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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1903)
36 THE BUND AX OREGONLN, BO&ANlV SEPTEMBER 6, 1903. THE BASIS AMONG the dominating Influences that govern our age, none Is more conspicuous- than the tendency to great agglomerations based upon nn ufBnlty of race, language, or creed. The Pon-Sla-ftonic movement, -which Is so powerful In Eastern politics; the Pan-Germanic move ment -which seeks to gather the Teutonic nations under one rule; the movement which made' United Italy and -which, un 'der the name of Italia irredenta, aspires to still further absorptions, are'consplcu ous Instances, and there Is little doubt that the two first, at least, are destined to play a considerable part ;ln the future. There -was a time when it seemed not be yond the limits of possibility that the whole English-speaking race might be .comprised in a single .empire, but the lilunders not wholly on one side of the public men of the Eighteenth century de stroyed the prospect, and no one 'now se riously believes that England and the United States are ever destined to form a part of one commonwealth. At the same time old jealousies and animosities which once divided them have In England wholly disappeared and in the United States greatly dlmnished, and the idea has been steadily growing that in foreign politics Stho very first aim of an English states man should be establish close and friendly Relations with the United States, and that one of the most Important aims of domes tic policy should be to draw as close as jposslble the connection between the Moth er Country and her Colonies. The old no tion that so long prevailed under the in fluence, of the Manchester school that the Colonies were lltlte better than an embar rassment, a danger, and an expense, to be held for a short time under tutelage and then completely separated from the Moth er country, finds now but few supporters. The pride In the growth and greatness of the empire, and in the manifest destiny of the English-speaking nations that are arising beyond the ocean, has steadily In creased, and at no former period of Eng lish history has the moral tie binding us lo our colonies been as powerful as at present. With the Colonial aspect of this great I wonder what'6 all dls roughhouse about ditching Broadway? I has known dat lane since I sold papes In Park Row, end it never wasn't a walk trough a or chard, or a stroll on de beach by moon light Dafs "what makes It Broadway. De foist time I ever was In de country, when I took me job wit Miss Fannie, dere "was so much no-noise dat It near turn me into a fit It keep me wake Bights; and in de day I was dodging fire engines, cars, ambulances and trucks dat wasn't dere, till I near crossed me eyes, trying to see bote ways to once. Let me tell you: most of dese mugs dafs making de holler about de Broadway ditch isn't -on to de proposition. If New Yorkers ever struck little old B'y when it wasn't torn up or down, or being sewed, or gassed, or water lined, or rooted for wires, or paved or repaved, or retracked, or ditched, dey would run from It like dey was chased by plain close men, and had de goods on em. I'm telling you dat what makes de little old Main street Number One wit all Man hattaners is dat dey gets all de fun and exercise of mountain climbing, mining, Nort Pole finding and frontier life without jiever leaving Broadway. Isn't dere plenty of places In New York where de houses Is up and de streets is down? Sure! But what- do you see dere? a small lot of belt-liners out for a twalk, and a cat or two, wit a few nols cery maids looking for de cop dat never comes, I says dat to Mr. Paul, and he says to jne, "Chames," he says, "you Is more dan right you Is all right Avant de day," he says, using forn wolds now and den ,to keep me guessing, "when our prin cipal avnoo of commerce, trade, bargain counters, first nights, lobsters and cock tails shall be navigable without de aid of a guide, a Pinkerton man, a rope lad der and a package of foist relief fer de injured! Broadway as it is, Is what makes it a. delight Odderwise, why not go home by anodder route?"When chil dren can play puss-ln-de-corner. and bean bag In Broadway, without overcrowding de morgue, de day of its glory is down nnd out" It's a ten-to-one shot dat Mr. Paul is tight even if he did use dude langwudge o sing his songs. Listen: "Why do folks jgo tQ de country? Just fer de fun of coming back to town. It don't matter what town it is, so long as It is de town dat you hangs out in when you're at Lome. "Cheems," says Duchess to me, "Pd fradder go to Paris dan heaven." "Same odds against bote places," says X "Tomorrow's our day off; so let's beat bote places and go to de Bowery and see Little Duke." Remember Little Duke? He's our kid. Dat we'd go to see him was a cinch, of course, for wo always goes down to me modeler's home on our davs off to sgr da Jcid. Mrs. Murphy is wit me modder now remember Murphy? Dey does laundry wolk for Miss Fannie, and some odder swells dat Miss Fannie touted for em, and makes all 'sorts of swell money. Dere's a silk-haired gofl dat Miss