Show EDITORIAL GOSSIP ABOUT MANY PEOPLE AND THINGS MONKEY l COTTON PIC PICKERS ns dispatches One On O of The Telegrams Telegram's statement that yesterday esterday contained the interested Inthe in n Chicago man largely the he South S has a plan for the solution Of f the labor question in hat section which he regards as certain ln of success It t is to o utilize monkeys in i Southern the season sea seo- I cotton dur fields elds as pickers son on for or that work considered considered con- con the Idea in some some- respects is 5 isy s it might by y no means eans as ridiculous as to many people The big bi moneys monkeys mon mon- keys eys of Ceylon are used by English residents of that house house ser- ser ants They sweep sweep- sweep dust d dust st make up beds set tables wash dishes and are able ble to do almost any s sort rt of work bout a home except cooking and sewing sewIng sew- sew Ing ng as well as average average- native servants that there would be lit lit- It t is probable probable- cotton pickIng pick pick- tl lc difficulty in teachIng Ing ng- ng to the higher r orders of the Simian family or anything else the execution of f which required d the exercise of only the he most simple processes OUR CLIMATE FATAL Were the h climate of the the American Southern States St tes' tes adapted to monkey life Ife our humble and unacknowledged relatives nI easily II might take the place place OL of of relatives nI easily II might take the place place OL the Ule he negroes in inthe In the cotton field but they hey could not stand the climate Even Evenin Evenn in n Texas the first norther would give galloping consumption to ninety-nine ninety out of a hundred monkeys and the planter would find himself beautifully l eft tt Aside from that consideration big monkeys capable calia-ble of labor are har hard to to get and would be costly By Dy the time they hey were landed on the plantation the planter would find that he had paid almost the cost of ax an African slave before before be- be fore ore the Civil war But if all these these these- obstacles could ld be be met m t and overcome overcome t the he a owner avner of Simian labor very shortly denounced and Ind persecuted persecuted per- per would find himself de by a a. New England Monkey Ab Abolitionist society We are compelled regretfully to disapprove e of the project I. I THE TIlE PRESIDENT PRESIDENT t It appears that when expansion anti-expansion- in Congress fi find d themselves cramped cramped for the means of embarrassing the he Administration by attacking Its j jUCU policy with any argument fresh eno enough gh n n t to o att attract rac t popular l ara att attention tt tl on t the they hey are apt to r relieve their relieve their feelings by jumping on the President That was their theirS La- La favo fa favorite vo lle and customary safety sa ety valve in Air Mr time tim and the practice has not changed since sinca his untimely death On Tuesday Mr 1 Burleson a a- Representative from Texas improved the occasion of a few minutes on the floor of th the the- House to to accuse President Roosevelt of having surrendered himself him him- himself self to o the influence ue of ot advisers advisers' controlled controlled controlled con con- trolled by the trusts trust and to have haye ave abandoned abandoned aban aban- the independent position he held in regard r gard to public questions and issues s before his elevation to the thief chief mag mag- y Theodore Roosevelt is human jand and hence is La liable bE to err but it it- it would seem to be e ery jaundiced eye thai tb f could co d' d see in in lot i his his course course since since he ht became aine President anything inconsistent inconsistent inconsistent tent with his utterances and declarations declarations declarations declara declara- at a trine time when n he boad had no thought that thata a dire national cala calamity ity would thrust tl rust his present present greatness greatness upon himOn him On the co contrary ry he he has ende endeavored d to carry out the polity polly and the promises of his grand predecessor loyally unselfishly un un- unselfishly un- un selfishly and with all t the e vigor and stubbornness of his hia nature Ph The coun coun- m. m try ti understood and approved of the McKinley policy It has not the slightest slightest slightest slight slight- I est reason to find fault with the way in which it has been and Is being continued continued continued con con- by President Roosevelt P PARETIC ARET C ANTI r. In his speech on Tuesday against the Philippine tariff bill Senator Wellington Wellington Wel Wet lington of Maryland took the opportunity opportunity to make malce some general observations observation other on the Spanish war Among things he said that without it It Cuba might have betel beem free and might have enjoyed indeed a a. larger measure of freedom than she was enjoying now or would enjoy in the future By that would no roo doubt he meant that Spain about have given Cuba Independence the time hostilities broke out with this Of country in order to avoid avol them satisfied satisfied sat sat- is thoroughly course the country would not have done d that Spain action anything of the kind Such would have hurled the dynasty dynasty dynasty dy dy- dy- dy nasty from the Spanish throne in Ia an hour after it had en be-en proclaimed But had happened suppose suppo e the impossible absolute absolute absolute and that Cuba had been granted lute Independence What would be the condition of affairs tod today Y Bey dany any question the Island would be in a state of Haiti n anarchy tI Jy moment moment mome mo mo- me ment t to be oc occupied by the tle forces of some European country on one on pretext rt t or another and we would be maintaining maintain forwar forwar for forwar ing a fleet In Cuban ready on observation of of- war and an army our South Atlantic coast Do Mr Wellington WellI Wel Wel- lI lington gion and nd h his s few Lev irreconcilable c col coF colleagues COh th this this- lias Tas not leagues regret t that alt all s It ItIs Itis Itis occurred occurring occurred or Is not nor now is isa a pity that the th n national contra cannot inject a little sense into their attacks upon th the expansion poll policy r of this Government and d people ANOTHER SCHEME SCHEM the Were Vere American sympathy for not B Boers ers less strong or or their position as pathetic as it as it it is is it w would uld be hard to contemplate some of the methods they have proposed in order to secure intervention by the United States in inthe the South African war without an We have a divine divine command command to love our neighbor as ourselves We Weare Weare are not admonished to love him better than ourselves and as a nation we should have to do that and tn fn n addition addition expose ourselves to the chance of war if undertook to tn Interfere between if undertook to tn Interfere we the Transvaal and Orange River River Boers Boers and Great Britain To a a. Representative jin n a Congress favorable to their cause causel the Boer delegates in Brussels have addressed a letter urging that the United States call a Congress of Nations Na Na- the of demanding a a for tor or purpose peaceful s settlement in South Africa The There TherO are t iw to two o obvious s objections objections to the plan Were this thi Government to a adopt opt it that would J e only an all unfriendly u nd- nd ly act but a mortal affront td to Great Britain It ft would be something inadmissible mad mad- under und the the law of f nations andin and andin andin in flat fiat violation n of bf our our engagements under The Hague treaty What Wat is this only f friend t JI based ased on on except that somebody Is Suspected of attempting attempting attempt attempt- ing a similar play when we we v were were re about ab ut to fight Spain fight Spain The second objection n is is' is hardly worth mentioning but it goes goes' without saying that if this country pou could d b be fool foolish s1 enough tp to call for a Congress s of Nations t n for fOI such h a purpose as the Boers s desire it would be promptly prompt prompt- ly and angrily snubbed Our interference interference ence in South Africa would invite and excuse interference rence by others in the the Philippines That might please the anti anti- expansionists and fill the he Boston Filipino Fill Fili pino junta with joy but it would I not suit the book of the American people |