Show SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS Pifctsburg Post There will be no justi fication for the senate debatins and disposing dis-posing of the Hawaiian annexation treaty in secret session unless its advocates are afraid of the light and of the opposition a free and open discussion of the job will create among the peopl I St Louis Rspublic But the remoteness of Hawaii wil force upon us a new and I untried policy AVe shall be compelled to treat the aCQuisition as a colony The well established forms of territorial government gov-ernment cannot be applied to the islands An entirely new scheme will have to be devised to give them an autonomy dif ferent in important respects from that with which we have invested territories that from their inception were designed for states St Louis GlobeDemocrat Congress should see to it that the laws made for the many to settle the national domain be applied to Alaska with the least possible delay The outlook for agriculture in those latitudes is not promising but there must be exceptional regions where some thing can be done in raising hay and the hardy vegetables If the government will grant the homestead rights allowed in other teritorles tht brave arctic prospectors pros-pectors will do the rest and find advantages advant-ages in Alaska as 1 yet unknown San Francisco Chronicle It would be a pity if exEmpressEugenic should be led to forego her purpose to write a bio jrrapln of Napoleon HI The career of the late emperor was nearly as remarkable remark-able in its way as that of the first Napoleon Na-poleon and as time goss on public interest in-terest in it increases A review of the strange ups and downs of the prisoner of Hum the arbiter of Europe and the victim vic-tim of Sedan from the pen of his consort on the French throne ought to be one of the notable books of the century Houston Tex Post Under such circumstances cir-cumstances it is idlowaste of time for the gold bug Democrat to continue to talk of compromises or the reintroduction reintroduc-tion of platforms of expediency in order to win There are no wings to the Democratic party only one compact organization 1 or-ganization and those who are not fighting fight-ing in its ranks are against It We might as well talk of compromising with republicanism I we re-publicanism can if we We cannot will carry we the shall east leave if I Ephraim joined to his idols Philadelphia Record Minister Angell has again brought that mosscovered claim for indemnity for the destruction of American missions during the reign of terror in Asia minor to the attention of the Ottoman government and he has been met with shifty excuses of the character I I usually employed by the porte to obtain j I further delay An application of the I methods recently adopted with such surprising I sur-prising success by Austria might expedite the closing of this irritating international incident I |