Show THE EDITORS EDITOR'S T TABLE ABLE TALK TALK OF THINGS GRAVE AND GAY c CUBAN INDEPENDENCE The Thi Indianapolis News sagely observes observes ob ob- ob- ob serves that the provision that Cuba shall shan adopt our o- Immigration on laws before before be be- fore she can obtain the benefits of ot an any tariff reduction has all the earmarks of ot a Platt amendment and adds Cuban Cuban Cuban Cu ban Independence Is fast becoming a n Joke At least It has been a n misnomer misnomer mis ms nomer from the start Since the adoption adoption adoption tion of ot the Platt amendment there ner never nev nev- er r has been the least thing to justify keeping up the fiction that absolutely full tun sovereignty and Independence ever were Intended to be accorded the Island government It will occupy toward the United States much the same relation that the South African Republic did to Great Britain before the war Cuba will not bo permitted to negotiate treaties nor contract foreign debts without the consent and supervision of tho United tates That single fact fact will constitute the new state a dependent one In the contemplation of International law ItIs' ItIs It ItIs Itis' Itis Is Is' nonsense to talk about the Inde Independence of Cuba because In the fullest fullest full full- es est sense this country could not allow sU such sUh h a 3 thing to be But on that very account there Is all the more reason why the suzerain should treat the dependent dependent dependent de de- pendent power with great kindness and generosity something generOSity something the American I Congress does not seem anxious to do THE li NEGRO PROBLEM PROBLEM In a recent address BOYk Booker r T T. WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- Ington ington called attention to the fact that the negro race In this country had InI Increased increased In- In I creased from a membership of four tour millions twenty-six twenty years ago to an aggregate of nine nille millions In 1900 On the strength of or f these data he said The negro race cannot be bd begotten gotten rid of ana and the people must face the tremendous tremendous dous problem that confronts them Truly It Is tremendous and there Is no satisfactory solution In sight It Is Isa Is Isa isa a a. a startling but undeniable truth that hat the negro blood Is gradually working its way into that of Caucasians Throughout Through out the States bordering on Canada and andin in of the prairie regions like Iowa people skilled in detecting the African admixture when diluted to a a thirty-second thirty or a sixty- sixty fourth frequently find persons of remote remote remote re re- re- re mote but undoubted African descent living marrying and raising families among the whites utterly unsuspected of the fact of their dark genesis This process process of mis miscegenation e f nation will go on In Increasingly Increasingly increasingly In- In with the Increase se of the general general general gen gen- eral population of course being more prevalent in communities unfamiliar with the signs of African lineage in persons nearly Caucasian in blood That is a part of the problem which is calculated to cause uneasiness We have seen seen that in Latin-American Latin countries Spanish negro h hybridism br has hasp I p produced an interior Inferior type of manhood and has not resulted favorably to either race If it were possible in inthe the United States to keep the two races completely apart and p pure re the goo good of both would be and nd the problem could he be viewed viewed- with comparative I ity ty ITHE t I THE W WASATCH WATERSHED WATERSHED In a I letter Itter Her written by Senator Kearns earns to Governor Wells the former refers to the efforts he has made nade and still is making to prevent nt enforcement of the Interior Department order withdrawing withdraw withdraw- ing from entry approximately five thousand square miles of public land landon landon landon on the Wasatch mountain watershed I The Senator tells the Governor of ot many Petitions received from Utah asking the protection of municipal drinking water sources from pollution and that lands draining Into such sources should be bo reserved In the course ot of his letter letter letter let let- ter he says Medical men tell me mo running water purifies Itself in a few miles If this be so I can see no reaSOn reason rea rca son why the sheep men and the people who vho are clamoring for pure water cannot cannot cannot can can- not get together and decide decide- upon some Borne definite plan of ot action But It Is 18 not so and the medical men who have misinformed the Senator are deserving of censure Formerly there was a popular popular popular pop pop- ular belief bellet that hat running water would purify Itself In a 3 flow of about fifteen miles but that Idea has long been ex CIt t In about that distance matter held In precipitation not not in solution solution- will be deposited and the water will VIII be clear but that Is not to say that It will be pure Typhoid and many other cognizable germs are known to have been Deen carried disastrously t to the health health of stream down-stream communities more than a hundred miles Water Is not n necessarily safe sate to drink drink because It looks so THE PURE FOOD BILL DILL Yesterday the House House- Committee on state Inter-state and Foreign Commerce voted to make a favorable report on the Hepburn pure food bill The chances are that tha It will pass pass the House of Representatives and possibly become become become be be- come a law In that event we shall miss niss many fa familiar articles from the market and eke the family larder The alluring bu but deceptive oleo no longer will sport its dyed countenance In our faces The filled tilled cheese made mostly from Inferior lard will be absent ab ab- ab- ab sent and ana where will be he our sanitary coffee warranted all Rio but composed composed com corn posed ot of bran and chicory And what shall we do without the red lead in ir our our red pepper and the sand and plaster of Paris in our sugar Are we to look to a future In which we no longer longe can can buy cotton seed oil and believe it to be virgin olive on the strength o of oZ th the label The H Hepburn bill is little short of revolutionary in Its purposes It It is isa isa isa a direct attack upon fraud and humbug which for generations for have been numbered numbered num num- among our our ur most niost st cherished IN HAPPY HAITI In the cheerful republic of Haiti there is a e. refreshing recrudescence of arrests for con conspiracy executions and andall andall andall all the other evidences s of national activity activity activity ity which one one ode must expect In that unique sovereignty Mr Leger Minister to tot this to-this this ls fo country assures us ts that there is no cause for un uneasiness that it all only means an impending presidential election At su such suh ha a time of course people who are are not for foz the government t are against it hence hence are re are conspirators and must take tak refuge In a foreign consulate consulate consulate con con- or be caught and shot It Is a a. primitive lve w way y of Irl managing the electorate electorate electorate elec elec- but it must be said that Itu it u usually accomplishes the object in I view I |