Fan nie knows, dat teaches In a Mission School, who teaches de kid, too, and eay, he's dat rich wit his langwudge dat I can't hold him. He talks like a little edition of Mr. Paul, and when Duchess says dat he'll be a President or Alder ttnan, it doesn't sound so much like a pipe talk as you'd tink. And he'.s loinlng French! Say, you'd die to hear him talk to his ma. Duchess, in de regular forn French dat Duchess and do teacher teaches to him. It's a wonder! , All de boodle dat Duchess has touched off me is going to make Kim a sure enough gent; and Duchess says dat if tings goes fair for a dozen years or so we'll not stop wit making him President, but he'll be trained to be a cook, and wit de start We can give him he'll keep a French res taurant some day. But dafs a dream! Mo modder and Duchess is great pals, but dey don't hitch when it comes to "what de Little Duke will be. "Me dear, says modder to me on de quiet, when Duchess was putting kiddle over de Jumps of his French grammar. "Me dear, you has a wife dafs a Jewl rtvithout a price mark; but Chlmmle, as you love your old modder, stop dat woman from making a forner of de little one, or -we'll never be able to keep it from de neighbors, and he'll have.no more chance to xun dls ward dan de gent wit tallow legs has wit Satan. Even his English is like Mr. Paul's, already; and I never let de neighbors hear him talk, for fear of de Bhame dey'd put on mo for being de prandmodder of a dude." "Ifs de trute your modder Is saying, Chlmmle, (says Murphy, "you could come OF AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING Question we are not In this article mainly concerned. The great reaction of opinion, and still more of feeling, on the subject which has taken place in the last Quarter of a century has been accompanied by several measures for establishing closer conectlons between the Colonies and the Mother 'country. The appointment of agents-general to represent habitually colonial interests at the center of the imperial government; the appointment of the Judicial committee of the privy council as the supreme judicial court of appeal for the empire, and the appointment upon that body of a certain number of eminent colonial judges were marked steps In the direction of unity, and the subsidies now voted by some colonies towards the support of the British navy and the part which colonial troops took In the Soudan ar, and very eminently In the war In South Africa, as well as the disposition shown In more than one colony to give preferential treatment to English com merce show clearly the tendency which is prevailing. It Is noticed, too, by close ob servers that the Influence of colonial leg islation and experience on home legisla tion has of late years become very per ceptible, and Is an element In the strong modern tendency towards state socialism, and greatly Increased government influ ence in industrial life. This tendency is not one for which I have much sympathy, but It, at least, is another example of the growing approximation of the English communities. No one believes that England could or would coerce her colonies Into obedience, should they desire to sever the tie that binds them to her, but It has, at least, become evident that the tie In no degree Impairs their freedom or power of development; that the prestige of a great empire and the support of a great navy add something to their dignity and their security, and that their position consider ably diminishes the probability of quarrels both among themselves and with the Mohter country. There has been in the nineteenth century more than one example of lnter-colonlal disputes which might eas ily have led to war If the disputants had not both been members of the same em pire. Constitution of the United States. England and the United States are sape rate bodies, and In many respects they move upon different planes. Their forms of government are essentially different. CHIMMIE FADDEN'S back to de ould war-rd and be a Precinct Captain yerself, but yer own son couldn't get a pushcart license In de war-rd wit all de Judge langwudge he do be learning. Lave de Jad go to Par-rk Row and sell papers for a year, and he'll be as good a American as anny of us. Remember how worser dan a footless child It Is to cherish a snake in de bosom of de family, as Saint Patrick says, rest his sowl." Dat was a pretty strong argument, for fair, and I says to Duchess we'd better be letting de kid get a little learning, In stead of boddering his conk all de foolish tings she and de swell Mission teacher was putting Into him. "Dafs some of your advise, Modder Fadden," says Duchess, tolnlng to de old loidy. "I'll not deny It" me modder says. "It's de advice Mrs, Murphy and me would give to you, too, me dear. YouJro as good a daughter as I ever hoped to have, Hortense; dough Til notdeny dat at foist I grieved dat me son didn't mar ry a Yankee goll, what de Bowery Is full of em would be glad of de chance." "Wit 36 bust, and 40 skolt; selling clocks In Grand street stores," chips in Murphy. "Be deir busts what dey may." says me modder, "None of em would take better care of Chlmmie's savings