The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-05-25

Mtimati0ns are given by intelligent
Chinese that there will be no more
seizures Of their territory by foreign
nations without armed resistance
Japan's awakening has been the sig
nal for China's rebirth. With or
ganization and training of Its hosts.
prophesies the Buffalo Courier, that
country may become a formidable
power, as noted British statesmen
years ago predicted.
Reading sensational novels does
not always indicate depraved liter.
airy taste, asserts the Christian Reg
lister. Sometimes Woodworking lit
erary man finds rest in reading about
things SO remote from his common
life and thought that an entirely new
set of brain cells is engaged and the
hard working contingent gets rest.
A Southern writer is out with
proposition in honor Of Sidney Ian
Ter, the poet There is talk of erect
ing a monument to Lanier's memory,
but this author suggests changing
the name of the hooking bird and
calling it a tlanier." 1t is all very
beautiful and touching tribute to
name sweet singing birds after him,
but is the hooking bird the most APP
propriate? asks the New York Trib-
une.
A Hindu proverb says: bad sons
are born, a bad mother never" We
have progressed beyond the stage of
belief or feeling represented in that
saying. We now believe, declares
the New York Times, or affect to be-
lieve, that no bad sons are born
that there are not even any bad
little children, but that all badness
lis developed in the adolescent period
by the suggestion and example of :
social environment.
When we detect overproduction or
underconsumption we shall be more
disturbed by Wall Streets vagaries
than now, observes the New York
Times. So long as the counters are
kept bare Of dry goods OF securities.
so long as there is no overstock OF
either, the country will be little con-
'cerned at the prices upon the tickets.
The welfare of the land is more i'm
pertant than the woes of the specula-
tors.
The thumb print method of person
al identification has again triumphed.
1t is an ancient and primitive device.
but it seems to hold its own in EN-
cheney with all the elaborate rules
and labors of the Bertillon system.
OF course, says the New York Trib-
une, a criminal could conceal his
identity by chopping off his thumb,
but most men would hesitate long be-
fore resorting to so serious a mutt
Iation. Besides, the absence of that
tell-tale member would itself be a
suspicious circumstance.
1t Is a commercial and Industrial
necessity for all this section of the
country that the denudation of the
White Mountains shall be prevented,
and this view of the matter was for
chilly presented by Mr.. Theophilus
Parsons, treasurer of the Lyman
mills, says the Boston Post. Cover
nor McLane, of New Hampshire, did
not state the case any too strongly
when he declared that forest preser-
walton in the White Mountains means
a hundred times more of benefit to
other states than to New Hamp.
shire"
We have, most of us, come to see
that it will not do to substitute the
personal will. or the personal within,
for the law, or to admit that any gov.
eminent has the right to license men
to violate the law. In self-govern.
ing community rebellion against the
law is rebellion against the people,
and so is anarchy, declares the In
dianapolis News. For the law is
made by the people, and is their will
Whether it be corporation. a labor
union, an individual, saloon keeper
whether the rebel be rich or poor,
obscure or prominent-does not mat
ter. The law binds all, and must be
enforced on all alike.
Addressing meeting of workmen
at Ramsey, Huntington, England,
called to protest against the action of
Lord De Ramsey in notifying nearly
1,100 tenants to quit the land, James
Keir Hardie urged the agricultural
laborers to form strong union to
protect themselves and to enable
them to obtain land which would
render them independent in times
when without employment Men, he
: said. had been driven on the soil and
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