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Show Smartness challenges our admiration; -wisdom, ; with humility, inspires within us rcspct and esteem. , Only the vain and superficial crave the former at the exjx-nsc of the latter. If only the hearts of men were vitally and adequately ade-quately imbued with the awful idea of the omnipresence omni-presence and the imminence of the infinitely just and holy God, would not their conduct be irreproachable irre-proachable at every moment of their lives? 1 I ( Who says that the genus homo is an inherently I self ish creature I Do not men. as a rule, heroically consign all that is most precious in the universe to , the realm of womanhood notably that spiritual joy that surpasseth understanding? I Jf, as is asserted in an article in last week's I Western Watchman, "the Japanese soldier is very much of au automata!)," it would seem it is this i-peeics of animal that the Russians should avoid I witli discretion. I I Admiral Kojestvciisky of the Russian fleet was mildly criticisscd by the international commission ! oi inquiry for tiring on the English fishing trawls hi the Xorih sra. The incident seems practically closed by the tenor of the commission's report. 4 I -Of the making of legislative bills there is no f ll(1- Thousands are bi-ennially slaughtered, but all I too many are given a lease upon life to harrass an j overburdened public. And how munificently the I dear public pays for the infliction! I ' I Almost daily President Roosevelt gives renewed evidence that he has the courage of his convictions. I Pashness '. Possibly; but is it not this virile bold- 1Kf that has won for him the admiration and de- votion of the great American populace? t - . 1 '-Hie aesthetic and ethical contingent of the vo- I tarics of the arts piscatorial and Ximrodian owe a I debt of gratitude to Utah's legislature for a monop- olisiic grant. t has just decreed the banishment -f the market hunter and fisherman from its sov- I creign domain. j 1 Jiic magniticent scorn of our ''advanced'' age I for idol-worthip ought to challenge the profound I admiration of the gods. Its own worship of the ! "almighty dollar" is, of course, quite another thing. This latter idolatry is, undeniably, a soul-blighting soul-blighting cult; but, it is eminently respectable: for docs it not receive the unqualified sanction of all advanced and progressive men? I ; Governor Folk of Missouri is still chasing the political thieves in his state, lie is now after an unknown culprit who surreptitiously abstracted a legislative enactment prohibiting pool selling on horse races, thus rendering void the work of the legislature on the measure. Keep up the good fight, governor, and set the pace for other states; such work is everywhere needed in the interest of ; political decency and the welfare of the people. . Shall there never be an end to the nauseating spectacle of the political mountebank, Addicks, trying try-ing to foist himself upon the people of Delaware as their United States senator? If it is true, as claimed, that President Roosevelt's backing alone keeps him in the race, the fact presents a strange anomally, and seems to demand an explanation. The date now fixed for the opening of the Uintah reservation is the first of next September. It is to be hoped that, in the meantime, the , valuable tracts now illegally held by cormorant corporations I will be wrested from their greedy grasp, and that I the common people will be enabled to acquire same 1 in accordance with the true spirit of the laws and I regulations governing the public domain1"; The complete separation of church and state is undeniably demanded by the highest well-being of both. Only the demagogue or deluded fanatic will therefore maitain that the- one must, under no circumstances, be permitted to render a service to the other. President Roosevelt has proven himself superior to both demagogism and fanaticism in the common-sense views to which he recently gave utterance ut-terance regarding the Indian school fund. ' Hill the determined fight upon the Standard Oil company, inaugurated by the Kansas legislature legisla-ture and seconded by that of Missouri and other states, result in breaking the hold of that octopus upon the oil industry of the country ? There can be no doubt that such would be the case if the legislators were imbued with that spirit of sturdy integrity and fidelity to the people that was erstwhile erst-while believed to be their common characteristic. The Western Watchman seems to think that it has entrapped a fox in the guise of a "hare. It characterises the attitude of Bishop Hare the Episcopal bishop of Xcbraska in reference to the Indian school fund as akin to that of Reynard and the grapes, declaring that, the jealous bishop, in common with other Protestants, first forfeited all claim upon these funds by his pusilanimous policy and only then protested against their use by the Catholic schools. ' Honesty