The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-22
AP|TAL IS FILLED
! BY BRIDES AND
TOURISTS
~
DTATEsMEN HAVE LEFT TO-
Spend HOLIDAYS AT HOME
cAsINET SPECULATION GIVES
, WAY TO The PHILIPPINES.
BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.

heavy football OF the touris- re-echoes
Through the corridors or the capitol
Also, the place Is reple'e of brides
#ond brideerooms. perhaps the latter
Wero here all the time. ana required
No Christmas drawing off OF the high
tldss Of q general humanity to make
1holr presence known. ln- any even
hey are here in numbers In rival the
1Dousts Of Egypt in their census. and
m1ur1ate sour ones Like myself by
their looks OF idiotic JOY.
When the town has exhausted COS
n Gip over the probable CABINET make
NJ Of the incoming Taft sdministra-
y UoD-about which nothing OF cabinet
lind q SURE. save Mr.. Knox the rest
: being little better than conjecture.
kased.on hopa-dt turns 10 the strans,
&6D Within Ira gates.
LADY Alan Johnston. of the king
nom of Great Britain and Ireland, has
JAtely7 won local attention. not be-
|onuse her husband is the British min
I1Utg ~ King Leopold's court. but be-
eouGs- hs - the inventor Of the club
anAvlch.
Thea. tco. we have had one Will
Am -2cwnliams Of Boston. who
[DDoalID Mpuyufully over the decad
fnnd 0n0 Prot Ward. Of Chicago, who
k1GpcoEe seaudalously of the increase Of
1ivor6os IN this country.
Prot Ward. who Is feeler rather
IlGhaa , thinker. and resembles a Geor-
S}w1e pend. d this. that he is-mental.
y 1V-6 mia Wide and an inch deep.
|l(bwporoa N 10 Rome in Its decline.
Ind lpreeees that via the divorce
tnoW16 Vo are going bounding to de-
< DguDflpn Hike Q barrel down hill. Like
O1oD ~ says that 20 per cent OF the
3}&mouoooa marriages result In no chill
0soA. which n untrue, ano that the
kMGglnan race II bound to peter out.
wh1dA = unlikely.
0pod1d1ng of the children as look
|fobout end discover one thousand
non Dlawing for one-rebatewise or
enri6wisN--I think a man should be
Ashamed to invite children into such
y world. Remembering what this life
y y, as the hog-hungry selflshness of
man has made 1t. my own thought
\ vould favor leaving them undisturb-
\ ID, vnsummoned IN the supposedly
happy antechambers Of time.
Duty % Employers.
Any one who searches New York's
I east ode or locks through one Of our
factory towns. Fab River for exam
B pie. Will say the same. Not that ex-
pect my wisdom In this regard to
n meet common acceptance However
cheap you make shoes. geese will still
60 barefoot
Prof. Ward, In his role OF he-Cas-
4 sandra prophesying the downfall of
the american Troy, might probably
divide his excitement over the social
0isinfBgratiou approaching through
b the crowded avenues of-diyorce with
!. the aetual hfUs. and Limb destruction
Of woykfngmanv because Of the mean
parsipony, or WORSE, Of employers in
Hefusipg to provide for their secur.
Nv.
The ngufSs Given out by the de-
4 partmAnt OF labor and commerce show
that over $4,000 wprkmen were killed
~ accident last year, while some
thing Ike 100000 were mashed
Drushed or crippled in this OF that
\ manner of bone-preaking best calcu-
\ 1ated 10 subtract from, II not cancel,
THAR whole future power nor work.
Blundering about our government,
tliscovered that thu Philippines cost
\ ~ about 100000 900 year more than
they come to. Pretty steep price to
pay mr. the privilege OF maintaining
= hign1yfDansfcive tail some six thous-
and mice from home for Japan or
Doneb0ly else 70 step on and provoke
The Ra1lppanss are doubtless a good
onveeemAat tor the 1Cranps and others
~ ne navy ring who build our battle
0h1ps tor us-nt double prices-but are
{fohoy worth tho dolIarand-cent while
Ipf The common everyday citizen. ris-
|Cng q agricultural, dawn to feed and
similk ne oowS or eating hurried, har-
Tried breakfAst By candlelight in order
no set TO the factory before the whis-
} i4le blows?
Besldes, what becomes of the Mon
|xue doctrinef For myself I'd no more
3 Keep the Philippines than I'd keep a
.gt Bernard dog. And, for precisely
X the same reason, composite of expense
Iond heas.
No -one would have dreamed OF
Downing the Philippines IL they hadn't
x come to us in. the way OF conquest
and e the fruits of our warlike bow
and spear. Ours is the robber race
For centuries we have been going
over the earth, from east to west
4 Jack In one hand. knife in the other
hearts bent upon pillage. Since the
AoOk10ky " hAosoty hohhCth AOb W tiir
eontrtry, every foot Of ground we've
1ived on was stolen ground.
IA We cut down the people who re.
sisted our occupation, as we cut down
the forests that resisted our agricul
ture. --We- called t-.nation-building "
& We mt enslaved the land. and next
save In tho case Of the Indians. who
are mt. euslayable-we enslaved the
people. We put the latter into bondage
upon the argument that "it was nee
essary In order 10 save their souls.
We ere without doubt the robber
The Canal Problem.
Ab6uf Ave years ago the late Sen
ator 40rmnn, fssue-hunting for the
h Democratic party. sent up shout
that W. were stealing a Panama
"A CanalrA Senator Bailey and a fee
others-not profound--were befoolet
into sahoing the German shout. Ha,
there sudden moralists OF politics
considered the story OF their race an,
& the lessons thereof they would neve
have raised 50 foolish cry. HaC
a they Aaid, We are buying a canal
a some lew might have turned thei
s doubtful heads 10 ask the price Blu
20 saysr~We are stealing canal" va.
20 point out the meresf road to thu
popular and favor him who was do
Inm the stealing for uS with the al