dan me daughter Hortense Fadden," she says, giving Murphy a cold eye. "But, Hortense, me deary, I'll tell you about de Little Duke, as I see de trute; dere's plenty of bread In de wolld, as de saying Is, but not enough white bread to go around, and never was since before and after Robert Emmet Nvas hanged, which Chlmmie's gread fadder carried a pike in de blessed year of 9S." "Hooroo!" yells Murphy. "Dere's dem as tink dat bacon and potatoes, and a drop In de bottle, comes by wishing, Hortense, me dear; and while true It Is dat you and Chlmmle has fine places, and never will look In a bare cup board, there's dem as goes to bed to for get hunger; but dey never had de educa tion dat Chlmmle had. So why not let Little Duke go to de Row, and learn to THE CITY yrLL great and worthy work Is done Zjk under the Inspiration ,of Ideals. a The sculptor Is looking, not at the things that are seen, but at things that are unseen, when he calls the angel out of tho marble block. The musician is listening to voices that were never heard on land or sea when he indites the sym phony. The architect beholds the temple in tho air before he builds it upon the earth. And we to whom the larger, fairer, diviner task is given of building the city not merely the streets and parks, the warehouses and shops and halls and homes, but the Institutions, customs, laws In which Its civic life Is manifested must needs lift our thoughtsto realms above ourselves that the pattern of the struc ture we are to build may be revealed to us. Tho city that might be the city that ought to be this Is the object of bur faith, of our devotion. What might this city of ours this New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus what might it be, what ought it to be how cleaji and bright and safe and health ful; how free from everything that could hurt or defile or destroy; how full of everything that could minister to the com fort and convenience and culture and happiness of the citizens; Its laws, how wisely and impartially administered; Its burdens, how equitably adjusted; Its curse, how swift and deadly upon all who seek to make spoil of its revenues; Its officers, how diligent, how conscientious, how self denying in the public service; its citizens, how prompt to respond to the call of the community; its property-holders, how ready each to bear his portion of the public burden; its helpless wards, how tenderly cared for; its beggars and para sites, how sternly compelled to eat their own bread; its whole life, how Instinct with justice and truth and righteousness, how vital with mercy and good will! This Is tho city which . Is coming down out of heaven from God coming as fast as we make room for It It comes very slowly. because there are so few who believe In It, and look for It ana make ready for It; according to our faith It must be unto us. For just as soon as the people begin to believe in a city like this It will be here in all its glory. Nothing hinders its toming nothing in the world but our want of faith. Is it not true that the one thing needful Is a little more of gen uine civic religion? Never until some such Ideal as this takes possession of tho thought of tho people, and kindles their enthusiasm, shall we have good government in our- cities. Men must have something to believe in, toUove, to be loyal to, to fight for, and It Is always the ideal that inspires hero Ism and devotion. A national idea wo have; tho prosiest American has some conception of It It was the Nation that might be. the Nation that ought to be, that kindled tho ardors of Revolutionary England possesses in the fullest sense of the word a Parliamentary government, though there are some signs that the al most complete omnipotence of the British House of Commons is on the decline. Still the Cabinet, though Its power In the state Is evidently Increasing, is in the last re sort the creature of the House of Com mons, which can at any moment over throwvJt. The practical power of the House of lords on questions In which, pub lic opinion Is seriously -interested amounts to little more than a brief suspensory veto which terminates when, the popular ver dict has been decisively pronounced, and a power of introducing in the Interest of minorities some modifications or attenu ations of the measures which the major ity of the Commons have carried; while the power of the crown is still less and Is chiefly indirect In the American Constitu tion, on the dtber hand. Congress can only act within the limits of a written constitution watched over and controlled by a great legal tribunal, and the powers of the President and of the Senate large ly exceed those of the British sovereign and House of Lords. England Is also by her position In the world an eminently free trade country, and so large a pre dominance of her trade is with foreign countries that it seems scarcely possible that her fiscal policy can be very mate rially changed, while America Is strongly protectionist. Probably a more serious fact In affecting the future relations of the two countries Is a growing divergence of racial elements, for the vast flow of European emigration to