Show THE EDITORS EDITOR'S TABLE TALK OF THINGS GRAVE AND GAY THE RECIPROCITY TREATIES As readers re ders probably are ware fJ-ware ware a lot lotof lotof oI of treaties of reciprocity with foreign countries have been hung up In the Senate for two years Many jr any people even ven In G have assumed them to be dead under a provision of the Dingley bill to the effect that that such conventions conventions con con- should b be ba ratified within two years rears of Its becoming law Senators Spooner Foraker and Bacon have been studying the question for the benefit o of the Senate and have reached the conclusion con con- that the treaties are not dead that they can be ratified but hut that another another another an an- other provision of the Dingley act prescribing prescribing pre pre- scribing that reciprocity treaties shall be acted upon by both Houses Is ope ope- President Roosevelt Rooseve-lt regards It as a discourtesy to the governments with whom the treaties have been negotiated negotiated negotiated ne ne- ne- ne not to act upon up-on them So It Its its Js s s proposed to to- to todo do gin In that line this week In the Senate enate It Is Im- Im improbable pr probable probable- bable- bable however that a sufficient number of votes can be be found to car care B. B a single one fane of the propositions proposition A A. SOP TO THE HOUSE The only theory upon which It can be held that the reciprocity treaties now in suspense are alive alve notwithstandIng notwithstanding notwithstanding standing the Dingley bill Is th that when the President approves and the Sanate Senate Sen San ate ratifies a a. treaty it becomes the supreme su supreme supreme su- su preme preme law Jaw of the land and ex x proprio abrogates rs a arty any y Jaws or parts of laws in conflict with r Its provisions where does not app appear ar arto to be any question question ques ques- tion as to that position and we are Unable unable unable un un- able to see why the same same me rule should not apply to the other Dingley proviso In regard legard to the joint action action of the Houses In treaties of reciprocity We Ve fail fall to conceive of any Constitutional reason why a reciprocity agreement with A foreign for ign country entered into by bythe bythe bythe the treaty making pov power er alone alon would not wipe out ut the joint action c clause ause aswell as as' well vell as another Apparently the Senate Senate Senate Sen Sen- ate desires to placate the House and for th that t purpose purpose- Is willing to waive prerogative In a a. c case Se where there is Si little or or no likelihood that anything I will wl be doing FOREIGN IMMIGRATION Recently Assistant Commissioner Co 1 of Immigration 1 offered the prediction that unless the tide of Immigration Im ira- migration mig be stopped foreigners before long would control contro the United U States Stites The officer In In question can hardly have read history and statistics to good purpose br or r he would not be e making such uch a a. pessimistic prophecy Wore Were his theory correct foreigners would be running the Union today today and to a a. a very gre great t ext extent nt the children or grandchildren of of foreigners are doing so What vb t now as It always has hag happened is th that t th the new ai arrival rival straightway straight strives t to become an art American as fast as he ha he can and his children as a a. rule have Americanism so sor r rabidly that they refuse to learn the theold theold old ld tongue of arents In two generations the descendants des of immigrants Immigrants grants are Indistinguishable ble from the offspring of families that came over with Captain John Smith Peter Stuyvesant Stuyvesant vesant v sant or the Pilgrims THE THE REAL DANGER What we really reany l' l have ve to fear as a result re result re- re re- re sult suit of indiscriminate ate immigration is not foreigners as lS such ach but s some me par par- varieties of them which have been multiplying In our our seaboard cities cities cit cit- ies with alarming rapidity during the past decade or two Italian and Greek brigands from the Mediterranean N cities and anarchists generally from southern Europe have be been n al allowed allowed aS- aS lowed to s arm Into the country dangerously dangerously dan dan- and still are coming Many of these people are actively criminal but granting that in a majority of cases they behave decently after atter reaching this side Whatever else they may mayor or may not be they are prolific and through their progeny progeny they they add a a. leaven of bad or criminal blood to the American mass which in a physical and moral sense is bound to assimilate It That consideration points us to the leading and most vital objection to our present loose immigration system WHAT SHALL HE DRINK The laugh which the the German d man press is having over over- the wild antic preparations preparations preparations in Sri this country for tor Prince Henrys Henry's entertainment will wUl be be- greatly accentuated accentuated if news of the he Chicago dilemma on his account should happen to reach Germany If we we may credit the papers of the locality the Windy City Is up the stump so to speak over ove the question question question ques ques- tion of what His R Royal yal i Highness shall drink when he toasts Am America in that burgh To the Chicago mind untutored untutored untutored un un- un- un tutored In the conventions of courts courts- courts courts- criminal and ald police cour courts s excepted excepted- there is but one liquid beverage appropriate to a b banquet or or a toast and that of course is s champagne When Chicago speaks of champagne It In- In 11 eludes all an other sparkling wines or would would had It ever heard of them But Chicago fears th that t champagne would b be resented as French and so is hesitating hesS hesi tating g in anxiety of mind Ind about chargIng charging ing mg the Prince with Rhine wine by w which ich term tax anything In a bottle definitely sour and not red is understood on that beautiful shore Why do not the committee ask the German Embassy Embassy Embassy Em Em- bassy or somebody else possessing knowledge of the matter to decide for them If sparkling wines are considered considered considered consid consid- ered necessary necesS is there not the rich vintage of Are there not half a dozen sparkling wines of the Fatherland a hundred times better than the sweet Krug or the Inferior grade of ot Heidsieck that makes gl glad d the tha heart of Chicago and Its t nose nose to shine n RIVERS RIVERS- AND HARBORS As we remarked the other day there are foxes gnawing at the te vitals of the Spartans in Congress Co gr ss who ho regard regard a a. a successful grab at the river and harbor barbor harbor har bar bor appropriation as s a condition precedent precede precedent prece prece- de dent t to any hope hoje of re- re re i The bill as it would appear stuffed with everything everybody has demanded would call for the the- peat but modest sum of three hundred million dollars Every mud flat fiat mountain branch and nd dry bed of a forgotten creek between three marine leagues from the Atlantic shore shoreline shoreline shoreline line and the Missouri river has been grafted on the general proposition I by the patriots of th the two Houses But economy is the word and the committee committee com com- com com- it is understood relentlessly will cut projects projects' in all aU directions until th the amount of Hie the appropriation recommended recommended recommended rec rec- shall not riot exceed sixty mil mil- lions Acco According ding t to prec precedent dent the re reduction reduction re- re re necessarily need not affect schemes in which members of the committee committee com corn are interested |