Show VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS ON T TOPICS OF THE TIMES I s t Work of The Hague That is an agreeable announcement I that hat the United States and Mexico have hav i agreed greed to submit a a c dispute between hi them hem to the International Court of Arbitration Arbitration Ar Ar- at The Hague for settlement It indicates the t taking king of one one more one more more step stepIn In n the worlds world's progress tow toward rd peace through arbitration We Ve do not mean that hat In this particular case war has thus been avoided There was no nO danger of war between this country and nd its great republican neighbor But every every dispute referred to arbitration makes it the easier casier thus to refer the n next dispute that may anywhere arise and the more mens men's minds are thus turned toward toward- arbitration the moree more they will be turned from It is away war auspicious to observe too that at last the tribunal at The Hague is to have haye something to do The remark was m made de not long ago that that tribunal was was a nothing do-nothing body that after elaborately elaborately telY constituting it t the nations were systematically cotting It Yet as we then pointed out even in such apparent circumstances there here was no cau cause e for forI discouragement I or for pronouncing the Peace Congress and the resulting arbitration treaty a failure Today the the vindication of the arbitration scheme begins to assume tangible form There There-is is work to tobe be done at The Hague at last New New York Tribune Tri Tri- bune i f I I A A Curb for Bosses 1 The threatened withdrawal of of Congressman Congressman Congressman Con Con- gressman Bui Burton ton of Cleveland In resentment re resentment resentment re- re at at the interference with rf i ce with his campaign by some of of Hannas Hanna's officeholders officeholders officeholders office office- holders appears to have been averted It t is said that th the I trouble bl has has has' be been n compromised compromised- But before it Is is' forgotten forgotten forgot forgot- ten the occasion should be seized to point out the fact that that the meddling of Federal officials In p party politics has again become a a. vice vice vice-in in our public service service service ser ser- vice requiring the attention of the President Mr 11 Burtons Burton's Burtons Burton's daze case shows lengths which the ev evil I has run His disgust was so great atthe at t the arrogance of what he calls p petty tty bosses who hold the Federal offices es' es in Cleveland that he proposed ed not notto to stand for Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress again This would have meant the loss to his party not only of f a a. val- val Representative but very likely of a seat in the House The difficulty has been pate patched ed up the dispatches disPatches disPatches' he say y but the time is evidently coming when hen President Roosevelt will have to tb issue an order defining and curbing che he partisan activities of Federal office office- holders New New York Evening P Post st st. A Negro View A novel written by Sutton Button E E. Griggs a Nashville negro nevo and published by the Orion PUblishing PUblishing- company in this city which is conducted by negroes advances ad ad- adVances advances vances the Idea that the negroes desert the Republican party because of its attitude toward the Philippine islands Th The hero of the story is made to issue a manifesto in which he declares declares declares de de- clares The negroes negro S can favor only one solution of the problem th the recognition of the fact that all men are created equal The problem referred to Is the Philippines question In another pla plathe place the Idea Is presented in this guise With England n gland imposing l its s will upon In fda with the South Southern whites imposing Imposing ing inS their will on the negroes only one great branch of ot the white white- race exists which is not imposing its will upon a feebler race I allude to the white people people peo pee pl of the North Could our our- Nation by Y force forc of arms and wi Without th u t the promise of ultimate political liberty Impose its will ivill upon th the Filipinos the weaker peoples the the woi world over ove will lose their only remaining only advocate advocate A Although though deserting t the e Republican party this this hero does not bec become me mea a a Democrat In the South he says chief chief tenets are the thew wite w ite mans man's supremacy and exclusiveness exclusive- exclusive ne ness s in ir governmental affairs Not having having having hav hav- ing a a white skin reservation w would uld prevent mo mo from entering the folds of that party There is 13 sophistry in this statement of the Philippines situation but It comes with more consistency from a a. source of this kind to urge the pleasing aphorisms of the Declaration of of-Inde- of Inde- Inde pei JH dence as a reason why the United States s should not rule in the Philippines Philippines Philip Philip- pines than the same argument does fr from m the Southern Democrats Nash Nash Nashville ville Banner |