America is con stantly reducing the proportion of the Anglo-Saxon and even of the Teutonic race In the American population. Tet with all this there remains a far greater .com munity of thought and feeling between England and the United States than be tween England and any foreign European country. The English common law lies at the foundation of the American Jegal system. The two nations have the same language, the same dominant race, and in a great measure the same history and the same traditional sympathies and character istics. They have grown up under the influ ence of a common literature, and a sub stantially identical creed. At the very time when politicians were doing most to alien ate the two great English speaking com munities, "Wesley and Whltefleld were lay ing the basis of a far deeper and more in tense spiritual communion between them. STORIES sell papers, and make sure date he'll know how to earn a living, no matter If all your savings are took by Providence?" "Or de Trusts, says Murphy. "You are a wise mama," says Duchefs, "but Providence don't count when it comes to getting away de savings dat a French born goll has put by. Providence can do many smart things, but" and she shrugged her shoulders like she was giv ing Providence de laugh, and win Mur phy's heart so dat Murphy says, ""What Chlmmie's wife says, dough she Is forn born, and not Irish, Is no fairy tale. I'm be knowing to a French lady dat began by taking In washing, at de very time I did, and she has a delivery wagon of her own dls very day, wit her name painted, and a lad I'm, well knowing his. modder to drive In buttons." "I'm not denying what you may know, and not know, Mrs. Murphy," says me old lady, "but you'll admit dat Chlmmle Is my son, which his fadder was a ship carpenter before ever a park was tought of at Corlears Hook, which dey make ships In rolling mills now, so de dear Lord knows when to call a carpenter. It's not a, grandmodder's place to Interfere with her daughter-in-law's child, even when her own son Is de fadder of de same; but, Hortense, It would ease me heart If you'd let Little Duke learn some needful ting, besides all dls brownstone frills he's getting out of de school books." "But le petit Is too young to sell pa pers," says Duchess, easy like, not want ing to rough de bid lady. "Chlmmle started two years younger," says modder. "Could we watch him try?" Duchess says to me. I says sure; dough I was tlnklng what' 11 would de odder kids do to a newsy polssonally conducted by his fad der and modder. . So we dresses de kid up for wolk and he was Sunday-best alongside de odders, at dat and I goes to an old pal of mine who buys wholesale at de press rooms, and sells to newsies, and outfits kiddle wit evening one, two and three-centers. He was tickled to deat, and when he gets his bundle under his arm he lets out a THAT MIGHT patriotism; that Sam Adams and Patrick Henry pleaded for. and that Washington and Prescott and Stark and Greene fought for; It was the Natlbn that ought to be that Meade's army saved from death upon the heights of Gettysburg, and that Lin coln crowned there with his immortal words. It has not been the actual Na tion, with its broken promises and its lame purposes and Its piggish politics' that has inspired our ardor of patriotism: the Nation that we live for and are ready to die for Is the one to whom we cry: Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee! Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears. Our faith, triumphant o'er Our ears. Are .all with thee are all with thee. It is only because there Is an Ideal Na tion to which our love and loyalty can be given that patriotism exists. It Is to bo feared that such a conception Is scarcely entertained In relation to the life of many of our cities. What we are constrained, for want of a better term, to call munici pal patriotism hardly has a name to live. There Is, Indeed, In some cases, not a little local pride, but not much, though, of the city as Invested with a character and life of its own; as a kind of moral person ality toward which one might cherish a loyal love. What Is a city? We are told that It is a corporation. Well, I am afraid that that Is just about all there Is of it In the minds of many of us. Such a soulless entity can Inspire no love, can call forth no loyalty. It Is something that the Legislature had created, and we are not generally moved to worship the work of such hands. The city Is thus invested with a kind of legal, formal, artificial character, and there Is nothing, that ap peals to our higher sentiments. These frigid conceptions must be put away from our minds. It may be useful, for some purposes, to consider the city .as a corpo ration, but unless It Is vastly more than that to the great body of its citizens its history will not be an inspiring one. It seems to me that there ought to be something in the civic life of a great city which admits of Idealization, something that appeals to the imagination of the cit izen; something that inspires In him a genuine devotion. Can we not think of the city In which wo live as becoming, more and more a great social