Show EDITORIAL PITH Tho Democratic party as a national party Is now disorganized more than at any time blforo dlsotlanlzc 19 history Wo do not except tho long period during and after tho Qlvll war when at times It could not muster an opposition In Congress Con-gress which commanded or deacrved tho respectful consideration of UH political enemies or of the country Now York Sun S b Tha only reciprocity policy for which tho Republican party over stood was ono of providing foreign market for American Ameri-can products by admitting to tho American Ameri-can markot foreign goods that do not compete with home products It la I now clear tho advocates ot reciprocity will not ho satisfied with that restriction San Francisco Cull S If your kitchen maid has the habit ot I Jelchen mnll starting tho lire with kerosene pasto tho report of Pltlsburer fatul explosion on the wall uboyo the kitchen rango Boston Gobo V a There la an empire In the West which for years to como will serve as n homo for tho overflow for tho teeming population popu-lation of tho East provided palns aro taken to make available tho natural ro sources of that empire hUe Americans surcc thnt omplre are talking and seeking for seeklnr eign trade they reciprocity not overlook tho shoul fact that bo developed at a market may faclhat moy homo through tho reclaiming of tho arid West which would demand more manufactured manu-factured goods probably than all of tho foreigners with which wo do business Baltimore News S On tho assumption that there Is no string atached nSUmplOD Mr Crokers retire GtrlnG ment from tho lojuicrship of Tammany Hall it may bo said that nothing In his career as tho head of tho organization has so well become him us the manner In which he announces his more or less voluntary vol-untary decapitation No ono could suppose sup-pose untry reading tho reports of the Interview In-terview that ho had been a conscienceless conscience-less despot for many years and working for his own pocket all tho time His remarks re-marks are rather those of a political sage Just escaping from a lonG martyrdom of nubllo service and preparing to reward himself with i period of wellearned repose re-pose New York Tribune 00 a T Is a moat encouraging fact In connection con-nection with the Irrigation question that today there IB a great deal of Eastern sentiment In favor of the reclamation of tho arid regions Omaha Bee O M If we fall to give tho Filipinos commercial I com-mercial prosperity all our efforts to win al them In other WaB can make but slow progress Congress should enact laws i that will Congress to American fearful of enterprise Let us not bo so I ourselves that we ceo to be Just to our wards in the Orient Chicago Inter Ocean I a aIn I a-In the course of time tho ClaytonBulwcr treaty has become harmful so far as thlu I country Is concerned It has ceased to be I I of any real value to Great Britain which should havo consented to Its supersession vycars ago At last that power has deemed It expedient to do so and to smooth the way for tho construction of an Isthmian canal which will be o value to Us com merco but which it will not have to pay for nor take caro of Chicago Tribune |