Show PREGNANT EVENTS there certainly Is an influence at work upon ment men trying to lead them toward paths of peace and up to a higher intellectual plane the military governor of santiago almost at once 0 opened se schools hoole for the hildren children had spain thing done that same thing fifty years ago in her lalands islands they would still have been her col onlea s and a regular mine 0 f wealth next e came ame t the he white whit e czars azars proposition for ill the e dismantling of ships and ot of armies no more astonishing toni shing than that Is gen sir herberts suggestion for the establishment in the soudan of an college and a a medical mission chiefly to educato educate t the Is sons of sheikhs Sheik hs for such a note to come from the heart of darkest africa Is indeed a a wonderful thins thing it reads as though god was beginning to hear the prayers of his poor and was prep preparing axing to answer them the latest creten massacre and the defiance of 0 the sultan coupled with the alliance between great britain and germany has a look as though the e turk was doing by the powers s what hat spain d did id by the united states last winter and it would not bo be wonderful if it resulted in driving the turk out of europe with the death ot of Aus empress the healt of the old emperor must be about broken we look to se me austria it if not both austria and hungary attached to the keisers kaisers Kai sers empire in the near future the attempt would of 0 course the great creat war which europe has dreaded so long ions but the german and the anglo saxon would nin bin and an entirely new m map a P of europe would be needed very possibly a dim vision of this Is what wha t prompted the czars azars proposal surely the nations are being stirred as never before and this leads directly to the thought that the united states ought not to shirk the responsibilities ties which have been brought upon us as a nation we surely havo have no right to break down a forra form of civilization la in any region and then turn it over to absolute barbarism we feed halt half the world we supply half ilia mills with textiles we make about one third of the iron and steel of the world our ships ought to be in every sea our commerce ought to be sovereign cleu and our influence along just lines ought to be exerted in thel lite rest of peace among th nations we shall bo be untrue to ourselves and our duties it if all these things shall not be b brought about HAWA I 1 AND STATEHOOD the new york commercial advertiser thinks that the first thing thine to invite criticism about tile the proposed form of government for Is 19 that it leaves open tho the possibility of 0 future state statehood hood for or that archipelago it I 1 admits however that a declaration era it on ithac that hawaii should never be admitted ifould would not count in tho the long future probably not the native Ha iare are a perishing race at the rate of 0 deaths for or tho the patt past twenty years they antill be practically extinct before the middle ot of the next century but suppose that within the next ton ten years honolulu should become it a great commercial city of 0 a quarter of 0 it a million souls A w hat objection could there bo be to riving the islands statehood the retention of oc the philippines or even of luzon and the discovery which Is probable of great gold deposits there would nil fill that island with immigrants 1 its is undo would be very treat great honolulu 1 would be the halfway half halt way house and the summer resort lor for luzon A americans merl the trade would greatly expand the steamers to and from australasian alasia manila chinn china and japan would all stop atop there there ought to be a great reat faial n A A I 1 station established there the whaling fleets would return to winter there and it would not be surprising to see PLO a city of white people to say nothing of the others there in ten years from rom now in that case why not statehood |