organism, bound together by bonds that are not wholly economic by human sympathies and Interests; with a character to de velop and a destiny to fulfill; moving steadily forward, under the Influence of a righteous purpose. In the ways of peaceful progress, strengthening law, enlarging lib erty, diffusing Intelligence, promoting hap piness,, becoming, through the co-operative ood will of its people, a mighty and benignant providence to all who dwell within Its walls? Are there not possi bilities in the life of these cities of ours that can make a man's heart glow with great hopes and high enthusiasms? On what forces do we rely for the reforma tion of our municipal life? For the ac complishment of this work there must be motives. What aro they? To what can we appeal? We can appeal to the citizen's love of comfort and cleanliness; we can show him the filthy streets and the clogged sowers and tell him that such things oujjht not to ALLIANCE -and (their moral type Is substantially the same. They read the same books, admire chief ly the same qualities, judge by the- same standards, cultivate the same Ideals. "With some manifest limitations, both intellec tual and moral, both communities are very eminently endowed with the political sense, with the old Roman -gift of govern ing men. England has shown it In the su preme achievement of her Indian Empire; In the skill and power wlth which in more modern times she has regenerated Egypt; In the success of her colonial enter prises; In the success of her Parliamen tary government. America has shown It not less conspicuously in the skill with "which her Anglo-Saxon peoplo have dom inated and assimilated the vast heteroge neous elements which European emigra tion has poured upon her shores, and built up out of these discordant and often refractory Ingredients one of the great est powers upon earth. In both countries, too, this governing power rests mainly upon the same characteristics good sense the spirit of compromise a strong and persevering yet temperate energy a deep reverence for individual liberty, for reli gious liberty and for freedom of discus sion; a rare power of distinguishing the practical and. the feasible from showy speculation and rhetorical artifice and hasty generalizations. Many clouds hang over the future, destinies of the human race, but It is at least a safe prediction that the part which will be played by the English speaking world must steadily grow. It comprises the most rapidly Increasing, th$ most progressive, the most happily situ ated nations of the earth, and If their power and Influence are not wasted in in ternal quarrels their type of civilization must one day.be completely-dominant. They have hitherto escaped the militarism that is so prevalent on the Continent. Their civilization is essentially commer cial and pacific, and though It has its marked defects it is not too much to say that in no other form has true liberty been better understood, and a larger and fuller scope been given to human de-; velopment and individual energy. England and America. "Will Sot Amalgamate. "Whether this harmony of the English speaking races is likely to bo permanently achieved is one of the greatest ques 2f "Wrextry! Wrextry!" like a tenor fog horn. He makes for de middle of City Hall Park, with Duchess and. me chas ing along after him, and In a minute he sold a center. "How much does he make?" says Duch ess, getting excited. "Four-tents of a cent," I 'says. "Mon Dleu!" she says, "It Is more noise dan money!" Kiddle done pretty well for a time, but den anodder kid walks up to him, wit his chin out, and says, "Say, kid,-where did you get de swell rags?" and wit dat he pokes our kid In de eye. .Duchess lets out a yell dat woke up de cop on de City Hall steps, and starts for de fight I holds her back, for I'd teached Little Duke some tings dat isn't in any of de books dat he studies; and I wanted to see If he remembered. Besides, de kids was of a size. Little Duke slugs wild in .de foist surprise, but all of a suddent he remembers, and he puts his elbow In de odder kid's neck, his foot behind de od derg heels and dere was no more fight When de -odder kid struck de asphalt he yells murder, de copper mixes in, our candidate skips, de cop switches de boy dat was down, and Duchess was near to a faint - Kiddle wasn't boddered after dat, and him being, a blue ribbon for looks,, he sold to Brooklyn women so fast I had to stock him two or three times In a hour. He made frens wit some boys, sold tree centers once In a while, was told to keep de change out of a nlckle, and chased up to us to Jolly; and dough his modder was only a jump ahead of a fit and de fit gaining de kid was easily having de time of his life. - j'Sayr dad," he says to me, "dls Is too easy. It's like taking candy from a child. It's like getting money from home. When Duchess, hears him she couldn't talk for a minute; only let out little gasps dat I knows, is a sign dat she is boiling, and would explode In a minute. "What's happened you, woman?" I says, to help her along. "Did you hear him?" she says, show ing only de whites of her eyes. BE be; we can awaken