Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-24
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lated instance Of rooted opposition 20 orl-
entail immigration. The sentiment Is racial
and worldwide. The Inhabitants OF British
Columbia have won their fight against the
immigration OF British subjects from Brit
ieh India. practically reversing the policy
Of tho Imperial government. Early this
year l,t5O East Indians arrived In British
Columbia and 1000 more are said 20 be on
their way to that province at the present
time. The emphatic protests against the
Introduction OF this form OF coole labor
have compelled the Dominion government
to promise legislation restricting the immi-
grafton at the coming session. Canada will
thus follow the example OF Australia and
raise the bars against the inhabitants OF
another part OF the British empire. Equally
significant Is the total failure OF coolie la
Dor imported into South Africa to work In
the mines. An Official investigation into the
conditions there resulted in a shocking
scandal. The secretary of the colonial ONCE
stated in Parliament that the government
would not print the document giving the
result of the inquiry because il was not
printable, but some portions Of It, at least,
seem TO have been made public without au-
thority, and the morality of the British
people has been shocked. The colonial sec
rotary stated in the House Of Lords that
the evidence was of a character TO forbid
any addition TO the Chinese labor now en-
poyed in South Africa The inference Is
that those now there will be permitted to !
serve out their time and be returned.
la stampa, a journal OF Milan usually
we'll informed, on Vatican topics, prints an
interesting interview with Dr. Lapponi. the
pope's physician, which has a significant
bearing upon the conflicting stories regard
ing the health OF the holy father recently
cabled to this country.
DR.. Lapponl declares that by his express
orders the papal audiences must be prac-
tically abolished for some time to come.
Plus ks health although generally good
demands extreme precautions on account of
corporal infirmity and recurent govt at
lacks. The superhuman burden Of the pa
pacy IL proving too severe strain, and the
Vatican gardens are far from being an ideal
health resort for him.
DR.. Lapponi confirms that Plus X is suf-
fering intensely from lack of sympathy and
cooperation from the cardinals Of tho Sa-
cred college, and adds:
Leo XIII had host Of cardinals ever
ready TO aid him, whereas Plus x remains,
one may say, isolated. He reads the
principal journals more attentively, per-
maps Nihn MS statesman predecessor
and he abuses his energies by his per-
sistent all-seeing oversight over the least
details affecting the vast internal admin
! istration of the Vatican palace and the
divers Roman congregations, while his
memory is eternally taxed in recalling
! the presidents of HIS predecessor When
so unwell that he ought to be in bed, Plus
X is hardly persuaded to take repose in
the commodious armchair recently made
for him with a writing table alongside,
and a devoted young chamberlain ever
within call Of his bell"
Japan used to be one of the cheapest
countries to reside or travel in II we
may believe a Yokohama correspondent of
the Munich Allgemeine Zeitung, It is now
one Of the most expensive. Hotels, food,
clothing-everything a tourist needs has
gone up in price enormously since the war.
An imported scent cigar costs %, thanks
| to import duty and tobacco monopoly.
JinrilSsha men have adopted the methods
of American cabmsn. What surprised this
| correspondent stiIl more was phenomenon
/ which made him head mis- article, 1.-The
! Dorado of Pickpockets." A dozen foreign
| ers were sitting around table In a club
house the other day. One of them re-
marked that his poclsetbook had Just been
stolen. Notes were compared, ana II was
! found that Of the dozen every one had
been a victim OF pickpockets These gem
| try, to get at pocketbooks do not hesitate
to make cut in the garment The police
do not concern themselves with them ordi-
narily. That they know who they are was
proved on the occasion of a recent parade
ordered by the mikado. On the day proceed
ing It large number Of piekpockets were
4 Jailed, the result being that very little
pilfering occurred, despite the exceptional
crowding in the streets.
Some OF the Russian newspapers observed
! on November / the anniversary of the
granting TO Russia OF the so-ealled con-,
stitution by footing up for the year the
! terrible roll of deaths by violence. Incom-
plete the figures must be. since only a por-
ton of the actual facts found their way
to the newspapers; yet the total of 242Ss
deaths in riots or at the hands of the ex-
ecutioner, is enough to make the world
stand aghast. No less than 22721 persons
are known TO have persisted In pogroms,
riots conflicts with the authorities, punitive
expeditions. That this Is only a part Of
the bloody record appears from the fact
that hundreds, II not thousands, of the
rnassacred Jews were never accounted for.
Oficial executions dispose of 1878 human
lives, and thus proved beyond dispute how
useless is capital punishment as q deter
rent when a whole nation is aroused. OF
the political agitators S51 were given penal
sentences. aggregating T.1Ss years. In the
effort to control public opinion 523 news
papers ana reviews were suppressed. and
647 editors prosecuted During the year,
thirty-one provinces were wholly, and
forty-six partially, under exceptional laws
Estate OF siege or war. etc.. To these
figures the strana adds. that during the
past twelve months there were 1929
agrarian riots while 1SS secret printing
ofhces and $50 depots Of arms were dis
covered. containing thousands of rides and
revolvers, tons OF powder and explosives.
and several machine guns. Bombs 10 the
number Of ga were thrown at oficiaIs,
while no less than 1885 armed burglaries
were reported.
France will soon have a special lnsti-
tute for the study OF cancer similar to the
Imperial Cancer Research Fund In Eng
land and corresponding Institutions IN
Germany and the United States. In an i'm
portant paper read at the Paris Academy
OF Medicine, Or. Poirier recalled the fact
that a league for combating cancer was
founded IN France in 1892. OF which the
celebrated surgeon Verneuil was the prin-
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