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Show I , ' 1 ) I We are prepared to forgive King Ed- i ward almost anything after the perfect way he continues to snub the Orange- men and other cheap bigots who are t protesting against his visit to the pope. i O Ii j Michael Davitt, who is representing an American newspaper syndi- f cate in Russia, has written s ,'. a brilliant and reliable de- I . scription of the Jewish atrocities. The J - f horror of the affair was not exagger- I ated by the first reports. The czar I has, however, taken strong means to I prevent further outbreaks and none I I need now be feared. j The strike situation seems to be go- . ing from bad to wose, and is at last ' producing "the inevitable result. The : I demand for goods Ss becoming re- ' strrcted, because dealers cannot see ; ; the end of the present troubles, the I financial centers are showing signs of panic, and the workingman is beginning to suffer for lack of employment em-ployment in some places. It is the old story of the belly and the limbs. One class of the community cannot array ! itself against the rest without injury J to the whole social fabric. . o The 6ages of twenty-one or thereabouts there-abouts will instruct this worn old world on al possible subjects at the commencement exercises during the I next couple of weeks. Problems that ! . baffle the wisdom of cabinets, , ,. of statesmen and colleges of ; cardinals will receive their on'y ' possible solution and the ques tions of the ages will be fin-' fin-' ? ally answered. We who are older and ' j j who can exhiDit the scars of conflicts ' ! I too often lost will laugh at the optim- , i ' ) ' 1 ' " ism of youth, but we will also sigh for the days when' we were twenty-one. The future is worth more than the dead past. Age commands respect, but in th6 end, like the gladiators before Caesar in the Roman arena, must say to youth: "We who are about to die salute you." o The popular unrest, the drifting like rudderless ships at sea, of numbers of educated people in this country who will not bow to any spiritual guardian, is strikingly exemplified by the Buddhist Budd-hist fad which seems to be attracting many in Chicago, that home of religious relig-ious cranks. There is something supremely su-premely ludicrous, though pitiful, in the sight of people who would spurn the authority of the pope, bowing down before some dark skinned fakir representing the tenets of a worn-out paganism. Yet it is a logical outcome of the Protstant idea of the right of private judgment. o |