Show EDITORIAL PITH Gpv Tafts straightforward account of matters In the Philippine Islands before tho Senate Philippine committee should convince oven Senators Tillman and Du born that the commission of which he Is tho head Is not a star chamber and that natives of tho Inlands are not drawn and quartered for reading tho Declaration of Independence New York Mall and Ex press c The fact Is that since the decision of tho Sunremo court that tho Interstate Com merce commission has no power locn cn force Its findings railroad managers havo bOth ablo to Ignore Its recommendations with perfect Impunity and It has been powerless as an agent for doing tho things which It Is tho clear Intent of the law providing for Its establishment that It should doBoston Journal It Is not the uneducated who let things po who fall to prevent political crimes nut tho Intelligent comfortable members of tho community they who havo an easy Komic homo lifo they who sit In clubs and discuss all affairs as puro abstrac tions things with which they have no per sonal concern and for which they are not called on to disturb themsehcs Phila dolphin Press I It IB a familiar fact that tim wellregu lated 1 mllltlu declared by tho Constitution to bo necessary to tho security of a free State does not exist In the United States Tho spasmodic ffforts made by Congress to oncourngo and aid tho formation of such it militia have been to a great extent nullllled becauso they have taken the form of a distribution of assistance to tho States without exacting any sufficient Guarantees that real use was made of It New York Times That England can neither conquer tho Boers nor the Boers drive out England is evident Somo reasonable compromise Is now the course of safety and honor for both sides and tho only way to end the deadlock What that compromise should be howovor ought not to bo left to tho Juggling of diplomatists In Europe It nhould bo effected by the soldiers In tho Hold the men who havo borno tho heat and burden of tho day They and they alone are competent to say when and how tho war should end Chicago Inter OceanS T Ocean-S Although Greater New York has fewer smallpox cases in proportion to Its popu lation than any other city It must not bo taken for grunted that wo are beyond tho ranch of an epidemic In fact tho citizen la now throntond from ovfcrv nuartor un less no is ruling to take time hv tno fore lock and got vaccinated The Herald has urged this precaution time and again but rcnrats It with tho additional emphasis which existing emergencies demand In various suburban districts tho disease h K spreading to an alarming extent New York Herald 0 If this reception had boen held In the Palace of Truth tho inmates of which cannot hldo their true feclln a with fibs tho conversation between the Dowager Empress and hor visitors would not have abounded with congratulations and assur ances of renewed friendship and distinguished distin-guished esteem There would havo been a lively expression of sentiments of recipro cal dlsllko and distrust Chicago Tribune |