Show EDITORIAL PITH Tho On to Poking cry Ifl calculated to remind mon of the older generation of tho cry of On to Richmond r Tho Union army hurried by popular fury moved hoforo It was ready and met Its Bull Run Should tho allied army move boforo It IK sufficiently strong for tho work in hand It might simply multiply tho Box cm victims lnstea1 of avenging thcm Minneapolis Tribune e Tom Johnson from the safo retreat of London says the 10 to 1 clause In tho Democratic platform In tho epitaph of tho Bllvcr question which IB no longer an Issue I In politics What Tom mcAPt tp say wns that tho plank was tile epitaph of tho Bryan Democracy whichIB no longer l Prcss an issue In national affairs Philadelphia t S Llltlo can ho dono to change the lln gulsllu habits of the adult Porto RIcAnf hut n systematic effort Is in progress to intinducb i the young Porto Ricans to the English language and literature To ac llgo compIlHh the best results und the Ape dl yjt tho native teachcr should be Instructed In-structed In that language and If possible at IriHtltutlons In the United Stsltes Commercial Com-mercial iccfssllles will Incrcasn leCfH ll wi gradually ncreuo tho UHC o English In both islands Its I uso should be stimulated In every way save by compulsion This would be for j clgn to merlcan principles and would j 1 Ledger probably defeat Its object Philadelphia S S A hopelesK state of prosperity Is tho remark of Mr Henry Vnttereon Ho Is right this state of prosperity more I hal anything else makes the cause of Bryan IBm hopeless Indianapolis Jjurnal 0 The mindless ruffians who In various parts of the country have attacked Chinese I Chi-nese laundrlCH and assaulted Chlnuroen In testimony of their disapproval of rIot lug In China are saved from being yellow Instead of white Boxers only by the accident acci-dent of birth There should bo no trilling with them Policemens clubs could he put to no better use than In rattling upon American their empty heads Philadelphia North S I a Dispatches from Constantinople Hay that the Sultan Is greatly affected by the barbarous acts of thin Chinese TInt TurkoArmenlan outrages aro evidence that It takes something serious to shock tho Sultan PoBton Globe q S S When tho wbolo wretched affair Is I brought down to a business basis China will be confronted with such enormous demands for Indemnity that she will probably notify Ito world of a 75 percent per-cent advance In lie price of tea In this way the allied powers will simply be Invited In-vited to pay their own Indemnity and enjoy en-Joy themfiolvc3 Now York Mall and ExPress Ex-press t sIn In summing up thC Chinese case it cannot can-not bo overlooked that the German Minister Min-ister went Into tho streets In face of tho earnest protests of the Chinese Government Govern-ment that after he was shot tho German marines Inaugurated tho carnival of vie lencj by setting limo to Chinese public buildings proceeding that ninks oven higher New York as a folly World than It does as a crime 1 S Tho French Chamber of Deputies Is I avery I a-very dangerous institution to join A short time ago a pugnacious member asked Iho I Government how It compelled tho military court to convict Dreyfus rite Government said such a question was an Insult whereupon the members and attending newspaper men turned to and fought for an hoar when the soldiers broke In and stopped the row and carried off tlio wounded to the hospitals I Is not stated however that any were carried car-ried to the morgue San Francisco Chronicle S I w Tho vicious consequences of tho mob spirit wcro illustrated by tho New Orleans rioters Thoso Irrepressible youths and hoodlums simply rioted for riots sake shooting wildly Into crowds and streetcars street-cars In a wanton orgle of depraved vlo lonco The officers of the law who aro the authorized safeguards of society against such ruffianism aro always too lenient In putting down such mobs Louisvlllo CourierJournal S S S NEGRO AND FILIPINO Negroes In tho North are urged to vote against thC enslavement of tho Filipinos by the McKlnloy administration That Is rich decidedly rich How does tho Democracy De-mocracy give the negro iielfgovernment In tho South By depriving him of the right to vote by tortuous constitutional amendments In the various States Lynch law Is what the Southern negro gets as a substitute for trial by jun rho consent con-sent of the governed In lie wise of the negro In the South Is f vast farce The South dominates tho Democracy and Iho I Democracy raea against tho bare possibility l possi-bility of our treating tho Filipino with the thousandth part of tho lack of consideration considera-tion tho South shows for the negro I the South can hold negroes as subjects not citizens In Mississippi Loulslino and tho Carolinas tH United States may surely sure-ly do Iho same In the caso of Filipinos Unfit to bo citizens Tho Democracy should keep quiet on the subject of consent con-sent of tho governed The records stultify stul-tify tho part most egregiously on that question St Louis Mirror Dem |