Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-07

For several years past Australians have
been prodded with the insinusting idea
that the Asiatics would eventually over
run the empire Of the South Pacific. The
| development Of japan and the awakening
| Of China furnished workable material for
| race agitators and supplied an excuse for
! exclusion laws directly against Orentals
How deep and widespread Ia this fear was
made apparent in the impressive welcome
! accorded the crews Of the American battle
| fleet two years ago. In public and private
| greetings Australians expressed the hope
that in the anticipated conflict Of the races
they would have a staunch friend In the
American republic. With equal bluntness
the alliance OF the mother country" with
Japan was criticized. In these clrcum-
stances II is not surprising that General
Lord Kitchener found the colonies eagerly
receptive for alarmist military plans. His
preliminary report on the military needs of
Australia calls for a standing army OF
60 200 men Less than that number cannot
be relied upon to prevent invasion. safe
guard the opulent coast cities and perpetu-
| ate the supremacy of the Anglo saxons
An adequate navy will supplement the land
forces. Should the Aslaties fail TO justify
the fears OF the Australians 1t is confidently
believed the valiant defenders will make a
glorious record in the colonial appropria-
tlon sheets
| All quiet on the Thames! The halls OF
Westminster are deserted and the poll
ticians have gone to their several homes
to rest for a few weeks On the 2eth inst
the commons and the lords will reassembls
the first named for the transaction Of
general business and the latter to discuss its
own reformation, Meanwhile the radical
LAloyd-George Is waving the budget plumes
OF victory over the headlands of Wales and
prayerfuliy noting the groans Of the land
lords as they fork over increased taxes.
Prime Minister Asquith and Mr.. Balfour
carefully observe the conditions of the
armisttce. while Redmond o'Brien and
Healy are as peaceful and charming to
look upon as a trio OF cherubs In a Christ
mas picture. The calm usually preceding
a storm hangs like pail over the disunited
political kingdom. The only disturbance
worth noting Is the rude assertion of a
scientist that the first horn of the family is
not the best quality hence the peers being
the first born, are interiors and detectives
who should be driven to the rear and COM
PEELED to work for living. Unfortunately
Tor the first born peers the British con-
stttution does not prohibit "eruel and UNI
usual punishment"
The failure of the Bulgarians Servians
and Herzegoyinans to decorate the Bal
kans with genuine war clouds last spring
raised the fighting spirit of the neigh
boring Albanians and they are out for the
blood of the Turks, Just what the row
Is about keeps continental writer's guess
ing. In some quarters it is said the AL
banians are Christian crusaders, resisting
Moslem bigotry. Others assert thew are
rebelling against Turkish liberality which
they claim. menaces Moslem supremacy
Whatever the cause may be, there is suf-
ficient religious dynamite in the ruetion to
insure material for few new cemeteries
The Alhanians are a turbulent people. low
1 Ing fight for the passion of 1t, and as
agile as goats in the mountain battle
grounds.
The sporting idle rich of Ireland are as
active as the alien landlord in opposing
peasant proprietorship of the land Small
farms mean many fences of modern ba RIB
WIRE which Is both dangerous and annoy
, ing 10 the gentry who gallop over the coun-
Try chasine foxes and hares 1t is urged in
their belief that $3.50 people hunt and to-
, ! SSNHSi SpNhu at i0dbt SE,DOU,OOO annually in
, Ireland, and that the sport therefore de-
serves consideration. 1t is something OF a
, novelty to have fox hunting defended on
, economic grounds, as compared with the
intensive culture of such fertile soil as Ire
land has or might have. Probably some
compromise can be reached by which snort
can be kept up in reasonable measure but
when 1t conflicts with the serious business
| of life IL must give
Some interesting statistics are published
ABOUT the growth In Nhe employment Of
women in Germany. From 1895 to 1907.
twelve years, while the employment Of men
decreased 20 per cent, the number of women
employed increased 81 per cent. There were
100000 women employed in the latter year,
as against 100000 In the former, and a full
third Of the economic labor of the empire
Ia at present being carried on by women
The increase has been largest in agrlcul-
turai pursuits, which employed i5Oa OoC
i women In 1897, as against 2,750O00 in 1895
This denotes an increase In respect of asrl-
culture of 81 per cent, as compared with
: an increase in respect of Industry Of 3S Der
, cent,
The policy OF the Bismarckian policy of
Germanizins the Polish provinces of West
Prussia and Posen is detailed In a recent
{ report OF the coionization commission sub
nitted TO the lower house of the Prusslan
Diet. Up to January OF this year the ex-
! pertinent cost the enormous sum OF S1OS,
6ss'S4o On holdings Of about thirty acres
each 22,soo Germans have been settled
The net cost has been at the rate Of SlI
! an acre, the land alone costing nearly SIOc
an acre For each family OF five persons
the average cost has been nearly 81 $50
! Presumably some financial return is en-
, pected from the settled families, but mean
: while compound interest runs heavily
! against the state Only 80 per cent of the
g land taken has been bought by compulsior
from Polish owners and at present only II
r per cent Is so purchased. The land costs
y five times as much as when the process
e began twenty-four years ago. 1t is not the
: Poles who are being displaced at such ex
I tpense, but large German land owners
whose former estates averaged LOO acres
. B each.