his fears of cholera, and such appeals have their place and are not Ineffectual. We can show him. no doubt, that linflw such government as he Is permitting, there is a great lack of security for his person and his property, and that also. Is an influential motive. What we do urge upon him most dili gently Is tho increase of the tax rate, and the fact that unless he is adroit enough to hide his gains from the asses sor his profits will be greatly reduced by the growth of taxation. This Is the mo tive on which we chiefly rely. Municipal reform. In the conception of nine men out of ten, Is the reduction of the tax rate. Well, that is not an Insignificant matter; it ought to be duly considered, and it will be; there Is no danger that it will bo overlooked. But can we draw from all these con siderations an adequate motive power for the work of thoroughly reforming the governments of our cities? Will the crav ing for comfort and the fear of- conta gion, coupled with the wish for a reduc tion of taxes, call forth an energy and a unity of popular feeling which will achieve the glorious work? It seems to me that they reckon ill who put their trust in such forces. Down on this plane, potter ing with such motives, we shall find our structure crumbling under our hands; any gains that we make In one direction will be neutralized by losses In another. Un less we can find something higher ana nobler than this to work for, our labor will be as the task of Sisyphus. We sometimes hear It said that the one thing needful Is the administration of the municipality on business principles. In a certain narrow sense this saying may be justified. We ought to have a methodical, economical admlnstratlon, of course; wo ought1" to Insist on getting money's worth for our taxes. But other than business principles must control our people and their representatives in office, else we shall continue to have precisely what we have had. The trouble with our citizens our best citizens has always been that they have qultetoo much Inclined to base their civic action upon "business princi ples." They have always wanted ip buy the benefits of good municipal govern ment in the cheapest market and to sell them in the dearest. Their problem has been to get just as much as possible for themselves out of tho city and to give just as little as possible In return for It of time, of money, of sacrifice. So long as this is the prevailing purpose of the cit izens it will be the prevailing purpose of their representatives In office; business principles will control their conduct; office will be to them an opportunity of gain, andthey will make what they can out of It I think It Is time that we began to see that good government calls for some higher principles on the part of the citl-r zens than what we describe as business principles. It calls for the recognition of civic Ideals for a vision that can discern not merely the city that stands upon the earth, but the fairer city which Is coming jiown from, heaven to earth, after whoso pattern the earthly form must be contlmmllv re shaped. There Is just as much need tax BY -RIGHT HONORABLE OF THE MAP tions of the future, and there Is none on , Their children are being rapidly asslmi whlch. the happiness and progress of the 1 lated to the population around them, world more largely depend. Unexpected The new type of Irish emigrant belongs collisions of Interests, ambitions and pas-J to a better, a more intelligent, a more en- sions may at any time destroy the pros pect, and In great democracies largely In fluenced by demagogues, and by an irre sponsible and anonymous -press, there are always powerful agencies that do not make for peace. Only a very few years have elapsed since an Insignificant ques tion relating to "Venezuela seriously en dangered the peape between England and the United States. It is, however, not too much to say that of late years the feeling of amity between England and America has steadily grown, and in Eng land at least, the great truth that a -war with our kinsmen beyond the Atlantic would be one of the greatest calamities that could-fall upon the world has be come generally realized. "With Increased facilities, of communication, the personal contact between the tro nations has vast ly Increased. Both the best and most frivolous elements In each are In con stant touch, and are constantly Inter changed. In finance. In commerce. In social life, by common amusements and common Intellectual pursuits and sympa thies, the bond Is dally strengthening. Closer Diplomatic Relations. The revelation during the South Afri can "War of the Intense dislike of England that prevails In nations on the Continent has powerfully tended to draw English sympathies to kinsmen beyond the sea, and a successlori'of American representa tives in London of very remarkable abil ity and popularity has done much to con solidate the two countries. In the great problems that are arisingrln the East, the policy of the "open door," adopted on both sides of the Atlantic, has formed a new and powerful bond of commercial and political Interest, and the cordial co-operation of the two nations