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Show r- j atiwlic Opinion j It must be extremely gratifying to everybody in this country, except sensation mongers and "yellow" "yel-low" publishers, thac one condition of Mrs. May-brick's May-brick's release from confinement is that she shall not circulate the story of her life or annear on the. stage or lecture platform. They manage some things better in England. Monitor. . Alluding to the suggestion of. a southern governor govern-or that education is responsible for negro immorality, immoral-ity, the Western Watchman pertinently remarks: ''The claim that education makes him (the negro) immoral comes late in the day from the lips of a nation that has always maintained that education was a panacea for all evils, material and moral, that humanity endured.' When the theatres of the country have been made reasonably safe for the protection of life, it might not be a bad idea fo start another crusade to make them less dangerous to morals. The latter safeguaul is no less important than the former. Church Progress. fr And the condition of the Filipino women is to be improved. Scarcely was Secretary Taf t seated before he. was waited on byMrs. Ellen Foster and a number of , benevolent association ladies anxious to begin missionary work in bettering family con-' con-' ditions in the islands. Perhaps' those hundreds of Filipino girls who were lured into marriage with American soldiers end afterward shamelessly deserted de-serted by the latter, need looking after, but if the would-be missionaries willlook about them they will see scandalous family conditions existing in their own land of divorce and race suicide. There is no ' need of going from home in order .'to find work. Xew World. - f Last week the Xew lork Tribune distinguished itself by expatiating on the frightful enormity of treason, as illustrated in the ease of Colonel Lynch going to fight with the Boers. But it was as dumb as a mouse over the case of the Colombian general, Huertas, who betrayed his country and used his command to arrest his superior officers jn the course of the "revolution" in Panama. He is now the pet and protege of the United States government, and given the command of the army of .our noble "allies," "al-lies," the Panamanese. Why this' silence, en .the part of the great Tribune? g it awed by the ghost of Horace Greeley :1 Standard and Times.' . |