Show o EDITORIAL PITH I American yachtsmen were not determined deter-mined apparently to hold the Americas cup In perpetuity they < would probably welcome an opportunity to return It to Great Britain under tho auspices of such IL gallant and worthy rival a Sir Thomas Lipton Baltimore Sun a J I Tho conceit of the average New Yorker is such that he would riot be satisfied with bad government unless somebody I assured him that It was really the worst trovornment In the world Detroit Freu Press a I The theory that the monkey Is descended from man now confronts civilization with a serious question How far ought a human hu-man being to be Iowcd to degenerate from limo loftiest ideal of manhood before he Is compelled to shed his clothes climb a treo and refrain from conversation 1 Washington Star o rho late utterance of Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt In which ho declared that a class of nonresistants in a community of men who will not tight for their country or for their rights but go In for tamo submission to whatever comes along was us bad or even worao for It than a class of positively posi-tively vicious and traitorous people Is said to have cost him thousands or votes < In Pennsylvania In the late Presidential election but was founded on Gods truth Nebraska Stalo JournL I Tho Mexican Herald publishes this list of American States which have had no lynching in sixteen years Delaware Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island and Utah o S PresIdent Roosevelt Is 1 exceedingly pop ular In Cuba and from present Indica ton tho Cubans are likely r ask him at any time to be their President too observes ob-serves the Chicago Inter Ocean e The Kansas City Journal says thero Is a lofty sentiment that the President of a frco Republic should require no other protection than tho loyalty and patriot ism of tho people President Roosevelt evidently has this view of the subject though he may bo Just the least bit afraid that he may be thought afraid That Is tho only fear he ever felt But tho gal hunt rough rider need have no fears that he wH bo thought a coward bv adoptlnc nil the safeguards which adoptnl tates and the people will expect him to take into account the fact that ho Is the otficlal head of the Government and nol a prIvate citizen OOernment I There Is no reason why J Piorpont Morgan us a lay delegate to a church convention should not charter a special train with palatial service to carry hlm self mil Invited guests to San Francisco where a rented mansion with all tho ac cessories of lavish wealth awaits his pleasure and comfort during the conven t I8 progress The spectacle however ot such a caravansary as un aid to re ligious duty will not tall to arouse criti cism Millionaires have a right to criL their wealth In buying comfort for them U1r solves and quests whon they travel from homo but there Is a strange Incongruity In such a lavish display when InconJrult URIOUS societies aro compel to beg for funds to carry on their work l and rarely moot with tho responses that Ihcy are I entitled to I |