is an essential con dition of success. At the same time, the Irish party in America, which had for many years been the most active agency in producing and inflaming an anti-English feeling, and which long obtained a very disproportionate influence both In municipal government and In the press. Is manifestly declining both jn influence and numbers. The generation who went from Ireland, carrying with them the bitter rec-Kj ollectlon of the famine. and the great clearances, has nearly passed away. SIDE GLANCE AT BROADWAY AND FEARSOME TALE OF THE LOSS OF A DIGRAPH "Sure; he's no dummy, and I'm not deaf." "He has lost his t h!" "His what?" I asks, looking to' see had Little Duke lost his dicer, or his money. "His t h!" I taught de fit had arrived, but just as I was going to take her over to de fountain, and trun some water on her, I cops de game. For two years Duchess had jollied, and prayed, and begged de teacher to learn Kiddle to say t h. She can't say It no more dan I can, but the way she don't say it is a different way from the way I don't. Anyway de two of us togedder was a bum team when It come to learning do kid to get a strangle holt on t h and join em togedder; and Duchess was so proud dat de youngster had learned de trick dat she used to make up long speeches for him to speak, all filled wit wolds where he'd have to say t h In one sound, and listen to him like it was a band playing Hlawater. But p'chee in two hours de cub-had un learned de whole bunch of tricks, and was talking as straight Manhatten as me. I' looks to see Duchess die wit rage. "Take de papers away from our son, Cheems, and fetch him home! I wonder wll he ever be cured?" So I helps Little Duke to count up, sells his left-overs to one of his new frens at half price, and found dat he was toity-two cents to de good. He put up a holler when I told him business was over for de day, but I promised to take him to dinner, and he got well. Women is queer all around. De kid had done good work; learned how to take care of himself, and to make change; made money, and had a good time; but all dat .was nottlng to Duchess. He'd lost-his dude langwudge, and a diamond ring wouldn't been no -set-off against dat She likes money as well as de next French goll; I tink she's a bit stuck on me; I know dat she swears by Miss Fan nie, but all do boodle and folks In de wolld Including yours truly Isn't In de proposition a little bit alongside of de way Duchess wants to see dat kid a By Rev. Washington the city as In the Nation of cherishing an ideal of liberty, of purity, of perfection, of leaving the things that are behind and stretching forth unto the thlng3 that are before; of cultivating a generous faith and a high enthusiasm. There Is need of thinking much of a kind of civic life that is not as yet, but that might be, and that ought to be, arid that must be If there Is a God in heaven; a city whose officers shall be peace and whose exactors righteous ness; a city whose homes shall be sacred and secure; whose traffic shall be whole some and beneficent: whose laborers shall go forth to their cheerful toll unburdened by the heavy hand of legalized monopo lies; whose laws shall foster no more curses, nor open the gates to whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a He; whose streets shall be full of happy chil dren, playing in safety and learning the great lessons of civic piety, and whose citizens on any shore shall find their thoughts turning homeward with a great longing, while they cry: s. If I forget thee, O city of my heart! Let my right hand forget her cunning; Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth If I remember thee not. If I prefer thee not Above my chief loy. Columbus, Ohio. HAMMERSTEIN A ND HIS COW With, a Maftlc Powder Me Led Her From Wreclced Foyer to Roof. New York World. Oscar Hammerstein was pacing up and down In front of his Victoria Theater Wednesday afternoon when a boy ap proached, leading Sukey Longtall, the cow who lives In the Dutch village on his roof garden. Sukey had been 111 the night before, and a veterinary who had been called In suggested that she be taken out for a walk. With much difficulty the animal was taken down the passenger elevator. She hadspent hours dodging trolley cars to the Joy of a crowd of small boys. "Can you get her In the elevator all right?" Inquired Oscar of tho boy. "Sure, kin youse eat?" responded the boy, who hadbeen hired by the property man and didn't know Oscar. With much clatter boy and cow dis appeared Inside the door and headed to ward the elevator. A moment later Mr. Hammerstein was startled by a loud crash of glass, bellows and shrieks. Darting inside he came upon a wild-eyed boy flying around at the end of a rope. At the other end was Sukey Longtall. Around her neck was the frame of a picture stand, and on the off hind hoof was what was left of a photograph of the veteran manager himself. The cow no sooner laid eyes on Oscar than she lowered her head and prepared to advance. Mr. Hammerstein Is valiant by nature, but he realized that It would be better to be discreet for. -five minutes than a cripple for the rest of his