Show I THE EDITORS EDITOR'S TABLE TALK OF THINGS GRAVE AND GAY I THE SESSIONS SESSION'S END Up to within a f few fw w days It has appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap probable that Congress SS scarcely scarcely scarce scarce- l ly would be able to adjourn before the tenth or fifteenth of June Now there is talk of of ofa a up break-up in May which necessarily would Involve the failure of much legislation Such Such an early closing would be likely to defeat the Irrigation bill for the present and that would be matter for deep regret The rhe twenty-six twenty Senators who Senators who are earnest ear ear- pest nest advocates of that measure should keep a careful tally of Its enemies and what those enemies w want ant int themselves and quietly qu but bt firmly knife them when opportunity offers offet It is said that the ship subsidy bill will be pigeonholed In Inthe Inthe inthe the House until next winter as many Republican members are ire afraid to vote for tor It Ii until after ti the Congressional elections Those Thoe events events' being over It Itcan Itcan itcan can be slapped through h without culty MERRY CHRISTMAS W We are glad lad to hear hear that the State StateD D Department part elt regards the Ithe Christmas which las has been sprung on the country In n the hope ope of defeating the theD theD D Danish nish cession wIth much cont conI contempt contempt con con- t tempt to notice I it i. it Its is s a pi pity ty that tha t AIr Mr lr I Richardson the Democratic leader in inthe t th the e House of f Representatives could not riot have viewed the matter similarly The The Christmas yarn is so bare a manufacture n put of whole cloth that i if W does o s slot not lot speak well for tor or our Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic friends in Congress that they were vere willing to mix up with it Since t the Danish government nt rep repudiates diate Christmas and ills liis claim claim It must be evident that h he ne never never er ervas was vas entrusted sted with yi i any considerable amount of I money for Zor promotion purposes and th that t his assertion that he spent a barrel to influence Sen Senators tors through a a. a go-between go js is entirely a a. work of imagination expressed Mr Ri Richardson ardson ought to see ee at once the pr propriety and anc decency of ot abandoning his share in thE th the Investigation I it u I CULTUS INDI INDIANS NS I It is is not often t that at a a- high officer of the Government can be Induced Induced to treat an abuse or vidou Vicious practice jn in his own department with the freedom that characterizes Indian n Commissioner Commission er J Jonas Jonas' PeS' PeS paper In In The Worlds World's Work Vork for April on the subject je t of Indian edua education education edu edu- cation a on so 0 called He states state that partly pa Uy by bribery c cajolery j lelY threats threat fraud persuasion per and force the young YO reds redskins ins are induced to leave leav t their tribes and arid to enter schools where at a jump jump th their lr con condition Is changed from poverty to affluence T They ey are clothed f fed l 1 waited waltee on and coddled A steam laundry does up their linen n. n and t their fir shoes are made to f shine hine like Ike a French mirror Then they are graduated an and return as dudes to the Squalor filth t and antI J Ins c of ofa et Indian Commission Commission- a blanket et camp v er Jones says of the educated sav savage ge He has not gained a a. a knowledge of real practical things that might to be of use to him and there Is no opportunity tuni ty y to apply such learning as he Ie has a ac ac- ac He therefore becomes becomes a cultus cultus cultus cul- cul one thing nor the theother theother other with an education that does not help him and Is of no value no-value value to the tribe to which he has returned But the Indian education cranks of ot the East will continue to force the humbug of Carlisle and Hampton upon the children children chil chil- dren of Mr ir Lo Just as long Jong as possible possible ble It furnishes many a fat sinecure for the needy relatives of the long long- range Tange philanthropists I ALTITUDINOUS ARISTOCRACY The esteemed New York Evening Post calls attention to the Serpent of Exclusiveness which as s It Jt earns from from divers Western p papers pers recently has I Invaded the hithertO democratic Eden of Denver society Our contemporary understands that the old aristocracy of the Colorado metropolis which made money and began Its hustle for culture eo so o long ago that children now almost grown can hardly remember the date is now fi frowning owning upon the nouveaux riches whose claims to blue blood and dead game refinement only reach each back to the end of oC the first first McKInley admin admin- The Evening Post Is in informed informed in- in formed that the Q ostracized class threaten threat threat- en that if they and theirs are not to tobe tobe tobe be allowed to play pong ping-pong with the ancien noblesse they will no not trade real reat estate with the r effete aristocracy of the town town any more or That would bring about a serious state of affairs Indeed an 3 one which every friend of b his bs s lid kind Ind must deplore But it seems t th that t the strike i is is threatened pd d am and we trust that the committee of conciliation o of the Civic ivic I Federation will take due notice and act accordingly I UNPUNISHED MURDER In Iii a recent Is Issue ue the Indianapolis India Sentinel el printed a very sen sensible editorial edi eslI- tonal on the subject of the travesty of justice presented present d inthe In the Rice murder case in New York wherein Patrick convicted convict d of oc instigating th the crime is sentenced to die and t the valet Jones who actually committed tt it t is Js to J be he e al allowed allowed al al- lowed t to g go free for turning t States State's evidence It is a J gr grin grim rn illustration of an occasional feature feature of of our punitive system bu bup not much more so than others with which our Indiana con contemporaries contemporaries tern are familiar In that State the other day some boys who had robbed a a. Kentucky postoffice of a backof sack back I of copper cents cent w ere cr rt tr trailed to Indian adian Indianapolis apolis and carried back to the scene o otheir of their crime crine That That was vas because their offence Vas Was one ope alt t the F Federa FedI d l Government If it had had ad been a a. State offence offence of of- fen fence e like the the the- murder of a Kentucky public officer they might be life lite in the Hoosier capital today and giving pursuit and ang justice the che cheerful equine ha ha |