is the essence of noble manhood; piety its flower. For these religion is the logical sponsor. The sincerely and ardently religious man is therefore there-fore the ideal man provided that to those essential traits of character is added the gentleness and charm of manner that is the natural expression of a sympathetic and kindly disposition. An upright character may be so obscured or marred by boorish manners as to render it utterly devoid of that benign be-nign influence, the exercise of which should 'be a good man's most cherished privilege. Dr. William Ostler, erstwhile of Johns Hopkins university, declared in(a recent public address that all men should be chloroformed when they arrive at the age of GO. To this Professor James B. Angell of the University of Michigan enters a vigorous pro- j test. Dr. Ostler is reputed to have reached the fifty-sixth milestone on his terrestrial journey. How old is Professor Angell? Shall we not refer the point in dispute, to a committee composed of men who are just about to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary anni-versary of their advent upon this turbulent sphere ? After all, what the world really needs and ardently cherishes is warm, youthful hearts 'ueath heavy and venerable locks. Rouvier's cabinet, as portrayed in the illustrated journals, is certainly a wide-awake and aggressive looking coterie of modern French statesmen.' If these Frdenchmen of the now (let us hope, not permanently) dominant order were only a little more honest and decent in mind and heart, their services to their afflicted country might prove of inestimable benefit. Sensationalism is, however, utterly ut-terly incompatible with exalted moral character, and without the latter there can be no high order of patriotism or statesmanship.. It is, therefore, vain to hope for any good to France from the present administration of its erratic, because spiritually and morally dead, government. 1 Many sturdy and well-meaning mefnbers of the "sterner sex" seem to be imbued with the notion that piety is a quality of heart and mind that is admirable ad-mirable only in maiden or womanhood. What nonsense! non-sense! There is a virile and robust type of piety, compared with which the swagger of the -would-be "manly sport" seems puerile and childish; the pompous dignity of the man of worldly affairs of weight, grotesque and effiminate. If a man's piety is not his chief and most pleasing adornment the fault lies, not with this estimable trait of his character, char-acter, but in some unfortunate mannerism of the individual. President Roosevelt's move to check the predatory preda-tory machinations and exploits of the beef trust is both a timely and a most meritorious action. A knowledge of the extent to which this "greatest of all trusts" levies tribute upon the consumers of the country, by controlling and regulating at will the price of nearly every article of household consumption consump-tion affords, in itself, an adequate explanation of the incessant struggle that devolves upon the aver- J age man to provide a mere livelihood for himself and family; an explanation of why it is impossible for the mass of toilers to save any considerable portion por-tion of their hard-earned wages. The avowal of peaceful intentions on behalf of the 15,000-contingent of organized labor, to be as sembled at the capitol in Denver on the day on which the legislature of Colorado is to decide the gubernatorial contest is no doubt made in all sincerity. sin-cerity. If so, what is the preconceived purpose of this vast gathering of the clans ? To exercise moral suasion ? Were it not as well to choose legislators, at the start, who might be relied upon to conform their actions to the dictates of honesty and decency without with-out being coerced by such extraordinary demonstrations? demon-strations? If this quasi-pacific movement is intended as a threat of what may follow in case the legislature should fail to comply with the wishes, expressed or implied, of the assembled labor unionists, then the whole affair savors rankly of methods of coerciou that are intolerable to the spirit of our American institutions. Will that dignified body, the legislature legisla-ture of Colorado, resent this invasion into their hallowed precincts and refuse to be coerced? And what then? It would seem, of a verity, as if radical partisanship parti-sanship of the most reprehensible type were rampant ram-pant in our neighboring commonwealth. If ,as it is claimed, the attempted seating of Pcabody at all hazards is in pursuance of the wishes and the dic-I dic-I tates of the predatory corporations of the state, it seems to afford an apt illustration of the adag?' "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad." , Innocuous desuetude" on the part of the French populace seems to be the malady that is sapping the putative republic of its vitality: Eternal yiguCce" was never more imperatively demanded. i - i, '. |