natural life and he disappeared Into the box of fice. Tho cow thereupon laid waste much Ui. U1U i.UCI. f . Mr. Hammerstein reappeared with a WE. H. LECKY, AUTHOR OF LT&E," ETC emetic class. He Is not driven from his home by any Injustice or stress of want, but by a healthy ambition to lmproveshls condition, and by the attraction of a great progressive country, where other mem bers of his family have found many paths to comfort If not to wealth. Such men entertain no very bitter feeling toward the empire they have left, andIrlsh emigra tion which was once preponderant now. forms only a small fraction of the vast stream which Is annually pouring into America. Causes of Friction Diminishing. At the some time, with the growth' of the new states the political power of the Irish vote has greatly dwindled. All these things are tending powerfully in the direction of lasting peace, and the belief that any differences that may arise be tween the two countries can be settled by peaceful arbitration is already axiomatic among the best men on either side of the Atlantic It does not appear to me probable that the relations of the two nations will take the form of any general or permanent al liance. On both sides of the water the feeling In favor of reserving full liberty of action Is very strong, andf each coun trty has large classes of Interests with which the other Is almost unconcerned. English opinion now cordially acquiesces in the Monroe doctrine, which places the greater number of American questions en tirely within the sphere of influence of the United States, while America Is happily free rom all obligation to meddle with purely European complications. Limited alliances aiming at special objects such as freedom of commerce in the East may very probably arise, but on the whole the unity of the English-speaking races is llkel yto depend much more on the in creasing power of common sympathies, common principles, and common Interests. Both countries are essentially democratic, and the broad basis of popular sentiment must be the foundation of their friend ship. "W. E. H. LECKY. Next week: "The Effect of Imperialism on the National Character," by Dr. Rich ard Garnett, C. B. (Copyright by D. T. Pierce.) swell for fair. I found out dat she was only jollying, even when she talked about 'prentlcing him to de husband of her fren Julie, who keeps de restaurant Duchess wouldn't hear to de kid going back to de old lady's, but fetches him along wit us up to de place on de Sound; for Miss Fannie lets us have de little cne up dere when we wants, and he eats wit us, in de housekeeper's room. Duchess had a long pow-pow wit Miss Fannie about de game dat night, and Miss Fannie was as interested as If U wa3 her own kid dat had lost her t h. Den Mr. Paul was took into de caucus, and den I was sent for; and before we was settled dere was more guff and gas about de prop osition dan ir de kid had lost his head Instead of his t h. Miss Fannie votes dat do youngster should be sent to a swell little school dat Is kept for de kids of do smart set folks while de dlvolce judges Is making up deir minds wedder de modders or de fadders is de best one to have do kids. But Duchess balked. She said she didn't want de kid in a school where he would get de wols'e of it because his parents was house soivants. Den Mr. Paul settles it He said dat he would enter kiddie as de son of a fren of his. Dat wouldn't go in most schools, but In dls school dere was many a kid dat de school teacher didn't know who its pa and ma was. All dat was wanted was dat de pas and mas was respectable, and would pay de bills. As to respectability, says Mr. Paul, "I tink dls cub's parents could give cards to many of 'em, and show to de good at dat." So wo Is to be let to keep Little Duke wit us until de school opens, and den Mr. Paul Is to enter him, and see dit he has a fair crack at his t h. But what's worrying me Is what will fe doing when some sllk-halrd youngster gives little Master Fadden any back talk. Mostly dat elbow In de neck, and de heel at de same time Isn't teached where everytlng Is gally-gally on de t h propo sition. When kiddle springs dat proposi tion on de gang I only hope It will be out on de grass, and not on a marble floor, for dese sllk-halrd boys has fin skull3. (Copyright, 1903.) Qladden, DD. look of strategy on his countenance. In one hand he held a white granulated powder. In the other he grasped his won drous hat Sukey sniffed and Mr. Hammerstein called softly after the manner of a farm er at the pasture bars. There was more sniffing and then Sukey advanced cau tiously to tho elevator. Finally both were Inside and up they went At the top the manager backed out toward tho cow stable, followed by Sukey. An Instant of suspense and the door was locked. "Say, boss, wat was yer glvin' her?" Inquired the admiring boy. "Salt, young man, salt," responded the redoubtable Hammerstein. "If you can catch a robin by putting salt on its tall you certainly can catch a cow." Time to Swear Off. New Orleans Picayune. Ho thought he saw an elephant Equipped with claws and beak. 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