the woman's club in its den?
ELECTRICITY IN CHINA.
Electrical Review: The introduce
tion of electrical apparatus in China
and In other countries of the far East
cannot but have some effect upon the
lives of the natives. The people there
change slowly, but probably nothing
could have greater effect than the
trolley In bringing about this change,
unless we except the telephone. Is 1t
not possible that these two agents
will play an important part in bring
ing about a better understanding, be-
tween the Chinese empire and the
Western nations?
Hays HEALTH.
Cincinnati Enquirer: It is crafty.
ing to hear that Secretary Hay is re-
covering his health. The truth ap.
pears to be that the secretary was
never as bad Of az he was represent.
ed to be after he accepted little as.
sistance in walking up an incline to
the steamers deck. This is a positive
age. When public man starts out
to be sick he must be very sick-even
at the point of dissolution-or he does
not meet the requirements of strenu.
GUS journalism.
New York Sun: A close and com.
petent observer of Cuban affairs once
said that Scuba will be annexed to
the United States piecemeal." It be.
gins to look as though this prediction
would be fulfilled. Land is being
bought in large andi in small tracts,
The frozen orange and pineapple
growers of Florida are turning to
| frostless Cuba as a better field for
their enterprises. Tourists flock to
the island in thousands and goodly
number buy enough of the island to
enable them to remember that there
is such a place. Neither the tourist
nor the settler sees anything in insu'
lar sanitary conditions to frighter
them away. The Cuba of 1910 will be
the home of many an American set
tier, and 1t promises to be somewhat
of winter Mecca for American trav
elers. Cuba is both pleasure resor,
and a health resort and American
people are rapidly coming to an ap
probation of the fact.
STORMY YEARS.
Topeka Capital: There is nothing
more certain in politics than thai
President Roosevelt Is in for fou,
stormy years. Nobody can fail to see
a rising feeling against him in the
conservative senate. The President'i
radicalism as surely turns the senate
against him as the trusts and com
bines of which the senate is looked
upon as more or less closely repre-
sentative. The big financial powers
will be hostile to the President. And
they will do anything and everything
to see that he is succeeded by some
"safe and sane" candidate of theil
own four years from now. On the
other hand, the masses of Republi
cans and many Democrats, as we'll al
the former Pops. take to Roosevelt
ism, believing in his principle of "the
square DEAL" He will have a stormy
voyage, but he must succeed in radi
cal policies or fail altogether.
JAPAN's WORLD POWER.
London Statist: The war between
China and Japan made clear to the
English.speaking people that new
great power had arisen in the fal
East. This was proved very clearly
90 far at least as our own country II
concerned, by our giving up consular
jurisdiction In Japan and by our con
clusion of a treaty of alliance will
that empire.
On the continent, on the other hand
Japan's claim to be treated as great
and civilized power was laughed Il
scorn, as was shown by Germany anG
France joining with Russia to deprive
the island empire of the fruits of III
victory. Now, however, 1t is impossi